![]() ![]() ![]() And “Friday Black” and “How to Sell a Jacket as Told by Ice King” show the horrors of consumerism and the toll it takes on us all.Įntirely fresh in its style and perspective, and sure to appeal to fans of Colson Whitehead, Marlon James, and George Saunders, Friday Black confronts readers with a complicated, insistent, wrenching chorus of emotions, the final note of which, remarkably, is hope. He’s using his new novel Chain-Gang All-Stars to ask hard questions about the carceral. In “Zimmer Land,” we see a far-too-easy-to-believe imagining of racism as sport. The writer Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah’s story collection Friday Black was a surprise hit. In “The Finkelstein Five,” Adjei-Brenyah gives us an unforgettable reckoning of the brutal prejudice of our justice system. ![]() These stories tackle urgent instances of racism and cultural unrest, and explore the many ways we fight for humanity in an unforgiving world. By placing ordinary characters in extraordinary situations, Adjei-Brenyah reveals the violence, injustice, and painful absurdities of life in this country. A piercingly raw debut story collection from a young writer with an explosive voice a treacherously surreal, and, at times, heartbreakingly satirical look at what it’s like to be young and black in America.įrom the start of this extraordinary debut, Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah’s writing will grab you, haunt you, enrage and invigorate you. ![]()
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![]() ![]() the dead guy in the overcoat : in which the law finds for a ghost, and the author calls in an expert witness - Six feet over : a computer stands by on an operating room ceiling, awaiting near-death experiencers. ![]() You again : a visit to the reincarnation nation - The little man inside the sperm, or possibly the big toe : hunting the soul with microscopes and scalpels - How to weigh a soul : what happens when a man (or a mouse, or a leech) dies on a scale - The Vienna sausage affair : and other dubious highlights of the ongoing effort to see the soul - Hard to swallow : the giddy, revolting heyday of ectoplasm - The large claims of the medium : reaching out to the dead in a University of Arizona lab - Soul in a dunce cap : the author enrolls in medium school - Can you hear me now? : telecommunicating with the dead - Inside the haunt box : can electromagnetic fields make you hallucinate? - Listening to Casper : a psychoacoustics expert sets up camp in England's haunted spots - Chaffin v. Yet she has done it again: after her study of what becomes of our mortal coil after death, she now presents an equally smart, quirky, hilarious look at whether. ![]() ![]() ![]() Billy Beane is an extraordinarily talented high school baseball player-immensely talented and fiercely competitive, he is an all-around natural athlete. Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game is the story of this team and how an iconoclastic, convention-defying general manager named Billy Beane manages to turn the baseball world on its head and call into question everything that everyone thought they knew about the game. ![]() But the success of the 2002 Oakland A’s proves that much of this conventional wisdom, propagated by baseball’s traditional gatekeepers, is hopelessly wrong. In short, the 2002 Oakland A’s are a team of players who don’t look like players at all.īaseball’s old guard-a consortium of coaches, scouts, general managers, owners, former players, and sports journalists-have rigid conceptions of what a good player is and how teams are supposed to win games. They do this with a roster composed of players who have largely been overlooked by the insiders-pitchers with unusual pitching technique, fielders who are overweight or can’t run quickly, and hitters who struggle to hit home runs. ![]() The 2002 Oakland Athletics, pegged by baseball insiders as a mediocre club at the outset of the season, expose much of the sport’s conventional wisdom as flawed when they post a 102-60 regular season. 1-Page Summary 1-Page Book Summary of Moneyball ![]() ![]() Set in a richly detailed world inspired by ancient Arabia, WE HUNT THE FLAME is a gripping story of discovery, conquering fear, and taking identity into your own hands. But an ancient evil stirs as their journey unfolds-and the prize they seek may pose a threat greater than either can imagine. When Zafira embarks on a quest to uncover a lost artifact that can restore magic to her suffering world and stop the Arz, Nasir is sent by the sultan on a similar mission: retrieve the artifact and kill the Hunter. War is brewing, and the Arz sweeps closer with each passing day, engulfing the land in shadow. Hafsah Faizal’s We Hunt the Flame is a fierce OwnVoices debut: a lushly detailed epic fantasy inspired by ancient Arabia with a vivid, well-rounded cast of characters and a plot that makes it hard to put down. If Zafira was exposed as a girl, all of her achievements would be rejected if Nasir displayed his compassion, his father would punish him in the most brutal of ways.īoth are legends in the kingdom of Arawiya-but neither wants to be. Nasir is the Prince of Death, assassinating those foolish enough to defy his autocratic father, the sultan. Set in a richly detailed world inspired by ancient Arabia, Hafsah Faizals We Hunt the Flamefirst in the Sands of Arawiya duologyis a gripping debut of. ![]() Zafira is the Hunter, disguising herself as a man when she braves the cursed forest of the Arz to feed her people. ![]() A New York Times bestseller TIME Magazine’s 100 best fantasy of all time Hafsah Faizal is the New York Times bestselling author of We Hunt the Flame, and the founder of IceyDesigns, where she creates websites for authors and. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The Jedi dispatch Obi-Wan Kenobi, one of the Order’s most gifted diplomatic minds, to investigate the crime and maintain the balance that has begun to dangerously shift. With every world that joins the Separatists, the peace guarded by the Jedi Order is slipping through their fingers.Īfter an explosion devastates Cato Neimoidia, the jewel of the Trade Federation, the Republic is blamed and the fragile neutrality of the planet is threatened. Battle lines are being drawn throughout the galaxy. ![]() Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker must stem the tide of the raging Clone Wars and forge a new bond as Jedi Knights in a high-stakes adventure set just after the events of Star Wars: Attack of the Clones. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The characters are all flawed in their own ways, but you can’t help but root for them even as you see the damage they’ve caused and the things they’ve done. But this is a minor qualm, most of the book had me on the edge of my seat in anticipation or terror. I felt this might have worked better as a novella, as there were a few points where I was like, “…okay, get on with it.” The last lengthy ‘scene’ is one example - while it was incredibly tense, it started to lose that for me the longer it dragged on. I can easily see why so many people love Stephen Graham Jones so much, and I can also easily see why his work may not be for everyone. Published by Gallery/Saga Press on July 14, 2020 The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones This post contains affiliate links if you use these links to make a purchase, I may earn a commission. ![]() ![]() It’s an insulated privilege that doesn’t extend to other Asian Americans … to people like my mother, working in a nail salon.” When I walk into an event, I am Ocean Vuong doing a reading-I bypass some of the coded veils that Asian Americans are made invisible by, but only in that context. “But I’m not legible until my career makes me legible. “She could have looked in my file and seen that I’m an English professor,” he says, sounding almost amused. When he went to get his university ID at UMass Amherst, where he teaches, a white woman asked if he spoke English. Which is the central problem with how we value Asian American women.”Įven as a celebrated poet and author, Vuong knows he can rely on the privilege of being seen and heard only in certain settings. “I thought, Here we are again: I have to speak for you. ![]() In his voice I hear pain, but no shock: he and his mother experienced many similar moments after arriving in the U.S. ![]() When I came, with English, she went to the oncology ward,” Vuong, 33, tells me. “When she went herself, she got a heat pad. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() While two agents are dispatched on that babysitting job, though, an old Cold War-era spy named Dickie Bow is found dead, ostensibly of a heart attack, on a bus outside of Oxford, far from his usual haunts. ![]() The disgruntled agents of Slough House, the MI5 branch where washed-up spies are sent to finish their failed careers on desk duty, are called into action to protect a visiting Russian oligarch whom MI5 hopes to recruit to British intelligence. The CWA Gold Dagger Award-winning British espionage novel about disgraced MI5 agents who inadvertently uncover a deadly Cold War-era legacy of sleeper cells and mythic super spies. ![]() ![]() ![]() And yet, throughout the 20th century and into current times, the connectedness of Eastern Europe to the rest of the world continues to be demonstrated beyond question. ![]() These disparities were clear as the world globalized and the US and Soviet superpowers jockeyed for spheres of influence - epitomized by the imposition of the Iron Curtain across Europe and the rise of the Berlin Wall. In 24 insightful lectures, you'll observe waves of migration and invasion, watch empires rise and fall, witness wars and their deadly consequences - and come away with comprehensive knowledge of one of the world's most fascinating places.In examining this region's remarkable diversity and contested borders, you'll better understand the ever-present tension between the connections between East and West and the areas of marked contrast. ![]() A History of Eastern Europe offers a sweeping 1,000-year tour with a particular focus on the region's modern history. It has also been, and continues to be, pivotal in the course of world events. Eastern Europe has long been thought of as the "Other Europe", a region rife with political upheaval, shifting national borders, an astonishing variety of ethnic diversity, and relative isolation from the centers of power in the West. ![]() ![]() Variously called a discovery, an encounter, an invasion, or-perhaps most neutrally-a "contact" (the very problem of naming suggests some of the essential issues), the meaning and consequences of Columbus's voyages are under scrutiny in the popular media, as well as in scholarly writing. History itself-who should tell it, from what points of view, and for what purposes-has become a subject of heated public discussion. In this period of multicultural debate, there are fundamentally different and competing interpretations of a national past, which-as Native Americans, African Americans, and Latino people, among others, point out-includes slavery, genocide, and colonialism as well as more familiarly featured positive qualities. ![]() If Columbian centenaries in the past have symbolized moments of national self-identity, the news in 1992 is that national self-identity itself is a subject of dispute. ![]() In 1892, the Columbian Exposition was a spectacular celebration of national industrial progress Columbus himself stood as an exemplar of resourceful individualism. ![]() In 1792, Columbus's arrival in the Western hemisphere was first celebrated, with parades and oratory, as the symbolic founding event of a new nation. ![]() |