From the bestselling author of Deacon King Kong and the National Book Award-winning The Good Lord Bird: The modern classic that spent more than two years on The New York Times bestseller list and that Oprah.com calls one of the best memoirs of a generation. 

Who is Ruth McBride Jordan? A self-declared "light-skinned" woman evasive about her ethnicity, yet steadfast in her love for...

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview: #1 I was 14 when my stepfather died. I dropped out of high school after that and spent the year going to movies with my friends. I was into the movies, and I snacked on purses and shoplifted. #2 My mother, who was divorced from my father, was very odd. She would ride her bicycle around our neighborhood, ignoring the stares of passersby. She was completely nonchalant...

Henry Shackleford is a young slave living in the Kansas Territory in 1857, when the region is a battleground between anti- and pro-slavery forces. When John Brown, the legendary abolitionist, arrives in the area, an argument between Brown and Henry's master quickly turns violent. Henry is forced to leave town -- with Brown, who believes he's a girl. Over the ensuing months, Henry, whom Brown nicknames Little Onion, conceals his true identity as he...

You Have Given Me a Country is an emotionally powerful exploration of blurred borders, identity, and what it means to be multicultural. Combining memoir, history, and fiction, the book follows the paths of the author's Irish-Catholic mother and Sindhi-Indian father on their journey toward each other and the biracial child they create. Neela Vaswani's second full-length work thematically echoes such books as The Color of Water, Running in the Family,...

"[I]n New York ... Barack Obama learns that his father--a figure he knows more as a myth than as a man--has been killed in a car accident. This sudden death inspires an emotional odyssey--first to a small town in Kansas, from which he retraces the migration of his mother's family to Hawaii, and then to Kenya, where he meets the African side of his family, confronts the bitter truth of his father's life, and at last reconciles his divided inheritance"--Container....

Publisher Annotation: Inspired by the many Indigenous-led movements across North America, We Are Water Protectors issues an urgent rallying cry to safeguard the Earth’s water from harm and corruption―a bold and lyrical picture book written by Carole Lindstrom and vibrantly illustrated by Michaela Goade.

"This picture book poetically explores the many things water can be--from home maker and ship breaker to cloud fluffer and fire snuffer. Backmatter provides additional explanations."--

"A spare, poetic picture book exploring the different phases of the water cycle in surprising and engaging ways"--

The story of Vivian, her brother John Jr. and their cousin Sylvia as they traveled from Harlem New York to their grandparents home in South Carolina for the summer. After a long train ride, a thirsty Vivian asked the station master for a water fountain, and what she found shocked her. A poignant tale of civil rights era America as seen through the eyes of a girl, to serve as a lesson to children of some of the issues that were faced during the civil...

If you are able to place yourself in one of the following situations or something similar, color meditation will benefit. "I'd rather be in a different state of mind than deal with all the stress I'm going through, so I self-medicate." "I get panic attacks and anxiety and it becomes hard for me to breathe." "My anger is out of control!" "It's hard for me to concentrate." Color meditation is a conscious activity focused on relaxing the mind and body...