Thomas Hart lives in the numb aftermath of his brother's tragic death. After spending six months institutionalized for attempted suicide, Thomas returns home to build a new life for himself. He goes to therapy, starts over at a different high school, and makes new friends. All while completely abandoning his old reputation as a state champion swimmer. Or so he thought.Thomas can't seem to get resident star athlete Ethan Cooper out of his head. With dimples that have a track record ...

The system isn't perfect, and many people have been made statistics by criminals and police officers. Cops Lie...Crooks Lie...Statistics Don't is the coming of age story of Lucas "Baby Shango" John, who's discussing his career path and the reasons why. Nicholas A. Brown created this in the hopes of showing certain private conversations had between upstanding black people, and how they navigate through criminality and police harassment in America.

For the past year, not a day had gone by when Evan hadn't thought about this exact moment, the moment he and Ben would be reunited. It was frozen in his time and memory, much like this cabin by the sea - or so it seemed.There was the possibility that what was about to happen one weekend in Janus was in fact a very bad idea, that the loving reunion he'd so hoped for, would be dashed by their divided realities.Reunited by a love and longing that tethers them to one another, B...

I, Nicholas Brown (Mmeri Oji Berko), did this for us in the Americas since the effects of Willie Lynchism have persisted for way too long without someone sitting down, and coming up with a response in this fashion.The 300 or 400 year period is over, so let us begin to turn the tide with literature meant to empower us. From the bottom of my heart, I want us to win. But we can only do that by combating what Mr. Lynch may or may not have written.

Dragonflies in the Swamp is a collection of short stories and what I call "Anecdotal Prose Poems". These tales and anecdotes illustrate how people from Miami's rough survive, thrive and die in the struggle of living in questionable and even dangerous territory.

Nicholas Brown over a six year span has studied what people did, mainly rags to riches stories, in order to become ballers, i.e. rich and then wealthy. This easy to read book is over 180 pages of anecdotes and advice highlighting 13 key factors some utilized in order to ball out.

Designed as an 'ideal city' and emblem of the nation, Canberra has long been a source of ambivalence for many Australians. In this charming and concise book, Nicholas Brown challenges these ideas and looks beyond the clichés to illuminate the unique, layered and often colourful history of Australia's capital. Brown covers Canberra's selection as the site of the national capital, the turbulent path of Walter Burley Griffin's plan for the city and the many phases of its construction. He surv...

A step into a different direction from the first Dragonflies series, Nicholas Brown puts into poetry and anecdotal prose poems how he felt at some of his worst emotional moments.People will be shocked, others will enjoy, but all shall respect the brutal honesty within this work, especially the poem No Love.Not many people open up when they're feeling some type of way. In Dragonflies at War Vol. II, you're guaranteed to receive exactly what was on his mind.

After a workplace indiscretion shatters his elite footy physiotherapy career, Ard Panicker finds himself begging for work at a metaphysical health spa, selling Ayurvedic rubdowns to yummy mummies in Bondi.With his sense of self at an all time low and staring down a sea of healing crystals, green juices and sound baths, Ard wonders how the hell his life took him from sport to spirituality in one fell swoop. His search for answers takes him to Kerala, South India, where he meets an e...

This dictionary contains 10,000 Russian words in order of importance starting with the most common and finishing with words that occur about 8 times in a million. All the words have English translations, many have examples of usage and the entries include information on stress and grammatical irregularities. There is also a complete alphabetical index to the words in the list.A learner who knows all or most of these 10,000 words can be regarded as competent in Russian for all normal...

In Autonomy Nicholas Brown theorizes the historical and theoretical argument for art's autonomy from its acknowledged character as a commodity. Refusing the position that the distinction between art and the commodity has collapsed, Brown demonstrates how art can, in confronting its material determinations, suspend the logic of capital by demanding interpretive attention. He applies his readings of Marx, Hegel, Adorno, and Jameson to a range of literature, photography, music, telev...

Utopian Generations develops a powerful interpretive matrix for understanding world literature--one that renders modernism and postcolonial African literature comprehensible in a single framework, within which neither will ever look the same. African literature has commonly been seen as representationally naïve vis-à-vis modernism, and canonical modernism as reactionary vis-à-vis postcolonial literature. What brings these two bodies of work together, argues Nicholas Brown, is thei...