This book tells a story of how God used one of His servants to utter prophecies that came to pass to people who professed to be believers, but were not. It also revealed a mother who thought her daughter was having a mental breakdown. Many frightening occurrences brought them closer together so that God could reveal the way of Kingdom Living to them. From there God's purpose became a work-in-progress in their lives. Life's experiences and following Christ brought them to the place where God is ALL to them. They believe the Holy Spirit is their Millennial Christ.
The preacher didn’t try to paint a flowery picture of Papa White. He told Uncle George rather hesitantly that he didn’t feel comfortable preaching Papa White into heaven seeing as how he himself was trying to be truthful enough to get into heaven, when the times came. Uncle George said “Preacher, just be honest but brief, I’ll deliver the eulogy.” So that’s what the preacher did. He looked out at the great number of people and told them the truth “John Calvin White had many fine characteristics and just about the same number of bad faults and he’s in the hands of a just God.” Then the preacher, he sat down.
Struggling to single-handedly raise her orphaned godson until a guardian was found, Annie Simmons was beginning to question God’s plans for her life. Russell Mitchard’s sudden appearance on her doorstep only added to her confusion. Especially when the stranger claimed that his grandfather’s will dictated that he marry Annie! As Russell saw it, Annie ought to accept his proposal. After all, without a husband, she wouldn’t stand a chance of gaining custody of the godson she obviously loved. But once she relented, Russell suddenly wasn’t sure about anything. Especially not being a family man. Could Annie’s strong faith help Russell dispel his doubts...and embrace the rich future God had planned for all of them?
Blessings at Easter Their Baby Blessing by Heidi McCahan When navy veteran Gage Westbrook promised to look out for his late best friend’s son, he never imagined he’d bond with the baby boy. And he definitely didn’t plan to fall for Connor’s gorgeous temporary guardian, Skye Tomlinson. But weighted by guilt for the accident that took Connor’s dad, can Gage find the courage to forgive himself and embrace the chance at a family? A Baby by Easter by Lois Richer Susannah Wells and her unborn baby have nowhere to turn. So when she encounters handsome lawyer David Foster, she jumps at his offer to become caregiver for his sister. Susannah knows it’s difficult for David to let others ease his burdens. Until he shows her just what a blessing she and her Easter baby are to him. 2 Uplifting Stories Their Baby Blessing and A Baby by Easter
Born into an educated free black family in Portland, Maine, Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins (1859-1930) was a pioneering playwright, journalist, novelist, feminist, and public intellectual, best known for her 1900 novel Contending Forces: A Romance of Negro Life North and South. In this critical biography, Lois Brown documents for the first time Hopkins's early family life and her ancestral connections to eighteenth-century New England, the African slave trade, and twentieth-century race activism in the North. Brown includes detailed descriptions of Hopkins's earliest known performances as a singer and actress; textual analysis of her major and minor literary works; information about her most influential mentors, colleagues, and professional affiliations; and details of her battles with Booker T. Washington, which ultimately led to her professional demise as a journalist. Richly grounded in archival sources, Brown's work offers a definitive study that clarifies a number of inconsistencies in earlier writing about Hopkins. Brown re-creates the life of a remarkable woman in the context of her times, revealing Hopkins as the descendant of a family comprising many distinguished individuals, an active participant and supporter of the arts, a woman of stature among professional peers and clubwomen, and a gracious and outspoken crusader for African American rights.
Prince Hall, a black veteran of the American Revolution, was insulted and disappointed but probably not surprised when white officials refused his offer of help. He had volunteered a troop of 700 Boston area blacks to help quell a rebellion of western Massachusetts farmers led by Daniel Shays during the economic turmoil in the uncertain period following independence. Many African Americans had fought for America's liberty and their own in the Revolution, but their place in the new nation was unresolved. As slavery was abolished in the North, free blacks gained greater opportunities, but still faced a long struggle against limits to their freedom, against discrimination, and against southern slavery. The lives of these men and women are vividly described in In Hope of Liberty, spanning the 200 years and eight generations from the colonial slave trade to the Civil War. In this marvelously peopled history, James and Lois Horton introduce us to a rich cast of characters. There are familiar historical figures such as Crispus Attucks, a leader of the Boston Massacre and one of the first casualties of the American Revolution; Sojourner Truth, former slave and eloquent antislavery and women's rights activist whose own family had been broken by slavery when her son became a wedding present for her owner's daughter; and Prince Whipple, George Washington's aide, easily recognizable in the portrait of Washington crossing the Delaware River. And there are the countless men and women who struggled to lead their daily lives with courage and dignity: Zilpha Elaw, a visionary revivalist who preached before crowds of thousands; David James Peck, the first black to graduate from an American medical school in 1848; Paul Cuffe, a successful seafaring merchant who became an ardent supporter of the black African colonization movement; and Nancy Prince, at eighteen the effective head of a scattered household of four siblings, each boarded in different homes, who at twenty-five was formally presented to the Russian court. In a seamless narrative weaving together all these stories and more, the Hortons describe the complex networks, both formal and informal, that made up free black society, from the black churches, which provided a sense of community and served as a training ground for black leaders and political action, to the countless newspapers which spoke eloquently of their aspirations for blacks and played an active role in the antislavery movement, to the informal networks which allowed far-flung families to maintain contact, and which provided support and aid to needy members of the free black community and to fugitives from the South. Finally, they describe the vital role of the black family, the cornerstone of this variegated and tightly knit community In Hope of Liberty brilliantly illuminates the free black communities of the antebellum North as they struggled to reconcile conflicting cultural identities and to work for social change in an atmosphere of racial injustice. As the black community today still struggles with many of the same problems, this insightful history reminds us how far we have come, and how far we have yet to go.
Pryce spent her weekdays working at the BBC stuck in a career rut, but she also led a parallel life as a biker with overwhelming wanderlust. Follow her hilarious adventures as she travels by motorcycle from Alaska to the southernmost tip of Argentina.
Struggling to single-handedly raise her orphaned godson until a guardian was found, Annie Simmons was beginning to question God’s plans for her life. Russell Mitchard’s sudden appearance on her doorstep only added to her confusion. Especially when the stranger claimed that his grandfather’s will dictated that he marry Annie! As Russell saw it, Annie ought to accept his proposal. After all, without a husband, she wouldn’t stand a chance of gaining custody of the godson she obviously loved. But once she relented, Russell suddenly wasn’t sure about anything. Especially not being a family man. Could Annie’s strong faith help Russell dispel his doubts...and embrace the rich future God had planned for all of them?
Of all the mountain dulcimer books published over the past 20 years, this book is the jam-session standard. Contains 40 favorite fiddle tunesthat can easily be played in the regular keys and upto speed. In notation and tablature. Level of difficulty - intermediate. (Arranged for the beginner to advanced player intraditional keys fo they can be played with other instruments. Accompaniment chords included.)**Note - only 25 songs of the 40 total from the book are on online audio
A screwball comedy with a heart. Thelma & Louise go to Europe. A revenge on midlife crisis. Plan A: We grow up, get married, have babies, white picket fence. Plan B: Mortgages, marriages, mistresses, divorce, my kids, his kids, stepkids, blended families. College tuition. Empty nest. Empty soul. Plan C: Cabernet, passports, jet lag, Ambien, Europe. Who needs reality? Until we realize reality can't be avoided. And truth is, we don't want to avoid it.We are a nation of underdogs - a society of hope. Plan C is accepting life as it comes, with no plan at all. Once upon a time there was a divorced, single mother named Libby Crockett, living and working her fingers to the bone on Cape Cod. Her Plan A had failed, and now she dreamed of a new life and a new love -- her Plan B. And Plan B worked! It brought her to glamorous New York to a new man, a new life...and his expensive ex, his out-of-control kids, and the biggest recession in 70 years. Was this really what Libby had been dreaming of? Maybe it was time for Plan C...
Jos Francisco Torres was born and raised "up the river" above Trinidad, Colorado; his life spanned from the cowboy days of the late 1800s to the technological era of the late 1900s. This work chronicles the hardships, gains, setbacks, and wins in the life of a man who became a judge and battled continuously against prejudice.
Thanksgiving Dinner is a collection of twelve short stories about women at a crossroads in their lives and the very different directions they take. One story is about a woman suffering from depression, who is driven to commit an unspeakable act. Another story involves a dying woman contemplating the failed relationships in her life. Still another story portrays a woman struggling to deal with an act of betrayal.
Using in-depth interviews of high achieving African Americans who came of age prior to or before the Civil Rights movement and those who grew up in the post-Civil Rights era, this book documents that race still matters in the twenty-first century. The work details the lived experiences of African Americans and how they grapple daily with what W. E. Du Bois called the double consciousness, living within and between two worlds. A new chapter details how the post-Civil Rights generation interprets and navigates the racial terrain differently than the Civil Rights generation, which has implication for group identity and group mobility.
The Los Angeles area has the most severe traffic congestion in the United States. Trends in many of the underlying causal factors suggest that congestion will continue to worsen in the coming years, absent significant policy intervention. Excessive traffic congestion detracts from quality of life, is economically wasteful and environmentally damaging, and exacerbates social-justice concerns. Finding efficient and equitable strategies for mitigating congestion will therefore serve many social goals. The authors recommend strategies for reducing congestion in Los Angeles County that could be implemented and produce significant improvements within about five years. To manage peak-hour auto travel, raise transportation revenue, improve alternative transportation options, and use existing capacity more efficiently, they recommend 10 primary strategies: improve signal control and timing; restrict curb parking on busy thoroughfares; implement paired one-way streets; promote ride-sharing, telecommuting, and flexible work schedules; develop a high-occupancy toll-lane network; vary curb-parking rates with demand, enforce the current parking cash-out law; promote deep-discount transit passes; expand bus rapid transit and bus-only lanes; and implement a regionally connected bicycle network. In addition, three recommendations may help, depending on the outcome of current events: evaluate arterial incident management, consider cordon congestion tolls, and levy local fuel taxes to raise transit revenue. Given that some of the recommendations may prove controversial, the authors also outline complementary strategies for building political consensus.
Stories abound about the lengths to which middle- and upper-middle-class parents will go to ensure a spot for their child at a prestigious university. From the Suzuki method to calculus-based physics, from AP tests all the way back to early-learning Kumon courses, students are increasingly pushed to excel with that Harvard or Yale acceptance letter held tantalizingly in front of them. And nowhere is this drive more apparent than in our elite secondary schools. In Class Warfare, Lois Weis, Kristin Cipollone, and Heather Jenkins go inside the ivy-yearning halls of three such schools to offer a day-to-day, week-by-week look at this remarkable drive toward college admissions and one of its most salient purposes: to determine class. Drawing on deep and sustained contact with students, parents, teachers, and administrators at three iconic secondary schools in the United States, the authors unveil a formidable process of class positioning at the heart of the college admissions process. They detail the ways students and parents exploit every opportunity and employ every bit of cultural, social, and economic capital they can in order to gain admission into a “Most Competitive” or “Highly Competitive Plus” university. Moreover, they show how admissions into these schools—with their attendant rankings—are used to lock in or improve class standing for the next generation. It’s a story of class warfare within a given class, the substrata of which—whether economically, racially, or socially determined—are fiercely negotiated through the college admissions process. In a historic moment marked by deep economic uncertainty, anxieties over socioeconomic standing are at their highest. Class, as this book shows, must be won, and the collateral damage of this aggressive pursuit may just be education itself, flattened into a mere victory banner.
“Gushing over with humor and passion at it's very best! If laughter and love are the best medicine, My Desperado is a fountain of youth!” –Literary Times A riotously hilarious and passion-filled adventure of historical romance in the Wild, Wild West... The prim and prudish Katherine Simmons, a proper Boston schoolteacher, never expected to step foot in those godforsaken lands of the Wild, Wild West...let alone figuring out how to hide a dead body... Katherine Simmons liked her life the way it was – predictable, boring, but safe. Innocent of the more earthly pleasures in the world, Katherine has never lost her head to passion and intends to keep it that way. That is, until this puritanical schoolteacher inherits a saloon – or what some might call a brothel – in the Wild West town of Silver Ridge. Refusing to step down from a challenge, Katherine leaves for Silver Ridge, with the plan of bringing some of Boston’s morality to the outlaw West. But when the Mayor of Silver Ridge dies in the throes of passion right there in her saloon, Katherine tries to sneak his body out and is caught by Travis Ryland, a sexy outlaw. When the townspeople of Silver Ridge see them together, both Travis and Katherine are accused of murder and must work together to prove their innocence. Travis Ryland expected a little trouble when he was hired by Silver Ridge to put an end to the payroll robberies at the mine. A little trouble, but mostly a simple job for a man with simple talents. What he didn’t expect was a beautiful schoolteacher from Boston to turn his life...and his heart into chaos. Katherine may be innocent, but she’s willing to learn...and lucky for her, there’s a sexy outlaw more than happy to educate the schoolteacher...
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Surviving in Two Worlds brings together the voices of twenty-six Native American leaders. The interviewees come from a variety of tribal backgrounds and include such national figures as Oren Lyons, Arvol Looking Horse, John Echohawk, William Demmert, Clifford Trafzer, Greg Sarris, and Roxanne Swentzell. Their interviews are divided into five sections, grouped around the themes of tradition, history and politics, healing, education, and culture. They take readers into their lives, their dreams and fears, their philosophies and experiences, and show what they are doing to assure the survival of their peoples and cultures, as well as the earth as a whole. Their analyses of the past and present, and especially their counsels for the future, are timely and urgent.
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