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The podcast about post-war British politics - since Attlee & Churchill. Hosted by Lee David Evans, an historian of the Conservative Party, and Richard Johnson, an historian of the Labour Party.Enjoy ad-free listening, bonus episodes and show your support for the podcast by joining the Since Attlee & Churchill Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/SinceAttleeAndChurchill If you're a fan of the podcast, we would be very grateful if you could leave us a positive review to help other people find us. Thank you!Since Attlee & Churchill is also available on YouTube. Listen and watch the show at: https:...

Author Lee Johnson describes Mixing Memory and Desire: How History Shaped the Foods of the Caribbean as ‘a food book with a large side dish of history.’ It is not a cookbook – there are no recipes – or a forbidding history text filled with events and dates, but a primer for all listeners of how the Caribbean’s turbulent history led to its distinctive cuisine. It is told in an entertaining and listenable style, infused with appropriate poetic and song lyric extracts, and garnished with exquisite line drawings executed by the author.

LaFayette was one of the primary organizers of the 1965 Selma voting rights movement and the Selma-to-Montgomery marches, and he relates his experiences of these historic initiatives in close detail. Today, as the constitutionality of Section Five of the Voting Rights Act is still questioned, citizens, students, and scholars alike will want to look to this audiobook as a guide. Important, compelling, and powerful, In Peace and Freedom presents a necessary perspective on the civil rights movement in the 1960s from one of its greatest leaders.

Set in 1950s New Orleans, Little Black Girl Lost is a powerful tale filled with sex, greed, and the explosive political and social climates of an America long gone. Fifteen-year-old beauty Johnnie Wise lives her life devoted to God. But her innocence is shattered when her mother, who has been a prostitute for years, sells Johnnie's body to lecherous insurance man Earl Shamus.

After a long stint at desk duty, Phoenix Perry is dragged back into the limelight when a family member is found beaten and near death. To complicate matters, there are two dead bodies at the scene, and Phoenix’s cousin is the prime suspect. Can Phoenix find her cousin’s attackers and prove her innocence before the body count becomes astronomical? A nationwide chase ensues, involving shady editors, crooked literary agents, and a host of others. If you’re into suspense thrillers, this one is not to be missed.

Someone leaves the barn door open and there's chaos. Find out how Blue the dog comes to the rescue.

For the first time the events of the O.K. Corral gunfight are presented from the viewpoint of the McLaurys, two brothers who lost their lives and reputations, and a family who tried in vain to find restitution.

Beautiful Charone Blackwell is a victim of multiple domestic violence and sexual battery attacks. Just when she thought she had successfully defied the odds and gotten away, she receives a call from her batterer letting her know she’s not safe—in fact far from it. The batterer is on the way to her home. Desperate to get away from another brutal altercation, she leaves what was once her safe haven and goes to the local coffee shoppe where she believes she’ll be protected.

A sassy parochial schoolteacher must enlist the help of a self-righteous jingle writer to avoid life in prison.

An unforgettable cast of characters is unleashed into a realm known for its cruelty—the American high school—in this captivating debut novel. The wealthy enclaves north of San Francisco are not the paradise they appear to be, and nobody knows this better than the students of a local high...

Teenage beauty Johnnie Wise has seen her share of hardship. Sold into prostitution at an early age, she is an accessory to a murder that sparks terrible race riots. Her boyfriend, Lucas, wants to give her a better life, but Johnnie has a powerful effect on men, and gangster Napoleon Bentley will stop at nothing to have her.

William, a widower of five years, finds himself falling for a very persistent coworker by name of Terry Moretti, who will not take no for an answer. When he finally says yes, will the challenge of seducing him wean? Sterling, an attorney who fancies himself a lady's man and lives way above his means, is fired from a prestigious firm and the bills are piling up when a rich woman offers to fulfil all his dreams if he'll do her a favor that awakens his dormant conscience.

On Christmas Eve, 1951 in New Orleans, fifteen-year-old Johnnie Wise is sold into prostitution by her domineering mother, and her dreams of being an Evangelist or nightclub singer like Billie Holiday vanish like the notes of an old song. In her new life, surrounded by powerful men with even more powerful secrets, Johnnie finds that she can use romance with the men that pay to sleep with her to her advantage, and the teenage girl finds herself thrown into a world of wealth, bribery, and cold-blooded gangsters. But, the underbelly of New Orleans in the fifties isn’t without its dangers.

It was agreed, the stars pointed to the ancient text, but who would believe them. One scientist with financial help from the government sets out to find the truth on a planet light years away. If the government has their way no one will return to reveal the answer. The truth could be too controversial.... Come with me and discover for yourself, who the Third Wiseman was.

If you want to laugh, there are five of the most politically incorrect stories you'll ever listen to! There's a little redneck in all of us, so come and visit our brave hero Cletus and his wife. You'll also meet his friends and a few strange folks along the way. What would you do if druids showed up during hunting season? Have you ever seen the Mona Lisa on a hubcap? Maybe, try your hand at some turkey fishing.

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There's nowhere to go, Terra is their only hope now. Four hundred survivors of a now dead world face the unknown on a planet three thousand years in the past. Their past or is it ours? From the pyramids of Egypt to the jungles of the Amazonia, no one's life will ever be the same. Death, life and love wait for every member of the crew. Can the old learn to live with the new in peace? What happens when two cultures clash in ways no one thought possible.

Join Wicked City show Creators & Writers Kristin Iris Johnson and Serena M. Lee as they go on a deep dive into each episode of Wicked City. Get insights into the characters, the story, and the world of Wicked City, including what never made it to screen and what changed when we got into production. Hear their hilarious behind-the-scenes adventures from set, as they share the joys and mishaps making the show. It’s all laughs, love, and magick with these two as you learn more than you ever imagined about the world of Wicked City!

An outspoken pro-life African American female is nominated to the Supreme Court by a maverick new president. The Republicans own the House and the Senate. Washington elitists are enraged.

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