In this fifth volume of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Culture of Health series, Community Resilience: Equitable Practices for an Uncertain Future highlights the importance of resilience, or the set of assets that allow a person or place to recover when adversity hits, by illustrating the policies and stories of lived experience surrounding health equity.
Charles Bukowski (1920-1994), one of the most outrageous and controversial figures of 20th-century American literature, was so prolific that many important pieces were never collected during his lifetime.
This migration anthology is an entertaining miscellany of factual stories, essays, newspaper reportage, and even a poem, all of which highlight the humour, as well as the ironies and agonies generated when humans seek a new homeland.
Sun-kissed skin, diamond rings and wicked royal secretsAn Heir Fit for a King by Abby GreenExiled King Alix Saint Croix enters a Parisian perfume house seeking a gift for his lover - but leaves with a powerful craving for the stunning perfumer Leila Verughese.
This "e;electrifying"e; collection of unpublished work demonstrates the Pulitzer Prize-winning author's "e;great gift for tapping into the lifeblood of America"e; (Booklist).
Winner, Herbert Warren Wind Book Award, United States Golf Association Winner, Letitia Woods Brown Book Prize of the Association of Black Women HistoriansWinner, Harry Shaw and Katrina Hazzard-Donald Award for Outstanding Work in African-American Popular Culture Studies, Popular Culture Association Winner, The Huntington Library's 2025 Shapiro Book PrizeFinalist, PROSE Award for Best Biography/ Autobiography from the Association of American PublishersA compelling narrative of the trials and triumphs of tennis champion Althea Gibson, a key figure in the integration of American sports and, for a time, one of the most famous women in the world.
Winner, Herbert Warren Wind Book Award, United States Golf Association Winner, Letitia Woods Brown Book Prize of the Association of Black Women HistoriansWinner, Harry Shaw and Katrina Hazzard-Donald Award for Outstanding Work in African-American Popular Culture Studies, Popular Culture Association Winner, The Huntington Library's 2025 Shapiro Book PrizeFinalist, PROSE Award for Best Biography/ Autobiography from the Association of American PublishersA compelling narrative of the trials and triumphs of tennis champion Althea Gibson, a key figure in the integration of American sports and, for a time, one of the most famous women in the world.
How American poets have explored driving, in all its facets ';Whither goest thou, America,' asked Jack Kerouac in On the Road, ';in thy shiny car in the night?
How American poets have explored driving, in all its facets ';Whither goest thou, America,' asked Jack Kerouac in On the Road, ';in thy shiny car in the night?
Almost fifty years have passed since the adoption of the Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage (the UNESCO World Heritage Convention).
From USA Today bestselling author Heidi Rice, Stealing His Heart contains three irresistible romances of forbidden desire, powerful men and the shocking secrets that make walking away completely impossible.
Stewie McKay: Rusted, Busted, but Still FightingA Memoir of Family, Work, Parkinson's, and Refusing to QuitStewie McKay never set out to live an extraordinary life.
Winner, 2025 Pulitzer Prize for HistoryWinner, 2025 Gilder Lehrman Lincoln PrizePublishers Weekly Starred ReviewLibrary Journal Starred ReviewBooklist Top Ten History Books of 2024The story of the Combahee River Raid, one of Harriet Tubman's most extraordinary accomplishments, based on original documents and written by a descendant of one of the participants.
Winner, 2025 Pulitzer Prize for HistoryWinner, 2025 Gilder Lehrman Lincoln PrizePublishers Weekly Starred ReviewLibrary Journal Starred ReviewBooklist Top Ten History Books of 2024The story of the Combahee River Raid, one of Harriet Tubman's most extraordinary accomplishments, based on original documents and written by a descendant of one of the participants.
An in-depth account--grounded in new archival discoveries--of the most consequential development in Mormon history since the end of polygamyOn June 9, 1978, the phones at the headquarters of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) were ringing nonstop.
A powerful and revealing history of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), which have been essential for empowering Black citizens and for the ongoing fight for democracy in the US.
The dramatic story of one of the most violent episodes of the civil rights movement and its role in the ongoing reckoning with racial injustice in the United States.
A timely defense of affirmative action policies that offers a more nuanced understanding of how centuries of invidious racism, discrimination, and segregation in the United States led to and justifies such policies from both a moral and constitutional perspective.
A timely defense of affirmative action policies that offers a more nuanced understanding of how centuries of invidious racism, discrimination, and segregation in the United States led to and justifies such policies from both a moral and constitutional perspective.
Clearing his name means risking his heartFramed for murder, coder Derek Benjamin must find evidence to clear his name and discovers a passionate ally in cybersecurity analyst Alayah Heath.
America, A Country Divided is a book written and published in 2018 that delves into some of the major societal issues that's going on in America at that time.