This report sets out the challenges courts face in maintaining public confidence, and offers recommendations and examples for how state and federal courts can work together with their local communities to improve the public's view of the courts.

Judicial Independence, Public Confidence in Courts, and State-Federal Cooperation in the Midwest: A Research Report on the Midwest Regional Conference on State-Federal Judicial Relationships

Esterling, Kevin M.

Sharing Jesus: How to Put Faith into Words

Unknown, Author

A hands-on guide giving instruction and anecdotal, experiential stories of situations where miracle working faith was released effectively through prayer for divine healing and deliverance, this book would suit you well as a Bible study aid or personal development guide.  Does prayer work?         One reviewer said, "God's Holy Spirit is in this book He was touching my heart as I read and prayed through it. (I would just weep in some sections)"  Another said, "This book is dripping with anointing."  This book is based of approximately five years of my experience in working in prayer tent ministries at various food and clothing outreaches, revival meetings and church prayer meetings. This book shows what worked and what didn't. The purpose of this book is to help you unlock miracle working faith in your prayers so that you and your family, friends, loved ones and even complete strangers will be healed, set free and delivered.   So many people have spiritual problems, mental or emotional difficulties and physical hardships and Jesus said that they can be set free. So many feel the burning desire to pray for these needs but do not do so because of lack of confidence or knowledge. Do you want to gain that confidence?  Unlike so many other "self-help" books that aim to help an individual pray for themselves and unlock his or her own faith. The perspective of this book is aimed at helping you pray for others.  Others pray but have mixed results, some receiving healing, others do not. Do you want to see people healed by God?  Do you want to see people set free? Do you want success every time? Pick up this book and find out how! Start reading and become an expert at ministering to people through prayer. Learn through reading the first hand experiences I had praying for people.  This book doesn't offer statistics or reams of data but provide individual accounts of what worked and what didn't. Recorded in this book are stories of a woman healed of pancreatic cancer, one who rose for a wheel chair and walked, skin cancer, intestinal problems, damaged limbs and others.  It wasn't easy and it didn't come naturally. This book will help you avoid the mistakes that I made. Read about how I crawled through the trenches, got banged-up, scraped, and bruised along the way, gaining the knowledge and experience to pray for people to be healed. Don't waste another moment praying in hope that things will get all better. Learn how to pray in faith. Learn how to pray with results!

A Prayer Warrior’s Guide: How to Pray for People for Divine Healing

Religion & Spirituality

Cardona, James

Worship & Devotion

A young adult action packed romance adventure that will keep readers guessing as mystery after mystery unfolds.        Gabriella, teenage girl tries to discover herself in a futuristic world of genetic modification, extreme sports and new science. Oh, and there just happens to be a dimensional portal too.        This science fiction tale sizzled and sparkled with energy, ingenuity, imagination, and a wonderfully heightened sense of adventure!  --B White       Gabriella, a teenage girl who lives a simple life selling shoes in her parents clothing store, has her life turned upside down when two NuGen goons show up at their store. Shortly thereafter, her father is dead, tragically, and she finds out the entire life she had been living is a lie. They must change their name, run and hide, leaving everything behind that very night.        So starts the whirlwind adventure, a mystery set in a futuristic society, where affluent folks can have their children modified through genetic upgrades, that readers are calling "Compelling," "so good!" and a "great story that draws you in. "        Gabriella discovers that she is a surprisingly good athlete and the only "non-modified" able to compete with genetically modified super-athletes. Did she become this way because of a genetic modification experiment her father conducted? Who killed her father and why? Are they after her? (Hint: They are.)        She's offered a spot on a semi-pro farm team in Philadelphia. It's her and her mother's only escape from the dirt and dung of the shanty towns and favelas of Brazil so she takes it. But that puts her squarely in NuGen's sights. Kyle and Sebastian are NuGen liaisons to the team. Kyle is gorgeous but can he be trusted?        Reviewers are saying of this young adult, action packed, fast paced, romantic adventure, "I was completely hooked. "        Gabriella meets Smith, a researcher who worked with her father. Her mother is smitten but Gabriella doesn't trust him. What should she do? And why does it seem like he's collecting fingerprints off her glass or stray strands of her hair? Why is he so interested in her DNA?        Due to her new-found notoriety, a physicist presents her the opportunity to be the spokesperson for his new invention, the Dimensional Transport Machine. The machine allows for near instantaneous travel across the planet by entering a portal one side of the planet and exiting on another. In between is a different dimension, but there's nothing there so no worries, right? Or is there.        A tightly packed piece of work that demonstrates that this author knows his way around a story. -Robin Lynn       After entering the portal, Gabriella sees a ghost like creature who looks uncharacteristically like her dead father. Is it him? But why doesn't he behave like her father? Why does his voice sound like that? Why doesn't he hug her and love her, instead of being so distant? Who is the man in the Void?        With NuGen on her heels and her father's ominous warnings, Gabriella is on a quest to find out her true identity and solve the mystery of her dad's murder.        Part thriller, part sci-fi, and part mystery, Gabriella and Dr. Duggan's Secret Dimensional Transport Machine is suspenseful and exhilarating to read. It picks up speed as it goes along, and is impossible to put down. --Kelly       Full of action, drama, comedy, with a fair sprinkling of romance, this book will appeal to the young adult who is looking for a fast paced, edge-of-your-seat adventure full of mysteries that will keep you guessing.        Who is Gabriella? Is she modified? Is her father really her father? Or was she cooked up in a lab? If Gabriella can completely reinvent herself, casting aside her fictional past, who does she want to be? Using the machine unleashes a bizarre and entertaining series of events that helps Gabriella discover who she is and who she wants to be.

Gabriella and Dr. Duggan's Secret Dimensional Transport Machine (Book 1 of the NuGen series)

Children's Books

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Gabriella and the Curse of the Black Spot (Book 2 NuGen series)

Cardona, James Edwin

Science Fiction

Finalist, The 2014 Wishing Shelf Book Awards, Teenager Category.                        A young adult fantasy romance drama series full of the kind of zombie-filled action that will keep you turning pages and up late at night. Perfect for middle schoolers and young adults who love magic, magicians, wizards, swords and sorcery. The book is full of drama and comedy, and is the prelude to an intense romance in the following books of the series.    Bel, a graduate from the Academy of Arts and Magic, takes the final vow of celibacy, sacrificing his love for Shireen in order to be an apprentice. After that traumatic experience, Bel attempts to start his new life under a wise-cracking wizard, but everything is not what it seems.    Grab hold of the book that readers describe as "the beginning of what looks to be one of those series you can't get enough of. "    While being chosen as an apprentice is exciting for Bel, he is still hesitant. His new master is one of the most renowned wizards throughout the lands, but his two previous apprentices were killed under his watch. The mysteries surrounding each of their untimely departures from this world has left Bel skittish and insecure. And his mysterious dreams of a one-armed boy fervently warning him about something that he cannot decipher does nothing to calm his fears either.    Immediately young Bel and his magician master are thrust into an adventure when reality is torn open allowing the dead to spill out of the underworld. They must journey under the shadow of darkness to try to discover how the fabric of reality has been rent allowing the zombie horde to walk among the living. Who did it and why? Was it intentional? Can they defeat them? Can they close the rift? Can a teenager learning the ways of magic and an ancient sorcerer long past his prime stop the darkness, close the breach and save all reality? felt like I was journeying with the group into the darkness, remarkably to the point where it was practically tangible."    When zombie-like creatures start stalking the living, Bel and his magician master are faced with a twofold problem: how do you protect the living by finding the breach in reality, and how do you do find...well...anything when faced with an eternal darkness? With daylight no longer breaking through, they are forced along a dark, treacherous journey that tests the limits of their magic, an adventure leading them into the heart of danger, which may kill them all. And if they fail, all of reality may fall with them.    The book is full of swords and sorcery, but magic doesn't come easy for an apprentice. It requires resourcefulness and sacrifice for the source of all magic is the very light and life of all things.    Searching for the source of the tear in reality, magician's apprentice Bel and the wizard encounter the zombie horde time and time again. These creatures are the living dead and in constant search for human blood. Under the Shadow of Darkness is the sorcerer's and his apprentice's adventurous journey to find and attempt to close this breach so that the sun might return again, the dead will remain dead allowing the living to regain their lives once more.Bel's epic saga is a hero's journey of a young apprentice who is thrust into a fantastic battle of good and evil, dark and light on his very first day with his magician master. His quest will take them through a dark land filled with zombie like creatures.    There's great detail explaining how magic works and the rules that surround it. It's hard not to compare teenage fantasy and magic with Harry Potter, but that is where the comparison ends. It's a different take on magic where a magician doesn't have to learn how to cast spells properly, but interact with the very forces of life, coaxing them to perform the magic that he or she desires.   Jump into this new magical world full of drama, romance, action and adventure.

Under the Shadow of Darkness: book 1 of the Apprentice Series

cardona, james e

cardona, issa j

Fantasy

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