The Little Dragon Who Shared Her Sparkles

A gentle, heartwarming picture book about kindness, generosity, and the quiet power of sharing, with a purpose beyond the page. When a little dragon discovers that her sparkles bring joy to others, she learns that giving doesn’t make her light smaller; it makes the world brighter. Through simple moments and tender illustrations, this story shows young readers that sharing is not about losing what we have, but about letting goodness grow.

All proceeds from this book are dedicated to the Rose Blackwell College Fund, which supports education and opportunity through its nonprofit mission. The Little Dragon Who Shared Her Sparkles is perfect for read-aloud time, encouraging empathy, cooperation, and emotional generosity, while turning every shared story into a shared future.

Author: J.C. Blackwell

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The Messenger at the Center

The Messenger at the Center is a restrained, clear-eyed biography of a life that quietly and decisively reordered the world. Without spectacle or embellishment, it traces the emergence of a man whose presence reshaped belief, law, character, and human orientation not through force or conquest, but through moral gravity, discipline, and unwavering clarity of purpose. Simple Seerah, Short Sirah of the Prophet ﷺ. This book does not approach its subject as legend or distant sanctity. It places him at the center of his world as he lived it: a husband, a neighbor, a leader, a teacher, and a servant of the Divine, moving through loss, resistance, patience, and responsibility. His message is presented not as an abstraction, but as something embodied, tested by pressure, refined by hardship, and carried with consistency across changing circumstances. Written in sober, accessible language, this short biography focuses on meaning rather than excess detail, allowing the weight of events and choices to speak for themselves. It is intended for readers seeking understanding rather than devotion, clarity rather than ornament, and context rather than argument. The Messenger at the Center offers a concise yet grounded account of a life whose influence continues to shape how millions understand faith, justice, restraint, and human dignity, and why that life still stands at the center of the world it reordered.

Author: Gus Kazem

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Prophetic Masculinity

Prophetic Masculinity: Strength Shaped by the Divine. This book is not a defense of masculinity, nor an argument against its modern critics. It is a reconstruction. Drawing directly from the live pattern of the Prophets and their companions, it restores masculinity as a discipline of responsibility rather than a performance of power. Across fifteen chapters, the book dismantles prevailing models of manhood shaped by reaction, desire, validation, dominance, and visibility. In their place, it presents a prophetic framework grounded in obedience, restraint, patience, mercy, and accountability before God. Masculinity here is not discovered through debate or optimized through appetite, but formed under command and proven through what a man is willing to refuse, carry, and answer for when no one is watching. The text moves deliberately from false measures to divine forming and finally to prophetic embodiment, tracing how youth is disciplined before authority is entrusted, how strength is refined through waiting, how power is restrained by mercy, and how manhood is completed in solitary accountability before the Lord. Key concepts such as rijāl, shabāb, and futuwwa are translated into clear moral language without dilution, abstraction, or cultural apology. This is not a motivational book, a cultural critique, or a philosophical treatise.

Author: Gus Kazem

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The Chains Did Not Win: Omar ibn Said

This is a book about a man carried farther than his name was meant to go. Omar ibn Said was born into order. He was trained in sacred learning, shaped by discipline, memory, and prayer in the lands of West Africa. He did not wander into history. He was seized by it. Taken by force, carried across the ocean, and sold into a world that could not read him, he lived the greater part of his life under ownership, named, renamed, watched, and misunderstood. What survived him is brief. What this book carries is careful. The Chains Did Not Win traces Omar ibn Said’s life from formation to fracture, from capture to captivity, from silence to writing. It follows the movement of a single life through systems designed to erase interior worlds, and records how faith, memory, and discipline endured without permission. This is not a story of spectacle or triumph. It does not soften bondage into metaphor or turn suffering into instruction. It stays with what was lived: hunger, distance, prayer; kindness that did not grant freedom; language carried inward when speech became dangerous. This book is written with restraint. History appears jagged and incomplete, as it was. Images are documentary, not illustrative. Meaning emerges through consequence rather than explanation. Where the record speaks, it is followed closely. Where it falls silent, care replaces invention. At the center of the book is a man who wrote late in life, apologizing for weak hands and fading sight, yet determined to leave a record. His Arabic manuscript, preserved today, is not a confession or a plea. It is a witness. Through it, and through the life that shaped it, this book attends to a truth often overlooked: that enslavement did not succeed in possessing the interior life of those it claimed.

Author: Gus Kazem

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