1997 Books for the Teen Age, New York Public Library 1999-2000 Volunteer State Book Award Master List (Tennessee) 1999-2000 Iowa Children's Choice Awards Master List 1999 Sasquatch Reading Award Master List (Washington) 1999 Utah Children's Book Award Master List 2001 Rebecca Caudill Young Readers' Book Award Master List (Illinois) When a chance yard-sale purchase nets five boys a Willie Mays rookie card worth $4,000, their lives seem to narrow and intensify. The boys devise a "last man" contest—the winner gets the Mays card, and the losers get zip. Twelve-year-old Albert has a life-and-death reason for winning the card—and his own very special terrors aobut the abandoned mine where the boys have hidden it for safekeeping. Just how far is Albert willing to go to be the last man?

"Between the 1860s and 1920s, Chicago's working-class immigrants designed the American dream of home-ownership. They imagined homes as small businesses, homes that were simultaneously a consumer-oriented respite from work and a productive space that workers hoped to control. Leapfrogging out of town along with Chicago's assembly-line factories, Chicago's early suburbs were remarkably diverse. These suburbs were marketed with the elusive promise that homeownership might offer some bulwark against the vicissitudes of industrial capitalism, that homes might be "better than a bank for a poor man, " in the words of one evocative advertisement, and "the working man's reward." This promise evolved into what Lewinnek terms "the mortgages of whiteness:" the hope that property values might increase if that property could be kept white. Suburbs also developed through nineteenth-century notions of the gendered respectability of domesticity, early ideas about city planning and land economics, as well as an evolving twentieth-century discourse about the racial attributes of property values. Because Chicago presented itself as a paradigmatic American city and because numerous Chicago-based experts eventually instituted national real-estate programs, Chicago's early growth affected the growth of twentieth-century America. Framed by two working-class riots against suburbanization in 1872 and 1919, spurred from both above and below, this work shows how Chicagoans helped form America's urban sprawl and examines the roots of America's suburbanization, synthesizing the new suburban history into the diversity of America's suburbs"--

Not all intercessors are prophets; however, prophets are called to intercede. The daily readings of this book will give you the encouragement you need to move forward in your prophetic gift despite any troubles that may come your way. You will have the bravery and the boldness to shine in my God given gift. Is something stirring inside of you, waiting to be called out, trained, and activated? Are you waiting to use your gift to hear God's voice and deliver His message? In Awaken Your Call, best-selling author John Eckhardt provides thirty days of encouragement and activation as he focuses on the characteristics of prophets and intercessors and their role in our culture and the church. Prophets who have been silenced, misunderstood, mistreated, and even persecuted are being touched by heaven. It's time to restore these watchmen and strengthen them to endure. Discover fresh insights that encourage you in your prophetic gift no matter how difficult the journey becomes. Arise and shine. Your light has come, and the glory of the Lord has risen upon you. Likewise, the Spirit helps us in our weaknesses, for we do not know what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit Himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words. He who searches the hearts knows what the mind of the Spirit is, because He intercedes for saints according to the will of God. (MEV - Romans 8:26-27)

If you've ever wondered, "Is this all there is?" to your Christian experience, you will be blessed to learn there is more, much more. The day you are born again, you enter God's household and become a member of His royal family in the Kingdom of Heaven. Roy-al-ty n 1 the rank, status or authority of a sovereign; 2 a royal personage; and, 3 royal nature or quality Prin-ci-ple n 1 A basic truth upon which others can be founded; 2 an essential character; and, 3 moral standards or rules of conduct Royalty principle = a basic truth and moral standard, which is necessary for the essential character of royal personages with rank, status and authority, to develop and maintain their royal nature The Royalty Principle is a ten-week course about the Kingdom of Heaven. It will instruct you in how to fulfill Jesus' Great Commission to make disciples as you go about the Father's business. As an ambassador for Christ, His royal representative here on earth, you will learn that you can make a difference. The Royalty Principle will help prepare you for the ultimate end-of-life experience-ruling and reigning with Lord Jesus for eternity. Inside you will learn about your Kingdom of Heaven: - Responsibilities - Rewards - Crowns Lady Dylyce, Princess of the Kingdom of Heaven, invites you to join her in discovering the daily excitement of walking with God.