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To be a leader, you must first follow. Join author Sherry Budd as she takes you on a journey through the life of Peter in The Leader Who Followed. Peter was a simple fisherman from Galilee, but eventually he would become a leader used by God to influence the whole world. Along the way, Peter's personal desires would be challenged and his faith tested beyond measure. He would begin to take risks that most would not even consider and eventually die to self in the most unselfish way. You too can discover what it means to become a leader in this thought-provoking, eight-week Bible study. In The Leader Who Followed, you will have opportunity to see yourself through the eyes of Peter and sometimes reflected in the eyes of the Jesus, who knows all things. Learn from Peter's mistakes and victories by applying God's Word to challenging personal questions. Become the example God has always intended you to be. Emulate The Leader Who Followed.
This is the story of a pimp, Shame, the women he uses and abuses and how he recruited and maintained them on the street. First the street is revealed through Shame's mother, Latisa, as she works for different pimps, including a pimp/gambler who uses her to entice customers with live sex shows until they crossed organized crime. Shame has many run-ins with the law as a juvenile, but escapes detention while attending his mother's funeral. He falls in love, but is rejected when his lover finds out how old he is. As an adult, he encounters a couple of seasoned prostitutes. He convinces them to make him the kind of pimp they want. He quickly develops into a pimp like the rest of the vultures on t...
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A laugh-out-loud novel about teenage pretensions and adult delusions from an author whom the New York Times has called “a Balzac of the station wagon set” Chick Swallow and his best friend, Nickie Sherman, are teenage boulevardiers of Decency, Connecticut, devotees of Oscar Wilde who spend their evenings crafting perverse aphorisms in an ice-cream parlor. “There is only one thing worse than not having children,” opines Chick, “and that is having them.” Unrepentant aesthetes, someday soon they will be in Paris or New York, far removed from the mainstream. Then the unthinkable happens. Marriage. Family. Dinner parties. For Chick, a job at the local newspaper writing an advice colum...