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Fourteen-year-old Raspberry Hill is still struggling to find security in her life. More than anything, she wants a father who will love and protect her, like Zora's dad. When her mother is attacked, Raspberry does the unthinkable: she steals money from Zora, her best friend. It's only when her thieving, drug-addicted father returns that Raspberry begins to wonder whether betraying Zora will cost her more than she can ever repay. Is Raspberry destined to follow in her father's footsteps? Raspberry is certain . . . something's got to change..
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You are a good person. You are one of the 84 million Americans who volunteer with a charity You are part of a national donor pool that contributes nearly $200 billion to good causes every year. But you wonder: Why don't your efforts seem to make a difference?

Fifteen years ago, Robert Egger asked himself this same question as he reluctantly climbed aboard a food service truck for a night of volunteering to help serve meals to the homeless. He wondered why there were still people waiting in line for soup in this day and age. Where were the drug counselors, the job trainers, and the support team to help these men and women get off the streets? Why were volunteers buying supplies from grocery stores when restaurants were throwing away unused fresh food every night? Why had politicians, citizens, and local businesses allowed charity to become an end in itself? Why wasn't there an efficient way to solve the problem?

Robert knew there had to be a better way. In 1989, he started the D.C. Central Kitchen by collecting unused food from local restaurants, caterers, and hotels and bringing it back to a central location where hot, nutritious meals were prepared and distributed to agencies around the city. Since then, the D.C. Central Kitchen has been named one of President Bush Sr.'s Thousand Points of Light and has become one of the most respected and emulated nonprofit agencies in the world, producing and distributing more than 4,000 meals a day. Its highly successful 12-week job-training program equips former homeless transients and drug addicts with culinary and life skills to gain employment in the restaurant business.

In Begging for Change, Robert Egger looks back on his experience and exposes the startling lack of logic, waste, and ineffectiveness he has encountered during his years in the nonprofit sector, and calls for reform of this $800 billion industry from the inside out. In his entertaining and inimitable way, he weaves stories from his days in music, when he encountered legends such as Sarah Vaughan, Mel Torme, and Iggy Pop, together with stories from his experiences in the hunger movement -- and recently as volunteer interim director to help clean up the beleaguered United Way National Capital Area. He asks for nonprofits to be more innovative and results-driven, for corporate and nonprofit leaders to be more focused and responsible, and for citizens who contribute their time and money to be smarter and more demanding of nonprofits and what they provide in return. Robert's appeal to common sense will resonate with readers who are tired of hearing the same nonprofit fund-raising appeals and pity-based messages. Instead of asking the "who" and "what" of giving, he leads the way in asking the "how" and "why" in order to move beyond our 19th-century concept of charity, and usher in a 21st-century model of change and reform for nonprofits.

Enlightening and provocative, engaging and moving, this book is essential reading for nonprofit managers, corporate leaders, and, most of all, any citizen who has ever cared enough to give of themselves to a worthy cause.

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Working Mom's Fast & Easy Family Cookbook is two amazing books in one: Working Mom's Fast & Easy Kid-Friendly Meals and Working Mom's Fast & Easy One-Pot Cooking. Together they feature nearly 300 delicious (and healthy!) kid-approved meals, all using a minimum of cookware, and many that can be on the table in under thirty minutes. The family appetite will be tastily nourished and the clean-up squad will be pleased as well. And whoever's cooking will find the handy plan-ahead, organizing, and equipment tips invaluable to making every meal of the day a satisfying snap..
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One could argue that the war novel is an essentially timeless genre. Weapons are subject to long and increasingly lethal refinement--but from Homer's day to our own, the fear, fury, remorse, and anguish experienced on the battlefield have hardly changed a whit. Still, the stories told by Vietnam-generation novelists may differ in the telling. A writer like Alfredo Vea draws on a myriad of cultural and literary traditions to evoke the peculiar terrors of Vietnam--while invariably reflecting the outsider status of the soldiers who fought in the conflict. And for both of these reasons, his third novel, Gods Go Begging, is a remarkable work.

Vea begins his story in present-day San Francisco. The protagonist, Jesse Pasadoble, is a former Army sergeant who's now made a name for himself as a criminal defense attorney. Haunted by wartime memories, Pasadoble has found a way to channel his anguish: his impoverished clients remind him of his suffering comrades, and he seeks a compensatory justice for what he and his platoon lost.

Jesse hated death. He did not fear it, but he hated it with all of his heart and soul. A year and a half of incredible fear in the highlands of Vietnam had been transformed into an almost anguished love the living, intact moment, the moment that can never be possessed. Like many of the men who have witnessed the best and worst in themselves, who have been given a glimpse of the end of their lives at a very young age, he had lost the power to be lonely. The power had been replaced by something else: a soul sickness; a hunger for beauty, but only at a distance. Though he could not love his own life and the things within it, Jesse hated death.

His newest client is a 12-year-old boy, a child of the projects who's been charged with the brutal murder of two women. As the case unfolds, the barriers between past and present, America and Vietnam, erode and finally disappear. Meanwhile, Vea expertly marries the magical realism of Gabriel García Márquez to his visceral accounts of battle. Indeed, whether we measure by the breadth of his imagination, the strength of his characters, or the hallucinatory power of his prose, there seems to be no novelistic terrain that Vea can't conquer. A chronicle of defeat and suffering, Gods Go Begging represents a paradoxical victory for the author--and, of course, for the reader. --Ted Leventhal.
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After a long day at the office or at home with the kids, the next-to-the-last thing you want is to fix a time-consuming meal. And the last thing you want is to hear your kids complain about what you've cooked! To the rescue are these 175-plus breakfast, lunch-box, and dinner recipe winners All these recipes are easy to prepare, and clean-up afterwards is a snap. From contemporary to classic, vegetarian to international, these dishes will please you, Dad, and especially the kids.

You'll find suggestions for entrées you cook once and serve for three more healthful meals, as well as recipes your kids can make. Each recipe lists a preparation time—from 5 to 15 minutes—and a baking time. Give your kids food they'll love—and yourself the time you crave—with Working Mom's Fast & Easy Kid-Friendly Meals!

Your kids will flip for dishes such as:

• Turkey-Berry Sandwich Treats
Chicken Confetti Pitas
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About the Author

Elise Griffith is a freelance writer, a food counselor, and Ph.D. candidate in nutrition, and the author of Busy Mom's Lowfat Cookbook and Every Child Is a Genius (both from Prima). She makes kid-friendly meals for her two children and husband..
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This book offers a new theory of begging the question as an informal fallacy, within a pragmatic framework of reasoned dialogue as a normative theory of critical argumentation. The fallacy of begging the question is analyzed as a systematic tactic to evade fulfillment of a legitimate burden of proof by the proponent of an argument. The technique uses a circular structure of argument to block the further progress of dialogue and, in particular, the capability of the respondent to ask legitimate critical questions in reply to the argument. Walton analyzes the concept of burden of proof in argument, and provides chapters on the use of argument diagramming as a technique of argument reconstruction. This powerful method of argument analysis developed therein is then applied to more than 100 case studies of circular argumentation where the charge of begging the question is or has been thought to be an appropriate criticism. Throughout this work, Walton throws light on the relationship between the problem of circular reasoning and broader issues in the critical analysis of argumentation. Ground-breaking use is made of the pragmatic theory of argument as interactive dialogue. Rules for several kinds of dialogue framework provide standards of good reasoning to validate or to refute the criticism that a particular argument begs the question. This book is directed to students and professionals in the fields of speech communication, philosophy, linguistics, logic, dispute mediation, and education..
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Inspectors DeKok & Vledder, of the Amsterdam Municipal Police, are present at a baptism, because one of the principals has been receiving death threats & the baby is to be kidnapped. When the Inspectors are about to introduce themselves to the family, a woman faints. It is the beginning of a number of almost gothic events. This 17th book in the popular European police detective series is another tension-filled report about the search for the truth. DeKok is a careful, compassionate policeman in the tradition of Maigret. Translated from the Dutch edition..
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52 fresh ideas for rocking the mike.

Whether your goal is clinching the sale, advancing your career, or making the perfect wedding toast, this guide will have the words tripping off your tongue...with impact and ease. Barry Gibbons's brilliant ideas for hooking listeners include:

- Idea #7: Sermons and snippets: Why length matters
- Idea #32: Come in, Houston: Mastering audio-visual equipment
- Idea #41: Uh-oh!: Expecting the unexpected
- Idea #42: And so, in conclusion: The art of endings.
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Verbuggen, a wealthy banker has been receiving letters that hint at the kidnapping of his only grandchild. The mystery unfolds in old Western Church during the child's baptism. Vebruggen has arranged for DeKik to be one of the spectators. After the ceremony, a woman's fainting sets off an almost gothic chain of events for DeKik to sort through..
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