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  • The Basketball Diaries: The Classic About Growing Up Hip on New York's Mean Streets

    Jim Carroll

    Paperback (Penguin Books, July 7, 1987)
    The urban classic coming-of-age story about sex, drugs, and basketball Jim Carroll grew up to become a renowned poet and punk rocker. But in this memoir of the mid-1960s, set during his coming-of-age from 12 to 15, he was a rebellious teenager making a place and a name for himself on the unforgiving streets of New York City. During these years, he chronicled his experiences, and the result is a diary of unparalleled candor that conveys his alternately hilarious and terrifying teenage existence. Here is Carroll prowling New York City--playing basketball, hustling, stealing, getting high, getting hooked, and searching for something pure. The Basketball Diaries was the basis for the film of the same name starring Leonardo DiCaprio."I met him in 1970, and already he was pretty much universally recognized as the best poet of his generation. . . . The work was sophisticated and elegant. He had beauty." -- Patti Smith
  • Breaking Up with Perfect: Kiss Perfection Good-Bye and Embrace the Joy God Has in Store for You

    Amy Carroll

    eBook (Howard Books, July 7, 2015)
    “Perfection is exhausting at best, defeating at worst. In Breaking Up with Perfect, Amy is the trusted friend who comes to help us knock down our walls of fear to rebuild a more doable, sustainable, God-honoring life.” —Lysa TerKeurst, New York Times bestselling author of The Best Yes and president of Proverbs 31 Ministries An inspiring and thought-provoking guide to help you abandon the pursuit of perfection and become comfortable and more confident in your own skin.We’ve all been in relationships that were bad for us...whether with a catty girlfriend, a selfish boyfriend, or a coworker who undermines our best efforts. But there is one relationship that steals the potential of all other relationships—including our relationship with ourselves and, ultimately, our relationship with God. And that’s our relationship with Perfect. Perfect is a bad friend. No matter what we do or say or give or bake or create...it’s never enough. Perfect always demands more, but it’s never satisfied. Never. Whether you are a “good girl,” who always tries to be what you think everyone else wants you to be, or a “never good enough” girl, who’s desperately hiding your past and shame behind attempts to measure up—this book will help you find the beautiful, loving, fulfilled woman God created you to be. Imperfections and all. Breaking Up with Perfect will help you: • Experience authenticity as the antidote for isolation • Trade the Lies of Perfection for the Truths of God’s Love • End the pursuit of perfection, so God can begin His powerful perfecting work in you After reading this book, you’ll be able to end the never-ending stress that chasing Perfect brings and live a life filled with joy, peace, and spiritual fulfillment.
  • MISSY MOUSE and the ROCKET SHIP

    CJ Carroll

    language (, Jan. 16, 2012)
    Missy Mouse is determined to build a rocket ship to take her to the moon. Not just for the adventure of it all, but so she can bring back a ship-full of green cheese for her family-Aunt Selina, and Grandpa, and all her cousins. But the adventure begins quite suddenly when her rocket ship seems to take flight. She crashes, nearly drowns, is chased by fearsome water rats and discovers an unexpected friendship. Meanwhile, back home, her cousins are having a scary adventure all their own! Missy Mouse and the Rocket Ship is a fable for children 6 to 10. A story about family, true friends, and never giving up on your dreams!
  • Emotional Emancipation: Step Into Your Freedom, Reinvent Your Challenges, and Move Beyond

    Dee Carroll

    eBook
    "When you become emotionally emancipated, you will be empowered to change, and nothing will ever be the same again." —Dr. Dee CarrollTroubles. Tribulation. Tough times. Sooner or later, life throws you a curveball—sometimes a whole bunch of them. And the emotional fallout can keep you trapped in sadness and despair. Dee Carroll knows. She's been there. A betrayal cost her a multi-million dollar company, and in the process, Dee lost her business, investments, savings, dream home, marriage, and health. But in her darkest moments, she learned the lessons that allowed her to break free from the pain of the past and imagine a new life. In Emotional Emancipation, she shares 7 secrets to help you rebound from your own troubles and create a world of unlimited possibility. Your best days are ahead! Dr. Dee Carroll is a popular speaker, coach, and consultant whose clients include Prince George's County, the Smithsonian Institution, the Department of State, and Georgetown University. She holds degrees in psychology as well as in business administration and management.
  • Breaking Up with Perfect: Kiss Perfection Good-Bye and Embrace the Joy God Has in Store for You

    Amy Carroll

    Paperback (Howard Books, July 7, 2015)
    “Perfection is exhausting at best, defeating at worst. In Breaking Up with Perfect, Amy is the trusted friend who comes to help us knock down our walls of fear to rebuild a more doable, sustainable, God-honoring life.” —Lysa TerKeurst, New York Times bestselling author of The Best Yes and president of Proverbs 31 Ministries An inspiring and thought-provoking guide to help you abandon the pursuit of perfection and become comfortable and more confident in your own skin.We’ve all been in relationships that were bad for us...whether with a catty girlfriend, a selfish boyfriend, or a coworker who undermines our best efforts. But there is one relationship that steals the potential of all other relationships—including our relationship with ourselves and, ultimately, our relationship with God. And that’s our relationship with Perfect. Perfect is a bad friend. No matter what we do or say or give or bake or create...it’s never enough. Perfect always demands more, but it’s never satisfied. Never. Whether you are a “good girl,” who always tries to be what you think everyone else wants you to be, or a “never good enough” girl, who’s desperately hiding your past and shame behind attempts to measure up—this book will help you find the beautiful, loving, fulfilled woman God created you to be. Imperfections and all. Breaking Up with Perfect will help you: • Experience authenticity as the antidote for isolation • Trade the Lies of Perfection for the Truths of God’s Love • End the pursuit of perfection, so God can begin His powerful perfecting work in you After reading this book, you’ll be able to end the never-ending stress that chasing Perfect brings and live a life filled with joy, peace, and spiritual fulfillment.
  • Old Dumpling and the Rainy Day

    CJ Carroll

    eBook (CJCarroll/DREAMCATCHER, Jan. 14, 2012)
    Old Dumpling is an inventor, who lives on a Universe where it has never rained, but he knows the signs. He tries to warn the neighbors, but they laugh at him and won't listen anymore. He befriends Little Girl, and Young Boy, and discovers a surprising secret from another Universe. A "Noah and the Ark" type of story set in another world, it is also about friendship between Olders and Youngers, and why you shouldn't steal other people's ideas or throw rocks at glass houses. Old Dumpling is one of a series of books called "Imagine That!" If reading this story to a child, encourage him or her to draw their own illustrations.
  • Indigo Sky: Beyond the Hills

    Kay Carroll

    Paperback (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, Oct. 19, 2016)
    Twenty year old Jake McCray flees Grenada County, Mississippi in the fall of 1879. A young mulatto, he is hesitant to take on his sister's fiery ways of handling life and chooses to use his numbers-sense, music and poetic ways to get by. Still hurt and unsure of why his Pa left home, Jake searches for a better life for himself, his Ma and sister Molly. But Jake's mysterious decision to abandon his life on the Neuman farm leads to deadly consequences and hardship for his family. During his journey, he encounters a Native American friend from his past, a curious White stranger, and a woman of ill- repute who turns out to be more than he could have ever imagined. Indigo Sky is the 2nd installment in the Milcreek Pond Collection. In the original story, Jake's sister Molly starts out as a 14 year girl whose life is threatening to change. When her mother mentions moving from the Neuman estate, Molly struggles to take control of her existence and events around her. This leads her into one calamity after another with the merchants and townspeople. When the town discovers what they believe is the truth, they decide she will pay for her actions. She finally must rely on mill owner Walter Neuman and his wife’s Aunt Minnie for help. Fearful of losing her own life, Molly learns that most everything she believes about herself is a lie.
  • A DOG IN HEAT IS A HOT DOG AND OTHER RULES TO LIVE BY

    Carroll

    Hardcover (Atria Books, Feb. 1, 1996)
    A collection of humorous quips and offbeat suggestions is culled from the author's popular advice column, collecting her most outrageous truths for the inspiration and amusement of help-seeking fans.
  • CLARA COW and the COUNTRY FAIR

    CJ CARROLL

    eBook (CJCarroll/DREAMCATCHER, Jan. 21, 2012)
    Clara Cow won't give milk, and her master, farmer Daffydil Sharmer, needs to sell the milk to put coins in her purse of silk. What can she do? This poem story, all about love and friendship, is fun to read, FOR TH 5 to 7 year old, and fun to listen to! A a read-to book, for very young readers.The book is one of a series of books, “Imagine That!” in which reader-listeners are encouraged to draw, paint or cut and paste, their own illustrations. Other CJ Carroll books in this series: Shmadiggle and the Imagination Asteroid, Old Dumpling and the Rainy Day, Missy Mouse and the Rocket Ship. More to come! Print copies available at www.lulu.com/spotlight/cjcarrollbooks, and also on Amazon.com
  • Emotional Emancipation: Step Into Your Freedom, Reinvent Your Challenges, and Move Beyond

    Dee Carroll

    Paperback (AlCinde Publishing, July 23, 2018)
    "When you become emotionally emancipated, you will be empowered to change, and nothing will ever be the same again." —Dr. Dee Carroll Troubles. Tribulation. Tough times. Sooner or later, life throws you a curveball—sometimes a whole bunch of them. And the emotional fallout can keep you trapped in sadness and despair. Dee Carroll knows. She's been there. A betrayal cost her a multi-million dollar company, and in the process, Dee lost her business, investments, savings, dream home, marriage, and health. But in her darkest moments, she learned the lessons that allowed her to break free from the pain of the past and imagine a new life. In Emotional Emancipation, she shares 7 secrets to help you rebound from your own troubles and create a world of unlimited possibility. Your best days are ahead! Dr. Dee Carroll is a popular speaker, coach, and consultant whose clients include Prince George's County, the Smithsonian Institution, the Department of State, and Georgetown University. She holds degrees in psychology as well as in business administration and management.
  • How to Be a Brighter Student: The Craft of Developing Your Brilliance

    Wes Carroll

    Paperback (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, March 14, 2018)
    A short collection of essays by a lifelong professional mentor, empowering the high-school or adult reader to become a drastically better student, through a combination of executive best practices and lessons about the workings of the human mind.
  • Echoes From Catawba Volume 1: Growing Up In Catawba Valley, Appalachia

    Ted Carroll

    Paperback (Independently published, Nov. 17, 2018)
    This 6X9″, 170-page paperback book includes true stories, history, and images from beautiful Catawba Valley. The story of Catawba Valley, Virginia, its people, places and events would have wide range appeal to non-Catawbians, rural and urban audiences. Luemma Craft and John Garman would marry and have seventeen children during 1890 – 1914. Echoes from Catawba Volume 1 relates some of the stories about families growing up during a time when there was no indoor plumbing, electricity, and many hardships. The stories about their schools, farms, churches, and their General Store will keep your attention and remind you of better times. In order to survive, they lived off the land and worked hard. These mostly Scot-Irish descendants had a culture, identity, and values that bear looking at in this complex and politically-correct world we live in today. Times were difficult but the people of Catawba considered themselves blessed and felt they had all they needed: God, family, Church, and community. The author gathered information from Catawba people as they recalled their childhood days growing up in a totally different world we live in now. The author also used his personal experiences growing up in the mountains in the 1940s and 1950s as well as calling upon memories of hearing what the previous generation conveyed. Echoes From Catawba comprises stories with heart and humor so as to transform the reader back into those early times of the late 1800s and early 1900s. Any fiction that may crop up is strictly accidental and not intended. It may sound like fiction to some (that’s okay) but it is history put forth in stories written to induce a smile, maybe a tear and retained knowledge of rural life in the early 1900s. During the interviewing process and research for this book, folks were asked how they felt about growing up in such challenging times. They each stated they would do it all over again without changing anything. That spirit lives within all Catawbians regardless of where they are now. Many have lived in Catawba all their lives. I hasten to add that this book has drawn the interest of urban people who have no connection to Appalachia and never experienced rural living. These are stories that should appeal to any reader. This book is enlightening, interesting, heartwarming and inspiring. After reading about this special, unique place called Catawba Valley, it will leave you ready for Volume 2, being released the fall of 2019. The collectors edition, hardcover book can be found at www.echoesfromcatawba.com-You give Catawba a life in your stories and it takes me back to better times. Thank you. -Terri Garman Csarnogusky-Very well written accounts of families and a past era in rural Catawba. It gives everyone the perspective of how life was in many rural farming families. –Jonathan Gregory Reed