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For guys like Russell Boudreaux, football is the only way out of their small town. As the team's varsity tight end, Rus has a singular goal: to get a scholarship and play on the national stage. But when his best friend is unfairly arrested and kicked off the team, Rus faces an impossible choice: speak up or live in fear. Desperate for change, Rus kneels during the national anthem. In one instant, he falls from local stardom and becomes a target for hatred. But he's not alone. With the help of his best friend and an unlikely ally, Rus will fight for his dreams, and for justice.

Ace basketball player, T.D. Lake, is about to break the school record for the all-time highest scoring player. He is good-really good. But with untamed talent comes arrogance. With plenty of games left in the season, T.D. knows breaking the record will be easy for him to do. However, T.D.'s life takes several unexpected twists and turns before he approaches the final game of his middle school career.

After the murder of an unarmed Black teenager by the hands of the police, protests spread like wildfire in Bliss City, New Jersey. A full-scale resistance group takes control of an abandoned housing project and decide to call it Hush Harbor, in homage to the secret spaces their enslaved ancestors would gather to pray. Jeremiah Prince, alongside his sister Nova, are leaders of the revolution, but have ideological differences regarding how the movement should proceed.

I think everyone can relate to the physical evolution from childhood to adolescence, which Dr. Stallworth describes with humor and self-reflection. By the end of this audiobook, the listener has a measure of the distance traveled over the years. He shares the good, the bad, and the ugly. You can learn from it, and once you begin listening, it is hard to stop. This is Dr. Stallworth’s first book since retiring in 2017, after 45 years of medical practice as an anesthesiologist in Los Angeles. He has pursued his passion for writing since 2017.