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Joe Johnson Jr. ran away from home at the age of 12, hopping a freight train at the height of the Great Depression. He managed to talk his way into the U.S. Army two years later.

Blogger Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah has spent decades talking openly and intimately to African women around the world about sex. For this book she spoke to more than thirty African women across the globe

A son's relationship with his divorced father has disintegrated over the years.

March, 1859. During an exhibition of London's top engineers, proceedings are disrupted by the discovery of a body, seemingly the result of an accident.

Memories and magic recovered, Frey is restored to the throne. But as she works to regain control of the North, a small silver dagger nearly brings her end. Someone wants her dead.

White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator and Coronavirus Task Force member Dr. Deborah Birx provides an inside account of the Trump Administration's response to the Covid-19 pandemic.

Scholar John Dominic Crossan explores the Christian culture wars--the debates over church and state--from a biblical perspective, exploring the earliest tensions evident in the New Testament, and o

For as long as she can remember, Patience Adewale, the eldest daughter of Chief Kolade Adewale, has been waiting for confirmation that she is loved, that there is a place where she truly belongs.

This little-known story of Mary Lumpkin reveals a slave woman who lived in a slave jail that she eventually renamed and transformed into a school for Black men, blazing a path of liberation for tho

Danny Timmons has looked up to Jack Bailey ever since Jack saved two small children from drowning during the Great Flood of 1940.

Yale professor Dr.

Mahalia Jackson was known as the queen of gospel music. A close friend of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s, she was also a civil rights activist who sang at the March on Washington.

Serene dreams of making couture dresses even more stunning than her mom's, but for now she's an intern at her mom's fashion label.

Assembled and edited by Julian Hawthorne and first published in 1909, the Modern English volume of The Lock and Key Library features classic mystery and detective stories by such luminaries as Rudy

Eleven-year-old Ellis Johnson has the summertime blues. He dreamed of spending the summer of 1976 hanging out with friends, listening to music, and playing his harmonica.