Gaining on the Gap: Changing Hearts, Minds, and Practice serves as a guide along the journey taken by six individuals who each played a role in moving a school system along a path where race would not be a predictor for academic success. Join us as we share insights to challenges and victories as well as a close look at our own personal and professional growth.

Gaining on the Gap: Changing Hearts, Minds, and Practice serves as a guide along the journey taken by six individuals who each played a role in moving a school system along a path where race would not be a predictor for academic success. Join us as we share insights to challenges and victories as well as a close look at our own personal and professional growth.

This is a fiction murder/mystery novel about 2 women and 4 men who were a hit team in the 70's-90's. They topple governments, begin and end WWIII and WWIV.

What happens when the loyalty that defines the friendship of two women is tested? For Mia and Danielle, finding the answer takes a lifetime.
Mia Marks was an independent black girl from inner-city Detroit with an eye for the hottest fashions and a penchant for the good life. Danielle King was a soft-spoken suburban white girl with artistic ambitions. When they met at an all-girls Catholic high school, neither expected to form a deep bond that transcended race and background and lasted for years. And neither could have anticipated the one indiscretion that destroyed their friendship.
Twenty years later, Danielle is a successful novelist living in Miami. Mia is a schoolteacher in Detroit. But they're still on common ground. Both are unhappily married and raising teenage daughters, and both are far to proud to make the first move to reconnect-until tragedy brings them back together in the most unexpected way.
Now they must confront the past, discover its untold truths, and learn to survive the increasing complexities of their lives and of a friendship destined to endure.

From the bestselling author, an inspirational novel about three sisters who rediscover each other-and themselves...
After thirteen years in Hollywood, Alicia Day is giving up her dream of stardom and heading home to Detroit-and back to her roots.
Hope Teesdale is desperately seeking the truth about her husband's death when she hears from her long-lost half-sister Alicia. Suddenly her idea of family is put into question.
Heaven Jetter hasn't spoken to her sister Hope in years. Her spirit is being held captive by an abusive boyfriend. Her only comfort comes from admiring a mysterious man from afar on the streets of Detroit.
As the sisters reunite, they're determined to help one another find their silver linings. And realize that they never have to go it alone again...

An inspiring novel about taking risks and following your dreams from ?one of the hottest fiction authors of today.?("Urban Reviews")
At forty-three years old, Oleana Day feels restless. She just needs change, and a direction. She's found it in Matthew Harper. He's smart, financially stable, drop-dead sexy, and has no baggage. There's just one problem?he's 18 years younger, and he's full of surprises. But what unfolds between them is something neither would have guessed?an unexpected romance about coming to terms, coming of age, and fighting for the love of your life.

Meet Georgia Brown-a humble housewife determined to become a household name.... After eleven years of marriage, Georgia Brown is fed up with her husband, Marvin, a popular radio personality. It's not just because she suspects he's having an affair, or because she's suddenly expected to raise his thirteen-year-old daughter, Chloe-whom she never even knew existed. It's because of the comments he makes about her weight, their marriage, and their sex life...on national radio! Now, to save their marriage, Marvin invites Georgia to the station for an on-air rebuttal, having no idea it will launch her career. Or that what began as a battle at home will now be a blistering war for all to hear....

This collection features four new plays about war, tyranny and discrimination by Eastern and Central European writers. Includes the plays The Body of a Woman as a battlefield in the Bosnian war by Matei Visniec, Cordon by Nebojsa Romcevic, When I want to whistle, I whistle... by Andreea Valean, Soap Opera by Gyoergy Spiro The title of this volume alludes to the history of political double-dealing in a troubled region within southern Europe, surrounded by the Adriatic, Aegean and Black Seas. G.B. Shaw wrote Arms and The Man about a small Balkan plot in the 19th century. It's in this tradition, rather than in a geographical sense that we use the title Balkan Plots. The plays in this volume are dramatic works which have emerged from, or which take as their subject matter, the struggle of individuals within societies affected by recent political upheaval. The writers explore aspects of freedom and rebellion, ethnicity and discrimination, loyalty and betrayal in situations where conventional attitudes and beliefs are severely tested. In some plays, the conflict is between traditional socialist attitudes and western capitalism. In others, the values and beliefs of the younger generation collide with and challenge those of the older generation. Within each of the plays, the way in which the personal and the political interacts, is very much in evidence.

Sizzling hot and soulful secret "confessions" from four of the most exciting voices in erotic black fiction!

Bianca's job as the new personal assistant to an arrogant NBA superstar is unending hell. But when the lights go down--and the uniform comes off--she's seduced by this hard-bodied athlete's off-the-court moves . . .
"Love B-Ball Style" by Joy King

Kennedy Logan is too ashamed to reveal the truth about her steamy relationship with hot, insatiable Drake--his sweet lies and hellacious lovemaking--to anyone "except" her private diary . . .
"These Are My Confessions" by Electa Rome Parks

Fresh from a break-up, uptight, unfulfilled middle school teacher Alexis heads to Texas, where they say "everything" is bigger--and where she finds a tasty Dallas police officer who's strapped with way more than a gun . . .
"Strapped" by Cheryl Robinson

Lucky went from waitress to recording star, with a string of hits and a Miami mansion. Now she's back home in the Windy City to tease and torture the handsome, cheating stud who broke her heart. But the man's hot loving may be too hard for her to resist . . .
"Divas Need Love Too" by Meta Smith