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Fifteen year old, Sheila Farrow, wrestles and struggles with the crossroads of her life. Accustomed to the fast paced city of her hometown, New York, she finds herself trapped between her physical, mental and spiritual maturation. A summer vacation away from The Big Apple, to the small farming Mississippi town of her loving grandparents, is all she needs to give her a new perspective and outlook on life. This summer vacation will allow her to make life changing assessments about choosing friends, city life versus country life, racial lifestyles, a sacred life versus secular life, and morality versus immorality. Sheila discovers there is also the opportunity for her to experience and witness real love through the actions of her loving grandparents. Too Young for Sex, a true coming of age story, is John Lott's first published literary work.
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A “meticulously documented and endlessly chilling” (The New York Times) exploration of the NFL’s decades-long attempt to deny and cover up mounting evidence connecting football and brain damage. “A first-rate piece of reporting [that] adds crucial detail, texture, and news to the concussion story, which despite the NFL’s best efforts, isn’t going away.”—Time ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Boston Globe, NPR “Professional football players do not sustain frequent repetitive blows to the brain on a regular basis.” So concluded the National Football League in a December 2005 scientific paper on concussions in America’s most popular sport...
A compilation of concise biographical data on some 1,400 Black public officials of the Reconstruction era (1865-1877). Foner draws on growing research in this area to portray the diversity of these lawmakers' life experience, and to dispel dogged myths as to their fitness for office. An ample (21 p.) introduction provides an overview; five indexes offer access by state, occupation, birth status (free or slave), office held, and topic. Over 100 photographs (bandw), and 16 tables enhance this valuable document. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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