New Releases by Lori Allison

Drugs, gangs, and murder. Why are there detectives in my living room? How did we get here? A mother's cry of desperation for her daughter's rescue. It was like living in a never-ending nightmare. Only, it wasn't a dream-but neither was God's supernatural grace! In On a Chicken Wing and a Prayer, author Lori Metzger tells a gut-wrenching story of her agonizing trudge through living hell and redemption by the hand of Almighty God. Her story will give you hope that: God can turn your "impossible" into "possible." His Love far exceeds your pain. His hand never leaves you, even when you feel He's absent. And so much more! There's only One Way we can triumph over living hell-and that's through our King, Jesus Christ!

Randy Carter is having a really bad week. His girlfriend has dumped him, he's in trouble at home, grounded from friends and his beloved phone, and he's assigned extra chores. Then, to top it all off, a freak accident causes him to part ways with his body! Now that he's a ghost, he has new problems to deal with. While his body lies precariously close to death, a new guy is making moves on his girl, the spirit of a stubborn toddler has attached herself to him and a menacing entity is threatening to keep him from reuniting with his loved ones forever. Randy must join forces with an unlikely ally to stay one step ahead of his enemy while juggling a gravely important choice - does he really want to come back?

Orphaned at a young age, all Mallory McGrath wants is a place to call home, the companionship of friends who have become her family and to keep her Basset Hound, Elmer, from wrecking everything she owns.A simple life.And things are going her way until a sudden encounter with the bumper of a car driven by the intriguing new coroner in town leaves her with a head injury that unlocks a strange new talent.Now Mallory is dealing with ghostly roommates, a dead body on her property and finding herself under suspicion of murdering the town's matriarch. Not to mention the angry poltergeist trashing her attic!To save all she holds dear, Mallory must catch a killer who has her in his sights ... and to make sure her supply of peanut butter doesn't run out.

Holidays are for celebrating with family and friends. Shelly Codling is looking forward to spending a carefree Christmas enjoying time with her sisters and mixing old traditions with new. But a home remodeling project awakens the spirit of a girl whose soul has been trapped in Shelly's house for over a century. Shelly will have to unlock secrets long hidden to free the girl's spirit and protect her family from the danger they have unleashed.

In the town of Lucas, Texas, a legend has been passed down for generations of an evil spirit named Creeping Charlie who takes the unwary and hides them away forever...As Lucas prepares for its annual Halloween festivities, Mike Corcorran and some of his friends discover that there may be more truth to the legend than anyone knew. After an encounter with the spirit in the cemetery late one night, Mike is determined to find out all he can about the man who was the subject of the legend. But, in the end, it may be Mike himself who is taken away forever.

Summer has arrived in Lucas, Texas. Drew Stone and his friends are looking forward to lazy days of swimming, bike riding and video games. But an unexpected stay at his grandfather's farm and a surprising encounter with a long-dead relative set Drew on a different path. With help from his friends and some of Lucas's quirky citizens, Drew will have to uncover secrets the town has kept buried for more than 50 years.

Early childhood classroom mentor teachers are often left with little support and guidance as they assume the role of teacher educators. The purpose of this collective case study was to explore how a community of practice comprised of pre-K mentors and a university program coordinator supported the development of shared and individual understandings about how to effectively supervise preservice teachers. Utilizing key tenets of sociocultural theory, four pre-K mentor teachers from two public schools in the Southeast participated in an online and face-to-face community of practice facilitated by a university program coordinator. The pre-K preservice teachers (n=6) were secondary participants in this study. Across twelve weeks, the evolution of collective and individual knowledge was chronicled through interviews, online discussions, face-to-face exchanges, and classroom observations. Audio-tapes from meetings and interviews were transcribed verbatim. Data analyses involved iterative cycles of coding, moving from open coding to process and pattern coding. Through this process, data displays and conceptual memos were created and informed the analyses. Findings from this qualitative study illustrate how the mentors' processes of coming to know were developed within a complex web of relationships from which they re-envisioned their roles as pre-K teachers. As the mentors negotiated the meaning of mentoring, they engaged in recursive cycles of reshaping their identities through questioning, hypothesizing, and sharing lived experiences. New identities as educators of both children and adults emerged as they considered the role of mentoring as a tangible object to be closely studied, negotiated, and operationalized. The mentors left this study acknowledging that while mentoring was difficult, complex work, it was worthy work.

(cont.) Further, there are other technology options, such as super-critical pulverized coal technology, which are cheaper, more proven, and can provide immediate higher generating efficiency. The first supercritical PC plant is currently being built in India. To overcome these barriers will take further research and development, as well as demonstration at a commercial scale. This all needs to occur at a greater speed and with a greater urgency than is now apparent. The demonstration and commercialization will require significant subsidies, which may come in different forms. The Central Government may wish to subsidize the technology development for the pollution control benefits that it offers and do so via its linkages to BHEL. Foreign governments and institutions may choose to subsidize the costs for the carbon dioxide reduction credits that it can produce. In the end, the challenges facing IGCC in India are great. The cost and generating efficiency will have to at least rival those for other advanced coal technologies, and coal production and mining policies will have to be effectively enacted to increase the supply of coal available for new coal plants.