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Born amid the bigotry of the Deep South, mixed-race Joseph is a slave in all but name. Separated from his mother at birth, he yearns to run away from his loveless home and find her. It’s a journey that will take him from plantation to plantation and hardship to hardship, yielding joy, sorrow, and love along the way. Years later, Joseph’s son, Isaiah, faces his own journey: coming to terms with his homosexuality. But society is still slow to accept change, and Isaiah fears rejection from even those closest to his heart. From 1940s Mississippi to the civil rights era of the ’60s and the push for LGBT equality, Journey of a Cotton Blossom follows three generations of a family fighting for liberation. J. C. Villegas paints an eye-opening story that will inspire readers to open their hearts to love. Though her characters face different types of discrimination, they all draw strength from love and from their faith in God. Can Joseph find the mother he has never met? Can Isaiah survive injustice and adversity? And can they each learn to love themselves in the face of a world that challenges their right to exist?
Anne Bonny's Wake
It's been four years since the Anne Bonny’s namesake passed, and Hersh Barstow is taking out the sailboat one last time as a final good-bye to his departed wife. He expects the trip to be a quiet one, but then the mysterious and seductive Maggie Adelaide Moore comes aboard. Trouble quickly follows, and soon the two are entangled with a dangerous drug cartel. Now the criminal justice professor needs to call on old friends from his CIA days to escape their pursuers and riddle out Maggie’s mysterious past. In the age-weathered Anne Bonny, Hersh recalls some of his CIA training, but that may not be enough, as enemies could be lurking behind every river bend. Filled with action, mystery, and romance, Dick Elam’s debut novel will take readers up and down the Carolina waterways with Hersh and Maggie on their search for truth, safety, and justice. At times dangerous and alluring, Anne Bonny’s Wake is the first book of a compelling crime series written by Dick Elam.
The Unthinkable
In 2008, a daughter talking to her mother on a long-distance call hears cracks, and the phone goes dead. Later her seventeen-year-old brother returns from school and finds their mother murdered. She had interrupted seventeen-year-old burglars who shot her multiple times. Now from the perspective of time and reflection, Lois Schaffer creates a memoir about her daughter’s life and the consequences of her death and voices a mother’s plea for control of illegal guns.
Voices of Black America
Voices of Black America: Martin Luther King Jr. to Jay Z, explores African-American resistance and revolutionary practice from the Civil Rights Movement to #BlackLivesMatter. Exploring a diversity of issues from the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to the Nation of Islam, African liberation struggles to Black Feminism, Rodney King to Ferguson, Voices explores and illuminates some of America’s most talented and provocative black voices.
The Titans of Tech
The Titans of Tech: Edison to Gates explores the curiosity, creativity, and improvement of American technology throughout the 20th and 21st century. From Josephine Cochran’s pragmatic invention of the dishwasher to Tim Cook’s cutting-edge Apple watch, Titans takes its reader on a 100-year journey of technological revolution.
King of the Worlds
This dark comedy explores the lost universes of disgraced idol Dylan Greenyears. Dylan had always wanted to live as many lives as he could—that was the appeal of being an actor. But at the end of a brief stint as a Hollywood heartthrob, Dylan loses the lead in [i]Titanic and exiles himself and his wife to a recently settled exoplanet called New Taiwan.At first, life beyond Earth seems uncannily un-wondrous. Dylan teaches at an American prep school, raises a family with his high school sweetheart, and lives out his restlessness through literature. But then a box of old fan mail (and the hint of a galaxy-wide conspiracy) offers Dylan a chance to recapture the past. As he tries to balance this transdimensional midlife crisis against family life, Dylan encounters a cast of extraordinary characters: a supercomputer with aspirations of godhood, a Mormon-fundamentalist superfan, an old-school psychoanalyst, a sampling of his alternate selves, and, once again, the love of his lives.[i]King of the Worlds throws cosmology, technology, nineties pop culture, and religion into an existential blender for a mix that is by turns tragic and absurd, elegiac and filled with wonder.[b]M. Thomas Gammarino is the author of the novel [i]Big in Japan and the novella [i]Jellyfish Dreams. His short fiction has appeared in the [i]New York Tyrant, [i]Tinfish, [i]Word Riot, and the [i]Hawai'i Review, among others. In 2014, Gammarino received the Elliot Cades Award for Literature, Hawaii's highest literary honor. He lives and teaches in Honolulu, Hawaii.
Are You an Echo?
Beloved Japanese children’s poet Misuzu Kaneko wonders: What does snow feel in a drift? Where does day end and night begin? From her seaside home Kaneko writes, but as her fame grows, her family life becomes increasingly strained. In this double-sided, color-illustrated children’s book, new English translations of her poetry appear next to Japanese originals, interwoven with her life story.
War of Wings
Written from the two opposing perspectives of Gabriel and Lucifer, War of Wings follows their paths and love stories as they face a violent war that leads to the fall of one-third of the angels from Heaven. Gabriel, the archangel, loves life, but there is one thing in Heaven that he cannot tolerate: perfection. Lucifer, God’s highest cherubim angel and “perfect image of beauty,” stands alone in the hierarchy leading praise, worship, music, and laughter in the hope that one day he will be promoted to God’s equal. War of Wings is a fast-paced journey of two battling angels yearning for change. Their destinies emerge from triumph, failure, love, and heartbreak, as they discover that even in Heaven decisions always have consequences.
Negotiating Your Salary
Negotiating Your Salary: How to Make $1000 a Minute has sold more than 250,000 copies because career professionals recommend it and it's better paid readers who applied the strategies, tell their friends. The 7th edition makes it easier than ever to put thousands of extra dollars into one's pocket because of the many key concepts that have been added to the «bible» of salary negotiations.Salary Negotiating has become even more user-friendly. Besides updating all the Internet references and e-tools, and addresing the challenges of negotiating in a melted down economy, the whole logical flow of the book is upgraded. The flow of the negotiating process itself is easier to understand and implement.In addition to the basic rules of negotiation, $1000 a Minute tells readers when to apply them. The book is reorganized to tell: What to do at the start of the job search, how to «dodge» the salary issue during the job search, what to prepare before a job interview, when to enter into negotiations, and what order to ask for things. Special training is provided in how NOT to jeapordize the offer you have and still negotiate for the offer you want.
Interview Power
Interview Power is a complete and comprehensive interviewing guide. It is filled with hundreds of practiceal ideas, strategies, and tips, enabling readers to obtain more job offers and negotiate higher salaries.Interviw Power opens up the secret of effective interviewing–the art of selling one's strengths by describing past accomplishments. Interview Power is one of the few books (and probably the best) that shows readers how to back up what they say about themselves with actual work examples that prove they have the employer's desired strengths. Knowing this secret is the most powerful tool in effective interviewing.Interview Power:Shows how to overcome objections and get the offer.Demonstrates how to deal with illegal questions.Reveals how to quickly build rapport with the interviewer.Shows readers how to truly sell themselves.Prepares the reader for the 17 major types of interviews.Ensures that nothing with take the reader by surprise.