"The First Ladies Club" is a hot new addictive series that explores the Black elite world of money and power. Readers are the ultimate insiders exploring the uncharted dynasty of four of the most powerful Black women in the world. This bourgeoisie circle only thought to exist in folklore and myth is finally exposed in this intoxicating series. "The First Ladies Club Series" covers: wealth, power, scandal, intrigue, drama, with a fascinating plot. You will not able to put this book down.
New York Times Bestseller Over 2.5 million copies sold For David Goggins, childhood was a nightmare -- poverty, prejudice, and physical abuse colored his days and haunted his nights. But through self-discipline, mental toughness, and hard work, Goggins transformed himself from a depressed, overweight young man with no future into a U.S. Armed Forces icon and one of the world's top endurance athletes. The only man in history to complete elite training as a Navy SEAL, Army Ranger, and Air Force Tactical Air Controller, he went on to set records in numerous endurance events, inspiring Outside magazine to name him "The Fittest (Real) Man in America." In Can't Hurt Me, he shares his astonishing life story and reveals that most of us tap into only 40% of our capabilities. Goggins calls this The 40% Rule, and his story illuminates a path that anyone can follow to push past pain, demolish fear, and reach their full potential.
Achewood could be classified as a "funny animals" comic strip, if funny includes the sociopathic (Lyle); the painfully naïve (Phillipe); Spicoli-esque, stuttering, van-driving squirrels (Todd); compulsively dissembling robots (Lie Bot); and feline hipster gourmands-cum-music impressarios wearing thongs (Ray). Achewood is an Internet sensation read daily by tens of thousands. Fans of Achewood include humorists and newspaper columnists Dave Barry and James Lileks, and lawyer and King of Blogs, Glenn "Instapundit" Reynolds, among an ever-growing readership. Writer/illustrator Chris Onstad has an off-kilter sense of humor that is sometimes somber, sometimes frenetic, and always unpredictable.
Robert Frost is one of the most widely read, well loved, and misunderstood of modern writers. In his day, he was also an inveterate note-taker, penning thousands of intense aphoristic thoughts, observations, and meditations in small pocket pads and school theme books throughout his life. These notebooks, transcribed and presented here in their entirety for the first time, offer unprecedented insight into Frost's complex and often highly contradictory thinking about poetics, politics, education, psychology, science, and religion--his attitude toward Marxism, the New Deal, World War--as well as Yeats, Pound, Santayana, and William James. Covering a period from the late 1890s to early 1960s, the notebooks reveal the full range of the mind of one of America's greatest poets. Their depth and complexity convey the restless and probing quality of his thought, and show how the unruliness of chaotic modernity was always just beneath his appearance of supreme poetic control. Edited and annotated by Robert Faggen, the notebooks are cross-referenced to mark thematic connections within these and Frost's other writings, including his poetry, letters, and other prose. This is a major new addition to the canon of Robert Frost's writings.
Written during a critical period of his life, Some of the Dharma is a key volume for understanding Kerouac and the spiritual underpinnings of his work While his future masterpiece, On the Road, languished on the desks of unresponsive editors, Kerouac turned to Buddhist practice, and in 1953 began compiling reading notes on the subject intended for his friend Allen Ginsberg. As Kerouac's Buddhist meditation practice intensified, what had begun as notes evolved into a vast and all-encompassing work of nonfiction into which he poured his life, incorporating poems, haiku, prayers, journal entries, meditations, fragments of letters, ideas about writing, overheard conversations, sketches, blues, and more. The final manuscript, completed in 1956, was as visually complex as the writing: each page was unique, typed in patterns and interlocking shapes. The elaborate form that Kerouac so painstakingly gave the book on his manual typewriter is re-created in this typeset facsimile. Passionate and playful, filled with humor, insight, sorrow, and struggle, Some of the Dharma is one of Kerouac's most profound and original works.
John Churchill is a baptized Seventh-day Adventist Christian since May 30, 1976. He is one of those who "came up through the ranks" in the church, having a zeal from the lord from his early teens, that would not let him just sit down in church or keep quiet about Jesus. Sharing his faith came naturally - and share he did! He shared in any way possible. He was on choirs, taught Sabbath School class, conducted cottage meeting / worship services in homes wherever permitted; did Bible studies with anyone willing to listen, was involved in the Missionary Volunteer movement (now Adventist Youth), Pathfindering and all it entails, and so on. As he showed his commitment and zeal for the Lord's work he was given more and more responsibilities in the church and was involved in church leadership from his early years as a Christian. John Churchill has been a Church Elder for many years and was ordained as an Elder December 31, 1994. He has had many encounters with teachers of falsehood over the many years of his Ministry. These encounters include a lot of experience with an offshoot group of the Seventh-day Adventist Church called the the Shepherd's Rod. John Churchill is a lay evangelist and the founder of Battle Cry Ministry which pursues the worldwide aim of its mission through its website: http://battlecryministry.netadvent.org/ He decided since about 2003 to write a book that would address the Shepherd's Rod offshoot problem in the church as he saw that the group was seemingly on the increase and causing problems and pulling away members of the church to become members of the group. The book would help to not only educate members but help them to know how to deal with the problem in a very realistic / practical way. The book would also appeal to members of the group to cease their activities and rejoin the church / "coming back on the platform".
"February 17th, on the cold north side of Minneapolis, eight year old Secret McKay Adams loses the lives of both of her parents on her eighth birthday. In and out of foster homes, she struggles to find a place she can call home. When she finally settles in with Karen, whom isn't able to have any children of her own, and the woman's deceased sisters daughter Delilah, whom Secret becomes really close to, Secret is convinced that she has found her home. Everything is going good until Karen's younger brother Kristian comes to live with them. As Secret begins to develop into a beautiful and nicely filled out young woman, Kristian's sexual attraction for her becomes out of hand. She is betrayed by him as he constantly rapes her and dares her to tell anyone because he has threatened to kill her if she does. Scared to death to tell anyone because of what he might do, or who might not believe her, this becomes the biggest secret that she has ever had to endure, which drives her apart from the closest person to her, Delilah. Secret meets an older guy who is in love with her and moves in with him. Now that she is away from her rapist uncle, she feels as if she doesn't have to deal with that part of her life anymore. Secret and her new boyfriend's relationship eventually goes downhill and she decides to turn to stripping to make a living for herself. In this new world of money, sex, and naked women, Secret struggles to not get too caught up in it. Even though she's not one for all the drama, she just cant seem to keep it out of her way. Now, as Secret tries to fend for herself and move on with her life, will she be able to keep her past in the past and her secret a secret as old things she never knew from her past begin to slowly reveal in her present?"
Contains approximately 950 old and new proverbs and clichés in use in English, each clearly defined and illustrated by two or more realistic examples. Allusions to American, British or European cultural elements are explained, and idioms derived from proverbs are defined as well. Includes a Phrase-Finder Index that allows the user to find an expression by looking up any major word in it.--From publisher description.
