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Human bigotry allows hate to fester but there has never been a time in our history when discrimination was right. I do not understand why the charge 'death by careless driving' brought against David Webster was so light. When a white man's actions result in the death of a man of colour, we have a duty to drill down and dig deeper, the inexplicable can always be explained with due diligence. Why wasn't a background check undertaken? If we have learned anything from the Lawrence Inquiry, we know that 'a person's racism' can be a default position to start from. The place is Bradford, West Yorkshire. The year is 2004. This is my testimony.

It's a cold clear afternoon in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on December 7, 1941. Disappointed in the lack of snow, a high school senior runs inside the Shannon house to tell Mother his plans to catch a show with the guys. Across town inside the Beran house, an 8th grade girl decks the halls alongside her sister and mother for the Christmas season. Growing up during the Great Depression, these teenagers enjoy a close knit family lifestyle, hard work, and hometown values.With the afternoon news radio broadcasting in the background, the Shannons and the Berans would soon hear the same iconic hurried interruption to CBS Radio's program "The World Today." The attack at Pearl Harbor would forever alter their paths. President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivers the "Day of Infamy" speech to Congress the following day launching the United States into World War II. With brothers, cousins, and neighbors leaving civilian life, they would all pull together to support the war effort. In over 175 preserved letters, we follow the story of Bob, a recent recruit into the U.S. Navy as a radioman on a rugged submarine chaser, who becomes a pen pal with Jeanie, now a freshman at West View High School. Beginning to fall in love and unsure, but hopeful, of his success in courting Jeanie, Bob desires a long term relationship with Miss Beran. This book tells the story of how he does it -one letter at a time.

The Signs of the Times was originally published in 1885 by J. J. Lambeth, an Old Baptist preacher. This work is essentially a collection of his sermons, revealing his beliefs about predestination and how God directs the events of this world and the people in it, from biblical times to the times in which he lived.This republication was undertaken by J. J. Lambeth's great-great grandson, M. A. Lambeth, who lives in the same community in which the author lived and is a member of the church he founded in the 1800s. In addition to making his great-great-grandfather's work available to a new generation of readers, M. A. desired to preserve The Signs of the Times, old church records (articles of faith, church covenant, etc.), and the Lambeth's family history, all in one volume. This collection includes pictures, maps, and charts for clarification and historical illumination.The Signs of the Times provides a look into an Old Baptist's mind, into a different time and place. This collection of work was printed with the express purpose of preserving our past, that it might guide us through the present and give a hope for the future.The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be;and that which is done is that which shall be done:and there is no new thing under the sun.Is there any thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new?It hath been already of old time, which was before us.-Ecclesiastes 1:9-10from The Signs of the Times, p. 276

This book is an autobiographical account of my early formative years travelling extensively singing and busking through Greece and Australia. I touch on some difficult times prior to this as a young adult, losing my mother to cancer, making some hard choices, and choosing a difficult path as a means of survival. I learnt many lessons being on the road and experienced many hardships. A lot of my songs reflect those times, and you will find the lyrics interwoven throughout my book. As well as singing to elderly people with dementia in care homes I am now the lead singer and songwriter of a band called Hennesea. Our music can be found on our website www.hennesea.com

In 1912 a young, American woman, Alice Ross (1890-1980), began a two-year trip around the world. Her itinerary included Hawaii, Samoa, New Zealand, Australia, the Philippines, Japan, China, Burma, Siam, India, Turkey, the Levant, Egypt and finally through Europe on the Orient Express. In the history of the earth, few people can have made such a comprehensive and leisurely journey, and essentially none of those would have been attractive, eligible women. "In Honolulu they liked me because I was game for anything in swimming, which counts more than anything there. In New Zealand I seemed more animated and had more initiative than the girls there. In Australia the reputation of the American girl has opened the way there for any who go, and in the Philippines I was simply "a new girl", and there new or old they are few and far between, and there are so many men that I think they would rush even a broomstick in petticoats. Now dear, I take no credit to myself, for I know I'm only an ordinary being, and any girl would have had the very same experiences I had, for many men proposed and begged me to marry them." So Alice summarizes her romantic adventures.Progressive, intrepid, inclusive, athletic, curious, ambitious. Are these the qualities of an Edwardian woman? We had always known that my grandmother had had extraordinary opportunities to travel widely when young. Decades after her death the letters she had saved from her journeys were put in my hands. Read over her shoulder as this 22 year-old literally travels around the globe. Alice Ross Garey is the daughter of an admiral. As one of very few Western women in "the orient" she has an all-access pass ensuring the hospitality of royalty and potentates in every nation. Yet her voice is that of a down to earth gal. The Queen of Hawaii and Sir Flinders Petrie are among the VIPs she meets. That 5-star hotel you'd like to try? Alice slept there. She traveled by horseback, buggy, ship, sedan chair, camel, rickshaw, elephant, Wright airplane, automobile, and train.She's traveling through Europe only a few months before the outbreak of WWI. It's like these letters are recording the end of a way of life; in a few short months, the world will be engulfed in the worst horrors of modernity and everything will change forever. Alice is getting home just in timeThis is factual material which reads like fiction. More than 40 photographs.

In this book, I'd like to take you into my world of sports and outdoor adventures. Through my own experiences, I've discovered the incredible impact laughter can have on personal growth.Join me on this journey as I share stories filled with humor, warmth, and wisdom. Dive into these pages, have a good laugh, and leave with a renewed passion for life and a different perspective on the world around us.

Remembering Me is an autobiographical account of the spiritual awakening and dark night of the soul experienced by the author, Dr. Elisa Peavey. In this transformative story, the author tells of discovering several of the famous people she's been in history and the wisdom these discoveries led to in her personal and professional life. Discover how the signs, clues, and synchronicities came together for Dr. Peavey. She shares her journey to uncovering important universal truths such as where we came from, where we are going, the Zero-Point Field, and soul ascension. Dr. Peavey's story is instructive and will help any reader learn how one is energetically connected to everything in the Universe; including God.

Find Healing from Past Wounds: A Journey from Seeking Man's Approval to Embracing God's Love.Navigating the turbulent seas of identity and acceptance, He Married a Whore With Daddy Issues offers readers an intimate window into Aimee Bilger's tumultuous life journey. Her story, brimming with raw emotion and unfiltered experiences, paints the heartrending portrait of a woman ensnared by her need for external validation.Aimee's tale is one that resonates with many-how the traumas of childhood can cast long, lingering shadows over adulthood. But as we journey with her, we witness the transformative power of faith. From seeking fleeting affirmation from worldly voices to finding enduring love in the voice of God, Aimee's metamorphosis serves as a beacon of hope for all grappling with their own traumas and insecurities.Through her struggles and triumphs, the book illuminates the path from brokenness to healing. It's not just about Aimee's personal redemption but also a broader call to anyone trapped by their past, yearning to be free. Dive deep into Aimee's world, from the plains of Mississippi to the educational halls of Tennessee, and witness a life reshaped by grace, perseverance, and divine love.For those seeking solace from childhood wounds or simply a story of redemption and resilience, this memoir is a testament to the idea that no matter how fractured our past, we can always rebuild with faith as our cornerstone. Let Aimee's journey inspire you to find your own path to healing and wholeness.

"Heartwarming... infectious ... [Morillo's The Boy Who Reached for the Stars] is every bit the inspiration he means it to be." ?Kirkus ReviewsThe engineer known as the ?space mechanic? speaks to both our future and past in this breathless memoir of his journey from Ecuador to NASA and beyond.Elio Morillo's life is abruptly spun out of orbit when economic collapse and personal circumstances compel his mother to flee Ecuador for the United States in search of a better future for her son. His itinerant childhood sets into motion a migration that will ultimately carry Elio to the farthest expanse of human endeavor: space.Overcoming a history of systemic adversity and inequality in public education, Elio forged ahead on a journey as indebted to his galactic dreams as to a loving mother whose sacrifices safeguarded the ground beneath his feet. Today, Elio is helping drive human expansion into the solar system and promote the future of human innovation?from AI and robotics to space infrastructure and equitable access.The Boy Who Reached the Stars is both a cosmic and intimate memoir spun from a constellation of memories, reflections, and intrepid curiosity, as thoroughly luminous as the stars above.

LEAN IN meets MORE THAN ENOUGH in a must-read candid, entertaining part memoir and part self-help book by the former CEO of Black Entertainment Television about navigating a demanding work life with its own #MeToo story, and balancing womanhood and motherhood as a high-powered Black woman executive.

With a selling new package, and following the instant New York Times bestseller and Reese’s Book Club pick Group, a delightfully funny, heartwarming, and deliciously voyeuristic memoir from Christie Tate about her lifelong struggle to form deep and lasting female friendships, and the friend who helps her discover the human connection she seeks.

AN EXTRAORDINARILY MOVING AND ORIGINAL MEMOIR OF GROWING UP GAY AND DISABLED IN 1980S LONDONWhen Emmett de Monterey is eighteen months old, a doctor diagnoses him with cerebral palsy. Words too heavy for his twenty-five-year-old artist parents and their happy, smiling baby.Growing up in south-east London in the 1980s, Emmett is spat at on the street and prayed over at church. At his mainstream school, teachers refuse to schedule his classes on the ground floor, and he loses a stone from the effort of getting up the stairs. At his sixth form college for disabled students, he's told he will be expelled if the rumours are true, if he's gay.And then Emmett is chosen for a first-of-its-kind surgery in America which he hopes will 'cure' him, enable him to walk unaided. He hopes for a miracle: to walk, to dance, to be able to leave the house when it rains. To have a body that's everyday beautiful, to hold hands in the street. To not be gay, which feels like another word for loneliness. But the 'miracle' doesn't occur, and Emmett must reckon with a world which views disabled people as invisible, unworthy of desire. He must fight to be seen.'Vivid, engaging... this insightful memoir sheds light on the author's life as a disabled gay man who is often rendered invisible' Andrew McMillan, Guardian Book of the Day'A frank and intimate memoir written with an incredible clear-eyed intensity' Claire Fuller

Legendary British tailor Timothy Everest's autobiography

This book offers an account of how the modern idea of the literary emerged, through the colonial archives. Situated at the cusp of postcolonialism and world literature, it offers a multilingual, multicultural, and comparative account of how literature became one of the most powerful cultural expressions of modernity.

He recorded in this book what he saw and experienced. The book is a mine of information of Burma and its inhabitants - their religion, their customs, their family life, the crops they grew, the king and his court, and politics, etc.

Germany, like many countries, has witnessed the rise of extremist far-right groups and parties in recent years, and no more so than in the eastern regions. Why have those parts of Germany that used to be part of the old GDR turned out to be so supportive of extremist groups and parties and such fertile ground for violence and hatred? To try to find answers to this question, Ines Geipel, the former East German Olympic athlete, returns to her past in order explore the matrix of fear and anxiety that shaped the lives of people in the GDR. Spurred on by conversations at the bedside of her brother as he lay dying of a brain tumour, she probes into her own family background and discovers a web of secrets and denial that reflected larger processes of East German society. She finds that her father had worked as a special agent for the Stasi until the service had no further use for him, and her grandfather had joined the Nazi party in 1933 and was stationed in Riga at a time when tens of thousands of Jews were murdered in the nearby forests. Silence and denial within her family was mirrored in the collective loss of history outside her home, and the repression of ideological non-conformity made it difficult for a traumatized population to grapple with and come to terms with a brutal past. Instead, a politics of forgetting emerged which served the ends of an authoritarian state and seeped into private lives of individuals with deep and lasting consequences. This powerful memoir, grippingly told, will appeal to anyone interested in the history of modern Germany, in the rise of far-right extremism and xenophobia and in the historical forces that shape the present.

With short biographies of the main protagonists, descriptions of what they had to endure and a concise examination of the 'library' itself, Lucy Alexander has revealed an astonishing exercise in mental survival under the most appalling circumstances. What would your books be?

Roger Schutz-Marsauche, known around the world as Brother Roger, is one of the most influential figures in Christianity in the twentieth century. He was founder and first prior of the Taizé Community in France, where tens of thousands of young Christians flock each year for its distinctive music and contemplative style of worship, spending time in prayer and reflection. Yet it is the community of monastic brothers, from differing Christian traditions and over twenty-five different countries, who make this contemplative experience possible. These brothers stand as a ¿parable of community¿ and as a sign of unity in the midst of a divided world and a divided Christianity. The second volume of Brother Roger¿s Journals covers the years 1960-1972, focussing on the birth and initial preparation of a ¿Council of Youth¿, a project catalysed by the crisis in the Roman Catholic Church in the wake of the Second Vatican Council. Brother Roger also details the ongoing life of the community, the paths of his personal spiritual journey, and other encounters across those remarkable years.

As a writer, poet, musician and dissident, Liao Yiwu is one of the most important chroniclers and analysts of contemporary China. In his books, he draws on his own experiences of imprisonment and mistreatment at the hands of the Chinese state to criticise abuses of power and give a voice to the downtrodden and disenfranchised. In this powerful memoir, Liao Yiwu reflects on his own journey from imprisonment in Sichuan to his current life in Berlin, where he now works as a full-time writer. As China's presence and influence on the international stage grows, this small book is a poignant reminder of the human cost of authoritarianism and of the power of the written word to bear witness to evil.

How do we bring unity and cohesion to our churches? When it comes to matters of faith development, one can assume there are no better guides than the Bible, following our lectionary, and a wit for communication. But language and faith have their structures and fluency, each ending up being personal. It's just where we are. These days, with Christian beliefs being less on common ground, faith words and phrases being distorted (many stripped of their originality), how can one nurture truth in such a diverse society? Jesus said to love God and love your neighbor as yourselves. The Bible tells us that Jesus wasn't quick to judgment. He created common ground through continual prayer and focusing on others creatively. By listening, asking questions, being engaging, and speaking truth, he formed relationships with others. He used parables, stories, idioms, and humor especially focused towards the judgmental and their interpreting patterns.These twenty-two different stories were created over time. Some are witty, but all are written to hopefully find common ground and bring people closer together through communication and love. Love is a very challenging event. It would be awesome if people would be cognizant of their prejudices as well as open to a dance that brings cohesion to their moments and their movements that even leads into a community dance. These stories were also created with a lectionary calendar in mind along with several that utilize humor. Most have some wit along with idioms to share the faith of a whimsical pastor who just can't quit.

The world struggles to find peace. Two old guys discovered the answer. Fifty years after they fought in Vietnam, they worked it out. They grew up together and went to the same schools, yet they had never met. They served in the army together, were both shot down in helicopters, and lost some of their best friends in combat, but they had to wait to meet. The answer was not in combat, military training, or book learning. They were tough soldiers who were trained to kill. Ray was a helicopter pilot flying some of the army's most advanced killing machines. Bruce was an airborne ranger who deployed the army's artillery with precision. They did their jobs well. Ray and Bruce needed to find an answer to the world's struggle. They did. See if you agree.

There's a lot of shame that comes from being an immigrant. Shame that I don't think anyone should feel, but it's still there. For months, I was ashamed of not being able to get a job without a work permit or asking my fiancé to sign a new document almost every single day.I thought being an Au Pair was hard enough, but it turned out that not being one was even harder.Being in love made things even more complicated. When I was leaving Europe, I never would have imagined falling for a "Tinder guy" and moving to Virginia. Still, despite everything, I believe our story is a beautiful one. And I'm so happy to share it with the world for the second time. Green Card Marriage was published for the first time in March 2020, about a week before the pandemic hit the United States. It was my first attempt to be a writer. And, to be fair, a very imperfect attempt. Over the years, I kept on writing and learning. I got an Associate's Degree and downloaded Grammarly. That's exactly why I decided to re-publish my very first book. Many lessons have been learned. And these days, telling this story the right way seems to be more important than ever before.

This book is inspired by a Bible Proverb:'The generous prosper and are satisfied, those who refresh others,will themselves be refreshed'Candid reflections, personal insights and humour found in the stories of a family general practitioner, husband, father and grandfather. An ordinary man whose belief in an extraordinary God helped him overcome the trials in his life. For over 45 years he has faithfully cared for patients in Australia, and repeatedly served the people of Africa, to improve their health and provide wholistic care, and in the process found himself personally 'Refreshed'.

King of the Battlefield by Mark Pittman

January Came tells the story of a God-fearing family learning how to navigate through life's hardships. Nicolette A. Easly is a mom, wife, daughter, sister, aunt, and now a first-time author. It has always been Nicolette's passion to write and tell stories. Nicolette was born and raised in Houston, Texas (southwest Houston, to be exact), where there is a church on every corner. Her dad was a pastor, and his journey inspired her to dedicate this love letter, January Came, to him.