New Releases by Kathy Harrison

The next severe storm, power outage, or financial meltdown could hit at any time. Having a household contingency plan and being part of a strong, resilient community could mean the difference between life and death. This friendly and highly accessible guide introduces the most important, practical steps your whole family can take to ensure survival in short- or long-term emergencies. The critical information is presented in 40 achievable tasks, ranging from simpler ones such as creating a preparedness notebook and repackaging store-bought food for storage to more involved preparations like learning to collect rainwater and building a solar oven.

The enemy resides in a space that was created for a friend to live; a place in your soul that was reserved for someone special, but is now crowded by someone else. You don''t recognize him because he has been there so long and you''ve grown accustomed to him; you''ve even made excuses for his presence. You used to try to get rid of him, but after many failed attempts at evicting him, you soon decided that his presence wasn''t as exhausting as the efforts to remove him. So he remains, and even though it is uncomfortable to have him there, he is at least familiar. He is someone you know very well-or so you think. Kathy Booker is the founder and CEO of PREVAIL, a regional intercessory prayer ministry in the Cleveland Ohio metropolitan area. She is also an Associate Minister at the Liberty Hill Baptist Church. Her call to ministry is in the areas of teaching, preaching, prophetic intercession and healing. Additionally, Kathy is an educational consultant providing assistance and support to teachers in the public and charter school arenas. She founded a tutoring program where students are taught to read via video conferencing. Teaching students to read is one of her passions. Kathy is the wife of Harold S. Booker I and they have four adult children; Brittany (William Kennedy), Ashley, Stafford and Carmen. They have one adorable grandchild, Miyonne Amari Kennedy. Kathy is a native of Port Allen, Louisiana."

If disaster strikes and public services are limited, you want to know that your family will be taken care of. Learn how to inventory and rotate your food supply, pack an evacuation kit, maintain communication with loved ones, and much more. You’ll soon gain the ingenuity and resourcefulness to get your family through even the most unfortunate circumstances.

This story of one little girl''s journey through our foster-care system forms an intimate portrait of foster care in America and the children whose lives are forever shaped by it. Augusten Burroughs called Kathy Harrison''s memoir Another Place at the Table a "riveting and profoundly moving story of a hero, disguised as an everyday woman." In One Small Boat, Harrison tells the story of one little girl who arrived on her doorstep, and describes how caring for this child was an experience that challenged everything she thought she knew about foster-care parenting and the needs of the children she shelters. Daisy was five when she arrived in Harrison''s bustling home. Mother of three children by birth and three by adoption, and with a handful of foster kids always coming and going, Harrison had ten children under her roof at any given time. But Daisy was in many ways unique. Daisy''s birth mother wasn''t poor, uneducated, or drug addicted. She simply couldn''t bring herself to take care of her little girl, and the effects on the child were heartrending. Daisy was unwilling to eat—even frightened of it—and seemed to have a severe speech impediment. After two weeks in Kathy''s loving home, however, Daisy began to thrive. What had happened to her? And how can a foster-care parent give back all that has been taken from a child like Daisy—knowing that she might leave one day very soon? Harrison had seen many children pass through her doors, but this one touched her in a way she didn''t immediately understand. One Small Boat will be of deep interest to anyone who has nurtured and cared for a child or anyone interested in the intricate web that is our social welfare system.

The startling and ultimately uplifting narrative of one woman''s thirteen-year experience as a foster parent. For more than a decade, Kathy Harrison has sheltered a shifting cast of troubled youngsters-the offspring of prostitutes and addicts; the sons and daughters of abusers; and teenage parents who aren''t equipped for parenthood. All this, in addition to raising her three biological sons and two adopted daughters. What would motivate someone to give herself over to constant, largely uncompensated chaos? For Harrison, the answer is easy. Another Place at the Table is the story of life at our social services'' front lines, centered on three children who, when they come together in Harrison''s home, nearly destroy it. It is the frank first-person story of a woman whose compassionate best intentions for a child are sometimes all that stand between violence and redemption.