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An urban legend haunts her dreams and waking life. Will she figure it out before she is wearing a toe tag?Tenesha Campbell’s name is plastered on the honor roll with each semester, and most people usually look for any excuse to share her breath. However, her mother leaves whelps on her back, stomach, and legs in addition to shoving her head into the walls for little or no reason. Her stepfather leaves bruises upon her body if she does not please him, and a local kingpin promises to bury her family if she does not sell his urban pharmaceuticals. She chases the shadows of an urban legend to disprove it as a means of coping with her situation, but she risks wearing a toe tag upon attracting its attention. Will she survive long enough to solve it, or will she be choking on her own blood before she has a clue?

ReviewsWhen people look at us, all they see is what we present. People always question why we made the choices we made. However, people have no idea what goes on in our homes or our heads. We choose whom we talk to or avoid. This book is a glance into reality for many. This book will walk you through the struggles of impoverished communities and women.Roshawn Evans (Founder of Pure Justice and author of Stolen Identify)The author has made it his duty to pull the reader in by beginning with a present day urban setting with the daily events in the life of students who are competing against each other to have the best grades in school, visits to the local mall, and some dangers that urban neighborhoods are plagued with, according to present day media and reality. However, by the time the reader approaches the middle of the novel, he or she is the introduction of the title character, J. Trouble. J. Trouble is a youth of 14 years of age, born decades earlier, around the turn of the century, in 1930s Louisiana, at the height of Jim Crow, lynchings, sharecropping, and the fight for the civil rights of Black Americans. Thus begins an odyssey: a journey into the turmoil of a black, male youth who witnesses firsthand the aftereffects of American slavery on the non-privileged, at the hand of the “privileged.” The author uses a method of characterization which causes the title character to gain inner strength and courage that is described as supernatural. Thus, the hideous description of people of resilience. “Black don’t crack.” However, we know that it does. This novel is not for the unread, or faint of heart. Before attempting this novel, you must be knowledgeable of the Word, history, mythology and literary devices which this author introduces to a new genre of a contemporary writing style. HAPPY READING!Paula Kobina (Retired educator, publisher, and author of Poems for The Times)First of all, this book was written with such imagination and vivid imagery that the characters and storyline take you on a fantasy journey that keeps you on the edge of your seat to see what comes next. Tenesha’s account with her abusive stepfather bridges this fiction with real life advocacy for those who are also victims of sexual abuse. Great job! Can’t wait to read the next part of the story.Monica Matthews-Smith (Entrepreneur, Business Owner, and author of Heart to Mind: The Purpose Identity Workbook)An urban legend haunts her dreams and waking life. Will she figure it out before she is wearing a toe tag?Tenesha Campbell’s name is plastered on the honor roll with each semester, and most people usually look for any excuse to share her breath. However, her mother leaves whelps on her back, stomach, and legs in addition to shoving her head into the walls for little or no reason. Her stepfather leaves bruises upon her body if she does not please him, and a local kingpin promises to bury her family if she does not sell his urban pharmaceuticals. She chases the shadows of an urban legend to disprove it as a means of coping with her situation, but she risks wearing a toe tag upon attracting its attention. Will she survive long enough to solve it, or will she be choking on her own blood before she has a clue?Get your copy to find out what happens next!<

ReviewsWhen people look at us, all they see is what we present. People always question why we made the choices we made. However, people have no idea what goes on in our homes or our heads. We choose whom we talk to or avoid. This book is a glance into reality for many. This book will walk you through the struggles of impoverished communities and women.Roshawn Evans (Founder of Pure Justice and author of Stolen Identify)The author has made it his duty to pull the reader in by beginning with a present day urban setting with the daily events in the life of students who are competing against each other to have the best grades in school, visits to the local mall, and some dangers that urban neighborhoods are plagued with, according to present day media and reality. However, by the time the reader approaches the middle of the novel, he or she is the introduction of the title character, J. Trouble. J. Trouble is a youth of 14 years of age, born decades earlier, around the turn of the century, in 1930s Louisiana, at the height of Jim Crow, lynchings, sharecropping, and the fight for the civil rights of Black Americans. Thus begins an odyssey: a journey into the turmoil of a black, male youth who witnesses firsthand the aftereffects of American slavery on the non-privileged, at the hand of the “privileged.” The author uses a method of characterization which causes the title character to gain inner strength and courage that is described as supernatural. Thus, the hideous description of people of resilience. “Black don’t crack.” However, we know that it does. This novel is not for the unread, or faint of heart. Before attempting this novel, you must be knowledgeable of the Word, history, mythology and literary devices which this author introduces to a new genre of a contemporary writing style. HAPPY READING!Paula Kobina (Retired educator, publisher, and author of Poems for The Times)First of all, this book was written with such imagination and vivid imagery that the characters and storyline take you on a fantasy journey that keeps you on the edge of your seat to see what comes next. Tenesha’s account with her abusive stepfather bridges this fiction with real life advocacy for those who are also victims of sexual abuse. Great job! Can’t wait to read the next part of the story.Monica Matthews-Smith (Entrepreneur, Business Owner, and author of Heart to Mind: The Purpose Identity Workbook)An urban legend haunts her dreams and waking life. Will she figure it out before she is wearing a toe tag?Tenesha Campbell’s name is plastered on the honor roll with each semester, and most people usually look for any excuse to share her breath. However, her mother leaves whelps on her back, stomach, and legs in addition to shoving her head into the walls for little or no reason. Her stepfather leaves bruises upon her body if she does not please him, and a local kingpin promises to bury her family if she does not sell his urban pharmaceuticals. She chases the shadows of an urban legend to disprove it as a means of coping with her situation, but she risks wearing a toe tag upon attracting its attention. Will she survive long enough to solve it, or will she be choking on her own blood before she has a clue?Get your copy to find out what happens next!

There's little that compares in childhood to the dramatic changes that are brought about when a child loses their first tooth. Nothing else is so readily apparent to everyone that the child has gone through a milestone that marks their growth and development into an "elementary-schooler." This time is surrounded with such excitement and anticipation, yet it is often the child's first experience with loss, a change in their physical appearance that will never be the same. That change is in their smile. Truman's Loose Tooth captures the pride, uncertainty, worry and excitement of this rite of passage into childhood through many laughs and heartwarming experiences. The story helps children to adjust to this change in their life and serves as a great stepping stone for coping with changes as a lifelong process. Your child will enjoy reading this book over and over, and you will, too!

The reality is that little is known of Aristophanes actual life but eleven of his forty plays survive intact and upon those rest his deserved reputation as the Father of Comedy or, The Prince of Ancient Comedy. Accounts agree that he was born sometime between 456BC and 446 BC. Many cities claim the honor of his birthplace and the most probable story makes him the son of Philippus of Ægina, and therefore only an adopted citizen of Athens, a distinction which, at times could be cruel, though he was raised and educated in Athens. His plays are said to recreate the life of ancient Athens more realistically than any other author could. Intellectually his powers of ridicule were feared by his influential contemporaries; Plato himself singled out Aristophanes' play The Clouds as a slander that contributed to the trial and condemning to death of Socrates and although other satirical playwrights had also caricatured the philosopher his carried the most weight. His now lost play, The Babylonians, was denounced by the demagogue Cleon as a slander against the Athenian polis. Aristophanes seems to have taken this criticism to heart and thereafter caricatured Cleon mercilessly in his subsequent plays, especially The Knights. His life and playwriting years were undoubtedly long though again accounts as to the year of his death vary quite widely. What can be certain is that his legacy of surviving plays is in effect both a treasured legacy but also in itself the only surviving texts of Ancient Greek comedy.

Katie, a shy, lonely girl, takes an afternoon nap one day after reading to her favorite doll Annie, Mr. Floppy Ears, and Tuppy the bear. While dreaming, she travels to "The Land of Plaid" where she finds new friends and discovers her own spirituality.During her visit to the enchanted "Land of Plaid" the children show Katie love, teach her to respect the beauty of nature surrounding them, and let her participate in the harvest of the Plaid Love Hearts.Read "The Land of Plaid" and discover what the children do with the Plaid Love Hearts, while the inner child in you comes alive.

The life of William Shakespeare, arguably the most significant figure in the Western literary canon, is relatively unknown. Shakespeare was born in Stratford-upon-Avon in 1565, possibly on the 23rd April, St. George’s Day, and baptised there on 26th April. Little is known of his education and the first firm facts to his life relate to his marriage, aged 18, to Anne Hathaway, who was 26 and from the nearby village of Shottery. Anne gave birth to their first son six months later. Shakespeare’s first play, The Comedy of Errors began a procession of real heavyweights that were to emanate from his pen in a career of just over twenty years in which 37 plays were written and his reputation forever established. This early skill was recognised by many and by 1594 the Lord Chamberlain’s Men were performing his works. With the advantage of Shakespeare’s progressive writing they rapidly became London’s leading company of players, affording him more exposure and, following the death of Queen Elizabeth in 1603, a royal patent by the new king, James I, at which point they changed their name to the King’s Men. By 1598, and despite efforts to pirate his work, Shakespeare’s name was well known and had become a selling point in its own right on title pages. No plays are attributed to Shakespeare after 1613, and the last few plays he wrote before this time were in collaboration with other writers, one of whom is likely to be John Fletcher who succeeded him as the house playwright for the King’s Men. William Shakespeare died two months later on April 23rd, 1616, survived by his wife, two daughters and a legacy of writing that none have since yet eclipsed.

There's little that compares in childhood to the dramatic changes that are brought about when a child loses their first tooth. Nothing else is so readily apparent to everyone that the child has gone through a milestone that marks their growth and development into an "elementary-schooler." This time is surrounded with such excitement and anticipation, yet it is often the child's first experience with loss, a change in their physical appearance that will never be the same. That change is in their smile. Truman's Loose Tooth captures the pride, uncertainty, worry and excitement of this rite of passage into childhood through many laughs and heartwarming experiences. The story helps children to adjust to this change in their life and serves as a great stepping stone for coping with changes as a lifelong process. Your child will enjoy reading this book over and over, and you will, too!

(Note: This is a complete book.) A year ago, Luke Bradley was a relatively unknown historian living in his hometown of Blissville, Arkansas, and struggling to pay his bills. Now he is married to the woman of his dreams – brilliant, gorgeous, sexy and sassy – and they have enough money to go anywhere and do anything they want, not to mention the time-travel devices she invented that can instantly transport them to any time in the past. Now federal agents are at the door claiming he has stolen property from an agency that never officially existed, his wife is being kidnapped and held for ransom and the damage to his heart leaves him with only one chance to live: trusting in an ancient healing ritual not practiced in more than a thousand years.

Æschylus is often regarded as the father of Greek tragedy; he moved play writing from the simple interaction of a single character and a chorus to one where many characters interact and thereby create more dynamic and dramatic situations. Æschylus, was the son of Euphorion, and a scion of a Eupatrid or noble family. He was born at Eleusis 525 B.C., or, as the Greeks calculated time, in the fourth year of the 63rd Olympiad. He first worked at a vineyard and whilst there claimed to have been visited by Dionysis in a dream and told to turn his attention to the tragic art. It was a dream that would deliver a rich and incredible legacy through his writing talents. His earliest tragedy, composed when he was twenty-six years of age, failed to win the fabled Dionysia, (a revered festival of theatre) and it was not until fifteen years later that he gained this victory in 484BC going on to win it again in 472 BC (for The Persians), 467 BC (for Seven Against Thebes) and 463 BC (for The Suppliants). Æschylus was also known for his military skills and was ready to fight in defence of Athens whenever the call was made. He and his brother, Cynegeirus, fought against Darius's invading Persian army at the Battle of Marathon in 490 BCE and, although the Greeks won against overwhelming odds, Cynegeirus died in the battle, which had a naturally had a profound effect on Æschylus. He made several visits to the important Greek city of Syracuse in Sicily at the invitation of the tyrant Hieron, and it is thought that he also travelled extensively in the region of Thrace. His writing continued to be the envy of others. With the series of plays of which Seven Against Thebes was a part, his supremacy was undisputed. He was the "father of tragedy." Æschylus made many changes to dramatic form. The importance of the chorus was demoted and a second added to give prominence to the dialogue and making that interchange the leading feature of the play. He removed all deeds of bloodshed from the public view, and in their place provided various spectacular elements, improving the costumes, making the masks more expressive and convenient, and probably adopting the cothurnus to increase the stature of the performers. Finally, he established the custom of contending for the prize with trilogies, an inter-connecting set of three independent dramas. The closing years of the life of Æschylus were mainly spent in Sicily, which he had first visited soon after his defeat at the Dionysia by Sophocles. Æschylus returned to Athens to produce his Orestean trilogy, probably the finest of his works, although the Eumenides, the last of the three plays, revealed so openly his aristocratic tendencies that he became extremely unpopular, and returned to Sicily for the last time in 458 BCE and it was there that he died, while visiting the city of Gela in 456 or 455 BCE.

The SockKids – Solving The Mystery Of Your Missing Socks! Where do our missing socks go? Readers find out in our children’s series, The SOCKKIDS. We follow the Socker family through many adventures; from encountering the slobbery mouth of the family dog to meeting Santa as he comes down the chimney on Christmas Eve to helping a fireman save a baby to the most shy Socker going to the school dance for the first time. Thanks to the time-travel opportunities afforded by the spin cycle of the washer, they learn about some of the most important humans in the world. Children two and up and their parents will be drawn to the diversity of the family and the universal and timeless lessons they teach: don’t be afraid of new experiences, treat others as you would like to be treated, and of course, beware of the spin cycle! The SockKids – Helping Humans Cope in a Smelly World! TheSOCKKIDS.com

Katie, a shy, lonely girl, takes an afternoon nap one day after reading to her favorite doll Annie, Mr. Floppy Ears, and Tuppy the bear. While dreaming, she travels to "The Land of Plaid" where she finds new friends and discovers her own spirituality.During her visit to the enchanted "Land of Plaid" the children show Katie love, teach her to respect the beauty of nature surrounding them, and let her participate in the harvest of the Plaid Love Hearts.Read "The Land of Plaid" and discover what the children do with the Plaid Love Hearts, while the inner child in you comes alive.