![]() ![]() Shunned by her classmates and teachers for her limited English, Qian takes refuge in the library and masters the language through books, coming to think of The Berenstain Bears as her first American friends. Instead of laughing at her jokes, they fight constantly, taking out the stress of their new life on one another. In Chinatown, Qian’s parents labor in sweatshops. In China, Qian’s parents were professors in America, her family is “illegal”, and it will require all the determination and small joys they can muster to survive. Yet when seven-year-old Qian arrives in New York City in 1994 full of curiosity, she is overwhelmed by crushing fear and scarcity. In Chinese, the word for America, Mei Guo, translates directly to “beautiful country”. ![]() Consider this remarkable memoir a new classic." ( Publishers Weekly, starred review) An incandescent memoir from an astonishing new talent, Beautiful Country puts listeners in the shoes of an undocumented child living in poverty in the richest country in the world. ![]()
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![]() ![]() The series is based on the book “We Own This City: A True Story of Crime, Cops, and Corruption,” by former Baltimore Sun reporter Justin Fenton, which chronicles the task force’s corrupt activities and ultimate crackdown by the FBI. Wayne Jenkins (Jon Bernthal in the series). The series, from The Wire creator David Simon and writer/producer (and, also, Wire alumnus) George Pelecanos, follows the Baltimore Police Department’s Gun Trace Task Force, members of whom were indicted on federal racketeering charges in 2017, including former leader of the task force, Sgt. ![]() After months of inane true-crime television in the form of hucksters and d ating-app swindlers, HBO redeems the genre, returning to its early 2000s crime drama roots with We Own This City. ![]() ![]() ![]() Here is the original passage from the book: "Patton and Lily are virtually the only pure white people my age I've ever met. I would venture to guess that that passage would NEVER be printed in any children's book published as recently as 2014. Now, with their sneering, blood-smeared faces, they looked like things from one of Roddy's intergalactic virtual reality games." Now how does that passage sit with you? Sounds f***** racist to me. ![]() ![]() Everyone else I know is a blend.The Zarouqs, however, are pure African Sudanese stock, with coiled black hair, black eyes, and skin so dark it looks like an oil slick.So to me, on a normal day, the pitch-black Zarouqs were strange. Let's play a little game here: "Omari and Ayeesha are virtually the only pure black people my age I've ever met. They have listened to the audio versions of all of Stuart Gibbs books more times than I can count and I have never taken any real issue with anything in those books. ![]() Due to streaming availability, they actually listened to the second and third books in this series before getting to listen to this first one. My kids love the Spy School series as well as the Fun Jungle series. ![]() ![]() However, word gets out and Jack soon realizes he’s not the only one interested in finding it.a deadly and elusive assassin attempts to seize control, throwing Jack into a series of harrowing escapades - riding horseback through the streets of Siena, discovering clues inside ancient cathedrals, deciphering 500 year-old cryptosystems, and navigating an underground labyrinth in order to solve a secret so powerful it could change the world forever. As they dig deeper, Jack stumbles across a secret - the infamous Medici treasure is real. He joins with Chester Allen, a scientist from surveillance enterprise TerraTEK Industries, and together they begin to unravel the mystery of the Medici letters in hopes of determining what happened in the Alps. Kat’s husband, professor and classicist - Jack Cullen, rushes to investigate. Archaeologist Kat Cullen comes across a map that leads her to the Swiss Alps where her partner is murdered and she is left for dead. ![]() ![]() A trove of letters belonging to the Medici family is discovered underground. ![]() The Renaissance - our most fundamental age of technological and artistic advance, was built upon a secret passed down to a banking family in Florence - the Medici.įlorence, Italy, present day. The origins of western civilization discovered. ![]() ![]() ![]() A sandstorm results in the death of Beau, but Harry lives to find happiness with Bess. Bess rides the only horse left out of the desert, while Beau and Harry struggle along on foot. Harry follows and a duel ensues in which they are both wounded. Beau takes Bess with him into the desert. Her brother then aids Beau in an attempted robbery and Harry allows them to escape. When he rescues her from the advances of Beau Ross (Harris), Cheyenne's confidence in her is restored. ![]() ![]() This shatters the illusions of Cheyenne Harry (Carey), who has fallen in love with her. Plot Īs described in a film magazine, Bess Thurston (Gerber), whose no-account brother Jack (Pegg) is unable to support her, obtains employment in a dance hall. A print of the film exists in the Czechoslovak Film Archive. Hell Bent is a 1918 American Western film directed by John Ford and featuring Harry Carey. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]()
![]() ![]() His recent books include The Judge's List, Sooley, and his third Jake Brigance novel, A Time for Mercy, which is being developed by HBO as a limited series. The terrified, immature Drew will be tried as an adult, as a cop killer, and will be executed if guilty. About the author (2021) John Grisham is the author of forty-seven consecutive 1 bestsellers, which have been translated into nearly fifty languages. It’s the latest in a long series of attacks that leave Drew, his sister and mother fearful for their lives, but Kofer holds a trump card even in death: he was a deputy sheriff - and killing an officer of the law, even off duty, is a capital offence. ![]() This time, Jake is defending 16-year-old Drew, who shoots his mum’s boyfriend, Stuart Kofer, after Kofer knocks her out. ![]() And Clanton is as racist and conservative as it was in A Time To Kill, when Brigance defended Carl Lee Hailey, a black man who killed the white supremacists who raped his daughter. Jake relies on a landline, gets his news from the weekly paper, and waits nervously by the fax machine. But while the author and his readers have had more than 30 years to reflect on Brigance’s legal brilliance, in fictional Ford County, it is still 1990. ![]() It was almost 25 years before Grisham had Brigance enter the courtroom in Clanton, Mississippi for a second time in Sycamore Row, and now the gifted attorney is back for a third, seemingly impossible case. New West End Company BRANDPOST | PAID CONTENTĪke Brigance, a lawyer with a gift for convincing juries but not for making any money, was the star of Grisham’s 1989 novel A Time To Kill. ![]() ![]() ![]() It's harsh, cruel, unfair and-occasionally-uplifting. ![]() For me, that's the key to the books-the very human characters striving against a system geared to beating them down. ![]() We're exploring the effects that the inflexible regime has on an individual who's a key figure from the books, looking at the limits of humanity in a dehumanizing system. Like the books, ours is a fast-moving story set right across the vast canvas of the freshly-colonized solar system. I've worked closely with Pierce to create something that's true to those books, but also feels unique and new. Sons of Ares takes place before the events of Brown's Red Rising novels. In a future where the all-powerful Golds rule the universe at the expense of the lower castes, the course of history is changed when one of their number falls in love with a baseborn Red. The series explores the origins of the rebel group "Sons of Ares" from Brown's Red Rising novels. ![]() A prequel to the Red Rising science fiction series by Pierce Brown, it was written by Brown and Rik Hoskin, with art by Eli Powell. Red Rising: Sons of Ares is a six-issue comic book series published by Dynamite Entertainment in 2017. ![]() ![]() ![]() Much of her short fiction concerns the lives of Indian-Americans, particularly Bengalis.Įpigraph to Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri ![]() Lahiri taught creative writing at Boston University and the Rhode Island School of Design. She has been a Vice President of the PEN American Center since 2005. In 2001, she married Alberto Vourvoulias-Bush, a journalist who was then Deputy Editor of TIME Latin America Lahiri and currently lives in Brooklyn with her husband and two children. She took up a fellowship at Provincetown’s Fine Arts Work Center, which lasted for the next two years (1997-1998). in Comparative Literature and a PhD in Renaissance Studies. She then received multiple degrees from Boston University: an M.A. ![]() in English literature from Barnard College in 1989. Lahiri graduated from South Kingstown High School and later received her B.A. Brought up in America by a mother who wanted to raise her children to be Indian, she learned about her Bengali heritage from an early age. Nilanjana Sudeshna “Jhumpa” Lahiri was born in London and brought up in South Kingstown, Rhode Island. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() "In Sea-Salt Tears", a prequel to One Salt Sea, published on McGuire's website.A few fragments have also found their way around. "Through This House", which fills in a few gaps between Late Eclipses and One Salt Sea, published in Home Improvement: Undead Edition."Rat-Catcher", which focuses on Tybalt's early history in Londinium, published in A Fantasy Medley 2.The Innocent Sleep (2023) - the events of Sleep No More from Tybalt's point of view.So far, the series, written by Hugo Award-winning author Seanan McGuire, comprises: ![]() And once she solves this case, she only finds more to do. To her astonishment, the fae community is happy to have her back. Toby must return to the fae community to solve the case or literally die trying thanks to the geas. This is where the adventure in Rosemary and Rue starts. Her liege's Evil Twin busted her doing it, and the consequences of being caught cost her fourteen years of her life and everything that mattered to her.Īs a result, Toby cut herself off from dealing with the fae world, and lived as a recluse and hiding her fae appearance under spells and illusions, until another fae, with her dying breath, geased a reluctant Toby via answering machine to solve her murder. A loyal knight, she was investigating the disappearance of her liege's daughter. She's also a changeling - daughter of a faerie creature of the Summerlands and a human. ![]() |