Students on Strike: Jim Crow, Civil Rights, Brown, and Me

John Stokes has waited more than 50 years to give his eyewitness account of "The Manhattan Project." This was the name he and a group of fellow students gave their strike at R.R. Moton High School that helped to end separate schooling for blacks and whites, not only in his home state of Virginia, but throughout America. Told in Stokes' own words, the story vividly conveys how his passion for learning helped set in motion one of the most powerful movements in American history, resulting in the desegregation of schools---and life---in the United States.

Controversial Author Claudette Milner will Join Niki Giovani, Omar Tyree, Crystal Andrus and Other Authors at the Charlotte Literary Festival August 12,13, 2006

The Charlotte Literary Festival will be held on August12th and 13th, 2006. Controversial author Claudette Milner will join featured authors Niki Giovani, Omar Tyree and Crystal Andrus. There will be up to 80 authors present for this event. The purpose of the event is to promote literacy.

Life as a Book, Stoyan Style: The Offer the Editor Can’t Refuse

Set in the Chesapeake Bay, Shipwright by M. Randolph Mason is a fictional tale of patience, tolerance, commitment and faith - and ultimately, one of love. The character-driven plot takes clinical pathologist Dr. Henry “Lee” Wythe, who was recently dumped by his beautiful socialite wife, and Annie Carson Lauler, an emotionally and physically devastated shipwright and naval architect, through an unlikely friendship that ends in commitment. After reading “I wish you were someone I loved. Goodbye,” on a simple Post-It note, Wythe moves into his sailboat which is in the local boatyard awaiting its turn to be modified. There he encounters the daughter and only child of the boatyard owner, living like a bag lady in a derelict sailboat to the dismay of her parents. Lee and Carson’s acrimonious meeting activates a tumultuous journey, full of challenges. Each of the characters poignantly – and often unwillingly – begins to rediscover life.   

Priest and Academician Explore the Spiritual Lives of Children

Windows into the Spirituality of Children by Suzi Robertson is a collection of wonderful stories about children realizing and growing into their faith. Episcopal Priest Suzi Robertson has spent thirty years helping children who are exploring and discovering their faith. She’s captured their sad, funny, and moving stories in Windows into the Spirituality of Children: Real Stories of Real Faith From Real Children, with a foreword by the Reverend Doctor Jerome Berryman.

An Iraqi Native Shares a Fresh Perspective on his Country’s Past and Present

Mr. Muhammad Survives Iraq: Long Road to Freedom, by Taha Muhammad, reveals the truths of the Iraqi nation like no other book. Taha Muhammad's remarkable new book, Mr. Muhammad Survives Iraq: Long Road to Freedom, offers unprecedented insight into the heart of this pivotal Middle Eastern country and the brutal dictatorship that has ruled it with an iron fist.

ANovelMillion.com Launches Global Created Multi-Author Story

ANovelMillion.com looks to become the largest-authored story ever and is already a global affair. In it’s first A novel website is set to create the largest authored story in history and allows anyone to influence the storyline and become an author.  “It’s Million Dollar Homepage meets Choose Your Own Adventure,” explained concept creator Aditya Kesarcodi-Watson. “Aspiring authors get to add their own content sequentially and dictate the course of the story, with the added benefit of being able to link their passage through to a website of their choice,” he added.

Filmmaker Offers Novel-in-Progress in Blog Form on the Internet

Stephen Mitchell has created a blog with which to offer “Hinky”, his novel-in-progress recounting the actions of an L.A.P.D. Sergeant and an irresistible criminal intent on drawing the policeman into a series of illegal acts that will be life-changing whether successful or not (See: http://hinkynovel.blogspot.com/).

In her newest book, No Children Left Behind, Longshore takes issue with assertions made in the Declaration of Independence, that all men are created equally ; proving the opposite to be true; that no men, women or children are created equally. According to this author, the public school curriculum is not only based upon this pseudo-reality, but has failed historically to take into account the individual learning styles of all the students; accounting for the disparity between the academic achievement of African American and white students.