A perfect book for the nieces and nephews of State Troopers! A children's story about a boy's hero, his State Trooper Uncle, what his job entails and how he keeps the community safe, all while being sure to remind his nephew how loved he is.

A perfect book for the nieces and nephews of State Troopers! A children's story about a child's hero, his State Trooper Aunt, what her job entails, and how she keeps the community safe while being sure to remind her nephew how loved he is.

THIS BOOK IS NOT ONLY ABOUT TOM. IT’S ABOUT ALL OF OUR CHILDREN. I AM PROUD OF MY PARENTS; THEY TRIED THEIR BEST TO TEACH ME HOW TO LIVE IN THIS WORLD. THEY TAUGHT ME HOW TO WORK. THEY TAUGHT ME HOW TO RESPECT OTHER PEOPLE, AND THEY ALSO TOLD ME I HAD TO GET AN EDUCATION. NOT ONLY MY MOTHER AND FATHER BUT MY GRANDMOTHER, UNCLES AND AUNTS TAUGHT ME ABOUT EVERYDAY LIFE

Growing up poor on the rough side of Indiana didn’t make my life easy. It made it hard. My mom worked two jobs and didn’t have time to read me many fairy tales. We couldn’t afford the princess costumes or the trips to expensive magic kingdoms. My life was black and white, and a hint of grey was the most I had to look forward to…until I met Zachary Rostov—tall, beautiful, with a perfect smile. Unfortunately, as with most stories, ours had to come to an end. When I turned nineteen, after escaping the soul-sucking pit of Indiana, one bad decision almost destroyed everything. The way my story had been written up to that point meant my dreams of more should have come to an end. But it was the same day I met Vincent Jamison, and if my life were a fairy tale, he would have been the prince who had come to save me. I don’t remember in any of those stories being saved coming with a debt.

The New York Times–bestselling collection of essays on the power of ordinary people to effect lasting change—from the host and cofounder of Democracy Now! Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan began writing a weekly column, “Breaking the Sound Barrier,” for King Features Syndicate in 2006. This timely new sequel to Goodman’s New York Times bestseller of the same name gives voice to the many ordinary people standing up to corporate and government power—and refusing to be silent. The Silenced Majority pulls back the veil of corporate media reporting to dig deep into the politics of “climate apartheid,” the implications of the Fukushima nuclear disaster, the movement to halt the execution of Troy Anthony Davis, and the globalization of dissent “from Tahrir Square to Liberty Plaza.” Throughout, Goodman and Moynihan show the work of ordinary people to change their media—and change the world. Praise for Amy Goodman “Amy Goodman has taken investigative journalism to new heights.” —Noam Chomsky, leading public intellectual and author of Hopes and Prospects “Amy Goodman is not afraid to speak truth to power. She does it every day.” —Susan Sarandon, activist and actress “Crusading journalism at its best.” —Arianna Huffington, founder of The Huffington Post “A towering progressive freedom fighter in the media and the world.” —Cornel West, author of Race Matters “What journalism should be: beholden to the interests of people, not power and profit.” —Arundhati Roy, author of The End of Imagination

Zahira Athar, a young woman of Baghdad, is unwittingly ensnared in an Islamic extremist plot to assassinate the Vice President of the United States. The assassin, her cousin Fahad Djebbar, uses Zahira to cover his terrorist identity and advance the plot by persuading her to leave Baghdad with him to study in the U.S., he at Georgetown University, and she at the site of the planned assassination, St. Martins College in Maryland. As Zahira pursues studies at St. Martins and the VP's visit approaches, she realizes that the VP's Secret Service team leader, Owen Michelson suspects Fahad is a terrorist and may suspect her as well. Yet in interviews with him, Zahira is deeply attracted to Owen and knows he is equally compelled by her. Torn by her longing for Owen and relentlessly mounting doubts about Fahad, Zahira determines to find the truth about her cousin and if she must, dissuade him from terrorism. Her efforts are savagely thwarted by Amir, Fahad's Iraqi control, who has murdered and stolen a St. Martins student's identity. Amir kidnaps Zahira and forces Fahad, now beginning to reject his terrorist mission, to come to St. Martins and proceed with the assassination. In an explosive climax, the lives of three children and countless civilians hang in the balance, and in spite of college supporters' and Owen's attempts to save her, Zahira must make her jihad alone.

Addiction, abuse, trauma and guilt. The generational curse had her bound. Unexpectedly, it was as if a light switch had flipped and the darkness was never going to end. Brittany had firmly believed the past trauma she had endured was securely locked away, put on a shelf, and handled -– but was it? With the skeletons in her mind busting at the seams, she finally reached breaking point. What had once seemed handled was now haunting her. She simply could not escape it. Realising that she had landed at rock bottom; the only way out was to heal and face her demons. Brittany started something that had once felt impossible – she tried to find true freedom. Can she do it? Can she recover from a past life that had already robbed her of so much? This is a true, inspirational story of one woman's battle to break free of a generational curse, to find herself, keep herself alive throughout the darkest points as a teenager, trying to find her purpose, learning to love herself, fighting to prove herself to Irish Immigration while facing deportation twice and finding her happily ever after. This is Resilience.