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This riveting exposé details how a small team of auditors and investigators, led by the youngest State Auditor in the country, uncovered a brazen scheme where the powerful stole millions in welfare funds from the poor in a sprawling conspiracy that stretched from Mississippi to Malibu.

In 2017, Raquel Willis took to the National Women’s March podium just after the presidential election of Donald Trump, primed to tell her story as a young Black transgender woman from the South. Despite having her speaking time cut short, the appearance only deepened her commitment to speaking up for communities on the margins. In this memoir, Raquel Willis recounts with passion and candor her experiences straddling the Obama and Trump eras, the possibility of transformation after tragedy, and how complex moments can push us all to take necessary risks and bloom toward collective liberation.

In the heart of New Orleans’ French Quarter, Delphine LaLaurie lived as a woman of wealth, lineage, and reputation — until a fire in April 1834 exposed what her shuttered windows had concealed. The House on Royal Street traces LaLaurie’s rise through the city’s elite, the crime that shocked a slaveholding society, and the legend that followed when she fled. A historical true crime account of power, secrecy, and the lives lost beneath a story that refused to end.

From the bestselling author of Leviathan comes this sweeping narrative of one of America’s most historically rich industries. Beginning his epic history in the early 1600s, Eric Jay Dolin traces the dramatic rise and fall of the American fur trade industry, from the first Dutch encounters with the Indians to the rise of the conservation movement in the late nineteenth century.

The Yowani Choctaw Exodus is a powerful historical drama that traces the journey of the Wind Clan—descendants of matriarchal leadership and spiritual resilience—through the turbulent landscapes of forced migration, cultural survival, and ancestral memory. Rooted in meticulous research and infused with emotional depth, this narrative illuminates the untold story of the Yowani Choctaws, whose path from Mississippi to Texas was marked by both tragedy and triumph.

Power from the Podium: The Story of Black Olympians Tommie Smith and John Carlos, is a wonderfully written story of two Olympic icons whose silent Black Power protest at the 1968 Olympics in Mexico reverberated worldwide. From the awards podium during the playing of the American National Anthem, Tommie and John, heads bowed with their black-gloved fists raised in the Black Power symbol, signified one of the most powerful protests in sports history that called attention to Black social justice and racial inequality.

Universally acclaimed as a musical genius, Miles Davis was one of the most important and influential musicians in the world. Here, Miles speaks out about his extraordinary life. Miles: The Autobiography, like Miles himself, holds nothing back. He speaks frankly and openly about his drug problem...

Carol Dean’s book takes you back to the days of the Comanche and their struggle against the white man. Quanah Parker became one man living in two worlds as he was the last chief the Comanche ever had.This book takes the reader through Parker’s assimilation into the white man’s world and the great success he made of it and describes how he became a major part of American history and still is today.Carol’s book “Comanche Life” contains a brief summary of Quanah’s life as he was the last chief of the Comanche. This book provides a fuller picture of this incredible man.

William Frederick Cody better known as Buffalo Bill, was an American soldier, buffalo hunter and showman. One of the most famous figures of the American Old West. Find out more about this legend and how his fame started. He brought the Wild West to the world and discover why he will never be forgotten.

Fourteenth in the Tales of the Old Wild West series by prolific western author Doyle Trent. In the tradition of the John Wayne classic westerns and legendary television series Gunsmoke and Bonanza. The Wild West. If the elements, rattlers, coyotes, and Indian’s didn’t kill you...the person sitting next to you in the saloon just might...just for the hell of it. This series is presented as self-contained standalone story novels that do not have to be read in any particular order. It gives readers an entertaining glimpse into what individuals from all walks of life encountered as they ...

Over the years the Apache have been led by many legendary people. Two well known Apache legends, and the two that I have chosen to write about, are Geronimo and Cochise. They lived in turbulent times. Times when these two legends needed to join forces to fight for their lands and the lives of their people against the Mexican and the American soldiers. Both forces seeking revenge and retribution for the deaths of loved ones at the hands of the white man’s army, and the loss of their sacred lands desecrated by the white man. Geronimo and Cochise’s joint forces became a daring, dynamic and...

In the year 1830 President Andrew Jackson signed and had approved the Indian Removal Act. For the Five Civilised Tribes of Native America, the Choctaw, Chickasaw, Seminole, Muscogee (Creek), and the Cherokee, this meant the end of their lives as they knew it and the start of the Trail of Tears.A trail that, not only brought tears, but has become famous for the starvation, disease, despair and death amongst the Five Civilised Tribes that were forced to travel on it.An unbelievably sad story, said to be the most sorrowful legacy of the Jacksonian Era. But it’s all true.

Monument Valley is THE SACRED HEART of the Navajo Nation and it’s a beautiful area as I discovered on a visit in 2023. The Navajo Nation believe in an ordered universe, and a beautiful harmonious place it certainly is. And it inspired me to write about their culture and their importance during WWII as Code Talkers creating an unbreakable code. Read about the Navajo Nation itself and learn how their language helped to bring victory to the United States over Japan in the South Pacific.

The Native American has for many hundreds of years fought long and hard through many battles and suffered broken treaties to try to hold onto their lands and traditions. Many famous Native Americans have been noted and credited for the successes, or failures, of some of those well known battles. Names that we all know and recognise, and will live on in history forever.But there are others, perhaps not so famous, who played their part in Native American history. This book mentions just some of them. A few that I personally have chosen to honour, through this book, for their part. And there ...

Sitting Bull was born in 1831 in a time when the white man had descended on the Sioux tribal lands and claimed it for themselves. A turbulent time that continued throughout his life. A life of devotion to his family, caring for his tribe, courageous and brave in the face of danger and a gifted communicator with the animals and the Great Spirit. His tribe held him in high esteem and spoke of his ‘big medicine’ which was a huge compliment to the man. And that’s only a small part of the man himself. Learn about the legend that was and is Chief Sitting Bull and perhaps you too will admire...

When reading about Native Americans, not many will consider exactly what Native Americans are doing now. That’s understandable considering the appalling history of battles for lands, traditions, and their cultures under the white man’s hands. No set of peoples or civilisations have ever had to face such trauma as the Native Americans have for hundreds of years. That’s the history that is read about, understood, and hopefully learnt from, so that it never happens again.But Native Americans have come through everything that they have had thrown at them over the years, and are now making...

Editorial Review BEK: Black Eyed Kids presents a chilling collection of documented encounters that blur the line between reported fact and unbearable horror. With clean, restrained prose, Ted Lazaris builds dread through eyewitness accounts, unanswered questions, and the quiet terror of children who should not exist. The result is an unsettling read that offers no comfort—only the lingering fear that some doors should never be opened. The city didn’t change overnight. It simply became easier. Doors opened faster. Noise faded sooner. Choices narrowed until they felt like relief. Rena ...

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Franchise comes the untold story of the pioneering Black women who were seen, but barely heard, at the 1963 March on Washington There is no shortage of footage immortalizing the men who spoke at the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, when 250...

From acclaimed journalist Anand Giridharadas, a groundbreaking feat of reporting on a tragic encounter in a New York subway car that held up a mirror to a troubled and divided nation In 2023, New York was already a city under strain, racked by panic about crime, mistrust of police, and a broken...

Here’s a little-known secret the agenda driven main stream media will never talk about: conservatives, independents, and liberals ALL own guns. It’s quite honestly one of the only issues that many on both sides of the isle can agree on, regardless of the agenda pushed by a biased media. Guns Save Lives describes 22 dramatic cases of self-defense with firearms in which intended victims stood up to violent criminals who were hell-bent on causing murder and mayhem. These would-be victims heroically protected the lives of their families, themselves, and in some cases, complete strangers, ...