CINDY NGAuthor Photo Download | Bio Download Cindy Ng, author of Girligami, brings a fresh, fun, and fashionable spin to the traditional art of origami. Born in Hong Kong and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, Cindy has designed a line of origami kits and jewelry that have been showcased in art museums worldwide,…
CHRISTELYN DENISE KARAZINAuthor www.beyondblackwhite.com Photo Download | Bio Download Christelyn Denise Karazin is the co-author of the book Swirling: How to Date, Mate, and Relate Mixing Race, Culture, and Creed. She is the founder and organizer of No Wedding No Womb! NWNW is an online initiative to address and find solutions for the 72 percent…
CHARREAH KATIE JACKSONAuthor www.charreah.com Photo Download | Bio Download As Essence magazine’s Relationships Editor, Charreah provides sex and love insight for over seven million readers. Charreah is a certified family life educator and has been a featured love expert on CNN’s Headline News, VH1, WEtv, YourTango and the Huffington Post. As a dating coach, she helps clients…
BRENDA LANE RICHARDSONAuthor Photo Download | Bio Download Brenda Richardson is an award-winning author of several published books—fiction and non-fiction. Her novel, Chesapeake Song (Amistad Press, 1993) garnered the 1993 Pen-Oakland Award and Richardson was named 1994 Author of the Year by Go On Girl!, a national African-American book club. The novel was a Literary Guild selection.…
BETH THOMAS COHENAuthor www.beththomascohen.com/ Photo Download | Bio Download Beth Thomas Cohen was born on September 23rd, 1975 at Georgetown University Hospital in Washington, DC. Her parents settled in Reston, Virginia as her father worked at the White House as Assistant Security of Health, Education & Welfare. When she was two years old, her parents…
ALICIA GASPAR DE ALBAAuthor http://www.aliciagaspardealba.net Photo Download | Bio Download A native of the El Paso/Juárez border, Alicia Gaspar de Alba is a Chicana writer/scholar/activist who uses prose, poetry, and theory for social change. She is a Professor of Chicana/o Studies, English, and Women’s Studies at UCLA, where she also served as the Chair of the Cesar E. Chávez Department of…
By Jodi Foster This is a non-fiction account of actual events linked to a well known murder and abduction case that reached sensational proportions in the mid-1980s, at the national level, and which has gathered a growing momentum of interest internationally since. Forgotten Burial is a novel of suspense, wry humor, life after death, and…
By Kathleen Trainor Practical, effective steps for parents to take as they help their child overcome anxiety. Ten million children in the United States—two million of them preschoolers—suffer from anxiety. Anxious children may be afraid to be out of their parents’ sight; they may refuse to talk except to specific people or under specific circumstances;…
By Kimberly Freeman A popular subject in sociology and cultural studies, divorce has until recently been overlooked by literary critics. Spanning nearly a century during which the divorce rate skyrocketed, Love American Style traces the treatment of divorce in the American novel. This book draws upon popular, sociological, political and architectural history to illustrate how…
By Kirsten Kasai HER FATE IS IN HER FLESH.In an environmentally fragile world where human and animal genes combine, the rarest mutation of all—the Trader—can instantly switch genders. One such Trader, the female Sorykah, is battling her male alter, Soryk, for dominance and the right to live a full life.Sorykah has rescued her infant twins…
