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Dorothy Jean Dandridge (November 9, 1922 to September 8, 1965) was an American actress and singer. She was the first African-American film star to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for Carmen Jones (1954). Dandridge had also performed as a vocalist in venues such as the Cotton Club and the Apollo Theater. During her early career, she performed as a part of the Wonder Children, later the Dandridge Sisters, and appeared in a succession of films. In 1959, Dandridge was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Porgy and Bess.

Jessie, who hasn’t seen her mother since she was 14, is on her way home, bringing with her a foster child who won’t talk and a runaway they’ve picked up along the way. Meanwhile, her estranged mother awaits their arrival at the bus station in Questa, New Mexico, next to a woman who longs for a disappeared love to return.

Dorothy Lamour, born Mary Leta Dorothy Slaton (December 10, 1914-September 22, 1996) was an American actress and singer from New Orleans. Lamour began her career in the 1930s as a big band singer. In 1936, she moved to Hollywood, where she signed with Paramount Pictures. She is best remembered for having appeared in a series of successful comedies starring Bing Crosby and Bob Hope, and for her appearance as Ulah in The Jungle Princess (1936), which brought her fame and marked the beginning of her image as the "Sarong Queen." The following interview is from 1978.

All businesses experience the insidious cost of conflict. Unfortunately, few have the skills or resources to combat this toxic and pervasive problem. Until now!

When Tippi and Stan meet, their lives change. Tippi's sheltered world is opened by her friendship with Stan, and Stan finds an unlikely ally in Tippi. Both absurd and very real, Tippi and Stan touches on those things that make life worth living. This is a funny, fresh, at times laugh-out-loud story of a friendship between a cat and a pigeon who lands on her window sill.

Jennifer Mason loves medicine. She lives on the family farm with her beloved younger brother, feeds her thirst for medical knowledge through any books she can find, and spends her time learning from the doctor in town and the nearby Shawnee medicine man. Then tragedy strikes, and Jennifer’s life is changed forever. Unable to save her brother’s life after a horrifying accident, Jennifer wonders whether her search for knowledge was a waste. Unsure of herself and driven by loneliness and despair, she takes the first option she finds for a new start.

The beautiful message in Wear Your Crown Littles and Bigs will move children of all ages to live with open-hearted courage and acceptance of their greatness even when life is difficult. If you are looking for a story that begins to introduce the concept of worthiness to children, then this book is for you.

World-renowned expert Dorothy Sarnoff reveals more than 200 of her time-tested tips for foolproof control of nervousness while publicly speaking. She offers detailed, practical advice on communicating effectively to those who want to overcome their fears.

Cheshire. May Day, 1753. Tabitha De Vallory believes her life is perfect: she has an imposing home with all the comforts she has ever desired, and is expecting her first child with doting husband Nathaniel De Vallory. But Tabitha's happiness is shaken when a girl is slaughtered beneath the Mondrem Oak on the family's forest estate. Recognizing the victim from her former scandalous life, Tabitha vows to find the killer.

Shattered Bonds tells this story as no other book has before - from the perspective of a prominent Black, female legal theoretician. The current state of the child-welfare system in America is a well-known tragedy. Thousands of children every year are removed from their parents' homes, often for little reason other than the endemic poverty that afflicts women and children more than any other group in the United States.

Amid family tragedy, Clair Johnson relocates to the small, historic town of Abingdon, Virginia. Here, she meets and marries the man of her dreams. As a means of coping with the "accident" which claimed the lives of her parents, Clair turns to the sport of running. It is just off the trail on which she runs that Clair is divinely led to a place she names: "Hope".

Within a one year time frame, in the United States, there were 67,367 deaths reported due to drug overdose. This is just one human's story. She could have been number 67,368, but she was spared. Melissa and Christina have never spoken in depth about Melissa’s addiction. By the time Melissa went into recovery, she had been using it for over 20 years.

Streamline Success: Eliminate Chaos from Your Service Business is for business leaders and future business owners who want to increase company revenue and profit, simplify their life, while enjoying greater satisfaction in relationships both at home and work. With four decades of building and scaling businesses, this author helps you to understand and implement the principles that led to 80+ entrepreneurial awards. The conversational style makes it easy to follow.

Homeward Bound follows the tumultuous relationship of Sara Miller and Zeke Breneman through every challenge right through to an incredibly heartwarming ending. The chronicle of their journey together is written with love, and I trust that this warmth of character, and the beauty of their story, will also touch your heart with a sense of Gott’s light at work in your own life - even when things look dark.

Sara Miller is reeling after the return to the Amish community of the man she hoped to marry. But Zeke Breneman is a shell of the person she fell in love with, and he harbors a shameful secret that has driven him back to his roots. In an attempt to let go, Sara accepts a buggy ride from the kind-hearted James Bernhard, but she cannot shake Zeke from her heart and her prayers.

Zeke Breneman’s heart craves the wonders of a wide world, filled with adventure. His best friend Sara Miller longs for nothing more than the simple Amish life she already enjoys and the heart and hand of the man she has long expected to marry. When she refuses to leave her home to follow Zeke’s ambitions, she is brokenhearted and fearful that the world will swallow Zeke and with it, her hopes of a beautiful future with the man she loves.

Zeke Breneman's love for Sara Miller has brought him home in more ways than one, but poisonous ghosts from his past return, and threaten to destroy the community and peace he has reclaimed. Foreboding clouds threaten the joy of the newly weds, as his family and friends seek to close the door that Zeke opened in his untamed years of running around. Will all that Sara has fought for be overturned before their life together even begins? Or does God have some other plan in motion that even Zeke and Sara are unaware of?

In The Valentine Year, the author seeks to take us on a higher mental journey to losing what we once believed to be ourselves in an attempt at finding ourselves. He insists that our feelings of self-loathing or disdain for our environment and others are simply nothing more than a positive consciousness call for healing our love, life, and spirit through a process of renewal and forgiveness through gratitude.

Have you ever heard of the pearl of Alaska? How about the hillbilly Eskimo? Do you know the name of the woman who received the Wright Brothers’ Master Pilot Award at the age of 97? Well, her name is Pearl, and this is a story about her and her family and friends. To be more precise, many of these stories are hers - authentic memories written by an amazing woman.

Anya and Chris have been divorced for 18 years. When their daughter goes into labour, they are reunited outside the maternity ward, and in the exchange that follows, they are forced to confront each other, and the awkwardness of their past, as they wait for their new grandchild to arrive.