Usuthu! cry peace!: The black liberation movement Inkatha and the fight for a just South Africa

De Kock, Wessel

Open Hand Press

Narrated in the voice of her younger sister, Fish and Grits chronicles the life of Kayla Johnson, an African American girl, who is determined to find redemption from abuse for herself and her siblings. After the death of her father, fourteen-year-old Kayla takes on the responsibility of raising three younger brothers and a sister while struggling to survive the “concrete jungle” they call home.Kayla, who will do anything to save her siblings from suffering, comes up with a plan to keep them together amidst the challenges of poverty, governmental interference, and a drug-addicted mother. When one of the eight-year-old twin boys begins to set deadly fires and is saved from the police by their bank-robbing neighbor, Kayla finds in him a friend and confidant.Their lives continued to unravel after their mother is killed, but Aunt Charlie, their gay, ex-Marine Corp uncle, arrives just in time to rescue the family and to show Kayla that true parental love really does exist.

Fish and Grits

Literature & Fiction

Smith-Brown, Tina

United States

The Second Chance Home for Girls is a novel of friendship and freedom, loss and grief, as its main character, a teenager named Summer, is transformed into the parent she never had. The novel opens with the arrival of a teenage girl, Lorilee, who seems peculiar to the girls and staff at the Second Chance Home for Girls, a halfway house for troubled teenaged girls, placed there by bewildered parents and frustrated courts, located on a desolate Texas prairie; wide, flat, and empty, every way for as far as an eye can see. Feared and loathed by most of the Second Chance residents, Lorilee becomes the catalyst for Summer's deep soul-searching and ultimately freedom when violence escalates, and catastrophe determines the outcome of her life and the lives of the others.

The Second Chance Home for Girls

Ostman, Heather

Literary

In today's competitive market, hiring managers are looking for one skill trait above all else: Emotional Intelligence (EI). This highly-anticipated, breakthrough book from industry leader Melba J. Duncan applies Emotional Intelligence best-practices to the Executive Support profession. EQ/IQ is recommended for Executive Assistants, C-Suite Assistants on the path to Chief-of-Staff, Administrative Assistant professionals, Human Resource professionals, and the Executives they support. The Executive Assistant role has some inherent characteristics that are distinct from other roles. The role is both broader and less well-defined than other positions. It also typically has higher visibility and impact because the Executive Assistant is often supporting a significant player in the organization. Additionally, the individual qualities of the Assistant come into sharper focus because the Executive Assistant is supporting Executives on a personal level, not just how they function in their roles. All of this requires increased levels of high-performance skills, sensitivity, flexibility, and resilience. The Executive Assistant must remain steady and calm in moments of chaos and conflict, must engage the unexpected with grace and resourcefulness, and must develop and communicate a clear sense of boundaries.EQ/IQ helps readers in reframing priorities; manage 'into', rather than 'from'; effectively articulate career visions; and enhance one's personal and corporate contribution. Written with contributions from noted career path influencers, the book includes an EQ/IQ developement webinar offer.

EQ/IQ: Developing Emotional Intelligence for Effective Executive Support

Business & Money

Duncan, Melba J.

Sophocleous, Loretta

Personal Finance

The Second Chance Home for Girls in Texas imposes a 12-step doctrine and Christian exhortation on a dozen teens with histories of substance abuse and other failures to conform. The proprietor, Miss Sallyanne, presides over a regimen of chores, self-affirmation chants-"God loves me, and so do I!"-and group therapy sessions in which she pressures girls to reveal their sinful experiences with drugs and (usually abusive) sex. Into the snake pit comes Lorilee, who is preternaturally self-possessed despite the needle tracks on her arms and her claim to have borne a son by her own brother. She breaks rules with impunity, knows secrets that she shouldn't, and impudently corrects the Reverend, Sallyanne's father, when his fire-and-brimstone sermon misstates the Bible.\nThe narrative unwinds in the point-of-view voices of several residents of Second Chance. A chorus of girls condemns Lorilee as a stuck-up bitch; the seen-it-all cook, Starlene, thinks the teen is the devil; Summer, a quiet girl who writes everything in her diary, is both unnerved and inspired by Lorilee's promise of forgiveness and freedom from her past, a vow that leads to violence.

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