![]() ![]() Agent: Molly Ker Hawn, the Bent Agency, on behalf of Zoë Plant, the Bent Agency. She is an avid tea drinker, a collector of strange mugs and a recent graduate from a university in the Scottish Highlands where she received a BA in English Literature. The story feels slightly overlong, but Devon and Chiamaka are dynamic and multifaceted, deeply human in the face of Aces’ treatment. Faridah bk-ymd is the instant New York Times, International bestselling & Award-winning author of ACE OF SPADES. ![]() Àbíké-Íyímídé excels in portraying the conflict of characters who exist in two worlds, one of white privilege and one in which Blackness is not a disadvantage but a point of pride. ![]() Musician Devon’s aim to perfect his Juilliard audition piece is disrupted, meanwhile, when a picture of him kissing another male student begins to circulate, outing both without warning. Chi works hard to stay at the top of the high school social hierarchy, but when another girl thwarts Chi’s plan to establish the perfect high school power couple with best friend Jamie, it becomes the talk of the school. Faridah bk-ymd is a writer from South London who has dreamt of writing books about black kids saving (or destroying) the world all her life. Less surprising is the Head Prefect selection: popular, wealthy queen bee Chiamaka Adebayo. where people can’t afford food or health care,” is stunned to suddenly be named a Niveus Academy Senior Prefect. ![]() On the first day of senior year, Devon Richards, an unpopular scholarship student from “the side of town. An anonymous texter known as Aces reveals secrets about an elite private school’s only two Black students in this bracing debut that hauntingly explores systemic oppression in predominantly white institutions. ![]()
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He's always led a charmed life - until a brutal attack leaves him damaged and traumatised, unsure even of the person he used to be. 'I'm a big fan of Tana French' IAN RANKIN 'An engrossing, unpredictable, beautifully written mystery' SOPHIE HANNAH ![]() ' One of the most compulsive psychological mysteries since Donna Tartt's The Secret History' THE TIMES From the writer whose novels inspired the BBC's Dublin Murders TV series. ![]() ![]() In these videos Robin Waterfield, editor of the Oxford World's Classics edition of Republic, explains why we should read it, and what makes Plato so interesting. Essentially an inquiry into morality, Republic also contains crucial arguments and insights into many other areas of philosophy. Plato's Republic is the central work of the Western world's most famous philosopher. Translated with introduction and notes by Robin Waterfield Oxford World's Classics From Our Blog Why read Plato? 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The Bandit Queens is tender, unpredictable, and brimming with laugh-out-loud moments.”-Téa Obreht, New York Times bestselling author of The Tiger’s Wifeįive years ago, Geeta lost her no-good husband. “Shroff captures the complexity of female friendship with acuity, wit, and a certain kind of magic irreverence. A young Indian woman finds the false rumors that she killed her husband surprisingly useful-until other women in the village start asking for her help getting rid of their own husbands-in this razor-sharp debut. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Ike grew up in a family that wasn't good and he just wanted to get away from them. Ike is a biker with the Raven Riders motorcycle club and he also works as a tattoo artist at Hard Ink. Jessica has had feelings for Ika for years but he's always treated her more like a little sister. Jessica grew up close to her father (who was a cop) but some trouble ended with her dad getting killed and Jessica blamed herself for his death. Jessica's mother left her and her father when Jessica was only 8 years old. Jessica is a piercer that works for Jeremy, the owner of the Hard Ink tattoo parlor (see the Hard Ink series by Kaye). I liked this story and I plan to read more of the series in the future. I was introduced to Ike and Jessica in the Hard Ink series and I liked them enough that I wanted to see how they got together. 3.5-4 stars This was a pretty good story. ![]() ![]() ![]() "I think there are several things going on. ![]() Tina has spent a lot of time "unpacking" the disparity in her feelings for her children. I'm really proud of her and close to her, but it has taken time," she says. "It was a drip, drip, drip kind of process. There was no one point at which Tina began to love Cheri, now 17. The word 'daughter' describes a relationship, a connection - things we didn't have." "It didn't even feel right to say she was my daughter. "I was totally and absolutely shocked to find that in the early years, I felt no love at all for her," recalls Tina. Her preference was for a baby, but there were none available and they were offered a little girl five weeks off her fourth birthday. She had always wanted three children, so when she was told it could jeopardise her health to have a third baby naturally, she persuaded her husband to adopt. ![]() ![]() Her comment has attracted much controversy, but Tina relates to it. But I would do anything at all for my second child without reason, without a doubt," added the estranged daughter of the renowned author Alice Walker. "Yes, I would do anything for my first son, within reason. "I don't care how close you are to your adopted son or beloved stepdaughter, the love you have for your non-biological child isn't the same as the love you have for your own flesh and blood," wrote Rebecca Walker in her recent book, Baby Love. ![]() ![]() ![]() Donate -LMM /i7YuixclP0- Lin-Manuel Miranda SeptemWhat next for Lin-Manuel Miranda? Donate $10 or more to be entered to win a trip to experience around the world & meet me in Germany. LAST CHANCE to join #Ham4Choice movement and help fund organizations providing support to those seeking abortion care. And that’s been a lesson that I sort of take forward into the world of small business.” “We really rely on our community to keep us alive. You cannot make theater alone, you cannot have a small business survive alone,” Miranda said. Rent increases had threatened to put the independent store out of business but Miranda wanted to resurrect the fortunes of the building where he had written, found inspiration and met friends. Last year the 42-year-old and a group of friends took over the Drama Book Shop in Manhattan, an iconic store selling all things theater. Of course, Miranda’s composition credentials are unquestionable, but what exactly does he know about entrepreneurship? ![]() He offered writing and creative advice to the audience and compared composing music to the process behind starting a small business. ![]() The award-winning creator of Hamilton and In the Heights, Lin-Manuel Miranda, gave a talk at the fifth annual L’Attitude conference in downtown San Diego this week. ![]() ![]() ![]() Will she shatter under the weight of the lives that are the cost of rebellion? Or have treachery and betrayal hardened her forever? Pursued by Maven, now a vindictive king, Mare sets out to find and recruit other Red-and-Silver fighters to join in the struggle against her oppressors.īut Mare finds herself on a deadly path, at risk of becoming exactly the kind of monster she is trying to defeat. The crown calls her an impossibility, a fake, but as she makes her escape from Maven, the prince-the friend-who betrayed her, Mare uncovers something startling: she is not the only one of her kind. Mare Barrow’s blood is red-the color of common folk-but her Silver ability, the power to control lightning, has turned her into a weapon that the royal court tries to control. ![]() ![]() If there’s one thing Mare Barrow knows, it’s that she’s different. ![]() ![]() It’s a perfect hideout, and hangout, and it’s not half anyone’s…it’s all theirs. ![]() So when Portico and new friend, Herbert, and best best friend, Zola, discover an empty apartment, unlocked, they are psyched. And the elevator is busted, so to get between floors means getting past the bullies who hang in the stairwells. He’s never fully with one parent or the other. ![]() What’s also giving him frets is his parents living on two separate floors in their apartment building. But don’t talk to him about the divorce, because of the hairball thing, and also, it gives Portico the frets. Which is a word that sounds like coughing up a hairball. He couldn’t save his parents from becoming Xs. He likes it that way-then no one can get in the way of him from keeping other other people safe. Portico Reeves is the greatest superhero a lot of people have never heard of. ![]() From Newbery Medal honoree and #1 New York Times bestselling author Jason Reynolds comes the sequel to the hilarious, hopeful, and action-packed middle grade novel Stuntboy, in the Meantime about the greatest young superhero you’ve never heard of, jam packed with illustrations by Raúl the Third! ![]() |