This is your opportunity to experience the life of an average African-American male. You will become him and experience all the happy moments and all the joy, pain, suffering, and misery that he does. You will experience the love and even the hate that he experiences. You will experience the sex, violence, drugs and alcohol, the loneliness, the bitterness, and the reasons behind it all. You will take a ride down the back alleys of life, where even hope is afraid to go. And in the end, you ...

From the renowned comedian, creator, star and executive producer/multiple title-holder of Comedy Central's Important Things with Demetri Martin comes a bold, original, and rectangular kind of humor book.Demetri's first literary foray features longer-form essays and conceptual pieces (such as Protagonists' Hospital, a melodrama about the clinic doctors who treat only the flesh wounds and minor head scratches of Hollywood action heroes), as well as his trade...

This is book two of the seven book series collection The Bruises from my Mother's Love. Read how Lunye' Williams take matters into her own hands by escaping her mother's torture chamber and look for love in the dangerous streets of Chicago. This series will take you to places in her life that will not only have you in tears, but she will inspire you with her courageous effort to save herself from a life of misery. Not only will she inspire you, she will also take you on an emotional joyrid...

Modeled after Maria Shriver's Just Who Will You Be, Queen Latifah's goal with Put On Your Crown is to help young women build a strong sense of self-esteem. A US Dept. of Justice survey found that females ages 16-24 are more vulnerable to partner violence than any other group, almost triple the national average.Cases like Chris Brown's assault on pop star Rihanna showed an ugly side of adolescent life. However, Queen Latifah has always been a shining example of a w...

“Every day, I think about quitting this job.”?The job of an emergency call operator continues to change: new technology, new drills, new threats to the peace of the community. In this book, the author of Answering 911: Life in the Hot Seat returns, no longer a rookie, with new insights and stories that amaze and astound. ?“I’ve worked with some of the finest, funniest, most caring assholes who’ve ever lived.”?Caroline Burau takes a job in a single-person dispatch center for the city of Whi...

Improve your IELTS exam score with the IELTS Vocabulary Builder Collection.This collection consists of three books:Phrasal Verbs for the IELTS Speaking TestIdioms for IELTSCollocations for IELTSJackie Bolen has fifteen years of experience teaching ESL/EFL to students in South Korea and Canada. With her help, you'll improve your English vocabulary for the IELTS exam in no time at all!This 3-book collection wil...

Where there is stress, there is humor." --John McPherson* Close to Home, syndicated by Universal uClick, lampoons the best of popular culture one controversy at a time.Everything I Need to Know I Learned on Jerry Springer: A Close to Home Collection is a Close to Home collection. Creator John McPherson's sardonic wit creates an innocent hullabaloo with the Center for Nursing Advocacy and earns the accolades of Leavenworth Federal Detention Center'...

If you are looking for writing prompts that deal with how you would react in certain situations, look no further. Use these prompts in order or jump around until you find one that grabs you. Whatever it takes, get writing!

There's a new truck on the block in John Cena's third picture book in the #1 New York Times bestselling Elbow Grease series, featuring the truck who never gives up!Elbow Grease and his monster truck brothers are hardly prepared when they meet Chopper, a speedy, purple monster motorcycle. Chopper wants to be friends with the brothers, who are more than impressed with her epic skills! But when the trucks start to get jealous of her talents, they must learn t...

Random acts of kindness serve as a positive outlet in a world filled with negativity and challenges. Kindness feels good whether we are the giver, the recipient, or even the observer! In that moment of compassion and generosity, we are at our best. There is a connection, a magical synchronicity, and life suddenly becomes lighter and brighter. Kindness inspires gratitude, happiness, spontaneity, and it motivates others to be kind and pass it on.These stories remind us that we all ha...

Speak English fluently with these advanced English conversation dialogues.What would it mean for your studies or career to be able to speak and write freely in English? How about understanding more of what you hear or read? These idioms and phrases in More Advanced English Conversation Dialogues are designed to improve your English quickly and easily.Pick up a copy of the book today if you want to...L...

Do sugar-coated lies and cliché photos actually motivate you to do better? Of course not!If you want to get ahead in life, you need to know how things really work. You need posters that reveal the cold, hard truth. You need to be demotivated. By offering demotivational messages accompanied by ridiculous images, the author turns the motivational message upside down with very funny results. Faux versions of the kitschy motivational poster are already a wildly popular Internet phenomen...