A Father's Sacrifice

A Father's SacrificeNick Johnson has always been an underachieving, borderline alcoholic. He soon finds himself in over his head when his affair with Vickie, an unhappily married homemaker, results in an accidental pregnancy. Vickie abandons Nick, leaving him to raise their biracial daughter, Lynn, alone. Overwhelmed by the difficulties of single fatherhood and seeking comfort and help for himself in that stressful journey, Nick dates numerous women who will change his

This “superbly researched and engaging” (The Wall Street Journal) true story about five boys who were kidnapped in the North and smuggled into slavery in the Deep South—and their daring attempt to escape and bring their captors to justice belongs “alongside the work of Harriet Beecher Stowe

ISBN-13 : 978-1592321230

Laymon's writing is steeped in controversial issues both private and public

Unique in its examination of an African ethnic group that was implicated in the transatlantic slave trade and that subsequently made the diaspora home (or through other forms of migration returned to the continental “homeland”)

the current world-record holder in the heptathlon (the women's version of the male decathlon)

but things rarely go that smoothly

This book offers those rare and exceptional insights into the historical and cultural processes through which various perceptions of Africa were crystallized into negative images and stereotypes that became so pervasive and profound that Africa is still trying to shake them off

godly habits

With 10 out-of-control sheep and the beleaguered Bo

Discovering his roots has given him a new purpose

ISBN-13 : 9781592323777

and inevitable to conclude that she'd approve