New Releases by Katie Davis

Leave behind your anxious thoughts and embrace a steady confidence that you are never beyond the reach of God’s loving hand, from the bestselling author of Kisses from Katie. “Safe All Along will help you break the cycle of what-if worries and experience the peace of God in new ways.”—Jennie Allen, New York Times bestselling author of Get Out of Your Head As a missionary, wife, and mom of fifteen, Katie Davis Majors knows how hard it can be to receive God’s peace instead of giving in to fear and worry. Family emergencies, unexpected life-shifting events, and the busy rhythms of family life have at times left her reeling. In Safe All Along, Katie offers reflections and stories from around the world and from her own kitchen table about her personal journey toward living from a place of surrendered trust. Every chapter leads us deep into Scripture as we learn what it looks like to break free from anxiety and take hold of peace. Rich in biblical explorations of lament and praise, forgiveness and hope, service and surrender, Safe All Along asks, What practical choices can we make to experience the peace Jesus promised amid disappointment and uncertainty? How can we live with joy and confidence even when we’re pulled into the rapids of life? Our God has promised us a peace that transcends all understanding. And we can accept His promise, trusting that in Him we are safe all along.

The bestselling author of Kisses from Katie takes you on a journey through Scripture to discover more about who God is and how much He loves you, in 52 weeks of power-packed devotional readings. In a world of uncertainty, we can find peace in knowing that the God who carried His people through the desert, the God who calmed the seas, the God who promised His presence, is still our God today. In this unique five-day-a-week devotional, featuring a flexible format that adapts to your schedule, Katie Davis Majors invites you into a yearlong experience of immersing yourself in the truth of who God is. As Katie has discovered, the more time we spend understanding the richness, beauty, and kindness of God, the more quickly our hearts turn toward Him with our needs and our secrets, our hurts and our longings. Our Faithful God Devotional will help you draw daily closer to the One who sees you, who loves you, and who holds each moment in His hands.

How children engage with technology at each stage of development, from toddler to twentysomething, and how they can best be supported. What happens to the little ones, the tweens, and the teenagers, when technology—ubiquitous in the world they inhabit—becomes a critical part of their lives? This timely book Technology''s Child brings much-needed clarity to what we know about technology’s role in child development. Better yet, it provides guidance on how to use what we know to help children of all ages make the most of their digital experiences. From toddlers who are exploring their immediate environment to twentysomethings who are exploring their place in society, technology inevitably and profoundly affects their development. Drawing on her expertise in developmental science and design research, Katie Davis describes what happens when child development and technology design interact, and how this interaction is complicated by children’s individual characteristics and social and cultural contexts. Critically, she explains how a self-directed experience of technology—one initiated, sustained, and ended voluntarily—supports healthy child development, especially when it takes place within the context of community support. Children’s experiences with technology—their “screen time” and digital social relationships—have become an inescapable aspect of growing up. This book, for the first time, identifies the qualitative distinctions between different ages and stages of this engagement, and offers invaluable guidance for parents and teachers navigating the digital landscape, and for technology designers charting the way.

To move on from her past, an extraordinary girl must tear down the walls she''s built to protect herself. Mackenzie Douglas seems to have it all: good looks, a great boyfriend, a passion for biking, and a little sister who worships her. But under the veneer of perfection are the emotional scars of her childhood. Though her memories have faded with time, the wounds on Mac''s subconscious remain. As Mac focuses on a trip she''s always wanted to take, she vows to never be a victim again. But as the adventure finally gets underway, memories Mac buried long ago start to claw their way back to the surface.To break a cycle that needs to be broken, Mac must summon her strength and risk shattering the world she has so carefully built, exposing hidden secrets, long-told lies, and a horrific crime.

An in-depth examination of the novel ways young people support and learn from each other though participation in online fanfiction communities. Over the past twenty years, amateur fanfiction writers have published an astonishing amount of fiction in online repositories. More than 1.5 million enthusiastic fanfiction writers—primarily young people in their teens and twenties—have contributed nearly seven million stories and more than 176 million reviews to a single online site, Fanfiction.net. In this book, Cecilia Aragon and Katie Davis provide an in-depth examination of fanfiction writers and fanfiction repositories, finding that these sites are not shallow agglomerations and regurgitations of pop culture but rather online spaces for sophisticated and informal learning. Through their participation in online fanfiction communities, young people find ways to support and learn from one another. Aragon and Davis term this novel system of interactive advice and instruction distributed mentoring, and describe its seven attributes, each of which is supported by an aspect of networked technologies: aggregation, accretion, acceleration, abundance, availability, asynchronicity, and affect. Employing an innovative combination of qualitative and quantitative analyses, they provide an in-depth ethnography, reporting on a nine-month study of three fanfiction sites, and offer a quantitative analysis of lexical diversity in the 61.5 billion words on the Fanfiction.net site. Going beyond fandom, Aragon and Davis consider how distributed mentoring could improve not only other online learning platforms but also formal writing instruction in schools.

Katie ist 16, als sie ein Missionswerk für Waisenkinder in Uganda gründet. Ihr Vertrauen auf Gott steht. Sie verschenkt alles, auch ihr Mutterherz: 14 Kinder hat sie adoptiert. Was für eine Glaubensheldin! Doch Großfamilie ist nicht nur Zuckerschlecken. Und so wird Katies Glaube auf die Probe gestellt. Passt ein Mann in ihr Leben? Muss sie eine ihrer Töchter aufgeben? Meint es Gott wirklich gut mit ihr?

Throughout my life, it has been my desire to grow and mature as stately and perfected as tall cotton. This book is a memoirs of my life from the humble beginnings of my family''s spiritual discipline throughout the Jim Crow South and beyond. As a pastor''s daughter, the disciplined prayer and work ethics from both my mother and father helped to nuture my growth and development through educational, professional, and spiritual pursuits. Finally, the phenomenial embrace of Christ, Himself, transformed my life.May your life be as blessed by our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ, as mine has been.Katie C. Davis, Ph.D.

New York Times bestseller How do you hold on to hope when you don’t get the ending you asked for? When Katie Davis Majors moved to Uganda, accidentally founded a booming organization, and later became the mother of thirteen girls through the miracle of adoption, she determined to weave her life together with the people she desired to serve. But joy often gave way to sorrow as she invested her heart fully in walking alongside people in the grip of poverty, addiction, desperation, and disease. After unexpected tragedy shook her family, for the first time Katie began to wonder, Is God really good? Does He really love us? When she turned to Him with her questions, God spoke truth to her heart and drew her even deeper into relationship with Him. Daring to Hope is an invitation to cling to the God of the impossible—the God who whispers His love to us in the quiet, in the mundane, when our prayers are not answered the way we want or the miracle doesn’t come. It’s about a mother discovering the extraordinary strength it takes to be ordinary. It’s about choosing faith no matter the circumstance and about encountering God’s goodness in the least expected places. Though your heartaches and dreams may take a different shape, you will find your own questions echoed in these pages. You’ll be reminded of the gifts of joy in the midst of sorrow. And you’ll hear God’s whisper: Hold on to hope. I will meet you here.

Young people worldwide are participating in ever-increasing numbers in online fan communities. Far from mere shallow repositories of pop culture, these sites are accumulating significant evidence that sophisticated informal learning is taking place online in novel and unexpected ways. In order to understand and analyze in more detail how learning might be occurring, we conducted an in-depth nine-month ethnographic investigation of online fanfiction communities, including participant observation and fanfiction author interviews. Our observations led to the development of a theory we term distributed mentoring, which we present in detail in this paper. Distributed mentoring exemplifies one instance of how networked technology affords new extensions of behaviors that were previously bounded by time and space. Distributed mentoring holds potential for application beyond the spontaneous mentoring observed in this investigation and may help students receive diverse, thoughtful feedback in formal learning environments as well.

In this chapter, the authors explore the role that networked platforms play in identity development during emerging adulthood. They use the stories of two youth to highlight dominant themes from existing research and to examine the developmental implications of forming one''s identity in a networked era. The inquiry is theoretically informed by the work of the psychologist Erik Erikson, who depicted identity development as a process of exploration that ultimately results in a sense of personal continuity and coherence. The authors consider what insights this theory -- formulated in the mid-twentieth century -- has to offer in a digital world. The chapter concludes with a discussion of the practical implications relating to education, policy, and the design of new technologies.

Este livro convida os leitores a uma jornada de amor incondicional. Katie, uma jovem carismática e expressiva, foi para Uganda numa breve missão durante as férias de Natal, e sua vida virou do avesso. Ela se sentiu tão tocada pelo povo e pelas necessidades desse país, que compreendeu que seu destino era voltar para lá e cuidar daquelas pessoas. Katie está no processo de adoção de treze crianças em Uganda, e estabeleceu um centro de cuidados chamado Amazima, que alimenta e coloca centenas de crianças nas escolas, além de lhes prover ensinamentos bíblicos. Você vai chorar e rir com Katie enquanto ela procura atender ao seu chamado interior.

Everyone who is anyone in the barnyard is going to be at the party. But one blue ant didn''t get his invitation. How could his friends have forgotten him? Or have they? You are cordially invited to join this bunch of animals for the wildest shindig of the year!

“I giovani di quest’epoca non solo sono immersi nelle app, ma sono giunti a vedere il mondo come un insieme di app e le loro stesse vite come una serie ordinata di app – o forse, in molti casi, come un’unica app che funziona dalla culla alla tomba.”

No es arriesgado afirmar que la generación actual de jóvenes está profundamente (por no decir totalmente) inmersa en los medios digitales. Los profesores Howard Gardner y Katie Davis describen a los jóvenes de hoy como «La generación APP», y en este libro deslumbrante estudian qué significa ser «app dependiente» frente a ser «app competente» y cómo la vida de esta generación difiere de la vida anterior a la era digital. Gardner y Davis abordan tres áreas cruciales de la vida de los adolescentes, como son la identidad, la intimidad y la imaginación. Gracias a sus investigaciones pioneras, complementadas con entrevistas a jóvenes y a grupos de estudio de sus colaboradores, así como a una insólita comparación de las producciones artísticas de los jóvenes antes y después de la era digital, los autores desvelan los inconvenientes de las aplicaciones, que difuminan el sentimiento de identidad, fomentan las relaciones superficiales con los demás y entorpecen la imaginación creativa. Por otra parte, las ventajas de las aplicaciones no dejan de sorprendernos, pues pueden fomentar un fuerte sentimiento de identidad, propiciar las relaciones profundas y estimulan la creatividad. Para Gardner y Davis, el reto consiste en aventurarse a utilizar las apps más allá de aquello para lo que han sido diseñadas. Asimismo, indican que el potencial de las apps puede ser un trampolín para aumentar nuestra creatividad y nuestras aspiraciones.

Schetst een beeld van de ''app-generatie'' en hoe hun leven verschilt van het leven voor het digitale tijdperk en de goede en slechte kanten van de hedendaagse technologie.

Katie was a normal American teenager when she decided to explore the possibility of voluntary work overseas. She temporarily ''quit life'' to serve in Uganda for a year before going to college. However, returning to ''normal'' became impossible and Katie ''quit life'' - college, designer clothes, her little yellow convertible and her boyfriend - for good, remaining in Uganda. In the early days she felt as though she were trying to empty the ocean with an eyedropper, but has learnt that she is not called to change the world in itself, but to change the world for one person at a time. By the age of 22 Katie had adopted 14 girls and founded Amizima Ministries which currently has sponsors for over 600 children and a feeding program for Uganda''s poorest citizens - so it is no wonder she feels Jesus wrecked her life, shattered it to pieces, and put it back together making it more beautiful than it was before.

This summer we have 5 new books that will fit perfectly into your summer plans! Take a look inside for excerpts from 5 books! The Great Hamster Massacre by Katie Davies Seven Sorcerers by Caro King Cupcake Diaries: Katie and the Cupcake Cure by Coco Simon You’re Invited to a Creepover: Truth or Dare by P.J. Night Cheer!: Confessions of a Wannabe Cheerleader by Zoe Evans

Little Chicken is tired of being told what to do by Big Chicken, but when they become separated he misses all of the clucking.

All her life, Addy''s heard stories about the McMahon family curse. Her mom says the stories are just jokes, but Addy isn''t so sure. In fact, she''s got evidence. Like the fact that her archenemy saw Addy shopping for a training bra with her mom. Or that Jonathan, her mom''s g-ross boyfriend, is moving into the guest room. If only Addy could escape into the cartoon world of her journal, or hang out with her best friend, Jackie. The only problem is—and this is probably because of the curse—Jackie is now Addy''s ex-best friend since one particular comic from her journal was somehow shown to the entire school. If only Addy could prove to Jackie that it wasn''t her fault. It had to be that curse. Didn''t it?

Encouraged by Eckhart Tolle, Awake Joy is a unique and comprehensive guide to awakening and enlightenment. It points to the radiant joy that is beyond the thinking mind, the separate sense of self, its idea of separation and identification with form. Katie Davis takes the mind-identified reader through their personal growth strategies to awakening. She then deepens to Self-discovery or what we might call the realization of the Heart. The book then shifts to conscious living by embracing humanity''s diversity and the earth as none other than the Essence. The journey requires presence, not practices, although the book offers experiments and meditations to free the ego. This book is designed to be your companion throughout your life''s journey to true and lasting fulfillment. It will be a trusted resource again and again. This A-Z handbook stands free of concepts and points pragmatically for those who are ready to surrender suffering for themselves, their families, the schools and the world

Publisher Description

The Beginning of the Tumbling is a book of poetry, which I have been working on for the past three years. It consists of many poems, which were revised continuously and well thought out for quite some time. These chosen poems are just the beginning of so much I want to say and expand upon. I focus on mental health, self exploration, family issues, well-being, and childhood memories. It is a collection of outpourings, but not in random thoughts or ranting. I have worked very hard to make these poems into aspects people want to read, and make them look into themselves. I know many people can even relate to much of what I write about through the different range of poems. Working through this book has made me see I have so much to say to that others will completely enjoy as their own realizations and thoughts come into light. The Beginning of the Tumbling is a book of work I am very proud of because of the selected prose, style, and nature I choose to write in; it is very reader-friendly. I will always continue the tumbling, exposing, and revelations. From the Author I am a freelance writer and hoping to become an established author, and feel at this time that self-publishing is the way to go. I have experienced many different kinds of aspects, events, and drastic life-altering things throughout my life. I feel my works really bring this across. I really want my writing to be thought as relative and tangible in many different peoples'' lives. Excerpts

Convinced that her parents are having a party after she goes to bed, a little girl devises several plans to find out what she''s missing.

Little ones will love to discover who hoots--and who doesn''t.

Lists creatures that hop, fly, slither, swim, and crawl, as well as some others that don''t.