A picture book about how the different city-dwellers wake up and start their day. From the popular NY1 morning news anchor Pat Kiernan.

Jesus Christ is the greatest man who ever walked on earth in a bodily form. He is the greatest teacher humanity ever known. He is the Only Savior of the Human soul. The Holy Spirit is continuing the works of Christ on earth working with and through the believers in Christ to bring salvation to lost souls. Take His Words and apply them for your daily victory. Good Morning Jesus & Holy Spirit devotional book feeds you every morning with a word from Jesus to meditate upon and to inspire you throughout the day. Jesus is the Word according to John 1:1 and a word from him will keep you close to him, thereby strengthening your relationship with God. The Holy Spirit takes the word of Jesus and makes it real and applicable. The Holy Spirit gives us insight, revelation, illumination, and inspiration through the words of Jesus Christ.

Imagine if you had the opportunity to have a heart-to-heart conversation with the world’s most famous author, whose words have inspired and transformed lives for thousands of years! The author of Good Morning, Father! met Him as a child and has studied His Word for over fifty years. She now shares her first book of conversations with Him of issues such as: “What does humble look like? Did You choose the leaders of the nations? What determines how long I will live? What do You call me? What is the belief test? Do You speak to children? How do You respond to my excuses? What if I didn’t fear what others thought of me? I just can’t do this anymore! I cannot ask forgiveness for that which I cannot admit. If only I could touch You. Father, today I’m thinking of being home!” Make these writings personal to you by allowing the Holy Spirit to prompt your own writing of thoughts and questions to God in the spaces designed in this book just for you. He’s always listening—and His Word has amazing answers!

Nadeen was a young woman who enjoyed adventure, as long as she was able to do what she pleased. Her father was a man much like her, and he was going to obtain what he desired through her marriage to a gentleman from New YorkRiley Donovan. He looked and acted like a gentleman in the east, but how would he be when he got what he wanted in a wife and all the money he wanted? Riley Donovan was an egotistical man, with a less-than-gentlemanly outlook in life and love. He wanted what he wanted when he wanted it. Would it serve his purpose or bring his downfall? Only time will tell. Travis was a true gentleman. He also had adventure on his mind. He was planning on building a mill in the new state of Oregon. He had planned and worked and saved for this for quite a while and was anxious to get started, hopefully with the love and understanding of his father.

A unique and engaging account of local urban decision-making within the globalizing world High Point, North Carolina, is known as the “Furniture Capital of the World.” Once a manufacturing stronghold, most of its furniture factories have closed over the past forty years, with production shipped off to low-wage countries. Yet as manufacturing left, the city tightened its hold on a biannual global exposition that serves as the world’s furniture fashion runway. At the High Point Market, visitors from more than one hundred nations traverse twelve million square feet of meticulous design. Downtown buildings—once courthouses, movie theaters, post offices, and gas stations—are now chic showroom spaces, even as many sit empty between each exposition. In Showroom City, John Joe Schlichtman applies an ethnographic lens to the global exposition’s relationship with High Point after it defeated rival Chicago in the 1960s and established itself as the world’s dominant furniture center. In recent decades, following trends in global finance, private equity firms were increasingly behind downtown High Point’s real estate transactions, coordinated by buyers far removed from the region. Then, in one massive transaction in 2011, a firm funded by Bain Capital purchased every major showroom building, and the majority of downtown real estate was under one owner. Showroom City is a story of exclusionary growth and unchecked development, of a city flailing to fill the void left by its dwindling factories. But beyond that Schlichtman engages the general lessons behind both High Point’s deindustrialization and its stunning reinvention as a furniture fashion, merchandising, and design node. With great nuance, he delves deeply to reveal how power operates locally and how citizens may affirm, exploit, influence, and resist the takeover of their community.