arkansas

Autobiography covering the childhood of a woman who has been a professional dancer, actress, poet, journalist, and television producer.

"Shortly after the 9/11 attacks, three brothers by blood became brothers in arms when each volunteered to defend their country. No military family has sacrificed more during the ensuing war, which has become the longest ever fought by America's armed forces. While serving in Afghanistan, US Navy SEAL veteran and CIA contractor Jeremy Wise was killed in an al Qaeda suicide bombing that devastated the US intelligence community. Less than three years later, US Army Green Beret sniper Ben Wise was fatally wounded after volunteering for a dangerous assignment during a firefight with the Taliban. Ben was posthumously awarded the Silver Star, while Jeremy received the Intelligence Star--one of the rarest awards bestowed by the U.S. government--and also a star on the CIA's Memorial Wall. United States Marine Corps combat veteran Beau Wise is the only known American service member to be pulled from the battlefield after losing two brothers in Afghanistan. Told in Beau's voice, [this book] is an American family's historic true story of service and sacrifice"--Provided by publisher.

"In October 1919, a group of black sharecroppers met at a church in an Arkansas village to organize a union. Bullets rained down on the meeting from outside. Many were killed by a white mob, and others were rounded up and arrested. Twelve of the sharecroppers were hastily tried and sentenced to death. Scipio Africanus Jones, a self-taught lawyer who'd been born enslaved answered the call and represented the twelve--but could he save the men's lives and set them free? Through their in-depth research and consultation with legal experts, noted nonfiction authors Sandra Neil Wallace and Rich Wallace carefully examine the complex proceedings and offer a riveting and clear account of this landmark civil rights case"--Provided by the publisher.

Examines the life of Bill Clinton through 150 chronologically and topically arranged interviews with friends, colleagues, and rivals of the former president, including Bob Dole, James Carville, and Tom Brokaw.

Investigates a high school football team in Arkansas, where two players collapsed from heatstroke last year while practicing during one of the hottest summers on record, raising concerns about the rising rates of concussion and heatstroke injuries suffered by high school football players each year.

"Indian Territory, 1881. Brody Martin, at 15 has survived a gunpowder explosion, a bear attack, a panther attack, and more than one attempt on his life. But now he is wanted in Fort Smith for a crime he did not (exactly) commit, and bounty hunters are on his trail. In an effort to elude them, he finds a crack in the face of a ridge and slips into a cavern known as the Devil's Den, trapped by the men who would like to redeem the price on his head--dead or alive"--Back cover.

Seventeen-year-old Cullen's summer in Lily, Arkansas, is marked by his cousin's death by overdose, an alleged spotting of a woodpecker thought to be extinct, failed romances, and his younger brother's sudden disappearance.

Cherry Marshall, daughter of a deacon at the First Apostolic Holiness Church of God, gets her first taste of sinfulness in the summer of 1969 when she meets and falls in love with Tripp, a sexy stranger who wanders into her hometown of Sweet Valley, Arkansas.

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Poet Maya Angelou chronicles her early life, focusing on her childhood in 1930s rural Arkansas, including her rape at the age of five, her subsequent years of muteness, and the strength she gained from her grandmother and Mrs. Bertha Flowers, a respected African-American woman in her town.