This YA biography-in-verse of six important Black Americans from different eras, including Ona Judge, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, Ida B. Wells, Martin Luther King Jr., and Barack Obama, chronicles the diverse ways each fought racism and shows how much—and how little—has changed for Black Americans since our country’s founding. Full of daring escapes, deep emotion, and subtle lessons on how racism operates, A LONG TIME COMING reveals the universal importance of its subjects’ struggles for justice. From freedom seeker Ona Judge, who fled her enslavement by America’s first president, to Barack Obama, the first Black president, all of Shepard’s protagonists fight valiantly for justice for themselves and all Black Americans in any way that they can.  But it is also a highly personal book, as Shepard — whose maternal grandfather was enslaved — shows how the grand sweep of history has touched his life, reflecting on how much progress has been made against racism, while also exhorting readers to complete the vast work that remains to be done.

For those ready for real change in their lives, ReOrganize Your Life* will provide the true foundation needed to start and to stay ReOrganized. (Practical Life)

Veggie Rhapsody is a fun sing-along book with a crunch and munch refrain. You make up the tune and speed of the rhymes. Sing along with your kids Clap your hands, bob your head and most of all have lots of fun CRUNCHING

As a Puerto Rican born in the South Bronx of N.Y. on November 10th, 1978, Ray is a product of the 1980's and 1990's in which violence was a major part of his environment and home. At the age of 19 Ray was indicted for Federal Crimes of which he accepted his guilt and is currently serving his prison sentence of 48 years while he pays his debt to society. The inspiration for his poetry comes from the pain and struggles he has faced internally and externally. Over the years Ray has watched his daughter grow from a distance, a distance he tries to overcome with letters, phone calls, and occasional visits. His daughter is the center of all his inspiration and the writing projects he's currently working on are all in honor of his princess whom he loves dearly. His second book of poetry is loosely titled "PASSIONS," and it is a work in honor of the female spirit and what he calls the guardians of a "man's soul."

This study examines the threats of drug trafficking to Jamaica's national security and democratic stability. It focuses on the need for the Jamaica Defence Force Military Intelligence Unit to enhance its effectiveness as part of a national holistic counterdrug approach to project long term feasible and sustainable counterdrug measures. The study examines two countries' counterdrug approach that serves to enhance the effectiveness of their respective counterdrug law enforcement agencies--the United Kingdom, an economically prosperous country with a strong counterdrug link and partner of Jamaica; and Trinidad and Tobago, a neighboring nation state that is similar to Jamaica in terms of geography, history, culture, land mass, and population size. The United Kingdom and Trinidad and Tobago, affected adversely by drug trafficking, have adopted several counterdrug measures. These countries' primary counterdrug law enforcement agencies have implement measures that are coordinated, collaborative, holistic, and that are supported nationally and internationally at the highest levels, to include the political framework and the judiciary, in ways that enhance the effectiveness of their counterdrug agencies. Jamaica's premier counterdrug intelligence agency, the defense force's intelligence unit, should adopt, within its means, a blend of the ways identified in the approaches examined in order to enhance its counterdrug effectiveness.