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  William Powell and Myrna Loy:...

  Editors Charles River

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  It is something of a cliché to say that an actor’s life was like a movie he or she might have starred in, but in the case of Myrna Loy, the cliché is true. It is easy to picture her as a little girl, riding the range with her rancher father, sitting around the table and participating charmingly in family discussions of current events. It is not hard to imagine the camera panning to her first and then second visits to Hollywood, her backlot tour, and starry-eyed decision to become an actress. There would have to be some drama, which the story of her father’s untimely death would provide, along with some sort of deathbed promise made to him to care for the rest of the family. Her mother would be brave but resolute as she moved her young family to California. The lighting on set would brighten and the tempo of the background would pick up as she walked down the Los Angeles streets. Then, her big break would come. The camera would show her first comical meeting with William Powell and then a spinning scene of ticket after ticket being sold to their new picture, The Thin Man.  
  While older silent film stars like Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton reached the peak of Hollywood, some actors born near the beginning of the 20th century were ready to capitalize. Though actors like Humphrey Bogart and Cary Grant remain household names, and actresses like Greta Garbo are still widely remembered, few had careers that enjoyed the success of William Powell. In a career spanning several decades, Powell would receive three Oscar nominations for Best Actor for critically acclaimed movies, so it is somewhat ironic that he is mostly remembered today for his association with the more famous Myrna Loy. One thing that helped Powell’s career along in the old days when Hollywood would only cast white actors in major roles, no matter what the nationality of the character was supposed to be, were his dark good looks.

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  The Historic Thames

  Hilaire Belloc

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  In The Historic Thames, Hilaire Belloc offers a richly woven exploration of the River Thames, blending history, geography, and personal reflection. Tracing the river’s course from its source to the sea, Belloc illuminates the landscapes, towns, and events that shaped England’s cultural and political identity. With lyrical prose and keen historical insight, he connects the river’s physical presence to the broader narrative of English civilization, emphasizing its role in trade, warfare, religion, and daily life. Rooted in his deep appreciation for tradition and place, the book is both a travelogue and a meditation on the enduring spirit of England. Combining scholarship with literary charm, The Historic Thames invites readers to see the past embedded in the land itself.

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  Learning from Columbine:...

  Ronan Finchley

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  Unlock Your Mind: Discover Freedom from Digital Chains! 
  ⭐⭐ Simplified Guide & Explanations Included ⭐⭐ 
  Are you striving to advance in your career while enhancing your understanding and breaking free from the confines of online distractions? 
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  This guide acts as your ultimate companion for deepening your understanding, applying your skills, and engaging in practical exercises. With this resource, you're set on a path to success. 
  Updated for the 2025 Landscape of Digital Distractions. 
  Key features of this enriched guide: 
  - In-depth insights about overcoming digital temptations 
  - Comprehensive explanations of online pleasures and their impacts 
  - Effective strategies for managing digital distractions and rising above them 
  Our guide stands out due to its thorough exploration, which is critical for your journey to freedom. Concepts are not just brushed over; they are examined with precise detail. 
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  Crafted with a clear structure and straightforward language, our guide ensures seamless transitions between topics. Say farewell to complex jargon and welcome clear, precise, and technically accurate content. 
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  God in Her Ruffled Dress - Poems

  Lisa B ( Bernstein)

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  God in Her Ruffled Dress, written and narrated by poet and singer-songwriter Lisa B (Lisa Bernstein), explores the human/divine interface: body/spirit, temporal/eternal, illness/wellness. 
  With an original musical background and bookended by two poem-prayers, it has four sections: “Return to the Body” (on the author’s type 1 diabetes, Biblical scripture, and spiritual transformation); “Drum the Beginning of the World” (jazz masters, the power of singing); “Sever the Head” (pandemic politics); and “Propagate” (a female perspective on love, sensuality, birth, and death). 
  It was published in paperback by What Books Press. Poems appeared in The Kenyon Review, Ploughshares, Poetry International, Lilith, anthologies on cars and Greek mythology, and elsewhere. 
  “A book of deep seeing…intense listening... a series of divine pleasures” - D.A. Powell 
  “Stunning…weaves together body, spirituality, politics, and the world we live in…will stir your mind and bring you into beauty” - Kelli Russell Agodon 
  “Bears écriture feminine into the 21st century with grace, wit, and incredible technical dexterity” - Kristina Marie Darling 
  “Strange, musical, funny, sexy…exploring shifting definitions of the divine while staying grounded in the body, its strengths and illness and need, its miraculous desires...a deeply spiritual, feminist celebration in verse” - Girl Trouble 
  “A multifaceted collection that challenges the reader’s…understanding of topics from gender to eroticism… powerful physicality associated with the divine that is seldom approached so boldly...delicate sensuality and eroticism…A marvelous read!” - Full House Review 
  “Her experience of living with type 1 diabetes…convey[s] the intimate edge between life and death…Read this as a reminder...to release old ghosts...imagine and name the mysterious...life force that some call God” - Harbor Review

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  Position of Power - How to Win...

  Warren MCFADDEN

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  Chapter 1 
  How to regain your power after begging and pleading 
  How can you regain the power back after doing all the begging and pleading and crying and all that shit like that? 
    when you are begging and pleading and crying, understand that’s natural. It’s called the fear of loss, you have the fear of losing something. You might not notice that the person already mentally checked out on you for whatever reason only they can tell you.  
  This is what you can do to regain your power back: 
  1. Stop all that- because it’s not going to do any good. The more you beg and plead and do all this nice stuff and jump though all these monkey ass hoops for this person, they don’t care, they are not there mentally, their mind gone, so the best thing for you to do is stop, just stop. That’s the first thing you can do to start regaining your power back, stop all that. 
  2. Then what you want to do is Become independent- the more you don’t need that person, the more that person wants you. It’s backwards, its nature, it is set up that way. The more you don’t want something the more you get it. Kind of like rich people, they get richer because they are already rich, they are not working for money. But what I’m trying to tell you is this, when you don’t need them and you are self-reliant, and you are independent and you don’t need them for absolutely nothing, they’ll want you. Now this goes in business, whatever area of your life you want to place it in, when you don’t need it there it is. Really this is how you operate from a position of power, always remember people want what they can't have.

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  Undoing Manifest Destiny -...

  L. Daniel Hawk

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  Reckoning with the Colonial Past to Bring Justice to the Present
  As White settlers spread across North America, they crafted and enacted an epic story of their God-given dominion—over the land, over Indigenous nations, and over the future. Their narrative constructed a myth of innocence that justified a massive program of violence and dispossession by suppressing a darker history. That history still reverberates today, from settler America's relations with the Indigenous nations of the United States to ways the land has been commodified as property. It's time for the whole truth to be told.
  In Undoing Manifest Destiny, L. Daniel Hawk exposes the belief systems and practices that settlers developed to justify the displacement, destruction, and cultural erasure of Indigenous peoples, beginning in the early American colonial period and extending to the present day. Writing as the descendant of White settlers and as a biblical scholar, he challenges settler Christians to uncover what the settler narrative denies and to work toward addressing historic injustices.
  In this book, Hawk
  
  - combines settler colonial theory, historical analysis, and Christian theology to examine how settler America sought to erase Indigenous presence from lands taken by the United States and its colonial predecessors;
  - offers a decolonizing perspective that challenges the church to acknowledge its complicity with the colonial project and to enter into dialogue directed toward setting things right; and
  - highlights contemporary manifestations of colonialism in US interactions with its Indigenous citizens, demonstrating that past issues are still present and need to be addressed today.
  Hawk asserts that Christians were complicit with programs of erasure, and so Christians are called to confront and heal their residue today. Joining historical research with theology and biblical scholarship, Hawk helps us recognize the myths that shape the American imagination and to engage our faith for a better way forward.
  This book is an invaluable resource for scholars, educators, students, and readers invested in areas such as post- and de-colonial studies, race and ethnicity, United States history, and social justice. Deepen your understanding of history, confront unsettling truths, and work toward justice and healing with Undoing Manifest Destiny.

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