The Measure of a ManI have no wish to play the pontificating fool, pretending that I've suddenly come up with the answers to all life's questions. Quite that contrary, I began this book as an exploration, an exercise in self questing. In other words, I wanted to find out, as I looked back at a long and complicated life, with many twists and turns, how well I've done at measuring up to the values I myself have set." Sidney Poitier In this luminous memoir, a true American

two girls kissing in Justina Ireland's story set in Maryland

Camila doesn't have time to be distracted by her feelings for him

A perfect gift for special occasions including Father's Day

and college applications hovering on the horizon

intellectual

by society's failure to confront the myths and misogyny at its heart

High school soon becomes a different kind of survival game--one Jake is not sure he can win

raising not only their past buried traumas

bestselling Stamped: Racism

The New York Times Magazine's award-winning "1619 Project" issue reframed our understanding of American history by placing slavery and its continuing legacy at the center of our national narrative

Yamile Saied Méndez's powerful

and after years of trying