A landmark volume, The Africana Bible gathers multicultural and interdisciplinary perspectives on the Hebrew Bible. It opens a critical window into the world of interpretation on the African continent and in the multiple diasporas of African peoples, including the African American experience, with attention to Africana histories, literatures, cultures, and backgrounds for understanding biblical literature.The Africana Bible, Second Edition, features an updated cri...

An intimate, inspiring memoir by educator and labor union leader Karen Lewis, a formidable fighter, a staunch defender of teachers and students, and a beloved Chicagoan.In 2012, Karen Lewis led the Chicago Teachers Union to a historic strike, challenging the city’s powerful mayor and paving the way for an unprecedented wave of teacher strikes in the decade that followed.But Lewis’s life took her in rich and surprising directions long before she landed in th...

Leppin explores the four "solas" of Reformation theology--Christ, grace, faith, and scripture--as both anchored in the culture of late-medieval devotion and representing new, firmly demarcated formulae. Luther's four pillars became clarion calls in the fight against the medieval church. Leppin helps readers understand, however, that in the journey toward these new theological understandings, continuity and discontinuity were inextricably linked. Luther built upon the foundations of his lat...

Ronald Reagan’s daughter writes with a moving openness about losing her father to Alzheimer’s disease. The simplicity with which she reveals the intensity, the rush, the flow of her feelings encompasses all the surprises and complexities that ambush us when death gradually, unstoppably invades life.In The Long Goodbye, Patti Davis describes losing her father to Alzheimer’s disease, saying goodbye in stages, helpless against the onslaught of a disease that steals what is mo...

Mostly Maxx: Maxx Catches a Fish and Maxx Rides His Bike are stories written for families to share. The adventures Maxx experiences throughout the book are about good, wholesome family values. Through Maxx's eyes children can see that by being kind and thoughtful Maxx always has happy things happen.The author, Curtis Davis, grew up in rural Indiana. Davis had a great childhood there, surrounded by family that cared for him and taught him those values.In Maxx Catches a Fish,...

"This is anticipatory grief, the grief that shows up before the loss."Meagan and Staci's friendship was unexpected. They met in their forties, long past the age when most people believe they've already found "their people," yet from their first conversation, it felt as if they'd known each other forever. Both were ambitious, hard‑working women, and they became fast friends-sharing dinners, double dates, vacations, and the everyday details that knit lives together.But everyt...

Only Merlin's Descendent Can Answer Excalibur's Call.An evil far greater than man has returned, and only she can heal the world and repair its failing magic.Can Winnie unite the nation’s charm runners and sable bosses?The world's survival depends on Winnie’s decision.Stolen Destiny is the fourth book in the action-packed Broken Throne series. Enter a magical world with gangster mages, crooked cops, and an ancient evil threatening ...

Running Black Market Magic is Deadly…Winnie Durham just wants honest work selling magic items.Then Resolution 84 passed…Caught between the law, her mother's escalating medical bills, and a vow to never deal in dark magic, Winnie is given an opportunity that's too good to refuse...Will the Red Legs close Winnie’s shop?Can Winnie stay ahead of the law long enough to discover the real reason magic was banned?The Charm Runn...

Winnie and her Dragons, the planet’s only hope.A strategic retreat leaves the world vulnerable to spreading evil.Nils Kane will unleash utter destruction on the world unless he’s stopped. But are Winnie, the Dusters, and the dragons enough to do it?The world's survival depends on Winnie’s decision and sacrifice.Mended Throne is the fifth and final book in the action-packed Broken Throne series. Enter a magical world with gangster ...

One modern girl summons ancient magicRival mobsters want her power…Nils Kane’s government Red Legs track her every move.All Winnie wants is a return to her normal life, but too many push her to remain an outlaw.With magic-dependent tech failing everywhere, can Winnie embrace the new power born within her and choose sides in the coming conflict?Prophecy’s Child is the second book in the action-packed Broken Throne series. E...

Backed into a corner ... she comes out fighting.The world’s magic continues to fail.The middlings want their charmed items and Sable more than ever. They can feel the future coming—a future when the magic will be gone forever.Winnie’s taken over the charm runners in Baltimore and New Amsterdam.With the Philly boss joining her, the East Coast is hers.Will Winnie finally unite the entire nation before Director Kane’s new Project X st...

Bitter the Chastening Rod follows in the footsteps of the first collection of African American biblical interpretation, Stony the Road We Trod (1991). Nineteen Africana biblical scholars contribute cutting-edge essays reading Jesus, criminalization, the enslaved, and whitened interpretations of the enslaved. They present pedagogical strategies for teaching, hermeneutics, and bible translation that center Black Lives Matter and black culture. Biblical narratives, news medi...