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With A Hard Rain, Gaillard gives us a deeply personal history, bringing his keen storyteller's eye to this pivotal time in American life. He explores the competing story arcs of tragedy and hope through the political and social movements of the times: civil rights, black power, women's liberation, the war in Vietnam, and the protests and movements against it.

Media and public discussion tends to understand Russian politics as a direct reflection of Vladimir Putin's seeming omnipotence or Russia's unique history and culture. Yet Russia is remarkably similar to other autocracies - and recognizing this illuminates the inherent limits to Putin's power. Weak Strongman challenges the conventional wisdom about Putin's Russia, highlighting the difficult trade-offs that confront the Kremlin on issues ranging from election fraud and repression to propaganda and foreign policy.

Through the lens of Sammy Davis Jr.'s six-decade career in show business—from vaudeville to Vegas to Broadway, Hollywood, and network TV—Dancing Down the Barricades examines the workings of race in American culture. The title phrase holds two contradictory meanings regarding Davis's cultural politics: Did he dance the barricades down, as he liked to think, or did he simply dance down them, as his more radical critics would have it?

With Frye as our raconteur-guide, we journey back to a time before barriers of brick and stone even existed - to an era in which nomadic tribes vied for scarce resources, and each man was bred to a life of struggle. Ultimately, those same men would create edifices of mud, brick, and stone and with them effectively divide humanity: On one side were those the walls protected; on the other, those the walls kept out. The stars of this narrative are the walls themselves - rising up in places as ancient and exotic as Mesopotamia, Babylon, Greece, China, Rome, Mongolia, Afghanistan, the lower Mississippi, and even Central America....

In The Medical Marijuana Guide: Cannabis and Your Health, Dr. Patricia Frye takes a direct, no-nonsense approach to educating listeners about cannabis and its medicinal qualities. In this audiobook, using humorous and touching stories from the many situations she has encountered in her practice over the years, Dr. Frye provides valuable information about the undeniable medicinal qualities of cannabis. This audiobook helps to destigmatize this misunderstood drug and educate listeners on the history of cannabis and how it is used by the medical community today.

To make this groundbreaking audiobook, Dr. James Lyons-Weiler combed through the past fifty years of published research on autism, exploring subjects such as genetic variation, mechanisms of neurotoxicity of metals and pesticides, and the central and combined roles of each in causing autism.

Experience the magic of Christmas in this heartwarming holiday tale of love, healing, and the transformative power of the season. Saiya Scott has always been a modern-day Scrooge, harboring a deep-seated resentment towards the holidays as they serve as a painful reminder of the love and lives she lost. With a heart heavy with grief, Saiya finds herself navigating the bustling city streets and her overbearing family's festive preparations, all while desperately trying to shield herself from the season's cheer. However, when a chance encounter with a mysterious man, known as "Magnificent St. ...

In his best-selling A Planet for Rent, Yoss pays homage to Ray Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles and 334 by Thomas M. Disch. A critique of Cuba in the 90s, after the fall of the Soviet Union and the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact, A Planet for Rent marks the debut in English of an astonishingly brave and imaginative Latin American voice.

Meet Jovie. How do you escape the past when it lurks at every small town corner? That's what Jovie is trying to figure out as she does her absolute best to move on and sweep those dirty parts of her past under the rug. It's not quite so simple when everyone knows: knows your past, knows you're untouchable, and knows...him. Meet Bleu. A new town. A new life. That’s what Bleu was in search of when he came across an advertisement for the perfect bachelor pad. He never thought he would retire from the military before he had a gray hair. Funny how life changes in the blink of an eye.

In a coming-of-age story reminiscent of The Outsiders, 13-year-old Reason Nelson attends a party that is busted by the local police. As he flees, he collides with a detective and a drug dealer. He snatches up what he believes to be his leather jacket and crawls into a doghouse. In the pocket of this coat, Reason discovers a key that opens a safe-deposit box containing evidence that will solve the murder of a young female informant. Reason finds himself running from both the drug dealer who murdered her and the detective trying to solve her murder.

This is the story “behind” all of my stories, starting from when I was a kid growing up in Havelock, moving on through the 45 years I spent in the field of youth work. I may have a wild imagination, but this one is nonfiction, and filled with true stories of my life and times. For all youth workers out there - I hope this resonates with you, and not only inspires you to never give up on even the toughest, belligerent kids, but serves as a clarion call for you to stand at the wall and fill the gap, while others have given up and quit.

Enthusiastic, spunky, and positive, Punky Brewster was the quintessential eighties kid. Nearly thirty years later, Soleil Moon Frye---the adorable girl who played her on TV---is all grown up. Now she's a married mom of two, an entrepreneur who parlayed her successful kids' clothing line into a partnership with Target, and a social media whiz with millions of followers.

No Reserve is your guide to shattering the ceiling you’ve built on your dreams by taking risks on yourself and your passions. Its 11 strategies for removing the reserve from your life — or dispensing with any minimum conditions for taking action and giving of yourself — will enable you to live with unlimited joy, success, optimism, and a fearless generosity.

Tax Pro Nation is the show for independent tax professionals. Whether you're thinking about getting into the tax business to make extra money part-time or you're a seasoned tax entrepreneur dreaming of creating the next nationwide tax franchise — or like most of our listeners, you're somewhere in between — welcome home. In the first 10 episodes, we cover The Pronto Path, the first and only step-by-step career road map available for independent tax professionals seeking to build a lifestyle of freedom and success. In further episodes, we conduct spirited conversations with tax professionals...

Pulitzer Prize-winner Cynthia Tucker and award-winning author Frye Gaillard reflect on the role of the South in America's long descent into Trumpism. In 1974, Southern author John Egerton published his seminal work, The Americanization of Dixie, reflecting on the double-edged reality of the South becoming more like the rest of the country and vice versa. Tucker and Gaillard dive deeper into that reality from the time that Egerton published his book until the present.

An Experience Definitely Worth Allegedly Having is a collection of essays on travel selected by Edith Zimmerman, the founder of the colorfully offbeat women’s website The Hairpin. Like The Hairpin, these essays are funny, weird, adventurous, and moving. There are stories about following a mysterious stranger’s maps in Mexico, attending endless step aerobics classes in Buenos Aires, faking a terrible British accent in London, and navigating a nude spa in Stockholm. About loneliness, connection, and sunburn.

We are a Reformed Baptist church that holds to the 2nd London Baptist Confession of Faith of 1689.Our Vision: To be a kingdom-minded, Christ-exalting, multigenerational community of faith.Our Mission: To proclaim the supremacy of Christ to every man with a view towards Biblical conversion and comprehensive discipleship.Sermons from Grace Family Baptist Church in Houston, Texas, featuring Aaron Wright, Erin Frye, Voddie Baucham, and David Shiflet.

In this Mythic Fantasy series, the Havelock Emerald is an Irish pub located in the small suburb of Havelock, Nebraska. The Emerald’s iconic stained-glass window, depicting a black dragon carrying a bright green emerald in its talons, was gifted to Billy Connors by a Gypsy Chieftain back in Ireland years ago. In the pub is a gateway to an alternate reality. Old Billy is an Irish gunrunner and the gatekeeper linking this world with the alternative realms beyond.

Enjoy these classic fairytales like you've never seen them before with The Big Book of Princess Stories.

The audiobook is a story about two brothers, Kelvin “Kels” Johnson, Jr., and Malik “Lil Ghadi” Johnson. Each of them had eager desires to follow in their father’s legacy for success and power. They wanted to finish the goal their father, Kelvin “Ghadi” Johnson, Sr., started before his incarceration, as well as try to achieve the goal of getting out of the game without getting scarred like their father did. Kelvin “Ghadi” Johnson, Sr.’s name ran throughout the streets of the Eastson Neighborhood, but not even his name could stop what his sons were about to face.