When twelve-year-old Angie Wallace and her friends embark on a quest to "love thy neighbor," they notice something strange about the return of a man that they just cannot appear to trust.

When a busy family's activities come to a halt because of a blackout, they find they enjoy spending time together and not being too busy for once. "Era una noche cualquiera de verano en la ciudad. Calurosa, ruidosa, bulliciosa. Y después ... Las luces se apagaron, y todo cambió. Pero eso puede no ser un problema, porqué no a todos les gusta la normalidad ..."--Libreríacentral.com.

Alec Valcourt es profesor de baile y el hombre de la familia. Junto a su madre y su hermana se muda a un remoto rincón de Devonshire, un lugar donde empezar de nuevo. Pero eso va a resultar difícil: la matriarca del pueblo ha prohibido el baile. Pero ¿por qué? Sin embargo, su hija, Julia Midwinter, parece convertirse en su mejor aliada, aunque la verdad es que no sabe si debe fiarse de ella... Con el tiempo, se da cuenta de que la joven solo es...

This book examines the evolution of Black Power activism at the local level. Comprised of essays that examine Black Power's impact at the grassroots level in cities in the North, South, Mid-West and West, this anthology expands on the profusion of new scholarship that is taking a second look at Black Power, connecting grassroots activism to national struggles for black self-determination and international African independence movements, and actively...

"In the tradition of Detroit : An American Autopsy and Maximum City comes a deeply reported and beautifully written biography of the seductive and chaotic city of Rio de Janeiro from prizewinning journalist and Brazilian native Juliana Barbassa. Juliana Barbassa moved a great deal throughout her life, but Rio was always home. After twenty-one years abroad, she returned to find the city that once ravaged by inflation, drug wars, corrupt leaders, and...