Decode the HallwayRosa 'Cazadora' Riviera- Rivera thought high school would be classes, homework, & trying not 2 embarrass herself.She was wrong.Roosevelt High is a city disguised as a school. Every lunch table has borders. Every hallway has politics. Every rumor has a passport.As a freshman navigating Boyle Heights, Rosa quickly learns that surviving high school requires more than good grades. It means reading people....

While parts of this story have been embellished to make it more engaging than the somewhat mundane reality of my life, I assure you the most important elements are true. Kingston was a real boxer dog who unknowingly became a part of my family in 2018.I don't know his entire life story, so I've had to fill in some gaps. What I do know is that Kingston and his brother Steve, both all-white boxers, bounced around between a few homes before Kingston finally found his way to me. When he...

The House That Raised MeSome houses do not raise daughters.They arrange them.With ribbon at the throat,
law in the posture,
 prayers sharpened into manners,
 & love measured by how quietly
 a child can disappear inside obedience.Josephine Visconti was born beneath painted ancestors, 
silver mirrors, velvet rules,
 & a mother's hand that could tighten silk
 more gently than cruelty ever could.She was taught to sit beautifully,
 speak carefully,
 hunge...

Macbeth, Shakespeare’s last great tragedy, has remained one of the most popular plays since it’s first performance in 1606 probably in front of King James. This exciting new audiobook production is directed with fresh imagination by Fiona Shaw who breaks the conventional strait jacket that has hampered the development of Shakespeare on audio. We are as much in the twenty-first century as in medieval Scotland the tensions, the politics, the struggle for power and dark ambition is part of ou...