Books with author Allison Rak

This is a book about the essence of the meaning of Easter: Celebrating New Life. I am a Quaker. One Easter I was scheduled to teach First Day School (Quaker Sunday School) in our Quaker Meeting to a handful of children ranging in age from 4 to10. Two of the children were non-Christian, so I wanted to find a book to read to the group that told the deep meaning of the Easter story without the Christian specifics. Nowhere could I find such a book, in library or bookstore. I became discouraged: Reading a book and then letting the children discuss it was part of the teachers' format.Six mornings before Easter I woke up with the whole "About Eastertime" book in my head, words and illustrations both. I grabbed a pen and paper to quickly write down the words that were given to me, and to sketch the accompanying given illustrations. This book was truly a Gift.When I showed it to my 87 year old father (not usually a reader of children's books), on reaching the last page he looked up at me with kindly expression and tears in his eyes, and said simply and with loving assurance, "This book could change the world." I have no such expectations, but I do have hope and faith that it may in some way touch those who read it or have it read to them. Dad, this published book is for you: William Oxley Randall, 1914-2004.

A dangerous faerie lurks behind an empty throne.Still living as a faerie outcast in the human world, Kelty is summoned by the Court of Outcasts, where another faerie—one with a dark past, a skewed sense of reality, and a penchant for influencing minds—offers her the throne. Accepting would force her to forfeit her dreams by remaining in the human world for the rest of her days. But refusing could spell disaster for the humans she now hopes to protect.Meanwhile, Nola struggles with fainting spells as her human body rejects the faerie magic now within her. She tries to stay away from the outcasts, but when the mysterious new guy in school lures her friend Lauren away, she follows them to a place she never thought she would see—and may not be able to leave.Fighting separate battles against a common enemy, Kelty and Nola find themselves questioning everything as they struggle to decide what truly matters—and to survive with their minds intact.This second installment in the Tales of an Outcast Faerie series is a magical, fast-paced tale where life-altering decisions loom, relationships falter, and the insanity of one powerful faerie threatens to break them all.

Jo Bristol spent most of her eighteen years of her life trying to prove the purpose of her art... that is, when she wasn’t spending time in prison for murder. Having succumbed to the will of her violent visions—or her ‘tick,’ as she calls it—what was once a secret became her reality, and Jo did the unthinkable. What she did not expect was that her skills as a killer would eventually save her life—and a few others—amid a terrible and confusing war between FutureTech, the corporate security system of Los Angeles, and the armed cyber-terrorists, Alias-X. Now, in the safe in the haven of a military bunker, Jo struggles to find purpose beyond painting inspirational murals. Those who once benefited from the healing effects of her artwork are halted by new, more obscure influences, and the people who once heralded her positive influence have moved on to solve the mysteries of a war no one knows how to win. But when a secret messenger insists to have answers about her tick and the enigma of her brain, Jo makes the bold decision to cross the California desert back to her destroyed hometown of L.A. in search of her answers, and the last remaining member of her family who might know the source of her tick: her mom.Vice is Part Two of the Tick Series. Part Three, titled Mark, will be released in 2019.

In the face of defeat lies true strength. Kelty now lives as an outcast faerie in the human world. But before she was cast out, an encounter with a deceiving faerie resulted in a devastating trick—one that changed Kelty's life forever in this enthralling untold story.For fans of YA fantasy, Outcast is a riveting prequel to the Tales of an Outcast Faerie series, beginning with The Nameless.

Shelly had no plans for her 16th birthday . . . until she met Dylan. Now she's got a definite agenda!Shelly's orders to self:Don't worry that Saturday's my birthday and I have no plans. And don't worry that the most popular girl in school shares my birthday and is hosting a bash on that very night. And don't worry that the cutest guy on the planet caught me crying about it. Or that his insane scheme to make it the best night ever will actually happen. . . .

When a little dog named Cargo meets a homeless woman who shows him kindness, he wants to help her in return. Cargo and the Woman in the Flowered Hat, a fictional children’s book written and illustrated by Allison Rose, is an adventure that addresses poverty, empathy, and isolation. Included after the story are tips on talking with children about the common social issue of homelessness.

Jo Bristol has a tick ... she has visions of killing people.Los Angeles is under attack from cyber terrorists. In an effort to quell the threat, the city uses spy drones to seek out civilians with brain abnormalities and adjusts their neurons to remove any criminal tendencies. Jo has spent her whole life evading the drones and the imminent brain manipulation by keeping her tick a secret, until a week before her seventeenth birthday her visions threaten to become reality. Having always wanted to be a painter, Jo knows any adjustment to her brain could alter her artistic sense and she could lose all that makes her who she is. In order to survive amid the physical and psycological threats, Jo must hide the darkness in her mind or lose her muse completely. The first in a 3-Part series, TICK is the beginning of Jo's adventures.

Girls and young women participate in soccer at record levels and the Women’s National Team regularly draws media, corporate, and popular attention. Yet despite increased representation and visibility, gender disparities in opportunity, compensation, training resources, and media airtime persist in soccer, and two professional leagues for women have failed since 2000. In Kicking Center, Rachel Allison investigates a women’s soccer league seeking to break into the male-dominated center of U.S. professional sport. Through an examination of the challenges and opportunities identified by those working for and with this league, she demonstrates how gender inequality is both constructed and contested in professional sport. Allison details the complex constructions of race, class, gender, and sexuality in the selling and marketing of women’s soccer in a half-changed sports landscape characterized by both progress and backlash, and where professional sports are still understood to be men’s territory.

Jo Bristol spent most of her eighteen years of her life trying to prove the purpose of her art... that is, when she wasn’t spending time in prison for murder. Having succumbed to the will of her violent visions—or her ‘tick,’ as she calls it—what was once a secret became her reality, and Jo did the unthinkable. What she did not expect was that her skills as a killer would eventually save her life—and a few others—amid a terrible and confusing war between FutureTech, the corporate security system of Los Angeles, and the armed cyber-terrorists, Alias-X. Now, in the safe in the haven of a military bunker, Jo struggles to find purpose beyond painting inspirational murals. Those who once benefited from the healing effects of her artwork are halted by new, more obscure influences, and the people who once heralded her positive influence have moved on to solve the mysteries of a war no one knows how to win. But when a secret messenger insists to have answers about her tick and the enigma of her brain, Jo makes the bold decision to cross the California desert back to her destroyed hometown of L.A. in search of her answers, and the last remaining member of her family who might know the source of her tick: her mom.

When a little dog named Cargo meets a homeless woman who shows him kindness, he wants to help her in return. Cargo and the Woman in the Flowered Hat, a fictional children's book written and illustrated by Allison Rose, is an adventure that addresses poverty, empathy, and isolation. Included after the story are tips on talking with children about the common social issue of homelessness.