Lauren knows if she loses twenty pounds Jay will finally notice her. And it can't be that hard, can it? Andrea lost ten pounds in less than a month. But Andrea's starting to act weird. Today she even fainted in class. Lauren's worried. Andrea says she's dying to be thin...but just how far will she go?

Melissa McFadden always wanted to be an officer when she grew up--to help people. As she left the disciplined, rule driven, world of the Air Force Security Services and landed her dream job in the Columbus, Ohio Division of Police, she learned that policing was something very different than what she had always dreamed it would be. As a Black woman from the coal country of West Virginia she found herself confronting a big city racist police culture that was born in the slave patrols of Reconstruction, emboldened through the Jim Crow era, challenged in the Civil Rights era and still gaining momentum in the Black Lives Matter era. She walked a thin Black line each day that divided her ability to defend her community against police brutality from her ability to defend herself against discrimination on the job. Her memoir is about her journey through the thicket of racist union contracts, unfair assignment practices, and discriminatory disciplinary decisions. She shares how racism hides within police culture, because the purpose of policing has never shed its original focus-a war on Black people. She never imagined the day that she would be standing in solidarity with young Black activists and their white allies, holding a sign saying Police Reform Now, while shouting BLACK LIVES MATTER! Her voice was silenced for over twenty years of her career through threats of retaliation that included taking her entire pension from her. She has fought, cried, sued, mentored, and demanded justice for her Black colleagues and the Black people of Columbus. And now she can show you her efforts and her failures in hopes that the more you know the more you can be part of the solution that is so long overdue.

The Walking a Thin Line is a story about a Family killed by drunk driver, after a grief, he walked a thin line of revenge.

A comprehensive review of the complex laws of constructing and using an eruv, especially as are applicable to today's neighborhoods. Compiled from many quoted Talmudic and rabbinic sources. Presented in a clear, annotated format. A valuable book for both layman and scholar.

Ahmed was running from his past. Coming to Nigeria, he thought he would be able to start afresh and have a normal life. Sameera also had a past she would like to forget. When she met the handsome stranger with a foreign accent, she thought she had finally found happiness, until their pasts caught up with them. The Thin Line is a story about love and friendship, trust and betrayal, but most of all, the importance of family.