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Iola Leroy is a woman who contains multitudes. Born the light-skinned child of a Mississippi slaveholder, Iola is raised in the belief that she is white - and learns the truth only after her father dies. Iola is then sold into bondage and begins to question certain other lessons of her youth as well. In the midst of widespread discrimination and violence, Iola continually strives to liberate herself from all the forces that would oppress her and is eventually able to embrace her true heritage.

Yippie-i-oh! Saddle up for the first in a spin-off series starring favorite characters from Kate DiCamillo’s New York Times best-selling Mercy Watson books. Leroy Ninker has a hat, a lasso, and boots. What he doesn’t have is a horse—until he meets Maybelline, that is, and then it’s love...

A young woman is dead, and another is missing. Two cases worlds apart. When an old friend throws Cutter a case involving the disappearance of a young woman from Detroit’s most prominent family, he sees an opportunity to make some quick cash to keep the bookies off his back. But he soon realizes his client’s problems are a lot more sinister than he thought and finds himself in too deep.

This author has over 6,000 four and five-star reviews and a novel that Amazon Kindle lists as "One To Read". "I attended my funeral the first time I died." This is the first line of a different type of time-travel novel that may turn into a series if enough people like it. If you want a book with characters who travel back in time, this isn't it. After that first death, Mark doesn't attend any more of his funerals. He does recount what happened in previous lifetimes and how he died. Those memories are buried within the actions of today's world, and how they interact and shape his choices in...

God wants his children to be blessed and healed, with every need met - to walk in victory and joy everyday our lives. In the very first chapter of the bible, God provides us with the divine principle for living a victorious life....

This author's books have over 5,000 four- and five-star ratings on Amazon What happens if only you and your best friend, who is an astronomer, know that a swarm of meteors is heading for the Earth? They are the remains of an exploded planetoid, and the largest are the size of small mountains, which killed the dinosaurs. Many will miss, but who knows which ones and what damage they will do? There are only ten days left. This book is about those ten days. What they do and how they do it.

The author's books have over 6,000 four and five-star reviews and ratings. Amazon Kindle suggested Nine Years After as one of their "Books to Read". After the strongest solar flare to strike the Earth in more than a hundred years creates an ElectroMagnetic Pulse EMP that destroys all computers, including microchips in vehicles, as well as shutting down permanently the national power grid, people are trying to survive. In the first of the series, a new husband and his newly adopted fourteen-year-old daughter are camping hundreds of miles from home. How do they survive and attempt the trip ...

This author has over 4,500 four- and five-star ratings on Amazon NOTE* The undersea volcano in this story is real and began building for an eruption one year after this book was published. This entire 2030 A.D. series can be read in any order. The situation of massive volcano eruptions near where they live is the same, but the locations and characters live far apart. How they deal with others are the center of the stories. Friends turn on friends, strangers help or hinder, but all are determined to survive in a new world without electric power, government, or safety. In Oregon there exists ...

It’s official: Brynna Phillips is done with men. They only break your heart. But just when she makes this declaration, her friend Jan convinces Brynna to join her on a camping vacation in Sonoma Wine Country. As they wind their way toward their destination, spanking-new mini camper in tow, Brynna recalls her teenage camp romance with a boy named Leroy. How can it have been nearly thirty years ago?

Are you frustrated and don’t know how you are going to get out of this world’s rat race? Are you wondering how you are going to pay your rent or mortgage on the first? Well, you don’t have to worry any more. Money Cometh to the Body of Christ will inform you of your covenant rights to financial abundance through Jesus Christ!

Sarah never admits that she’s his mother, but the beautiful boy has watched her survive as a “lot lizard”: a prostitute working the West Virginia truck stops. Desperate to win her love, he decides to surpass her as the best and most famous lot lizard ever.

Emergence: Journey toward Self-Realization is not simply an audiobook about one family, one culture, or one historical experience; it is a guide for understanding how Americans survive moments of fracture and become whole again. At a time when the nation struggles with division, identity, and moral uncertainty, this work offers something rare: a lived blueprint for resilience, integration, and renewal.

We are on the cusp of a major transformation in healthcare—yet few people know it. At top hospitals and a few innovative health-tech startups, scientists are working closely with patients to dramatically extend their "healthspan"—the number of healthy years before disease sets in. In The Age of Scientific Wellness, two visionary leaders of this revolution in health take us on a thrilling journey to this new frontier of medicine.

Bobby Griffith was an all-American boy … and he was gay. Faced with an irresolvable conflict—for both his family and his religion taught him that being gay was “wrong”—Bobby chose to take his own life. Prayers for Bobby, nominated for a 1996 Lambda Literary Award, is the story of the emotional journey that led Bobby to this tragic conclusion. But it is also the story of Bobby’s mother, a fearful churchgoer who first prayed that her son would be “healed,” then anguished over his suicide, and ultimately transformed herself into a national crusader for gay and lesbian youth.

From award-winning journalist and children’s book author Mary Cronk Farrell comes the inspiring and fascinating story of the woman who gave a human face to the Vietnam War. Close-Up on War tells the story of French-born Catherine Leroy, one of the war’s few woman photographers, who documented some of the fiercest fighting in the 20-year conflict. Although she had no formal photographic training and had never before traveled more than a few hundred miles from Paris, Leroy left home at age 21 to travel to Vietnam and document the faces of war. 

It was supposed to be an innocent night, celebrating my brother’s birthday. Nothing was supposed to go wrong. We’d vowed to be on our best behavior after all.... But it only took one rowdy night with my brothers to flip my world upside down. One unlucky encounter saddled us with a family curse and the promise of doomed relationships. I laughed it off immediately. “Yeah, right,” I thought. “A love curse. Ha!” Boy, was I wrong.

You don’t have to be stuck at a desk all day to make money. You can be out on the road and get paid to do it!

This book of interconnected stories depicts the chaotic life of a young boy on the run with his teenage mother. When Sarah reclaims Jeremiah from his foster parents, he finds himself catapulted into her world of motels and truck stops, exposed to the abusive, exploitative men she encounters. As he learns to survive in this harrowing environment, Jeremiah also learns to love his mother, even as she descends into drug-fueled madness.

In today's episode we discuss the legendary career of former Cleveland Browns running back Leroy Kelly. A member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, Kelly retired with 12,330 all-purpose yards and 90 total touchdowns. Thank you for tuning in!

*Read by celebrated astronaut Leroy Chiao!* The inspiring journey of Leroy Chiao, one of the first Asian American astronauts in history, illuminating his remarkable path into space and the fascinating history of rocketry and space travel from its very beginnings Imagine if you could sit down and...