This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.This is a story about cold war soldiers/warriors using intellect rather than arms to confront the enemy. The enemy being the soviet union and their eastern european subordinates who intended to occupy and rule all of europe.These are the recollections and memories of one of those cold war warriors. He reminisces, as he awaits aboard a troop ship docked in new yorkharbor to muster out of the united states army. H...

A new novel from the award-winning author of An Island Like You, winner of the Pura Belpre Award.Maria is a girl caught between two worlds: Puerto Rico, where she was born, and New York, where she now lives in a basement apartment in the barrio. While her mother remains on the island, Maria lives with her father, the super of their building. As she struggles to lose her island accent, Maria does her best to find her place within the unfamiliar culture of the barrio. Finall...

This is a story about cold war soldiers/warriors using intellect rather than arms to confront the enemy. The enemy being the soviet union and their eastern european subordinates who intended to occupy and rule all of europe.These are the recollections and memories of one of those cold war warriors. He reminisces, as he awaits aboard a troop ship docked in new yorkharbor to muster out of the united states army. He is returning from germany where he served as...

“I am learning the alchemy of grief—how it must be carefully measured and doled out, inflicted—but I have not yet mastered this art,” writes Judith Ortiz Cofer in The Cruel Country. This richly textured, deeply moving, lyrical memoir centers on Cofer’s return to her native Puerto Rico after her mother has been diagnosed with late-stage lung cancer.Cofer’s work has always drawn strength from her life’s contradictions and dualities, such as the necessities and demands of bot...

Six Sigma, finally explained in plain English.If you have ever opened a Six Sigma book and slammed it shut three pages later, buried under Greek letters and jargon, this is the guide you have been waiting for. You do not need a statistics degree, an engineering background, or a corporate training budget to understand one of the most powerful quality and process-improvement methods ever created. You just need it explained clearly, one step at a time.Learn ...

Perspective of the Forgotten is a poetry collection that showcases a mother and son’s journey through life while providing the ups and downs of the world around them.

A Very Fine House is an intimate memoir of a mother's Norman Rockwell family turned upside down by her daughter's descent into meth addiction and crime. Bright and beautiful, Annie is an unlikely candidate for meth. Living fast and hard on the streets of Bend, Oregon, she commits crimes against herself, the community, and her own family.The author chronicles her child's addiction in a way that other writers have not written about addiction. What begins as an obsession to s...

If I Could Fly is a standalone novel based on characters introduced in Judith Ortiz Cofer's bestselling short story collection, An Island Like You: Stories of the Barrio, which won the inaugural Pura Belpré Award.Fifteen-year-old Doris is used to taking care of herself. Her musician parents have always spent more time singing in nightclubs than watching after her. But when her ailing mother goes home to Puerto Ri...

A Very Fine House is an intimate memoir of a mother's Norman Rockwell family turned upside down by her daughter's descent into meth addiction and crime. Bright and beautiful, Annie is an unlikely candidate for meth. Living fast and hard on the streets of Bend, Oregon, she commits crimes against herself, the community, and her own family.The author chronicles her child's addiction in a way that other writers have not written about addiction. What begins as an obsession to s...

Jordan Cofer examines the influence of the Bible upon Flannery O'Connor's fiction. While there are many studies exploring how her Catholicism affected her fiction, this book argues that O'Connor is heavily influenced by the Bible itself. Specifically, it explicates the largely undocumented ways in which she used the Bible as source material for her work. It also shows that, rhetorically, many of O'Connor's stories (and/or characters) are based upon biblical models. Furthermore, Cofer expla...

There are times and seasons when the pressure sooverwhelms there is only one solution. The answercomes by way of total surrender to God. This is aposition where pressure subsides, peace, joy, love,and other precious gifts of God manifest. A placeor position of surrender is that place where theemptying of the things that have held us hostage—aplace of stagnancy. These may include fear, pride,doubt, unbelief, distrust, old mindsets, old...

From the author of paper girl and the knives that made her comes unfold, a poetic, aching, and hopeful retelling of realizations made while on the journey to healing from both loss of love and loss of self.Narrated by Ari herself, through poetry and short essays, unfold shows that true growth comes from being unafraid to face what’s hidden inside, to be vulnerable, and to be unashamed of what we find when we finally open up.