Stinky Polly | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Stinky Polly teaches lessons between children's fears and their parent's attempts at facing fears and overcoming challenges. Polly fears taking a bath, for several valid reasons, such as soap getting into her eyes, the water turning cold, or feeling cold after a taking a bath. Polly experiences rejection and sadness at school from her friends, because she chooses not to bathe. |
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My Ubuntu Soul | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Love, passion and the idea of dreaming drives this book, simple experiences that don’t gawk over Africans and pillage their resources but the great spirit of sharing freedom, knowledge and love. Frieda Groffy's love aff air with Africa is significant because it destroys colonial behaviour and thinking through a poetry style that refrains from being too complex. |
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Moving Beyond Denial Into Recovery | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Moving Beyond Denial Into Recovery is a compilation of many resources. Dr. Shirley J. Davenport spent nineteen years studying, uncovering, exploring, and sharing within the recovery community. Moving Beyond Denial Into Recovery workbook is designed to help participants achieve the benefits from their initial attempt at recovery and to assist in bringing about lasting psyche and life style changes. Moving Beyond Denial Into Recovery may be extremely helpful when implemented in a treatment and prison setting. This workbook offers valuable tools to prevent relapses and to grow into the person God has predestined them to be. |
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For the Love of Black Men | ||||||||||||||||||||||
"For the Love of Black Men is a thought-provoking, hard-hitting book of prose that offers renderings of past and present indignities, self-introspection, spiritual commitment, forgiveness and the necessity of solutions. It probes areas that are not openly discussed. More than just a book of poetry Ayin Adams’ volume addresses issues credibly, compassionately, and directly, with a minimum of soft edges.
Adams transports the reader on a personal and private tour into a realm where some Black Men have had to wrestle and confront their own challenging questions concerning their wholeness." |
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African Americans in Hawaii: A Search for Identity | ||||||||||||||||||||||
2015 Beverly Hills Book Awards Finalist. In this book, Adams presents a collection of essays on Hawaiian and Black histories in the Islands, discusses the historical keepers of black culture, interviews selected outstanding black residents who talk story and ethics, chewing the water. She presents significant cultural and community organizations and events of people working together. She shares speeches of Barack Obama in an effort to situate and dignify blacks in Hawaii and their significant and often overlooked and forgotten roles in the values basic to democracy: "we not me," freedom, equality and justice under the law, values of citizenship, service, community, family, the sacred environment, spirituality, compassion, health care reform, the end of poverty and homelessness, the development of a progressive and practical and empowering educational system, the history, formation and representation and diversity in the formation of the Hawaiian Islands after the overthrow of the Hawaiian monarchy. |
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Sea Glass, women speak from America's newest plantations | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Sea Glass is a look into the lives of women who reveal through paintings, poetry, and stories, the hardship of poverty, domestic violence, prescription addiction, and alcohol poisoning, the humiliation and degradation still present for women in America. Sea Glass tells the stories of homeless women workng toward transitioning through grace. |
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Good Orderly Direction | ||||||||||||||||||||||
2015 Bronze Illumination Award Winner and 2015 National Indie Excellence Award Finalist, Adams offers practical tools for attaining a more compassionate, responsible and fulfilling life and inspires the reader to take charge of his/her problems, relationships, sadness, and life’s painful tests and situations. She shows how to redirect energy toward a new inner freedom and more transparent way of being in the world. Adams creates the feeling of a new day and new beginnings with this book, which is full of positive daily affirmations and directions for reducing stress and creating inner peace. |
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Barcelona Brownsville: Life in the Hood | ||||||||||||||||||||||
"Barcelona Brownsville: Life in the Hood is an honest autobiographical book. The story is told in a touching way. The language Alquan Pinkard uses in his book is basic, unpolished, and raw; just like the story he tells and instead of a disadvantage, he turns it into the power and the strength of the book." |
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Nice Lady | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Nice Lady reveals in a personal way the stages of Alzheimer's, the signs to look for, the ravages of and losses caused by the disease, and some of the gifts of presence, sharing time, and giving love to another. It teaches the reader how to see in new ways, to recognize symptoms such as multiple and conflicting personalities, the loss of interest in friends, hobbies, travel, reading, enjoyment in living and relationships. Nice Lady empowers the caregiver, offers the valuable lesson of being totally present, in the NOW, in a situation which initially and superficially may be fraught with frustration and a feeling of powerlessness. |
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Of Petals and Hope: Sonny Sunflower Triumphs Over Bullying | ||||||||||||||||||||||
The 36-page full-color children’s book tells the story about the prevailing issue on bullying while introducing us to Sonny Sunflower, a very unique sunflower whose bright yellow colored petals became the center of maltreatment among his fellow flowers in the Flower Village. Cafege says, “His [Sonny] superficial differences elicit feelings of self despair and make him a target of harassment from the other flowers around him.” However, through the friendship and support of a few flowers and his own innate strength of character, Sonny overcomes this dilemma and realizes his dream of being loved and accepted for who he is. Of Petals and Hope: Sonny Sunflower Triumphs Over Bullying takes place in a land not far away where common colorful flowers live and unlike other flowers Sonny is yellow and bright, while the rest of the flowers are multicolored and also beautiful. He lives with his grandmother in beautiful Sun Valley. Sonny Sunflower is being bullied for being a different kind of flower. Then he meets his best friends and together they all struggle to survive the atrocities of bullying. |
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I AM THE BLUES | ||||||||||||||||||||||
A colorful book about the Blues. “The Blues, an original American art form has inspired and influenced peoples from all over the world. It grew out of field-hollers, call and response or work songs that were sung by the African slaves. It came from spirituals they sang in praise of God. It was born from the happy times, the sad and lonely moments. The Blues is a musical expression. It is based on the African five-note pentatonic scale. The term “Blues” arose in the early 1800’s. W.C. Handy popularized the form with his “Memphis Blues,” in 1914. The first recorded blues song was “Crazy Blues,” sung by Mamie Smith in 1920.” |
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Kwanzaa in Hawai`i | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Kwanzaa is a celebratory period of seven days from December 26 - January 1 that acknowledges spirit, the ancestors, and seven principles for living more harmoniously in a ritual that is popular with many African Americans. It celebrates certain values to be embraced by the community, the family, and the individual to help create better, more productive, and fulfilled lives. Although the African American community is small in the Hawaiian Islands, resident groups of African Americans and their friends and families gather together in a tradition to celebrate the 7 principles of Kwanzaa at the end of each year. The principles are: umoja, ujima, ujamaa, kujuchagulia, nia, kuumba, and imani. Dr. Ayin M. Adams has put together this delightfully creative and informative book to share the philosophical values, cultural poetry, recipes, and photographs of the unique beauty of the Hawaiian Islands and enhance the meaning, scope, depth, and intimate ritual of Kwanzaa. |
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Dancing Her Troubles Away | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dancing Her Troubles Away reads like a rhythmic dance. Frieda Groffy connects the bonds of sisterhood across the diverse continents and weaves the threads of Oneness deep into her heart which celebrates all women. A poetic tribute to women that is well defined by love, joy, and storytelling. |
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Sip & Nibble™: How I Lost 120 Pounds | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Sip & Nibble™: How I Lost 120 Pounds is a real-life story of accomplishment, hope, faith, and never giving up on one's quest. An incredible journey of one woman's plight to lose weight through a relatively unknown and unapproved procedure in the USA. |
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That's NOT What Grandpas Are For | ||||||||||||||||||||||
That's NOT What Grandpas Are For is a valuable teaching story that illustrates respectful behavior for young children to have for their grandfathers and what behavior not to expect. It colorfully presents typical situations to share fun activities and learn life lessons and skills from their grandpas. |
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That's NOT What Grandmas Are For | ||||||||||||||||||||||
That's NOT What Grandmas Are For is a valuable story that shows young children how to respect their grandmothers. Rather than casting grandmothers in a service role to fulfill the wishes and whims of the grandchildren, this story teaches appropriate expectations of young children and activities to look forward to and share with their grandmothers. |
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For Ladies Only: Dedicated to the Color Pink | ||||||||||||||||||||||
For Ladies Only: Dedicated to the Color Pink is a moving and revealing small book in poetic verse about a major health problem, breast cancer, from unique personal perspective of the birth, development and growth of breasts. It is a healing sometimes humorous journey from dawn to night, from birth to death in the shadow of cancer, a group of diseases that is often still uncontrollable cellular growth affecting different parts of the body, but in women most often the breasts. Adams' personifies breasts as dear and intimate friends who are as essential as organs, as necessary as limbs, as nurturing as companions that accompany one through each of life's stages, rituals and processes. Her focus is on the affirmation of breasts, will, the unity of women in gender/health issues ending in a declaration of hope for a cure and an affirmation of the joys of life's intimate moments. |
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