From a rising voice in post-Apartheid literature comes I Wish I Knew My Mentor, thesecond novel by Percy Makhuba, author of Cries of the Forgotten. In 1935 as Johannesburg is expanding into the major metropolitan city of South Africa, Mandla Sithole, a young Zulu workman on a crew building Johannesburg’s historic underground postal tunnels comes across a book hidden amongst the stones. On the first page is a stark warning for anyone underground to leave immediately. Alarmed for his safety and that of his fellow workers, Mandla, is forced to put aside ethnic rivalries and accept the help of Qhawe Nondela, an odd but courteous Xhosa co-worker, to smuggle the book out of the work site and begin reading it on the sly. Within its covers is a story that not only explains in great depth the events leading up to the reason for the author’swarning, but one which also changes the course of Mandla’s life forever. Against the backdrop of burgeoning Apartheid and ethnic rivalries, Percy Makhuba presents a world in which the lines between the living and the dead are blurred by thecommon restlessness of being human and where not only the exploitation of native African lands by the monumentally ambitious Boer population scars the lives of all in their path, but the Earth herself secretly nurses her pain and passes judgment on those who cut into her belly. I Wish I Knew My Mentor takes to task the greed and ambition that led to Apartheid, one of the world’s darkest examples of human beings’ capacity for cruelty and yet alsocelebrates the possibilities within the human heart and spirit of the emotional transformation of hatred into a force for inner strength and real, abiding social change.

The child of teenage parents, Michelle spent her formative years amid parties, sex and drugs. When her father died and her mother's mental instability made her fear for her life, she spent several years in and out of foster care. She grew up determined to escape her past and created a full life as she began her own family and built a business. Then, at forty, everything began to unravel, forcing her to confront the depths of dysfunction in her past.

This book will give working mothers the confidence that they can pursue a career while raising healthy, successful children. In My Mother, My Mentor: What Grown Children of Working Mothers Want You to Know, author Pamela F. Lenehan combines stories and research on children of working mothers. Using interviews and an independent survey, Lenehan delves into the recollections of the mothers and now-grown children to understand what worked well and what issues working mothers need to consider. These narratives also illustrate what the mothers and children thought about the best ways to spend their time together. In My Mother, My Mentor working mothers and their grown children relate their different views of what success means to them. The data show that the children of working mothers graduate from college, are employed, in committed relationships, have children, and are just as happy as children whose mothers stayed at home. Useful and informational, My Mother, My Mentor communicates that not only did the children of working mothers survive having a working mother, they thrived in an environment where mothers provided their children a strong work ethic, taught them resilience, and continued as a sounding board long into adulthood.

A heartless man abducted me. He treats me like his plaything, but I suspect I mean more to him than idle amusement. He wants to make me his. The monster needs me. Trapped in the dark, I'm coming to need him, too. He sets my body on fire, and his touch is a tender mercy. Maybe he's not heartless, after all.

99 Things You Wish You New Before Making It Big In Media It's about how to chase your dream and stand above the crowd In life there is a formula for success. In his book 99 Things You Wish You Knew Before Making It Big in Media author Steve Kowch gives you a short cut to 40 years experience of surviving the media jungle from reporter to running some of the largest news talk radio stations in Canada. This book is about how to chase your dream. Understanding that your dream is part of your DNA. It is who you are. It is the path in life you must follow to succeed in reaching your destiny! 99 Things You Wish You Knew Before Making It Big In Media is about how Steve Kowch channelled his passion, attitude, determination, luck and commitment to being a story teller and making others shine so that they can stand above the crowd. His experience translates into all forms of employment because at the end of the day it's all about you and your dream! This book is about attitude! It's about determination! It's about sacrifices! It's about that fire in your belly that won't let you sleep nights until you get your chance to chase and live your dream. It's about tapping into your inner strength and talents you were born with to exploit and to ignore those around you who have no faith in what you know you can do best! Steve Kowch has had an incredible career reporting on some of the biggest stories, mentoring some of the biggest names in Canadian media and generating award winning coverage of events that shaped the lives of an entire generation. It is no wonder many journalism professors would like to see 99 Things You Wish You Knew Before Making It Big in Media as required reading for their students. Steve Kowch provides you with his tricks of the trade to demonstrate how YOU too can succeed by using your imagination and the power of positive attitude. The author's message is simple. You can't stand out if you're not better than everyone else where you work. If you're lost in the crowd at work how will a prospective employer even know you exist?

A compelling reflection on wisdom, friendship, and the craft of writing, My Mentor is also the touching story of a young man's education at the hands of a master, William Maxwell. At age twenty-four, Alec Wilkinson approached Maxwell in hopes of being taught to write. A quarter century of friendship followed. As a fiction editor of The New Yorker, Maxwell was unquestionably one of the past century's most respected editors; as the author of the masterpieces They Came Like Swallows and So Long, See You Tomorrow, he was one of its greatest American writers. His unparalleled ear for language and eye for detail, his depth of understanding and experience, make his instructions on writing an essential guide to the craft. In honoring this great man of letters, Wilkinson creates a "deft and sympathetic portrait" (New York Times Book Review).

From the author of Armageddon Rules, the fanciful and fun continuation of the Grimm Agency novels... As a partner at Grimm’s magical Agency, Marissa Locks is used to working odd jobs. But when an evil queen reappears in Kingdom, life becomes too strange to handle… Even when she’s not starting it, trouble follows Marissa everywhere. First there was the incident with the homicidal Fairy Godmother. Then there was the time she accidentally started Armageddon. But the problems that always seem to arise on Marissa’s birthday take the cake. This year, her annual bad-luck presents include an army of invading goblins, the resurrection of two vengeful enemies from hell, and the return of the Black Queen, the evil sorceress whose reign of terror still haunts Kingdom and who happens to have claimed Marissa as her servant. As Marissa’s friends try to save her from the Black Queen’s clutches, Marissa fights to end a bitter war that started before her birth. But her quest for peace is about to bring up some inconvenient truths about her own past—ones that might cost her the happily ever after she’s always dreamed of…

George Stambolian, Terri de la Peña, Audre Lorde, Paul Monette, Edmund White, and Jaime Manrique are just six of the writers represented in this collection of forty contemporary lesbian and gay short stories. Gathered together for the first time in one volume are writings by both lesbians and gay men who represent a multiplicity of ethnic and racial backgrounds. Irene Zahava has compiled a unique and necessary collection, selecting stories for their artistic power and for their treatment of topics that are significant in lesbian and gay life and politics today. An alternative thematic table of contents allows the reader to understand lesbian and gay life according to its most culturally and politically significant themes: childhood/growing up; coming out/finding community; families; oppression/resistance; bisexuality; relationships/friendships; AIDS; and aging/dying.

The second novel in the beloved Tales of the City series, Armistead Maupin’s best-selling San Francisco saga. ‘Entertains, illuminates... A cultural touchstone that has enlarged our understanding of the varieties of human behavior’ Washington Post ____________________ The tenants of 28 Barbary Lane have fled their cosy nest for adventures far afield. Mary Ann Singleton finds love at sea with a forgetful stranger, Mona Ramsey discovers her doppelgänger in a desert whorehouse, and Michael Tolliver bumps into his favourite gynaecologist in a Mexican bar. Meanwhile, their venerable landlady takes the biggest journey of all—without ever leaving home. Hurdling barriers both social and sexual, Maupin leads the eccentric tenants of Barbary Lane through heartbreak and triumph, through nail-biting terrors and gleeful coincidences in 1970s San Francisco. The result is a glittering and addictive comedy of manners that continues to beguile new generations of readers.

The third time is a charm and that’s very true with the third edition of Billy Goldfeder’s Pass It On 3. Chief Goldfeder and his friends have introduced more new contributors in this third edition of Pass It On, including stories that will continue to expand your knowledge as a firefighter, fire officer and emergency responder. All royalties from this book will be donated to the Chief Ray Downey Scholarship, the National Fallen Firefighters Foundation and the Firefighter Cancer Support Network. Because of you, the valuable reader, thousands of dollars have been donated to these important causes since 2014.