![]() In this collective biography, Mary Stanton-a noted chronicler of the left and of social justice movements in the South-explores the resources available to Depression-era Reds before the advent of the New Deal or the modern civil rights movement. In Alabama alone, twenty black men were known to have been murdered, and countless others, women included, were beaten, disabled, jailed, “disappeared,” or had their lives otherwise ruined between March 1931 and September 1935. After the Scottsboro story broke on March 25, 1931, it was open season for old-fashioned lynchings, legal (courtroom) lynchings, and mob murder. Written from the perspective of the district 17 (CPUSA) Reds who worked primarily in Alabama, it acquaints a new generation with the impact of the Great Depression on postwar black and white, young and old, urban and rural Americans. ![]() Kelley's groundbreaking Hammer and Hoe and the first to explore its key figures and actions beyond the 1930s. ![]() ![]() Red, Black, White is the first narrative history of the American communist movement in the South since Robin D. ![]()
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All candidates should undergo a thorough infectious-disease screening prior to transplantation. ![]() Infections are a major complication of solid-organ transplantation. Solid-organ transplantation is a therapeutic option for many human diseases. ![]() ![]() No one has yet succeeded in capturing him those who have tried have met an unfortunate end. One of his calling cards is leaving the image of a bat at the scene of the crime (on a couple of occasions, it is a real bat nailed to the wall of the robbed house). The Bat is a mysterious thief, who, despite his flamboyant modus operandi, has eluded the authorities. What I didn’t know while I was reading it is that The Bat was actually a stage play first (1920) before being turned into the 1926 novel. I could imagine myself in the audience waiting for the next blackout and listening for the scream that follows. ![]() An isolated house with people who aren’t who they claim to be, appropriately timed electrical blackouts, a deadly supercriminal, a young woman trying to protect her falsely accused lover, a man who has lost his memory- The Bat reads almost like a stage play. ![]() If you like your melodrama with a capital “M” and lots of exclamation points, Mary Roberts Rinehart’s The Bat is the book for you. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Based on twelve years of pioneering research, Brené Brown PhD, MSW, dispels the cultural myth that vulnerability is weakness and argues that it is, in truth, our most accurate measure of courage.īrown explains how vulnerability is both the core of difficult emotions like fear, grief, and disappointment, and the birthplace of love, belonging, joy, empathy, innovation, and creativity. "- Theodore RooseveltĮvery day we experience the uncertainty, risks, and emotional exposure that define what it means to be vulnerable or to dare greatly. who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood who strives valiantly. ![]() "It is not the critic who counts not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. Look for Brené Brown's new podcast, Dare to Lead, as well as her ongoing podcast Unlocking Us!įrom thought leader Brené Brown, a transformative new vision for the way we lead, love, work, parent, and educate that teaches us the power of vulnerability. ![]() ![]() They can’t stand to break their friends’ hearts, and so they’ll play their parts. Because the cottage is for sale and this is the last week they’ll all have together in this place. Only this year, Harriet and Wyn are lying through their teeth while trying not to notice how desperately they still want each other. Their annual respite from the world, where for one vibrant, blissful week they leave behind their daily lives have copious amounts of cheese, wine, and seafood and soak up the salty coastal air with the people who understand them most. ![]() Which is how they find themselves sharing a bedroom at the Maine cottage that has been their friend group’s yearly getaway for the last decade. And still haven’t told their best friends. Except, now-for reasons they’re still not discussing-they don’t. ![]() Harriet and Wyn have been the perfect couple since they met in college-they go together like salt and pepper, honey and tea, lobster and rolls. Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2023 by BuzzFeed ∙ Paste Magazine ∙ Elle ∙ Southern Living ∙ SheReads ∙ Culturess ∙ Medium ∙ Her Campus ∙ Readers Digest ∙ Zibby Mag and more!Ī couple who broke up months ago pretend to still be together for their annual weeklong vacation with their best friends in this glittering and wise new novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Emily Henry. ![]() ![]() Queen Victoria dismisses her from the Shadow Council, and the only person who can explain anything, Lord Akeldama, unexpectedly leaves town. Quitting her husband's house and moving back in with her horrible family, Lady Maccon becomes the scandal of the London season in the third book of the NYT bestselling Parasol Protectorate series. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.īook Description Paperback. Only they know enough about the preternatural to explain her increasingly inconvenient condition, but they may be worse than the vampires - and they're armed with pesto.īLAMELESS is the third book of the Parasol Protectorate series: a comedy of manners set in Victorian London, full of werewolves, vampires, dirigibles, and tea-drinking. ![]() While Lord Maccon elects to get progressively more inebriated and Professor Lyall desperately tries to hold the Woolsey werewolf pack together, Alexia flees England for Italy in search of the mysterious Templars. ![]() To top it all off, Alexia is attacked by homicidal mechanical ladybugs, indicating, as only ladybugs can, the fact that all of London's vampires are now very much interested in seeing Alexia quite thoroughly dead. Quitting her husband's house and moving back in with her horrible family, Lady Maccon becomes the scandal of the London season. ![]() ![]() ![]() How will this new revelation change her, if it changes her at all? She is now forever connected and endeared to the people she grew up reviling. ![]() ![]() Woven into their plight is the ever-complicated gift, which has earned Lia respect among the Vendans. The whole plot is devoted to Lia finding her way out, somehow, while playing a convincing character for the Komizar and Kaden. ![]() Rafe plays to the Komizar’s greed for power and buys them enough time to devise and escape and allow his men time to rescue them. How will he use Lia to his own advantage? Rafe is taken prisoner and makes up an identity for himself as an emissary to the kingdom of Dalbreck. Kaden brings Lia to the Komizar, an unyielding, power-hungry tyrant filling the bellies of his people with false hope instead of food. Rafe has miraculously appeared as they were crossing into Venda, and they then the prisoners are taken their separate ways. Kaden is second in command in the kingdom of Venda, second only to the Komizar (who raised him, incidentally). In this installment of The Remnant Chronicles, we have the Princess Lia, abducted by the brigand Assassin Kaden, and they’ve arrived in Venda, in the capital city. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The results of the analysis prove that the novel is highly feminist, in view of that, Janie Crawford can be seen as an example like all Afro-American women who have suffered from sexism and have emerged in spite of that independent and self-liberated Therefore, the study aims on one hand at scrutinizing the protagonist's journey of giving up her role as a submissive and indecisive woman to adopt after long painful experiences the role of a strong woman who fights for her feminine voice against patriarchy and domination, and on the other hand it aims at portraying how Hurston embalms her painful memories and experiences in the novel as a tool for healing her scars. The study attempts to investigate the relationship between Hurston’s life and her novel’s events. Hence, this study is an attempt to analyze from both the psychoanalytic literary theory and the feminist theory the stages of Janie Crawford’s growing up as well as her quest for feminine power and assertion in Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching (1937). ![]() Growing up an Afro-American woman in the twentieth century has been one of the hardest challenges that Black women have had to handle. ![]() ![]() ![]() Why would you want your beloved sister to marry a guy who has washed his hands of her now that she's pregnant and who has to be BLACKMAILED into marrying her? What life is she going to live with THAT guy for the rest of her life? Heroine's plan MAKES NO SENSE!! why ON EARTH would you want your sister to marry that prick?! you wouldn't-if the sister was the heroine, then I can see some dastardly relative who only cares about a title pushing her to marry him, but it's not some dastardly relative, it's our supposed heroine, and the entire thing makes absolutely no sense. Hero falls in love at the drop of a hat and mentions wanting to marrying her about a hot second into the book ![]() Heroine acts stupidly her decision to furnish his house and hire a bunch of staff is random ![]() I just recently discovered Elisa Braden, in the last week or so, and the other three books of hers I've read were overall great, so I don't know how this was such a flop! (Those books were:, , and -highly recommend them all!). So disappointing! I was very excited by the premise-I love the gambling hell heroes and the pairings are usually very well-done-but this book was horrible. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Debut author Helena Fox tells a story about love and grief, about inter-generational mental illness, and how living with it is both a bridge to someone loved and lost and, also, a chasm. Or maybe-maybe maybe maybe-there's a third way Biz just can't see yet. It might be easier, better, sweeter to float all the way away? Or maybe stay a little longer, find her father, bring him back to her. Dad disappears and, with him, all comfort. But after what happens on the beach-first in the ocean, and then in the sand-the tethers that hold Biz steady come undone. And Biz knows how to float, right there on the surface-normal okay regular fine. And she doesn't tell anyone about her dad. Not about her dark, runaway thoughts, not about kissing Grace or noticing Jasper, the new boy. And she has her dad, who tells her about the little kid she was, and who shouldn't be here but is. ![]() She has her people, her posse, her mom and the twins. Will take your breath away." -Kathleen Glasgow, author of Girl in Pieces A stunningly gorgeous and deeply hopeful portrayal of living with mental illness and grief, from an exceptional new voice. A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year A Chicago Public Library Best of the Best of the Year "Profoundly moving. ![]() |