An exciting, eye-catching repackage of acclaimed author Walter Dean Myers' bestselling paperbacks, to coincide with the publication of SUNRISE OVER FALLUJA in hardcover. "Those shackles didn't rob us of being black, son, they robbed us of being human." This is the story of one family. A family whose history saw its first ancestor captured, shackled, and brought to this country from Africa. A family who can still see remnants of the shackles...

Aus dem Buch: "Dann fuhr er in seinem Monolog fort: "Schändlich! Jakob hatte recht. Es wird uns wohl nichts übrig bleiben — wir müssen Wyremby verkaufen. Doch ach, wenn ihn dann seine Kameraden fragen: Wie heißt dein Landsitz? dann wird er nichts weiter antworten können, als: Ich bin der Herr von Vierwinden. Und welche hohe Meinung werden sie alle von einem Herrn von Vierwinden haben? Sie werden ihn geringschätzen. Wenn man einen Pächter...

"Two Sides of Glory" is an in-depth, first-person account with the key and intriguing players that made up this once-in-a-generation Boston team, and also a look at how the extremes of tantalizing victory and heart-wrenching failure shaped and influenced their lives then and in the future-both on the field and off"--

A revelatory look at Amish youth as they have never been looked at before. Rumspringa is a fascinating look at a little-known Amish coming-of-age ritual, the rumspringa, the period of "running around" that begins for their youth at age sixteen. Through vivid portraits of teenagers in Ohio and Indiana, Tom Shachtman offers an account of Amish life as a mirror to the soul-searching and questing that we recognize as a generally intrinsic part of adolescence. ...