Facts, figures, and essays on women and poverty by Barbara Ehrenreich, Kirsten Gillibrand, LeBron James, and other high-profile contributors.Fifty years after President Lyndon B. Johnson called for a War on Poverty and enlisted Sargent Shriver to oversee it, the most important social issue of our day is once again the dire economic straits of millions of Americans. One in three live in poverty or teeter on the brink—and seventy million are women and the children wh...

They say the devil appears in many different forms. To the town of Sandland, his face was one of them.He was a rebel; a brawler, a bare-knuckle boxer that you'd cross the road to avoid if you saw him coming the other way.When he left our town, no one shed a tear, because Brandon Mathers was trouble and trouble followed him wherever he went. The night he disappeared, he left behind a lifetime of devastation for the rest of us to bear. He didn't care. He enjo...

The one thing that True always wanted was a family that he could call his own. Growing up with two loving parents and being shown what love was, he wanted to be able to share that with someone else. He thought he had that when he met Angel, until she showed himjust how wrong he was. Angel’s deception placed a lock on his heart until he runs into a friend from his childhood and old feelings arise. The only issue is she’s going through a storm of her own. Can he be what she needs or w...

There are still moments where women cant be brutally honest and are scared, hopeless, or tired. All of what makes up a woman in her valley or standing proudly at the peak of her accomplishment is here. It is truthful, bold, a celebration on paper of all of us: the married, the single, the in-between, the having fun, the worker, the thinker, the undefined. These are our stories.

Finn Knowles–the rebel without a voice. That's me.But just because I choose to keep quiet doesn't mean there isn't a raging fire burning inside. Still waters run deep, after all, and there's a lot of secrets I've kept hidden from the world.Art has always been my escape from the evil that's tried to drag me down. It was all I had. Until her.Effy Spencer is like nobody I've ever met, but everything I've ever wanted. In my dreams, I'm her whole world. ...

They are the boys your mother always warned you about. They're every parent's worst nightmare.Arrogant, cocky and self-assured.They used the town of Sandland like it was their own personal playground. They didn't follow the rules; they made their own.Most girls were drawn to them like a moth to a flame, but Emily Winters wasn't like most girls. A politician's daughter. A good girl with morals and principles. She represented everything they despised....

This one-volume reference work examines a broad range of topics related to the establishment, maintenance, and eventual dismantling of the discriminatory system known as Jim Crow.Many Americans imagine that African Americans' struggle to achieve equal rights has advanced in a linear fashion from the end of slavery until the present. In reality, for more than six decades, African Americans had their civil rights and basic human rights systematically denied in much o...

Born in the 1880s in Jefferson, Texas, Lillian B. Jones Horace grew up in Fort Worth and dreamed of being a college-educated teacher, a goal she achieved. But life was hard for her and other blacks living and working in the Jim Crow South. Her struggles convinced her that education, particularly that involving the printed word, was the key to black liberation.In 1916, before Marcus Garvey gained fame for advocating black economic empowerment and a repatriation movement, Horace wrote...

Private Investigator Nikki James is in San Francisco at the request of her business partner and best friend, Jake. His friend's wife is missing, and he is determined to find her. The authorities believe the kidnapping is the work of a sick mind - Nikki knows it is something much worse. Vampires.Michael Kelly has returned from a vampire hunting exhibition in his homeland and wants to relax. When he discovers Nikki's gone to San Francisco he has no choice but to follow - not only to ...

Private Investigator Nikki James grew up on the tough streets of Lyndhurst and believes there is nothing left to surprise her. That changes the night she follows teenager Monica Trevgard and becomes a pawn caught in a war between two very different men. One fills her mind with his madness; the other pushes his way into her heart. Nikki knows how dangerous love can be but, if she wants to survive, she must place her trust in a man who could destroy her.For 300 years, Michael Kelly h...

Life has never been so insane for Private Investigator Nikki James: a teenager is missing; a madman is kidnapping the wealthy; she's got a vampire to contend with; and her partner and best friend, Jake, is in the hospital dying. And just when it seems like nothing else could possibly go wrong for her, Michael Kelly returns.The last thing Michael needs is a confrontation with Nikki - especially when his control over his bloodlust is still so tenuous. But when a kidnapper steps up hi...

Nikki James wants nothing more than to pass the Circle's strict entry exams so she can begin to plan her wedding to Michael Kelly. But when one of the testers attempts to kill her, she realises buying a wedding dress is the least of her worries. Especially when Michael is shot and kidnapped.The trail leads her to the ghost-town where Michael once killed a murderer. She's not surprised to discover that Weylin Dunleavy, the brother of that long ago sorcerer, has set out to raise his ...