A gripping emotional tale of a young girl, Tanny Anderson, growing up in the countryside of Jamaica her native land. An insightful depiction of her journey through a life fraught with difficulties which persists even after migrating to the United States and her consequent struggle to reconcile her mind with the circumstances fate has dealt her. Revelations about her life: moments of laughter, sadness, fear and dreams which are shadowed by nightmares, but, her will to live will not be denied...

J.M. Roberts's renowned History of the World is widely considered the finest available one-volume survey of the major events, developments, and personalities of the known past, offering generations of readers a tour of the vast landscape of human history.
In this new edition, Bancroft Prize-winning historian Odd Arne Westad has completely revised this landmark work to bring the narrative up to the twenty-first century, including the 9/11 attacks and the wars in the Middle East. Westad utilizes the remarkable gains in scholarship in recent decades to enhance the book's coverage of...