![]() ![]() Unwilling to lose, this ghetto girl will do anything to stay on top.įeaturing a Special Collector’s Edition Reader’s Guide-including an author Q&A, detailed character analyses, and the author’s own remarks about the meaning of her story. But when a cold Winter wind blows her life in a direction she doesn't want to go, her street smarts and seductive skills are put to the test of a lifetime. Quick-witted, sexy, and business-minded, she knows and loves the streets like the curves of her own body. Renowned hip-hop artist, political activist, and bestselling author Sister Souljah brings the streets of New York to life in a powerful and utterly. ![]() Ghetto-born, Winter is the young, wealthy daughter of a prominent Brooklyn drug-dealing family. I came busting into the world during one of New York's worst snowstorms, so my mother named me Winter. The Coldest Winter Ever is a book about the daughter of a big black drug dealer growing up in a very sheltered life. ![]() Renowned hip-hop artist, political activist, and bestselling author of Life After Death brings the streets of New York to life in a powerful and utterly unforgettable first novel. “50 Most Impactful Black Books Of The Last 50 Years” -Essence Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read ![]()
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![]() The very core of globalization is that anyone can go anywhere to get anything. The advanced worker cadre of baby boomers is moving into retirement and the need for government spending to keep these people alive will skyrocket. Zeihan brings readers along for an illuminating (and a bit terrifying) ride packed with foresight, wit, and his trademark irreverence.” At the moment, the labor disconnect is the single largest issue behind our inflation numbers and the worker shortage will increase every year until 2030. ![]() Which means everything about our interconnected world - from how we manufacture products, to how we grow food, to how we keep the lights on, to how we shuttle stuff about, to how we pay for it all - is about to change. ![]() ![]() The list of countries that make it all work is smaller than you think. Peter Zeihan, author and geopolitical strategist, is back on the show with Jason Hartman to discuss inflation, the breakdown of supply chains and global manufacturing, the labor shortage, generational demographics, the Russia Ukraine conflict, and so much more! “In his timely new book, The End of the World is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization, author and geopolitical strategist Peter Zeihan maps out the next world: a world where countries or regions will have no choice but to make their own goods, grow their own food, secure their own energy, fight their own battles, and do it all with populations that are both shrinking and aging. ![]() ![]() ![]() Ingestion and incorporation are central to our connection with the world outside our bodies. Bite Me considers the ways in which popular culture reveals our relationship with food and our own bodies and how these have become an arena for political and ideological battles.įood is not only something we eat, it is something we use to define ourselves. Food's powerful social, economic, political and symbolic roles cannot be ignored - what we eat is a marker of power, cultural capital, class, ethnic and racial identity. Food is not only something we eat, it is something we use to define ourselves. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() (Truthfully he probably gets into it because he wants to “bundle” with Wyoming, and he knows the Prof.) He is a self-described apolitical, like, he tells us, most Loonies. Manuel isn’t actually all that interested in revolting, at least not at first. ![]() And along with an old exiled professor and a political firebrand from Hong Kong Luna called Wyoming, Mike and Manuel plan and launch a revolution against the Terran-controlled Lunar Authority that runs their lives. He’s also the only person, Loonie or Terran, who knows that the central lunar computer is sentient. He was born on Luna to transported parents. Manuel/Manny/Man O’Kelly-Davis is a computer repair technician. This is an idea that has been explored repeatedly since this novel was published, but those stories almost all owe a debt to this one. Robert Heinlein manages to take the idea of a penal colony on the moon and turn it into a romantic story of political revolution. The Moon is a Harsh Mistress is an emblem of political science fiction. It didn’t take me long to understand why this book received such acclaim and is still regarded as a classic. ![]() ![]() ![]() I needed to make many copies of each character in The Visitor and Waiting for Goliath to use in different scenes. If the photographs hadn’t worked out, the whole book would have been ruined! This was a risky way to make the book, because each time I changed the scene, the earlier version was lost. ![]() The lighting effects come through a hole at the top of the box. Colour comes gradually into the story so I painted the figures and the room for each scene then photographed it before painting it again. ![]() For The Visitor, I made a box with figures inside and photographed each scene. My first two books with Gecko Press were constructed from paper and cardboard. This trains the eye and is very relaxing! I have been sending out the little boxes through my own Instagram account. First I paint, then I draw what I can see in the splotches. Here you can see how I make my little matchboxes. I have been spending time thinking about new book projects, and I’m working on painting little matchboxes-something I’m doing simply because I enjoy it. In fact this quarantine period hasn’t changed my daily work at home, but I do have much more time, because so many events have been cancelled. First thing in the morning I always look for Agathe, our 70-year-old turtle, who lives in the garden. My work day starts much later than usual because it’s Easter vacation. On Wednesday 15th April, author and illustrator, Antje Damm, took over the Gecko Press Instagram account to give an insight into a day in her life. ![]() ![]() ![]() Ibtihaj attended Columbia High School, a public high school in Maplewood, graduating in 2003. ![]() ![]() In accordance with their Islamic beliefs, Ibtihaj's parents sought out a sport for her to participate in where she could maintain her hijab. Her father, Eugene Muhammad, is a retired Newark, New Jersey police officer, and her mother, Denise, was an elementary school special education teacher. Her parents were born in the United States, and converted to Islam. Ibtihaj Muhammad was born and raised in Maplewood, New Jersey, a suburb 25 miles (40 km) from Manhattan, and is of African American descent. She is known for being the first Muslim American woman to wear a headscarf while competing for the United States in the Olympics, as well as for winning an Olympic medal (bronze) wearing it. Ibtihaj Muhammad (born December 4, 1985) is an American sabre fencer and member of the United States fencing team. ![]() ![]() It's all about to hit the fan, and when it does, these kids better scat. But first they'll have to reckon with a junior arsonist, a wannabe Texas oilman, and a ticked-off Florida panther. ![]() Scat: The most terrifying teacher in school is missing in the Everglades, and it's up to Nick and Marta to find her. Now Dad's in the clink, the boat's back in business, and only Noah can flush the truth out into the open. Problem is, there's no evidence of illegal dumping. ![]() Can the awkward new kid and his feral friend prank the pancake people out of town? Or is the owls' fate cemented in pancake batter? Flush: The Coral Queen casino boat is treating the ocean like a toilet bowl, so Noah's dad decides to sink the darn thing. Everybody, that is, except the cute but endangered owls that live on the building site of the new restaurant. Hoot: Everybody loves Mother Paula's pancakes. ![]() Book excerpt: This collection features five of Carl Hiaasen's hilarious, award-winning classics! Take a trip to Carl Hiaasen's Florida-where the animals are wild and the people are wilder-with this collection that includes Hoot, Flush, Scat, Chomp, and Squirm. This book was released on with total page 1466 pages. Book Synopsis Carl Hiaasen 5-Book Collection by : Carl Hiaasenĭownload or read book Carl Hiaasen 5-Book Collection written by Carl Hiaasen and published by Knopf Books for Young Readers. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() At eleven years old, my concerns had more to do with the volumes of Choose Your Own Adventure at Half Price Books or the anime VHS tapes at the Suncoast Motion Picture Company. Not that I knew anything about that history at the time, or would have cared. Back then, for a suburban preteen such as myself, much life outside home and school came packaged by the shopping mall: perhaps Bellevue Square, that paragon of dead-center-of-the-middle-class aspiration perhaps the more run-down but more culturally unpredictable Crossroads perhaps Northgate, whose faintly left-behind feeling owed, I now suspect, to its aforementioned history. “Probably the first such center was Northgate, which opened on the outskirts of Seattle on May 1, 1950.” I know Northgate well, or at least I used to know well what Northgate had evolved into by the mid-nineteen-nineties, when Rybczynski wrote those words. ![]() ![]() “The postwar period saw much new suburban construction, but just as the subdivision replaced the garden suburb, the shopping village was replaced by the regional shopping center,” writes architect-critic-historian Witold Rybczynski. The American shopping mall emerged in the nineteen-fifties, during which the United States became at once more affluent and less urban. ![]() ![]() In contrast, the cover art for the 2017 edition of Underground Airlines has a completely different look and feel to it. The blurb on the cover says, “A topflight thriller that’s as emotionally searing and tragically plausible as anything in contemporary fiction.” - Lev Grossman, Author of The Magicians. I was expecting an upsetting novel, an emotional roller coaster type of story. Maybe this is a book about planes, or slavery, or slavery on a plane-but there’s a man on the cover, so it’s probably not going to be about women. When I saw this cover, I assumed this was a book written for a male audience. ![]() The typeface used for the title isn’t attention-grabbing. There’s an anonymous male face on the cover with the outline of an airplane obscuring the details. It’s an interesting and totally unique cover, but it doesn’t make me want to randomly pick this book up and take it home with me. I received a copy of this book with the 2016 cover from my local library. I read a lot of chick lit, young adult, and non-fiction books. It didn’t have the right curb appeal for me. ![]() Winters, it didn’t look like a book I would be interested in. I know you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover, or title, but when I when I first saw the novel Underground Airlines by Ben H. ![]() ![]() ![]() The trip began innocently enough: admiring the stunning if foreboding scenery, champagne in front of a crackling fire, and reminiscences about the past. ![]() For this vacation, theyve chosen an idyllic and isolated estate in the Scottish Highlands-the perfect place to get away and unwind by themselves. Finn, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Woman in the Window During the languid days of the Christmas break, a group of thirtysomething friends from Oxford meet to welcome in the New Year together, a tradition they began as students ten years ago. A ripping, riveting murder mystery - wily as Agatha Christie, charged with real menace, real depth. Book Synopsis AN INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER NAMED ONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED THRILLERS OF THE WINTER BY: Goodreads - BookBub - PopSugar - BookRiot - Crimereads - Pure Wow - Crime by the Book ALL OF THEM ARE FRIENDS. ![]() |