Author : Dian Layton
Publisher : Destiny Image Publishers
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 32,75 MB
Release : 2020-01-21
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0768452376
Kids face many challenges every day. Finishing homework and household chores, learning new life skills, and navigating moral choices all come with the opportunity to either persevere or to give up and quit. This song-story is a great tool to help children keep on keeping on. It will help kids push through feeling overwhelmed or intimidated to...
Author : Josaphat-Robert Large
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 109 pages
File Size : 31,43 MB
Release : 2006-03
Category :
ISBN : 0595388892
Josaphat-Robert Large is a well known Francophone poet. As fresh as the morning dew, his verses cull their essence from the multicultural tapestry found throughout the Caribbean Islands. In French as in Creole, Large's poetry translates the day-to-day expressions of the people from these picturesque lands, all the while transmitting the essential qualities of authentic poetical forms. Large is also a Novelist and his latest Les terres entourées de larmes (L'Harmattan, Paris, 2002) (Lands surrounded by tears), won the first Prize of the best French Caribbean Book for the year 2003. The author divides his time between his native Haiti and his residence of adoption: New York City. Text XXVI I am here Painting a picture with a verbal brush I'm gonna put the color of dawn in it With a piece of sky And a beautiful bougainvillea Under a bit of a brand-new sun Many tiny beads of rain are tickling the horizon A group of miniature houses on stilts are dancing Along the sea Tonight I'm gonna draw a beautiful dream! J-R.L (p.69)
Author : Brian J. Daugherity
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 13,41 MB
Release : 2016-08-03
Category : History
ISBN : 0813938902
Virginia was a battleground state in the struggle to implement Brown v. Board of Education, with one of the South’s largest and strongest NAACP units fighting against a program of noncompliance crafted by the state’s political leaders. Keep On Keeping On offers a detailed examination of how African Americans and the NAACP in Virginia successfully pursued a legal agenda that provided new educational opportunities for the state’s black population in the face of fierce opposition from segregationists and the Democratic Party of Harry F. Byrd Sr. Keep On Keeping On is the first book to offer a comprehensive view of African Americans’ efforts to obtain racial equality in Virginia in the later twentieth century. Brian J. Daugherity considers the relationship between the various levels of the NAACP, the ideas and actions of other African American organizations, and the stances of Virginia’s political leaders, white liberals and moderates, and segregationists. In doing so, the author provides a better understanding of the connections between the actions of white political leaders and those of black civil rights activists working to bring about school desegregation. Blending social, legal, southern, and African American history, this book sheds new light on the civil rights movement and white resistance to civil rights in Virginia and the South.
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Publisher : Xulon Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 43,34 MB
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ISBN : 1619045141
Author : Guy Watts
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 12,6 MB
Release : 2002-08-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0595238297
Bobby walks home from school, along streets littered with drug users and gang-bangers. He resists the comforting call of the streets, because he wants more from his life. Elena visits her sister, a teen-aged mother, whose life is so drastically different from the one Elena sees for herself. On the cusp of entering high school, they each struggle to keep their dreams alive, carefully avoiding the pitfalls which have claimed too many of their friends. The additional stress of an interracial relationship is the last thing either wants, but in each other, they find comfort and calm. Together, they discover they can keep on Keepin' On.
Author : Mark Rutland
Publisher : Charisma Media
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 45,15 MB
Release : 2025-01-07
Category : Humor
ISBN : 1636414230
Every bodily ache, blurry menu, and grocery trip is a comedic adventure within a dark reality. While reading this book, you will be able to face your aches and pains without fear of the future. Additionally, you will be able to confront the challenges of aging with a smile on your face and a laugh-out-loud handbook by your side. “This book is not for the young,” Rutland warns with a twinkle in his eye. “Do not let them read it; they cannot bear it.” In a world where the challenges of aging loom large, Keep On Keeping On by Mark Rutland offers a laugh-out-loud handbook on how to embrace perpetual youth. This book is not just an ode but a comedic anthem to the sublime revolt against the encroaching darkness, a celebration of the sweet rage that defies the dying of the light. For those who have bravely stepped out from behind the impenetrable veil of comforting delusion into a new reality, Rutland’s witty narrative unfolds as a mirror to their experiences. For all of us, age is always ignored until its presence can no longer be denied. Throughout this timeless journey, you will embark on a grand adventure to magical locations such as: The grocery store The doctor’s office The diner down the street Keep On Keeping On is for those who see that the good night is just around the bend. It is a literary companion for those who understand that the dying of the light is not a poignant literary device but a day-to-day reality. The loss of the beloved delusion is presented with comedic flair, offering a severe dose of reality that is not only relatable but, with Rutland’s comedic touch, surprisingly uplifting.
Author : Jeanne L. Porter
Publisher : Augsburg Books
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 13,8 MB
Release : 2004-06-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781451410808
Drawing on stories of biblical women, Leading Ladies presents four models of "transformational leadership" that recognize the leadership styles of women in all walks of life: Intercessor, Midwife, Choreographer, and Weaver. Includes reflective questions for journaling or group discussion.
Author : Alan Bennett
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 680 pages
File Size : 21,71 MB
Release : 2017-11-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0374716978
One of NPR’s Best Books of the Year: “Humorous, surprising, disarmingly human” essays and comic pieces from one of England’s national treasures (The Washington Post Book World). A Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Best Book of the Year A Lambda Literary Award finalist Bringing together the hilarious, revealing, and lucidly intelligent writing of one of England’s best-known literary figures, Keeping On Keeping On contains Tony Award–winning playwright, Oscar-nominated screenwriter, and actor Alan Bennett’s diaries from 2005 to 2015—with everything from his much celebrated essays to his irreverent comic pieces and reviews—reflecting on a decade that saw four major theater premieres and the films of The History Boys and The Lady in the Van. This entertaining chronicle of a life in letters comes from a “singular voice [with] a highly tuned ironic wit—his special brand of gentleness laced with arsenic” (The New York Times Book Review). “Part of the pleasure of his diaries is the sense that [Bennett] tells them things he would never say out loud.” —The New York Review of Books “Consistently funny and touching.” —The Telegraph
Author : Joseph Morris
Publisher :
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 20,9 MB
Release : 1921
Category : American poetry
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Author : Clark Terry
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 26,12 MB
Release : 2015-06-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0520287517
Compelling from cover to cover, this is the story of one of the most recorded and beloved jazz trumpeters of all time. With unsparing honesty and a superb eye for detail, Clark Terry, born in 1920, takes us from his impoverished childhood in St. Louis, Missouri, where jazz could be heard everywhere, to the smoke-filled small clubs and carnivals across the Jim Crow South where he got his start, and on to worldwide acclaim. Terry takes us behind the scenes of jazz history as he introduces scores of legendary greats—Ella Fitzgerald, Oscar Peterson, Dizzy Gillespie, Dinah Washington, Doc Severinsen, Ray Charles, Thelonious Monk, Billie Holiday, Sarah Vaughan, Coleman Hawkins, Zoot Sims, and Dianne Reeves, among many others. Terry also reveals much about his own personal life, his experiences with racism, how he helped break the color barrier in 1960 when he joined the Tonight Show band on NBC, and why—at ninety years old—his students from around the world still call and visit him for lessons.
