Some summers change you quietly, before you ever have the words.Thirteen-year-old Jamie Grant is caught in between worlds. It is the summer before high school in Kansas City, Kansas, a season of heat, waiting, and becoming. To everyone else, Jamie is still a boy, following rules, keeping his head down, surviving the expectations placed on him. But inside, she knows her truth. Her real name, Jennifer, lives only in the pages of a new diary, written in careful strokes, hidden from a ...

Some truths refuse to stay hidden. Some names demand to be spoken.In the summer before high school, Jamie Grant learned how to survive by disappearing. She hid her true self, Jennifer, in journals, rituals, and fleeting moments of being seen. Now, in late August 1994 in Kansas, hiding is no longer enough.As high school begins, Jennifer is still Jamie to her family and the world, a trans girl carrying the weight of secrecy, gender identity, and family trauma. Her older siste...

History of this bestselling modern day Christmas classic…Perhaps best said by the former national director of Angel Tree: “The Special Guest is much more than just a well-written family story… it sprinkles the principles of forgiveness with the wonder that is Christmas”. A family dealing with a tragedy when an unexpected guest arrives for the holidays… A stranger who seems to have mysteriously stepped out of the past… A surprising chain of events that will teach the family about th...

Rules of Friendship: The Ultimate Guide on Friendships, Learn How to Make Friends with Anyone and DIscover How to Nurture and Keep Positive Friendships Long-TermFriends are important in life and friends are also important in our survival. Even science has proven it. Studies show that having friends can extend our life expectancy and lower the chances of heart disease. There was even a study that links pain tolerance to the number of friends one has in their life and like you may gu...

Polar bears and penguins live in similar climates, but they never, ever meet. What if they had a party together?The penguins of Antarctica write a letter inviting the polar bears of the Arctic to join them at the South Pole to celebrate their longest day of the year. But how will the polar bears get there? It's such a long journey—will they make it in time? What will they bring? And what will happen when they arrive?Dear Polar Bears combines a play...

In Search of Liberty explores how African Americans, since the founding of the United States, have understood their struggles for freedom as part of the larger Atlantic world. The essays in this volume capture the pursuits of equality and justice by African Americans across the Atlantic World through the end of the nineteenth century, as their fights for emancipation and enfranchisement in the United States continued. This book illuminates stories of individual Black people strivi...

**• A New Republic Best Book of the Year • The Globalist Top Books of the Year • Winner of the Maine Literary Award for Non-fictionParticularly relevant in understanding who voted for who during presidential elections, this is an endlessly fascinating look at American regionalism and the eleven “nations” that continue to shape North America—by the bestselling author of Nations Apart**According to award-winning journalist and historian Colin Woodar...

"Traces the history of abolition from the 1600s to the 1860s . . . a valuable addition to our understanding of the role of race and racism in America."— Florida CourierReceived historical wisdom casts abolitionists as bourgeois, mostly white reformers burdened by racial paternalism and economic conservatism. Manisha Sinha overturns this image, broadening her scope beyond the antebellum period usually associated with abolitionism and recasting it as a radic...

The Oxford History of the United States is by far the most respected multi-volume history of our nation. In this Pulitzer prize-winning, critically acclaimed addition to the series, historian Daniel Walker Howe illuminates the period from the battle of New Orleans to the end of the Mexican-American War, an era when the United States expanded to the Pacific and won control over the richest part of the North American continent. A panoramic narrative, What Hath God Wrought p...

An intersectional history of the shared struggle for African American and Latinx civil rightsSpanning more than two hundred years, An African American and Latinx History of the United States is a revolutionary, politically charged narrative history, arguing that the “Global South” was crucial to the development of America as we know it. Scholar and activist Paul Ortiz challenges the notion of westward progress as exalted by widely taught formulations like ...

**Winner of the 2022 New-York Historical Society Book Prize in American HistoryA Washington Post and BookPage Best Nonfiction Book of the YearFrom a Pulitzer Prize–winning historian, the powerful story of a fragile nation as it expands across a contested continent.**In this beautifully written history of America’s formative period, a preeminent historian upends the traditional story of a young nation confidently marching to its continent-spanning de...

David Brion Davis has long been recognized as the leading authority on slavery in the Western World. His books have won every major history award--including the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award--and he has been universally praised for his prodigious research, his brilliant analytical skill, and his rich and powerful prose. Now, in Inhuman Bondage, Davis sums up a lifetime of insight in what Stanley L. Engerman calls "a monumental and magisterial book, the essential work ...