Before the heartbreak, there was the blueprint.They met in the hazy, overwhelming reality of high school, where first love felt like the only law that mattered. For a young girl navigating the sudden rush of attraction and confusion, he was the bright, naive certainty the first boy to map out her world.But life shifts its course. Their teenage romance curdled into a difficult, decade-long friendship, an intense connection built on shared secrets and comfortable silence. He ...

Before the heartbreak, there was the blueprint.They met in the hazy, overwhelming reality of high school, where first love felt like the only law that mattered. For a young girl navigating the sudden rush of attraction and confusion, he was the bright, naive certainty the first boy to map out her world.But life shifts its course. Their teenage romance curdled into a difficult, decade-long friendship, an intense connection built on shared secrets and comfortable silence. He ...

**The New York Times Bestseller**Now in paperback with a new chapter from Jada reflecting on the experience of writing and publishing Worthy, and the surprising conversations raised around sharing truth."[Smith] is candid and honest... For the first time she reveals the truth behind [the] happy images. An incredible read." -Hoda Kotb, The Today ShowA gripping, at times painfully ho...

**The New York Times Bestseller**Now in paperback with a new chapter from Jada reflecting on the experience of writing and publishing Worthy, and the surprising conversations raised around sharing truth.""[Smith] is candid and honest... For the first time she reveals the truth behind [the] happy images. An incredible read."" -Hoda Kotb, The Today ShowA gripping, at times painfully ...

What do you do when youve asked for help and received no aid? When youve prayed all that you could pray and there was no sign of change, what do you do? Meet sixteen-year-old Tracy and her thirteen-year-old brother Jeremiah. Two teens facing difficulties and going through hard times as they turn away from Gods word and fall deeper into the wicked world. Since the very day their father died, Tracy, despite their fateful attempts to reach out to her, has shunned her friends, refusing to let ...

Award winning chapter book, by Jada A. Smith, introduces the chronicles of sixteen-year-old Tracy and her thirteen-year-old brother Jeremiah in the thick of urban life.

Facts, figures, and essays on women and poverty by Barbara Ehrenreich, Kirsten Gillibrand, LeBron James, and other high-profile contributors.Fifty years after President Lyndon B. Johnson called for a War on Poverty and enlisted Sargent Shriver to oversee it, the most important social issue of our day is once again the dire economic straits of millions of Americans. One in three live in poverty or teeter on the brink—and seventy million are women and the children wh...

Twenty years after the success of her first memoir, the New York Times bestseller The Truth Is . . ., the Grammy and Oscar award-winning rocker and trailblazing LGBTQAI icon takes stock of the intervening years, recounting the euphoric triumphs and the life-altering tragedies of her life.The audiobook is an exclusive musical experience, read and performed by Melissa. It features live, stripped-down performances of many of Melissa’s songs, includin...

**This program is read by the author.“...I love him, and I respect him, and I need him. We all do.”** —from the foreword, written and read by Jamie Lee CurtisIf you would have told a young John Stamos flipping burgers at his dad’s fast-food joint that one day he’d be a household name and that, at the height of his success, he’d be living alone, divorced, with no kids, high on a cocktail of forgetting, he might’ve asked, “Yo...

**Award-winning actor, director, producer, and activist Kerry Washington shares the deeply moving journey of her life so far, and the story of discovering her truth in this instant New York Times bestseller."Beautiful." —Oprah Winfrey**While on a drive in Los Angeles, on a seemingly average afternoon, Kerry Washington received a text message that would send her on a life-changing journey of self-discovery. In an instant, her very identity was torn apart, with every...

**A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFrom SNL breakout star Leslie Jones, a hilarious, poignant and ultimately inspiring memoir centered on all the things she wishes her younger self had known.**Hey you guys, it’s Leslie. I’m excited to share my story with you. Now, I’m gonna be honest: Some of the details might be vague because a b*tch is fifty-five and she’s smoked a ton of weed. But while bits might be a touch hazy, I can promise you the underlying truth is REAL. Whethe...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER | WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER | USA TODAY BESTSELLERREAD BY THE AUTHOREnjoy a behind-the-scenes look at Reba's life and learn tips to savor life's simple pleasures with the people you love most.The best things in life are really not that fancy. This audiobook featuring all-things-Reba invites you to get back to the basics of life: fun, food, friends, an...