High school juniors and best friends Courtney and Jupe, and new sophomore Rae, explore their sexuality and their budding attractions for one another. This story is important. The uneasy balance between these worlds is shattered when Starr witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend Khalil at the hands of a police officer. Khalil was unarmed.
Soon afterward, his death is a national headline. Some are calling him a thug, maybe even a drug dealer and a gangbanger. Some cops and the local drug lord try to intimidate Starr and her family. What everyone wants to know is: what really went down that night? And the only person alive who can answer that is Starr. But what Starr does—or does not—say could upend her community. It could also endanger her life. Want more of Garden Heights? When sixteen-year-old Rashad is mistakenly accused of stealing, classmate Quinn witnesses his brutal beating at the hands of a police officer who happens to be the older brother of his best friend.
Told through Rashad and Quinn's alternating viewpoints. With G'ma's old maps and a strange pamphlet called the 'Travelers' Green Book' at their side, the pair takes off on a journey down G'ma's memory lane. But adventure quickly turns to uncertainty: G'ma keeps changing the license plate, dodging Scoob's questions, and refusing to check Dad's voice mails.
And the farther they go, the more Scoob realizes that the world hasn't always been a welcoming place for kids like him, and things aren't always what they seem--G'ma included" Every week, seventeen-year-old Tracy Beaumont writes letters to Innocence X, asking the organization to help her father, an innocent Black man on death row.
After seven years, Tracy is running out of time--her dad has only days left. Then the unthinkable happens. The police arrive in the night, and Tracy's older brother, Jamal, goes from being a bright, promising track star to a "thug" on the run, accused of killing a white girl.
Determined to save her brother, Tracy investigates what really happened between Jamal and Angela down at the Pike. But will Tracy and her family survive the uncovering of the skeletons of their Texas town's racist history that still haunt the present? Fans of Nic Stone, Tiffany D.
Jackson, and Jason Reynolds won't want to miss this provocative and gripping debut. Read the book Morris Award finalist Sonia Patel called "a brilliant, subtle debut," and Kirkus Reviews hailed as "heart-wrenching, funny, hopeful, and not-to-be-missed" in a starred review!
But more than anything, Marcos wants to get out of Maesta, his hood, away from his indifferent mom and her abusive boyfriend—which seems impossible. When Marcos is placed in a new after-school program, he meets Zach and Amy, whose friendship inspires Marcos to open up to his Maesta crew, too, and starts to think more about his future and what he has to fight for. A cannon. A strap. A piece. A biscuit. A burner. A heater. A chopper. A gat.
See, his brother Shawn was just murdered. And Will knows the rules. No crying. No snitching. He gets on the elevator, seventh floor, stoked. Or does he? As the elevator stops on the sixth floor, on comes Buck. Buck, Will finds out, is who gave Shawn the gun before Will took the gun. Buck tells Will to check that the gun is even loaded. He is best known as the Father of Recreational Mathematics, but was also a frank critic of pseudoscientists and a contributor to the Skeptical Inquirer magazine.
Marcello Truzzi was one of the founders of the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal in He left that and founded the Center for Scientific Anomalies Research, which was more aligned with his views.
Dana Richards presents the unedited, colorful correspondence between these two well-known figures within the skeptical movement as they probed and wrestled with fundamental questions such as: The demarcation problem — how to distinguish good from bad science? How should scholars on the fringe paranormalists be treated? Martin Chuzzlewit is the last of Dickens' picaresque novels, and to the author's mind, one of his best.
After being disinherited by his grandfather--greedy and misanthropic in his old age--young Martin is forced to live by his wits. Along the way, he encounters a villainous architect, seeks his fortune in America and eventually grows to be a man of honor and character.
Martin Chuzzlewit features some of Dickens richest creations and fiercest social commentary. This selection from the first ten years of the Evergreen Review gives the full flavor of the energy, savvy, excitement, and gall that characterized the magazine during the days of its publication. Evergreen was more than another literary magazine. Founded by Barney Rossett of Grove Press and publishing from through it now exists as an online only magazine , it was the voice of a movement that helped to change the attitudes and prejudices of the culture at large through the language of art—and succeeded.
It was always damn the torpedoes and full speed ahead. It is in Canvey Island. Len and Violet are at a dance.
Violet's husband George sits and watches them sway and glide across the dance floor, his mind far away, trapped by a war that ended nearly ten years ago. Meanwhile, at home, a storm rages and Len's wife Lily and his young son Martin fight for their lives in the raging black torrent. The night ends in a tragedy that will reverberate through their lives. This poignant novel follows the family's fortunes from the austerity of the post-war years to Churchill's funeral, from Greenham Common to the onset of Thatcherism and beyond, eloquently capturing the very essence of a transforming England in the decades after the war.
It is a triumph of understated emotion, a novel about growing up and growing old, about love, hope and reconciliation. Considered the last of Dickens' picaresque novels, Martin Chuzzlewit was released to the public in monthly installments. Sales of the monthly parts were disappointing, so Dickens changed the plot to send the title character to America.
This satirical twist portrays America as a near wilderness, with pockets of civilization populated by deceptive, self-promoting hucksters. Most men do not keep diariesat least they would not admit to it! Martins Story reveals the inner thoughts and secrets of a man who is thought by his family to be Mr. Nice Guy, the son that any mother can be proud ofthe cousin that any cousin would hope for. Martin is all of those things, but he is more.
He has a life of his own that does not fit into any neat category. His desire to love and be loved does not meet the formula of societys norm. One could read this novel feeling that he has finally read a mans private diaryand perhaps he has!
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