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The Basics of Adoption
A Guide for U.S. and Canadian Families
Non-Fiction | Parenting
Since the first edition of The Basics of Adoption was published over 20 years ago, there have been earth-shaking changes in adoption in the United States and Canada, developments that prompted the authors to write an updated edition.
Featured Books
Non-Fiction | American Music History
Mojo Triangle is a term coined by author James L. Dickerson decades ago to describe the geography and cultural quirks of a land mass defined by connecting Memphis, Nashville and New Orleans with straight lines that form a triangle in which all of America’s original music, except rap—jazz, blues, country and rock—was created in a turbulent cauldron with metaphysical implications. The book contains stories about the recording artists who call the Mojo Triangle home and artists who have recorded in the Mojo Triangle.
Non-Fiction | Autobiography
Newsman is an autobiography of Otis Sanford’s experiences growing up in a large African American family in Mississippi during the turbulent civil rights era and the factors that influenced his 50-year career in journalism.
Non-Fiction | Biography
When Elvis Presley first showed up at Sam Phillips’s Memphis-based Sun Records studio, he was a shy teenager in search of a sound. Phillips invited a local guitarist named Scotty Moore to stand in.
In the News
The Doomsday Factor
In the 1950s, President Eisenhower worried that a time might come when the United States government, in partnership with the military industrial complex and new technology companies, might turn on its own people. To deal with that eventuality, Eisenhower established “Operation Doomsday” to create secret nuclear stashes for use by the American people. Although designed to save Americans in a crisis, those stashes seventy years later have caught the attention of an ambitious young Czech man, Jiri Žitnik, who seeks to establish a new Bohemian empire. Two CIA agents in Prague, Angela Moore and Cody Brown, stumble across Žitnik’s plan and race to prevent nuclear Armageddon. The stakes are extreme as this international thriller hurtles toward its heart-pounding conclusion.
Yellow Fever
Cengage Learning, a tech company that supplies educational material to universities throughout the world, recently licensed a chapter from “Yellow Fever: A Deadly Disease Poised to Kill Again” by James L. Dickerson for usage in its course material. How refreshing it is that a huge company such as Cengage Learning would do the right thing and license material it uses from authors, instead of stealing it as the major AI companies such as Anthropic and Meta have done. Sartoris Literary Group currently is a plaintiff in a class-action copyright infringement lawsuit against Anthropic for using intellectual property without permission from “Yellow Fever,” along with a half dozen other books sold by Sartoris Literary.