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Ever get the feeling that not everything is cool with school? Best-selling author Neal Pollack is dissatisfied with what his teenage son, Elijah, is learning in his studies. Neal wants to fill in the gaps, while Elijah just wants him to chill out a little. Together, they embark on the father-son field trip of a lifetime, which includes stops in New York's poetry-slam scene, a medical-marijuana dispensary, and a convention to discuss evolution with 1,700 biologists.

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Toby's dying, but there's nothing that can save him now. The cancer has run its course. Although his life has been short, he has no regrets, just an ungranted wish; he never got the chance to fall in love. But sometimes wishes do come true. Mark has a lust for life and when he's assigned to do community service at the hospital Toby calls home, the boys form an unbreakable bond. Could it be love?

Are you longing to liberate yourself from old patterns and habits that keep you stuck and unfulfilled? Are you yearning to be more yourself, to realize your potential, but feel thwarted by internal forces instead? It’s possible you’ve tried a number of different approaches to overcoming obstacles to greater freedom and well-being and are skeptical that anything will actually work. In this book, author Elijah Nisenboim, details how to de-program your mind so it will actually work to support your liberation rather than continue handcuffing you.

Growing up as the child of former sharecroppers in a segregated Baltimore, Elijah Cummings saw firsthand how injustice could run rampant, even in a democracy that promises fairness and equality. But with a strong support system and fiery self-discipline, Elijah utilized the momentum of the civil rights movement to overcome the obstacles of poverty and racism to effect change at a time when our country so badly needed it.

Baltimore Congressman Elijah Cummings was known for saying, “We’re better than this.” He said it in Baltimore, a city on the verge of explosion over police treatment of citizens. He said it in Congress when microphones were shut down, barring free speech. He said it when the president flaunted his power and ignored the Constitution. He said it when the president resorted to bullying, name-calling, and feeding racial divisions. We are better than this. He continued to say it until his final days last October.

Every night, from the window of his room, Danny wishes for someone to call his own. He gazes toward the horizon as the gentle glow of the moon shines overhead and wonders if there's life beyond the stars. David Lee is a dirty blonde country angel just taking life one day at a time. He's not in a rush to grow up or fall in love. But when a chance meeting happens between him and Danny, it ignites an awakening in them that only happens once in a lifetime.

Dylan is not looking for love. When his family and he are forced to move into a seedy trailer park after they lose their home to foreclosure, he has to start life over in a new town and school. It's not long before a promiscuous boy picks him to be his new best friend. They are totally different people, but when he meets Cody, a sweet southern boy from Waco, Texas, his BFF DJ gets jealous. DJ finds himself harboring feelings for Dylan.

Derrick is used to small-town Midwestern life. At 17, he's learned to adjust to about anything. But when his parents decide to move to the small town of Dale, Indiana, after the death of his grandpa, his whole world is turned upside down. Nothing can help him adjust when he meets Timothy, the sexy son of an outdoorsman shop owner. Everything in his black-and-white world suddenly has color and meaning far beyond what he ever could have imagined.

Kids are coming out as trans at younger and younger ages, which is a good thing for them. But what written resources are available to parents, teachers, and mental health professionals who need to support these children? Elijah C. Nealy, a therapist and former deputy executive director of New York City’s LGBT Community Center, and himself a trans man, has written the first-ever comprehensive guide to understanding, supporting, and welcoming trans kids, covering everything from family life to school and mental health issues, as well as much more.

Take your blogging business to the next level, and discover how you can earn a considerable amount of income from your blog.

This audiobook is all you need to break into the world of blogging and set up your own profitable blog. If all you’re simply looking to do is figure out how to start a blog and how to get things set up so you can earn passive income with your blog, then this audiobook is the one for you. If you’re a beginner and have never set up a blog before in your life, this audiobook has the information you need in order to set up your blog the right way, ensuring that you earn an income from it.

The aim of this bundle of two blogging books is to reveal the truth and set you straight on how to properly monetize a blog. The first book in this bundle will teach you how to actually build a blog and how to set up a basic monetization strategy. The second book will take you into some more advanced strategies that should really improve the level of income that your blog is producing. It will give you an edge over many other bloggers who already have their blogs monetized because most other bloggers are simply not implementing the advanced strategies that this book reveals.

Speaking Up for Each Other has 24 award-winning short stories by talented young writers. These stories are original, enjoyable, and contain a rich variety of themes and situations ranging from a helpless girl living in fear of her own family to a robot contemplating what's best for its employer.

Neal loves cheese more than anything. After a terrifying interview with a vegan doctor who warns them cheese is deadly, Neal decides to drag Elijah on a cross-country quest to prove the doctor wrong. In Vermont, they gorge at a cheese festival, learn the secrets of cheesemaking, and milk some very patient cows.

Neal is terrified for Elijah's safety in Texas, where guns are as prevalent as popcorn. They visit a gun club in San Antonio to learn how to shoot responsibly, interview an anti-campus carry activist about how to protest guns using sex toys, and talk to a parent who lost her son to gun violence. But Elijah still thinks guns are cool. 

When a controversy erupts at the Texas State Board Of Education over a racist anti-Mexican textbook, Neal becomes determined to expose Elijah to as much Mexican culture as possible. They interview an undocumented valedictorian and a Mexican-American history professor. And Houston-based comedy rapper Chingo Bling calls in to teach Elijah some special vocabulary words. 

Annoyed at the hopelessly dated anti-drug program at his 13-year-old son Elijah's Texas public school, writer Neal Pollack decides to take Elijah to Colorado, for a more modern drug education. There, Elijah meets a marijuana journalist and a family of medical-marijuana activists, who teach him that there's more to learn about drugs than "just say no."

Elijah gets his first driving lesson from Neal, who is a professional automotive journalist. This comprehensive Driver's Ed curriculum includes talking to a vintage-car fanatic about classic Volkswagen Beetles, and learning about the car of the future from an electric-car advocate. If only they could teach Elijah how to steer. 

Elijah, a comic-book fan, interviews Sana Amanat, the creative director of Marvel Comics, about being a "Muslim-American super hero." And John Hodgman stops by to discuss his doomed plans to play a super villain in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

In writer Neal Pollack’s opinion, the sex ed curriculum at his son's school has…shortcomings. In this episode, Neal sends Elijah to a sex ed program offered by a local church--one that involves practice midnight condom purchases, and lots and lots of lube.