American history told from the bottom up by Howard Zinn himself—and the perfect all-ages introduction to his eye-opening viewpoint, published on Zinn’s hundredth birthday Truth Has a Power of Its Own is an engrossing collection of conversations with the late Howard Zinn and “an eloquently hopeful introduction for those who haven’t yet encountered Zinn’s work” (Booklist). Here is an unvarnished, yet ultimately optimistic, tour of American history—told by someone who was often an active participant in it. Viewed through the lens of Zinn’s own life as a soldier, historian, and activist and using his paradigm-shifting A People’s History of the United States as a point of departure, these conversations explore the American Revolution, the Civil War, the labor battles of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, U.S. imperialism from the Indian Wars to the War on Terrorism, World Wars I and II, the Cold War, and the fight for equality and immigrant rights—all from an unapologetically radical standpoint. Longtime admirers and a new generation of readers alike will be fascinated to learn about Zinn’s thought processes, rationale, motivations, and approach to his now-iconic historical work. Zinn’s humane (and often humorous) voice—along with his keen moral vision—shine through every one of these lively and thought-provoking conversations. Battles over the telling of our history still rage across the country, and there’s no better person to tell it than Howard Zinn.

This book invokes the very spirit of resiliency and triumph from the lowest points of despair and sorrow. This book of obstacles and the hurdles of life challenges you to find your voice and create a purposeful life. Owning your failures and triumphs is about being completely honest about your life story. The prosperity that comes to you once you allow God's favor to develop you and speak life over what appears to be ruin is unimaginable. This is truly a story of finding your voice and winning at the game of life without shame or regrets from the past.

Part memoir, part testimonial, and part life guide, Stand by Your Truth mixes Rickey Smiley’s down-home humor with the values he learned from being raised by three generations of elders, steeped in the Baptist church, and mentored by some of the most celebrated comics in the entertainment industry today. “I’m very passionate about everything that I do and I don’t play any games. I just keep it honest. I don’t put on airs. That’s the only way you can be. If you tell one lie, you’ve got to tell another lie. I’m cool with who I am. What you see is what you get.” Stand-up comic. Single dad. Radio personality. TV star. Prankster. Producer. Community activist. Man of faith. Visit a church, comedy club, college campus, or barber shop, and you’ll find few people who aren’t familiar with, or fans of, Rickey Smiley. At least four million listeners in more than seventy markets tune in every weekday morning to hear him banter with his radio show crew, hilariously prank call an unsuspecting listener, and perform skits featuring his one-man cast of characters, including “Lil Darryl,” “Beauford,” and “Joe Willie.” But in between the rapid-fire jokes and celebrity dish are flashes of how Rickey views the world, from the challenges of raising children, to the importance of education, to the need to always stand by your own truth. After more than two decades in the spotlight, Rickey is finally ready to delve more deeply into the opinions he voices on the air, riffing on those issues that his listeners, viewers, and fans find most important. This collection of personal and powerful essays will speak to readers from all walks of life, and is sure to inspire you to Stand by Your Truth.

Have you ever felt like there is something you could never tell anyone about? Something you strive to look away from, wish would disappear, or solve itself? But all the while knowing that you can't really look away? You are not alone. Too many people are letting pain eat them up inside. Why? Because they are too afraid of speaking their truth for fear of judgment, reprisal, or ridicule. Anna-Maria Angarita never shared her truth and lived a lie for forty-six years. Her secret controlled her and prevented her from ever knowing her true self. Now she knows that she had no reason to feel ashamed. Tired of feeling lost, Anna-Maria decided to quit abandoning herself and to abandon her pain instead. She stopped pleasing and started living. This began by finding her family. In her debut memoir, Anna-Maria Angarita shares her own journey as a woman coming to terms with a traumatic childhood tainted by pain and abuse. By finally owning her truth, Anna-Maria let her true self shine through, and is now able to point the way out for all those who suffer as she once did. A page-turning memoir of pain, loss, self-actualization, and survival. You will not be able to put it down.

After her adoptive mother's death, Lori Jakiela, at the age of forty, begins to seek the identity of her birth parents. In the midst of this loss, Jakiela also finds herself with a need to uncover her family's medical history to gather answers for her daughter's newly revealed medical ailments. This memoir brings together these parallel searches while chronicling intergenerational questions of family. Through her work, Jakiela examines both the lives we are born with and the lives we create for ourselves. Desires for emotional resolution comingle with concerns of medical inheritance and loss in this honest, humorous, and heartbreaking memoir. -Amazon.