An eye opening look at Biblical Truth in a Book containing Bible Articles written for Yahweh's Truth in New Jerusalem Christian Church by one of the Elders to help people contemplate the Bible, God's Teachings and Jesus Christ's Life and to jolt people into opening themselves to think, ask and search as God tells us to do in the Bible.

Blending his riveting personal story with innovative ideas about how to win the war on terror, former marine turned Al Jazeera reporter Josh Rushing addresses all the issues he was not allowed to talk about when he was in uniform. If we are to win the war on terror, Rushing explains, we have to interact with the media at home and abroad in order to control the way we are perceived. By refusing to appear on Al Jazeera, Western leaders allow people who disagree with the current administratio...

"Part memoir, part investigative reporting . . . a richly layered and ultimately balanced account of the decades-long trend of sexual abuse at Horace Mann." —Sarah Saffian, author of IthakaIn June 2012, Amos Kamil's New York Times Magazine cover story, "Prep-School Predators," caused a shock wave that is still rippling. In his piece, Kamil detailed a decades-long pattern of sexual abuse at the highly prestigious Horace Mann School in the Bronx. Aft...

Explore the power of the underdog in Malcolm Gladwell's dazzling examination of success, motivation, and the role of adversity in shaping our lives, from the bestselling author of The Bomber Mafia.Three thousand years ago on a battlefield in ancient Palestine, a shepherd boy felled a mighty warrior with nothing more than a stone and a sling, and ever since then the names of David and Goliath have stood for battles between underdogs and giants. David's vict...

This is the story of Condoleezza Rice that has never been told, not that of an ultra-accomplished world leader, but of a little girl--and a young woman--trying to find her place in a sometimes hostile world, of two exceptional parents, and an extended family and community that made all the difference.Condoleezza Rice has excelled as a diplomat, political scientist, and concert pianist. Her achievements run the gamut from helping to oversee the collapse of communism...

In this original prequel to his upcoming thriller, The French Illusion, #1 New York Times bestselling author John Grisham introduces his next unforgettable hero in a moving story of family, ambition, and the pursuit of justice.As a college football player in small-town North Carolina, Stuart Nash has always followed the path others expected him to take. But one life-changing decision—and one family’s heartbreaking struggle for justice—sets him on ...

The untold story of Harvard's class of '63, whose Black students fought to craft their own identities on the cusp between integration & affirmative action.In the fall of 1959, Harvard recruited an unprecedented eighteen "Negro" boys as an early form of affirmative action. Four years later they would graduate as African Americans. Some fifty years later, one of these trailblazing Harvard grads, Kent Garrett, would begin to reconnect with his classmates and explore th...

A New York Times Notable BookA lively, immersive history by an award-winning urbanist of New York City’s transformation, and the lessons it offers for the city’s future.Dangerous, filthy, and falling apart, garbage piled on its streets and entire neighborhoods reduced to rubble; New York’s terrifying, if liberating, state of nature in 1978 also made it the capital of American culture. Over the next thirty-plus years, though, it bec...

**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • CBC KIDS’ BOOK CHOICE AWARD WINNERCivil rights icon Ruby Bridges—who, at the age of six, was the first black child to integrate into an all-white elementary school in New Orleans—inspires readers and calls for action in this moving letter. Her elegant, memorable gift book is especially uplifting in the wake of Kamala Harris making US history as the first female, first Black, and first South Asian vice president–elect.**Written as a let...

In The Black List, twenty-five prominent African-Americans of various professions, disciplines, and backgrounds offer their ownstories and insights on the struggles, triumphs, and joys of black life in America and, in the process, redefine "black list" for a new century.As seen in original portraits by renowned photographer Timothy Greenfield-Sanders and in a series of incisive interviews conducted by award-winning journalist, critic, academic, and radio host Elvis...

A riveting investigation into a school, a scam, and a notorious college admissions scandal that exposes the inequalities and racial segregation of American education, from two award-winning New York Times journalistsT.M. Landry College Prep, a small private school in Breaux Bridge, Louisiana, boasted a 100 percent college acceptance rate, ...

Winner • Edgar Award (Best Fact Crime)Winner • Lambda Literary's Judith A. Markowitz Award for Emerging LGBTQ WritersFinalist • Housatonic Book Award (Nonfiction)Finalist • Randy Shilts Award for Gay NonfictionA Stonewall Honor Book in Nonfiction (American Library Association)Best Book of the Year: Kirkus Reviews, Library Journal and Shelf AwarenessAn essential work of American civil rights histo...