Most Popular Books by Ann Jacobs

Sheriff Houtman, who left Boston to have a more peaceful career, finds himself faced with two murders, and he is challenged by a band of amateur sleuths who doubt his competence. Will his conclusions hold, or will he have to admit defeat? Unfortunately, Sheriff Houtman is quite infatuated with Sadie, a refugee from Lebanon who escaped ISIS. Robin George narrates the story. She is a widow with a young son who moves to the Berkshires after her beloved husband died. Her bookstore, Bookworms, and Sweet Indulgences, her best friend Sadie’s restaurant, become the hubs for Robin’s amateur detective group where they plan how to solve the local crimes and exonerate Billy, the Sheriff’s main suspect. Will they prove the Sheriff wrong?

Harriet Jacobs was born into slavery in Edenton, North Carolina, in 1813. Her father was Elijah Knox, an enslaved biracial house carpenter owned by Andrew Knox. Elijah was said to be the son of Athena Knox, who was enslaved, and a white farmer, Henry Jacobs. Harriet''s mother was Delilah Horniblow, an enslaved black woman held by John Horniblow, a tavern owner. Under the principle of partus sequitur ventrem, both Harriet and her brother John were born into slavery, as their mother was enslaved. Their likely European-American paternity did not alter their status. Harriet lived with her mother until Delilah''s death around 1819, when Harriet was six.Then she lived with her mother''s mistress, Margaret Horniblow, who taught Harriet to read, write and sew.

How Can You Become the Boss traces the trajectory of knowledge, skills, and disposition beginning with the ones needed to lead oneself through to leading others to develop the knowledge, skills, and dispositions to lead themselves, and ultimately, using that knowledge, those skills, and dispositions for leading an organization to transformation. The goals is being able to lead a party of one before assuming that one can lead others. Leading an organization means transformation into more of what the organization was intended to be by its vision and mission. Leaders develop a personal vision and mission, use the 168 hours a week that everyone has to produce a result, hold a problem-solving frame of mind, cultivate a desire to learn, and productively use self-talk. Ultimately these leaders foster a team approach through a culture of participantship. They regard leadership as an action rather than a position. They see the future of leadership as collective, lateral, and integral and work with others from an abundance mentality. These leaders move forward in learning, using neuroscience findings to promote actions grounded in brain research and assuming responsibility as a way of being for the organization.

A single father who needs a wife to keep custody of his son and a woman he’s never thought of as anything but his best friend. Maybe she’s the solution he’s looking for. Or maybe that very special favor will change everything. Forever.

African American literature is the body of literature produced in the United States by writers of African descent. It begins with the works of such late 18th-century writers as Phillis Wheatley. Before the high point of enslaved people narratives, African-American literature was dominated by autobiographical spiritual narratives. The genre known as slave narratives in the 19th century were accounts by people who had generally escaped from slavery, about their journeys to freedom and ways they claimed their lives. The Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s was a great period of flowering in literature and the arts, influenced both by writers who came North in the Great Migration and those who were immigrants from Jamaica and other Caribbean islands. Novels and short stories William Wells Brown CLOTEL; OR, THE PRESIDENT''S DAUGHTER Frederick Douglass THE HEROIC SLAVE Harriet E. Wilson OUR NIG; OR, SKETCHES FROM THE LIFE OF A FREE BLACK Nella Larsen QUICKSAND PASSING THE WRONG MAN FREEDOM SANTUARY Alice Dunbar-Nelson A CARNIVAL JANGLE VIOLETS THE WOMAN TEN MINUTES MUSING TITIEE Charles W. Chesnutt THE GOOPHERED GRAPEVINE PO'' SANDY SIS'' BECKY''S PICKANINNY THE DOLL THE WIFE OF HIS YOUTH DAVE''S NECKLISS THE PASSING OF GRANDISON A MATTER OF PRINCIPLE THE SHERIFF''S CHILDREN BAXTER''S PROCRUSTES Paul Laurence Dunbar THE SCAPEGOAT Jean Toomer BECKY Poetry Phillis Wheatley POEMS ON VARIOUS SUBJECTS, RELIGIOUS AND MORAL Frances E. W. Harper POEMS Langston Hughes THE WEARY BLUES Countee Cullen COLOR COPPER SUN THE BALLAD OF THE BROWN GIRL Non-fiction Olaudah Equiano THE INTERESTING NARRATIVE OF THE LIFE OF OLAUDAH EQUIANO, OR GUSTAVUS VASSA, THE AFRICAN Mary Prince THE HISTORY OF MARY PRINCE, A WEST INDIAN SLAVE Charles Ball A NARRATIVE OF THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF CHARLES BALL Frederick Douglass NARRATIVE OF THE LIFE Josiah Henson THE LIFE OF JOSIAH HENSON Solomon Northup TWELVE YEARS A SLAVE Harriet Ann Jacobs INCIDENTS IN THE LIFE OF A SLAVE GIRL Elizabeth Keckley BEHIND THE SCENES Louis Hughes THIRTY YEARS A SLAVE Booker T. Washington UP FROM SLAVERY William Still THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD Henry Box Brown James Hambleton Christian Theophilus Collins Seth Concklin William And Ellen Craft Abram Galloway And Richard Eden Charles Gilbert Samuel Green Jamie Griffin Harry Grimes James Hamlet And Others John Henry Hill Ann Maria Jackson And Her Seven Children Jane Johnson Matilda Mahoney Mary Frances Melvin Aunt Hannah Moore Alfred S. Thornton Essays W. E. B. Du Bois THE SOULS OF BLACK FOLK Charles W. Chesnutt THE DISFRANCHISEMENT OF THE NEGRO Paul Laurence Dunbar REPRESENTATIVE AMERICAN NEGROES

Rand et Lily, deux amants adolescentes déchirées il y a plusieurs années, ont été réunies par un acte insensé de violence contre son père, son contremaître de longue date dans un ranch ... L''étincelle est toujours là, mais son père envoie un nouvel avertissement de la tombe, disant qu''ils ne doivent plus être impliqués. Malheureusement, son avertissement ne comprend pas de raison. Les deux réalisent, en travaillant ensemble pour régler les affaires de son père, que leur amour était réel. Est vrai. Un vieil instantané fournit un indice - mais tant qu''ils ne dévoilent pas des secrets de famille apparemment sans lien, ils n''osent pas ignorer ses avertissements cryptiques et trouver ensemble un bonheur heureux.

San Diego Bay: A Call for Conservation" is the fourth book in a series that details the beauty and history of San Diego Bay, written by the talented students of High Tech High. It delves into the delicate balance between humans and nature in an urbanized ecosystem, demonstrating the importance of environmental awareness and action, and the role individuals can play to benefit their city and planet. It examines San Diego Bay''s current state, outlines the reasons behind its decline, and offers solutions for its recovery. With a preface by Jane Goodall, a wealth of photographs, plus interviews with local experts on indigenous species and environmental concerns, this is a compelling and insightful work.

Book 2 in the d''Argent Honor series. d''Argent Honor...fine-tuned over a millennium to fight evil, its hunters are focused now on stopping an evil vampire in his mad quest for revenge on the d''Argent queen who refused his suit. In self-imposed seclusion for centuries, Stefan d''Argent emerges to join the hunt. His assignment: to seduce the Fox''s next intended victim in order to protect her. When Stefan sees Julie Quill, touches her, makes love to her, he realizes he puts his own heart at risk. Vampire compulsion or lust at first sight-Julie doesn''t understand the immediate, irresistible desire Stefan generates in her, but that doesn''t matter. She loves him, believes his incredible story...and wants to join him in his shadow world. One erotic bite...one slip into vampiric ecstasy could make it happen. But Stefan fears repeating the experience that sent him into seclusion centuries earlier, of killing the woman he loved while trying to convert her. A near-death experience tips the balance, giving him the courage to make her...eternally his. Note: Eternally His is a heavily revised, expanded version of a book previously published elsewhere as Eternity of Darkness.

Four exceptional authors, four enticing stories. Wrap yourself up in the heat of the best in erotic romance from Changeling Press. Angela Knight -- Blood Service Ann Jacobs -- Branded Dakota Cassidy -- Slave School Dropout Kate Hill -- Tainted Kisses The hunter and the hunted. Best selling author Angela Knight brings you vampire bounty hunters that sizzle. Adiva Mayhew is a spy -- and a damn good one. But now she''s running for her life from a deadly bounty hunter -- who''s also a vampire. General Borian Tang has offered a high reward for her capture, and the man known only as Vigilante apparently means to collect. When Vigilante catches up to her, she soon finds all he wants to do is take her -- over and over again. And as she yields to his seductive domination, Adiva finds she wouldn''t have it any other way. Trouble is, Tang is still determined to capture her, and there are other bounty hunters eager to claim the reward. A distant planet -- a man on a path of discovery and a tortured woman. Author Ann Jacobs explores sexual healing. Cole Callender, an entrepreneur with an eye to the future, branded a sexual deviant under Earth laws, adopts Obsidion as his future. Cole will build more than just a safe haven for Doms and subs practicing BDSM -- Cole thinks in terms of community, and the future of Obsidion as a world. Amber -- a sub with a death wish. She''s barely escaped a cruel Dom with her life. The scars she''s left with, both inside and out, may be permanent. Now she wants nothing more than to be Cole''s loving slave. Cole sees beyond her scars, but is his love enough to help Amber learn to live again? Two shapeshifting cats plus one kinky cupboard equals author Dakota Cassidy''shumorous slant on BDSM. Nyla is a cat. So is Lucas. Nyla is an Egyptian Mau, descendant of the Goddess Bast. Lucas. isn''t. In fact, he''s a tomcat. Unlikely lifemates at best. Lucas is also a sexual Dominant who enjoys just a smidge of rocky road with his bedroom pleasures. But Nyla''s never considered herself submissive. No one is the boss of her. Oh, and it never hurts to mention that Nyla''s family is a snobbish, upper crust bunch of shifters who will probably want nothing more than to see to it that Lucas and Nyla''s newly acquired lifemate status is revoked by the lifemate council! A primeval vampire, a woman intent in saving her village at all costs and a bargain. Author Kate Hill journeys into the ultimate surrender. Dancing with the devil. Pure Evil. Stolen from his mother''s womb by the very creature responsible for her death, Etlu was raised to destroy without mercy and sate his lust like an animal. Yet, peering through villagers'' windows in the dark of night, he sees men and women sharing unfamiliar pleasures and longs to understand. Meets pure good. Niabi uses her powers in defense of the weak. When Etlu''s army of Viking warriors devastates a village she''s sworn to protect, Niabi''s only choice is to strike a bargain with Etlu -- the humans'' lives in exchange for her complete surrender to his desires. Can she find anything in him worth saving?

Poderoso e contundente relato autobiográfico sobre a vida das mulheres escravizadas nos eua. Um dos mais poderosos relatos sobre o período da escravidão norte-americana, esta é a história de uma mulher em busca de sua identidade, sua sobrevivência e sua liberdade. Como diz Jarid Arraes no posfácio desta edição: "O fim da escravidão não foi o fim do racismo. Não foi o fim da pobreza, [...] da exclusão, do pensamento supremacista. [...] E, para os que se desconfortam nas cadeiras pensando ''quantas vezes ainda temos que falar sobre isso'', minha resposta é: todas elas".

A verdadeira história da luta de um indivíduo pela autoidentidade, autopreservação e liberdade, este livro permanece entre as poucas narrativas de escravas escritas por uma mulher. Um relato autobiográfico, narra a notável odisseia de Harriet Ann Jacobs, cujo espírito destemido e a fé a levaram de uma vida de servidão e degradação na Carolina do Norte para a liberdade e o reencontro com os filhos no Norte dos Estados Unidos. Este foi um dos primeiros livros a tratar da luta pela liberdade das pessoas escravizadas, falando de abuso e assédio sexual, além da dificuldade de manterem seus papéis de mãe e mulheres.

Quando Kate Black è stata costretta a scegliere tra stare con il suo fidanzato testardo e prenderi cura del padre malato, ha scelto di tornare da suo padre e dalla terra in cui si sentiva più radicata. Ma salvare la terra di sui padre significa prendere la difficile decisione di affittarlaa una compagnia petrolifera e all''uomo robusto e bella che gestisce l''operazione. Quella che le fa trattenere il fiato e risveglia un bisogno sensualeche Kate non sapeva nemmeno esistesse. Jake Green ha l''olio nel sangue, insieme a un chip grande quanto un Texas sulla spalla. In seguito al tradimento della sua ex moglie, ha giurato di rinunciare alle donne e ha dedicato la sua vita a far crescere gli affari della sua famiglia. Ma quando il suo lavoro lo porta da Kate, non può negare l''attrazione ardente che brucia tra di loro e asseconda i suoi desideri, anche se combatte per proteggere il suo cuore tormentato. Mentre i due si arrendono a una passine inestinguibile e scoprono piaceri innegabili l''uno nelle braccia dell''altro, Kate deve trovare un modo per guarire il cuore di Jake - e Jake deve ammettere a se stesso che un amore come nessuno che abbia mai conosciuto sta per consumarli completamente.