When life falls apart, how do you hold on to hope? Tracy Carter is a devoted wife and mother whose world is shattered when her husband, Bryan, is wrongfully convicted and sentenced to 25 years in prison. Now seven months pregnant and raising their teenage son Jeremiah alone, Tracy faces a relentless storm of poverty, eviction, and isolation. But just when things can’t get worse, they do. A violent attack leaves Tracy critically injured and unidentified in a coma, as powerful forces in the ...

Drawing on dramatic accounts by European colonials, and on detailed studies by folklorists and anthropologists, this work explores intriguing age-old Asian beliefs and claims that man-eating tigers and "little tigers," or leopards alike, were in various ways supernatural. It is a serious work based on extensive research, written in a lively style.Fundamental to the book is the evocation of a long-vanished world. When a man-eater struck in colonial times, people typically said it wa...

Would you believe me if I told you that I found multiple proven ways for you to be able to leave your 9-5 job, earn a 6-figure income, and build generational wealth for your family? Would you believe you could be in this financial position with no college degree or years of extensive and expensive training? This sense of financial freedom is becoming a reality for many people in America, and it can also become a reality for you.In this book, I attempt to eliminate every excuse you ...

Amid all the stories of tragedy and heroism on September 11, there is one tale that has yet to be told–the gripping account of ordinary men and women braving the inferno at the Pentagon to rescue friends and co-workers, save the nation’s military headquarters, and defend their country.Pentagon firefighters Alan Wallace and Mark Skipper had just learned the shocking news that planes had struck the World Trade Center when they saw something equally inconceivable: a twin-engine jetlin...

The America of the early republic was built on an experiment, a hopeful prophecy that would only be fulfilled if an enlightened people could find its way through its past and into a future. Americans recognized that its promises would only be fully redeemed at a future date. In Revolutionary Prophecies, renowned historians Robert M. S. McDonald and Peter S. Onuf summon a diverse cast of characters from the founding generation—all of whom, in different ways, reveal how their unders...

Design is changing faster than most teams can comfortably absorb.AI tools are accelerating execution, expectations are shifting, and many UX and product designers are quietly wondering what their role will look like in the next phase of the industry.In Design Orchestrator, product designer Michael Newman explores what this moment really means for designers working in UX, product design, and digital teams. Rather than focusing on AI tools themselves, this audiobook looks at ...

Between the Revolution and the Civil War, African-American writing became a prominent feature of both black protest culture and American public life. Although denied a political voice in national affairs, black authors produced a wide range of literature to project their views into the public sphere. Autobiographies and personal narratives told of slavery's horrors, newspapers railed against racism in its various forms, and poetry, novellas, reprinted sermons and speeches told tales of rac...

An unforgettable journey through the daily lives of the brave men and women who have made saving lives their profession.Dennis Smith, author of Report from Engine Co. 82, traveled across the country talking to dozens of America’s firefighters to put together this powerful collection of their own descriptions of their most dramatic and intense experiences on the job. Their stories, compiled here, are timeless testimonies to the human capacity for heroism and nobility....

"A wise, humane and beautifully written book." —Bret Stephens, Wall Street JournalFrom the best-selling author of Benjamin Franklin comes this remarkable work that will help redefine our notion of American heroism. Americans have long been obsessed with their heroes, but the men and women dramatically portrayed here are not celebrated for the typical banal reasons contained in Founding Fathers hagiography. Effortlessly challenging those who persis...

Revolutionary America, 1763–1815: A Sourcebook is a collection of dynamic primary sources intended to accompany the second edition of Revolutionary America, 1763-1815: A Political History. While the structure of the collection parallels the textbook, either can be used independently as well. Each chapter contains excerpts of crucial documents from the Revolutionary period, and begins with a brief introduction. A companion website holds the full text of all excerpted docum...

The most profound crisis of conscience for white Americans at the end of the eighteenth century became their most tragic failure. Race and Revolution is a trenchant study of the revolutionary generation's early efforts to right the apparent contradiction of slavery and of their ultimate compromises that not only left the institution intact but provided it with the protection of a vastly strengthened government after 1788.Reversing the conventional view that blames slavery o...

Library of America presents the biggest, most comprehensive trade edition of Frederick Douglass's writings ever publishedEdited by Pulitzer Prize–winning biographer David W. Blight, this Library of America edition is the largest single-volume selection of Frederick Douglass’s writings ever published, presenting the full texts of thirty-four speeches and sixty-seven pieces of journalism. (A companion Library of America volume, Frederick Douglass: Autobiographies...