Resolving Tough Community Problems with Teamwork

The first resource that shows how key players from local governments, businesses, health care organizations, school boards, churches, and police departments can be turned into a team, working together to improve their communities. The editors have gathered the accumulated wisdom of top consultants and practitioners and share the experiences and accomplishments of these experts who have worked in over fifty community partnerships across North America.

A useful, hands-on tool, this workbook contains a wealth of...

"The Gentleman Poet is the best kind of historical novel--well researched, beautifully written, and wildly entertaining."
--Daniel Stashower, author of The Beautiful Cigar Girl

The Gentleman Poet, author Kathryn Johnson's novel of love, danger, and Shakespeare's The Tempest, is a wonderful story that imagines a series of astonishing events that just might have inspired the immortal Bard to pen his magical tale. Told from the point of view of a young servant girl who strikes up a friendship with the not yet famous playwright when they...

Your students will learn about: the history of newspapers;

This innovative kit offers a timesaving, exciting program for engaging every gifted student in your classroom. Watch the excitement among your students grow as they work through the research process of selecting a topic, organizing a topic, asking questions, using a study method, collecting information, developing a product, presenting the information, and evaluating the independent study. This step-by-step program can be used by students working alone, in small groups, or by the entire class.
The Student Booklet helps students plan and organize their own independent research projects...

This innovative kit offers a timesaving, exciting program for engaging every gifted student in your classroom. Watch the excitement among your students grow as they work through the research process of selecting a topic, organizing a topic, asking questions, using a study method, collecting information, developing a product, presenting the information, and evaluating the independent study. This step-by-step program can be used by students working alone, in small groups, or by the entire class.
The Resource Cards offer ideas for students and teachers, information and examples for each step...

For love, justice, and to save her mother's life, Mercy O'Brien will do anything. Even if it means sacrificing her own life. Artist and Washington, D.C. socialite Mercy O'Brien Davis married for love and gave up a promising job as a Smithsonian curator to support her husband's diplomatic career. But while accompanying him to Mexico City, she learns her famous photo-journalist mother has disappeared without a trace in Ukraine. Desperate to find her, Mercy runs afoul of the U. S. State Department and stumbles into a maze of lies, crime, and international intrigue. When she appeals to her...

When her mother disappeared while on assignment in Ukraine, artist Mercy O'Brien risked everything to find her. . . and failed. Thwarted by her own government, warned off by Interpol, now she has no choice but to accept a dangerous undercover assignment in the Virgin Islands in exchange for help. Red Sands Consulting is tasked with recovering precious gemstones stolen by Chameleon, a ruthless terrorist cell. If Mercy can't locate the rare Australian opals, they will finance new attacks on an increasingly fragile world. Sebastian Hidalgo, Mercy's mysterious lover, wants to protect the woman he...

"A slam-bang thriller born of today's headlines. No Mercy will take your breath away." Award-winning author, Kathryn Johnson, introduces new characters in Book 3 of her popular series, Affairs of State. Kate Foster, Chief Scientist for NASA's Heat Wave Project, works late into the night with her team. The last thing she expects is three terrorists breaking into her laboratory. Then things get worse. The intruders kill one of her people, kidnap her lead physicist, and hijack her satellite--with plans to turn it into a lethal weapon. Daniel Rooker, former Special Forces operative, is tasked...

You may have tried and failed over and over again, still there is hope and healing in truly experiencing the God of Another Second Chance. Author Kathy Johnson provides scriptural truths coupled with often amusing and antidotal personal stories to take the reader on a journey from personal defeat to overcoming victory. The ability to be vulnerable in the midst of the most riveting experiences in our lives is often the key to unlocking the door to abundant life. Sometimes we are so consumed with doing the work of God that we forget to include Him in the process. This read is sure to sharpen...