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MIKE It was just a matter of time until she came back to me. After what I did, maybe she's right to make me wait. But Verity knows how sorry I am. And the messages she sends me, the way she calls me, the way she acted last time I saw her - no-one acts like that if they've stopped caring.

She'll be mine again. No matter who stands in my way. I was completely gripped from the first word to the last. Astonishingly dark and sensationally accomplished. I was gripped until the last pages. Original and powerful. Be prepared for qu. He tells Mary that Mr. Soon they learn that, in their advanced years, a son will be born to them Then Jesus pays the family a visit, and the true Messiah becomes apparent That's just a sample of the 46 creative stories in Lightly Goes The Good News, contemporary renderings of biblical passages set in situations that people today can easily understand.

Expanding on the original situation found in scripture, the humorous, upbeat tales invite readers to let their imaginations fly with the stories. Papineau vividly describes the characters in ways that help us understand them, and ourselves as well. Each challenging, inspiring, and to-the-point story is followed by a brief reflection that can be used as the basis for discussion or individual meditation.

Lightly Goes The Good News is an invaluable resource for preachers, religious educators, storytellers, adult study groups, and anyone interested in a unique approach to the biblical narrative. Your heart will be lifted by the joy, hope, and humanity found within these delightful tales. Invite Andre Papineau into your life, and allow his innovative interpretations to transform the meaning of scripture for you.

Andre Papineau gives readers a refreshing and at times startling glimpse at people in the scriptures. He tells the gospel story in a series of delightfully down-to-earth yet insightful anecdotes that enable the reader to appreciate the Good News from a fresh perspective. Score: 1. For the African-American community, that image is especially troubling: All the problems of the welfare system seem to spotlight the black teenage mom.

Elaine Bell Kaplan's affecting and insightful book dispels common perceptions of these young women. Her interviews with the women themselves, and with their mothers and grandmothers, provide a vivid picture of lives caught in the intersection of race, class, and gender. Kaplan challenges the assumption conveyed in the popular media that the African-American community condones teen pregnancy, single parenting, and reliance on welfare.

Especially telling are the feelings of frustration, anger, and disappointment expressed by the mothers and grandmothers Kaplan interviewed.

And in listening to teenage mothers discuss their problems, Kaplan hears first-hand of their misunderstandings regarding sex, their fraught relationships with men, and their difficulties with the educational system—all factors that bear heavily on their status as young parents.

Graham, neither trained as a sociologist nor possessed of pretensions to write like one, offers little to no critical analysis of the black upper class. His description of the black upper class in the United States, rather, should be viewed as a document or artifact. Throughout the book, Graham does attempt to unveil several of the conceits and hypocrisies of this class, but he does not utilize the wealth of data he has amassed to do a thoroughgoing critique of the black upper class.

The value of this book to the sociologist, then, is in its documentation of the complex and established networks of privilege which perpetuate the black upper class. To be sure, the black upper class is a miniscule portion of the entire black population of the United States.

The historical consequences of slavery and the aesthetic bias ingrained in white America against all cultural symbols of African American heritage have had the intended effect of systematically destroying the life chances of the vast majority of African Americans. The slice of the black population described by Graham, however, is as much a patrician class as the Protestant Establishment upon which E.

Graham elaborately describes these groups and clubs as well as their exclusive vacation spots, college fraternities and sororities, and the inner circle intrigue by which the black upper class maintains its exclusivity against a world of zyxwv white privilege. Moreover, he explains how this establishment web is used to exclude the black under class and the black nouveaux riches. The members of the black upper class whom Graham describes have an extensive lineage.

They can often trace their genealogy back to the black members of Congress elected during post Civil War Reconstruction as well as to African Americans possessed of great wealth earned through insurance and hair care businesses and in medicine, law, real estate, and the arts.

This is a patrician class highly resistant to incursion by anyone lacking the correct and closely held memberships in the requisite clubs. Downloaded from has. One should not forget in reading Graham that the members of this class are also inheritors of the same historical victimization exacted on blacks throughout U. But this small privileged group, once ensconced in its own protected and elite realm, has made certain that few of those left behind would be allowed to follow.

While this class has produced leaders like Martin Luther King, Jr. If we are to work toward a humanist sociology, we must face the institutional structures which ingrain social inequity. Grant, abolitionist Frederick Douglass, and a cadre of liberal black and white Republicans, Bruce spent six years in the U. Senate, then gained appointments under four presidents Garfield, Arthur, Harrison, and McKinley , culminating with a top Treasury post, which placed his name on all U.

During Reconstruction, the Bruce family entertained lavishly in their two Washington town houses and acquired an acre plantation, homes in four states, and a fortune that allowed their son and grandchildren to attend Phillips Exeter Academy and Harvard University, beginning in Washington and a superintendent of Washington, D.

When the family moved to New York in the s and formed an alliance with John D. Rockefeller Jr. Their public battle to get their grandson admitted into Harvard University's segregated dormitories elicited the support of people like W. Du Bois and Franklin D. Roosevelt, and broke brave new ground for blacks of their day. But in the end, the Bruce dynasty's wealth and stature would disappear when the Senator's grandson landed in prison following a sensational trial and his Radcliffe-educated granddaughter married a black Hollywood actor who passed for white.

By drawing on Senate records, historic documents, and the personal letters of Senator Bruce, Josephine, their colleagues, friends, children, and grandchildren, author Lawrence Otis Graham weaves a riveting social history that spans years.

From Mississippi to Washington, D. Fans of Bridgerton will love this "exuberant novel of manners for our own gilded age" Stacy Schiff, author of Cleopatra as we follow the Wilcox family's journey through riches and ruin. Helen Wilcox has one desire: to successfully launch her daughters into society. From the upper crust herself, Helen's unconventional--if happy--marriage has made the girls' social position precarious.

Then her husband gambles the family fortunes on an elevated railroad that he claims will transform the face of the city and the way the people of New York live, but will it ruin the Wilcoxes first? As daughters Jemima and Alice navigate the rise and fall of their family--each is forced to re-examine who she is, and even who she is meant to love.

From the author of To Marry an English Lord, an inspiration for Downton Abbey, comes a charming and cutthroat tale of a world in which an invitation or an avoided glance can be the difference between fortune and ruin. I loved it, right down to the utterly chilling final line. Astonishingly dark and sensationally accomplished. Finn, author of The Woman in the Window A spellbinding, darkly twisted novel about desire and obsession, and the complicated lines between truth and perception, Our Kind of Cruelty introduces Araminta Hall, a chilling new voice in psychological suspense.

This is a love story. Mike Hayes fought his way out of a brutal childhood and into a quiet, if lonely, life before he met Verity Metcalf. V taught him about love, and in return, Mike has dedicated his life to making her happy. Two young lovers treat themselves to a once-in-a-lifetime holiday on the Caribbean island of Antigua. He's an austere tutor at Oxford.

She's a sparky rising London barrister. Their native Britain is floundering in debt. On the second day of their holiday they encounter a rich, charismatic something Russian millionaire called Dima who owns a peninsula, wears a diamondencrusted Rolex watch, has a tattoo on the knuckle of his right thumb, and wants a game of tennis.

In , Uzodinma Iweala stunned readers and critics alike with Beasts of No Nation, his debut novel about child soldiers in West Africa. Now his return to his native continent has produced Our Kind of People, a nonfiction account of the AIDS crisis that is every bit as startling and original. Iweala embarks on a remarkable journey in his native Nigeria, meeting individuals and communities that are struggling daily to understand both the impact and meaning of the disease.

He speaks with people from all walks of life—the ill and the healthy, doctors, nurses, truck drivers, sex workers, shopkeepers, students, parents, and children. Their testimonies are by turns uplifting, alarming, humorous, and surprising, and always unflinchingly candid. Their encounter seems fated: Eleanor, a teacher and recent Vassar graduate, needs a job. The spark between Eleanor and Tom is instant and intense.

Flushed with new romance and increasingly attached to her young pupil, Eleanor begins to feel more comfortable with Patricia and much of the world she inhabits. Gripping and vividly told, Not Our Kind illuminates the lives of two women on the cusp of change—and asks how much our pasts can and should define our futures.

On Ichabod Island, a jagged strip of land thirteen miles off the coast of Massachusetts, ten-year-old Sky becomes an orphan for the second time after a tragic accident claims the lives of her adoptive parents.

Back on the island and struggling to balance his new responsibilities and his marriage to his husband, Leo is supported by a powerful community of neighbors, many of them harboring secrets of their own. And among them all is a mysterious woman, drawn to Ichabod to fulfill a dying wish. Perfect for fans of Celeste Ng and Ann Leary, My Kind of People is a riveting, impassioned novel about the resilience of community and what connects us all in the face of tragedy.

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