A hilarious memoir chronicles the adventures and misadventures of a woman whose perfect life, perfect job, and perfect man vanish when she goes from a six-figures career to unemployment. Original.
Another Chicago community study, William Kornblum's Blue Collar Community (1974), found that the poor and working-class residents of his South Chicago steel mill neighborhoods held a range of collective attachments and that, in turn, ...
Eventually , Haitian community leaders Guy Victor and Philip Wilson Desir , who had been contacted by phone , arrived on the scene . Using bullhorns , they managed to disperse the crowd - which had grown to about forty people by 7:00 ...
When McNeel dropped the gun and ran across the fields, he was barefoot. It seems unimportant until you walk a short distance across the Comanche County cemetery where Sallie Stephens is buried. The sandy soil of the graveyard, ...
In Bitter Fruit, Maureen Honey corrects this distorted picture of women's roles in World War II by collecting photos, essays, fiction, and poetry by and about black women from the four leading African American periodicals of the war period: ...
The newest memoir from the New York Times best-selling author of Such a Pretty Fat offers an humorous, inside look at the scribe's childhood. Original.
Yusef connects these stories to lessons and principles he learned that gave him the power to survive through the worst of life's experiences. He inspires readers to accept their own path, to understand their own sense of purpose.
Vivid, exuberant and heartwarming, Black Moses is a vital new extension of Alain Mabanckou's extraordinary, interlinked body of work dedicated to his native Congo, and confirms his status as one of our great storytellers.
Fictional love story set in slavery time where a beautiful runaway slave must choose between an old lover and a new lover.
Jen Lancaster hates to burst your happy little bubble, but life in the big city isn't all it's cracked up to be.
From the critically acclaimed author of Pet and The Death of Vivek Oji, Bitter, a companion novel to Pet, takes a timely and riveting look at the power of youth,...