Gilly Segal

Kimberly Jones

Told from two viewpoints, Atlanta high school seniors Lena and Campbell, one black, one white, must rely on each other to survive after a football rivalry escalates into a riot.

I'm Not Dying with You Tonight

Told from alternating points of view, Chanel and Eleanor's rocky start to senior year gets more complex when the cheerleading team kneels for the national anthem and each girl grapples with the consequences.

Why We Fly

When her mother, while recovering from a serious car accident, takes her and her mute brother to Maine, where she encounters the beach for the very first time, twelve-year-old Lise learns past secrets about her mother that threaten her safe world.

Sand Dollar Summer

Race, History and Changing the Money Game That's Rigged

How We Can Win

A breakdown of the economic and social injustices facing Black people and other marginalized citizens inspired by political activist Kimberly Jones' viral video, “How Can We Win.” “So if I played four hundred rounds of Monopoly with you and I had to play and give you every dime that I made, and then for fifty years, every time that I played, if you didn't like what I did, you got to burn it like they did in Tulsa and like they did in Rosewood, how can you win? How can you win?" When Kimberly Jones declared these words amid the protests spurred by the murder of George Floyd, she gave a history lesson that in just over six minutes captured the economic struggles of Black people in America. Within days the video had been viewed by millions of people around the world, riveted by Jones’s damning—and stunningly succinct—analysis of the enduring disparities Black Americans face. In How We Can Win, Jones delves into the impacts of systemic racism and reveals how her formative years in Chicago gave birth to a lifelong devotion to justice. Here, in a vital expansion of her declaration, she calls for Reconstruction 2.0, a multilayered plan to reclaim economic and social restitutions—those restitutions promised with emancipation but blocked, again and again, for more than 150 years. And, most of all, Jones delivers strategies for how we can effect change as citizens and allies while nurturing ourselves—the most valuable asset we have—in the fight against a system that is still rigged.

Ein schwarzes und ein weißes Mädchen. Eine Stadt in Flammen. Nur gemeinsam können sie überleben. Lena hat Stil, einen coolen Freund und einen Plan. Campbell dagegen will einfach nur das Jahr an der neuen Schule schaffen. Als die Mädchen ein Footballmatch besuchen, geraten sie plötzlich in eine Masseneskalation. Eine Eskalation, die von Hass und Gewalt getragen ist und bei der sich beide unverhofft Seite an Seite wiederfinden. Lena und Campbell sind nicht befreundet. Doch das ist unwichtig, wenn die Stadt in Flammen steht und man aufeinander angewiesen ist, will man die Nacht überleben ... Ein aufwühlender und hochaktueller Roman von Autorenduo Kimberly Jones und Gilly Segal, der ein Schlaglicht wirft auf Rassismus und ethnische Beziehungen.

Als die Stadt in Flammen stand

Je ne meurs pas avec toi ce soir

Iam Not Dying with You Tonight

Job 22:28 states, "Thou shalt also decree a thing and it shall be established unto thee and the light shall shine upon thy ways." This scripture is a powerful attestment to the power of spoken words, When we decree and declare according to God's Word, we are operating in our dominion authority and activating our power to establish God's will in the earth. This book reveals the importance of applying the biblical concept of decreeing and declaring to every area of our lives. God is constantly perfecting those things concerning us, however we have a part to play in this process. One of our major responsibilities, as people of faith, is to stand uncompromisingly upon God's word. No matter what we are faced with, we must say the same thing that God says about our situations. This book is designed to provide easy access to biblical declarations that can be utilized to speak life and truth over particular areas and situations that we face on a daily basis. When we are diligent to speak God's promises and not our problems, we will see the dark places of our lives illuminated. This book highlights the foundational truths found in the Bible and challenges us to Decide, Decree, and Declare according to its Holy Spirit-inspired instructions. Doing so allows the light of the Word to shine upon our ways!

Topical Biblical Declarations That Will Transform Your Life

And You Shall Decree a Thing

Tsuyoshi Ono

This innovative and interdisciplinary book on style shifting in Japanese brings together a wide range of perspectives and methodologiesincluding discourse analysis, sociolinguistics, cognitive linguistics, and functional linguisticsto look at a variety of types of style shifting in both spoken and written Japanese discourse. Though diverse in approach, the contributions all reflect the belief that language use is inextricably linked to both context and language structure in mutually constitutive relationships. Topics covered include shifting between "polite" and "plain" styles, the emergence of a "semi-polite" style, speakers' strategic use of gendered styles or regional dialects, shifting between different deictic expressions, and prosodic shifting. This careful and detailed examination advances our understanding of the complex phenomenon of style shifting not only in Japanese, but also more generally, and will be of interest to researchers and students in fields such as linguistics, linguistic anthropology, communication studies, and second language acquisition and teaching.

Style Shifting in Japanese

Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain)

Dario Gamboni

Mary Anne Stevens

Laurence Des Cars

Guy Cogeval

Édouard Vuillard

National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.

"The long and illustrious career of Edouard Vuillard spans the fin-de-siecle and the first four decades of the twentieth century, during which time the French painter, printmaker, and photographer created an extraordinary body of work. This is the first volume to explore Vuillard's rich and varied career in its totality, presenting nearly 350 works that demonstrate the full range of his subject matter and reveal both the public and private sides of this quintessentially Parisian artist." "In a series of illustrated essays and catalogue entries, the authors explore Vuillard's complex and diverse artistic development, beginning with his academic training in Paris in the late 1880s and the innovative Nabi paintings of the 1890s for which he is best known, including his provocative, disquieting middle-class interiors and his work associated with the avant-garde theatre. The authors also examine Vuillard's splendid but lesser known large-scale decorations, his luminous landscapes, and the elegant portraits from the last decades of his career. In addition to paintings, the volume includes a substantial selection of drawings and graphics, together with a large group of striking photographs by the artist, many of which are published here for the first time." "This illustrated catalogue accompanies the most comprehensive exhibition ever devoted to the work of Edouard Vuillard (1868-1940). The exhibition opens at the National Gallery of Art in Washington and travels to the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, the Galeries nationales du Grand Palais in Paris, and the Royal Academy of Arts, London."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

E. Vuillard

But I Made It Out with 8 Kids

From Teen Mom to Team Mom Vol 2

FROM THE AUTHOR WHO'S BEEN FEATURED ON THE DOCTOR OZ SHOW, PREACHERS OF ATLANTA, CNN, NIGHTLINE, AND PRAISE IN THE PARK ATLANTA The pain you experience may not be your fault, but the healing is your responsibility. This book will help you understand that God sometimes allows our souls to be broken so our spirits can be saved. If you want to experience God's plan for your life, you need to stop speaking the enemy's lies. During times of brokenness or trauma, it's easy to believe this one season will define our entire lifetime. But that's not what God intends. He wants the crushing and the pain to produce the anointing that takes us to the next level--and He wants our words to line up with that belief. Though the pain we experience may not be our fault, the healing is our responsibility. And if we choose not to walk the difficult path toward healing, we will speak toxic words that wound others and keep us stuck in a cycle of heartache and defeat. In Hush Until You Heal, Real Talk Kim shows readers how God uses the brokenness the enemy meant for evil to lead us to victory. If we will trust Him, what could be the worst season of our lives will be turned into the best, because God works all things together for our good. In her trademark, authentic style, Real Talk Kim shares candidly from her own experiences, cautioning readers not to agree with the enemy's lies by speaking negative words over themselves or others. Instead, they must choose to hush until they heal so God can work in their hearts and bring healing, restoration, and breakthrough. One season doesn't have to define a lifetime. Jesus loves to use the worst pasts to create the best futures! FEATURES AND BENEFITS: Equips you to break free of past pain, find healing, and become the person God called you to be Helps you recognize the purpose in your pain, get unstuck, and begin moving forward in faith OTHER BOOKS BY REAL TALK KIM: When Your Bad Meets His Good | ISBN: 978-1-62999-545-8 | December 2018 Shut Hell Up | ISBN: 978-1-62999-725-4 | April 2020

Kimberly Jones

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