Books with author Anita Williams

What if the world is controlled by an elite few who are responsible for keeping it in balance, and every country, government, military, media, and business is being skillfully manipulated to protect the planet from destruction?Twelve-year-old Emily Jones is an average pre-teen-or so she believes until she is invited to attend North Shore Academy, where she quickly discovers that she's anything but ordinary. People she's never met are strangely familiar, the curriculum is unlike any school she's ever imagined, and all the students have an affinity towards an element. Unlike the other students, though, Emily has more than one affinity. As she struggles to control her elements (and her temper), she learns that her soul has lived many lifetimes. She must complete the Awakening to understand how her past lives fit with her current one.While balance is the premise taught at North Shore, some believe that power combined with modern technology is the correct path to take. How will Emily reconcile the struggle between power and balance, all while trying to deal with normal teenaged circumstances in her not-so-normal world?

This book outlines a story of overcoming depression and anxiety. It is a journal formatted book that discusses feelings associated with a spiritual awakening. Success is defined not by material possessions. Rather it is defined individually, based on the self-image, perception, and realization one has created in their own mind. The story is designed to help people connect the dots and overcome obstacles. Everyone fails and makes mistakes in life. Learning its ok to fail, life becomes more about the journey than the destination.At the age of 35, I had enough life experiences to realize I am in more control than I previously knew. This realization comes with the ultimate responsibility. Taking responsibility for my own life, I decided to write about it. The story is based in the year 2019 as I learned new techniques to center and forgive myself. To begin to live a life full of love and gratitude that starts with the simple profound truths that helped change my perspective.

Featuring 24 pages of colorful illustrations with a fictional story and supporting vocabulary, It's My Turn introduces young readers to punctuation, sight words, and reading comprehension skills.Little Birdie Books provide a fun, informative way to approach essential educational skills. These age-appropriate readers engage early learners by using simple language and appealing topics while also featuring helpful sections like Words to Know Before You Read, Comprehension & Extension activities, and more.

For fans of Hidden Figures and Steve Sheinkin's Undefeated, Andrea Williams's Baseball's Leading Lady is the powerful true story of Effa Manley, the first and only woman inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame.Before Jackie Robinson broke Major League Baseball's color barrier in 1947, Black athletes played in the Negro Leagues--on teams coached by Black managers, cheered on by Black fans, and often run by Black owners. Here is the riveting true story of the woman at the center of the Black baseball world: Effa Manley, co-owner and business manager of the Newark Eagles. Elegant yet gutsy, she cultivated a powerhouse team. Yet just as her Eagles reached their pinnacle, so did calls to integrate baseball, a move that would all but extinguish the Negro Leagues. On and off the field, Effa hated to lose. She had devoted her life to Black empowerment--but in the battle for Black baseball, was the game rigged against her?

The author, William Williams, became pastor at Upton Chapel, Lambuth, in 1877. He was a close friend of C. H. Spurgeon. In his introduction to the book, Williams stated, “I do not propose to write another life of Mr. Spurgeon. I propose writing of the great preacher as I knew him, and as I saw him, under a great variety of circumstances and conditions; giving, I trust, no offence in anything, that this ministry be not blamed. I hope in the ensuing chapters each reader may participate to some extent in the joy I experienced when in company with one of the master minds and most gracious characters of this or indeed of any age.” Williams also complied a book of sermons: Upton Chapel Sermons. A Centenary Memorial, which was published in 1885. Charles Haddon Spurgeon wrote the Foreword.

What if the world is controlled by an elite few who are responsible for keeping it in balance, and every country, government, military, media, and business is being skillfully manipulated to protect the planet from destruction?Twelve-year-old Emily Jones is an average pre-teen-or so she believes until she is invited to attend North Shore Academy, where she quickly discovers that she's anything but ordinary. People she's never met are strangely familiar, the curriculum is unlike any school she's ever imagined, and all the students have an affinity towards an element. Unlike the other students, though, Emily has more than one affinity. As she struggles to control her elements (and her temper), she learns that her soul has lived many lifetimes. She must complete the Awakening to understand how her past lives fit with her current one.While balance is the premise taught at North Shore, some believe that power combined with modern technology is the correct path to take. How will Emily reconcile the struggle between power and balance, all while trying to deal with normal teenaged circumstances in her not-so-normal world?

Benefits for being Cats Owner.Diminishes pressure and uneasiness: Owning a cat or feline can be relieving and trigger quieting synthetic compounds in the body, diminishing pressure and nervousness levels. Cats or Felines are known for being low-upkeep, so a straightforward petting session is regularly enough to loosen up proprietors and occupy them from different stresses. Diminishes danger of stroke: Studies demonstrate that cat or feline proprietors are more averse to be in danger of having a stroke than some other pet proprietor. Researchers guess this is likewise a result of a feline's low-upkeep proprietorship. Restorative advantages: The quieting impact of owning cat or feline triggers the arrival of oxytocin, the hormone known for initiating sentiments of affection and trust. Individuals experiencing troublesome occasions of misery or grieving report that conversing with their pet helps work out their emotions, since usually simpler to converse with something that won't react and can't make a decision than to another person. What's more, an examination found that kids with chemical imbalance were bound to be less restless and quiet while petting a feline. Lifts insusceptibility: Exposure to pet dander and hide in the house results in expanded protection from allergens, diminishing danger for sensitivities and asthma. Brings down pulse: Cat proprietors are known to have lower circulatory strain than non-feline proprietors because of the quieting nearness felines give. One examination was directed with a room loaded with cat or feline proprietors. In the examination, the proprietors would talk so anyone might hear, which normally raised circulatory strain levels, yet when the proprietors were watched talking with their felines, their pulse stayed steady. Diminishes danger of coronary illness and heart assaults: An examination led by the University of Minnesota's Stroke Institute in Minneapolis have demonstrated that the individuals who don't possess felines are 30-40% bound to bite the dust of heart assaults than their feline owning partners. Brings down triglycerides and cholesterol levels: High triglyceride and cholesterol levels add to coronary illness and are symptomatic of sort 2 diabetes just as strokes, liver and kidney malady. Normally, decreases in these dimensions lead to a diminished hazard in these sicknesses. Increment amiability: Cat possession gives a characteristic friendly exchange and can improve the proprietor's capacity to mingle. One investigation uncovered that ladies were more pulled in to men who possessed felines since feline proprietorship regularly proposes affectability and knowledge.

Geckos are reptiles having a place with the infraorder Gekkota, found in warm atmospheres all through the world. They run from 1.6 to 60 cm (0.64 to 24 inches). Most geckos can't flicker, however, they regularly lick their eyes to keep them perfect and clammy. They include a fixed focal point inside every iris that amplifies in obscurity to let in increasingly light. Carp's woofing gecko licking its cornea to clear it of residue Geckos are one of a kind among reptiles in their vocalizations, which contrast from species to species. They use twittering or clicking sounds in their social associations, and in some cases when frightened. They are the most species-rich gathering of reptiles, with around 1,500 unique species around the world. The New Latin Gekko and English "gecko" originate from the Indonesian-Malay gēkoq, which is imitative of sounds that a few animal varieties make. All geckos aside from species in the family Eublepharidae need eyelids; rather, the external surface of the eyeball has a straightforward film, the cornea. Species without eyelids, by and large, lick their very own corneas when they have to clear them of residue and soil. Nighttime species have great night vision; their shading vision in low light is multiple times more touchy than human shading vision. The nighttime geckos advanced from diurnal species which had lost the eye poles. The gecko eye, consequently, adjusted its cones that expanded in size into various kinds both single and twofold. Three distinct photopigments have been held and are delicate to UV, blue, and green. They additionally utilize a multifocal optical framework that enables them to create a sharp picture for something like two unique profundities. Most gecko species can lose their tails in resistance, a procedure called autotomy. Numerous species are notable for the specific toe cushions that empower them to climb smooth and vertical surfaces and even cross indoor roofs easily. Geckos are notable to individuals who live in warm locales of the world, where a few types of geckos make their home inside human residences. These (for instance the house gecko) become some portion of the indoor zoological display and are regularly invited, as they feed on bugs, including moths and mosquitoes. In contrast to most reptiles, geckos are generally nighttime.

THE BENEFITS OF STORYTELLING (Bed Times Story) Idealizing sleep time will mean a higher nature of rest for both you and your children, however, another essential part is narrating. While you may think perusing sleep time stories just enables your little one snooze to off to the sound of your voice, there is a huge number of different advantages, including: Advancement of creative energy – perusing anecdotal stories to youngsters urges them to utilize their creative energy and picture the scene in their mind The more profound comprehension of the world – narrating is fun and energizing yet, in addition, empowers anybody to encounter distinctive societies and customs. Kids adapt new data about the world without acknowledging, and accordingly, create more prominent compassion Parent-youngster holding – perusing to your tyke is quality time for both you and them, encouraging a positive relationship Correspondence and social abilities – perusing sleep time stories enable kids' relational abilities to develop monstrously. They make inquiries about the story, while likewise adapting new vocabulary and expanding their core interest. Socially, youngsters figure out how to tune in to others through narrating and start to comprehend that not every person translates things a similar way Bound to peruse for joy – perusing to youngsters when they're youthful methods they're bound to keep perusing for joy as they develop. This will empower them to gain autonomously from books

Improves Memory and Cognitive Development Nursery rhymes are on a very basic level examples which can enable kids to improve their review and remembrance abilities. Moreover, most rhymes are stories with a starting, center, and end. This structure can enable youngsters to get circumstances and logical results and sharpen their successive thinking. Strikingly, the subjective advancement advantages of rhymes even reach out to embryos. An examination from the University of Florida requested that pregnant ladies recount a nursery rhyme to their infants three times each day for about a month and a half toward the start of their third trimester (28 weeks). The analysts at that point tried fetal acknowledgment of a similar rhyme spoken by an outsider at 34 weeks. By checking the babies' pulse, the analysts found that the hatchlings perceived the rhyme, proposing the intensity of rhyme to encourage memory and thinking. Rhyming Develops Literacy Analysts initially found the connection among's rhyming and perusing during the 1980s. From that point forward, think about after examination has recommended that great rhymers end up being great perusers. Nursery rhyme books are usually a youngster's first involvement with education, presenting them to phonetics and word constituents. For example, kids who discuss the expression "feline in the cap on a tangle" can recognize that "at" is the word fragment or shared factor. Understanding constituents along these lines enable youngsters to separate new words into little words, an ability called phonemic mindfulness. Kids who do this well are probably going to encounter perusing accomplishment not far off. Advances in Language Development Rhymes advance language learning in a few different ways. For one, youngsters hear how vowels and consonants sound when they tune in to nursery rhymes. Rhymes exhibit how to join these sounds to shape words. Rhymes likewise show fitting pitch, voice articulation, rhythm, volume, and beat. Besides, nursery rhymes frequently open kids to unprecedented words, in this way extending their vocabularies. For instance, There Was an Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe incorporates words like "whipped," "soundly," and "stock." Often, kids carry on nursery rhymes, which causes them to put these new words in a setting. Empowers Social and Emotional Development Presenting nursery rhymes is a magnificent holding movement, regardless of whether for a gathering of kids or for guardians and kids. Remembering and recounting nursery rhymes energizes self-articulation and manufactures certainty since rhymes are so natural to learn. Further, numerous nursery rhymes contain humor and different feelings, helping kids build up these capacities with respect to themselves. In Short Nursery rhymes may appear to be a senseless, inefficient hobby, yet volumes of experimental proof recommend that they are really important educational apparatuses for little kids. Rhymes help build up the memory, language abilities, and perusing aptitudes such that slips in under children's radars in light of the fact that, to the exclusion of everything else, rhymes are out and out fun. On the off chance that you might want to find out about how you can encourage your youngster's initial instruction experience, demand a free data unit from K12.