NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The heart-wrenching, uplifting tale about a woman named Cupcake "[Cupcake] Brown's confessional . . . memoir is one you can't easily put down. Her life is nothing short of a miracle."--Chicago Sun-Times There are shelves of...

A phonological study of the four Gwari lects (Nigeria): Northern and Southern Gbagyi, and Northern and Southern Gbari. By making an analysis of each dialect, the author seeks greater understanding of the phonology of Gwari as a whole. Since...

This is the gritty story of one man's lifelong education in the school of hard knocks, as his journey took him from Harlem to the Marines, the Ivy League, and a career as a controversial writer, teacher, and economist in government and private industry...

Many authors have sought to understand Northern Ireland's "Troubles," the nearly thirty-year armed conflict during which more than 3,500 people were killed.A People's Movement: The Fight for Reform in Northern Ireland is not just another book about the...

Five years in the making, A People's Curriculum for the Earth is a collection of articles, role plays, simulations, stores, poems, and graphics to help breathe life into teaching about the environmental crisis. The book features some of the best articles...

True stories of five refugees who escaped from genocide in south Sudan and Darfur, made their way through Egypt and were smuggled into Israel, the only country their Islamic government prohibited them from entering. In desperation they fled across the...

When Chance, the flamboyant scion of a well-to-do family, makes it to the United States from his war-torn Biafra, it doesn't occur to him that life isn't going to be the same as it is in his homeland. But he learns fast. And by sheer will and personal...

When Chance, the flamboyant scion of a well-to-do family, makes it to the United States from his war-torn Biafra, it doesn't occur to him that life isn't going to be the same as it is in his homeland. But he learns fast. And by sheer will and personal...

In A Path to Healing, Dr. Andrea Sullivan, one of the nation's leading naturopaths, tells readers everything they need to know about establishing wellness in their lives. In easy-to-understand language, she demystifies alternative medicine and prescribes...

The world of bondage and discipline is unlocked by Jada Simmons by spying on her new boss. She's reluctant, but her soul can't resist no longer...When Jada went for an interview to be the personal assistant of the famous mystery writer Javier Sosa...

Few things in life give Lilly more pleasure than playing her clarinet and making beautiful music. She never dreamed music might have a magic of its own, or that her band recital might become a battleground between good and evil.

Jameson Hartford and his wife, Abigail, return to their home in SouthCarolina to claim his inheritance, the Serenity Plantation, wherehe is determined to free all his workers and put an end to the evils ofenslavement. He encounters hostility and hatred...

From Academy Award-nominated actress Quvenzhané Wallis comes a story about glitz, glamour, and the most important thing of all--family. A very talented little girl has a very special night ahead of her. A night where she'll get to wear a new dress in the...

"...his economical writing style ... manages to pack lots of information - and opinion - into a few carefully chosen words ... Besides detail work well-grounded in scholarship...the author isn't afraid to interpolate such generalizations and speculations...