![]() ![]() In 1886, 50 or more white men set out on horseback from Greenwood to the courthouse in neighboring Carroll County, where they lynched at least 20 Black men for having the audacity to believe the justice system belonged to them, too. ![]() In this picturesque town at the head of the Yazoo River, once a major cotton-shipping port, some of the long freedom movement’s most turbulent episodes had played out. It is also lost to history, this forlorn block of overgrown grass in the storied Black neighborhood of Baptist Town, where the soulful music of blues legend Robert Johnson once stirred the air. Without question, the park bears historical importance, as noted by a marker commemorating the speech that changed the course of the civil rights movement. ![]() Its name-Broad Street Historical Park, announced on wooden boards between stone columns-speaks in two registers. The site in the Mississippi Delta town of Greenwood where, in 1966, Stokely Carmichael electrified a crowd with shouts of “We want Black Power!” lies untended and unwelcoming. ![]() (Bob Fitch Photography Archive, Department Of Special Collections, Stanford University Libraries) Stokely Carmichael speaking in Greenwood, Mississippi, in June 1966, on the night he first invoked the term Black Power. ![]()
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![]() There’s an unfortunate issue of Valinda being engaged, but we’ll manage that. If he didn’t do it, one of his brothers totally would, because even after the terrible day and with a bruised face and no money, Valinda is obviously a cut above. Naturally, Drake’s family are A++ humans, more than happy to take in an unknown waif, and Drake himself has decided he’s going to stake a claim. To add insult to injury, she can’t get into the safe haven of the convent that’s been providing her teaching work, and she’s from New York, so it’s not like she has local family to turn to. ![]() She’s been having trouble getting paid, her school has been spoliated, her precious readers have been burned, she’s been assaulted by the men responsible for the spoliation, her nice landlady has died, and her rude and racist landlady has evicted her. Valinda and Drake meet while Valinda is being assaulted in the woods and Drake and his sister-in-law come to her rescue. Overall: This would be a good holiday read except that it’s also heavy because it’s set during Reconstruction Plot: worked, but there was a lot going on Character Chemistry: sudden but believable ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() or murder? And who will be next: Aster, the beautiful but reckless girl who’s never worked a day in her life-and who’s covering up her father’s darkest secret? Her older sister, Corrine, whose meticulously planned future is about to come crashing down around her? Perhaps it will be Natasha, the black sheep of the family who suddenly disinherited herself five years ago. Everyone is shocked that someone so perfect would end her own life-until her cousins receive an ominous warning: One heiress down, four to go. ![]() Tragedy strikes the prominent family yet again on a beautiful morning in May when thirty-four-year-old Poppy, the most remarkable Saybrook of them all, flings herself from the window of her office. But be careful what you wish for, because if you were a Saybrook, you’d be haunted by secrets and plagued by a dark streak of luck. Beauties, entrepreneurs, debutantes, and mavens, the Saybrooks are the epitome of high society. The only thing more flawless than a Saybrook’s solitaire is the family behind the diamond empire. From Sara Shepard, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Pretty Little Liars, comes The Heiresses-a novel about the Saybrooks, a diamond family blessed with beauty and fortune yet plagued by a string of tragic and mysterious deaths. ![]() ![]() ![]() A multigenerational tale, where the crimes of a band of thieves and their teenage children collide in the summer of 1988. ![]() It’s kind of like, what if you intended to die young in a blaze of glory, but somehow you didn’t? That’s what Pulp is about.”īy comparison, Brubaker continued, Cruel Summer is “the book that Sean Phillips and I have been building towards since we started Criminal. “It started as an idea for a Western graphic novel, but as I worked on it, it morphed into something else - a story of an old Wild West outlaw at the end of his life, in Depression-era NYC, churning out pulp story versions of his old crimes, as the world rushes toward World War Two. “ Pulp is different than a lot of what we’ve done before,” Brubaker explained in an exclusive statement to The Hollywood Reporter. ![]() ![]() Collecting a storyline from the Criminal series, it’s another period piece - this time taking place in 1988 - as one career criminal prepares for the job of his life, even as he worries that his son is going to follow in his footsteps. Cruel Summer, meanwhile, follows last year’s Bad Weekend as a reworking of previously published material into a stand-alone graphic novel. ![]() ![]() At one time, the only thing that mattered to Arrow Woodinson was football: playing, training, and earning his spot on the best team at each level. The novel stars Arrow Woodinson and Mia Mendez. “Spinning Out” is the first novel in the “Blackhawk Boys” series, which was released in the year 2016. She won a Romance Writers of America RITA award for Best Contemporary Romance: Long in the year 2018. She enjoys lifting weights, swoony heroes, spending time with her crazy kids, vodka martinis, and ice cream. Lexi considers herself to be the luckiest girl in the land, making her living through story telling. ![]() She writes emotional romance stories that sizzle, and lives in Indiana with her two kids, neurotic dog, and husband. At one time, she was a college professor. USA Today and New York Times bestselling author Lexi Ryan enjoys sunshine, reading, rare trips to the beach, and good glasses of wine. ![]() ![]() ![]() Despite the play's initial success, it was rarely performed in the late 17th century this unpopularity continued until the mid-18th century, when in was revived and was moderately popular until the 19th century, when the play began to fare better.Ī successful production of the play from the early 19th century added a great number of songs and funny scenes lifted from other Shakespeare works even the betrothal masque from The Tempest, which seems like it would be entirely out of place in a play like Twelfth Night, was included. The play is believed to have been written in 1601, not long after Hamlet was completed. The first surviving account of the play's performance comes from a diary entry written early in 1602, talking about the play and its basic plot. ![]() Twelfth Night is one of the most commonly performed Shakesperean comedies, and was also successful during Shakespeare's lifetime. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() And she presents the astonishing work of Frank Hurley, the Australian photographer whose visual record of the adventure has never before been published comprehensively. Drawing upon previously unavailable sources, Caroline Alexander gives us a riveting account of Shackleton's expedition-one of history's greatest epics of survival. Their ordeal would last for twenty months, and they would make two near-fatal attempts to escape by open boat before their final rescue. Soon the ship was crushed like matchwood, leaving the crew stranded on the floes. Weaving a treacherous path through the freezing Weddell Sea, they had come within eighty-five miles of their destination when their ship, Endurance, was trapped fast in the ice pack. ![]() In August 1914, days before the outbreak of the First World War, the renowned explorer Ernest Shackleton and a crew of twenty-seven set sail for the South Atlantic in pursuit of the last unclaimed prize in the history of exploration: the first crossing on foot of the Antarctic continent. ![]() ![]() ![]() Her would-be assassin has no idea what their poison has unleashed. At a time when the fledgling Trinity Accord seeks to unite a divided world, with Silver playing a crucial role as. These are the principles that drive Silver Mercant. But when a shadow assassin almost succeeds in poisoning Silver, the stakes become deadly serious…and Silver finds herself in the heart of a powerful bear clan. 'New York Times bestselling author Nalini Singh returns to her extraordinary Psy-Changeling world with a story of wild passion and darkest betrayal. That’s what keeps him climbing apartment buildings to be near her. Though Silver is ruled by Silence-her mind clear of all emotion-Valentin senses a whisper of fire around her. Valentin has never met a more fascinating woman. But that’s exactly what Valentin Nikolaev, alpha of the StoneWater bears, brings with him. At a time when the fledgling Trinity Accord seeks to unite a divided world, with Silver playing a crucial role as director of a worldwide emergency response network, wildness and chaos are the last things she needs in her life. New York Times bestselling author Nalini Singh returns to her extraordinary Psy-Changeling world with a story of wild passion and darkest betrayal.Ĭontrol. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Bernstein, Inc., which he established in 1973 as economic consultants to institutional investors and corporations around the world. Peter was the first Editor of The Journal of Portfolio Management in 1974, a widely-read scholarly journal for investment managers and academics in the field of finance and investments Founder and President of Peter L. The assets under management at the firm had grown more than tenfold by the time he resigned in 1973 to launch Peter L. In 1951, after teaching economics at Williams College and a five-year stint in commercial banking, Peter became Chief Executive of a nationally–known investment counsel firm, where he personally managed billions of dollars of individual and institutional portfolios. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Robert Capa and Gerda Taro, idealistic young photographers based in Paris, want to capture history in the making and are inventing modern photojournalism in the process. Ernest Hemingway, his career stalled, his marriage sour, hopes that this war will give him fresh material and new romance Martha Gellhorn, an ambitious novice journalist hungry for love and experience, thinks she will find both with Hemingway in Spain. In a city blasted by a civil war that many fear will cross borders and engulf Europe-a conflict one writer will call "the decisive thing of the century"-six people meet and find their lives changed forever. ![]() A spellbinding story of love amid the devastation of the Spanish Civil War ![]() |