"Harry Ackerson has always considered his stepmother Alice to be sexy and beautiful. She has always been kind and attentive, if a little aloof in the last few years. Days before his college graduation, Alice calls with shocking news. His father is dead and the police think it's suicide. Returning home to Maine, Harry and Alice will help each other pick up of the pieces of their lives and uncover what happened to his father. Grace McGowan claims to...

Polly's visit to her grandparents in Connecticut becomes an extraordinary experience as she encounters old friends and mysterious strangers and finds herself traveling back in time to play a crucial role in a prehistoric confrontation. Includes an interview with the author.

"College fraternity culture has never been more embattled. Once a mainstay of campus life, fraternities are now subject to withering criticism for reinforcing white male privilege and undermining the lasting social and economic value of a college education. No fraternity embodies this problem more than Sigma Alpha Epsilon, a national organization with more than 15,000 undergraduate brothers spread over 230 chapters nationwide. While SAE enrollment...

In the summer of 1990, Camp Kindlewood is forced to go co-ed for the first time in its seventy-year existence. Roger, the camp director, tries to convince both sides that this is a great idea to keep the camp off the corporate chopping block. But after head counselors Dale and Amber have an awkward encounter, all bets are off. Both Dale and Amber rally their sides in an attempt to win back their camp and gain dominance over what they feel is rightfully...

Tells the unforgettable story of how Father Brooks, a Jesuit priest, transformed the lives of a remarkable group of men during one of the most fraught racial periods in the history of our country.

21 drinks + 21 years -- 24 hours = A New Life Plan It's tradition in the PAK fraternity that you have to down 21 drinks on your 21st birthday. Bret's big b-day happens to be on the night of PAK's biggest blowout ever. The college is threatening to shut down their house. But the guys won't let that happen until they party like rock stars one last time. No one sleeps until the kegs are kicked, the hot girls get hot-tubbed, the PAKs mess up some dude...

"At a time when so many studies of African American students focus on the factors of failure, Academically Gifted African American Male College Students fills a conspicuous void in the research literature on postsecondary education by focusing on success. Like no other work before it, this study goes deep inside the experiences of academically gifted African American men who successfully navigate their way through rigorous college-level programs."...

Two decades after its original negatives were burned in a fire, Satyajit Ray's breathtaking milestone of world cinema rises from the ashes in a meticulously reconstructed new restoration of a family saga. Pather Panchali (Song of the Little Road) follows a poor Bengali family living in a village. The boy Apu's development grows as he witnesses the protection of family members' reputations, the relationship of the family group to an elderly 'aunt',...