From bra shopping to babysitting, from making close friends to making great grades, Girltalk has all the answers. Upbeat and up-to-date, honest and hip, Girltalk is an "indispensable guide" (Working Mother) for girls ages eleven to eighteen. This Fourth Edition is the ultimate preteen and teen source for advice.

The Eighteen Letters

This ebook… (‘The eighteen letters’)… was a consequence of several facts which were not planned. They happened (a kind of) accidentally. A few years ago, I decided to publish a collection of 18 letters which I wrote to my sons, telling stories of my life. The text began to ‘navigate’ through some websites where the English language was used.

From the Windrush immigration of the 1950's to contemporary multicultural Britain, Black British Culture and Society examines the postwar Afro-Caribbean diaspora, tracing the transformations of Black culture as it establishes itself in British society. Combining classic texts on Black British life with eighteen new articles, Kwesi Owusu's collection represents the rich diversity of the Black British experience.

Lieutenant at Eighteen

These books are all you could hope for: breathlessly optimistic stories of train wrecks, steamboat explosions, an escape from Libby Prison, secret codes deciphered, blockade runners foiled, slaveholders defied, betrayals and reverses, etc. etc.  You also get Oliver Optic’s weirdly amiable and funny narrative voice—“weird” in the context of the subject matter.  The books were written at the end of the Civil War, while the artillery barrels were still cooling and the bodies being shipped home from the battlefields for burial.