New Releases by Lisa Williams

Think parenting is impossible? Think again. Lisa Williams, mother of identical twin boys and psychology professor extraordinaire, is here to prove that parenting doesn't have to feel like a full-time disaster. Filled with relatable stories, laugh-out-loud moments, and actionable advice, this book cuts through the guilt, confusion, and endless parenting myths to show you that raising happy, healthy kids doesn't have to feel like rocket science. From managing tantrums and other struggles to fostering independence and resilience, Lisa gives readers the tools-and the confidence-to parent with less stress and more joy. Whether you're a first-time parent, a seasoned pro, or somewhere in between, this book is your guide to surviving (and thriving in) the wild, wonderful chaos of raising kids-and realizing along the way that you might actually be doing just fine. Parenting may not be perfect, but with a little humor, a little strategy, and a lot of love, it can actually be fun. Yes, really.

Traffickers don't always use force. Sometimes they use friendship, romance, or attention. That's what makes them dangerous-and that's why this book exists. What Human Traffickers Don't Want You to Know: A Teen's Guide to Outsmarting Predators is a bold, no-fluff guide that tells the truth about how trafficking really happens-who it targets, how predators operate, and what you can do to stay safe. It breaks down tactics like love-bombing, grooming, sextortion, and manipulation by people you may know and trust. Written in a voice teens can relate to, this guide covers how traffickers exploit social media, how to spot red flags, and how to help a friend who may be in danger. You'll find real survivor insights, warning signs, checklists, and practical tools that empower teens to think critically, build confidence, and take back control-online and in real life. Whether you're a teen, parent, teacher, or mentor, this is the knowledge that saves lives. Real talk. Real strategies. Real protection. Your body. Your voice. Your choice. Always. Safety & Respect Empowering Young Minds One Page at a Time

Journey through time with this illustrated account of UK history for 7-11 year olds. From the Jurassic coastline to the Jacobites and the Stone Age to social reform, to the Romans and the Roaring Twenties, learn all about the UK’s history in this chronological guide. Exploring: Iconic figures and their hidden narratives Incredible inventions and the stories behind them Key events and buried history Written by historian Lisa Williams, who specialises in educating young people about the lesser-known stories of UK history.

Heartache is par for the course. Fifteen years after her troubled daughter Julie ran away from home, Beth Sawyer stumbles across a newspaper photograph of an up-and-coming teen golfer, who not only shares her last name, but also looks just like her daughter. Sky Sawyer couldn’t possibly be her granddaughter—or could she? With her sort-of-functional life spinning out of control—and let’s not get started on her soon-to-be-married ex-husband—Beth meets Barry, a fellow golfer whom she accidentally hits with her golf ball. Will he take her to court or to dinner? When Sky Sawyer joins her high school golf team, she hopes that the mother she thought dead may still be alive and seek her out at the championship tournament. But when she discovers that the man who raised her is not her father and a woman claiming to be her long-lost grandmother appears, her world falls apart. With Beth and Sky fighting to gain what they both had lost, can they finally get a second chance at a happily ever after?

Fifteen-year-old Lizzy Winston has always been a good kid -- and she sees the good in most everyone else too. When she meets the charismatic Andy Masters, she starts crushing hard. She's not used to attention from boys like Andy, and soon he distracts her from other parts of her life that she's trying to hold together. Her grades start slipping, she makes a mistake that costs her mother her job, and her friends' actions are making her question what's right. Andy seems like a great guy. He's funny and charming, the Clown Prince of Lakeside High. He loves digging up news stories for the high school TV station, but he's got some secrets of his own. As he and Lizzy get closer, she grows skeptical of his motives. When she does her own digging on Andy, she learns that everyone has secrets -- no matter how good they seem on the outside. Someone's pulling pranks at Lakeside, and Lizzy thinks she knows who it is. When the pranks escalate and put students in danger, she must decide where her loyalty lies. She doesn't want to get her friend in trouble, but if she keeps quiet, someone will get hurt. In one week, she learns that adulthood brings new, complicated responsibilities --and the line between right and wrong isn't always so easy to see. Is she ready to do the right thing if it means losing her friends?

One glance. A shipwreck. Can a love affair forged in peril sustain two independent spirits? Lavinia Onslow, who delights in the freedom of managing her father's millinery shop in the heart of Savannah, Georgia, has decided she may defy convention and not marry after all. Yet, in the summer of 1838, on board the elegant steamship Pulaski, bound from Savannah to Baltimore, she exchanges glances with an intriguing young man. What can ensue from a mere glance? Quite a lot, as legend has it. That very night, the boiler of the Pulaski explodes and the ship sinks, drowning most of its wealthy passengers. As Lavinia struggles in the water in her heavy dress, calling out for her father and thinking she will surely perish, someone dives in to rescue her, pulling her up next to him on a makeshift raft made of two deck settees. When she composes herself, she recognizes the intriguing man. There they float, alone but together, surrounded by ocean, thirty miles off the coast of North Carolina, desperate for a life-saving miracle. Is the bond she feels for this stranger more than an instinct for survival? Inspired by a legend --that may or not be true-- and set in the rich historic milieus of Savannah, New Orleans, and the coast of North Carolina, Between the Sky and the Sea explores how Lavinia Onslow's desire to live as an independent woman transforms after surviving the wreck of the Pulaski.

A collection of essays, sometimes humorous, about life, family, motherhood, interfaith marriage, and love.

Lisa's Journal This Journal has 110 organized blank line pages for writing down thoughts, ideas, memories, experiences, and more. In memory of Lisa Williams.

What does it take to provide each student with equitable access to daily quality instruction? Our public schools have undergone significant demographic change. At the same time, we have abundant evidence that our schools haven’t effectively served children of color, children from low-income families, and other marginalized student groups. This solution-oriented guide for school leaders helps create a high-quality, culturally responsive learning environment for all students. You’ll learn deliberate, data-driven actions critical to 21st Century success. Written by instructional leaders, who understand the challenges of equity-driven reform, this guide helps school leaders: Understand the root cause of the racial-achievement gap Take concrete actions to transform the educational process Use daily, real-time data to determine effective teaching and learning practices Provides leaders with an original framework to achieve their instructional vision for equity Eliminate gaps in student outcomes by eliminating instructional gaps between educators and their students. Including practical implementation strategies and tools, reflective-discussion questions, and powerful vignettes, this transformative book helps school leaders take concrete steps to accelerate the achievement of underserved students! "For those who are unsure where to begin the process, or lack a context for why they need to undergo the transformation of changing their instructional practices to align with the need to respond to America′s changing public school population, the contents are arranged in a manner to provide the necessary support to guide the audience through the process." —Dr. Kandice W. Taylor, Principal Baltimore County Public Schools, MD "This book provides school leaders with practical tools and a practical model to implement drastic change in any school climate. The PACE Framework perfectly outlines strategies and activities to implement an effective, quality-first instruction program at schools that serve students who are normally underserved. School leaders and district leaders, who serve as change agents in multi-faceted school communities, can use this book. I highly recommend it for any school leader needing a framework to shift the culture, instructional practices, the mindset of staff, and community members alike." —Tara A. Minter, Principal Rosa L. Parks Elementary School, Hyattsville, MD

Et si vous déteniez toutes les réponses à vos questions et pouviez accéder à cette connaissance inestimable par la connexion à votre âme afin d'être guidé dans vos décisions au coeur de votre quotidien ? Créé par la célèbre médium Lisa Williams et illustré par l'artiste de talent Marie-Chantal Martineau, «L'Oracle de l'âme intuitive» a été conçu pour vous aider à développer votre intuition et faire émerger vos facultés psychiques. Les explications du livre et les 44 magnifiques cartes de ce jeu stimuleront vos aptitudes médiumniques innées et vous permettront de réaliser de puissantes lectures psychiques, tant pour vous que pour ceux qui vous entourent. Livre de 108 pages + 44 cartes.

THIS BOOK HAS BEEN FORMATTED IN THE RUBIX READ FORMAT. THE RUBIX READ PROVIDES MULTIPLE BEGINNINGS TO ONE ENDING WITHOUT CONFUSION. YOU WILL BE ABLE TO READ THEN FLIP THIS BOOK FROM FRONT COVER(START OF LISA'S BIOGRAPHY) TO THE BACK COVER(START OF DEONTE'S BIOGRAPHY). TWO WELL COMPOSED AUTOBIOGRAPHIES LEADING TO THE TRUE LOVE STORY IN THE CENTER OF THE BOOK. BOTH STORIES WERE DIFFICULT TO TELL CONSIDERING TO PAIN AND MENTAL STRUGGLE TIED TO THE LIVES OF THE AUTHORS. COMPARE THE BACKGROUNDS OF THESE YOUNG AUTHORS AND FIND YOUR OWN EMOTIONAL BOND. WHY IS THE INTERSTATE IMPORTANT? WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO YOU? HIGHWAY PATROL, FAMILY VACATIONS, BUSINESS TRIPS, EVERYDAY COMMUTE, ROADKILL, THE SCENERY, CAR ACCIDENTS, AAA, SEATBELTS, DRUG TRAFFIC, ETC... EVERY VEHICLE ON THE INTERSTATE HAS ITS OWN STORY TO TELL. I-75, I GUESS, AT A BIRDS EYE VIEW LOOKS LIKE AN ADVANCE ANT FARM. IT HAS ALL THOSE DIFFERENT AGENDAS CO-EXISTING. A RIPPLE CAN BE DUE TO WEATHER, A DRIVER UNDER THE INFLUENCE OR SHORT A FEW HOURS OF SLEEP, CONSTRUCTION, SO FORTH AND SO ON. WHO KNOWS WHEN THEIR JOURNEY WILL BE OVER? LIFE DOESN'T COME WITH A NAVIGATOR HELPING YOU TO YOUR DESTINATION WITH THE LUXURIES OF AVOIDING DETOURS, TRAFFIC JAMS, COLLISION, ROAD RAGE AND VITAL CHAIN REACTION. THE INTERSTATE NEVER TURNS OFF AND NO MATTER WHERE YOU GO YOUR SHADOW FOLLOWS. WHO WANTS TO LOOK BACK AT UGLY SHADOWS WHEN YOU HAVE THE FREEDOM TO KEEP GOING? WOULD YOU LOOK IN THE MIRROR IF YOU KNEW THE DEVIL WAS BEHIND YOU? SOME WOULD LOOK OUT OF CURIOSITY VERSUS BEING STARTLED OR CAUGHT OFF GUARD. BUT THE CIRCUMSTANCES DOESN'T HOLD WEIGHT TO THE WILL POWER YOU'RE GOING TO NEED TO TAKE YOUR EYES OFF OF HIM. FORGETTING WHO WAS IN THE CAR FOR THE ENTIRE RIDE...

Poetry. "Lisa Williams's new collection, GAZELLE IN THE HOUSE, is truly a book of stanzas: poetic rooms in which to dwell. Some of these dwellings have the uncanny familiarity of ordinary domestic space and others are as mysterious and disorienting as the depths of the sea. Painting with colors at times opaque, at times transparent, moving between shallows, tide-pools, and the abysses of dreams, Williams's voice is solitary, meditative, intimate—and in the end a means of revelation."—Susan Stewart

This sleek cover design offers over 200 blank pages to record precious thoughts and memories. Fits comfortably inside medium sized purses and small tote bags. Great for wedding planning notes. Makes timely bridal shower gift. The perfect place to capture your marriage journey.

Norm and Lynn are having problems. Big problems. Rather than hide from the issues, they go on a marriage retreat together while Stephanie goes to cheerleading camp and Diana stays with her father. But when everyone returns, things seem worse than ever. So bad, in fact, it looks like Stephanie and Diana may not have to put up with each other anymore, which is what they wanted all along. This final book in the Sisters in all Seasons series brings the story of Stephanie and Diana to a close, and shows what happens when two opposites become friends, and maybe sisters.

This is the story of Diana and Stephanie, new stepsisters on a vacation at a ranch with Diana's mom and Stephanie's dad, who are newlyweds. Diana has a "mood disorder" for which she takes medication. In her estimation, Stephanie is just too perfect. But Stephanie has some secrets of her own. The girls band together to free two captive wolves, an action that has unexpected and unintended consequences. Told in the alternating voices of Diana and Stephanie, the book explores themes of family, friendship, mental health, and nature.

It may take a miracle—or a hurricane—to save this family vacation. Stepsisters Stephanie and Diana undergo another adventure when they embark on a Grand Cayman cruise with their extended family to celebrate their grandmother’s 80th birthday. But the vacation gets complicated with the addition of an eccentric Granny and a video-taping manic cousin. Plus Stephanie’s growing interest in boys makes Diana’s Mood-o-Meter swing like a pendulum. When the girls discover a plot to smuggle a rare, endangered Blue Iguana, Diana’s fury rages to the surface and threatens to ruin the entire birthday party—or unite the clan for a rescue mission. The third installment of Sisters in All Seasons is full of humor, heartache, friendships, and very real family drama aboard a cruise-ship—where there’s no escaping if you want to run away! Join Stephanie and Diana once again as they tread the wavering waters of step-sisterhood. Lisa Williams Kline is the author of Floods, The Princesses of Atlantis, Write Before Your Eyes, and Eleanor Hill, winner of the North Carolina Juvenile Literature Award. She has written for Cricket, Cicada, Spider and Odyssey magazines, and lives in North Carolina with her veterinarian husband, where they are frequently visited by their grown daughters. Besides writing, Lisa has been a disc jockey, copywriter, waitress, and veterinary hospital office manager. Recently she learned to drive a forklift.

This book describes how a group of young people make decisions about drug taking. It charts the decision making process of recreational drug takers and non-drug takers as they mature from adolescence into young adulthood. With a focus upon their perceptions of different drugs, it situates their decision making within the context of their everyday lives. Changing lives, changing drug journeys presents qualitative longitudinal data collected from interviewees at age 17, 22 and 28 and tracks the onset of drug journeys, their persistence, change and desistance. The drug journeys and the decision making process which underpins them are analysed by drawing upon contemporary discourses of risk and life course criminology. In doing so, a new theoretical framework is developed to help us understand drug taking decision making in contemporary society. This framework highlights the pleasures and risks that interviewees perceive when making decisions whether or not to take drugs. The ways in which their drug journeys and life journeys intersect and how social relationships and transitions to adulthood facilitate or constrain the decision making process are also explored. Qualitative longitudinal research of this kind is uncommon yet it provides an invaluable insight into the decision making process of individuals during the life course. The book will, therefore, be of interest to researchers and students from a variety of disciplines including qualitative research methods as well as sociology, criminology, cultural and health studies. It will also be an important resource for professionals working in health promotion, drugs education, harm reduction and treatment.

Examines the focus on crime and criminal justice in British drugs policy, from why it happened at all to what led policy to unfold in the way that it did. Includes analysis of crucial policy documents and over 200 interviews with key players in the policy development and implementation process.

"Crossing the Chemo Room," Book One of the nonfiction trilogy "Survival Stories," tells the true tale of Lonna Lisa Williams' battle with cancer. After enduring a tragic childhood, early motherhood, and divorce to a Navy pilot, Lonna met her second husband at the university where she got her Master's degree in English. They married and had a daughter. When she was pregnant with their second child, Lonna noticed that something was wrong, and soon after Jonathan was born, she discovered she had cancer. Walk with Lonna as she takes you through the physical and emotional challenges of surgery, chemotherapy, and recovery. Meet the other patients, health workers, and friends who helped Lonna along this path. Discover how Christ's resurrection power strengthened Lonna to write about miscarriages and wildfires in "I Saw You in the Moon." Journey across the landscapes of New Zealand, Russia, and Turkey in Lonna's third book, "Fire and Ice," as she survives the loss of her California life and family but rises like a phoenix to teach English overseas.

Headline: Stepsisters, yes. Friends? Maybe ... Diana loves horses. Horses terrify Stephanie. Diana takes pills for her mood disorder. Stephanie smiles a little too wide. Now their blended family is vacationing for the first time since the wedding—at a ranch that only highlights the girls' extreme differences. Things seem hopeless, until Diana discovers caged wolf-dogs and convinces Stephanie to help free them. Though a truce is formed, a herd of unforeseen consequences is soon galloping out of their control. But it might be just what their relationship needs.

For once Stephanie and Diana want the same thing. That’s the problem. Diana and Stephanie are still trying to decide if they like each other when their blended family goes to the Outer Banks of North Carolina for spring break. They’re headed in opposite directions—Diana is crazy about the wild horses and Stephanie is crazy about the boys—until one guy catches both their interests. Soon they’re butting heads—again. But when their crush is accused of committing a crime against the horses, can the stepsisters band together to prove his innocence?

Miranda, a teenager from future San Diego which is enclosed in a Dome because chemicals destroyed the natural world. The daughter of scientists, Miranda is Keeper of The Last Tree which is dying. She is also great-granddaughter of famous twentieth-century environmentalist Gabrielle Leigh who foresaw the trees' destruction. By means of The Archives, a futuristic multimedia library, Miranda studies Gabrielle's life. Each "visit" through The Portal becomes more real, and Miranda gradually materializes in twentieth-century Oregon to explore--with Gabrielle--the Pacific Northwest evergreen forests. As Miranda gets more involved in the past, she watches Gabrielle fall in love with a logger who gets caught in the battle between loggers and "greens." Back under the future Dome, Miranda's family and boyfriend try to keep her from being trapped in the past as local anti-nature opposition hunts them down. Miranda and Gabrielle struggle, between two places and times, to reintroduce trees to the future and lead people outside The Dome.

After "Crossing the Chemo Room," Lonna Lisa Williams' cancer survival story continues in "I Saw You in the Moon," book 2 of her "Survival Stories." Discover what happened to her original characters and meet new ones in Lonna's further adventures. See how her children grew while she homeschooled them and guided them through figure skating and overseas excursions. Witness a California wildfire and a New Zealand glacier, battle with other cancer patients, overcome the sorrow of miscarriages, explore the enduring beauty of photographs and poetry, and experience the hope of Christ's resurrection.

Many of us have questions about the passage of life and often wonder what happens when we die. In this amazingly insightful book by medium/clairvoyant Lisa Williams, evidence of the afterlife is explored. Through various channels such as meditation, psychic readings, communication with her Spirit Guide, and a personal near-death experience, Lisa delves into the journey of the soul, discusses the different stages of the afterlife, and reveals what life is really like on the other side. Survival of the Soul addresses the myriad questions many of us have surrounding this subject, especially if we’ve gone through the painful experience of having lost loved ones. Lisa provides a reassuring glimpse into this fascinating topic by exploring the pathway to the afterlife and then to reincarnation; with the realization that death is not final, but rather a transition into the world beyond —a place that should be honored, not feared.

TWELVE-YEAR-OLD GRACIE IS always flying under the radar of her overworked parents and outspoken siblings. But when she buys an old journal at a yard sale, Gracie is stunned to realize that everything she writes in the journal comes true—though sometimes in unexpected ways. At first Gracie uses the journal selfishly, controlling her mother’s BlackBerry and eliminating the dress code at school. But then she starts to think about bigger issues: what about world hunger? Global warming? World peace Unfortunately, before she can make headway on any of those issues, the journal falls into the wrong hands—and soon Gracie and her best friend/crush Dylan are rushing around town trying to undo the damage! This fun, warm, emotionally honest novel is both a fantastic adventure and a testament to the power of writing to change the world.

A new volume by the winner of the 2007 Barnard Women Poets Prize is a sojourn into such fanciful realms as the interior of a glacier and the translucent body of a jellyfish, in a collection that invites readers to follow a literary journey that illuminates and returns to the writer's own life. By the author of The Hammered Dulcimer. -- Tower Books product description.