Crystal: 933 books

Three women, three countries, three stories—the destinies of a Thai in prison for murdering her husband, a Cambodian longing for a child, and a Laotian Hmong refugee are threaded together by the tears leftover from the Vietnam War. Each of the women have been marked in some way by the atrocities...

An extremely funny and erotic book of drawings and text. 12 short stories of sexual activities in a "Working Girls" day.

A discussion of pop culture messages about masculinity, their impact on boys, and the benefits of introducing more gender balance to boys lives. When most people think about gender stereotypes and children, they envision princesses, dolls, and pink clothing. Few consider the warriors, muscle-bound...

Hi, all Cc publications are intended for adult viewers only, and every issue contains 100+ full colour high quality images of ordinary 18+ everyday Amateur girls, wives, girlfriends and first timers doing what they do best, stripping and revealing themselves to us all from the provocative half-clad...

This book analyzes the complex conversations taking place in texts of all sorts traveling between Africans, African diasporas, and Japanese across disciplinary, geographic, racial, ethnic, and cultural borders. The volume turns its attention away from questions of representation to ones concerning...

Normal.dotm0011901163SIU Press195141012.00false18 pt18 pt00falsefalsefalse Fringe Benefits, an award-winning theatre company, collaborates with schools and communities to create plays that promote constructive dialogue about diversity and discrimination issues. Staging Social Justice is a...

This book is the outcome of an idea, and the idea is very simple. It is that the best way to understand the dramatic transformation any idea can bring and to successfully bring ideas across, is to think of them as profound insights and moments of clarity often disguised as wit, captured in one single...

Warning bells… high water… levees that are about to break: a flood is overtaking the city! Maggie and her family must escape, but will there be enough time to get to higher ground? Stranded in the top of a downtown hotel with dozens of strangers, they can do nothing but watch the flood waters rise....

 Everyone in town knows that flashy Jasmine has arrived and is looking for Zeke. In the meantime, Ava has disappeared, without a word.   Zeke and his good friend, Sam, almost come to blows while John is drawn into a stunning argument with a beautiful but petulant young Amish...

A collection of diverse essays and poetry that offer scholarly and creative responses inspired by the life and work of Gloria Anzaldúa, selected from the 2013 meeting of The Society for the Study of Gloria Anzaldúa.

Set amongst the scandal, wealth, and upstairs-downstairs politics of a Roman family, this “addictively readable first novel” (Kirkus Reviews) features the man who inspired the world’s oldest cookbook and the ambition that led to his destruction. In the twenty-sixth year of Augustus Caesar’s...

Thinking about all aspects of life the good and the bad times I dont believe I would have it any other way. Imagine if life was one straight road without twist and turns. No highs, lows, or obstacles to steer trough. What would be gained? What lessons would one learn from? The poems in this book are...

Silver Linings is one persons journey through a year of personal and professional changes; the moments of extreme joy which can be shattered in an instant by deep sorrow and utter loss. The mind is a roller coaster. Are you brave enough to join the ride?

As a baby I was grown, as I got older my youth was never there because the future was my past as I have already seen before hand. While life always presented itself to me as non-profitable, but the treasure always waits for me with the knowing was never known because the time was not so yet. Now that...