Class Conflict

In a radical analysis of contemporary classrooms, MacArthur Award-winning author Lisa Delpit develops ideas about ways teachers can be better "cultural transmitters" in the classroom, where prejudice, stereotypes, and cultural assumptions breed ineffective education. Delpit suggests that many academic problems attributed to children of color are actually the result of miscommunication, as primarily white teachers and "other people's children" struggle with the imbalance of power and the dynamics plaguing our system.

Campbell Flynn, art historian, professor, and fêted fixture of the literati, always knew that when his life came crashing down, it would happen in public—yet he never imagined that a single year in London would expose so much. He’s never taken other people half as seriously as they take themselves, which is the first of his mistakes. The second is a new project: opportunistic and precisely calibrated to rake in a fortune.

Football, Stalkers and Family Secrets One month after his eighteenth birthday, Billy Ray Suggs receives an ultimatum; get married, or find a new place to live. Billy Ray discovers living accommodations are hard to find, in a small Texas town, when you're the illegitimate son of a disreputable woman. Milton, Texas is in turmoil. When a prostitute is murdered two blocks from the high school restless citizens worry about a murderous stalker lurking within their town. As Billy Ray and his teammates play their last football game of the season the Milton Police Chief uncovers a dark secret which ...

Winners. Losers. Lovers. There’s only one more football game, and it’s time to go big or go home. A district championship is in reach for the Creekridge Wildcats, but no one is thinking about football. The Creekridge Quarterback, Dan Spencer, tries to forget the passion of a former lover when a new female in his life bestows her affection on him. Two weeks after his car mysteriously caught on fire; Creekridge Halfback, Wayne Myers, discovers his step-mother is willing to forget her knowledge of the incident if Wayne is willing to accept an unusual offer for her silence. Across the ...

One unusually sultry spring night, Jane is woken by a scream from the nursery - and rushes in to find the Tyler children's nanny murdered and the carefully locked window flung open.

Two Teams. One Week. One Game It's almost game time; Creekridge versus Milton for the district championship, and the real action occurs off the football field. While opposing coaches resume a personal grudge match; players on both teams run fast and loose. To settle a debt, Creekridge Quarterback Dan Spencer gets involved in a risky endeavor with a team mate. In the Creekridge neighborhood, where clandestine lovers meet and parents fund drug deals, everyone wants more of the good life. Sixty miles away in Milton, it's a battle for survival as Milton Halfback Billy Ray Suggs struggles with ...

Emily appears to have it all: professional success and a sweet family life. But when her promotion causes her family to relocate to a new city, the move unexpectedly stirs up unpleasant memories of Jack Olney, the handsome jock who bullied her during college. As Emily sorts through her recollections and past humiliations, she decides to reach out to her old dorm mates. Do they remember her? Are they happy? And whatever happened to Jack?