Who Wants to Laugh?By: John L. Smith Sr.A variety of thoughts, joke, and anecdotes to keep readers laughing! Some romantic, some religious, and some just downright witty—readers won’t be able to turn the page fast enough to soak up the next quip!About the AuthorJohn L. Smith Sr. has been telling jokes since he was ten years old. It all started when he would tell his mother jokes to cheer her up and make her laugh. In school he was the class clown. As he got o...

Abigail Adams, wife of John Adams, was an eyewitness to America's founding, and helped guide the new nation through her observations and advice to her famously prickly husband, who cherished her. In The Unexpected Abigail Adams: A Woman "Not Apt to Be Intimidated," writer and researcher John L. Smith, Jr. draws on more than two thousand letters of Abigail's spanning from the 1760s to her death in 1818, interweaving Abigail's colorful correspondence with a contextual narrative. In ...

The glitter and excitement that tourists associate with casinos is only a facade. To the gaming industry's front-line employees, its dealers, the casino is a far less glamorous environment, a workplace full of emotional tension, physical and mental demands, humor and pathos. Author H. Lee Barnes, who spent many years as a dealer in some of Las Vegas's best-known casinos, shows us this world from the point of view of the table-games dealer. Told in the voices of dozens of dealers, male and ...

This carefully crafted ebook: "Slavery: Not Forgiven, Never Forgotten" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents: Memoirs Narrative of Frederick Douglass 12 Years a Slave The Underground Railroad Up From Slavery Willie Lynch Letter Confessions of Nat Turner Narrative of Sojourner Truth Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl History of Mary Prince Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom Thirty Years a Slave Narrative of the Life of J. D. Green The Life of Ol...

The Santa's Great Treasure Chest gathers more than 450 Christmas novels, tales, carols, poems, and legends into an expansive archive of festive imagination. Moving between devotional verse, fairy tale, domestic realism, moral fable, comic vignette, ghostly wonder, and children's adventure, the volume traces Christmas as both sacred observance and secular cultural ritual. Familiar holiday narratives, carols, and folkloric retellings stand alongside less-circulated period pieces, making the ...

The imago Dei: Man as God's Image Bearers"Let us make man in our image," so begins the relationship between God and his image bearers, beings made in his own image. What does it mean to be God's image bearer? In this issue on the imago Dei, we explore the ways man reflects God's light.Contributors:Donald W. Catchings, Jr.: "Stained-glass Man," a poem on man's own image.Annie Crawford:...

Higher Education Assessments: Leadership Matters reflects the work of a select group of researchers, scholars, and practitioners in higher education assessment with the goal of identifying strategies that assist senior campus leaders as they respond to the challenges of a changing economic landscape and political climate. The contributors, experts in the field, bring to the forefront key issues relevant to advancing assessments in higher education-principles that culminate in impr...

The Black male scholars within this important book are painfully aware that the brutal murder of George Floyd was not due to a few "bad apples." They understand that they are perceived as "threats" and "criminals" within a distorted white imaginary that is embedded with processes of mythopoetic construction, racial capitalism, and a deep anti-Black male social ontology. Edited by prominent philosopher George Yancy, Black Men from behind the Veil: Ontological Interrogations emphasizes the i...

This unique collection consists of the most influential narratives of former slaves and the stories of people who have helped them. With their powerful & unflinching stories, they changed people's convictions and shook the very foundation of slavery: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass 12 Years a Slave by Solomon Northup The Underground Railroad The Willie Lynch Letter: The Making of Slave! Confessions of Nat Turner Narrative of Sojourner Truth Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl...

Tiny Tim may be small, but his imagination is enormous! In this heartwarming children’s adventure, young readers follow Tim—a curious little boy with a giant imagination—on a magical journey beyond the ordinary.When Tim discovers that his backyard can transform into a world of talking animals, rainbow rivers, cloud castles, and friendly dragons, he begins an unforgettable adventure filled with courage, creativity, and kindness. With each challenge he faces, Tim learns ...

Monica's mother,Trudy, asks Ted to be her escort to a neighbors cocktail party. Trudy has been to these parties before but fails to tell Ted what to expect. The well off Richardson's know how to throw a good party and Ted discovers more about his new friend Trudy in the process.In addition to her high sex drive, Trudy enjoys sex with multiple partners and women as well. Ted helps her get her needs met and had the opportunity to meet several others as well that he adds to his growing...

Managing a business takes a lot of work and detail. As the business grows it gets more tedious and takes more time away from the enjoyable parts of the job. Finding the right person to take on part of the load can be a trying and risky proposition. Finding someone you enjoy working with even more so.Sometimes posting ads in unconventional places bring the best result. In our story our Boss posts an ad in a place not expecting to find both of what he seeks, a competent assistant and ...