Virtuoso by Cornelius Lee Thomas Music and poetry are a wonderful journey for Cornelius Lee Thomas. People deserve fairness – it’s good to make sure that you are fair and to convince your mate to do the same thing in return. The result will be a love you can enjoy divinely. This book contains poems and songs. Some of the pieces describe experiencing pain, overcoming it, and the joy that comes from that triumph. The title piece, “Virtuoso,” describes both people being very good at love. You will enjoy Virtuoso.
Your Ultimate Purpose By: Lee Thomas Lee Thomas believes it is every believer’s personal responsibility to obey the great commission (Matthew 28: 18-20).
True business stories that are entertaining to read, offering unique insights into being an entrepreneur. A must-read for the seasoned business operator and person just starting their entrepreneurial career. Each story, besides being entertaining, has practical lessons learned by the business owner which can be directly applied to everyday business ownership situations. Contains practical business tips on how to acquire, manage and sell a business. As a bonus, the appendix contains some valuable management "how to do it" information, tools and forms.
Tell me a story. A panicked call from his ex-wife summons Ken Nicholson back to New Orleans, where his son has been attacked and left for dead. While his child's life hangs in the balance, Ken endures visions connected to a terrifying time from his past. As a teenager, he witnessed the brutal deaths of several young men, an act orchestrated by his benefactor, Travis Brugier. Following the shocking spectacle, Brugier kills himself before Ken's eyes. Now, decades later, someone wants Ken to remember, wants Ken to return to those violent days. With the lives of his estranged family and his lover, David, threatened, Ken has no choice but to follow his nightmares back to their origin. There he will battle a corrupt and powerful being that believes every life is a story to be captured and rewritten, a being that doesn't believe in happy endings. Welcome back to Wonderland.
When Grandma speak you'd better listen. She has much to share from her book of exciting adventures that will knock your shoes off and delight your soul. She will give you that look to let you know that what is said will rock you, sock you as you bebop like a rock star. Get ready to be moved like never before with these amazing stories from Grandma
1932: Fortune and celebrity are years behind Butch Cardinal. Once a world-class wrestler, Cardinal now serves as hired muscle for a second-rate Chicago mobster. While collecting a parcel from a gangland lowlife, Cardinal witnesses the man's murder. Though wounded, he escapes the killers and flees into the night carrying the package. In it is a necklace with a metal pendant. Bent and scratched, the thing looks like a piece of junk, but the trinket is the reason a man died. It's the reason a lot of people will die. Finding shelter with another shamed wrestler in New Orleans, Cardinal embarks on search for answers that will reveal a world of metallic charms and weapons, all forged with unimaginable powers. Alone and outgunned, Cardinal must stand against the Chicago mobs, a brilliant and insane hitman, the police, and a mysterious order intent on retrieving their relic.
In 1847, Marjory Turner struggles with the difficult journey west to the Oregon Territory. On the cusp of womanhood, she is ill-equipped to deal with the hardships of her father's death and her mother's mysteriously irrational behaviour.
If you've been shot down, or haven't even been up to bat so far, you now have the tools to beat her at her own game. You'll have more hot women calling you and obsessing about you than you dreamed possible. It's all right here.
FINALLY, a scholarly description of the development of Black preaching in the United States that is accessible to the average reader, but also contributes to the academic conversation about both style and theological content. Written from the perspective of a seasoned practitioner and tenured practical theologian, Thomas surveys Black preaching as it has responded to various social and historical time periods. Starting with the brutality of chattel slavery, early formations in segregated Southern life, rapid migration to and urbanization in Northern cities, and various events throughout the post-civil rights era, the book gives convincing details and examples of how the Black preacher helped to guide and sustain the masses of African American people through the wilderness of social change. At the heart of the book, three prime examples are presented as models of the real “genius” of Black preaching. The reader will never again think about Reverend Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, and the Reverend Jesse Jackson in the same way. A special chapter is devoted to the contributions of Black women preachers along with a closing chapter that makes new proposals for the future. The book is a provocative and critical analysis of why Black preaching still matters.
A noted Civil War historian chronicles the fascinating role played by North Carolina’s Hatteras Island in the War Between the States. Hatteras Island was home to many Civil War firsts—among them the first Confederate capture of an armed Union vessel and the first combined amphibious assault of the Confederate army and navy. With illuminating research and vivid prose, historian Lee Oxford demonstrates why these episodes make Hatteras Island vital to the story of the Civil War. The Confederates' desire to regain control of this Outer Banks island saw the capture of the U.S. gunboat "Fanny." This in turn led to the famous Chicamacomico Affair at Live Oak encampment. The skirmish featured harrowing acts of valor by the Twentieth Indiana Regiment, as well as a path toward victory for the Confederate forces.
Ignoring Poverty in the U.S.: The Corporate Takeover of Public Education examines the divide between a commitment to public education and our cultural myths and more powerful commitment to consumerism and corporate America. The book addresses poverty in the context of the following: the historical and conflicting purposes in public education—how schools became positivistic/behavioral in our quest to produce workers for industry; the accountability era—how A Nation at Risk through NCLB have served corporate interest in dismantling public education and dissolving teachers unions; the media and misinformation about education; charter schools as political/corporate compromise masking poverty; demonizing schools and scapegoating teachers—from misusing the SAT to VAM evaluations of teachers; rethinking the purpose of schools—shifting from schools as social saviors to addressing poverty so that public education can fulfill its purpose of empowering everyone in a democracy; and reframing how we view people living in poverty—rejecting deficit views of people living in poverty and students struggling in school under the weight of lives in poverty. This work is intended to confront the growing misinformation about the interplay among poverty, public schools, and what schools can accomplish while political and corporate leadership push agendas aimed at replacing public education with alternatives such as charter schools. The audience for the publication includes educators, educational reformers, politicians, and any member of the wider public interested in public education.
Literature that confronts our students' assumptions about the world and about text is the lifeblood of English classes in American high schools and colleges. Margaret Atwood offers works in a wide variety of genres that fulfill that need. This volume introduces readers, students, and teachers to the life and works of Atwood while also suggesting a variety of ways in which her works can become valuable additions to classroom experiences with literature and writing. Furthermore, this volume confronts how and why we teach English through Atwood's writing.
Our English classrooms are often only as vibrant as the literature that we teach. This book explores the writing of African American author Ralph Ellison, who offers readers and students engaging fiction and non-fiction that confront the reader and the world. Here, teachers will find an introduction to Ellison's works and an opportunity to explore how to bring them into the classroom as a part of the reading and writing curriculum. This book attempts to confront what we teach and how we teach as instructors of literature through the vivid texts Ellison offers his readers.
Senator John Ashcroft writes about the values and spiritual principles he learned from his father who was a country preacher. Lessons from a Father to His Son is filled with stories about Senator Ashcroft's father who was a simple man, but profoundly spiritual. These stories will entertain and inspire, while imparting life lessons.
Please allow me to walk you through the chapters of this Book . I pray that it may illuminate the eyes of your understanding through the Miracles,Testimonies and Deliverances;concerning Evil spirits that dwell inside the body. The Doctors and psychiatrists call them sickness. Theyprescribe you pills thinking that with these kinds of sicknesses it gives you the cure. However, it doesn't resolve the matter: The side effects only makes you worse,it only compounds the problem by causing a chemical imbalance of the brain.Your body feeds off of the drug and it becomes dependent on it.It makes you feel like you got to have it and it only makes you sicker and opens the door of your mind for more drugs and more demons to enter.Doctors and psychiatrist call them sickness and diseases.They are still trying to do research on the human body and mind; yethave not found a answer. Theywill not go to the Bible (King James version ) and search the scripture's for the answers. The Bible says in the book of II Timothy 3:16-17,"All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction for instructions in righteousness: That the man of God maybe perfect throughly furnished unto all good works." Now since I have your undivided attention let us focus onthe miracles, testimonies, and deliverances through your reading. This iswhatbrought me to salvation through Jesus Christ our lord and gave me the in filling of the Holy Ghost and brought me out of the life style of Sin.
Starting with the discovery that the goal of marriage goes beyond personal happiness, writer and speaker Gary Thomas invites readers to see how God can use marriage as a discipline and a motivation to love him more and reflect more of the character of his Son.
A madman. A secret, generations old. Another missing boy. They called the sadistic killer The River Rat, and he'd struck again. In a desperate search for his neighbor's son, Ted Lewis came face to face with the killer and survived, but his life was irrevocably altered. The residents of Marchand, Louisiana believed they were safe. The murderer had been captured and was behind bars. But the nightmare wasn't over yet. Because on that summer night, something passed between the two men. Memories of brutality and phantoms of countless victims torment Ted. His normal life is shattered, and he struggles to fight a growing presence that threatens to leave his soul stained forever. Author Lee Thomas's debut novel won the Bram Stoker Award and returns to print in a fine anniversary edition complete with new introduction by the author and an afterword by Steve Berman.
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