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Nicky and Noni are a bit thoughtless sometimes. They even forget to be loyal to their best friend, Jojo. But Jojo doesn't hold it against them. What does he do. And what do Nicky and Noni learn? Listen to find out...

Nicky and Noni hate to share their things. They squabble and fight. But one day, they forget to take their bags to summer camp. How do they solve their problem and what do they learn. Listen to find out...

Nicky and Noni sometimes forget to be polite and respectful to people around them. But one day, while on a holiday, they learn a very important lesson. Listen to find out what it is...

Nicky and Noni sometimes tell lies. But soon they realize that telling smaill lies can get them into very big trouble. Listen to find out what happens to...

Bold, sharp and amazingly relevant, Naveen Chourey's impassioned poetry-on mob lynching, Kashmir and the plight of out soldiers among others-will force you to think afresh on nationalism, patriotism and the state of our country. Naveen's youthful idealism, vision for an egalitarian world and...

A gripping tale of racial cleansing in Forsyth County, Georgia, and a harrowing testament to the deep roots of racial violence in America. Forsyth County, Georgia, at the turn of the twentieth century was home to a large African American community that included ministers and teachers, farmers...

In 1964, American judge Potter Stewart famously said, ‘I can’t define pornography, but I know it when I see it.’ Over fifty years later, the reverberations of these words are still being felt across the world. Be it proposed porn bans, religious morality or women’s rights, the assumption...

The story of foster care in the United States is the story of the failure of the social safety net to aid poor, largely black, parents in their attempt to make a home for their children. Shattered Bonds tells this story as no other book has before -- from the perspective of a prominent black...

A poetic, darkly funny memoir of one woman’s trip across the national parks straight into life-threatening illness and the joy that still holds us, no matter how much life hurts. After over a decade of fighting chronic illness, trauma therapist and beloved author K.J. Ramsey was the healthiest...

ECPA CHRISTIAN BOOK AWARD FINALIST The New York Times bestselling author of Be the Bridge calls people of faith to be a part of lasting change and help heal the racial disparity in our country—together. “A journey that encourages us to love our neighbors in real time as we understand the...

A bold manifesto arguing that there is a clear precedent for paying reparations to atone for America’s original sin of slavery, offering a compelling legal strategy to achieve this goal—from the acclaimed author of The Whiteness of Wealth. The idea of reparations is not a new or original one...

The story of four billion years of life on EarthLooking forward to a book that explains life? Well, here it is! Explaining Life Through Evolution opens a window to the four billion year history of the millions of species we see on this planet. This book does not simply narrate the story of...

An enlightening and entertaining interrogation of the myth of American self-reliance and the idea of hard work as destiny “Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.” This phrase, arguably Thomas Edison’s most famous quote, has been drilled into the minds of...

A poignant memoir exploring small town baseball as a lens into what’s right and wrong with modern America—written by an acclaimed journalist and Army Ranger who, after returning from Iraq to a painfully divided country, rediscovered its core values in the bleachers of a minor league ballpark...

Una conmovedora e íntima reflexión sobre la naturaleza de la raza y la nación estadounidense que ha inspirado a generaciones de escritores y pensadores, publicada en 1963, el mismo año de la Marcha sobre Washington. Con claridad, convicción y pasión, James Baldwin lanza una terrible...

James Baldwins, Nadie sabe mi nombre relata los ltimos meses del autoexilio de diez a os de este famoso escritor estadounidense en Europa, su regreso a Estados Unidos y a Harlem, y su primer viaje al sur en el momento de las batallas de integraci n escolar. Contiene los perfiles controvertidos e...

In 1950, we, the people of India, gave ourselves a constitution that promised justice, liberty and equality to all its citizens. Decades later, as a nation, we still struggle with inequality in various forms—religion, sex, caste, gender. As we forge ahead, it is imperative to ask, ‘who is...

A journey through the fault lines of contemporary religious wars US-born Protestant evangelicalism has gone global to an extent of which many of us might be unaware. This book tells the story of Americans’ colossal mobilization to proclaim Christianity “to the ends of the Earth,” a...

In seiner bezwingenden und überzeugenden Analyse zu den Problemen des kommenden Generationenkonflikts kommt Frank Schirrmacher zu dem Schluss, dass es notwendig ist, sich jetzt Gedanken über die alternde Gesellschaft zu machen.