New Releases by Kevin Lewis

Songs from the Heart is a collection of poetic reflections inspired by life experiences and a spiritual calling. Each poem speaks from a place of honesty and gratitude, offering acknowledgment and appreciation for the journey of life. Through words shaped by emotion, faith, and personal growth, these poems invite readers to pause, reflect, and connect with the deeper rhythms of the heart.

EVERY GENERATION HAS ITS CURSE- UNTIL SOMEONE BREAKS IT. This isn''t just a book. It''s a blueprint. A wake up call for Black men ready to reclaim their power, purpose, and place as leaders-starting at home. M.O.A.B. (MEMOIRS OF A BABY DADDY) is a raw, unapologetic playbook for personal growth, fatherhood, and manhood in today''s world. Through real stories, hard truths, and a no-excuses approach, this book helps men navigate co-parenting, fatherlessness, identity, purpose, and healing. From "The Baby Mommas" to "The Need for Stoicism," every chapter challenges the lies we''ve believed and redefines what it means to build legacy. Whether you''re healing, leading, or learning-you''ll walk away with a plan. Not just for yourself, but for the next generation.

Build a Custom E-Reader App Beginner''s Roadmap to Loading eBooks and Personalizing Themes Have you ever wanted your own e-reader app-one that loads the exact books you want and looks exactly the way you like? Most people rely on generic reading apps that are limited, cluttered, and impossible to customize. You''re stuck with rigid designs, restricted ebook formats, and features you never asked for. But what if you could build your own clean, personalized e-reader app-even if you''re starting from zero? Build a Custom E-Reader App is the beginner-friendly roadmap that walks you step-by-step through creating a fully functional e-reading application. No overwhelming jargon. No confusing theory. Just clear guidance, practical examples, and hands-on learning designed for beginners who want real results. Inside this practical guide, you''ll discover how to: Design your own e-reader app from scratch with a beginner-friendly workflow Load and manage eBooks easily in popular formats Create custom themes and reading styles for a personalized reading experience Build smooth navigation and user-friendly layouts readers love Add essential features like bookmarks, font control, and night mode Avoid common beginner mistakes that slow down development Turn a simple idea into a polished, usable reading app Whether you''re an aspiring developer, a tech enthusiast, or a creator who wants full control over your reading experience, this book will help you move from idea to working e-reader app with confidence. Instead of relying on limited third-party apps, you''ll gain the knowledge to build something truly your own-flexible, customizable, and built for the way you read. If you''re ready to unlock the skills to create your own personalized e-reading experience, this book will guide you every step of the way. Start building your custom e-reader today. Scroll up and grab your copy now!

Dive into Java networking beyond the basics. Learn TCP and UDP communication, multithreading for servers and clients, socket programming, secure connections, and network protocols. Projects demonstrate practical implementations for chat apps, file transfer tools, and network monitoring utilities.

This book explains how to connect Python applications to external services using APIs. It covers REST fundamentals, authentication methods, JSON handling, error management, rate limiting, and automation workflows. You will build practical projects that fetch, send, and process data from real-world APIs. The focus is on writing clear, reliable integration code suitable for production use.

Data Strategy Reconsidered challenges the conventional wisdom that causes most data strategies to fail. Based on twenty-five years of experience and hundreds of enterprise implementations, Kevin Lewis reveals why common approaches-building business cases for direct value, creating comprehensive data foundations, swinging between centralization extremes-consistently fall short in practice. The book presents seven counterintuitive principles that actually deliver results: targeting business initiatives rather than direct business value; building for change rather than all requirements; balancing responsibility without polarizing; creating coherent architecture; focusing on the future instead of rewriting legacy; planning programs not just projects; and embedding strategy into operations. Drawing from implementations across financial services, manufacturing, healthcare, retail, and telecommunications, this practical guide provides immediately applicable frameworks without abstract theory. Written for Chief Data Officers, enterprise architects, data leaders, and executives, it offers a proven roadmap for organizations building new data strategies or fixing ones that aren''t delivering results.

The first book to expose how the Catholic Church systematically covers up scandal by moving abusers across borders. Clerical sexual abuse is as global as the Roman Catholic Church, with bishops moving credibly accused priests not simply between parishes but also across international borders. Unforgivable follows the movement of one such perpetrator from the Great Plains of central Minnesota to the Indigenous highlands of Guatemala, where this priest had access to children and even raised one as his own. Although Father David Roney is at the center of this particular story, author Kevin Lewis O''Neill offers ample evidence that offshoring priests is a common practice. These maneuvers and the callous indifference of the Church--even once caught red-handed--reveal the limits of justice. They also lay bare the disturbing fact that the scale of clerical sexual abuse is far bigger than anyone has yet considered. Rigorously researched and viscerally important, this book raises urgent questions about holding the Catholic Church accountable.

Discover the Magic of Growing Together in "Rooted in Love: The Couple''s Guide to Gardening Together" Welcome to a journey that intertwines the essence of love with the nurturing of a garden. "Rooted in Love: The Couple''s Guide to Gardening Together" invites you and your loved one to explore the unique parallels between tending to your relationship and cultivating a garden side by side. This guide is more than just about gardening; it''s about planting seeds of connection, understanding, and enduring love. Delve into the roots of your connection by uncovering the rich history and psychology behind shared hobbies, especially gardening. Understand how these activities can fortify your bond, setting a solid foundation for your shared journey. The book''s initial chapters serve as the fertile ground from which your relationship can flourish. As you progress, you will discover how to prepare the soil of your relationship, selecting the right seeds that align with your coupled goals. The metaphorical representation of annuals, perennials, and biennials in relation to love will give you a fresh perspective on your partnership''s growth potential. With practical advice on planning your garden layout, sharing responsibilities, and overcoming challenges, this guide ensures that both your garden and love life bloom. Experience the seasons of gardening and love, learning to cherish new beginnings, nurture growth, reap the rewards, and find rest and reflection in quieter times. Each season brings with it lessons on perseverance, patience, and the importance of celebration, enriching your relationship as you journey through life together. "Rooted in Love" also equips you with the tools of the trade, from essential gardening tools for couples to DIY projects that encourage togetherness. Further, explore organic gardening principles, garden design, and creating sanctuaries for wildlife, extending the analogy to fostering a sustainable, eco-friendly relationship. By the book''s close, you and your partner will not only have a thriving garden but a fortified, evergreen relationship. "Rooted in Love" guides you in cultivating a shared space of growth, harmony, and endless possibility. Embark on this transformative journey together, and let your love and garden flourish side by side.

It is Brown Sugar Baby''s first Christmas! When the three Aunties swirl in, full of love and sweetness, Baby is the center of family joy and new traditions. Award-winning Kevin Lewis does it again, writing another lyrical and relatable celebration of unconditional love. This African American family is full of warmth and celebration, and reminds us of the true meaning of Christmas. Perfect keepsake gift for baby''s first Christmas. Grandparents will make memories with their grandchildren, too! Relatable, lyrical story for parents and their little girls and boys to read together on Christmas. Beautiful illustrations, featuring an African American family, will keep kids engaged throughout the story. Sturdy board book pages are easy to grasp, great for children practicing fine motor skills. Poetic rhythm and rhymes encourage language patterns and development amongst toddlers. Glitter cover and every page throughout provide tactile learning for kids of young ages as they touch the bumpy pages. The more senses you use as you read together, the better children can concentrate on their learning experience.

A mustard seed. God asks us to have faith the size of an itty, bitty, tiny mustard seed. Now that shouldn''t be so hard, should it? And yet, so many times we experience difficult, even traumatic events in our lives that make us ask questions like, "If God loves us and wants the very best for us, why does He allow such horrible things to happen?"For Kevin, it was a mass shooting in his town of Buffalo, Minnesota that brought him to ask this important question. And each time he prayed, he heard the words, "Can you trust me this much? Those words kept replaying in his mind over and over again. Kevin eventually wrote those six words down on strips of paper and Scotch-taped a mustard seed to each one. He proceeded to place the strips in random places. They were in his house, his business, on his computer, and even in his car.What Kevin discovered was how the traumatic events we all face in life can either destroy us or bring us to a place where we realize our pain has a purpose. And when we finally get real and have the crazy courage to face the big hurts - those life-changing events - we can answer with certainty, "Yes?yes, I can trust you this much!"

Through a series of rich photographs, Art of Captivity / Arte del Cautiverio tells a compelling story about the war on drugs in Central America. Entirely bilingual in both English and Spanish, the book focuses on the country of Guatemala, now the principle point of transit for the cocaine that is produced in the Andes and bound for the United States and Canada. Alongside a spike in the use of crack cocaine, Guatemala City has witnessed the proliferation of Pentecostal drug rehabilitation centers. The centers are sites of abuse and torment, but also lifesaving institutions in a country that does not provide any other viable social service to those struggling with drug dependency. Art of Captivity / Arte del Cautiverio explores these centers as architectural forms, while also showcasing the cultural production that takes place inside them, including drawings and letters created by those held captive. This stunning work of visual ethnography humanizes those held inside these centers, breaks down stereotypes about drug use, and sets the conditions for a hemispheric conversation about prohibitionist practices – by revealing intimate portraits of a population held hostage by a war on drugs.

"A necessary addition to the literature on Latin America''s Pentecostals, whose number exceeds 100 million . . . a highly readable text." — Times Higher Education "It''s not a process," one pastor insisted, "rehabilitation is a miracle." In the face of addiction and few state resources, Pentecostal pastors in Guatemala City are fighting what they understand to be a major crisis. Yet the treatment centers they operate produce this miracle of rehabilitation through extraordinary means: captivity. These men of faith snatch drug users off the streets, often at the request of family members, and then lock them up inside their centers for months, sometimes years. Hunted is based on more than ten years of fieldwork among these centers and the drug users that populate them. Over time, as Kevin Lewis O''Neill engaged both those in treatment and those who surveilled them, he grew increasingly concerned that he, too, had become a hunter, albeit one snatching up information. This thoughtful, intense book will reframe the arc of redemption we so often associate with drug rehabilitation, painting instead a seemingly endless cycle of hunt, capture, and release. "O''Neill uses his dramatic story of the manhunt to rethink Foucauldian pastoral power . . . [an] utterly brilliant book." — PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review "The theme of Kevin Lewis O''Neill''s fascinating book, Hunted—i.e., drug addicts kidnapped and held in involuntary confinement in treatment centers run by Guatemalan Pentecostals—may strike readers as so outré or outrageous as to provoke a reaction . . . Hunted consists in brilliant participant-observer reportage." — Pneuma

One day, KJ decides he wants to learn how to play a musical instrument. So he talks with his Dad and his adventure begins.

Managing a dental practice has become increasingly complex in recent years, after changes within both the National Health Service and the private sector. Modern dental practice requires that dentists meet demanding business and management challenges as well as employing their clinical expertise. However, most dentists receive little or no formal training in practice management. In this book established management principles are applied specifically to dentistry. It shows how to best serve the interests of patients by effective management of staff, finances, premises and resources. It assumes no prior knowledge, is concise and offers clear, practical advice. It is the definitive guide for dentists, vocational trainees, dental students, practice managers and administrators, and a useful reference for those undertaking the DGDP and MGDS examinations.

School Bullying: A Personal Journey is an autobiography written in novel format about the author''s tormented life growing up with Autism and the terrifying battles he faced falling victim to school bullying and harassment.

From 2003 through 2014, Kevin''s wife Rebecca became and served as the caregiver for her mother as she began to suffer from dementia. This condition was subsequently diagnosed as Alzheimer''s. Two years after her passing, Kevin decided to put into writing the experiences and lessons that marked their journey through those years. It provides a simple chronological walk through this time, providing personal insights and advice in a conversational manner should anyone else find themselves serving in such a role. It also gives the view of a spouse who realized in retrospect what he was blind to and what he would have done differently.

Krav Maga, which means “contact combat” in Hebrew, is an easy-to-understand/remember aggressive system of self-defense. Idiot’s Guides®: Krav Maga will not only define what it is, but also review the principles and systems of techniques and training to ensure survival. Combining in-depth information and easy-to-understand illustrated instructions, this guide will be a wonderful tool to help train both men and women on how to protect themselves, deal with threatening situations, and reverse dangerous situations where they’re at a disadvantage. Idiot’s Guides®: Krav Maga covers: - The origination of Krav Maga: its history, birthplace, philosophy, and why it was created. - The core essentials of Krav Maga’s theory and practice. - A review of how to condition the body and mind to outside threats and violence. - An understanding of not only the physical aspect of Krav Maga, but how it is part of the bigger picture of personal protection. - The thought process of the attacker and how to avoid potentially dangerous situations, if possible. - How Krav Maga differs from martial arts, primarily in terms of not following handed down fighting rules and techniques. - A breakdown of the belts in Krav Maga (yellow, orange, green, blue, brown, black), what it takes to attain them, and the differences between them. - Step-by-step illustrated directions on the popular stances, positions, movements, kick/punch strikes, falls, joint locks, deflections, and techniques from the basics to advanced moves. - How to use body weight, your most powerful muscles, and momentum to defeat an attacker. - Instruction on protecting the body and weapons defense, in addition to mastering escapes.

Life is a struggle and a lot of the times we try to block out our pain with things such as drugs, partying ,sex and the list goes on and on. But these things never solve the problem or heal our hurt inside. It feels good in the moment but when it wears off we are left back in our low state. Which most of the time turns out to be even more worse than before. If we were to start acknowledging our pain rather than pushing it away and see what we can learn out of this situation to help ourselves and others.We would be able to find solutions to our problems. So in this book of poetry I talk about my struggles in life, and how when I stopped looking at it as a problem and as an opportunity to grow and become stronger. I became much more satisfied with life, and one other person you will find out who he is after reading my book. I mention him a lot I realized he is all I need in my journey through life.

Throughout my journey in life iv''e come to realize that Jesus christ is the greatest gift.He hss become the only reason I continue on my journey in this life the pleasures of the world feels good,but they are temporary and great pain lye''s within them. I would rather walk the rugged road which leads to everlasting life,even though its hard but in our pains there we learn the greates lessons.When I think of a place where there will be no more hurt,pain sickness crying etc,just peace and love it helps me in the dark times to go on.So in this book of poems I express feeling of tiredness and destruction and love and how when I turned to God even though I still continue to fall I always comeback to him because he renews me and makes my hope and strength brand new

In this adventure of KJ''s, he helps young readers learn about GOD''s wonderful creations. While having a great time doing so.

Read along with Olaf! Olaf is a snowman, and he love, love, loves warm hugs! Olaf also loves to play. Do you want to play Leap Troll? How about Ring-around-the-reindeer? In this charmingly illustrated picture book, count to ten and play hide-and-seek with Olaf, too! Featuring narration by Josh Gad, follow along with word-for-word narration as Olaf does what he does best: give hugs!

"I’m not perfect," Mateo confessed. "Nobody is. But I try." Secure the Soul shuttles between the life of Mateo, a born-again ex-gang member in Guatemala and the gang prevention programs that work so hard to keep him alive. Along the way, this poignantly written ethnography uncovers the Christian underpinnings of Central American security. In the streets of Guatemala City—amid angry lynch mobs, overcrowded prisons, and paramilitary death squads—millions of dollars empower church missions, faith-based programs, and seemingly secular security projects to prevent gang violence through the practice of Christian piety. With Guatemala increasingly defined by both God and gangs, Secure the Soul details an emerging strategy of geopolitical significance: regional security by way of good Christian living.

Come along for the ride as a busy toy locomotive makes its rounds through a bustling playroom. Sun''s up! Morning''s here. Up and at ''em, engineer! What works from dawn till dusk without a break until it delivers all its freight? A very busy steam engine! Featuring rhyming couplets and bright, bold illustrations, this story is sure to be a hit with young train lovers.

This book is a basic practical guide to the all-important mental process by which we all live our lives - analyzing a situation, sorting out how to respond to it, and taking action accordingly. We discover how to solve problems and make choices swiftly and satisfactorily, how to reduce mental stress while working under pressure, how to turn bright ideas into positive action. Following the techniques and exercises given here, you''ll soon find you are using your brain more efficiently. Your payback will be in greater confidence and greater peace of mind - which in turn will help your mental processing. Step inside this virtual circle now, and join the blessed ranks of the sorted!

Rhyming text follows a young explorer as he discovers bugs and then increasingly larger creatures, brings them home to learn about them, and is warned by his mother that each is unwelcome.

Are You A Budding Coin Collector, But Are Confused About Which Coins Are Rare And Which Are Not? Not Sure About The Value Of Each Coin In Your Collection And How To Grade Them And Manage Them? Don''t Worry! Help Has Arrived...!Finally! You Can Now Understand The Nuts-And-Bolts Of Coin Collecting, And Manage Your Coins Professionally! Turn Yourself Into A Seasoned Collector And Learn Some Excellent Tips About The Rarest Of Coins... And Derive Utmost Pleasure From This Fascinating Hobby!

In Guatemala City today, Christianity isn''t just a belief system--it is a counterinsurgency. Amidst postwar efforts at democratization, multinational mega-churches have conquered street corners and kitchen tables, guiding the faithful to build a sanctified city brick by brick. Drawing on rich interviews and extensive fieldwork, Kevin Lewis O''Neill tracks the culture and politics of one such church, looking at how neo-Pentecostal Christian practices have become acts of citizenship in a new, politically relevant era for Protestantism. Focusing on everyday practices--praying for Guatemala, speaking in tongues for the soul of the nation, organizing prayer campaigns to combat unprecedented levels of crime--O''Neill finds that Christian citizenship has re-politicized the faithful as they struggle to understand what it means to be a believer in a desperately violent Central American city. Innovative, imaginative, conceptually rich, City of God reaches across disciplinary borders as it illuminates the highly charged, evolving relationship between religion, democracy, and the state in Latin America.

''There is another loneliness'', wrote the American poet Emily Dickinson: ''Not want of friend occasions it, but nature sometimes, sometimes thought''. For Kevin Lewis, that ''other loneliness'' is uniquely expressive of a rich and resonant state of being that is distinctive to the American psyche as well as central to the mythology of America itself. He calls this state of being ''lonesomeness''. It evokes the luminous landscapes of the West and the cathedral-like space of the Great Plains. It lies at the root of personal identity and is inseparable from notions of personal discovery and of communion with the varied topography of the United States, whether it be rural hinterland or industrial urban rustbelt.In this continuously stimulating reflection, Kevin Lewis explores - in religion, poetry, fiction, country songwriting and art - the multiple meanings of that peculiarly American notion of solitariness. Discussing quintessential American writers like Henry David Thoreau, Walt Whitman, Jack Kerouac and Ernest Hemingway - creative artists who have all embraced positive conceptions of solitude and wilderness - Lewis finds the apex of American lonesomeness in the melancholic and reflective paintings of Edward Hopper. Lewis argues that in expressive works like "Nighthawks" and "Morning Sun" one sees Hopper''s solitude redeemed by ''something more'': by the notion that in isolation the individual may yet be touched by transcendence. Kevin Lewis argues that those echoes of ''something else'' reveal a great deal about the American character that we would do well to heed, as well as deep rooted cultural attitudes towards religion, individualism and self-belief.

KJ decides one spring day he will run for Vice President of his 5th grade class. This will be an adventure he would remember for the rest of his life.