Fighting fires and rescuing victims is dangerous work. For L.A. paramedics Rob Decker and Jimmy Cole, the 1970's are also a time of sexual conflict and realizations. Facing homophobia on the job, Jimmy's forced to hide his relationships with other men. Married and a father, Rob struggles to identify why he doesn't like sex at all. Surrounded by friends and family who might not understand, the two men strengthen their friendship and forge their own way through a decade of accidents, disaste...

This book is a celebration of Black heritage and the unbreakable connection we share with the past.I AM - Therefore We Are, reminds children that their story is part of a larger, beautiful legacy. A legacy filled with strength, purpose, and joy.

Granny Polka Dot Dog pulls you into Granny Kaya's world. It's not your usual farm. Sure, she plants. She also tells stories. Meet Granny Kaya, a farmer with tales as deep as her roots.Zimbae loves hanging out at Black Dot Farm. What's not to love? Vegetables are growing, animals are roaming, and a grandma who's got more stories than a library has books. Each visit is a trip through time, filled with stories that stretch way back.It's simple. This book isn't just ab...

Casting a modern light on memories and artifacts of the Civil WarIn December 2021, a copper box filled with artifacts that had been buried beneath the statue of Robert E. Lee on Monument Avenue in Richmond, Virginia, for 134 years was opened with great ceremony. Newspaper articles from 1887 had dubbed these mementos of Lee and life in the capital during and after the Civil War “cornerstone contributions.”In The Buried Cause, historians, curators, p...

Scholarship on the role of religion in American public life has taken on a new urgency in the increasingly contentious wake of the attacks of September 11, 2001. This volume brings together an impressive group of scholars to build on past work and broaden the scope of this crucial inquiry in two respects: by exploring aspects of the religion-politics nexus in the United States that have been neglected in the past, and by examining traditional questions concerning the religious tincture of ...

Thirteen-year-old Sheneezaa Garvey is often told that she is no ordinary girl. She's heard people around her say that, even before she was born.Find out how this No Ordinary Girl champions her K team for an exceptional grade eight project.

Explore the untamed skies, where griffins guard secrets of the past, and discover the passion and peril that ignite between them and those they protect. From heartwarming romantasy to gritty urban fantasy, these stories blend myth with reality in ways that will leave you breathless.In Talons and Tails, griffins are more than just creatures of legend—they are symbols of power, freedom, and the eternal struggle between light and shadow. Whether soaring through storm-swept sk...

Young readers are invited to join Mazin and his dad in this heartwarming whimsical story about father and son bonding. Mazin spends a lot of time in the kitchen with his dad.His eighth birthday is quickly approaching and he and his dad are having an amazing time in the kitchen. Dad and son are singing and dancing as they whip up a batch of rainbow colored. and balloon-decorated scrumptoodelicious cupcakes for Mazin's class celebration.

I Like Being Me is a compelling ode to all children. It uses poetic rhythm and boldly colourful illustrations to invite readers to be joyful and confident in their skin. I Like Being Me is an extended affirmation that subtly and profoundly encourages readers to self-affirm, embrace and respect differences.

In 2006, Bret Easton Ellis declared the novel "one of the three great books of my generation."This dramatisation of Jonathan Franzen's acclaimed, epic, award-winning novel revolves around the troubles of an elderly Midwestern couple and their three adult children, tracing their lives from the mid-20th century to "one last Christmas" together near the turn of the millennium.A family saga, that sits against the backdrop of this century's changing face of America. The novel wa...

The award-winning full cast audiobook version of 'Moojag and the Auticode Secret', adapted by the author, produced by a neurodivergent team, and voiced by an all autistic, dyslexic, downsyndrome cast, including neurodivergent narrators actor Indica Watson and comedian Ria Lina.If Nema can’t uncover a lost boy’s true identity in time they may never escape the sticky world he designed...When Nema and her friends discover a hidden sugar-hooked society holding lost kids, they f...

Fast-talking, trouble-seeking private eye Philip Marlowe is a different kind of detective: a moral man in an amoral world. California in the ’40s and ’50s is as beautiful as a ripe fruit and rotten to the core, and Marlowe must struggle to retain his integrity amidst the corruption he encounters daily. The Big Sleep finds the world-weary, wisecracking investigator consulted by a wealthy family man with two big problems: his children. Carmen Sternwood has got herself mixed up with ...