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Are you living with ADHD? Are you seeing symptoms in your child, partner, or close friend of ADHD or ADD? What is this disorder? How do you deal with it, control it, begin to learn to live with it?

Wordplay: Theater for the Ear and the Imagination is a podcast that will produce short audio plays and monologues, both dramas & comedies, which reflect the dignity and spiritual nature of the human person. The actors are alumni of Providence College Theatre. Rev. Matthew Powell, O.P., associate professor emeritus of theatre, is the director.

Although he’s only just graduated from high school, 18-year-old Dean Duffy thinks of himself as a has-been. Mired in an inexplicable and frustrating two-year batting slump, he helplessly watches as a once-promising baseball career fizzles when he strikes out to end his senior season. With his baseball career now seemingly over, Dean settles into a series of odd jobs as he tries to puzzle out his future. However, when a longtime mentor arranges a baseball scholarship to a private college, he is forced to make an adult decision for the first time in his life.

Real estate guru Annetta Powell shows you how anyone can become prosperous in real estate investments. Her clear-cut process explores her proven moneymaking formula and will put you on the path to finding, fixing, and flipping properties for profit. Powell provides realistic scenarios that can help you negotiate with sellers, tips for avoiding common mistakes, samples, and much more!

A shocking exposé of rampant, decades-long incompetence at the National Rifle Association, as told by a former member of its senior leadership.

It is the year 2049, and humanity is on the brink of extinction. Tania Deeley has always been told that she's a rarity: a human child in a world where most children are sophisticated androids manufactured by Oxted Corporation. When a decline in global fertility ensued, it was the creation of these near-perfect human copies, called teknoids, that helped to prevent the utter collapse of society.

Written in the tradition of works by Joan Didion, bell hooks, Toni Morrison, and Eve Ensler, this “profoundly insightful and brilliantly inciting” (Dominique Morisseau, Obie Award-winning playwright) exploration of the soul of the United States - the past, the present, and the future Kevin Powell wants for us all, through the lens and lives of three major figures: his mother, Barack Obama, and Donald Trump.

Discover your vibrant aliveness and embrace your soul’s gifts! Have you ever wondered what it would be like to discover or rediscover who you really are in each moment of the here and now? Like finding a priceless treasure inside of you, or finally meeting your innermost being and falling deeply in love again—with yourself! If you weren’t sure that it was possible to fully manifest this “inner angel,” The Truth Dialog: Embracing the Unlimited Self, volume 2 in the Sacred Apology series, can bring you closer to knowing and living this amazing reality.

This Little Light of Mine is an LGBTQ+ tale of terror (growing up as a closeted Gay Christian in the Evangelical church) that led to trauma (cPTSD, religious trauma, spiritual abuse, sexual abuse, addiction) to what I intend to become triumph. Join me on my healing and recovery journey towards mental health, spiritual health and emotional health as I find my voice by sharing what happened in my life as a Queer Christian where I was taught that I was not allowed to love.

ADHD - Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder - is one of the childhood disorders becoming more and more common in recent years. This is a neurobehavioral disorder, which starts to develop during childhood and may persist into adulthood. The defining characteristics of ADHD are difficulty keeping focus and attention, hyperactivity, and difficulty in controlling the different behaviors.

Pastiche story from H.G. Wells’ War of the Worlds from the perspective of H.M.S. Thunder Child’s Royal Navy crew. The year is 1898, and the story unfolds through the eyes of an ironclad crew and a land-based war office clerk Mister Albert Stanley. Gradually, everyone moves toward the dreadful outcome as the strange alien tripods rampage around Victorian Britain.

The former Secretary of State, and first generation American, on the importance of remaining an open and welcoming nation.

Consider this: Are we the chosen generation, witnessing the world’s end? Could we be on the verge of eternity's dawn? How much more can society deteriorate before the return of Jesus Christ? Has the gospel truly reached every corner of the world? These questions, urgent and compelling, drive me to prepare for the soon return of Jesus Christ. The more I study Scripture and watch current events unfold, the more I realize how closer we are to the Second Coming of Jesus Christ. We may be the generation that sees all these things come to pass. And since I believe we could be just moments away ...

These affirmations are great as part of your personal mindfulness practice, to listen to before bed, first thing in the morning, on a break, at the park, beach, in the garden, or any time you need a daily dose of inspiration! To increase the power of this reprogramming process, check out our audiobook so you can listen to these affirmations whenever you need! Take them anywhere you go.

Jeri Wylder is a dedicated police officer doing her job, paying her way, and looking for Ms. Right, until a call at a drug house goes terribly wrong. She’s suspected of a crime she didn’t commit and is forced to do two things that go against her beliefs: See a therapist, and prove a fellow officer is corrupt. Simone Sullivan is trying to save her historical apartment complex and its occupants from redevelopment, but someone wants to see the building destroyed. When Jeri arrives on her doorstep, Simone’s life takes a turn that challenges her personally and professionally.

Reclusive forensic artist Macy Sheridan agrees to work one final case she hopes will solve the mystery that's haunted her for years. The only things blocking her from achieving her goal are a perfect facial reconstruction and Detective Leigh Monroe, a woman who reminds her of the past and challenges her future.

On the surface, Saundra Smith seems to have her life in order. As a dedicated kindergarten teacher and loving friend, she's content - enough. But beneath that happy façade, Saundra is also hesitant to love again after a breakup shattered her heart into a million pieces. Corporate executive Chris Parrish is anxious for a fresh start in a new town, far from his ex-wife and the problems that came with her.

This audiobook gives youth workers the opportunity to go beyond simply trying to motivate kids to serve those in need and invites them to help their kids wrestle with why those people are in need in the first place. Specific topics that will be addressed include the out-of-the-box-Jesus, the power of repentance, biblically grounded motivations for service, the power of community, as well as how to respond to the poverty, racism, and unequal power relationships.

David W. Powell enlisted for a tour of duty in April 1966 with the US Marines after receiving an imminent draft notice. Believing he would be able to leverage his existing skills as a computer programmer, he never thought all they would see on his resume was his Karate expertise. Even less that he would wind up serving as a Rocket man in the jungles of Da Nang and Chu Lai for a 13 month tour in hell. David's journey from naive civilian to battle-hardened combat veteran shows us all how fragile our humanity really is.

Escuchar a Suzanne forma parte de esa llamada de luz, de esa avanzadilla angélica que pretende traer desde las estrellas esa sed de justicia, esa necesidad de colmar nuestra existencia con un nuevo paradigma que pasa por la generosidad, por la sencillez, por valores que tienen que ver con una vida nueva, mejor, más amorosa y profunda.