Download or read book Whitlock s Compositions written by Charlene Hampton Holloway, RN and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2020-12-03 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whitlock's Compositions: A Biographical and Pictorial Story of How Charles D. Whitlock, Owner of Whitlock's Florist, Attempted to Compose the Lives of His Two Daughters By: Charlene Hampton Holloway, RN Whitlock’s Compositions tells the true tale of three African American women who did not give up on their chosen careers and obtained their education during the Great Depression through the 1960s Civil Rights era. As well as documenting well-known African American athletes in the 1960s, this inspiriting story speaks aloud to the saga African American families face throughout the country. The relevancy of this story to today’s world post-COVID-19 is powerful as author Charlene Hampton Holloway, RN recounts how her mother, C. Thelma Whitlock, was nursed back to health as a one-year-old baby by her mother, Parthenia Whitlock, during the 1918 Spanish Influenza pandemic. Written to inspire today’s youth, Holloway hopes to encourage those of all cultures to set goals, obtain education in their dream careers, and never give up.

Download or read book The Avant Guards Vol 1 written by Carly Usdin and published by Boom! Studios. This book was released on 2019-09-11 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a transfer student to the Georgia O’Keeffe College for Arts and Subtle Dramatics, former sports star Charlie is struggling to find her classes, her dorm, and her place amongst a student body full of artists who seem to know exactly where they’re going. When the school’s barely-a-basketball-team unexpectedly attempts to recruit her, Charlie’s adamant that she’s left that life behind...until she’s won over by the charming team captain, Liv, and the ragtag crew she’s managed to assemble. And while Charlie may have left the cut-throat world of competitive basketball in the dust, sinking these hoops may be exactly what she needs to find the person she truly wants to be. From Carly Usdin, the writer behind the hit series Heavy Vinyl, and artist Noah Hayes (Wet Hot American Summer) comes an ensemble comedy series that understands that it’s the person you are off the court that matters most. Collects The Avant-Guards issues #1-4.

Download or read book The Hollow written by Paul H. Jones and published by Tate Publishing. This book was released on 2012-06 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The men who live there are treated worse than stray dogs come to beg for food; the children are treated worse than that. The women won't even leave home anymore. Welcome to the Hollow, an old strip-mining town that's been almost totally abandoned—except for the few who didn't have a way to leave. Being ostracized, insulted, and humiliated generation after generation has led the sweet, innocent people of the Hollow to keep almost completely to themselves. Now, the children are dangerously close to dropping out of school, just like all their parents, because of the horrible treatment they receive at the hands of the faculty and students alike—until Pastor Josh Morrow and his wife, Charlene, show up and change everything. Now, the girls are excelling in basketball, the boys in baseball, and the men and women are not only finding hidden strengths and talents, they're being recognized for them. Discover the simplicity of the Hollow people's live—no cars, no telephones, no television or radios, just their faith in the Lord and in each other. This lifestyle is the reason they are abused, but it is also the very thing that keeps them going despite it. The Hollow: Living in the Shadows is a truly inspirational tale about faith, commitment, and victory over adversity through pure Christian example.

Download or read book The Disruption Mindset written by Charlene Li and published by Ideapress Publishing. This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many companies make disruption their goal. They believe that if they develop the right innovation, they will disrupt their markets forever and drive the kind of growth worthy of a magazine cover story. But as bestselling author Charlene Li explains, that's not how disruption works. Disruption doesn't create growth; instead, growth creates disruption. Growth is always hard, and disruptive growth is exponentially harder. It requires companies to make tough decisions in the face of daunting uncertainties: Should we bet our company's future on next-generation customers or today's reliable ones? Should we abandon our current business model for an entirely new one? Making bold changes demands bold leadership and, often, massive cultural transformation. Over the years, Li has seen some organizations beat the odds and succeed at becoming disruptive: Adobe, ING Bank, Nokia, Southern New Hampshire University, and T-Mobile, among them. Their stories make it clear that organizations don't have to be tech start-ups or have the latest innovations to transform. What they need to do is develop a disruptive mindset that permeates every aspect of the organization. Li lays out how to do so by focusing on three elements: a strategy designed to meet the needs of future customers; leadership that creates a movement to drive and sustain transformation; and a culture that thrives on disruptive change. Drawing on interviews with some of the most audacious people driving disruptive transformation today, Li will inspire leaders at all levels to answer the call to lead disruptive transformation in their organizations, communities, and society.

Download or read book Hexis written by Charlene Elsby and published by . This book was released on 2019-02-04 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I'm not relentless. "Relentless" makes it sound like there's something called "relent" and that I'm lacking it. In that sense, I'm not relentless, but perhaps I'm unrelenting. I could relent if I wanted to. But he always has to die. I mean "always" in two senses: at all times and all of the time. I can't kill him all of the time. That would take too long. But all of the times I did, I did. I'd do it again. I could relent if I wanted to, but instead I'd do it again. If he's different, then he's the same and if he's the same, he's got to go. If he were different and not the same, then there would be two things and I'd only have to kill one of them. If only I only had to kill one of him. What a life I would live, if only I only had to kill him the one time. But death doesn't always do him in.

Download or read book Love Knows No Boundaries written by Pat Elliott and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2017-04-21 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I actually wrote my book between 1986 and 1988 in Aiken, South Carolina, while my late husband was battling leukemia. Ive always wanted to write, so one day I just sat down and started jotting down notes. To my surprise, the words began to flow. I used bits and pieces of my real-life experiences, but for the most part, the book is fiction. The people are actually real people with fictitious names. The places are somewhat real. I have written short stories for the most part until this book became my first real writing experience. I did not complete the book until August of 1988 after the passing of my husband, but it just lay on my desk unpublished until I heard about Xlibris.

Download or read book Uncivil Seasons written by Michael Malone and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2001-09-01 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The polite Piedmont town of Hillston, North Carolina, wants to go on believing it is still too temperate to require homicide experts. But when the wife of a state senator is found beaten to death, the inner circle of Hillston's ruling families arranges to have the case assigned to Detective Justin Savile, the charming black sheep of the dynasty that founded the town. Aided by his wise-cracking, working-class partner, Cuddy Magnum, and a young woman from the Carolina mountains whose strength and love rescues him from his own destructive impulses, Savile sets out to unravel the deceit hidden in Hillston's past. His obsessive pursuit of one of this own and his determination to save a petty thief from being railroaded for murder not only lead to other deaths, but bring the detective very near to losing his own life. With striking humor and a rich range of characters, Malone creates a landscape struggling the New South's high-tech lifestyles and the Old South's inherited codes.

Download or read book The Wolf at Twighlight written by Kent Nerburn and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010-08 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A note is left on a car windshield, an old dog dies, and Kent Nerburn finds himself back on the Lakota reservation where he traveled more than a decade before with a tribal elder named Dan. The touching, funny, and haunting journey that ensues goes deep into reservation boarding-school mysteries, the dark confines of sweat lodges, and isolated N...

Download or read book Saints and Their Cults written by Stephen Wilson and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1985 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a paperback edition of a collection of ten papers by different authors on the cult of saints, first published in hard covers in 1983. Six have been translated from French including a pioneering study by Robert Hertz, one of Durkheim's most eminent pupils. The editor provides a wide-ranging general and historical introduction, and a 100- page annotated bibliography covering material on the subject in all disciplines and in four main languages.

Download or read book Starcarbon written by Ellen Gilchrist and published by Diversion Books. This book was released on 2018-12-18 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three couples struggle through tricky relationships in a novel “shot through with an offhand lyricism, snippets of wisdom, and a ready humor” (Seattle Post-Intelligencer). After her first year in college, Olivia de Havilland Hand returns home to Tahlequah, Oklahoma, amid tornadoes and the chance for rekindled love. Meanwhile, in New Orleans, her half-sister Jessie tries to keep her new marriage to immature King afloat as she plans for the arrival of their first child. The sisters’ lives intertwine with others as their father fears losing his two daughters, and Olivia’s anthropology professor has a tumultuous affair with a fellow academic. An interconnected web of relationships thrives against the backdrop of a world in transition in this literary rumination on the joys and sorrows of family and love from the National Book Award-winning author. “Gilchrist’s distinctive, flowing voice keeps one engaged throughout.” –Kirkus Reviews “Scattered from North Carolina to New Orleans, with outposts in Oklahoma and Boston, the Hands are forever bouncing up and down on the branches of the family tree to test its strength. As young members struggle for autonomy and older generations fight for control, alliances are formed, allegiances betrayed. And through it all, the Hands talk: to one another, to their psychiatrists, to themselves. In Starcarbon, Ms. Gilchrist has blended these resolutely individual voices to create a richly textured family fugue.”—The New York Times “Gilchrist's marvelous storytelling gifts are abundantly lavished on her new novel, which continues the saga of the Hand family and its intricate network of kinfolk.” –Publishers Weekly

Download or read book Look at Me written by Jennifer Egan and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2009-12-23 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • In this ambitiously multilayered novel from the bestselling, award-winning author of A Visit from the Goon Squad, a fashion model named Charlotte Swenson emerges from a car accident in her Illinois hometown with her face so badly shattered that it takes eighty titanium screws to reassemble it. She returns to New York still beautiful but oddly unrecognizable, a virtual stranger in the world she once effortlessly occupied. With the surreal authority of a David Lynch, Jennifer Egan threads Charlotte’s narrative with those of other casualties of our infatuation with the image. There’s a deceptively plain teenaged girl embarking on a dangerous secret life, an alcoholic private eye, and an enigmatic stranger who changes names and accents as he prepares an apocalyptic blow against American society. As these narratives inexorably converge, Look at Me becomes a coolly mesmerizing intellectual thriller of identity and imposture.

Download or read book Thea s Song written by Charlene Smith and published by Orbis Books. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Years n the making, here is the unforgettable life story of an African American Woman who brought joy to the whole world and changed the way people thought of themselves. She fought prejudice, suspicion, hatred, sadness, and all the things that drive people apart. Sister Thea Bowman, a pioneering leader of interracial relations, brought the experience of growing up a black girl in civil-rights-era Mississippi to a convent of white Catholic sisters in Wisconsin, and then to the world beyond. Her groundbraking work across the United States and overseas helping people to build interracial bridges during the 1980s has been the subject of numerous articles, books, and TV shows. 1980-1988. Thea is among the founders of the Institue for Black Catholic Studies at Xavier University in New Orleans, where she teaches untill 1988. She is also an annual speaker at the University of Mississippi's Faulkner Conference/

Download or read book If He Doesn t Come a Callin written by Charlene Sabb and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011-11-29 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Peanut Butter Promise written by Steve Rose and published by Savio Republic. This book was released on 2021-01-26 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Read this book and read it slowly to take it all in. You will not be disappointed in The Peanut Butter Promise. If you have been living in the land of almost—almost making the changes you need to make—almost living a life of meaning and purpose, it is time you went from ‘almost’ to ‘all in.’ The Peanut Butter Promise will show you how, and encourage you as well as inspire you to do it.” —Stephen Arterburn, New York Times Bestselling Author and Host of the Nationally Syndicated program New Life Live! Of the 7.7 billion people inhabiting the earth, there’s only ever been, and will only ever be, one exactly like you! You’re an original, not a copy. You can never be replicated or replaced. You’re essential! What if you were told there was a book that had the potential to turn your life upside down for good? Through The Peanut Butter Promise, you’ll learn that: • We’re each born with every talent, ability, gift, and the necessary desire to fulfill a meaningful and unique God-given purpose. • Just as peanut butter was destined to find jelly and make a great sandwich, Peanut Butter Promise Partners come into our life to help us achieve our DreamGoals, and fulfill our purpose. • The dreams and desires of our heart—those that are in agreement with our purpose—are meant to come true at the right time. The time for action is now! You have nothing to lose, but everything to gain by opening this hope and encouragement-filled book!

Download or read book I NEVER KNEW LOVE written by Amber Charlene Brown and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-12-13 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In regards to getting knocked down, getting back up and dusting yourself off, not once, but several times, Amber Charlene Brown is the epitome of strength, fortitude and faith. She gives it all to God’s grace. Amber was born in a small coal mining town along the Ohio river called Pomeroy, Ohio, to a young unwed mother named Ora Delores Brown. Amber never knew her father. Her mother died at a young age of 21 so Amber was raised by her maternal grandparents. Thanks to her grandparents, she was brought up in a little church right across the street from her house, named Naomi Baptist Church. There, she learned at an early age about God and his goodness. Through the course of her life, Amber had met her fair share of trials but through God’s grace and mercy, has overcome these obstacles. She met her Boaz, who is a minister. They are happily married. She is a devout Christian and faithful member of a Pentecostal church. She puts all of her faith and trust in the Lord, and knows now that all she went through was meant for the good by God!

Download or read book Daniel Cobia 1714 written by Beth J. McCarty and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Daniel Cobia (b.1714) and his family lived in Charleston, South Carolina. He and his sons fought in the American Revolution. Descendants lived in South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Utah, Idaho, California and elsewhere. Some descendants became Mormons.

Download or read book Negative Space written by B R Yeager and published by . This book was released on 2020-03 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Like smoke off a collision between Dennis Cooper's George Miles Cycle and Beyond The Black Rainbow, absorbing the energy of mind control, reincarnation, parallel universes, altered states, school shootings, obsession, suicidal ideation, and so much else, B.R. Yeager's multi-valent voicing of drugged up, occult youth reveals fresh tunnels into the gray space between the body and the spirit, the living and the dead, providing a well-aimed shot in the arm for the world of conceptual contemporary horror." -Blake Butler, author of Three Hundred Million "Ever wonder where teenage children go at night? Perhaps it's best not knowing the answer. There's something amiss in Kinsfield, a drab, boring city much like your own, except for the teenage suicide epidemic, stagnant, ineffectual parents, cultish behavior that borders on psychosis, and strings, strings everywhere. B.R. Yeager's Negative Space is a hypnotic collage of message boards, memes, and ruined bodies twisting at the end of a rope. Most modern novels have lost all concept of magic. B.R. Yeager's Negative Space is a stunning refutation of the quotidian." -James Nulick, author of Haunted Girlfriend & Valencia