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“Grieve well and you grow stronger.” Anthropologist Rebecca Louise Carter heard this wisdom over and over while living in post-Katrina New Orleans, where everyday violence disproportionately affects Black communities. What does it mean to grieve well? How does mourning strengthen survivors in the face of ongoing threats to Black life? Inspired by ministers and guided by grieving mothers who hold birthday parties for their deceased sons, Prayers for the People traces the emergence of a powerful new African American religious ideal at the intersection of urban life, death, and social and spiritual change. Carter frames this sensitive ethnography within the complex history of structural vio...
Wait! Before discarding that relationship or giving up on having a healthy relationship with someone you love, know there is hope. The broken trust in our relationships can often be restored. In Restoring Broken Trust: A relationships greatest challenge, you will find many of the answers to why trust is broken, what goes wrong in relationships, and what can be done to make the relationship healthy again. Mark Beaird draws insights and practical guidance from many years of experience in the helping professions and as a professional counselor to address the question he has been asked so many times, Can the trust ever be restored? The good news is there is a way trust can be restored. So, before you or someone else labels a spouse, family member, child, teen, friend, or other as untrustworthy and gives up all hope, consider the insights waiting for you in Restoring Broken Trust.
A journal of contemporary free verse poetry by Australian and international poets, on the topic of the sacred and profane aspects of life; poems about madness, beauty, memory, love and loss.
Wednesday, November 24, 1954 Breakfast is done and Carter Jones has kissed his husband, Nick Williams, and sent him off to a meeting when the doorbell rings. Two men are standing on the threshold and asking some pushy questions about Nick and where they can find him. Smelling a rat, Carter says he doesn't know where his husband is and sends the two men, one speaking perfect English with a slight accent and the other as shifty as all get out, on their way. Knowing something big is up, he calls down to the office on Bush Street and ends up talking to Sam Halversen, an operative who works for them at Consolidated Security. Within a few minutes, Sam has run up to the top of Nob Hill to fill Cart...
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Blue Dream is the firsthand story of how Ryan Luttrell spent his days in class at the University of Memphis and his nights researching and influencing the school’s next basketball team. At the time Blue Dream started, Ryan was working on a master’s degree in sports commerce, and what a perfect time, as the Memphis Tigers were ranked #1, a dream come true from his childhood. He religiously followed the team and one day decided to attend a practice with his 7-year-old son, Carter. Overnight, he became friends with the new recruits and assistant coaches, and as a result, he was privy to the most intimate secrets of how Calipari and his staff worked and maneuvered in the underworld of recrui...
A specialist unit gets sent into the deepest part of the Amazon rainforest, to gather Intel on a dangerous terrorist cell. The cell was planning on setting a killer virus free on the world. From the moment the team enter the village, members of the team disappear without a trace; the village turns red with blood, now it's a fight for survival.
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