The mother of Emmett Till recounts the story of her life, her son’s tragic death, and the dawn of the civil rights movement—with a foreword by the Reverend Jesse L. Jackson, Sr.In August 1955, a fourteen-year-old African American, Emmett Till, was visiting family in Mississippi when he was kidnapped from his bed in the middle of the night by two white men and brutally murdered. His crime: allegedly whistling at a white woman in a convenience store. The killers were...

Explore the blackness withinThere's a place inside us that is cloaked in darkness, rubbed raw with silence. It's a shadow wrapped in a shadow and it screams, but it screams in harsh whispers. This collection explores the blackness within, the gritty underground that hides inside memories and cowers just outside fear. The poems, paired with illustrations from Matthias Matthies work in sync to create a collage of blunt sexuality, masochistic, and sometimes sadistic r...

If you are ready to lose weight without sacrificing your good health, the 10 Green Smoothie Cleanse is a pretty cool cleanse to choose. Those who use this cleanse can lose as much as 15 pounds in 10 days, and that is incredible.The cleanse helps rid your body of the toxins that are ingested on a daily basis. These toxins come from the foods that you eat, your drinks, the air that you breathe, the things that you are touching and more.During your 10 days of fasting through t...

Few roads can match Route 20's beauty, history, or contribution to New York's vitality. In 1926, Route 20 became a federal highway and evolved into New York's foremost east-west road. But unlike most early highways, it has survived almost completely intact. The story of Route 20 is told through more than 200 vintage postcards showing scenes from the Shaker communities in Columbia County to the Lake Erie Shore. The postcards show the personality of the road: main streets, the Finger Lakes, ...

Continuing the story right after the end of CONCOURSE...Ari and Aria, together with their charges, establish a life in Hilea to ensure that child-Aydee and Hera will grow up safely, protected from Sta'h'k'ee. They face obstacles not only from the powers governing the city, but also from someone who once was a trusted friend.Declan and Cyrene start a journey, searching for adult-Aydee. Their journey takes them back to the beginning and into another Concourse world, where the...

Unleash the Full Power of Your Nintendo Switch 2—Game Smarter, Play Better, Explore MoreYou didn’t just buy a console. You bought a portal to new worlds, unforgettable adventures, and endless entertainment. But if you’re only using the basics, you’re missing out on everything the Nintendo Switch 2 can truly offer.This detailed and easy-to-follow User Guide transforms your gaming experience—whether you’re setting it up for the first time or lo...

The Concourse…Where the worlds of the multiverse are joined through transit points hidden in patches of dense fog, large rings of cold fire, as well as sharply delineated continuity breaks. These openings can take those who know how to journey the complex web of paths into times and places of worlds and histories unknown; subject to only one rule: a traveler cannot return to a point in the past of a world and history that lies before any previous visit

Danielle ('Danie') Riley is a forensic statistician with the Seattle Police Department, who wants nothing more than help to bring bad people to justice.Right now, however, she needs help herself. Someone wants her for her body parts; and they're very determined to get their hands on her, because she's worth a lot of money for a new thriving underground 'body legging' business that's spreading around the world like a disease, driven by ruthless individuals and governments alike....

From one moment to the next, the world just wasn't the same anymore. Not quite anyway, because it seemed to be merging with another, where Ray wasn't who he remembered, and where he was about to be framed for a murder he had no memory of having committed.Was he going insane? But then what about Alyssa, whom he'd dragged from a burning car and who appeared to suffer the same hallucinations as he?As the days pass, their old worlds slip away, merging into a new and frightening...

When the emortal Cian, whose mesmeric powers had kept him alive for eight centuries, saved the 'ephemeral' Talya from being brutalized and murdered by a Brisbane street gang, he could not have known that she would reveal herself to be the end of a quest he didn't even know he had been on. And who could have known that she possessed a power that even exceeded his own?Her rescue alerted those who had been on Cian's trail, wanting not only the secret to his longevity but also his abil...

At the dawn of the interstellar age…In the late 2050s century interstellar exploration has suddenly and unexpectedly become a reality. At the same time on Earth, InfoGen's TransNet has become a communications spider's web that threatens to choke freedom and human development.Carl Ilkwood, ruler of this behemoth of influence and power, recalls Jim Corwin, his one-time security chief, to protect his daughter Sam from a series of attacks attributed to the Listerites, a group o...

Early birds and night owls are born, not made. Sleep patterns are the most obvious manifestation of the highly individualized biological clocks we inherit, but these clocks also regulate bodily functions from digestion to hormone levels to cognition. By understanding and respecting our internal time, we can live better.