BJ's Big Dream


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What is your favorite dream? BJ has a special dream. He really wants his dream to come true, so he makes a plan. BJ works hard to fix problems that try to stop his dream. While he waits for his dream to happen, he learns that he can do it, if he doesn't quit. In this book, children will learn: 1) How to separate real dreams from daydreams 2) Steps to making a real dream come true 3) Hard work can pay off 4) The benefits of planning, setting goals and problem solving.




Big Dreams


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The land of opportunity, a golden Eden, the last frontier. What is this place that has given rise to countless metaphors but can still quicken the imagination? For Bill Barich, the question became a quest when he realized that home was no longer New York, where he had grown up, but California, to which he had been lured twenty years earlier. Now, in this account of his journey through California, he captures the true nature of the state behind the stereotypes. From the fogbound fishing towns of the North to the Mexican port of entry at San Ysidro, Barich describes an amazing diversity among people who have staked a claim to California’s promise. He introduces us to a Native American hairdresser and the head priest of a Sikh temple; we meet loggers, bikers, an aging lifeguard, and the prison warden whose job is to keep Charles Manson behind bars. He follows the traces of John Muir, Robert Louis Stevenson, Walt Disney, and Ronald Reagan, and weighs the impact their dreams have had on the rest of us. The result is a book that captures all the promise, heartache, grandeur, and incongruity of California and its unabashed Big Dreams.




Big Prisons, Big Dreams


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The American prison system has grown tenfold since the 1970s, but crime rates in the United States have not decreased. This doesn't surprise Michael J. Lynch, a critical criminologist, who argues that our oversized prison system is a product of our consumer culture, the public's inaccurate beliefs about controlling crime, and the government's criminalizing of the poor. While deterrence and incapacitation theories suggest that imprisoning more criminals and punishing them leads to a reduction in crime, case studies, such as one focusing on the New York City jail system between 1993 and 2003, show that a reduction in crime is unrelated to the size of jail populations. Although we are locking away more people, Lynch explains that we are not targeting the worst offenders. Prison populations are comprised of the poor, and many are incarcerated for relatively minor robberies and violence. America's prison expansion focused on this group to the exclusion of corporate and white collar offenders who create hazardous workplace and environmental conditions that lead to deaths and injuries, and enormous economic crimes. If America truly wants to reduce crime, Lynch urges readers to rethink cultural values that equate bigger with better.




Small Loans, Big Dreams


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Microfinancing is considered one of the most effective strategies in the fight against global poverty. And now, in Small Loans, Big Changes, author Alex Counts reveals how Nobel Prize Winner Muhammad Yunus revolutionized global antipoverty efforts through the development of this approach. This book presents compelling stories of women benefiting from Yunus’s microcredit in rural Bangladesh and urban Chicago, and recounts the experiences of different borrowers in each country, interspersing them with stories of Yunus, his colleagues, and their counterparts in Chicago.




BJ Boys Box Set: The Blueridge Junction Boys Box Set


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Come to Blueridge Junction and meet the BJ Boys. Blueridge is a small town with BIG love between real men. This box set contains all three full-length novels. Fight for It - Micah is a small-town mechanic with a big-time dream. He’s found his soulmate in high school social studies teacher Coleman Pierce, but while Micah’s out and proud of it, Coleman’s closet door is closed, locked, and welded shut. Stolen nights are all they’ll ever have, unless Micah can find some way to convince Cole that coming out won’t be the end of his dreams. Cole moved to Blueridge Junction to escape his past. He planned to make himself a new life, far from home and the betrayal he’d suffered there. He wasn’t going to make the same mistakes again, but he didn’t count on meeting Micah, or the intensity of the feelings the man arouses in him. But Micah is out and Cole… isn’t. And while Micah definitely revs his engines, Cole isn’t going to risk his job or his newly minted future on a relationship that might not work out. When outside forces bear upon the couple, Cole is faced with a decision. Will he keep his secret and risk losing everything, including the man he loves? Or will he stand with Micah and fight for their future? Can't Fight It - For small-town tattoo artist Levi Wells his few forays into love have only brought him trouble. When trouble with a capital T came sashaying into town two years ago in the form of flamboyant young dancer Jay Owens, Levi becomes more determined than ever to stay away from anything remotely resembling a relationship. Especially one with someone so young and different than him. Two years. That’s how long Jay has been trying to wear Levi down. But, Levi only sees Jay as a thorn in his side and balks at their differences every chance he gets. Luckily for them both, Jay isn’t going to let a little thing like Levi’s reluctance stand in the way of getting what he wants. Levi is as stubborn as Jay is tenacious and they find themselves at an impasse. When Jay inadvertently gets himself into an unnerving situation, Levi’s protective nature surges forth even as he berates his heart for getting involved. Will Levi stay focused on their differences and keep fighting his true feelings? Or will Jay finally burrow through Levi’s self-imposed walls? One thing is for sure, you can’t fight love. Bound to Fight - Bar and grille owner Cody Parker is the no-nonsense leader of a weekly gathering of the leather community—a powerful, respected man guaranteed to make all the bottom boys beg. He sees red at even the mere mention of Kennedy Marks. Having escaped a terrifying childhood, Kennedy Marks is now a beloved Blueridge Junction police officer. Until recently, Kennedy has never questioned his role in intimate relationships. He knows Cody hates him, and the feeling is very much mutual. Neither man can explain why they despise each other. But when an unexpected kernel of desire takes root in Kennedy’s mind, that ever-present animosity begins to waver. Can the two allow themselves to explore the reasons behind their hatred and cross that thin line between love and hate? Male/Male (M/M) small-town, found family romance.




Self-Empower Your Motivational Skills To Achieve Your Goals and Dreams; By Using Motivational Power Phrases BJ Has Written


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Self-empower your motivation skills. You can tailor-make your own system using BJ's motivational power phrases to achieve your desired success. He did it. Why not you? Here are a few of those phrases: Setting a critical deadline can serve as a motivating sign. The will for us to win comes from within. A big dream is a great motivator. It is also an idea and goal creator. Winners have learned a fact that is true: the art of winning can motivate me and you. Always remember nothing moves without motivation, even if it be an individual, group, business, or a nation. Worrying about something wrong we have done can really slow down a winner who needs to run. This is one book in a four-book series available online and in all major book outlets. There will be 250 of BJ's motivational power phrases in all four books on the following subjects: self-image, motivation, leadership, and setting goals. This book is on motivation. All my books can be found on www.bjcatewrites.com and blog.




Self-Empower Your Self-Image Skills To Achieve Your Goals and Dreams; By Using Motivational Power Phrases BJ Has Written


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Self-empower your self-image skills. You can tailor-make your own system using BJ's motivational power phrases to achieve your desired success. He did it, why not you? Here are a few of those phrases: Why has real success escaped so many? Their focus was not on a big dream, if any. Fear is a paralyzing force that can drive anyone off course. Self-image means you believe in you. When you believe in you, others will too. No matter in life what we go through, to ourselves we should always be true. Always be ready to meet a new friend. This can be a self-image-building trend. The positive words we continually confess can help us pave the way to our success. This is one book in a four-book series available online and in all major book outlets. There will be 250 of BJ's motivational power phrases in all four books on the following subjects: self-image, motivation, leadership, and setting goals. This book is on self-image. All my books can be found on www.bjcatewrites.com and blog.




B J


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Denise and Wesley Johnson are an African-American couple of modest means. Denise becomes pregnant, forever changing their lives and the lives of five strangers: * Imani wa Ulimwengu, a priest who teaches and ministers to a group of people in remote Western Africa; * Donald Hemingway, a homeless denizen of the streets of San Francisco; * Mrs. Wilda Elvers, a partially blind and elderly woman living in Southern California; * Vera Hicks, a quiet and shy registered nurse at San Francisco General Hospital; * and Troy Shadale, a five-year-old boy who has not spoken a word since witnessing the death of his mother in a drive-by shooting. At the precise moment Denise and Wesley conceive their child, they are all sent spiraling into a long descent of bizarre and supernatural events, that one day brings them together . . .







The Ninety-Nines Inc.


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