![]() ![]() It is the common denominator of our most vexing public problems, the core dysfunction of our democracy and constitutive of the spiritual and moral crises that grip us all. But not just in the most obvious indignities for people of color. From the financial crisis to rising student debt to collapsing public infrastructure, she found a common root problem: racism. ![]() Heather McGhee’s specialty is the American economy – and the mystery of why it so often fails the American public. Kendi, number-one New York Times best-selling author of How to Be an Antiracist ) “This is the book I’ve been waiting for.” (Ibram X. “ One of today’s most insightful and influential thinkers offers a powerful exploration of inequality and the lesson that generations of Americans have failed to learn: Racism has a cost for everyone – not just for people of color. The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together by Heather McGhee Synopsis: Get the audiobook on Audible □ (affiliate link) ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Everything is on the line as Shade and Alex race down those mean streets toward a climax where both their lives hang in the balance. Stretching from the back alleys of Chicago to the Strip in Las Vegas, the mysterious puzzle keeps Shade and Alex guessing as everything comes together to reveal a sinister conspiracy of unspeakable evil. In an all-out scramble to figure out who really is deceased, and who’s about to end up that way, Shade and Alex get on the fast track to Deadman’s Curve only to discover powerful individuals who will stop at nothing to keep their millions rolling in. When Alex and Shade connect, the two find themselves involved in a combined case so convoluted that even the dead don’t stay buried for long. Now, in Dead Ringer, their first adventure together, Shade is looking for Bob Bayless, a dead-and-buried executive who was recently spotted playing blackjack in Vegas, while Alex fights off the attentions of a creepy mortician who’s a little too eager to show Alex his backroom moves.Īlthough it seems their two cases couldn’t be further apart, clues – and bodies – start adding up to tell a different tale. Little did they know that their chance encounter would place them on a future collision course. Save up to 80 versus print by going digital with VitalSource. James nearly ran into each other in the final chapters of their respective adventures, A Final Judgment and Deadly Interest. State of the Onion is written by Julie Hyzy and published by Berkley (P-US). Private eye Ron Shade and news reporter Alex St. (Private eye Ron Shade and news reporter Alex St. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “I’ve heard stories about authors filled with this kind of Lotto-winner hubris,” Van Allsburg said. Most, he recalled, were longer on enthusiasm than on capital. Between his accolades and a generation of filmmakers who were regaling their own children with “Jumanji,” “The Polar Express,” “Two Bad Ants” and other Van Allsburg works, the bear-shaped, bearded author entertained a stream of offers. “Jumanji,” published in 1981 by Houghton Mifflin, also earned Van Allsburg a National Book Award for book illustration. Two of his 14 titles have won Caldecott Awards, the highest prize for illustrated children’s books. ![]() Van Allsburg now uses such jargon so convincingly that it’s hard to imagine that in the 3 1/2-year course of “repurposing” his book “Jumanji” into TriStar’s big 1995 holiday release, opening Friday, the artist and author never spent a single day on the West Coast. ![]() Among the phrases Chris Van Allsburg picked up in his total-immersion introduction to Hollywood was the expression “laying pipe.” For most people the term might suggest sewer construction, but Van Allsburg soon learned that laying pipe is actually a crucial element of story development-meaning that the weirdness a character displays in Act 1 will explain the plot twists in Act 3. ![]() ![]() In Los Angeles, private detective Philip Marlowe is as restless and lonely as ever, and business is a little slow. The black-eyed blonde : a Philip Marlowe novel / Black, Benjamin ![]() Good luck!Įxplore Raymond Chandler’s Philip Marlowe in our collection: Open to Wellington residents only winners will be drawn randomly on Wednesday 26 April. We have three double passes to give away! Enter on our Facebook page. The disappearance unearths a web of lies, and soon Marlowe is involved in a dangerous, deadly investigation where everyone involved has something to hide. MARLOWE, a gripping noir crime thriller set in late 1930s Los Angeles, centres around street-wise, down on his luck detective, Philip Marlowe (Liam Neeson), who is hired to find the ex-lover of a glamorous heiress (Diane Kruger), the daughter of a well-known movie star (Jessica Lange). The movie is based on the book ‘The Black Eyed Blonde’ by Benjamin Black, one of the novels that has explored the character of Philip Marlowe and his world since Raymond Chandler’s death. ![]() ![]() ![]() The neo-noir crime detective thriller ‘Marlowe’ will be released in New Zealand cinemas on April 27, starring Liam Neeson in his 100th film! It’s another iteration of the classic detective character Philip Marlowe, created by iconic crime writer Raymond Chandler and made famous on screen by Humphrey Bogart. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I don't like it when a H and H jump into bed with each really quickly and if a romance can give me that warm, fuzzy feeling after I read it, it's considered a great read! I don't mind if a romance is slightly modern and I'm a huge Jane Austen fan so Regency romances will always have a special place in my heart. ![]() I love historical romances that aren't overly sexual, with great chemistry and witty dialogue. ![]() ![]() ![]() To the rest of the residents of Chance Creek, they'll be a happily married couple. When she reads Austin's ad for a stand-in wife, she knows she can act this part perfectly. Pursued by paparazzi, Ella needs a new life, a new name and some place to hide. ![]() Now she's ruined her comeback by decking her ex on a morning talk show. It's bad enough another actress stole her fiancé-on national television. What could possibly go wrong?Ella needs to leave Hollywood-fast. Austin is too broken to marry for love, so he places an online ad for a fake wife. Too bad Great Aunt Heloise won't hand the ranch over unless all four of the Hall brothers marry and one of them produces an heir within the year. Now he's heading home to Chance Creek, Montana, where he'd like to spend the rest of his days in the obscurity of his family's ranch. Staff Sergeant Austin Hall has a brilliant record in the Special Forces-except for one disastrous decision that cost his best friend's life. ![]() ![]() ![]() Twisted Game is a full-length new-adult romance with dark themes, damaged anti-heroes, and high heat. ![]() I’m a loose thread to them-but somehow, I’m becoming more than that, too.Īnd no matter how much I try to deny the terrifying attraction that pulses between us, I know if I don’t find a way out of this tangled web soon. These three dangerous brothers will do anything to make sure I keep my mouth shut about what I saw, even if it means stalking my every movement. They don’t…but they don’t forget about me, either. When they drag me from the blood-soaked bed, I’m certain they’re going to kill me, too. On the night I’m meant to give my body to a brutal Russian mobster, three men storm into the room like dark shadows and kill him before he can claim me. ![]() ![]() So when I end up desperate for money and out of options, I agree to sell the one thing I have left: my innocence. Download Corrupt Vow (Filthy Wicked Psychos 3) by Eva Ashwood in PDF EPUB format complete free. My parents are dead, my adoptive mother is a drug addict, and the mean girls on campus mock me for my scars. 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Orphans of the Sky: Hugh had been taught that, according to the ancient sacred writings, the Ship was on a voyage to faraway Centaurus. Harriman is a billionaire with a dream: the dream of space for all mankind. Van Name, author of the Jon and Lobo military SF series. Heinlein novels in one volume, with an all-new introduction by Mark L. Journeys into space, one taking humans to space by hook or by crook, the other the classic first-time tale of a generation vessel with passengers who do not realize they are in a spaceship. Heinlein novels in one volume: The Man Who Sold the Moon and Orphans of the Sky. ![]() ![]() It quickly emerged that what Afrofuturism is, and how its lens may be turned on the global world, is very personal. ![]() Slate culture writer Aisha Harris guided a discussion about what the term means between author Ytasha Womack, Nigerian artist and designer Walé Oyéjidé, and lawyer and Arizona State University professor Michael Bennet. Right now, there is a palpable hunger and desire to know more about Afrofuturism as a lens to better understand our lives and their possibilities beyond our present circumstances.Īt the outset, Afrofuturism was described as a black perspective on “the politics, aesthetics and cultural aspects” of science, science fiction and technology. ![]() G iven the frequency with which we see black people in the United States being killed or attacked by police for protesting, it’s no surprise that a packed house turned out on Thursday night at Civic Hall in New York City to attend the panel Afrofuturism: Imagining the Future of Black Identity. ![]() ![]() shelved 219,972 times Showing 30 distinct works.Finally, it shows how everyday Americans from all walks of life confronted themselves, each other and the burden of the past - and how their fears and courage helped shape our future. 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