Fire and Water's Great Adventure is an excellent choice for kids learning because it presents complex themes and concepts in a way that is both engaging and easy to understand. The story follows the unlikely friendship between two opposite elements, Fire and Water, and shows how they can work together to overcome challenges and protect the environment. This serves as a valuable lesson for children, teaching them about the importance of cooperation, empathy, and the power of friendship. Add...

Discover a dark, thrilling romance that will leave you breathless.A woman who can experience other people’s traumatic memories is coerced into helping a Chicago homicide detective catch a serial killer.The Color of Trauma follows Kiera, a memory surgeon with a haunting gift—she can experience and extract other people’s traumatic memories. While she’s spent years helping others, she struggles to confront her own demons. Now, a relen...

This River Publishers Rapid monograph explores recent advances in intelligent technologies and optical computing methods for real-time decision-making systems handling large arrays of fuzzy input data. Developed through long-term collaboration between scientists in Ukraine and the United States—including teams from the University of Texas at El Paso, Admiral Makarov National University of Shipbuilding, Petro Mohyla Black Sea National University, and the Institute of Artificial Intelligence...

Lambda Literary Award finalistIn 1996, poet Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha ran away from America with two backpacks and ended up in Canada, where she discovered queer anarchopunk love and revolution, yet remained haunted by the reasons she left home in the first place. This passionate and riveting memoir is a mixtape of dreams and nightmares, of immigration court lineups and queer South Asian dance nights; it reveals how a disabled queer woman of color and abuse ...

"I'm as pure as the driven slush." – Tallulah BankheadExhibitionism and narcissism coupled with talent are not the sole property of modern entertainment, as some might suppose. From the beginnings of American theater and film, various personality types prone to self-intoxication by the status of their own careers have acted-out at will in their public lives. For them there is no barrier between the professional and the private.In the early years of the 20th century, members...

The United States has no shortage of famous military units, from the Civil War’s Iron Brigade to the 101st Airborne, but one would be hard pressed to find one that had to go through as many hardships off the field as the Tuskegee Airmen, a group of African American fighter pilots who overcame Jim Crow at home and official segregation in the military to serve their country in the final years of World War II. In fact, it required a concerted effort by groups such as the National Association ...

There is a small graveyard on a rise outside Adams, Tennessee, on what used to be the Bell farm. The stones are old and worn but still readable. John Bell, born 1750. Lucy Williams Bell, his wife. The children who survived them, who married and farmed, and at last lay down beside their parents. The farm itself is gone, the log house collapsed more than a century ago, and the cornfields grew back to woods. But the graveyard remains, and the road that still passes it gets its fair share of p...

Today the Pittsburgh Steelers are one of pro football’s most successful and prestigious franchises, but that wasn’t always the case.  As America was emerging from the turbulent decade of the 1960s the Steelers’ front office had their sites squarely focused on the future.Relive the on the field and back room moments that shaped Steelers’ history and led the Steel City to four Super Bowl victories.  The Color of Sundays tells the story of how Bill Nunn Jr., Art Rooney, and t...

Life of George M. Horton, The Colored Bard of North-Carolina is a short autobiography by the famous African-American poet.

Frederick W. Browne was a Second Lieutenant in the U.S. Colored Cavalry. In 1908, Browne wrote a short article about his experiences. This edition includes a table of contents.

With the possible exception of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., no African American has been more instrumental in the fight for minorities civil rights in the United States than Frederick Douglass 18181895), an American social reformer, orator, writer and statesman. His list of accomplishments would be impressive enough even without taking into account the fact that he was born into slavery. Douglass originally stated that he was told his father was a white man, perhaps his master Aaron Anthon...

Noah Davis was born into slavery in Virginia. Davis bought freedom for himself, his wife, and their two youngest children in 1851. In the subsequent years Davis bought the freedom for 3 of their remaining 5 enslaved children. He published a biography in 1859 in an attempt to raise enough money to free the last two sons that were still enslaved. This edition includes a table of contents.