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Blissfield
Bethany Celeste Castle arrives in Blissfield, North Carolina to live with her grandmother after fleeing her viciously abusive father. Bethany befriends Gideon and Nina Price, a brother and sister living alone on the outskirts of town. Coming to understand how poverty, a tangled family history and the treacheries of skin color have led to her friends' exile from Blissfield life, Bethany begins to question her own family story, and the origins of her father's cruelty.
Blackgammon
"Blackgammon" traces the intertwined lives of two remarkable African American women. A legendary artist Chloe Emmanuel has been swept up into the seductive world of high fashion and art gallery intrigues in Paris. But it comes with a price as distinguished professor Michael Davies Northcross has modeled her life on the lies that Chloe has lived, and now faces a crisis in her marriage.
Accident of Birth
Comfortable in her twenty-year marriage to Carl, with a teenage daughter, Marisa, Reba Freeman is stunned when she discovers that her first husband, Joseph Thomas, a Liberian, is about to go on trial by the World Court for crimes against humanity. Original. 15,000 first printing.
Leila
Sold into slavery as a child, Leila struggles through years of sexual and physical abuse before escaping to freedom and reclaiming her humanity in this modern-day slave narrative set in Morocco.
Justice among Nations
Justice among Nations tells the story of the rise of international law and how it has been formulated, debated, contested, and put into practice from ancient times to the present. Stephen Neff avoids technical jargon as he surveys doctrines from natural law to feminism, and practice from the Warring States of China to the international criminal courts of today. Ancient China produced the first rudimentary set of doctrines. But the cornerstone of international law was laid by the Romans, in the form of universal natural law. However, as medieval European states encountered non-Christian peoples from East Asia to the New World, new legal quandaries arose, and by the seventeenth century the fir...
The Mindful Self-Compassion Workbook
Self-compassion is a powerful inner resource. More than a thousand research studies show the benefits of being a supportive friend to yourself, especially in times of need. This science-based workbook offers a step-by-step approach to breaking free of harsh self-judgments and impossible standards in order to cultivate emotional well-being. In a convenient large-size format, this is the first self-help resource based on the authors' groundbreaking 8-week Mindful Self-Compassion program, which has helped tens of thousands of people around the globe. Every chapter includes guided meditations (with audio downloads); informal practices to do anytime, anywhere; exercises; vivid examples of people using the techniques to address different types of challenges (relationship stress, weight and body image issues, health concerns, anxiety, and more); and empathic reflection questions. Working through the book, readers build essential skills for personal growth based on self-care--not self-criticism. See also The Mindful Path to Self-Compassion, by Christopher Germer, which delves into mindful self-compassion and shares moving stories of how it can change lives.
Content for Everyone
Content for Everyone is a must-read for creative entrepreneurs looking to improve the usability and accessibility of their website, email and social media content. With over a billion people living with some form of disability worldwide, it's more important than ever to make sure your content is accessible. In this easy-to-follow practical guide, you'll learn techniques to make your content more accessible, without needing any in-depth technical knowledge. From adding meaningful alternative text to images, to choosing colors with enough contrast for easy readability, to adding captions to your videos and more, Content for Everyone has everything you need to reach a wider audience and improve the user experience for everyone. Don't miss out on the opportunity to improve your content and reach more people.
Blind Memory
Throughout this important volume, the author provides an invaluable addition to the limited literature now available on the visual images associated with slavery and abolition, integrated into a sophisticated analysis of their meaning and legacy today. of color images. 150 illustrations.
Wisdom
Suffering from terminal ovarian cancer, Maia Ransom, a Michigan nurse, journeys to the Caribbean island of St. Croix to uncover the secrets of her family's history at their estate of Wisdom.
Haarlem
Abel Crofton is searching for salvation. His father, an abusive jazz musician, has just passed away from cirrhosis of the liver, and Abel yearns to find the Dutch mother he never knew.
