What if the systems meant to uplift you were designed to hold you back?In What If I Told You: How Broken Systems Harm Us - and How We Rise Anyway, Dr. John M. Edwards takes readers inside the hidden machinery of inequity - the underfunded schools, the biased workplaces, the political systems, the housing policies, and the healthcare disparities that have shaped the lives of millions of Americans for generations.This is not a book of complaints. It is a blueprint.

'[An] absolute corker from Ireland's best mystery writer ... utterly gripping' ExpressThe players call it The Game. There are just two rules:No killing close to home.No Killing outside the gameBut what happens when those rules get broken?When the drowned body of a troubled teenager is recovered from a river in Maine's Kennebec Valley, and a young woman disappears from a small rural town, they draw the attentio...

A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard SelectionHigh-stakes adventure meets cutting-edge anthropology in this true account of the groundbreaking discovery of Homo naledi**, which shocked the world of evolutionary science and redefined what it means to be human, written for young readers by a Sibert Medalist and a nationally-recognized educator.**“Are you brave enough?” That’s what anthropologist Keneiloe Molopyane texted one of her graduate students,...

Following the demise of whaling in the late 1800s, the island of Nantucket fell into economic torpor. Its population declined and many of its homes and local businesses fell into disrepair.In the mid-twentieth century, Walter Beinecke, a lifelong summer resident and an heir to the S&H Green Stamp fortune, started to buy retail buildings in the town of Nantucket as well as many of the wharves along the town’s waterfront. He and others interested in preserving the historic character ...

Discover timeless leadership principles through the lives of Scripture’s greatest figures. In Great Leaders of the Bible, John C. Maxwell, a New York Times bestselling author and one of the world’s most trusted voices on leadership, explores 28 biblical examples of men and women who demonstrated extraordinary courage, faith, and wisdom in the face of life’s greatest challenges.From Moses leading God’s people through the wilderness to Esther risking everything for h...

Foreword by Charles Wheelan, author of New York Times bestseller Naked Statistics: Stripping the Dread from the DataWhat makes some evidence strong, some evidence weak, and some evidence total nonsense? Truth Addict is your guide to answers.Individuals, policymakers, and businesses across the globe want to make decisions based on ...

A high-concept speculative thriller that asks what happens when history stops being debatable. To the End of Reckoning taps into modern anxieties about truth, technology, and belief—turning the discovery of impossible historical footage into a market-ready, conversation-driving novel.What if a film existed of every major historical event?Would footage of Caesar’s assassination or Columbus landing in the Americas be accepted as real...

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Explore the wide breadth of emotions that kids encounter every day in this gentle rhyming picture book about feelings, friends, and sibling bonds. Includes an educator afterword to delve into social-emotional learning connections.It's a drizzly, damp, dull Sunday.Nothing to do or see.I'm feeling BORED. I need someoneTo come and play with me.And that's just the first of many feelings a young boy experi...

Golden Globe nominee, Tony Award-winning actor, and talk show host John Leguizamo shows us the power of imagination in this exploration of a kid's creativity with his can of spray paint and graffiti!When the citywide mural project comes to town, Kiki finds a spray can of paint, and turns the blank walls of his neighborhood into a colorful canvas that lets him express himself through his vibrant artistry. At the same time, he shows the world the super-power of his c...

Bennie Barrier returns in another big city adventure. When Bex, the city centre's beach bus broke down by the shopping centre, Bruno Bus was asked to step in and help. Worried about all of the sand and wet feet ruining his interior, Bruno asked for Bennie Barrier's help. What started out as a day out at Keyhaven Beach ended up being a day none of the Maintenance Team ever forgot.

Introduction by George Easter, Editor and Publisher of Deadly Pleasures MagazineLegendary LA sleuth Jack Liffey is back, and facing down a changing world, when his brazen daughter Maeve enlists him to help find Benjy—a gay social justice activist gone missing. Meanwhile, a needless act of violence sets off an urban range war between a group of gun-happy poachers and former Soviet paramilitary soldiers in an unlikely location: West Hollywoo...