![]() ![]() He told the hushed crowd, “Go back to Mississippi, go back to Alabama, go back to South Carolina, go back to Georgia, go back to Louisiana, go back to the slums and ghettoes of our northern cities, knowing that somehow this situation can and will be changed. Coming to the end of his prepared text (which, like other speakers that day, he had limited to seven minutes), he was overwhelmed by the moment and launched into an improvised sermon. With the statue of Abraham Lincoln-the Great Emancipator-towering behind him, King used the rhetorical talents he had developed as a Baptist preacher to show how, as he put it, the “Negro is still not free.” He told of the struggle ahead, stressing the importance of continued action and nonviolent protest. The peaceful rally was the largest assembly for a redress of grievances that the capital had ever seen, and King was the last speaker. The demonstrators-Black and white, poor and rich-came together in the nation’s capital to demand voting rights and equal opportunity for African Americans and to appeal for an end to racial segregation and discrimination. On the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., the African American civil rights movement reaches its high-water mark when Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his " I Have a Dream" speech to about 250,000 people attending the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() In other words, the insatiable hunger and protectiveness she is awakening is a threat to his peace of mind. She’s also brave and beautiful and reminds him of the home he left behind three years ago. ![]() Sure, she’s stubborn, distracting and can’t stay out of harm’s way. ![]() Although…it is becoming less and less of a hardship to have Taylor around. Myles is just there to do a job, not babysit an amateur sleuth. Not to mention her fulfilling teaching career of wrangling second graders.Ī brash bounty hunter and an energetic elementary school teacher: the murder-solving team no one asked for, but thanks to these pesky attempts on Taylor's life, they're stuck together, come hell or high tide. Now a rude, crude bounty hunter has arrived on the back of his motorcycle to catch the killer and refuses to believe Taylor can be helpful, despite the countless hours she's spent listening to true crime podcasts. It was supposed to be a relaxing vacation in sweet, sunny Cape Cod-just Taylor and her beloved brother-but discovering a corpse in their rental house has really thrown a wrench into their tanning schedule. A spicy rom-com with a murder mystery from Tessa Bailey, #1 New York Times bestselling author of It Happened One Summer! ![]() ![]() ![]() At once shrewd and dangerous, Mao Zedong made China whole and succeeded in keeping it so while the caustic Deng Xiaoping dragged China into the modern world. Analyzing the calculus behind decision making at the highest levels, Sulmaan Wasif Khan explores how China’s leaders have harnessed diplomatic, military, and economic power to keep a fragile country safe in a hostile world. Today it dominates the global stage, and yet its leaders have continued to be haunted by the past. “An outstanding contribution to our understanding of that most urgent of contemporary geopolitical questions: what does China want?”īefore the Chinese Communist Party came to power, China lay broken and fragmented. “Readers will not find a shrewder analysis as to why the Chinese act as they do.” Sulmaan Wasif Khan chronicles the grand strategies that have sought to protect China from aggression and ensure it would never again experience the powerlessness of the late Qing and Republican eras. ![]() ![]() Today it is a global force, but its leaders are haunted by the past. Before the Communists came to power, China lay broken. ![]() ![]() ![]() Photo by Olivier Dauliery/Abaca Press/TNSĪ Pennsylvania gas drilling site in 2012. secretary of state, has been an unapologetic advocate of drilling for oil and gas anywhere a profit can be made, Maddow writes. Rex Tillerson, head of ExxonMobil and former U.S. Russian President Vladimir Putin is a corrupt autocrat, Maddow writes, who has used his country’s oil and gas wealth primarily to enrich himself and his cronies. “Blowout” revisits one of the worst oil spills in history, following the destruction of the Deepwater Horizon platfrom in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010. Maddow says one of the founders of OPEC, Juan Pablo Pérez Alfonzo, once called oil “the excrement of the devil.” Maddow says one of the founders of OPEC, Juan Pablo Pérez Alfonzo, once called oil “the excrement of the devil.” MSNBC host and part-time Valley resident Rachel Maddow offers a scathing look at the oil and gas industry in her new book, “Blowout.” Photo by NBCUniversal Media, LLC ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Tituba the Devil is out and preying on children like a beast upon the flesh of the pure lamb. The reader sees this happen when the first person is accused, this causes the engineered downfall of the town, “Take courage, you must give us all their names. He automatically assumes he is better than all of the townspeople and uses it to his advantage. ![]() According to the website Academy of Ideas, “Individuals looking to take advantage of, and manipulate others, have long realized the power of fear” (“Fear…”), Hale can be compared to ‘Individuals looking to take advantage of and manipulate others’ for how he represents himself with his books. The way that the judge oppresses Hale is by shrouding him with death. This is due to the oppressive forces of the court judge, Danforth, and his friend, John Proctor. ![]() His self-assurance will dissolve away as he starts signing death warrants, this makes his morals dramatically change. This statement also shows his role at the beginning of the play and reveals him to be a smug, if intelligent, man who calmly explains to the residents of Salem that he can easily identify a witch. In these books the Devil stands stripped of all his brute disguises”. The reader can see Hale’s pride with his knowledge at the beginning of the play when he states, “Here is all the invisible world, caught, defined, and calculated. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() At times my humor is cerebral, and at other times it's that of a troglodyte: I have found that this engages readers and leaves them with the sense that they are on an exhilarating ride as they read. I believe it has excellent potential for a successful commercial publication and would recommend it to an agent on that basis." My "voice" as a writer is entertaining, uncommon in the current non-fiction market, and informative I treat the reader as an adult, and assume they are above average in intelligence. It is a cynical, fabulous, outrageous, politically incorrect, foul-mouthed and absolutely hilarious modern-day Walden. The best-selling author Douglas Preston wrote about my manuscript, "I have read DESERTPHILE by David Rice and I couldn't put it down. When he receives a layoff from his job post-Y2K, he takes the opportunity to escape to his happy place: the desert. ![]() I performed several decades of original research on the region and the historical people who passed through the East Mojave, and I have included the most interesting historical events (such as the "last great gun fight" in the USA Southwest) in an easy, humorous narrative. How I interacted with the desert and the people I encountered while living in 'my' cave is the theme that binds the manuscript together. How I interacted with the desert and the people I encountered while living in "my" cave is the theme that binds the manuscript together. 'Desert Soliloquy A Perfectly Sane Misanthrope Hides in the Desert' is like combining Walden with Blazing Saddles with a bit of history about the East Mojave Desert. "Desert Soliloquy A Perfectly Sane Misanthrope Hides in the Desert" is like combining Walden with Blazing Saddles with a bit of history about the East Mojave Desert. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He plans to enter “sure-fire” winners in claiming races, benefit from the long odds, then get out of town quickly. Alas, I fear I did not return the favor like I should have.” At the center of the novel is Tommy Hansel, a horse trainer with a get-rich-quick scheme that he feels cannot fail. ![]() Her lowlifes have names like Two-Tie, Medicine Ed, Kidstuff and Deucey, and they’re capable of speaking a kind of racetrack patois occasionally reminiscent of Damon Runyon characters: “So I want you should write me a race, well, not me personally, fellow from Nebraska, kid I used to know back when-actually I used to know his mother…She was very good to me. Gordon ( Bogeywoman, 1999, etc.) clearly loves the subculture of grifters and ne’er-do-wells whose lives center on a venue that obviously has never and will never bring them success. A novel of luck, pluck, farce and above all horse racing-not at tony and elegant sites like Churchill Downs and Ascot but rather at a rinky-dink racetrack in Indian Mound Downs, W.Va. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Their relationship is strained as he was adopted in her grandfather’s house after losing his parents in the same attack two years prior. We get a glimpse pf her training, physical, as well as strategic, history and languages. Shanti is seven years old and very much in training to become the warrior she is meant to be. The events occur about two years after the attack on the village in which Shanti’s parents were killed and her gift first presented itself. ![]() I have read this prequel after I finished the third book. Here we meet Shanti and Rohan when they were kids. These books read as one story and only make sense if they are read in order.įorged in Blood (The Warrior Chronicles, #0.5) available as a freebie on the author’s website ![]() ![]() ![]() For some webcartoonists, a print release may be considered the "goal" of a webcomic series, while for others, comic books are "just another way to get the content out." Ĭaitlin Rosberg, writing for Paste Magazine, noted that "digital-first" comics, as found on platforms such as ComiXology, Marvel Unlimited and DC Comics' Digital First, share more aspects with printed comics than with webcomics. ![]() The traditional audience base for webcomics and print comics are vastly different, and webcomic readers do not necessarily go to bookstores. Anna Baddeley, writing for The Guardian, stated that the established fanbase many webcomics have could give publishers a chance to attract new audiences to the print format, making webcomics an attractive focus for publishers. Though mainstream comic book publishers have typically been wary of licensing webcomics and adapting them into a print format, the rise of webcomics in the 2000s coincided with an American boom in graphic novels. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() One lovely spring morning in Los Angeles, cop Jack McGarvey is hammered by submachine-gun fire when a madman goes berserk. Eduardo begins to fear for his sanity and his life, until the terrible night when someone - or something - knocks on his back door. More mysterious and disturbing events follow over the next few months. His life is peaceful, until one night he is awakened by a fearful throbbing sound and eerie lights in the woods. Eduardo is a lonely retiree living on his isolated Montana ranch. 'Not just a master of our darkest dreams but also a literary juggler' - The Times. If you delight in the suspense of Stephen King and The Stranger by Harlan Coben chilled you to the bone (in the best possible way), you'll love Winter Moon - the classic thriller by Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling author Dean Koontz. ![]() |