Author: Sherry Walraven Publisher: iUniverse ISBN: 1462012442 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 196
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When four fun-loving Southern ladies hit the road to attend a teaching conference in Savannah, Georgia, they hope that the week will be one to remember. It turns out theyre rightbut not for the reasons they all imagine. In their lives, most things they face are mundanewhat to make for lunch, how to make the kids pay attention in class, and how to work with the schools budget committee. They all jumped at the chance to get away. For Debra, Ashley, Brianna, and Mary Sue, this is a working vacation, one where theyll all learn a little and laugh a lot. Its a chance to live the good life for a few days. They all love the luxury of their conference hotelespecially the view. So when one of them suggests an evening drive across that spectacular bridge they admire from their rooms, they hit the road again. But these teachers have missed the lesson about being prepared: they soon find themselves stranded on a dark country road. Debra offers to save the day, so she grabs a gas can and heads boldly into the darkness. But when Debra doesnt come back, the threesome must now work together to solve the mystery. Rich with local color, laughter, drama, and more, this thrilling adventure of everyday people trapped in an extraordinary experience is a little slice of lives lived loud and proud.
Author: Jamie Blaine Publisher: Thomas Nelson ISBN: 0718032969 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 316
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It’s three a.m. in the side yard of a shack in the worst part of town. I’ve got a dirty-faced baby on my hip and there’s a pit bull standing on the septic tank in the next yard over barking his head off. My patient sits on the hood of her ex-husband’s low rider smoking a cigarette and dumpingher pills into a mud hole by the right front tire. Airbrushed across the hood of the car is a cross-eyed Jesus with open arms. She lays her hand on top of his as the still-hot engine ticks. Throughtears she pleads, “Help me Jesus, please.” The dog is silent. Sirens approach. “Just breathe,” I tell her. “Everything’s gonna be all right.” The baby fidgets, resting her head against me, staring up into my eyes. I raise one finger and she holds it tight. I fumble for the words again. “Just breathe.” Midnight Jesus shares fascinating, bizarre, and sometimes humorous true-life stories of everyday people looking for hope in their darkest hours. Poignant and unpretentious, Jamie paints beauty where at times it seems none exists—from skating rinks and bars, late-night highways and lonely apartments, broken churches and rundown trailer parks, jail cells, bridge rails, ERs, psych wards, and that place over the levee where God laughs and walks through the cool dark night.
Author: Jason Timbuktu Diakité Publisher: AmazonCrossing ISBN: 9781542017077 Category : Black people Languages : en Pages : 0
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World-renowned hip-hop artist Jason "Timbuktu" Diakité's vivid and intimate journey through his own and his family's history--from South Carolina slavery to twenty-first-century Sweden. Born to interracial American parents in Sweden, Jason Diakité grew up between worlds--part Swedish, American, black, white, Cherokee, Slovak, and German, riding a delicate cultural and racial divide. It was a no-man's-land that left him in constant search of self. Even after his hip-hop career took off, Jason fought to unify a complex system of family roots that branched across continents, ethnicities, classes, colors, and eras to find a sense of belonging. In A Drop of Midnight, Jason draws on conversations with his parents, personal experiences, long-lost letters, and pilgrimages to South Carolina and New York to paint a vivid picture of race, discrimination, family, and ambition. His ancestors' origins as slaves in the antebellum South, his parents' struggles as an interracial couple, and his own world-expanding connection to hip-hop helped him fashion a strong black identity in Sweden. What unfolds in Jason's remarkable voyage of discovery is a complex and unflinching look at not only his own history but also that of generations affected by the trauma of the African diaspora, then and now.
Author: Larry Collins Publisher: ISBN: 9781950369195 Category : India Languages : en Pages : 0
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"The end of an empire. The birth of two nations. Seventy years ago, at midnight on August 14, 1947, the Union Jack began its final journey down the flagstaff of Viceroy's House, New Delhi. A fifth of humanity claimed their independence from the greatest empire history has ever seen--but the price of freedom was high, as a nation erupted into riots and bloodshed, partition and war. Freedom at Midnight is the true story of the events surrounding Indian independence, beginning with the appointment of Lord Mountbatten of Burma as the last Viceroy of British India, and ending with the assassination and funeral of Mahatma Gandhi"--
Author: George Lipsitz Publisher: University of Illinois Press ISBN: 9780252063947 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 372
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Rainbow at Midnight details the origins and evolution of working-class strategies for independence during and after World War II. Arguing that the 1940s may well have been the most revolutionary decade in U.S. history, George Lipsitz combines popular culture, politics, economics, and history to show how war mobilization transformed the working class and how that transformation brought issues of race, gender, and democracy to the forefront of American political culture. This book is a substantially revised and expanded work developed from the author's heralded 1981 Class and Culture in Cold War America.
Author: Steven Erikson Publisher: Tor Books ISBN: 1429926937 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 966
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After decades of internecine warfare, the tribes of the Tiste Edur have at last united under the Warlock King of the Hiroth. There is peace--but it has been exacted at a terrible price: a pact made with a hidden power whose motives are at best suspect, at worst, deadly. To the south, the expansionist kingdom of Lether, eager to fulfill its long-prophesized renaissance as an Empire reborn, has enslved all its less-civilized neighbors with rapacious hunger. All, that is, save one--the Tiste Edur. And it must be only a matter of time before they too fall--either beneath the suffocating weight of gold, or by slaughter at the edge of a sword. Or so destiny has decreed. Yet as the two sides gather for a pivotal treaty neither truly wants, ancient forces are awakening. For the impending struggle between these two peoples is but a pale reflection of a far more profound, primal battle--a confrontation with the still-raw wound of an old betrayal and the craving for revenge at its seething heart. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Author: Stephenie Meyer Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers ISBN: 0316592250 Category : Young Adult Fiction Languages : en Pages : 727
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#1 bestselling author Stephenie Meyer makes a triumphant return to the world of Twilight with this highly anticipated companion: the iconic love story of Bella and Edward told from the vampire's point of view. When Edward Cullen and Bella Swan met in Twilight, an iconic love story was born. But until now, fans have heard only Bella's side of the story. At last, readers can experience Edward's version in the long-awaited companion novel, Midnight Sun. This unforgettable tale as told through Edward's eyes takes on a new and decidedly dark twist. Meeting Bella is both the most unnerving and intriguing event he has experienced in all his years as a vampire. As we learn more fascinating details about Edward's past and the complexity of his inner thoughts, we understand why this is the defining struggle of his life. How can he justify following his heart if it means leading Bella into danger? In Midnight Sun, Stephenie Meyer transports us back to a world that has captivated millions of readers and brings us an epic novel about the profound pleasures and devastating consequences of immortal love. An instant #1 New York Times BestsellerAn instant #1 USA Today BestsellerAn instant #1 Wall Street Journal BestsellerAn instant #1 IndieBound BestsellerApple Audiobook August Must-Listens Pick "People do not want to just read Meyer's books; they want to climb inside them and live there." -- Time "A literary phenomenon." -- New York Times
Author: Bobby Kimbrough Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN: 9781540358134 Category : Languages : en Pages : 198
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Prepare for Midnight BEFORE it Arrives: Build Your Structure, Position Yourself, Strengthen Your Mind... Imagine the true story of a Federal Agent with the US Department of Justice who has traveled the world, safeguarded the nation in many aspects and a received premiere education at the highest levels of tactical and mental training. He is on a trajectory of greatness achieving phenomenal success and continues to walk the illuminated path he chose as a child. Now imagine, that suddenly he and two of his seven boys watch his wife remain unresponsive as paramedics work to pump the life back into her chest and the breath back into her body. Unexpectedly, life gives way to death. Welcome to Midnight. In Beyond Midnight: Finding Strength in the Struggle, Bobby F. Kimbrough, Jr. shares his intimate stories of tragedy and heartbreak and how even with thoughts of suicide he managed to live through the midnight and walk with an even stronger stride into daybreak. In Beyond Midnight, you will witness first-hand the remarkable lessons he learned as a single father and as a growing boy himself. These experiences shaped his ability to comfort and guide his children and now allow him to impact the lives of mothers, business leaders and entire school systems as he shares the powerful message of finding strength in the struggle. Beyond Midnight: Finding Strength in the Struggle is more than just stories and theory, it is a remarkable blueprint to develop a mindset and skill set to prepare yourself before, walk through and then come out on the other side of Midnight. Whether you are headed toward midnight, in the midst of it or see yourself coming out, position yourself now to ensure you have the light you desire and the strength you need to make it to day break. Just like Bobby did, you can.
Author: G. Collerone Publisher: CreateSpace ISBN: 9781494308865 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 154
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One person's struggle with mental illness and a painful neurological condition created a world where suicide was thought to be the only way out. Until a college research project helped him to discover the world of suicidology that saved him.
Author: Sherry Walraven
Author: Jamie Blaine
Author: Jason Timbuktu Diakité
Author: Larry Collins
Author: George Lipsitz
Author: Steven Erikson
Author: Stephenie Meyer
Author: Bobby Kimbrough
Author: Frank Triplett
Author: G. Collerone