Cites successful examples of community-based policing.

Shattered Windows What would you do If you had a choice to be killer or be killed? "....I remember vividly, the day my mom grabbed my hair and whispered, "it's better to be the killer than to be killed". I looked at her in fright as I heard the word killer slither out of her mouth. I started to kick and scream for her to let me go so I could run away and avoid the kind of future she's planned ahead for me...." Excerpt from chapter 1 of this riveting novella from a teenage author Nevaeh and her mother never had a normal relationship. They never expressed how it is to love someone. Well, what would you do if you had a choice to kill your mother or die? In this novel, Nevaeh experiences things that no child should go through. She's been brought into a life that is no longer her own. What would you do? If you had a choice to be the killer or to be killed? Find out in this thought-provoking tale from Harmony Banwo

Julie Simons was an attractive young lady looking much older than her 13 years. When she is discovered on the front yard below her shattered bedroom window, it is initially assumed she was the victim of a tragic accident. But was she? While the story contemplates some mature issues, it is clean reading. There is no foul language, no sex scenes, and no graphic violence. Shattered Window is a suspenseful, sometimes humorous, engaging mystery the reader is sure to love!

Jimmy Carson is in his last year of elementary school. When his school is vandalized he decides to try and catch the culprit. While doing so he runs into a kid genius named "Brains" Benton. Enjoy their first adventure together in this new short story!

Reaching back over a century of struggle, liberation, and gutsy play, Shattering the Glass is a sweeping chronicle of women's basketball in the United States. Offering vivid portraits of forgotten heroes and contemporary stars, Pamela Grundy and Susan Shackelford provide a broad perspective on the history of the sport, exploring its close relationship to concepts of womanhood, race, and sexuality, and to efforts to expand women's rights. Extensively illustrated and drawing on original interviews with players, coaches, administrators, and broadcasters, Shattering the Glass presents a moving, gritty view of the game on and off the court. It is both an insightful history and an empowering story of the generations of women who have shaped women's basketball.

This beautifully illustrated story tells a tale of an orphan, Marguerite, who works in the King's kitchen. When Marguerite breaks the King's precious glass, those around her tell her to bury the glass and hide the evidence, but her conscience tells her otherwise. What is she to do? Susan Joy Bellavance's tale of courage, honesty, and bravery through the character of Marguerite gives readers deep insight into mercy and how God shows us his love through the Sacrament of Confession.

Shattered Glass in Birmingham traces the experiences of a white northern family during the climax of the civil rights movement in Alabama's largest city. Recounted primarily from Randall Jimerson's perspective as one of five children of Reverend Norman C. "Jim" Jimerson, executive director of the Alabama Council on Human Relations, the narrative explores the public and private impact of the civil rights struggle. Based on extensive archival research as well as oral histories, Shattered Glass in Birmingham offers the reader a ground-level view of prejudice, discrimination, violence, and courage. In 1961 the Alabama Council on Human Relations charged Rev. Jimerson with the critical task of improving communications and racial understanding between Alabama's black and white communities, employing him to travel extensively throughout the state to coordinate the activities of Human Relations chapters across Alabama. Along the way, he developed close working relationships with black and white ministers, educators, and businessmen and served as an effective bridge between the communities. Rev. Jimerson's success as a community activist was due largely to his ability to gain the trust of both white moderates and key figures in the civil rights movement: Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth, Dr. Lucius Pitts, Rev. Ralph Abernathy, Rev. Wyatt T. Walker, Rev. Andrew Young, and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. He represents the hundreds of people who worked behind the scenes to help achieve the goals of civil rights activists. After Klan members killed four young girls in the bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in September 1963, Rev. Jimerson preserved several pieces of stained glass that had blown out of the church's windows. Similarly, Shattered Glass in Birmingham offers us a fresh and important perspective on these climactic events, supplying one of the many fragments that make up the complex story of our nation's fight for civil liberties.