Shine from Within is exactly what teenage girls are looking for to help them navigate their teens with a positive, fresh take on self image and overall wellbeing. Amanda Rootsey brings a wealth of experience from her own teenage years and from her work mentoring teenage girls. This book is fun and relatable. If you’ve been looking for an inspirational gift for your daughters, grand-daughters, nieces, or a special teen girl, Shine From Within is the perfect choice. Every teenager deserves to be validated, accepted and to have strong self-esteem to ensure they build positive, healthy relationships with their peers, family and friends. This book is packed full of practical advice. It includes: * Steps to gain more self-confidence * Fun, inspiring breakout quotes * Relatable mini-stories from real teens * Tips for job interviews * Self-care tips using eco-friendly, natural ingredients * Fashion advice for every body shape * Etiquette for different social situations Shine From Within will help any teenager to navigate through these years with confidence and joy.

"You shine so bright, as you are right now, flaws and faults entirely." The debut book from the rising Instagram writer Walk the Earth offers a remarkable collection of poetry in the form of letters to touch your heart and inspire boundless hope. Nikki Banas speaks directly to your soul with every letter she writes. She reminds you of the light you already hold within and teaches you how to nourish your flame. In Shine from Within, she encourages you to celebrate your own beautiful spirit because only when we all shine our unique lights can we light up the entire night sky.

When you think of the Newsboys, do you think rock and roll, gold records, concerts, and fame? Shine: Make Them Wonder What You’ve Got reveals the Newsboys in a way you have never seen them before--not just as performers but as Christians. Follow them as they travel through seasons of personal and spiritual growth, undergoing struggles that are common to all believers, experiencing faith-stretching circumstances, and seeking to live for Christ in an authentic way. Their spiritual journeys reflect a deep and growing faith that permeates their music while also transcending it. This new path challenges the limitations we’ve put on Christianity in our postmodern culture and seeks the essence of the Gospel. Shine will challenge and stretch your own spiritual expectations as you discover the dynamics of a living faith.

Darkness surrounds us and it can be hard to see and navigate. This darkness can have us lost and stagnant in life. This book aims to reignite your light. Help you to remember who you are and what your purpose is in life. Filled with words of wisdom, motivation, thought-provoking and spiritual insight. This book will help you shine in the dark, so that you can be a light to others and yourself. I've been in the darkness, too; these are my insights to you; to assist you. I need you. You need me. We need each other. Let's shine, even though it's dark.

Happily-ever-after is never quite what you expect in this hot and gritty romance.

Seventeen-year-old Rachel Kim confronts the dark underbelly of the K-pop world as she strives to become a K-pop star.

In Jamaican dancehalls competition for the video camera's light is stiff, so much so that dancers sometimes bleach their skin to enhance their visibility. In the Bahamas, tuxedoed students roll into prom in tricked-out sedans, staging grand red-carpet entrances that are designed to ensure they are seen being photographed. Throughout the United States and Jamaica friends pose in front of hand-painted backgrounds of Tupac, flashy cars, or brand-name products popularized in hip-hop culture in countless makeshift roadside photography studios. And visual artists such as Kehinde Wiley remix the aesthetic of Western artists with hip-hop culture in their portraiture. In Shine, Krista Thompson examines these and other photographic practices in the Caribbean and United States, arguing that performing for the camera is more important than the final image itself. For the members of these African diasporic communities, seeking out the camera's light—whether from a cell phone, Polaroid, or video camera—provides a means with which to represent themselves in the public sphere. The resulting images, Thompson argues, become their own forms of memory, modernity, value, and social status that allow for cultural formation within and between African diasporic communities.

Kai is excited to go back to school after the summer holiday, but soon finds himself being mocked by his peers for being different. Kai’s confidence is lowered and he begins to wish that he is ‘normal’ like everyone else. With the help of his parents, Kai learns to be proud of himself and his unique qualities and values. Kai’s mother explains how although the moon and stars are different they both shine beautifully in the sky. He learns an important lesson: that everyone is special and valuable in their own way. He realises that the things that make him different are the things that make him special. He makes a decision to use his qualities to ‘shine his light’. Shine is a touching and heart-warming story which encourages young readers to celebrate diversity and to recognise how our differences make us special. It deals confidently with issues including bullying, low self-esteem, self-confidence and forgiveness in a manner that children can comprehend.

The novel follows Justin Conrad, a young American who, like the author, finds himself in Sri Lanka on a Fullbright Scholarship. Conrad travels in Sri Lanka and India in search for companions, romance and spiritual truth. He finds miracles and danger in the Himalayas. The novel concludes in Peru.

After captivating thousands of readers to embrace their own unique light in "Shine from Within", Nikki Banas returns with her much anticipated second collection of letters in "Along the Way" to inspire boundless light throughout every journey.You will embark on countless unique, life-changing, and transformative journeys throughout your life. Some will last a lifetime and some just a season. Some of them will begin by complete surprise and others will be carefully planned out and measured from the beginning. Some paths you will wish you could walk forever and some you will wish came to an end much sooner. Some will be full of wonderful highs and others will test your strength and courage through its lows. Whether the path you are on right now is easy or difficult, whether it is clear or foggy, whether you are trekking alone or with others, know that there is always, always, so much light, love, magic, and wonder to be found all along the way. So keep your eyes wide, your heart open, and allow yourself to experience all of the beautiful things this life has to offer along the way.