The Covenant with Black America is the brainchild of Tavis Smiley. For the past seven years, the talk show host has had his own "State of the Black Union" symposium. Seeing that simply exchanging opinions with the nation's top black leaders was not sufficient, he decided to chart a course for the
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I just finished reading the book Tribes, by Seth Godin. I found this book fascinating. It's about how groups form into tribes and how tribes are leading the changes that are happening in our world. It's also about the need for leaders to help tribes strengthen. (I purposely did not use the word g
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So this week I am going to share my review of one of the books that caught my eye and Wall Street Journal as well...The 4 Hour Workweek Escape 9-5, Live anywhere and Join the New Rich by Timothy Ferriss.
I loved this book and I could not put it down. The passion for the content was not around the
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The Last Citadel by David L Robbins, is a fictional book based on historical events surrounding the epic tank battle at Kursk Russia in 1943 during World War 2. The German forces were bogged down by the Russian winter, the Russian victory at Stalingrad and then the subsequent spring rain and mud.
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The main action of the plot of Wuthering Heights centers around two separate relationship stories, with each consuming approximately half of the volume of the novel. Although the female components of both stories share the same name of Catherine, each have have striking differences that aim to dem
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"Fault Line" by Barry Eisler is his first novel that doesn't feature his popular assassin John Rain. Being of friend of Barry's and a fan of John Rain and his sniper buddy Dox, I was disappointed that I wouldn't get to read another adventure with the two this summer, but excited when I learned thi
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"Quiet Teacher" by Arthur Rosenfeld is an engaging sequel to his first Xenon Pearl martial arts thriller "The Cutting Season." It picks up shortly after where the first novel ended, so I really do recommend reading them in order. It's full of action, mystery, Chinese mysticism, medical fiction, an
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