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Wilfred’s Dream : Mark R. Lowery
Decades after migrating north to Cleveland, Ohio, from rural Louisiana, Tobias Winslow has made an uneasy peace with the past, including his own mistakes that led to a prison stint.
News of a murdered son, and the daughter that son left behind, forces Tobias to reassess his past and restructure his plans for the future.
Christian Taylor and Joey Breaux, meanwhile, are college students who have vastly different worldviews, but are drawn together by an appreciation of family.
All three—Tobias, Christian, and Joey—are unknowingly tied together by a racially motivated killing in Louisiana decades earlier.
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I LOVE My Cotton Candy Hair! : Nicole Updegraff
Charlie is a caring, funny and friendly little girl. Like all children, she’s beginning to face the struggles that we all go through with finding ourselves and trying to fit in.
Follow this series as she learns and grows, and realizes there is nothing better than loving yourself and being happy just the way you are!
In the first book of the series, I LOVE My Cotton andy Hair!, Charlie rhymes her way into your heart with her perspective on the many goods and bads associated with her naturally curly “cotton candy hair” and finishes by saying “I love my hair and everything that comes with it.”
The book is uplifting and fun for all children, but particularly young African American girls who are under a constant barrage of images of what the media identifies as beautiful or “good hair.”
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Pullmans Derailed : Theodore Shrady
Crash. Two passenger trains hit head-on! Coaches, diners, lounges, and sleeping cars zigzag along the tracks at different angles. People injured or killed. Trains are at a standstill.
Then, Pullman, the Interstate Commerce Commission, and railroad inspectors go to work. Masters in their fields, these men examine every aspect of the wreck from different points of view. Material is condensed here, but the investigators’ reports are still in astonishing detail. A broken bolt, a cracked center sill, or a faulty signal is meticulously recorded. After months of investigation and testimony, the cause is found.
Pullmans Derailed lets the reader follow the inspectors’ reports through 35 high-profile accidents between 1940 and 1968. Relevant accident terminology and procedures used in the investigations are explained in 144 pages with the help of over 200 photographs and illustrations.
Go behind the scenes for an inside look at passenger-train wrecks, before, at the scene, and the follow-up.
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Love-Based Culture : Ivo Nelson
How Authentic Business Leaders Trust Their Employees to Do the Right Thing
Love isn’t a word used much in the business world. Business is too tough for love, right?
Not necessarily. In Love-Based Culture, thought leader Ivo Nelson provides 10 love-based principles that will help you create happy customers, energize employees, and enjoy rich year-to-year revenue growth, all while steering your business away from fear and toward love.
A love-based culture encourages you to:
- Become obsessed with a bold, customer-centered goal.
- Put your employees’ needs ahead of your own.
- Be uncompromising in living core values daily.
- Have purpose beyond profits.
- Focus on long-term growth.
- Reward those who add value.
- Feel the buzz of success.
- Hardwire processes to trust.
- Empower those closest to the customer to do what’s right.
The no-brainer steps to a Love-Based Culture were formed from Ivo’s experiences as CEO of Healthlink, which, along with contributing author and COO Dana Sellers, he propelled into the world’s largest privately held, provider focused healthcare technology consulting firm. By cultivating a love-based culture, Healthlink enjoyed a 13-year streak of 100% positive customer referrals and became KLAS #1 ranked consulting firm in healthcare.
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The Gold of Qumran : Richard Todd
Rosalind Beasley finds herself thrust into a world of intrigue and romance as she and other Archaeology students in Jerusalem join a British secret agent in an attempt to avert a potential world war. Along the way, Rosalind evolves from someone who is self-centered to a person who is truly compassionate.
The Gold of Qumran is the first volume in the series of the same name, but can be read by itself, as it is a complete story.
Dr. Richard A. Todd, PhD, is Associate Professor Emeritus of History at Wichita State University. As well as studying throughout Europe, he has studied in Israel and has participated in an archaeological dig there. In addition to the two remaining volumes of the Gold of Qumran series, “Gold of the Goddess”, and “Not all that Glitters”, Richard has authored Victory to the Arts, a scholarly work on Classical motifs on Napoleonic Medallions, and numerous scholarly articles.
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Survival of the Fist: The Book of Revelations : Chief Zulu
A captivating, no-holds-barred look into the deep-rooted history of African culture within the United States.
The book is a turbulent and unforgettable ride through history with ‘hidden in plain sight’ knowledge that every man, woman and child should be made aware of.
Survival of the Fist contains African American history that has never been taught within American schools and worldwide.
This book contains some parts of black history that have been deemed too controversial by America and mainstream media with sensitive subject matter that effects black people in present day, such as psychological warfare, white supremacy, political injustice, and commerce slavery.
Survival of the Fist is a timeline of events that discusses the root cause of racism towards the black community.
The book aims to bring light to these events to create open dialogue between people of color and whites.
Wild Passion : Sheri Chapman
When Kaitlin’s father promised her hand to the foulest individual in the newly settled town, she decided she’d had enough! No man would control her anymore!
Kaitlin packed her meager belongings and headed out on foot from their remote home to find refuge in the small settlement. However, she marched straight from one man’s command into another’s. The Oglala War chief on a mission for revenge found a beautiful woman to rescue. Once the warrior had saved the girl’s life, she owed it to him forever.
Kaitlin arrived in the Oglala village in an injured state. She did not understand the Lakota language and believed they were healing her. Eventually, the solitary white woman believed these natives would return her to her community. While with them, Kaitlin learned some of their language and customs.
She made meaningful relationships with the villagers. In addition, Kaitlin also learned about the Oglala’s way of life (gathering, leather curing, basket weaving, and more). Ultimately, Kaitlin became strongly attracted to and fell in love with the fearsome war chief. When she discovered that she was considered his property and not a person with rights, Kaitlin vowed to escape, even if it meant leaving her happiness behind.
Tamed by the wild culture of these caring but fierce people, Kaitlin learns that freedom isn’t always defined by personal expectations. Being a slave could never be an option, but how could she ever want liberty when her freedom is claimed by an attractive war chief who has also captured her heart?
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The Colored Line : Tiffany Richardson
At the age of eight, Norah Johnson witnessed a tragedy that has shaped every aspect of her life. Now thirteen years later, all grown up, but still healing, she takes on a new job as an officer at the local police station.
All the time in the world could never make her forget her past pain, but her new partner, Spencer Bryant, helps her believe in love once again. At times she finds it hard to surrender to all of the new emotions she feels for him. She’s so afraid to lose him the way she lost so much before. But in time she gives in to what her heart wants and lets herself fall in love with him.
When the past comes back to derail their happily ever after, Norah must make a hard decision. Can she let go of the past for her future? Can love really heal all wounds? When all love matters can it sustain past heartbreaks?
A Year in Haiku by Tiffany Richardson is also on Whizbuzz Books.
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The Compact Frogland: Three Books in One : Geoffrey Todd
The entire three-part epic poem, “Frogland: An Heroic Epic.”
The reader of any age will enjoy this engaging story that seeks to use rhyme and meter in a refreshing way. Parents will enjoy reading the book to younger children, while older children will profit from reading poetry that is both fun and easy to understand.
In Book One, “The Glug-Glug Toad”, we join characters like Siegfried the gnome and Trog the frog as they journey to save Frogland from the ravenous Glug-Glug Toad.
Book Two, “The Shrug-Shrug Scroll”, tells the story of how brave commandos saved Frogland from the dragon-like Shrug-Shrug, which sought to sap the energy and willpower of Frogland’s citizens. It also recounts how Frieda the gnome and her friends seek to secure permanent safety from the creature.
Book Three, “The Snake Wars”, tells the story of how Frogland’s citizens must save themselves from the great cobra Whist, who has set himself up as god of the snakes. Here they seek the help of some very special human children to attempt to overthrow the false god and defeat his snake army.
The entire saga is around 5,000 lines in compelling rhyme and meter and represents a great value for the money.
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The Lean Recruiting Toolkit : Craig E Brown
An Agile Blueprint for Creating & Executing Top Hiring Strategies
Are you tired of having that “perfect” job candidate slip away between your fingers? Are you frustrated with ever-changing hiring requirements? Are you discouraged by the lack of qualified talent in the marketplace?
The Lean Recruiting Toolkit provides simple solutions to these and other challenges facing talent acquisition professionals in today’s hyper-competitive, candidate-driven marketplace. It is a practical, step-by-step guide to creating and executing your very own Lean and Agile recruiting strategies to ensure you hire better employees faster — who end up staying longer. What’s more, using the Kaizen theory of continuous improvement, your results get better and better over time, freeing up your schedule to do the rest of your job!
Using the Lean Recruiting Canvas created by recruiting expert Craig E Brown, you will be carefully guided through this strategic framework in a methodical, yet efficient, fashion. Whether it is…
- Accurately defining the core problem that led management to believe that hiring someone is necessary,
- Deciding which characteristics and traits are necessary for a specific role based on proof points,
- or analyzing the Return-on-Investment (ROI) of your new hire to ensure business requirements are met or exceeded.
In this timely release, Brown provides actionable and best-in-class strategies for finding your next hire — with loads of fantastic examples and real-world anecdotes along the way.
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