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Kendra
High schooler Kendra longs to live with her mother who, unprepared for motherhood at age fourteen, left Kendra in the care of her grandmother.
An Imperfect Process (The Starting Over Series, Book 3)
Romantic Women's Fiction. Previously titled: Twist of Fate When lawyer Val Covington receives a windfall and leaves her corporate career to practice "do-gooder law," her assistant offers to come with her—if Val will look into the case of Kendra's former lover, who is on Death Row for a crime he didn't commit. Val agrees, but she can't do it alone. She finds help in Rob Smith, her landlord, who is as capable as he is mysterious. If justice is an imperfect process, so is falling in love. Val and Rob are drawn together as they fight to save an innocent man's life, but can they overcome their fears to build a lasting future? REVIEWS: "...an emotionally-charged story of honor, courage, and the healing power of love [that] readers will remember." ~Susan Lantz, Romance Reviews Today "Electrifying! The perfect balance between the heart of the matter and matters of the heart." STARTING OVER SERIES, in order Stirring the Embers Phoenix Falling An Imperfect Process A Holiday Fling, the novella
The Babbling Brook
Growing up on a farm. The fun, excitement and the adventures. Always having creative ideas how to spend an afternoon on their unique farm with the horses, cows and geese. All the cats hovered like birds over the girls high on the bank ears perked ready to spring for battle. Muddy and wet the girls crouch low on their arms and legs squiggling to scoop up baby minnows with their plastic cups. Mommy, I really think that we should put these fish in the house with Fish, piped the girls. I really feel sorry for Fish, he is all alone it that fish bowl, whined Kendra as her eyes started to wet up with tears. How would you feel if you were all alone? Kendra who is determined to bring justice for ever...
Jet
The weekly source of African American political and entertainment news.
The Eternal Circle
“Your sisters will die without you. It’s time to come home. It’s time to begin the Circle.” Kendra Scott awakens from a nightmare by an ominous message from her deceased grandmother. Since the devastating passing of her beloved grandmother, the legendary High Priestess of Magic, Claire Roux-Scott, as well as the death of her estranged mother, several years earlier, Kendra has struggled to make a new life and identity for herself, in her ancestral New Orleans, far away from her childhood home of Oakland, California. For the last two years, Kendra has cultivated her talents as a Magic Woman, searched for inner peace, while healing from the wounds of her past. Yet, when Mother Claire co...
Women and Girls in the Criminal Justice System
For many years, sentenced women were ignored or neglected, locked up in male surroundings, or lost among caseloads of men. Today, however, there are systemic approaches and interventions designed especially to meet the needs of this population. Women and Girls in the Criminal Justice System provides essential practice guidance for professionals who deal with the problems of female offenders--criminal justice policymakers; correctional administrators; probation and parole officials; ATI program administrators; vocational program agency heads, social workers; mental health clinician; judges. This authoritative guide from the editor of Women, Girls & Criminal Justice distills the best thinking of leading practitioners and researchers--all in a convenient single resource that puts a wealth of information within easy reach.--Publisher description.
Witch Hunt
Fourteen year old Elizabeth Wiley is about to begin her studies at Bale's Christian Academy, the most prestigious Christian school in the country. It is an event that has brought excitement to her and her entire family. Her excitement is overshadowed by anxiety and fear, however, because Elizabeth has a secret, and it's one that could bring dire consequences for her if the faculty should discover it. Soon after her arrival, Elizabeth is befriended by Sakira Jones, a Senior and the most popular girl at school. With her new best friend, Elizabeth's own popularity soars and everything starts working out for her. Her joy and success is short lived however. For soon Elizabeth finds herself caught in the middle of a spiritual war with a malevolent presence that has blanketed the campus of Bale's Christian Academy; an unspeakable evil that only the sacrifice of human blood, of Elizabeth's blood, may be able to satisfy...
Designed to Fail
"When we think of educational inequalities, money often seems to be an obvious way of fixing them. After all, how else can schools be improved but through an influx of resources, be they aimed at updating old facilities, purchasing computers, or even acquiring new textbooks? But as Roseann Liu argues in "Designed to Fail," even when schools do get desperately needed funding, much is broken about the way that resources are allocated, even when we account for socioeconomic inequality. Liu sets out to show that even when you account for a full range of socioeconomic statuses, white kids are getting more school funding per pupil than Black and Brown kids. Looking to battles over school funding i...
The Rise of a New Left
HOW THE FIRST MAJOR LEFTWING GENERATION SINCE THE SIXTIES HAS SHAPED ELECTORAL POLITICS The mushrooming rolls of the Democratic Socialists of America, Marxist explainers in Teen Vogue, and the outsized impact of the youngest woman ever elected to Congress, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, all herald a new, youth-inflected radical politics. The Rise of a New Left gets behind the headlines about AOC and her cohort of elected officials to tell the stories of the young organizers who created the Squad and the new social movements that have roiled US politics, from the DSA to the Sunrise Movement to Justice Democrats. Ranging across the country to describe grassroots organizing in places like rural Penn...
