Frederick Smith

After a rough breakup, gay romance author Renny Ross heads to the Bay Area for a fresh start. His new gig writing the anniversary story for a local university is supposed to be a fresh chapter (thanks to university president Dr. Taylor James). But Renny didn't expect to run into a familiar face from his past. After dropping off his youngest child at college, recently divorced Brent D. King DuPree, is on a journey to freedom, liberation, and living the life he put on hold for over twenty years to raise his family. Figuring out life as a newly out and newly single man, Brent is hesitant about stepping into the Bay Area gay scene until a chance reunion with his first real crush, and the guy he never quite forgot, his peer mentor and tutor in college: Renny Ross. Neither man expected a second chance. But working together at the same university stirs up feelings that never really faded. Their love doesn't have to be a secret anymore, but will they get it right this time?

One night of passion and possibly one more chance at love... Determined, motivated, goal-driven, and eternally single, Dr. Taylor James is an accomplished university administrator in San Francisco determined to get his campus successfully through an upcoming accreditation process. The process could set him up for his ultimate career goal-to be one of the only Black and openly queer university presidents in the US. Taylor gives himself just one day a week to have fun and let loose with friends-a one and done Sunday Funday brunch in the Castro District. Dustin McMillan is a consultant and project manager who reluctantly returns to the Bay Area, his hometown, for an assignment. The first in his family to finish college, earn a healthy six-figure income, and have choice and agency in his life's direction, Dustin is fearful that returning home could mean falling back into roles that he'd thought he'd resolved by moving miles away...and equally fearful of falling back into bed with one sexy and toxic ex-boyfriend who still lingers in his memories. One chance encounter. One night of passion. Will Taylor and Dustin leave it at one and done?

This is a historically important and thrilling narrative of the deeds of the Indian Corps in Flanders in France in the early days of the Great War. During the course of the First World War, an Indian Army was raised, trained and equipped for service in India alone and upon its frontiers. Soon, this army was deployed from Egypt on the west to China in the east, and had embraced most of the intervening countries. The landing of two Indian Divisions of the Indian Corps in the harbor of Marseilles in September and October 1914 was not only a great event in the chronicles of the Indian Army, but in the entire human history.

If you have no idea what this title is talking about you are far from being secure in going to heaven. Peter says "If the righteous scarcely be saved..". Everyone thinks they are shoe-ins but are not. This is just one thing Christians don't know about the last days. Don't be too ashamed because the truth of it was not to come out until now. Many wrote books and made millions, but I tell you they are absolutely wrong. I even have a book entitled "Revelation Absolutely Wrong" out now. While you still have breath and life in you can double-check what you have been taught by your denominational churches. There will be no excuses for judgment.

Reprint of the original, first published in 1858.

Reprint of the original, first published in 1858.

The first title I had for this book was; "GETTING OUT OF HELL". Because that is one main point we all were taught & still no one Preaches ALL must come out of hell. It's in Rev. 20:13 and is plainly written. Pastors don't preach it because they can't explain the "Lake of Fire" that most go to from Hell. Some of those getting out of hell at the 2nd Resurrection will go to the New Earth. That's why the Book of Life is open AGAIN at the 2nd Res. Rev 20:15. Then who really burns forever & ever in the Lake of Fire? Again not ALL. Rev 14:9-11 says ONLY those who do 3 specific things will be tormented for ever. All who ever lived on earth who do not do THOSE 3 things will eventually receive the 2nd death after they have paid for all, all, all their sins on earth. Even "idle words". That's why the Lake is called the "second death" also. Then I got to thinking of all the other things they got wrong that are JUST as important & decided to just call the book "ABSOLUTELY WRONG". I ask readers to please check this book with any book on Rev by any Denomination or Scholar & compare them with that Holy Spirit that indwells all Christians. I say over & over in this book they must "learn to know His leading & stop believing everything they hear from the pulpit. "If the blind leaders] lead the blind followers] BOTH fall into the ditch" of hell]. There is a New Earth but no Pastor seems to know exactly who gets it. I show you this. One last thing is the so called "Tribulation Saints" are NOT anyone who is saved DURING the Tribulation. No one can who did not accept Christ can be saved after the Great Trib starts. They are 2 tribulations anyway. The first we ALL go into. In this book you will know for "sure" who the 2 Witnesses are. Christians can never ask a non Christian who has followed Hindu, Islam etc to check their teaching they have followed 1,000's of years, when they won't re-check their denominational one they followed a few 100 years. There are 2 places to spend eternal life. One is in Heaven with a Spiritual body. The other is on the New Earth with a new physical body. You will KNOW who gets which & why. Jesus only Preached Heaven because we all can make Heaven IF we get the Gospel right.

Zaire and Kenny, two newly single, Black, queer, and socially aware men, start again-in love, career, and life-in the West Hollywood neighborhood of LA.

I was truly saved at age 11, and even took my New Testament to elementary school to witness. I backslid at 14 and went into deep sin for 31 years. I was a Junkie, alcoholic, violent criminal mental patient. Yet I always kept reading the Bible praying the Lord would bring me back. He did in 1998 and it's been 19 years without a drink, drug or violence. I don't ask money for Preaching and teaching. I give free dinners at my Bible studies and run a Prison Ministry. I am 67 now and was surprised myself at the revelations God was showing me that were IN the same Bible all have been reading for years. I don't need to see any of the Bible's miracles because what He did in my life is miracle enough. God's business is CHANGING lives.

Few nation builders, men that craft countries at their outset, live long enough to write their own story. Sir Frederick "Sleepy" Smith is one. In the award winning "Dreaming a Nation", Sir Frederick, now 91, and co-author Alan Smith, reflect on the journey to nationhood of Barbados, a Caribbean and Commonwealth country which consistently ranks as one of the highest rated developing countries in the United Nations Global Human Development Index - all through Sir Frederick's remarkable personal story. Importantly, as Richard Drayton, the Rhodes Professor of Imperial History, King's College London notes in the foreword, these memoirs, "brimming with "Sleepy" Smith's wit and humour", provide "glimpses of aspects of 20th century Barbadian private and public life which neither historians nor novelists have yet recorded." Sir Frederick, whose great-great-grandfather was a slave, was born in Barbados in 1924 into a family of eleven children. After a rural childhood, he went on to serve in the British Army in World War 2 and to teach classics. After studying law in England, he threw himself into trade union and national politics, and in 1955, became one of the founders and first president of Barbados's Democratic Labour Party (DLP) which led Barbados to independence. Sleepy was falsely branded a communist at that time, when the Caribbean was a hot cauldron of Cold War politics. He was Barbados's first Attorney General and then the Leader of the Opposition after the first post-Independence change of government. Sir Frederick reflects on the nature of politics and decision making in a small country. He also takes us behind the scenes to periods of national life which, according to Richard Drayton, are "almost invisible in ...published history". In particular, he reveals the support which the Government of Barbados gave to Cuba in 1975 in allowing them to use the Barbados airport to transport troops to Angola to fight forces backed by the South African Apartheid regime. He tells of his time as Queens Counsel when he was involved in several important cases and as a judge on the Grenada Court of Appeal presiding over the case of the 1983 Grenada Revolution. Over his multi-faceted career, Sir Frederick interacted with many interesting, famous (and infamous) people: Barbados' National Heroes Sir Grantley Adams and Errol Barrow, with whom he worked closely; prime ministers and presidents - Sir Alec Douglas Home, Indira Ghandi, Chiang Kai-Shek, John Diefenbaker; fellow law officers US Chief Justice Earl Warren and US Attorney General Eric Holder; famous cricketers with whom he grew up - the three W's of Frank Worrell, Clyde Walcott and Everton Weekes; and even the notorious train robber Ronnie Biggs whom he successfully defended in an extradition case (but was never paid ). Importantly, "Dreaming a Nation" provides unique insights into the extraordinarily rigid constraints of race and class which characterised colonial Barbados and how, within a relatively short period of time, the arrival of popular democracy transformed the life chances of ordinary Barbadians. Richard Drayton reminds us, "That winning the vote in Barbados led to such dramatic improvements in health, education, and welfare, and a society founded on the rule of law, rather than civil war and Swiss bank accounts, was not inevitable. It had to do with the values and vision of Sleepy and his generation in both political parties, who sought for Barbados the kind of welfare democracy built in Britain after 1945." That is why "Dreaming a Nation" is not only a valuable contribution to Barbados' civic memory, it provides important lessons for nation builders of small countries everywhere. These unique glimpses into the public and private worlds of Sir Frederick as a soldier, teacher, legal scholar, politician, nation builder, thinker and family man are indeed a gift to future generations in Barbados, the Caribbean and the wider world.

Dirty little secrets can lead to public scandals and unexpected love affairs... Malcolm Campbell is the director of a south Los Angeles organization focused on mentoring gay youth, and his nineteen-year-old nephew, Blake, is being sent to stay with him for the summer. Malcolm has always been a community and family role model everyone looks up to. But he also has a secret he never knew he had... until it pops up on the Internet. Across town, in the closed and closeted world of Black Hollywood celebrity, pro-basketball player Tyrell Kincaid and R&B singer Tommie Jordan are public heroes in a very private relationship. After a series of indiscretions and slipups, the relationship becomes fodder for speculation and outing by the paparazzi and nationally-known gossip reporter Livonia Birmingham. Despite living in two different worlds in L. A., Malcolm, Blake, Tommie, and Tyrell find themselves in the same arena, where they'll have to risk it all to protect their hearts and their destiny.