6/12/2023 0 Comments Black fortunes shomari wills![]() ![]() Thanks to our sponsors who give us the opportunity to bring you 3 shows a week! Navy Federal Credit Union Of course we’ll also throw out the Haven Life Line to a lucky listener AND save time for some of Doug’s trivia. If you’re a client, what happens to your policy? We’ll describe how it all works on today’s show. Plus, a big life insurance company just was sold to another. Think you should throw in the towel on the whole financial independence thing because you’ve made a few mistakes? While you may not have the star power to pay off a $9 million tax evasion bill, like today’s headline focus, Mike “ The Situation” Sorrentino, your path to independence isn’t over because you’ve wracked up some debt or made some bad decisions. ![]() We’re sticking with the financial “comeback” theme during our headlines. Shomari Wills, author of Black Fortunes, joins us today to bring incredible stories of fortitude, challenges, and surpassing hardships. ![]() ![]() More than recovering from 6-figure debt or learning how to balance their budget, today we’re excited to bring you the stories of the first black Americans, some of whom survived slavery, but who all went on to become millionaires. We’ve told plenty of incredible underdog financial stories on the podcast, but none like the one’s you’ll hear today. ![]()
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![]() But this story is from the stars thus, I’d rate it infinitely. Ironically, this site has us rate books with stars. Thank you, Tae Keller, for this remarkable book. I saw them as the latter as they were dying, but this book showed me their bravery in a whole new light. My mom & grama were complicated: fierce, brave women, but also often scared and closed off. As Keller writes (and I paraphrase): the sadness may lessen, but the missing never does. This book made me want to read more about Korea so that its “single story” - in my brain, at least - doesn’t come from a 70s TV show.Īs for the mirror, I lost my grama 3 years ago this month, and my sweet mom almost exactly a year later. I loved hearing the stories of the gods and myths of Korean folklore, and of the quiet inner strength of the Korean women. I know very little about Korean culture, and nothing about the folktales within. ![]() But when a book acts as a window and a mirror (Sims Bishop, 1990) simultaneously, well, that’s something quite special. ![]() ![]() Sure, I could describe When You Trap a Tiger as MG magical realism. Or it might help heal a part of you that is broken. It might show you the world in a new way. You never know what a book will truly be for you until you read it. I was in a bit of a reading slump when this book came to me from the publisher via a member of my reading group. ![]() ![]() Luckily one of the ideas involved a man being haunted by the spirit of his mother-in-law an idea that became A Ghost of a Chance.įrom an author’s perspective, there can be many advantages to being a launch for a new program. I had been juggling a number of different ideas at the time, trying to settle on one for a proposal. The opportunity came about when I happened to ask my editor one day, “So is anything new going on?” As it turned out, ghosts were going on and, within two weeks, I had a proposal winging its way to New York. Last year, I had the good fortune to be one of the launch books in Berkley/Jove’s Haunting Hearts. Of course, that’s not quite how it’s done, although launching a new line is usually cause for celebration. I picture an author standing over her computer poised to smash a bottle of Dom Perignon against her keyboard. ![]() When people talk about “launching” a line, I tend to think nautical. ![]() We asked her to talk about her experiences and to give us an update on her career today. ![]() Author Casey Claybourne participated last year in the launching of a new line of romances by Jove – the Haunting Hearts series. ![]() 6/12/2023 0 Comments Jackson brodie in order![]() ![]() Surrounded by death, intrigue and misfortune, his own life is brought sharply into focus. He is at that dangerous age when men suddenly notice that they re going to die eventually, inevitably, and there isn t a damn thing they can do about it. He is forty five but feels much, much older. ![]() Jackson has never felt at home in Cambridge, and has a failed marriage to prove it. A nurse has lost her niece a widow, her cats. Two spinster sisters make a shocking find. His days are full of people clamouring for answers and explanations. To Jackson Brodie, former police inspector turned private investigator, the world consists of one accounting sheet Lost on the left, Found on the right and the two never seem to balance. Yet despite everything he d seen and done, inside Jackson there remained a belief a small, battered and bruised belief that his job was to help people be good rather than punish them for being bad.’Cambridge is sweltering, during an unusually hot summer. ![]() He was used to being a voyeur, the outsider looking in, and nothing, but nothing, that anyone did surprised him any more. ‘Investigating other people’s tragedies and cock ups and misfortunes was all he knew. ![]() 6/11/2023 0 Comments If Sons, Then Heirs by Lorene Cary![]() ![]() Lorene Cary is the author of Black Ice, The Price of a Child, Pride, FREE! Great Escapes from Slavery on the Underground Railroad and If Sons, Then Heirs. In Ladysitting, Cary captures the ruptures, love, and, perhaps, forgiveness that can occur in a family as she bears witness to her grandmother's 101 vibrant years of life. When Nana doubts Cary's dedication, Cary must go deeper into understanding this complicated woman. Facing the inevitable end raises tensions, with Cary drawing on her spirituality and Nana consoling herself with late-night sweets and the loyalty of caregivers. But Nana could also be devoted: to Nana's father, to black causes, and-Cary had thought-to her grandchildren and great-grandchildren. ![]() Nana was a force: Her obstinacy could come out in unanticipated ways-secretly getting a driver's license to show up her husband, carrying on a longtime feud with Cary's father. ![]() ![]() Cary knew there might be some reckonings to come. Brilliantly weaving a narrative of her complicated yet transformative relationship with Nana-a fierce, stubborn, and independent woman, who managed a business until she was 100-Cary looks at Nana's impulse to control people and fate, from the early death of her mother and oppression in the Jim Crow South to living on her own in her New Jersey home. From cherished memories of weekends she spent as a child with her indulgent Nana to the reality of the year she spent "ladysitting" her now frail grandmother, Lorene Cary journeys through stories of their time together and five generations of their African American family. ![]() 6/11/2023 0 Comments Gut Check by Eric Kester![]() ![]() Even football neophytes will root for this winningly heartbreaking, humorous, and hopeful story." - Booklist, starred review "The protagonists, the town, and the culture of high-school football are richly developed with keen insight and pithy prose. It's filled with memorable characters, especially Nate, Wyatt's smart, acne-prone best friend. Can the hero of a sports story be an overweight, ignored, nonathletic team mascot plucked from obscurity to land in the limelight? You bet! A winner." - Kirkus Reviews, starred review "Like Friday Night Lights, this compelling debut breaks the fourth wall at times. ![]() the storyline plays both offense and defense with perfection. *A Junior Library Guild Selection* "Readers don't have to like football in order to love this book. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() in his encyclical letter on the Christian Constitution of States (Immortale Dei, Nov. This was the only philosophy of history known throughout Europe during the middle ages it was adopted and reproduced in its essential features by Bossuet, Ozanam, Frederick Schlegel, and other Catholic writers, and has recently been officially endorsed, as it were, by the scholarly Pope Leo XIII. It is the first attempt at a philosophy of history, under the aspect of two rival cities or communities,-the eternal city of God and the perishing city of the world. It is a vindication of Christianity against the attacks of the heathen in view of the sacking of the city of Rome by the barbarians, at a time when the old Græco-Roman civilization was approaching its downfall, and a new Christian civilization was beginning to rise on its ruins. The “City of God” is the masterpiece of the greatest genius among the Latin Fathers, and the best known and most read of his works, except the “Confessions.” It embodies the results of thirteen years of intellectual labor and study (from A.D. ![]() 6/11/2023 0 Comments The silver wolf by alice borchardt![]() ![]() And if the Church discovers her secret, Regeane will burn at the stake. The most notorious, her depraved uncle and guardian, will not scruple to betray her to the Church unless she aids him in his sinister schemes. Possessed of preternatural agility and strength, primal memories extending back thousands of years, and senses so keen they can pierce the veil of death itself, Regeane is a shapeshifter: woman and wolf, hunter and hunted.Betrothed by Charlemagne's command to a barbarian lord she has never seen, Regeane is surrounded by enemies. But unknown to those plotting against her, the blood she has inherited from her murdered father makes her much more than a child of royalty. ![]() Regeane's regal blood renders her an unwilling pawn in the struggle for political power. Now, into the Eternal City comes Regeane, a beautiful young woman distantly related, through her dead mother, to Charlemagne. ![]() In this new historical romantic fantasy of stunning originality and scope, Alice Borchardt breathes life into a bygone age, brilliantly recreating a sensuous, violent world-and the men and women whose grand ambitions, betrayals, and passions shape the era in which they live and die.Decadent Rome at the dawn of the Dark Ages is mired in crumbling grandeur. ![]() 6/11/2023 0 Comments Kings of the wyld book![]() ![]() There’s a few things that I did like about this book. This book honestly felt like a Dungeons & Dragons campaign in book form. Honestly when I was reading this, I was actively telling myself that this is not a Dungeons & Dragons book and this book totally does not take place in the Forgotten Realms. ![]() Kings of the Wyld is about a party of retired adventurers who get out of retirement to do one last big quest to save one of the members daughter from a siege taking place on the other side of the world. It’s time to get the band back together for one last tour across the Wyld. Rescuing Rose is the kind of mission that only the very brave or the very stupid would sign up for. His daughter Rose is trapped in a city besieged by an enemy one hundred thousand strong and hungry for blood. Then an ex-bandmate turns up at Clay’s door with a plea for help. Their glory days long past, the mercs have grown apart and grown old, fat, drunk – or a combination of the three. Clay Cooper and his band were once the best of the best - the meanest, dirtiest, most feared crew of mercenaries this side of the Heartwyld. ![]() 6/10/2023 0 Comments Raggedy ann stories johnny gruelle![]() ![]() No wonder Rag Dolls are the best beloved! You are so kindly, so patient, so lovable. What adventures you must have had, Raggedy! What joy and happiness you have brought into this world! And no matter what treatment you have received, how patient you have been! What lessons of kindness and fortitude you might teach could you but talk you with your wisdom of fifty-nine years. True, she has been nibbled by mice, who have made nests out of the soft cotton with which she has been stuffed, but Raggedy smiled just as broadly when the mice nibbled at her, for her smile is painted on. Evidently Raggedy has been to a "tea party" today, for her face is covered with chocolate. There she sits, a trifle loppy and loose-jointed, looking me squarely in the face in a straightforward, honest manner, a twinkle where her shoe-button eyes reflect the electric light. Dear old Raggedy Ann! The same Raggedy Ann with which my mother played when a child. LibriVox recording of Raggedy Ann Stories (version 3) by Johnny Gruelle.Īs I write this, I have before me on my desk, propped up against the telephone, an old rag doll. ![]() |