"Raising Prophetic Kids" with author Debra Giles

"Critical Faith" with author Joni Schwartz-Cheney

"You Deserve Good Gelato" with author Kacie Rose

"Edison" with author Pallavi Sharma Dixit 

"Raise Your Frequency" with author Selina Maitreya

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A hands-on guide to cultivating a more conscious and spiritually present life &bull;
 Shows you how to recognize and transform daily difficulties into 
opportunities, empowering you to use every challenge as a tool to find 
deeper peace &bull; Offers a variety of practices, including exercises
 and action steps, to enable you to more fully integrate your spiritual 
beliefs into daily life &bull; Emphasizes working with energy 
frequencies, rather than thoughts, as a means to reach inner healing, 
transformation, and self-empowerment In this powerful guide, 
spiritual teacher Selina Maitreya shares a radical process of 
self-transformation that allows you to discover your highest potential. 
Drawing on her 25 years of experience as a spiritual teacher, Maitreya 
explores how to recognize and transform the challenges you experience 
into tools to raise your consciousness, thus empowering you to use each 
difficult life experience as a tool to create peace and build the 
foundation for a truly abundant life. Maitreya shares her own 
journey, when all her plans for her future ended in the blink of an eye,
 leading to the creation of this book. Pulled from her car with the Jaws
 of Life following a collision, she was diagnosed with a traumatic brain
 injury that left her unable to live anything close to a normal life. 
Her physical and intellectual disabilities were huge and went on for the
 next four years. Yet she experienced a connection to Oneness during 
this time that she had never experienced before. In Oneness was the 
respite she had always sought, and all she had to do was close her eyes 
and breathe.Selina Maitreya is a lecturer, author, and spiritual teacher. The 
creator of Clarion Call, an online conference of spiritual teachers, she
 is a founding member of the Manhattan Holistic Chamber of Commerce and a
 past board member of the Boston Theosophical Society. She lives in 
Arlington, Massachusetts.

Raise Your Frequency, Transform Your Life: How to Respond with Love to Life's Difficulties

Edison is a Bollywood-style love story brimming with song 
and dance, action and comedy, a&nbsp;love triangle, an angry parent, an evil 
villain, and cameos by real Bollywood stars&mdash;a hilariously&nbsp;entertaining 
masala film in the guise of literary fiction. Along the way, we glean bits of Indian film history and fall in love with an improbable cast of characters who inhabit Edison, New Jersey's Little India.Prem Kumar is the wayward youngest son of a titan of New Delhi industry. Obsessed with&nbsp;Indian movies&mdash;what the world comes to know as Bollywood&mdash;and
 uninterested in his&nbsp;father&rsquo;s business empire, he runs away to America 
hoping to make a smash hit film.&nbsp;Arriving at JFK Airport, where his 
dreams are promptly shattered, he hails a taxi that&nbsp;deposits him in an 
Indian immigrant neighborhood in Edison, New Jersey.Not inclined 
to work hard, Prem finds a mattress to crash on and a job at an Exxon 
gas station,&nbsp;biding his time until he comes up with a plan for his 
future. But when he falls head-over-heels in love with Leena, 
the&nbsp;ambitious and dutiful daughter of Hemant Engineer, the owner of 
Edison&rsquo;s first Indian grocery&nbsp;store, her father decrees that they can 
only marry once Prem has earned one million and one&nbsp;dollars. Desperate 
to be with Leena but afraid he doesn&rsquo;t have what it takes, will Prem 
find a&nbsp;way to earn Hemant&rsquo;s blessing?Edison is a wild, 
romantic, laugh-out-loud love letter to life, community, friendship, and
 the Indian American community of&nbsp;Edison, New Jersey, where debut author
 Pallavi Dixit grew up.Pallavi Sharma Dixit holds a BA and an MA (history) from the 
University of Pennsylvania and an MFA in Creative Writing from the 
University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She has been the recipient of 
grants and fellowships from the Jerome Foundation, the Minnesota State 
Arts Board, and others. She was a winner of the Asian American Writers 
Workshop&rsquo;s Pages in Progress Prize and one of three winners of the First
 Pages Prize in fiction for Edison, her debut novel. She has 
taught creative writing at the Loft Literary Center in Minneapolis, 
where she lives with her husband, two children, and their dog. She grew 
up in Edison and frequently visits the town, where her parents still 
reside.

Edison

In this refreshingly honest take on navigating a new life abroad. 
Social media star Kacie Rose offers a funny, joyful, and searingly 
honest account of the highs and lows of living abroad and traveling the 
world. Kacie decided to leave her life as a pro dancer in 
New York City and move to Italy in 2021, covering everything from travel
 fails and homesickness to the joy of culture shocks.&nbsp; In this travel book, you will find: -Personal essays that tell Kacie&rsquo;s story that will empower you to challenge yourself -A
 candid outlook on life as an expat, discussing important concepts like 
homesickness, embracing new cultures and cultural stereotypes -A 
helpful and funny guide that will encourage you to travel abroad and 
remind you that you are stronger and more capable than you think.&nbsp; Kacie
 reflects on the pure terror of driving on Italian roads, the trials of 
speaking a new language, and the genuine beauty of a slower pace of 
life, all with humor and heart. By sharing her personal stories of life 
under the Tuscan sun, Kacie explains how travel is a privilege, why 
cultural differences are the coolest things in the world, and how 
there's a positive you can take away from literally any situation. 
Travel meets narrative in this book about Kacie Rose&rsquo;s experiences 
living in a new country.Kacie Rose is a travel content creator living in Florence, Italy.
 After a life-changing solo trip and her own little "under the Tuscan 
sun moment," she made the official move to Italy in January 2021. 
Through positivity, authenticity, and humour, she began sharing culture 
shocks, travel tips, and life abroad across her social media, where her 
following quickly grew to a community of over 1.5 million people. From
 explaining why you won't find "pepperoni pizza" and "lattes" in Italy, 
to sharing how to order a coffee, figure out the train system, and find 
authentic gelato, Kacie's goal is to encourage and help her community 
travel abroad by showing them the beauty of cultural differences, all 
the while reminding them that they are strong, deserving, and so much 
more capable than they think they are.

You Deserve Good Gelato: Reasons to Travel the World, Embrace Failure, and Do the Sh*t That Scares You

Near hysteria has erupted in the media, state and federal legislatures, 
community boards, and churches around critical race theory (CRT). 
Despite the term's history, development, and clearly defined meaning, it
 has become a catch-all for white America's fears, deflections, and 
equivocations on race, society, and the law. Christians are no 
exception. Their critiques routinely claim that CRT is rewriting of 
American history, that it is anti-democratic, and even heretical.Critical Faith
 presents a counter argument to these claims and insists that CRT is a 
tool to grapple with the thorny issue of race in both society and the 
church. In a reasoned tone, Critical Faith defines the origins of CRT, explains what the theory is, and demonstrates its merits from teaching experiences of the author.Schwartz-Chaney
 argues that CRT is the victim of what Patricia Williams calls 
"definitional theft," and that by recovering its original meaning, 
Christians can move past mischaracterizations and caricatures toward a 
more nuanced view of race, racism, and the tools available to make 
progress in the church and in society.Joni Schwartz-Chaney is professor of humanities at the 
City University of New York. A critical researcher and social activist 
scholar, she is the author of several books, including Race, Education, and Reintegrating Formerly Incarcerated Citizens, Gifts from the Dark: Learning from the Incarceration Experience, and Learning to Disclose: A Journey of Transracial Adoption. She has published over twenty-five articles, and has produced two documentaries.

Critical Faith: What It Is, What It Isn't, and Why It Matters

<div class="text--medium overview-content p-lg-4 p-sm-0 bookseller-cont"><div class="bs-content "><div class="overview-cntnt" itemprop="description">Take a month-by-month approach to stargazing with this fun and informative beginner&rsquo;s guide to constellations.Stargazing
 is a perfect hobby. It can be done any time of year from anywhere, and 
it&rsquo;s easy to share with friends and family of all ages. For decades, 
Mike Lynch has been building telescopes, teaching classes on astronomy, 
and guiding tours of the stars. Let the beloved WCCO Radio meteorologist
 help you begin stargazing with the new edition of Stars: A Month-by-Month Tour of the Constellations.
 Written in Mike&rsquo;s casual, friendly tone, the guide provides a monthly 
look at the night sky&mdash;complete with sky charts and detailed descriptions
 of what you can expect to see. Plus, you&rsquo;ll learn all about two or 
three specific constellations each month.Inside you&rsquo;ll find:<ul><li>Highlights of 27 constellations that you&rsquo;ll see throughout the year</li><li>Tips for locating objects in the night sky</li><li>The stories and myths behind the constellations</li><li>Monthly star maps showing galaxies, nebulae, and more</li></ul>Grab
 your lawn chair, a pair of binoculars, and head outside. With his 
friendly tips, warm anecdotes, and step-by-step instructions, Mike will 
help you &ldquo;make the stars your old friends.&rdquo;</div></div>Mike Lynch is a native Minnesotan who grew up in Richfield, 
Minnesota, in the 1960s. He attended Saint Peter&rsquo;s Catholic School and 
Holy Angels High School. After 2 years at the University of Minnesota in
 the Twin Cities, he transferred to the University of Wisconsin&ndash;Madison 
and earned his B.S. degree in Meteorology in 1979. Shortly afterward, he
 was hired as a broadcast meteorologist at WCCO Radio. He retired in 
2020 after a 40-year career. Mike has covered all kinds of weather, from
 deadly tornadoes to record cold snaps. In fact, on February 2, 1996, he
 broadcasted from Tower, Minnesota, when the temperature dropped to 60 
degrees below zero, an all-time record low for the state of Minnesota.Since
 he was a teenager, Mike&rsquo;s other passion has been astronomy. He built 
his first telescope when he was 15 years old. For over 50 years, Mike 
has been teaching classes and hosting star parties with community 
education groups, nature centers, and other entities throughout 
Minnesota and Western Wisconsin. His goal is to help people make the 
stars their old friends.</div>

"Stars: A Month-by-Month Tour of the Constellations" with author Mike Lynch

Stars: A Month-by-Month Tour of the Constellations

Usher Your Children into Their Highest Calling Has your daughter come to you about a dream she's had or a feeling of a future happening? Does your son see angels or blurt out messages that could only come from God? Having raised four spiritually gifted sons activated into prophetic ministry, prophetic mentor and teacher Debra Giles helps you identify and develop your children's unique spiritual giftings. Packed with biblically based teaching, prophetic activations, practical exercises, and real-world tools, this hands-on guide empowers you to confidently &middot; recognize attributes and signs of prophetic gifting &middot; discern your children's unique purpose and destiny &middot; guide them as they learn to operate in their gifts &middot; cultivate a spiritually fertile home environment &middot; prepare them for personal ministry and to release God's truth &middot; step back when their gifts have matured God is calling forth a new generation of Samuels and Deborahs&mdash;here's everything you need to train them in the way they should go.Debra Giles is the founder of FaithNation, an online ministry-equipping platform, and Tsaba International, a family-based ministry. A workshop facilitator, conference speaker, teacher, and preacher, Debra is part of the Mantle Network and leads kingdom-equipping training workshops and courses such as Healing School, Spiritual Warfare School, and School of the Prophets. With more than a decade of experience as a supplier diversity professional, she received her MBA and enjoys assisting entrepreneurs and startups with strategy.

Raising Prophetic Kids: The Building Blocks of Nurturing Spiritual Gifts

Newsman Boston Meade interviews ex-forest ranger Leif Nielsen who wants 
his farmstead on Tarn Lake to remain in its natural state. His brother, 
Harald, a doctor, and his political wife, Regina, tell Boston the farm 
has great development potential. They draft a will for Leif's signature 
while he is hospitalized, but Leif discovers the draft gives Harald 
power of attorney. His sanity is questioned, and blood will ensue!Newell Searle grew up on a southern Minnesota farm, and his writing 
includes a variety of pieces on Minnesota's history, culture and natural
 environment. Copy Desk Murders was his first novel in a mystery series 
set in southern Minnesota during the 1980s farm crisis, a period when he
 worked in agricultural organizations. After a vocational school 
education, he received a B.A. from Macalester College. His first book, 
Saving Quetico-Superior, was an award-winning narrative of wilderness 
protection. He continued writing while working as a public affairs 
professional in corporate, government and nonprofit organizations. Now 
he writes wherever he is, at his home in Minnetonka, volunteering in 
Mexico or at a forest cabin north of Lake Superior.

Minneapolis, MN

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