Using the rich history detailed by the authors of The Educational Lockout of African Americans in Prince Edward County, Virginia (1959-1964): Personal Accounts and Reflections by Dr. Terence Hicks and Dr. Abul Pitre as a backdrop, this instructional guide engages educational leaders, teachers, students, and parents in the teaching and learning process by structuring opportunities to discuss issues of racial segregation, Jim Crow laws, and select restraints faced by African Americans living in this community. Using this guide as a part of the instructional set will help educational leaders and teachers develop warm-up activities, research ideas, vocabulary boosters, hands-on projects, team-building ideas, technology-enhanced connections, culminating activities, and cross-curriculum connections. Teachers will also find reflective journal pages and rubrics for key assessments and direct associations to the Virginia State Department of Education Standards.

An original graphic novel based on the IVF stories of its husband-and-wife authors and the 1-in-50 couples around the world like them. Conrad and Joanne met in their final year of university and have been virtually inseparable since then. For a while, it felt like they had all the time in the world. Yet now, when they are finally ready to have kids, they find that getting pregnant isn't always so easy. Ahead of them lies a difficult, expensive, and emotional journey into the world of assisted fertility, where each 'successful' implantation is followed by a two-week wait to see if the pregnancy takes. Join Joanne and Conrad, their friends, their family, their coworkers, and a stream of expert medical practitioners as they experience the highs and the lows, the tears and the laughter in this sensitive but unflinching portrayal of the hope and heartbreak offered to so many by modern medicine.

Collects Thunderbolts (2023) #1-4 And Devil's Reign: Winter Soldier.

No one is safe from the Thunderbolts! Bucky Barnes - the former Winter Soldier now known as the Revolution - just inherited a mountain of covert intel, and he has one objective: justice, like lightning! He's going after the establishment, the people no one else is willing or able to take down, and he'll do whatever it takes to win. Teaming with the mysterious Contessa Valentina Allegra de Fontaine, Bucky assembles a team of black-ops heavy hitters - including the Black Widow, the White Widow and Shang-Chi - to pursue high-profile targets like the Red Skull, Kingpin and even Doctor Doom himself! But do even they have the firepower required to stop the American Kaiju from destroying Hong Kong? Plus: Learn the reason why Bucky made a powerful enemy in Wilson Fisk!

Barry Allen, also known as the scarlet speedster, The Flash, is having a difficult time balancing all the things in his life. From forgotten errands for his family to battling his villainous cast of rogues, Barry's attention is being pulled in all sorts of directions. It's a feeling he shares with the king of the ocean depths, Arthur Curry Aquaman, who's having the same massive-scale struggles. As if that wasn't enough, an alien race known only as the Voidsong is inching closer to an invasion of Earth. Who are these mysterious aliens and what do they want with our planet? The Fastest Man Alive and the King of the Seas must embark on a quest to uncover the answers and save the world.

Bruce Wayne has died, and it's left Terry McGuiness on his own taking on the mantle of Batman. Left with limited resources, Terry must face a new state-of-the-art A.I. that has emerged in a Neo-Gotham that has no faith in Batman. Even with all of that, Terry will have to face off against his old adversary, The Jokerz, and look to Barbara Gordon for support. Without Bruce in his ear, can Terry McGuiness become the protector that Neo-Gotham needs?

All Basil Karlo ever wanted to be was an actor...no...one of the greatest actors there's ever been. However, his life went off course when he became the shape-shifting monster known as Clayface. 2023 Eisner Nominee - Best Limited Series. After years of doing battle with Batman in Gotham City and distancing himself from his dream, Clayface goes out west to Los Angeles. Creating a new identity, he pursues his dream of acting only to find that Gotham City isn't the only place with an overwhelming sense of dread to it, and that he might not have what it takes to make it in the City of Angels. So he'll reshape the city to fit his needs in a deadly pursuit of stardom. From the rising-star creative team of Collin Kelly and Jackson Lanzing (Batman Beyond: Neo-Year, Captain America: Sentinel of Liberty) and Xermanico (Flashpoint Beyond), this is an epic tragedy not to be missed!