Good communication, often said to be the key to every successful relationship, can be challenging to master without the right tools. In his relationship empowerment guide, author Rodney Jenkins offers a comprehensive road map that teaches couples how to speak openly to each other about both the good and the bad, listen effectively, and focus on long-term relationship growth.

Jenkins relies on real-life scenarios as well as his own professional, personal, and faithbased experiences to offer couples clear ground rules for communication, including scheduling daily conversations, introducing "I" messages, and engaging in active listening techniques that help break down barriers and create intimacy. Through his proactive methods, Jenkins helps couples learn how to deal with communication roadblocks; maintain good communication during hardships; better understand a partner and the process of love; root a relationship in spirituality, honesty, and friendship; and focus on the big picture.

Don't Waste Your Mad provides couples with the tools to build, strengthen, and maintain a strong relationship through effective communication while growing together financially, spiritually, and emotionally.

"Confessions of a Sex Offender" chronicles the spiral decline of a man trapped in the arms of pornography. His depravation led him to the most heinous crime of child pornography. Through a prison sentence and treatment, his life has been renewed. This book reaches out to those who may also be trapped in the web of child pornography and encourages them to seek help for their obsession.

The Great Coharie River, named for an Indian tribe, became a place of retreat and solitude for author James A. Smith. This was where he felt at ease and could become one with nature. It was the place where he was accepted without criticism. And it was his safe place, away from beatings he had come to expect.

The Great Coharie: Stories of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption is Smith's personal account of the severe abuse he experienced as a child. Raised in poverty by a bootlegger, Smith endured physical and emotional child abuse as well as impossible work demands. This is the story of how he coped with the situation and how he continues to cope even today with deep and traumatic scars.

This personal history also seeks to offer hope. Smith makes vulnerable youth aware of the brutality he suffered while simultaneously acknowledging ways to possibly avoid uninvited harshness. He helps people realize they do not have to accept the label of "victim" and that they do not have to be defined by their childhoods. There is help available for those in need. Seek this help without fear of retaliation, and you, too, can be a survivor.