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The last generation of Americans with a living memory of Jim Crow will soon disappear. They leave behind a collective memory of segregation shaped increasingly by its horrors and heroic defeat, but not a nuanced understanding of everyday life in Jim Crow America. In The South, Adolph L. Reed Jr.—New Orleanian, political scientist, and according to Cornel West, "the greatest democratic theorist of his generation"—takes up the urgent task of recounting the granular realities of life in the last decades of the Jim Crow South.

The story of the Combahee River Raid, one of Harriet Tubman's most extraordinary accomplishments, based on original documents and written by a descendant of one of the participants: Edda L. Fields-Black shows how Tubman commanded a ring of spies, scouts, and pilots and participated in military expeditions behind Confederate lines. On June 2, 1863, Tubman and her crew piloted two regiments of Black US Army soldiers, the Second South Carolina Volunteers, and their white commanders up coastal South Carolina's Combahee River in three gunboats.

Finding the right college is a challenge for all students, but Black families face additional challenges and questions when navigating the admissions process. Veteran admissions experts Timothy L. Fields and Shereem Herndon-Brown demystify this complexity by advising families on when to begin the process, where to apply, and how to be a competitive applicant. Fields and Herndon-Brown address specific concerns that are not often addressed by school counselors or other resources.

The House of Windsor: Death Toll Edition is a gripping and unflinching exploration of the dark side of the British royal family—a follow-up to the controversial The House of Windsor: Tabloid Edition. Building on the foundation of scandal, intrigue, and hidden secrets, this new edition goes deeper, focusing on the mysterious and often tragic deaths linked to the royals and the chilling conspiracy theories that continue to surround them. In this shocking follow-up, the author uncovers a web of suspicious deaths, including those of royal staff, close protection officers, and even family ...

The ultimate guide to help Black families navigate the college admissions process. Finding the right college is a challenge for all students. But Black families face additional challenges and questions while navigating the admissions process. In The Black Family's Guide to College Admissions, veteran admissions experts Timothy L. Fields and Shereem Herndon-Brown share provocative insights and demystify this complex process to answer important questions from where to apply to how to get in.

From terraformed outposts to magical realms, journey to worlds where deadly plants, rampant biodiversity, or failed colonies have created irresistible opportunities for those brave enough to seize them. New worlds, found family, mystical secrets, and deadly science weave together in this lesbian-centric anthology focusing on a very different kind of first time - a first encounter with a world, or being, entirely unlike our own.

This compact yet insightful reflection journal filled with twenty-two wisdom keys was born out of the need to share with current and up and coming educators who see their current role as Substitute Teachers; a divine assignment from God. The purpose of this reflection journal is to encourage Substitute Teachers who may have previously missed the mark and need another opportunity to refocus. May Substitute Teachers across the globe receive the strength they need to move forward and execute in a spirit of excellence the Father’s plan for their lives as they service the needs of students, ...

A powerful and engaging read 22 Wisdom Keys: Reflections of a Modern Day Proverbs 31 Wife Anthology is written by modern day wives from various walks of life who have been married fourteen or more years. The contributing authors in this anthology each share a personal refection and words of wisdom based on the twenty-two passages of scripture from Proverbs 31:10-31. This book and combined journal will encourage and also challenge women to openly embrace this divine biblical blueprint and make it their own. Contributing authors in this anthology include: Dr. Malissa Barbosa, Carla Y. Nix, ...

Rated "Most Popular Fiction Magazine 2024" by Chill Subs Ranked Top 10 "Best Lit Mags of 2023, 2024" by Chill Subs Delight in intriguing, thought-provoking conversations about ethics, philosophy, and social issues! After Dinner Conversation is a monthly literary magazine publishing short fiction. Each issue features both established writers and up-and-coming authors who contribute fascinating philosophical insights on controversial topics like marriage equality, assisted suicide, the meaning of death, animal rights, and defining your "purpose." It's time to go deep in search of truth! If ...

Hi! Welcome to Extreme Accountability! What is extreme accountability? - Its Holding yourself truly Accountable and to never give up or give in until you have achieved or reached your desired results! Its integrity within, Doing what you said you were going to do internally! Why is this important? - It's one thing to say you're going to do something, and its another to actually do what you say you're going to do! - This is a must to have in your life, to remain accountable at all costs, even in the low times, extreme accountability will prevail! - This is missing in your life because most of ...

Pirates and kraken, boats and submarines, deadly sirens, mermaids, and the women who face them all. These are our heroes. High seas adventure, fantasy, and magic weave together in this sapphic anthology focusing on the joy of the unbounded oceans.

Passion hits hard. Secrets hit last. I’m Nia, and no, I’m not the girl you bring home to mama. My mornings are chaos, my hookups are casual, and my job at the call center barely pays enough to keep my edges laid. I’ve always known my lane and stayed in it: don’t catch feelings, and definitely don’t fall for a guy like Chess. But when one night turns into something more, I start to wonder if maybe I deserve better. Real love, and maybe someone who calls just to say they miss me. But that’s the thing about hope. It makes you reckless. Now I’m sitting at home with a black eye, a ...

One of the most famous partnerships in literature yields, over time, to a peculiar romantic triangle. Sherlock Holmes. Dr. John Watson. And the good doctor's second wife, whom Doyle never named. In L.A. Fields's novel, Mrs. Watson is a clever woman who realizes, through examining all the prior cases her husband shared with the world's greatest consulting detective, that the two men shared more than adventures: they were lovers, as well.

Watch. Tease. Repeat. Nina never expected her new favorite hobby would be watching her hot, younger neighbor through her bedroom window, or that he’d start watching her back. What starts as playful teasing behind glass quickly turns into a daring game neither one wants to stop. For the first time in her life, Nina’s feeling bolder, braver…and a lot less concerned about what the neighbors might think. One window. One late-night knock. And suddenly, Nina’s quiet nights are about to get a lot more interesting.

This is an audiobook of men and monsters who find themselves captivated by one another in the night. With the taste of skin and sweat and, yes, blood, on their lips, kisses that are pained and painful, and bodies left to cool on the sheets like spent seed. Twelve stories that feature vampires and their victims indulging in libidos and mortidos. In New Orleans, an old flame becomes a vampire's new meal. A new student at a boarding school discovers that the local urban legend is hovering outside his window and eager to come inside.

A never-ending journey awaits you along a Mobius strip that runs the circulatory system from flushed head to rapid heart, along asphalt lanes stinking of gasoline fumes and vulcanized rubber. Join Fields's feral boys, captivating Peter Pans in flight from detestable home life, school life, everyday life. Along the way, you'll pick up passengers, hitchhikers runaways plotting wicked larks, stay-at-homes longing for a nudge, grownups ready to be bent to a boy's whims.

Noah's text says, I've found some candidates for murder. Ray chuckles and knows that Noah sent the message to cheer him. Both boys realize they stand apart from others their age. One lacks social graces, the other has perfected being charming. Both are too willing to embark on a true challenge of their superiority but neither realizes what such a crime will do because no matter how they see themselves, how they need one another, they still possess the same emotions of H. sapiens.

America’s Change, a Poetic View talks about the wind of God and how it has been blowing and moving in a direction much different than many people have been accustomed to. The key focus of this book is to help sound the alarm for America as a country to unite, pray and move in sync with God so that we as a nation can experience the change that has already begun to take place in the lives of men and women all across our country. This collection of poetry will help to instruct, comfort, edify and also provoke each reader to embrace God's change for their lives. God has a special place in His...

In this season, there is a renewed and recharged sisterhood that is quickly arising in the earth. Women from all walks of life are coming together and putting aside their differences to complete the divine assignments that God has anointed and purposed for their hands to do. As these covenant sisters come together to offer each other true encouragement, they will begin to open up their treasures and share of their material and spiritual resources. True intercession will flow forth freely as women stand in consistent prayer agreement to lift up the personal vision of their fellow sisters in ...

Trapped in a place where reality distorts, and death whispers from every shadow, Henry must face a family cursed by secrets too horrifying to uncover. Henry awakens in a world that feels suffocatingly familiar yet deeply wrong. The halls stretch into an abyss, their silence shattered by voices—some alive, some long dead. His family, once feared, now surrounds him like predators, their smiles twisted with cruelty, their glares filled with accusation. In this place, nothing is what it seems, and Henry can’t decide whether he’s losing his grip on sanity or being drawn into something far ...