Laura S : 183 books
THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD COLLECTION: Real Life Stories & Incidents in the Lives of the Former Slaves and Abolitionists (Illustrated Edition)
Collected Record of Authentic Narratives, Facts & Letters: True Life Stories of Runaway Slaves and the Two Celebrated Female Conductors of the Underground Railroad
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2017
The Underground Railroad was a secret network of routes used by Southern slaves in escaping to the North. In their attempts they were often guided and helped by former fugitive slaves and abolitionist who were known as the conductors. Unravel the secrets of these incredible and unforgettable life...
Unipreneur
How to Live Your Passion in a House Full of Dream-Killers
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2017
Is your dream in danger of being destroyed by those who say they love you? Have you shared your dream with a special someone, only to be laughed at or told you’re crazy?Don’t let that Dream-killer stomp out your passion or zap it into dormancy. Chances are your loved ones don’t want to...
Taking the Underground Railroad to Freedom – Selected True Stories from Former Slaves & Abolitionists (Illustrated)
Collected Record of Authentic Narratives, Facts & Letters: True Life Stories of Runaway Slaves and the Two Celebrated Female Conductors of the Underground Railroad
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2017
This carefully crafted ebook: "Taking the Underground Railroad to Freedom – Selected True Stories from Former Slaves & Abolitionists (Illustrated)” is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. The Underground Railroad was a secret network of routes used...
by Laura S. Jones
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2011
Breaking and Entering is a debut collection of eleven short stories about relatively ordinary people who experience intense beauty and tragedy in their lives when they least expect it. Each story in the collection explores a facet of what happens when the barriers or bonds between people break down....
Disability and Qualitative Inquiry
Methods for Rethinking an Ableist World
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
This groundbreaking text makes an intervention on behalf of disability studies into the broad field of qualitative inquiry. Ronald Berger and Laura Lorenz introduce readers to a range of issues involved in doing qualitative research on disabilities by bringing together a collection of scholarly work...
Captured by Evil
The Idea of Corruption in Law
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
One of the most powerful words in the English language, "corruption" is also one of the most troubled concepts in law. According to Laura Underkuffler, it is a concept based on religiously revealed ideas of good and evil. But the notion of corruption defies the ordinary categories by which law defines...
Everyday Desistance
The Transition to Adulthood Among Formerly Incarcerated Youth
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2017
In Everyday Desistance, Laura Abrams and Diane J. Terry examine the lives of young people who spent considerable time in and out of correctional institutions as adolescents. These formerly incarcerated youth often struggle with the onset of adult responsibilities at a much earlier age than their more...
by Laura S. Fox
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2015
Sean doesn't know much, being a virgin and all, but he knows one thing: that first time should be at least pretty perfect, with butterflies in his stomach and love at first sight. This is the reason why he doesn't want to just hook up and have sex, by frequenting gay bars, as his close friend suggests.
When...
by Laura S. Fox
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2019
Ramon knows what he wants, and that is to have one heated encounter with a certain beautiful male celebrity who wouldn't give two cents on someone like him. The good news is that sometimes, dreams do come true, even when you're just a piece of street trash.
Lennart has no idea why he lets someone...
by Laura S. Fox
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2015
Roland Tremblay leads a secluded life in the countryside for reasons only he and his devoted servant know. When he decides to sell his family mansion, little he suspects that he will meet the one who is destined to be his doom. Evan Rollins is young, beautiful, aloof, and seemingly has no idea what...
An Intimate Rebuke
Female Genital Power in Ritual and Politics in West Africa
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2019
Throughout West African societies, at times of social crises, postmenopausal women—the Mothers—make a ritual appeal to their innate moral authority. The seat of this power is the female genitalia. Wielding branches or pestles, they strip naked and slap their genitals and bare breasts to curse...
Two Is Enough
A Couple's Guide to Living Childless by Choice
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2009
Fall in love. Get married. Have children. For most couples, marriage and children go hand in hand. And yet, the number of people choosing childlessness is on the rise. These are the childless by choice-people who have actively decided not to have children-rather than the childless by circumstance....
by Laura S. Fox
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2019
Carter Malis thinks he knows exactly when he turned into a self-identified homophobe, and that had to be the moment when Aron Ruskin, his best friend since forever, announced to him that he was going to marry a dude. Great. So there were going to be two Mr. Ruskin's, and that without counting Aron's...
by Laura S. Fox
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015
Ay’len and Ma’ki have been in love since they were children, but, as they grow up, they realize that their love can never be. Ay’len, although a boy, was raised together with his sisters, to learn women’s ways, far away from all the dangers boys to become men had to face. Destined to become...