The World Doesn't Require You Ages 8 and up and New Orleans

and New Orleans

Teachers of vision know that democratic education can never be confined to a classroom

Hot Shot and his trustworthy comrade Cotton take their skills to Oklahoma City to deal with some serious gangsters who run the drug trade

Together they are an unstoppable team who leave no trace behind … Until a mysterious woman from nowhere begins working Leader’s deep-hidden weaknesses

when she learned to explore

The World Doesn't Require You Ages 8 and up and New OrleansEstablished by the leaders of the countrys only successful slave revolt in the mid nineteenth century, Cross River still evokes the fierce rhythms of its founding. In lyrical prose and singular dialect, a saga beats forward that echoes the fables carried down for generationslike the screecher birds who swoop down for their periodic sacrifice, and the water women who lure men to wet deaths. Among its residentswildly spanning decades, perspectives, and