![]() ![]() Her Afrofuturism novella A Spaceship in Bronzeville (Mouse Books) will be released later this year. The Rayla 2212 series inspired the Race in Space Conference at Duke University where she was a featured artist along with keynote speaker and astronaut Mae Jemison. ![]() ![]() Afrofuturism is also a Locus Awards Nonfiction Finalist.Ī prolific writer, her other books include the time travel novels Rayla 2212 and Rayla 2213 (YSolstar) Post Black (Chicago Review Press), and Beats Rhymes and Life: What We Love & Hate About Hip Hop (Random House). Her book Afrofuturism: The World of Black Sci Fi and Fantasy Culture (Chicago Review Press) is the leading primer on the subject and taught in colleges and universities. Ytasha was honored among DesignHub’s 40 Under 40 designers for social good and innovation in 2017 and listed as a Filmmaker to Watch in The Chicago Tribune. She is a leading expert on Afrofuturism, the imagination and its applications and frequently lectures on the subject across the world. Womack is an award-winning author, filmmaker, independent scholar, and dance therapist. ![]()
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![]() ![]() She has walked with elephants in Botswana. It's a very well thought character because she has all of the features of a strong person, so while reading you can find plenty of things which you believe you have to change in yourself, or features you want to make better. Lissa Price has studied photography and writing, but the world has turned out to be her greatest teacher. Choose from Same Day Delivery, Drive Up or Order Pickup. She never gives up and when things are unclear she takes her time to think, and does what she believes is right. Read reviews and buy Starters - by Lissa Price (Paperback) at Target. ![]() ![]() ![]() In a way, I wanted to read more in order to understand better the laws and values of this mad, mad, mad world.Īlso, I really loved the main character! Callie in my opinion is one of the girls who can be regarded as models to follow when it comes to intelligence and devotion. She and her little brother, Tyler, go on the run. I must say that at a point I thought the story would be really predictable, but I was so wrong! The evolution of the plot surprised me because I found out that the world which Lissa Price constructed in her novel was much more unusual than I expected. Summary: Callie lost her parents when the Spore Wars wiped out everyone between the ages of twenty and sixty. I haven't read a science fiction book for a while, because I feel like it's not really my type, but this one has definitely gripped my attention. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Max believes the truth is always better than lies, that the truth is the only thing that matters to gain justice for victims and their families. If Ivy was murdered, it was exceptionally well-planned and that kind of killer could be hiding in plain sight. But the more Max learns about Tommy and his dysfunctional family, the more she thinks she's taken on an impossible task: this may be the one case she can't solve. She travels to Corte Madera, California, with her assistant David Kane and is at first pleased that the police are cooperative. This isn't the type of case Max normally takes on, but the heartbreak and simple honesty in Tommy's letter pulls her in. ![]() ![]() Tommy thinks that if someone can figure out what happened to his step-sister, everything will go back to normal, so he writes to investigative reporter Maxine Revere. With too many suspects and not enough evidence, the investigation has grown cold. After a year, the police still have no answers: Ivy could have jumped, could have been pushed, or it could have been an accident. This time they work to uncover possible ties to a high-stakes cartel in the Southwest desert. He's distraught and doesn't understand why his blended family is falling apart. The unsolved murder of a young activist leads to the discovery of much darker crimes in New York Times bestselling author Allison Brennan’s latest compelling thriller to feaure the young, edgy detective Kara Quinn and the loner FBI agent Matt Costa. except her mentally-challenged eighteen-year-old step-brother, Tommy. "Teen-aged Internet bully Ivy Lake fell off a cliff and few people cared. ![]() ![]() ![]() Here are facts and here is science (this is fine) and then the conclusion of the chapter is: and thats why my political beliefs are correct. He shows us how in a thrilling journey that ranges from Silicon Valley dissidents, to a favela in Rio where attention vanished, to an office in New Zealand that found a remarkable way to restore our attention.Ĭrucially, he learned how-as individuals and as a society-we can get our focus back, if we are determined to fight for it. Johann discovered there are 12 deep cases of this crisis, all of which have robbed some of our attention. ![]() This has been done to all of us by powerful external forces. We think our inability to focus is a personal failing-a flaw in each one of us. He interviewed the leading experts in the world on attention and learned that everything we think about this subject is wrong. Why have we lost our ability to focus? What are the causes? And, most importantly, how do we get it back?įor Stolen Focus, internationally best-selling author Johann Hari went on a three-year journey to uncover the reasons why our teenagers now focus on one task for only 65 seconds, and why office workers on average manage only three minutes. Bloomsbury presents Stolen Focus by Johann Hari, read by Johann Hari. ![]() ![]() There are some lighthearted moments sprinkled in the stories here and there, but they are all dark. You read the story and you feel more and more uncomfortable as you try to figure out what is happening. Skipping even a single word would make you miss out on too much of the story, so you don’t. ![]() And his minimalistic writing style makes the reader hang on every single word because there is meaning and purpose behind each of them. Song for the Unraveling of the World picks up right where Evenson left off in his last collection. When I found out he had a new collection coming out this year, I pre-ordered it and couldn’t wait to dive into it. They were good, but with the exception of Last Days, nothing was as good to me as his short stories. I was hooked and grabbed a few more of his novels. About a year later I saw Last Days at a bookstore and I remembered how much I liked that first collection so I got it and read it in about two days. ![]() I really enjoyed the stories in the collection but never moved on to read any of his other work. A few years ago a picked up the short story collection A Collapse of Horses by Brian Evenson because I’d heard a lot of good things about Evenson and I’d never read anything by him before. ![]() ![]() She plainly says she isn’t planning to do a future book with Jack, and he was the main supporting character I wanted to see. Are there some things I feel I’m still missing – yes – but nothing I can’t live without knowing since they all revolve around supporting characters. I didn’t realize the author planned this separate epilogue, but I’m glad she did because it answered most of my questions. ![]() I was totally frustrated with the last book because it seemed to leave everything up in the air (or heir□) and it just didn’t feel finished. These scenes didn’t fit in the context of any one book, but they add something to the overall series.” I’ve read each book in the series, and while I was satisfied each of the couples got their HEA, I was always left with questions, and, of course, the big question was – who will become the ducal heir. ![]() ![]() She says “I wanted to revisit the characters from earlier books when they learned who would inherit the dukedom, and see how they were getting on a year or more after the end of their story. At the front of this short read, the author explains her reasoning for doing a separate release for the ‘Ultimate Epilogue’. ![]() ![]() Note: Some electronic material access codes are valid only for one user. Pages may include limited notes and highlighting, but the text cannot be obscured or unreadable. Item may but the dust cover may be missing. Pages may include limited notes, highlighting, or minor water damage but the text is readable. Used - Acceptable: All pages and the cover are intact, but shrink wrap, dust covers, or boxed set case may be missing.Shrink wrap, dust covers, or boxed set case may be missing. May include "From the library of" labels. ![]() Pages may include limited notes and highlighting. Used - Good: All pages and cover are intact (including the dust cover, if applicable).Books with markings of any kind on the cover or pages, books marked as "Bargain" or "Remainder," or with any other labels attached, may not be listed as New condition. New: A brand-new copy with cover and original protective wrapping intact. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() All I want to do is fall into my husband’s arms, but first I’ll have to fight for what’s coming. She gives as easily as Want to Read Rate it: Book 3. You see, in this story there are no heroes. 2,574 Ratings 193 Reviews published 2021 4 editions When I’m ripped from safety, catapulted into consc Want to Read Rate it: Book 3 Vicious Reign by Penelope Black 4.03 2,016 Ratings 173 Reviews 4 editions Fate is a fickle mistress. Instead of fearing him, I welcome the lash of his stinging wrath.īut before I can fall victim to his sweet torture, first there will be blood. From lover to enemy, the man I once died to protect promises me pain and punishment for the sins I’ve committed to keep him alive.įiery seduction, burning caresses and thinly veiled threats all serve as reminders I am alive. Six years is a long time for the heart to grow cold and callous. A bullet to the heart is more like it if the rumors of who my husband has become since my death are to be believed. ![]() When I step into the world of the living after years of wearing the shadows of New York City like a cloak, I don’t expect to be welcomed with open arms. ![]() Until the night I died I secretly called him my husband.Īnd then the monster in the darkness turned me into a pawn in a twisted game of power and greed. A savage mafia killer filled with the fires of vengeance. Nothing is fair in the game of love and death. ![]() ![]() This is achieved via the simultaneous pursuit of differentiation and low cost. This, in turn, requires a shift of attention from supply to demand, from a focus on competing to a focus on creating innovative value to unlock new demand. The crux of the problem is how to create it. To them, extra demand is out there, largely untapped. ![]() Such strategic thinking leads firms to divide industries into attractive and unattractive ones and to decide accordingly whether or not to enter.īlue ocean strategists recognize that market boundaries exist only in managers’ minds, and they do not let existing market structures limit their thinking. They focus on dividing up the red ocean, where growth is increasingly limited. Here, grabbing a bigger share of a finite market is seen as a zero-sum game in which one company’s gain is achieved at another company’s loss. ![]() ![]() To sustain themselves in the marketplace, red ocean strategists focus on building advantages over the competition, usually by assessing what competitors do and striving to do it better. Fundamental differences between red ocean strategy and blue ocean strategy ![]() ![]() When the book begins, Audrey is plotting to get back to public school, a prospect that horrifies her sister. Audrey is sent to Peak, an alternative school that her parents and doctors feel is better suited to handle her special needs. Clare goes to public school, where she is part of a mean-girl posse of popular kids but at risk of losing her prominence as she struggles to deal with her grief. His absence has pushed the two down different paths and away from each other. This has been exacerbated by the death of their beloved older brother, killed in a car accident. Once inseparable, the girls have drifted apart. ![]() By the time we meet 14-year-old fraternal twins Clare and Audrey, their relationship is in tatters. The book, distributed in Canada by Vancouver’s Raincoast Books, takes place in Calgary circa 2013. I liked the idea of writing a young adult (novel) that teens can relate to.” Under Shifting Stars book cover jpg ![]() Andrews books and I shouldn’t have been reading them when I was 15. “In some ways that’s heavier, because you come across even heavier topics. “I remember being a teenager and I felt like the stories that were aimed at my age were really young so I ended up reading up,” says Latos. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. |