![]() ![]() This generation of Black millennials and younger adults is not a monolith. ![]() What do you see in this generation that compelled you to speak hope into their lives? Sheila and her family live in the Boston area, where she is a writer, speaker, and spiritual director. She has also taught counseling and trauma-related courses. ![]() Sheila holds a master’s degree in counseling psychology and has ministered to abuse and trauma survivors in the United States for over 25 years and in Johannesburg, South Africa, for a decade. Today we talk with Sheila Wise Rowe, the author of Healing Racial Trauma and the upcoming Young, Gifted, and Black, which releases this month through InterVarsity Press. This month, we will be introducing you to some incredible Black authors and thinkers who are helping us find a pathway to sustainable peace-building, ongoing reconciliation, and honest reflection. ![]()
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![]() He also made movies and was the model for a comic book character. Supposedly he has never lost a case, and has even succeeded where the FBI and CIA have failed. Armes III, has over three decades of experience providing investigative services to private individuals, corporations, law firms, governments, and. He takes credit for rescuing actor Marlon Brando's kidnapped son. He is considered one of the best private investigators, receiving awards and recognition as "the man who has made the greatest contribution to the investigative profession." His clients included Elvis Presley, Howard Hughes, Elizabeth Taylor and Marlon Brando, whose son, Christian, was rescued by Armes from kidnappers. Armes has been a private investigator for about 70 years, and has garnered plenty of publicity for many high-profile cases. Armes went on to become a International Private Investigator, Chief Deputy Constable for El Paso County, Law Enforcement Instructor for El Paso County, and Director of Security for a number of major manufacturing firms abroad. ![]() His hands were replaced by two alloy steel prosthesis, that he mastered. He lost both hands when a older friend brought a box of railroad explosives to his home. Armes is a private investigator from El Paso, Texas who gained fame in the 1970s for his high-profile cases and distinctive prosthetic hook hands. ![]() ![]() Armes and his wife Linda Armes, feeding one of the many animals they have at home. ![]() ![]() Lydia only has to wait until her intended proposes, then she’ll be entirely content to run the house (and, hopefully, family). Her uncle has stepped in (though he’s more often than not nursing a drink – or a hangover) and has some…rather illogical ideas, schemes really, that he’s convinced will net him his very own fortune. Though her father’s passing made her the rightful heiress to his vast estate (and fortune), she’s unable to fully take charge and run the place as she sees fit due to her age. Miss Lydia Whitfield is at her wits’ end. Genre: Historical Fiction, YA, Romance, Humor But as their investigation delves deeper and their affections for each other grow, Lydia starts to wonder whether her carefully planned future is in fact what she truly wants… ![]() With Robert’s help, Lydia strives to keep her family’s good name intact and expose whoever is behind the devious plot. Someone is after her fortune and won’t hesitate to destroy her reputation to get it. Until Lydia-and Robert along with her-is kidnapped. Robert Newton, to begin drawing up the marriage contracts. Confident in those arrangements, Lydia has tasked her young law clerk, Mr. ![]() ![]() She will run the family estate until she marries the man of her late father’s choosing, and then she will spend the rest of her days as a devoted wife. Summary: Miss Lydia Whitfield, heiress to the family fortune, has her future entirely planned out. ![]() Source: e-ARC via netgalley (Thank you, Swoon Reads!) ![]() ![]() ![]() This thrilling reimagining of Ray Bradbury’s classic The Martian Chronicles is as relevant to our dangerous times as the original stories were to theirs. The Martian Chronicles is a 1980 television three-episode miniseries based on Ray Bradburys 1950 book The Martian Chronicles and dealing with the exploration of Mars and the inhabitants there. Stream songs including 'Prologue', 'The Martian Chronicles Theme' and more. ![]() This thrilling reimagining of Ray Bradbury’s classic The Martian Chronicles is as relevant to our dangerous times as the original stories were to theirs. Listen to The Martian Chronicles (Motion Picture Soundtrack) by Stanley Meyers on Apple Music. Meanwhile, Earth itself teeters on the brink of its own global catastrophe as the very survival of humanity hangs in the balance. But to what lengths will she go?Īs the honourable but duty-bound Captain Wilder tracks the now rogue Spender into the Martian mountains, the future of this ancient planet is at stake. The Martian Chronicles is a book made of fragments, but the novel, as a whole, portrays the colonisation of Mars as a similar event to the colonisation of. Spender, an anthropologist on Wilder’s crew, attempts to prevent the colonisation that she believes will eradicate the last of an ancient people living on Mars. When the first expedition to Mars mysteriously disappears, Earth sends a second to find out what happened. Derek Jacobi, Hayley Atwell, John Altman and Zoe Tapperĭerek Jacobi and Hayley Atwell lead an all-star cast in The Martian Chronicles, a thrilling new dramatisation, reimagining Ray Bradbury’s timeless fable of doomed Martian colonisation. ![]() ![]() ![]() With an ex-husband after her and scars from her abusive marriage etched deep, the last thing she expects is to fall for a man who makes a living with his fists, but she can’t resist Clay or the tender connection they share. Melody is running from her past and the small, country town of Garnet is the perfect hiding place. ![]() Touched by the gesture when it’s obvious she can barely afford to survive, her warm smile and lush body churn up powerful feelings that leave Clay wanting more from her than pie. Everything changes when a new waitress at the local diner buys him a piece of pie on Thanksgiving. People in his hometown keep their distance and Clay is fine with that. Clay’s large build and dangerous fists have always intimidated. The stranger ends up being Clay Powers, a famous UFC heavyweight fighter. You can read this before Defying the Odds (Battered Hearts, #1) PDF EPUB full Download at the bottom.Ī MMA Romance When struggling waitress Melody Dylan gives a handsome, lonely stranger a simple gift she has no clue her life is about to take a drastic turn. ![]() ![]() Here is a quick description and cover image of book Defying the Odds (Battered Hearts, #1) written by Kele Moon which was published in. Brief Summary of Book: Defying the Odds (Battered Hearts, #1) by Kele Moon ![]() ![]() ![]() This book has everything I love." -Charlie Jane Anders, author of All the Birds in the SkyĪnd coming soon, the brilliant sequel, A Desolation Called Peace! Now, Mahit must discover who is behind the murder, rescue herself, and save her Station from Teixcalaan's unceasing expansion-all while navigating an alien culture that is all too seductive, engaging in intrigues of her own, and hiding a deadly technological secret-one that might spell the end of her Station and her way of life-or rescue it from annihilation.Ī fascinating space opera debut novel, Arkady Martine's A Memory Called Empire is an interstellar mystery adventure. But no one will admit that his death wasn't an accident-or that Mahit might be next to die, during a time of political instability in the highest echelons of the imperial court. All around brilliant space opera, I absolutely love it."-Ann Leckie, author of Ancillary JusticeĪmbassador Mahit Dzmare arrives in the center of the multi-system Teixcalaanli Empire only to discover that her predecessor, the previous ambassador from their small but fiercely independent mining Station, has died. " A Memory Called Empire perfectly balances action and intrigue with matters of empire and identity. Winner of the 2020 Hugo Award for Best NovelĪ Locus, and Nebula Award nominee for 2019Ī Best Book of 2019: Library Journal, Polygon, Den of GeekĪ Guardian Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Book of 2019 and “Not the Booker Prize” NomineeĪ Goodreads Biggest SFF Book of 2019 and Goodreads Choice Awards Nominee ![]() ![]() There was a lot more going on in this one than we saw in the previous book, at least I thought so. So they leave to go find the Interdict and hope that he may grant Nemesis personhood in hopes of quelling the protests of a Diabolic married to the emperor. ![]() Tyrus and Nemesis know they will need more help on their side if they ever hope to be rid of Pasus once and for all. Backstabbing and plotting are all over the place. Political intrigue takes over much of the plot in this one. The most pressing problem is their enemies and how relentless they are in their attempts to overthrow Tyrus reign. Shes fights off numerous assassination attempts every week. Many of Tyrus subjects still oppose to having a Diabolic as an empress. Nemesis and Tyrus have their work cut out for them. ![]() But as I was expecting it this time, it wasnt as hard to get through. ![]() ![]() Kincaids The Diabolic and what a whirlwind of read that was! It has the same high stakes and fast paced plot that will leave your head spinning by the end! I was once again a little befuddled with some of the worldviews, the space, the politics, all that new vocabulary. The Empress is the highly anticipated sequel to S.J. ![]() ![]() ![]() She was a welcome presence throughout the '60s on such game shows as "To Tell the Truth," "What's My Line?," "Liar's Club," "It Takes Two," and "Password," where she met her husband, host Allen Ludden.ĭuring the fourth season of "The Mary Tyler Moore Show," one script described a character, Sue Ann Nivens, as "a sickeningly sweet Betty White type." Sweet – as well as scheming, conniving, and laughably lustful. ![]() In the '50s she starred in the sitcom "Life With Elizabeth," and her own talk program, "The Betty White Show." ![]() After the war, when she served as a member of the American Women's Voluntary Services, she began hosting a live variety show, "Hollywood on Television," in 1949. The Associated Press contributed to this gallery.įor generations, the actress, comedian and television presenter Betty White (January 17, 1922-December 31, 2021) was one of TV's most familiar and beloved faces, often hilariously playing against the sweet image of her smiling eyes and dimpled cheeks on the series "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" and "The Golden Girls."īorn in Oak Park, Illinois, and raised in California during the Great Depression, White performed on radio and for an experimental TV station in Los Angeles in the 1930s. ![]() Betty White, of "The Mary Tyler Moore Show." | CBS Photo Archive Getty ImagesĪ look back at the esteemed personalities who left us this year, who'd touched us with their innovation, creativity and humanity.īy senior producer David Morgan. ![]() ![]() ![]() On dry land, rumors about the survivors begin to circulate, and Lady Duff Gordon quickly becomes the subject of media scorn and later, the hearings on the Titanic. ![]() Others-including the gallant Midwestern tycoon-are not so lucky. ![]() Tess’s sailor also manages to survive unharmed, witness to Lady Duff Gordon’s questionable actions during the tragedy. But on the fourth night, disaster strikes.Īmidst the chaos and desperate urging of two very different suitors, Tess is one of the last people allowed on a lifeboat. Once on board, Tess catches the eye of two men, one a roughly-hewn but kind sailor and the other an enigmatic Chicago millionaire. Tess, an aspiring seamstress, thinks she's had an incredibly lucky break when she is hired by famous designer Lady Lucile Duff Gordon to be a personal maid on the Titanic's doomed voyage. ![]() A vivid, romantic, and relentlessly compelling historical novel about a spirited young woman who survives the Titanic disaster only to find herself embroiled in the media frenzy left in the wake of the tragedy. ![]() ![]() ![]() Once I learned to read, I spent my days outside playing with the animals (I include my brother and 2 sisters here) and when inside I read. Somehow, we were always warm, clean, well fed and happy. I don't know how my mother managed, really, because both she and Dad taught full time, but she came home and cooked on a wood stove and did all the laundry by hand, boiling the clothes and sheets in a big copper kettle. The horse period was a time when my parents entered a "let's-be-self-sufficient" phase, so we had a horse, but no electricity and all our water came from the rain tank.Īs well as the horse and dogs, we had 2 cows (Buttercup and Daisy and one of them always had a calf), a sheep (Woolly,) goats (Billy and Nanny) dozens of ducks, chooks, and a couple of geese, a pet bluetongue lizard and a huge vegie patch. ![]() In case you imagine we were a filthy rich horse-owning family, let me assure you we weren't. I have to say, dogs and horses are great audiences, apart from their tendency to drool occasionally. Family legend has it that I used to spend hours playing in the sand pit, with a dog on either side of me and Rocka the horse leaning over me, his head just touching my shoulder, while I told them stories. ![]() |