Their parents' love, support, and guidance were the pipeline to their success. Home provided the water for life. Straying from this reliable source of sustenance can be dangerous. Kwame and his friends did. He was sent to jail when he was about to attend a top college. The unbearable conditions led to Kwame's pained plea for help. His fate was in the hands of two women from two different social backgrounds: one white and one black. Their cause was freeing Kwame from the clutches of imprisonment. Their bond was the oldest one in the world: motherhood.

Pandora grew up in hardship, child abuse, sexual abuse, rape, drug abuse, and jail. Pandora was taken from her mother when she was ten years old. Her parents were on drugs. The choices she made in her life turned her life upside down. Pandora learned how to amend her oppressed life; she learned how to deal with life in a positive way. This novel is all about empowerment and showing people how they can overcome negative situations without having to continue on a self-destructive path that leads them to nowhere good. It’s all about self-discovery and the love of self and the love of life in the desire to live a normal life.

Chocolate is Better: Part 2 is a coming-of-age novel that shares the love, joy and pain of four courageous girls who are tightly knit together by sisterhood. Their story is amusing, nurturing and uplifting. We follow them as they embark on an adventure most girls of color experience growing up, while learning to love themselves and build healthy self-confidence. During their journey from girlhood to teens, and finally women, they face unique challenges at every stage. We get a glimpse inside their lives as they try to figure out who they are amidst society’s definitions of them, while they push back against all the negativity to navigate their lives and relationships in a positive direction.

Mary Smith Lockwood is one of the original three who organized the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution. Her fantastic book about the nation’s capital is full of reminiscences of the great men of the nation, their homes and political life. In addition with the countless untold stories of powerful influences that have gone into the making of the nation, this work is going to be your favourite reading about the history of Washington, D.C. -- This edition includes both, originally separately published volumes one and two.

Ripped from middle-class life in Philadelphia, and transplanted to a single-parent household in the segregated south, Sarah, a precocious black child struggles to be the master of her fate. She refuses to accept the segregation that tries to confine herÑa system her mother accepts as the southern way of life. A brave memoir that testifies to the authorÕs fiery spirit and sense of self that sustained her through family, social and cultural upheavals.

First conceptualized by D.W. Winnicott, holding in this book refers to a therapist’s capacity to respond to postpartum distress in a way that facilitates an immediate and successful therapeutic alliance. Readers will learn how to contain high levels of agitation, fear, and panic in a way that cultivates trust and the early stages of connectedness. Also addressed through vignettes are personality types that make holding difficult, styles of ineffective holding, and how to modify holding techniques to accommodate the individual woman. A must-read for postpartum professionals, the techniques learned in this book will help clients achieve meaningful and enduring recovery.

Have you ever wondered about your purpose in life? It was a long time before I ever knew I had a purpose. Everything seemed that it was self-serving in life: you were supposed to have a family, a nice house, and a nice car with money in the bank. Then one day it hit me: life was not all about me. I found out that life was about friends and family, about community and relationships. I saw that to me, it was about helping kids by being a coach, and it was my purpose to be a father to four wonderful children, and to be a loving husband to my beautiful wife. This revelation caused me to take a look back at my family's history, and as a result I found some of the greatest stories I have ever heard. I saw love, hope, strength, loyalty, and honor. Most importantly, I saw faith.