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![]() ![]() In between offering his own commentary on the New York Jets – Baltimore Colts Januchampionship game played in Miami's Orange Bowl, Namath goes deep back in time to his childhood. With each of the 230 pages in All The Way ( Hachette Book Group), with the volume turned off, Namath is able to focus, as he tells, without the distraction of play-by-play chatter. ![]() That screening was at the beginning of the 1969 season, with the rest of the team at training camp. Namath, who would be selected as the game's MVP, watches THE game from his living room.Īs readers learn, prior to “Broadway” Joe inviting us into his home, the hall of fame quarterback had only watched Super Bowl III from start to finish, once before. ![]() And what a unique way to recap Super Bowl III. Hearing from Namath himself telling what happened in arguably one of the most important football games in modern times makes All The Way – My Life In Four Quarters worth every nickel it costs to purchase a copy. “Broadway” Joe Namath knows how to tell a story. ![]() ![]() ![]() Daddy's Game is an erotic novel that includes spankings, graphic sexual scenes, elements of age play, BDSM, and more. Natron fears he will lose it all, but will he self-destruct or can he dig deep and fight hard for himself, his teammates, and his little girl?ĭaddy’s Game is the second book in the Daddy’s Girl series following Daddy Morebucks, but it may be read as a stand alone novel. His life feels complete… until in a split second everything comes crashing down when a devastating injury threatens to end his season-and maybe his career. ![]() Almost before she knows it Carmen finds herself taking everything Natron gives her and begging for more, and when he reveals that he wants to be her dominant daddy and her to be his submissive little girl, she doesn’t hesitate to agree.Īt the top of his profession, Natron has money, fame, and all the perks that go with them, and now at last in Carmen he has found a woman he wants to share it with. Carmen soon discovers that Natron is the type of man who sees what he wants and goes after it… and apparently what he wants is her. ![]() Sparks fly when up-and-coming artist Carmen Harris meets football star Natron Dakers at her first gallery opening. ![]() ![]() ![]() Doing so was a direct challenge to state monument laws or “heritage protection” acts, several of which were passed in the aftermath of the Charleston Massacre of nine parishioners of Emmanuel AME Church in 2015. Last summer, in the days following the murder of George Floyd, Americans watched as Black Lives Matter protests in the South turned on Confederate monuments, vandalizing them, tearing them down, spraying them with graffiti with messages to end police brutality or to call out the racism that is tearing our country apart.Īs a result, several municipalities across the South began to take local action to remove their monuments, often located on courthouse lawns or along public thoroughfares. ![]() ![]() A modern fairy tale with a distinctly American setting, a delightfully levelheaded and assertive heroine, and engaging fantasy characters, the story was enormously popular and became a classic of children’s literature. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, children’s book written by L.
![]() Forty new churches open every week, not counting underground house churches (2). “By any standard, the recent growth of Christianity in China has been meteoric” (113). Today they number around 100 million (115). ![]() When Christianity was legalized again in 1980, the 4 million Christians who went into hiding had multiplied to 10 million. The oft quoted maxim held true under Chairman Mao as it did under Stalin, “Religion is like a nail, the harder you hit it, the deeper it goes”. Under the threat of Mao Zedong’s Red Guard, whose slogans included, “Beating down foreign religion” and “Beating down Jesus following”, Christianity went underground but not into hibernation. ![]() This is the story of faith’s resilience under an aggressive, government-lead policy of persecution that resulted in the death of many million people. This is the story of its rise.Īlthough the whole is pervaded by Rodney Stark’s sociological rigor, this book is in no way reducible to dispassionate science or mere technical research. In 1966, Christianity in China went underground, but not into hibernation. ![]() A Star in the East: The Rise of Christianity in China, by Rodney Stark, is a short book that combines a sweeping history of missions to China with recent, reliable statistics on its effects and implications. ![]() ![]() Rothstein incorporated several academic disciplines into his study. In a bold argument with reparations at its heart, Rothstein argued that the federal government must take responsibility for the economic and social disparity between white and black Americans. Rothstein also detailed the deliberate nature of these racially discriminating policies and how they violate the American Constitution. He asserted that overt racial policies instituted by government agencies imposed de jure segregation upon African American neighborhoods. ![]() Rothstein argued that “African Americans were unconstitutionally denied the means and the right to integration in middle-class neighborhoods, and because this denial was state-sponsored, the nation is obligated to remedy it.”1 Rothstein set out to debunk the myth that residential segregation was de facto in nature and, therefore, solely created by private choice and private institutions. His study investigated the impact of residential segregation and the role that state entities played in creating and maintaining the nation’s racial status quo. ![]() ![]() In The Color of Law, Richard Rothstein uncovered troubling insight into the history of racial discrimination in America. (New York: Liveright Publishing Company, 2017) ![]() The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America Richard Rothstein. 1 Richard Rothstein, The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America (New York: Liveright Publishing Company, 2017), xiv. ![]() ![]() I don’t like it, and I know it’s not good for me. This is not the way that I felt five years ago, but it is how I feel now. It’s quite overwhelming, and most of the time I feel as if everything I am doing is futile and an abysmal failure and no one is getting what they need, especially me. ![]() I am working hard at being a good mom to my fifteen year-old daughter, even though I am really tired of my mom job I am trying to nurture my 27-year marriage and parent my three adult children who live scattered from the West Coast to the East Coast and have different issues and needs. ![]() But I am really struggling with caring for my aging parents while simultaneously worrying about being next in line for cognitive decline. I have been stressing about the effect that stress is having on my brain, which I realize is wholly unproductive and ridiculous. She also happens to be my sister and favorite person to talk about books with! ![]() This is a guest post from Leslie Seidner, a writer who researches and writes about positive psychology, anxiety, and brain health. ![]() ![]() ![]() The real interest here lies beyond the barnstorming central tale of injustice and poisonous rancour that leads to murder and ruin. ![]() Amongst other things, it’s the entirely vindictive changes to that arrangement at the behest of town constable Lachlan Mackenzie that leads to the Bloody Project in question. The Macrae’s are crofters, and rely on the crops they farm on their allotted patch of land, an ancient arrangement passing down through generations. ![]() The journal also serves as a bleak portrait of Roderick’s feculent, turbulent life alongside his doughtily embittered father, sister, and much younger twin siblings. ![]() So begins Roderick John Macrae’s prison journal, in which he accounts the crimes for which he has been imprisoned. It is thus for no other reason than to repay my advocate’s kindness towards me that I commit these words to paper. My life has been short and of little consequence, and I have no wish to absolve myself of responsibility for the deeds which I have lately committed. I am writing this at the behest of my advocate, Mr Andrew Sinclair, who since my incarceration here in Inverness has treated me with a degree of civility I in no way deserve. His Bloody Project by Graeme Macrae Burnet (2015) Contraband (2015) 280 pp ![]() ![]() Gradually I became more and more interested in the underlying meaning of it all and the possibility of the reality of real fairies. ![]() ![]() Ray Hemachandra: When did you draw your first fairy, and how did that become a career?īrian Froud: In college, I became interested in folk tales and fairy tales. You can learn more about their amazing projects and artwork at Their son, Toby Froud, played the baby in Labyrinth, and all three worked on 2019’s 10-episode prequel series from Netflix and The Jim Henson Company- The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance- overseeing the puppets used in the series with Brian serving as primary concept artist and costumer, Wendy as fellow creature designer, and Toby as design supervisor. ![]() He has been a leading illustrator of fairies and many creatures magical and mystical, authoring or coauthoring an array of illustrated books including Faeries, The Faeries’ Oracle, How to See Faeries, and Brian Froud’s World of Faerie.īrian Froud and his wife, Wendy Froud, a sculptor and puppet creator, live in Devon, England. Professionally, he worked with Jim Henson as conceptual designer for the films The Dark Crystal and Labyrinth. Here I combine a few excerpts from my interview with Brian Froud into a slightly longer but still rather short-and I hope wholly enjoyable-excerpt. ![]() |