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Daily Word for Women continues the rich tradition of the Daily Word series, with prayers and messages to bring light to every woman's heart and soul. Start each day with a sweet moment of joy and renewal.With special essays of hope and encouragement from: Betty White, pioneering television actress with five EmmysPhyllis Diller, world-renowned comedienneJayne Meadows, actress of stage, screen, and televisionJoan Lauren, nationally acclaimed por...

The bestselling "Daily Word" series continues with this uplifting collection of prayers, meditations, and stories to help comfort and console in times of trouble.

This charmingly illustrated book of meditations provides the quintessence of the wisdom found in the bestselling book, Women Who Love Too Much. Each meditation offers women compelling and succinct reminders that they are special, that they can find fulfillment with or without a man, and that they deserve only the best in any relationship.

Rodriguez's acclaimed first book, Hunger of Memory raised a fierce controversy with its views on bilingualism and alternative action. Now, in a series of intelligent and candid essays, Rodriguez ranges over five centuries to consider the moral and spiritual landscapes of Mexico and the US and their impact on his soul.

Illuminating and well-written. . . . Deserves a place in the highest ranks of Civil War scholarship."-The Cleveland Plain Dealer In November 1860, telegraph lines carried the news that Abraham Lincoln had been elected president. Over the next five months the United States drifted, stumbled, and finally plunged into the most destructive war this country has ever faced. With a masterful eye for telling detail, Maury Klein provides fascinating ne...

In electrifying prose and with a rare generosity of feeling, this dramatic and piercing debut novel tells the story of the fractured lives of three generations of one Southern family. "Magnificent . . . brims with characters who seem truer than life."--Kaye Gibbons.

Does our abhorrence of racism allow us to ban certain forms of speech? This is the simple yet subversive question that Edward J. Cleary posed to the U.S. Supreme Court when, in 1991, he defended a white student who had burned a cross on a black family's lawn in St. Paul, Minnesota, violating a local ordinance against hate crimes. As a progressive, Cleary detested everything his client stood for. But in this compelling argued book he describes ...

An unsettling novel that traces the faltering orbits of the members of one family from a hidden love triangle to the ten-year-old son whose problem may pull everyone down.

Mark Perdue and Roger Hoberman have nothing in common-except the joy of adjoining yards. Mark is a whiz-kid physicist who knows that his "genius" stature and his endowed chair at Berkeley are bits of dumb luck, Roger is the owner of a pizza franchise whose luck has turned dumb-in financial and marital distress, he has been denied child visitation rights but not babysitting obligations. Now luck, in the form of an adverse claim on their propert...

A rich compendium of wisdom from such distinguished and celebrated African Americans as Malcolm X, Bill Cosby, Morgan Freeman, Alice Walker and others, designed to help you focus on the thoughts, attitudes, and deeds that will lead to the achievement of your true goals. Each lesson will last a lifetime!

In 1985, the shape of the DC Universe was irrevocably changed by the legendary 12-issue series "Crisis on Infinite Earths". Now, the epic that saw the heroic deaths of the 1960s Flash, Barry Allen and the original Supergirl, as well as the consolidation of DC's multiple Earths into a single, unified world, is collected at last in a trade paperback. This powerful tale features virtually every DC super-hero ever, plus countless villains, support...

After its start in 1910, The Crisis: A Record of the Darker Races magazine became the major outlet for works by African American writers and intellectuals. In 1920, Langston Hughes's poem "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" was published in The Crisis and W. E. B. Du Bois, the magazine's editor, wrote about the coming "renaissance of American Negro literature, " beginning what is now known as the Harlem Renaissance. The Crisis Reader is a collection ...

A gem of a personal exploration by Julia Kristeva, examining contemporary issues such as European identity, the role of religion in political life, and the meaning of equality for women.

An intriguing exploration of the enduring significance of the world's great myths--from the dawn of time to the present dayAs ancient as speech, as essential as law, myths are the stories we tell to find our identity in the cosmos. It is through mythology that we attempt to unravel not only the meaning of our actions and impulses but the significance of human existence itself. Now in Living Myths, classical scholar J. F. Bierlein explores the ...

In Latin, suffering and passion come from the same root, " observes Alice Forrester, the wry heroine of this poignant and sardonically witty debut. And who would know better than twenty-five-year-old Alice, passionately committed to her own suffering-an all-consuming addiction to food deprivation-as a divine form of self-knowledge?After an episode of heart failure, Alice arrives in the eating disorder clinic of Seaview Hospital, where she deta...

. . . [O]f value to anyone interested in understanding crime and trying to stop it."-Governor Mario M. Cuomo This explosive and thought-provoking investigation goes to the heart of America's fear of crime, takes on the most common myths, and sets them straight. How safe are we? Here are Crimewarp's startling conclusions:• The odds are twice as great that you will commit suicide this year than be murdered. • It is 32 times more likely that you ...

When make-believe Princess Jessica throws a royal ball, she delivers invitations to her loyal subjects, picks out her best ball gown, and even loses her slipper. If only her sister wasn't such a royal pain!

From the Nobel Prize laureate and author of the acclaimed Cairo Trilogy, a beguiling and artfully compact novel set in Sadat's Egypt.The time is 1981, Anwar al-Sadat is president, and Egypt is lurching into the modern world. Set against this backdrop, The Day the Leader Was Killed relates the tale of a middle-class Cairene family. Rich with irony and infused with political undertones, the story is narrated alternately by the pious and mischiev...

The current return to spiritual values has spawned a surge of interest in the ancient goddess-based religions as a remedy to a long tradition of misogyny in the Western religions.But how accurate are these current representations of the goddess in polytheism? And did Judeo-Christian religion really turn its back on women? These are some of the questions that scholar and feminist Tivka Frymer-Kensky sets out to answer in this iconoclastic study...

Day of the Bees celebrates passion and creativity as it explores the links between love and violence, art and war, and reveals the sacrifices made for love-of person and country. An American art historian is seeking to discover why the famous painter Zermano abandoned his beautiful muse Louise during World War II. Visiting Louise's cottage in Provence after her death, the scholar finds letters that carry across a panoramic landscape of fifty y...