Journey from the Heartland to the Heart of Racial Understanding: A True Story of Insight and Transformation. Embark on a transformative journey with Dave Markward as he transitions from an upbringing in an almost exclusively white community to a life enriched by diversity in From Dubuque to Selma and Beyond: My Journey to Understand Racism in America. Intertwining Dave's personal growth with significant historical events and figures, this remarkable...

Selma knew she was in danger when she saw him. But she never guessed he'd take her, literally, out of this world!Selma was nursing a broken heart when she realized she was lost high up in the mountains. Distraught over her ex-boyfriend, she didn't realize she was lost. Then she saw a man standing before her.Her eyes widened.The man was powerfully built, handsome, and his clothing foreign. When she took out her phone, he grabbed it and crushed it beneath...

In the early 1960's, tired of reprisals for attempting to register to vote, Selma's black community began to protest. The struggle received nationwide attention when Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. led a voting rights march in January, 1965, and was attacked by a segregationist. In February, the shooting of an unarmed demonstrator by an Alabama state trooper inspired a march from Selma to the state capital of Montgomery. The march got off to a horrific...

Come along for an unforgettable night of raunch, rock and mayhem with Oscarr nominee* Tom Wilkinson (Michael Clayton, In the Bedroom) as Max Hagan, a down-on-his-luck business tycoon. When Max is kicked out of his house by his trophy wife, he finds himself tagging along with his daughter's punk rock musician boyfriend (Nick Stahl, Disturbing Behavior, The Thin Red Line) on an all-night adventure of a lifetime. With a stellar cast that includes Selma...

The fifth and final installment of Russian Collection for Kids goes well and truly outside of the boundaries of Russia and all over the world. Folk tales and stories by foreign authors, narratives from various continents, fanciful and fascinating storylines, people, places, and animals. This collection includes the following works: • Golden Hair by Pavel Bazhov, Russia • A Living Man in the Kingdom of the Dead - Nepal Folk Tale • A Thief and...

Two paranormal romance authors, Emily Freemen and Selma Alvar, discover that life doesn't always go as planned and fiction is more than words on a page when they find themselves in the 1950s throwback town of Camden, Michigan. The two women discover more than the budding publishing careers they'd hoped to create at the Romancing the Mitten book signing when they meet the town's sexy mechanic, Casper Snojason, and mesmerizing ladies' man, Kian Lucas...

To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the first Pride march, this book offers inspiring words of wisdom on loving yourself as you truly are. These thoughtfully selected quotations are the perfect way to honor the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots and the first Pride march. Taken from throughout history and from a variety of voices, they celebrate everything the LGBTQ+ community has achieved, looking at inclusivity across the board and...

We may not realize it, but truth and place are inextricably linked. For ancient Greeks, temples and statues clustered on the side of Mount Parnassus affirmed their belief that predictions from the oracle at Delphi were accurate. The trust we have in Thoreau's wisdom depends in part on how skillfully he made Walden Pond into a perfect place for discerning timeless truths about the universe. Courthouses and laboratories are designed and built to exacting...

Through our challenges, we all need a reminder that our stories can empower our journeys! Serena Sacks-Mandel built a successful tech career on the foundation of a tough childhood. Brick by brick, she laid a new foundation for herself, one where she saw each of her successes as evidence that she could do more. A huge part of her self-empowerment came from framing her own narrative-her personal story-in a way that each roadblock became a lesson,...

Romance blooms between two 30-somethings in arrested development: an avid toy collector and a woman who is the dark horse of her family.