States Rights

My favorite high school teacher is blocking traffic and wearing a wedding gown… Jaded police officer Austin Zimmer thought he had seen it all. That is, until he came across the hottest teacher from his high school, Ms. Summers, dressed as a bride and creating a traffic jam. Penelope Summers is having the worst day of her life. She never dreamed she’d be a runaway bride. Her humiliation multiplies when she realizes the handsome cop rescuing her is a former student. The cop and the science teacher he had a crush on have undeniable chemistry. When Penny is accused of a terrible crime and ...

In the summer of 1962, Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) began to express interest in targeting one of the South's most brutally segregated cities. Nicknamed “Bombingham”, the city had witnessed the bombing of over a dozen Black homes and churches in the previous five years. A victory in Birmingham was a goal that would embolden the Civil Rights Movement like never before. Together with Ralph Abernathy and other SCLC leaders, King recruited and organized volunteers for sit-ins, demonstrations, boycotts, and protests throughout the city.

Joan was only a child the last time she visited Memphis. She doesn't remember the bustle of Beale Street on a summer's night. She doesn't know she's as likely to hear a gunshot ring out as the sound of children playing. How the smell of honeysuckle is almost overwhelming as she climbs the porch steps to the house where her mother grew up. But when the front door opens, she does remember Derek. This house full of history is home to the women of the North family.

A historical drama set in the unforgiving landscape of the Australian outback during the 1950s, the story follows the life of Katherine, an English child migrant who is consigned to an austere life on an isolated property beyond Broken Hill. There is little love in Katherine's life until Aboriginal station hands offer their friendship, but love comes at a deadly price.

Have you ever used a dating app or website? Then you have more in common than you know with lonely homesteaders in 18th century New England. At once heartwarming and heartbreaking, Matrimony, Inc. reveals the unifying thread that weaves its way through not just marriage and relationships over the centuries, but American social history itself: advertising for love. Amazingly, America’s first personal ad appeared in the Boston Evening Post as early as 1759.

Radical Volunteers tells the largely unknown story of southern student activism in Tennessee between the Brown decision in 1954 and the national backlash against the Kent State University shootings in May 1970. As one of the first statewide studies of student activism—and one of the few examinations of southern student activism—it broadens scholarly understanding of New Left and Black student radicalism from its traditionally defined hotbeds in the Northeast and on the West Coast.

Mahalia Jackson was known as the queen of gospel music. A close friend of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s, she was also a civil rights activist who sang at the March on Washington. And she traveled the world, too! Experience all the inspiring moments in Mahalia's big life in this thrilling biography, packed with fun facts, like who invented rock and roll! Short and engaging chapters are interspersed with special lists and other information made to order to engage kids, whether they're already biography fans or "have to" write a report for school.

In this 1847 speech of Douglass to the American Anti-Slavery Society, he states that slavery is such a gigantic crime that every opportunity ought to be used to expose it. Dismissing political parties and the church as viable ways to end slavery, he gives examples of how instances of peaceful moral protest against slavery were suppressed. He defends his call for aid in England to help bring about the end of the evil practice.

After Kendall catches her boyfriend cheating, she drives off, only to wind up stranded in the Arizona desert. Reclusive artist Thom rescues her and reluctantly gives her a place to stay while her car is repaired — but their instant attraction is hot enough to scorch… and too strong to deny! Fooled by the two people who are supposed to love her most, Kendall Landish did what any heartbroken person would do… She got in her car and drove until she couldn’t drive any more. When Kendall ends up stranded on a desolate road in the Arizona desert, she hopes her terrible luck is improving ...

Boone Crawford knows he’s a grumpy recluse, and he’s fine with that. But when Quinn Landish, a proverbial ray of city-girl sunshine, arrives on his doorstep in remote Alaska — with his orphaned niece and nephew in tow — their instant attraction is hot enough to melt a glacier! Boone loves his life as a mountain man loner, so why in the world did his brother’s will grant Boone custody of his young nephew and teenaged niece? Quinn’s best friend would not approve of her kids being sent to the middle of nowhere to live with an antisocial grouch. Quinn is sure of it. To make sure the...

No one expects professional hockey player Brock Mann to be smart or creative, and that’s exactly how he likes it. Brock is known as the Brick Man on the ice. Everyone views him as a dumb, tough jock because he keeps his intellectual side, including his love of poetry, well hidden from the world. Dr. Caroline Wilson is growing weary of patching up the battered and bruised hockey player. She fears that Brock may be permanently injured if he continues playing the sport he loves. There is no denying the magnetic attraction between Brock and Caroline, but these two are at odds over the ...

Shy Vella is trying to experience more of life — but getting caught in an ocean riptide and rescued by a gorgeous billionaire wasn’t part of the plan! When Brody saves her from the water, their immediate attraction could pull them both under… Brody Jenkins doesn’t want to be a hero, but he can’t ignore the woman in the raging rip tides in front of his beachside home. Vella Clark shouldn’t be in the ocean, but she’s been practicing saying “YES!” to life, and that mantra brought her here. Brody and Vella have sizzling chemistry, but is Brody willing to risk everything to be ...

Al terminar la marcha de Selma a Montgomery el 25 de marzo de 1965, el Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. se plantó frente a una multitud y celebró el trabajo riguroso y el esfuerzo de todos en la lucha contra la injusticia racial por la Ley de los Derechos Civiles de 1964. En este discurso, el Dr. King dio testimonio de que esta marcha por la justica había sido larga y difícil, y seguiría siéndolo mientras los que estuvieran con él se resistieran al llamado a la normalidad en nombre de Jim Crow.

Welcome back to Sundog, Minnesota! In the three years since their adventures in the Howling Vowels, Alexa Stevens and her four friends have each grown and changed, but they are still as close as ever. It's April, and they are looking forward to a spring and summer filled with riding horses, playing with dogs, hanging out at the pool and the library, and finishing a big project: making their own movie, complete with music, scenery, and costumes!

I’m just a normal guy, who lives to ride, until she comes along and ruins everything… Joe Scott has always considered himself to be an ‘Average Joe.’ The most unique thing about him is his love of riding motorcycles. Alexandra Morrow is beautiful, confident, obscenely wealthy, and she has a bone to pick with Joe. When Alex tracks down Joe, she brings a tornado of trouble with her and completely turns Joe’s ordinary world upside down. Will the sexy motorcycle man be able to handle the heat when sparks fly with the fiery billionairess? Find out in Georgia Guy. The States of Love ...

When pregnant Bristol suddenly finds herself alone on the side of the road and about to pop, hunky football player Lane is the only one to pull over. As he steps up to help, could this be the unconventional start of something incredible? On our way to the hospital while I was in labor, my jealous boyfriend became convinced that I cheated on him––even though I didn’t. Deep down, he knows I would never do that. But he still pulled over and kicked me out of his car. It’s as if passing vehicles don’t see me. The only person who pulls over is a dumb jock, who doesn’t have any clue ...

In Frontline Bodies, Nicolas Martin-Breteau argues that sports are not—and have never been—purely about entertainment for Black Americans. Instead, beginning in the 1890s during Reconstruction, Black Americans proactively used athletics as a tactic to fight racial oppression. Martin-Breteau considers the work of Edwin B. Henderson, a prominent Black physical educator, civil rights activist, and historian of Black sports.

When widower Colt is forced to share his ranch with his late wife’s sister, feisty Sadie, it’s more than he can handle — especially with the forbidden attraction simmering between them… A sexy enemies-to-lovers romance! Widower Colt simply wants to mourn the loss of his beloved wife in peace on his sprawling Colorado ranch, Marigold Meadow. City girl Sadie misses her older sister, Maddie, more than words can say. Colt and Sadie have nothing in common, other than their love for Maddie and their grief over her passing. When Maddie’s will reveals that her half of Marigold Meadow has ...

Has a pot-bellied pig ruined anyone else’s life? No?... Just me, then? Leo Sullivan is a passionate environmentalist with a sustainable Christmas tree farm. He is constantly at odds with Camille Ellis, the owner of a successful golf course––which has fertilizer runoff that pollutes a local stream. Despite their differences, Leo and Camille keep being drawn together by his ornery and lovable pot-bellied pig, Charlotte. When Charlotte forces Leo and Camille to confront the sparks of attraction they’ve been trying to ignore, will they find common ground and a way to coexist, or will ...

The challenges Africans and African Americans face in their relations is one of the main subjects addressed by the author; so are prospects for improved relations and greater cooperation in areas of mutual interest and concern because of their shared identity and common heritage as a people of African origin.