Best Selling Books by Ray Lewis

The legendary Baltimore Ravens linebacker assesses the state of football while recounting his troubled youth, his rise to athletic fame, and the allegations that threatened his NFL career.

When they went to my father to see if he wanted to raise his twelve-year-old son he couldn’t pass the simple test of not having needles strewn all over the floor. The words are sometimes harsh and the visualizations raw, but so is reality for Jesse-Ray Lewis. He grew up in Appalachia surrounded by violence, drug dealing, and addiction. I held her for hours. There was foam at her mouth and blood as I cradled her. I am the one who closed her eyes. He entered foster care at age 12 and aged out of the system in 2016 at age 18. I thought, I want that. I want to live without walking from nowhere to nowhere. His poems rise up out of that shattered childhood as a quest for answers and a search for a new beginning. Hillbilly drug baby? Maybe that’s who I came out as. But it’s not who I want to be. In these poems, you see a young man on a precipice, wooed by drugs and forgetfulness, but longing for something bigger and better. I find a single droplet of hope and choke on it. " Unafraid, he probes our deepest fears---what would it be like to live that life? To plumb the depths of hell?" - Saundra Kelley, author of Southern Appalachian Storytellers

An accessible introduction to some of the most important ideas developed in Plato''s Symposium.

A critical discussion of the author, his work and beliefs.

Soil characteristics and classification; Soil moisture, drainage, and irrigation; Organic matter, microorganisms, and soil structure; Nitrogen problems and rotation; Fitting crops to the soils; Water conservation and erosion control; Land capability and soil management; Tillage and Planting Methods; Soil testing; Tissue testing; Plant symptoms of nutrient deficiency; Soil acidity and liming; Plant nutrients and fertilizers; Cropping Systems and management practices for the north central state including kentucky; Cropping systems and fertility practices for the southern states; Crooping systems and fertility practices for the southwest; Soil management on the great plains; Soil management in florida and adjoining flatwoods; Soil management in the northeastern states. Organic soil management. Garden soil management. Greenhouse soil management. Turf soil management. Forest Soil management.

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This memoir revisits a Bible-based boyhood in Hannibal Missouri, or "America''s Hometown," as the tourist brochures proclaim. Hale-cheeked meanderings along the Mississippi River give way to long sleepless nights when the author falls for a girl who was voted the town''s official "Becky Thatcher" representative. Her dimples and sunny disposition hide a dark past: she had been orphaned at a young age in Germany when her dad was responsible for the death of her mother, and her name was changed by her adoptive parents in America. The author''s father is an itinerant preacher and the young couple quickly find themselves in violation of the most cherished rules of family, church, and state.

Early 90''s a grandmothers love for her kids, causes her to teach grandson what a staggering faith in God can do. The wild out street life of drugs, fast money and murder is no match to a God given purpose. A young boy took what he learned from a Queen pin mother, absent dad and a praying GG, and was able to touch souls from down South to South Central Los Angeles. But being surrounded by people with a fear of dying to the streets caused a life of debt to many. They only know how to defend themselves through the flesh. The fear of dying to fleshly desires will cause them to become slaves to the world, forever in debt. Never owning only owing. David wants to teach them to fight demons with spiritual authority. He staggered not at the promise of God.