Kidnapping, rape, murder … Jessie Jane Edwards has seen it all. When the criminal court system fails however, Jessie uses her job as a private investigator, along with her unique talents, to bring the scales of justice back into balance. With the culture of south Louisiana as the backdrop, JJE is the story of a woman with a tragic childhood looking to right the kinds of wrongs that changed her life, all while trying to maintain her sanity and humanity.

How many times have you asked yourself, what if? If youre like most of us, the answer is Too many times to count. A timely story at a major intersection of human and computer connectivity and communication, this novel explores new avenues of self-examination and experimentation. Ryan Jones, a divorced thirty-plus-year-old is looking for answers. His search leads him to a humanlike artificial intelligence program that is incorporated into an advanced virtual reality system. The software pro...

Winner of an Abraham Lincoln Institute Book AwardThough not blind to Abraham Lincoln's imperfections, Black Americans long ago laid a heartfelt claim to his legacy. At the same time, they have consciously reshaped the sixteenth president's image for their own social and political ends. Frederick Hord and Matthew D. Norman's anthology explores the complex nature of views on Lincoln through the writings and thought of Frederick Douglass, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Mary Mc...