![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Yet still, this powerful voting bloc is often dismissed as some “amorphous” deviation, argues Tiffany Cross.īlack Voters, Black Voices is her explosive examination of how America’s composition was designed to exclude Black voters, but paradoxically would likely cease to exist without them. history, Black people have played a crucial role in the shaping of the American experiment. Despite media narratives, this was not a fluke. In fact, 90 percent of Black voters supported Democratic House candidates, compared to just 53 percent of all voters. A breakout media and political analyst delivers a sweeping snapshot of American Democracy and the role that African Americans have played in its shaping while offering concrete information to help harness the electoral power of the country’s rising majority and exposing political forces aligned to subvert and suppress Black voters.īlack voters were critical to the Democrats’ 2018 blue wave. ![]()
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Take part in the exodus of a doomed and lost colony Based on Bernard Werber’s best-seller, Empire of the Ants will offer a strategic experience close to the iconic books series.Įxperience immersive adventures and defend your lands through tactical and strategic battles in a microscopic world of epic proportions.Įxploration, strategy, combat skills, but most of all, the local wildlife alliance will be necessary in order to emerge victorious from the many challenges that await you. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Compact, powerful and intense, The Melancholy of Resistance, as its enormously gifted translator George Szirtes puts it, "is a slow lava flow of narrative, a vast black river of type." And yet, miraculously, the novel, in the words of The Guardian, "lifts the reader along in lunar leaps and bounds. Eszter, plotting her takeover of the town her weakling husband and Valuska, our hapless hero with his head in the clouds, who is the tender center of the book, the only pure and noble soul to be found. The novel's characters are unforgettable: the evil Mrs. ![]() Word spreads that the circus folk have a sinister purpose in mind, and the frightened citizens cling to any manifestation of order they can find music, cosmology, fascism. A circus, promising to display the stuffed body of the largest whale in the world, arrives in the dead of winter, prompting bizarre rumors. The Melancholy of Resistance, László Krasznahorkai’s magisterial, surreal novel, depicts a chain of mysterious events in a small Hungarian town. The Melancholy of Resistance, Laszlo Krasznahorkai's magisterial, surreal novel, depicts a chain of mysterious events in a small Hungarian town. A powerful, surreal novel, in the tradition of Gogol, about the chaotic events surrounding the arrival of a circus in a small Hungarian town. ![]() ![]() “What Henry is especially skilled at is writing dialogue. Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2021 by Newsweek ∙ Oprah Magazine ∙ The Skimm ∙ Marie Claire ∙ Parade ∙ The Wall Street Journal ∙ Chicago Tribune ∙ PopSugar ∙ BookPage ∙ BookBub ∙ Betches ∙ SheReads ∙ Good Housekeeping ∙ BuzzFeed ∙ Business Insider ∙ Real Simple ∙ Frolic ∙ and more! If only she can get around the one big truth that has always stood quietly in the middle of their seemingly perfect relationship. ![]() And so, she decides to convince her best friend to take one more vacation together-lay everything on the table, make it all right. ![]() When someone asks when she was last truly happy, she knows, without a doubt, it was on that ill-fated, final trip with Alex. Poppy has everything she should want, but she’s stuck in a rut. Until two years ago, when they ruined everything. For most of the year they live far apart-she’s in New York City, and he’s in their small hometown-but every summer, for a decade, they have taken one glorious week of vacation together. And somehow, ever since a fateful car share home from college many years ago, they are the very best of friends. ![]() She has insatiable wanderlust he prefers to stay home with a book. From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Book Lovers and Beach Read comes a sparkling novel that will leave you with the warm, hazy afterglow usually reserved for the best vacations. ![]() ![]() Before it's too late, Lillian is ripped from the only existence she's ever known and thrust into a reality that she always suspected, but could scarcely believe. But some things-disappearing strangers, tangible dreams, and visits from malevolent creatures-cannot be ignored. ![]() Always sensing more to the world than is easily perceived, she fears that her instincts are stubborn flights of fancy, or worse, mental instability. She must learn the truth about who she is, the powerful beings that. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In 2006, Shakespeare scholar Spence Robin, 57, is diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer's, and his wife, Pru Steiner, is forced to return his book advance. Henkin brilliantly conveys the complexities of a New York City family in this humane, compulsively readable tale. So much that happens in this book is unexpected that it reads at the pace of a suspense novel, but its greatest achievement is to make us feel that we are in the presence of real people, living out their joys and sorrows and making their way in the real world." - Sigrid Nunez But it is a delightful read as well, because the people here are such thoroughly engaging company. How much can befall a marriage, and what extraordinary demands must sometimes be met for loved ones to endure. "Reading Morningside Heights is an emotional experience. ![]() But the real magic of Morningside Heights is the way it lifts us up, reminding us that ordinary people undertake extraordinary acts of survival every day." - Julie Orringer "In the sheer pleasure of reading Joshua Henkin's new novel-of following its swift narrative movements, getting to know its all-too-human characters, inhabiting its detail-perfect settings, its relentlessly accurate portrayals- of marriage and parenthood and siblinghood-we can almost forget, for moments on end, that its subject is one of the most painful imaginable: the loss of a self, of a marriage, of a shared life. ![]() ![]() ![]() She doesn’t expect to come back from her trip into the wild but things are set to change dramatically. Alex has an inoperable brain tumor and has reached the decision to stop with her medication. They’ve turned into flesh hunting creatures – I don’t know whether you would call them zombies or not but they are like wild animals, craving human flesh but they are not without intelligence and the ability to adapt and that together with their savagery and speed makes them absolutely terrifying.Īt the start of the story, and pre the events that change the world, Alex is on a lone hiking expedition, she is carrying her parents ashes and is looking for closure and answers. ![]() The young people become known as the ‘changed’. There are a few other survivors who, for differing reasons don’t die and become known as the ‘spared’. The world is devastated by a series of events that change the nature of everything we know, killing most people – and leaving only the young or old alive. This is a post apocalyptic style of book with a bit of flesh eating canibalism thrown in. Just finished reading Ashes by Ilsa J Bick and must say this was a totally gripping, fast paced, edge of the seat type of story. ![]() |