Novedades

This book is a memoir and cultural critique by a Jamaican-born American citizen, detailing my journey as an immigrant, athlete, and father across the United States. It challenges narratives of racial division, emphasizes the role of faith, family, and freedom in American identity, and critiques socialist policies impacting communities, particularly Americans of African descent. The book comprises a preface, eight chapters (including “American Story,” which reflects on the nation’s founding principles and challenges), references, and an author biography, offering historical insights ...

Una historia mundial de la costura, el bordado y las personas que han utilizado aguja e hilo para hacer oír su voz. En la Argentina de los años 1970, las madres marchaban con pañuelos en la cabeza bordados con los nombres de sus hijos "desaparecidos".

It’s 1996, and Jeremy Atherton Lin has met the boy of his dreams—a mumbling, starry-eyed Brit—just as, amid a media frenzy, US Congress prepares the Defense of Marriage Act, denying same-sex couples federal rights including immigration. The pair steals away to remote forests and vast deserts, London fashion shows and Berlin sex clubs, dinner parties, back alleys, East Village hotel rooms, and San Francisco dives. Finding no other way to stay together, they shack up illicitly among unlikely allies in a “city of refuge.”

The extraordinary true story of journalist Cheng Lei whose life was abruptly transformed when she was detained in China on false charges of espionage.

In 2000, a Chinese woman gave birth to twins in a bamboo grove, trying to avoid detection by the government because she already had two daughters. Two years later, an American couple travelled to Shaoyang to adopt a Chinese toddler they thought had been abandoned. Their understanding had been that China's brutal one-child policy was leading to hundreds of abandoned girls, desperate for the care of adopted parents.

The country certainly boasts an outsized reputation around the world for fast food and faster living – everything is louder, brighter, bigger, if not always better – yet for all the cartoonish depictions of its culture on the big and small screen, Felicity was convinced that in reality, most Americans are just like the rest of us… despite a troubling national tendency to eat doughnuts for breakfast. Her mission; to take a closer look at the iconic American dishes that have conquered the world...

Discover London as you’ve never seen it before—a city brimming with endless opportunities for those seeking change and growth. "London Lives Reinvented" is your gateway to transformative journeys in this vibrant metropolis, offering a roadmap for anyone yearning to start anew in one of the world’s most dynamic cities. Begin your adventure by uncovering why London stands as a beacon of diversity and opportunity, making it the ideal backdrop for reimagining your life’s path. Learn how to recognize the need for change and conquer those initial fears holding you back from your true ...

Your teacher gives you a simple assignment that will change your life forever. Thaddeus Chambers is the middle school student who will tell you all about it, and he will tell you about his life too. Are you tired of fiction stories that are loaded with filth and garbage? Are you ready to meet a decent, but maybe silly kid like Thaddeus? Would you want him as your son or brother? Would you be willing to try what Thaddeus might do because of a classroom assignment? Go ahead and read the book and tell me what you think. Thaddeus will definitely tell you what he really thinks! This book is ...

The Best and the Worst Concert Ever: Why The Warning is Awesome, is an essay about a concert that was, as the title says, the best, and yet the worst concert ever. From writer James J. Caterino. the author of Cool Stuff, Reviews and Essays, True Stories, True Stories 2, Escape to Nowhere, and much more.

There was a time when he felt like the undisputed King of Selston. Then again, there were several years when he was convinced that he could talk to animals and had even mastered the power of flight—sailing nightly over the headstocks, slag heaps and doggedly beautiful countryside of an isolated East Midlands mining village.