The explosion of racial hate and violence in a small Alabama town is viewed by a little girl whose father defends a Black man accused of rape.

On the right side of the law. Sort of. Sebastian Rudd is not your typical street lawyer. He works out of a customized bulletproof van, complete with Wi-Fi, a bar, a small fridge, fine leather chairs, a hidden gun compartment, and a heavily armed driver. He has no firm, no partners, no associates, and only one employee, his driver, who's also his bodyguard, law clerk, confidant, and golf caddy. He lives alone in a small but extremely safe penthouse...

1980, PASS CHRISTIAN, MISSISSIPPI: It is three in the morning when Bobby Western zips the jacket of his wetsuit and plunges from the boat deck into darkness. His divelight illuminates the sunken jet, nine bodies still buckled in their seats, hair floating, eyes devoid of speculation. Missing from the crash site are the pilot’s flightbag, the planes black box, and the tenth passenger. But how? A collateral witness to machinations that can only...

Dead Sleep:Jordan Glass wanders into a Hong Kong art museum and is puzzled to find fellow patrons eying her with curiosity. Minutes later, she stumbles upon a gallery containing a one-artist exhibition called "The Sleeping Women." Collectors have come to believe that the canvases depict female nudes not in sleep but in death. When Jordan approaches the last work in the series, she freezes. The face in the painting seems to be her own. In fact, the...

Collects more than one hundred classic recipes for meals, snacks, desserts, and small plates, including chicken pot pie, asparagus and fontina quiche, overnight French toast, and fried chicken with sticky poppy seed jam.

"Chef Jason "Country Bling" Smith is a Kentucky native and captivating TV personality who has made it big on Food Network, winning "Holiday Baking Championship," "Holiday Baking Championship-Kids vs Adults," and "Next Food Network Star." In his first cookbook, he has taken his granny's heritage recipes and given them his own twist. From breakfast dishes to lip-smackin', tongue-slappin' sweets, Chef Jason is changing the minds of millions on how traditional...

The turbulent romance of Scarlett O'Hara and Rhett Butler is shaped by the ravages of the Civil War and Reconstruction.

Introduces recipes for each course of the meal, featuring homemade glazed doughnuts, ginger steak salad, and cajun chicken pasta, in a full-color book that presents ideas for events including kids' parties and potlucks.

Recent immigrants from China and desperate for work and money, ten-year-old Mia Tang's parents take a job managing a rundown motel in Southern California, even though the owner, Mr. Yao is a nasty skinflint who exploits them; while her mother (who was an engineer in China) does the cleaning, Mia works the front desk and tries to cope with demanding customers and other recent immigrants--not to mention being only one of two Chinese in her fifth grade...

For twelve history-making days in May 1961, thirteen black and white civil rights activists, also known as the Freedom Riders, traveled by bus into the South to draw attention to the unconstitutional segregation still taking place. Despite their peaceful protests, the Freedom Riders were met with increasing violence as their trip progressed.