Despite being born as a dusty coal in the eyes of society, Mark-Anthony "MAC" Claiborne's story corresponds with the mantra of Fall Down 7 Times, Stand Up 8 as he details how failure, mistakes, and heartache ultimately became the vital attributes of his formidable success. Born and raised within the often harsh, cold, and unforgiving climate of Chicago's South Side, Claiborne details how quitting and settling for less were simply never an option throughout his travels from the boulevard to the boardroom. From a failed businessman to a Fortune 15 telecommunications executive, Claiborne's coming of age story depicts the countless slippery slopes encountered along the way which helped to mold him as not only a visionary, but also a devoted father and inspiration to anyone stuck between a rock and a hard place. "Now what that take? Timing. Coal under pressure, what that make? Diamonds - J. Cole"

Diamond always felt she had to have a man in her bed, it didn't matter whose man, as long as they kept her sexually satisified. Diamond had a baby at a young age and her mother didn't allow her to do anything but take care of her daughter, Nikki. Once Diamond moved out she went buck wild and was sleeping with anything that looked like a stick and was given more than she bargained for. She was given several chances, she even moved to Ohio for a better life, but will she learn?

The book In the House f the Master is about terrorism, where it is approached from a different viewpoint than the military. It is the author’s belief that the current terrorists are reincarnated earthbound souls already born with heavy karma from their past lives. The terrorists who die today are immediately reborn with the same karmic destiny as atth time of their death. Their global transmigration is accelerating because purification of karma by Soma is unknown or restricted by law.

When Diamond and Mica rekindle their friendship by plotting to get rid of one of North Philly's most notorious drug dealers and steal his fortune, betrayal once again rips them apart, leaving them with nothing except the will to survive. Original.

She found that the processing of practically every interview, every "fact," involved a struggle between reality, distortion, and myth.

Under the Third Reich, Nazi Germany undertook an unprecedented effort to refashion the city of Łódź. Home to prewar Poland’s second most populous Jewish community, this was to become a German city of enchantment—a modern, clean, and orderly showcase of urban planning and the arts. Central to the undertaking, however, was a crime of unparalleled dimension: the ghettoization, exploitation, and ultimate annihilation of the city’s entire Jewish population. Ghettostadt is the terrifying examination of the Jewish ghetto’s place in the Nazi worldview. Exploring ghetto life in its broadest context, it deftly maneuvers between the perspectives and actions of Łódź’s beleaguered Jewish community, the Germans who oversaw and administered the ghetto’s affairs, and the “ordinary” inhabitants of the once Polish city. Gordon Horwitz reveals patterns of exchange, interactions, and interdependence within the city that are stunning in their extent and intimacy. He shows how the Nazis, exercising unbounded force and deception, exploited Jewish institutional traditions, social divisions, faith in rationality, and hope for survival to achieve their wider goal of Jewish elimination from the city and the world. With unusual narrative force, the work brings to light the crushing moral dilemmas facing one of the most significant Jewish communities of Nazi-occupied Eastern Europe, while simultaneously exploring the ideological underpinnings and cultural, economic, and social realities within which the Holocaust took shape and flourished. This lucid, powerful, and harrowing account of the daily life of the “new” German city, both within and beyond the ghetto of Łódź, is an extraordinary revelation of the making of the Holocaust.

The Fifth Diamond By: Irene Zisblatt “Irene Zisblatt eloquently speaks and inspires today’s generation with her story of remembrance and survival” -Steven Spielberg This is the story of Irene Zisblatt, Auschwitz and after. Her autobiography moves us from Hungary through her terrifying coming-of-age as a prisoner in Nazi concentration camps and her life in America. It’s a story of compassion and hope between two girls whose bizarre fates brought together, whose love for each other inspired their survival, and whose friendship tragically ended in the forests of Germany. The lack of bitterness with which Irene tells her experience, along with her straightforward style, adds power to what is essentially a triumph of the human spirit. Faced with the dehumanizing ordeal of life in Auschwitz-Birkenau , she found that by believing strongly that her horrors were temporary, she could cling to the hope that she could survive and be human again. It has taken Mrs. Zisblatt 50 years to be able to recount the terror of her experience. We should be grateful for her courage to relive these events in order to write this book. Irene is grateful to this country for giving her the opportunity to begin life anew. She is not embittered or filled with hatred and it is her goal to educate children in order to rid the world of intolerance, prejudiced and indifference.