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Adventures In Terasleen
What if you found a key to a door locked for all time . . . would you open it? When Ann and her friends find a set of perfect gemstones hidden in the forest, they think it is the find of a lifetime. Maybe the stones will be the adventure the girls are dying to have. But when the stones open up a door to a forgotten world, Ann and her friends realize they have literally stumbled into a land unlike any of their wildest dreams. Overnight, their simple lives are changed. They are thrust into a time of peril, fabled creatures, and magic. With only the gemstones to guide them, the three girls must navigate the dangerous terrain and dark enemies of Terasleen. Can Ann and her friends conquer the deadly Harpy, awaken the emperor, and return magic to the land? The fate of Terasleen lies in their hands...
Forces of Labor
This 2003 book analyzes the dynamics of labor movements, introducing a new database on labor unrest events worldwide.
When We Were Colored
The African American novelist looks back at her day-to-day life raising her children in a racially segregated America.
Engineering Eden
The fascinating story of a trial that opened a window onto the century-long battle to control nature in the national parks. When twenty-five-year-old Harry Walker was killed by a bear in Yellowstone Park in 1972, the civil trial prompted by his death became a proxy for bigger questions about American wilderness management that had been boiling for a century. At immediate issue was whether the Park Service should have done more to keep bears away from humans, but what was revealed as the trial unfolded was just how fruitless our efforts to regulate nature in the parks had always been. The proceedings drew to the witness stand some of the most important figures in twentieth century wilderness ...
Forgotten California Murders
Forgotten California Murders 1915 to 1968 chronicles homicides that happened so long ago they have been forgotten even by the families of the killers and the victims. Their crimes are no less shocking than the murders that have had books and films made about them.
What Makes Sammy Run?
Realistisk tidsbillede fra 1930'erne om en barsk skildring af en hensynsløs stræbers kamp for at nå til tops i Hollywoods glitrende filmverden
The Seventh Plague
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A Dream Called Home
“Here is a life story so unbelievable, it could only be true.” —Sandra Cisneros, bestselling author of The House on Mango Street From bestselling author of the remarkable memoir The Distance Between Us comes an inspiring account of one woman’s quest to find her place in America as a first-generation Latina university student and aspiring writer determined to build a new life for her family one fearless word at a time. As an immigrant in an unfamiliar country, with an indifferent mother and abusive father, Reyna had few resources at her disposal. Taking refuge in words, Reyna’s love of reading and writing propels her to rise above until she achieves the impossible and is accepted to...
The Ghost Daughter
Angel barely survives the Loma Prieta earthquake of October, 1989, only to be told that she was stolen from her real mother when she was a small child. While Angel s adopted mother Judith languishes in prison, Angel struggles to come to terms with her new reality, her birth mother flees her dark past, and a police detective tries to distinguish the truth from the lies."
The Deeper the Roots
The making of a visionary political leader—and a blueprint for a more equitable country. “Insightful, emotional, and enraging. By sharing his story in gripping detail, Michael Tubbs embodies an old feminist tradition whereby the personal is political. He empowers us to fight for equal opportunities for our communities, and encourages us to amass the courage to overcome loss and injustice.”—Ibram X. Kendi, National Book Award-winning author of Stamped from the Beginning and How to Be an Antiracist. “Don’t tell nobody our business,” Michael Tubbs’s mother often told him growing up. For Michael, that meant a lot of things: don’t tell anyone about the day-to-day struggle of bei...
