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  • Heartgarden

    by Rita Simon ...
    Lilian never thought a single secret could take over her life. What started in silence, late nights, hidden screens, and quiet curiosity slowly grew into something she could no longer control. Shame followed her everywhere. Guilt stayed with her. And no matter how hard she tried to stop, she kept falling deeper. Behind her smile was a battle no one could see, a battle for her mind, a battle for ... Read more

    $7.00 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Buried Greatest Quotes - Quick, Short, Medium Or Long Quotes. Find The Perfect Buried Quotations For All Occasions - Spicing Up Letters, Speeches, And Everyday Conversations.

    by Rita Simon ...
    This book is the outcome of an idea, and the idea is very simple. It is that the best way to understand the dramatic transformation any idea can bring and to successfully bring ideas across, is to think of them as profound insights and moments of clarity often disguised as wit, captured in one single Quote.Ideas and products and messages and behaviors spread faster when they carry your message in ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • In Their Own Voices

    Transracial Adoptees Tell Their Stories

    by Rhonda Roorda, Rita Simon ...
    Nearly forty years after researchers first sought to determine the effects, if any, on children adopted by families whose racial or ethnic background differed from their own, the debate over transracial adoption continues. In this collection of interviews conducted with black and biracial young adults who were adopted by white parents, the authors present the personal stories of two dozen ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Human Trafficking Around the World

    Hidden in Plain Sight

    by Stephanie Hepburn, Rita Simon ...
    This unprecedented study of sex trafficking, forced labor, organ trafficking, and sex tourism across twenty-four nations highlights the experiences of the victims, perpetrators, and anti-traffickers involved in this brutal trade. Combining statistical data with intimate accounts and interviews, journalist Stephanie Hepburn and justice scholar Rita J. Simon create a dynamic volume sure to educate ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • In Their Parents' Voices

    Reflections on Raising Transracial Adoptees

    by Rita Simon, Rhonda Roorda ...
    Rita J. Simon and Rhonda M. Roorda's In Their Own Voices: Transracial Adoptees Tell Their Stories shared the experiences of twenty-four black and biracial children who had been adopted into white families in the late 1960s and 70s. The book has since become a standard resource for families and practitioners, and now, in this sequel, we hear from the parents of these remarkable families and learn ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

  • In Their Siblings’ Voices

    White Non-Adopted Siblings Talk About Their Experiences Being Raised with Black and Biracial Brothers and Sisters

    by Rita Simon, Rhonda Roorda ...
    In Their Siblings' Voices shares the stories of twenty white non-adopted siblings who grew up with black or biracial brothers and sisters in the late 1960s and 1970s. Belonging to the same families profiled in Rita J. Simon and Rhonda M. Roorda's In Their Own Voices: Transracial Adoptees Tell Their Stories and In Their Parents' Voices: Reflections on Raising Transracial Adoptees, these siblings ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

  • The Rights and Responsibilities of Citizenship the World Over

    by Rita Simon, Alison Brooks ...
    Series series Global Perspectives on Social Issues
    In this eleventh volume in The World Over series, Simon and Brooks examine and compare the rights and responsibilities of citizenship across twenty-one countries. The countries included are Canada, the United States, Argentina, Brazil, Great Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Sweden, Hungary, Poland, Russia, Israel, Egypt, Iran, Nigeria, South Africa, India, China, Japan, and Australia. In addition ... Read more

    $105.29 USD

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    by James Baldwin, Gloria Ladson-Billings, Constance Clayton, Lisa Delpit, Louanne Johnson, June Jordan, Audre Lorde, Deborah Meier ...
    " City Kids, City Teachers has the potential to create genuine change in the learning, teaching, and administration of urban public schools." — Library JournalIn more than twenty-five provocative selections, an all-star cast of educators and writers explores the surprising realities of city classrooms from kindergarten through high school. Contributors including Gloria Ladson-Billings, Lisa Delpit ... Read more

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  • Reading Is My Window

    Books and the Art of Reading in Women’s Prisons

    by Megan Sweeney ...
    Drawing on extensive interviews with ninety-four women prisoners, Megan Sweeney examines how incarcerated women use available reading materials to come to terms with their pasts, negotiate their present experiences, and reach toward different futures.Foregrounding the voices of African American women, Sweeney analyzes how prisoners read three popular genres: narratives of victimization, urban ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • "Multiplication Is for White People"

    Raising Expectations for Other Peoples Children

    by Lisa Delpit ...
    From the MacArthur Award–winning education reformer and author of the bestselling Other People's Children, a long-awaited new book on how to fix the persistent black/white achievement gap in America's public schoolsAs MacArthur Award–winning educator Lisa Delpit reminds us—and as all research shows—there is no achievement gap at birth. In her long-awaited second book, Delpit presents a striking ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America

    Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America

    by Melissa V. Harris-Perry ...
    From a highly respected thinker on race, gender, and American politics, a new consideration of black women and how distorted stereotypes affect their political beliefsJezebel's sexual lasciviousness, Mammy's devotion, and Sapphire's outspoken anger—these are among the most persistent stereotypes that black women encounter in contemporary American life. Hurtful and dishonest, such representations ... Read more

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  • Labours of Love

    Canadians Talk About Adoption

    by Deborah A. Brennan ...
    Adoption is not for the faint of heart. Labours of Love chronicles the journeys of Canadians who have overcome heartbreaking obstacles to become parents. Their stories are as diverse as our country, and span the borders of our world. While each account is unique in its own way, the stories are connected by the overwhelmingly commonality of the power of human connection. ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus