I Ain T Down Yet

Formerly a star of "B" movies and one of the most popular of the early television stars, Gale Storm tells the story of her struggle with, and eventual triumph over, alcoholism

In this work you will see and hear tales of all over the globe with over a year's stay in Poland, many learning sessions in countries where Spanish is spoken, train trips in two continents, and so many personal quips about raising a family of seven very close-in-age children. Live with Mary through many years of fun and always learning-another motto of Mary is "You're Never Too Old To Learn"!

Crossing the North Atlantic Ocean in a small sailboat is no longer a news-grabbing event. Recent advances in navigation and communication equipment, unavailable a few short years ago, have greatly improved sailors chances of survival and success. Nevertheless, the waters of the North Atlantic Ocean still present many different moods and difficultoften extremechallenges. In 1996 three Lake Ontario sailors from TorontoHenk Borsboom, Peter Becker and the author, Dick Grannandecided to accept the challenges of the North Atlantic Ocean on RABASKA (big canoe), a thirty-seven foot Alberg sailboat. The adventure had a huge impact on their lives, and their memories tell fascinating stories of what they experienced on that trip. Many sailors who write about cruising have a chapter about The Storm. Crossing the North Atlantic Ocean in 1996 was not about just one major storm, but a series of them that nearly defeated their spirit and courage. The sailors faced relentless challenges when they crossed the worlds second-largest ocean in a small sailboat. Grannan tells how they worked together as a team, and how the trip enabled them to rearrange their priorities and to get more in touch with their everyday lives.

This collection of fiction and poetry, memoirs and autobiography, history and journalism illuminates the African American experience in St. Louis in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

2021 Midwest Book Award Finalist 2021 In The Margins Book Awards - Nonfiction Recommendation List Ain't Never Not Been Black foregrounds Black pleasure Black pain and Black love in unflinchingly Black ways. Engaging with themes of masculinity, racism, love, and joy, Johnson is at once critical and creative. His spoken word performance transfers effortlessly to the page, with poems that will encompass you. This is a book about blackness and survival, and how in America these are inseparable. In a world of individualism, who can you hold close? In a world of danger, what makes you feel safe? From a poem written in the form of a syllabus, to another about the time his grandmother literally saved his life, Johnson's creative expression is constantly enacting the feminist mantra, “the personal is political."

Truckin With Bubba and I Aint Bubba presents a perceptive and amusing account of the experiences of a successful, award-winning Class A CDL driving instructor. When we would come to a hill, One Gear would raise the RPMs, take a stab at down shifting a couple of times, rake the gears, and then sit there in a catatonic state staring straight ahead, his eyes bulging with fear, his arms straight out, and his hands frozen to the steering wheel. One night we were rolling down a long six-percent grade, gaining speed. Did you shift down? Yeah. Is the Jake brake on? Yeah. I dont hear it working. Its on. I reached over and took a hold of the shifting lever. It was in neutral. Its not in gear, I told him. If you think the hand of God is going to come down and put it in gear for you, youre going to see the hand of God a lot sooner than you think. Put your foot on the accelerator and raise the RPMs. He managed that and I shoved it into a gear. Any gear was better than no gear. When you cant get the gear you want, you have to get it in some gear and then work to the one you want.

It all started with a forbidden love. Now everything has become so much more complicated... When Desiree gets caught between her lovers, Troy and Derrik, she makes the decision in haste and leaves them standing in the middle of her living room. In the midst of her deception being exposed, Desiree finds out she is pregnant. Unsure which of the friends is the father, she was desperate to put some space between herself and her problems; to clear her mind of betrayals and the men who put her in this predicament. On the same day, she runs into her old flame, Aaron. Undoubtedly, the attraction between them is not dead, but she knows she can’t go through with it. She can’t sleep with Aaron as long as she is carrying another man’s baby, no matter how much his body beacons hers. Still, Aaron is not willing to go away quietly and might be more trouble than she bargains for. Desiree knows her heart belongs to Derrik, but with so many secrets and lies swirling around her, can she ever hope to build a future with him? How can Desiree escape her past when it keeps returning to haunt her?