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![]() ![]() So she doesn't ask questions of her clients, only favors, hoping that they will eventually add up to get her what she so desperately desires. Because all her life she's wanted only one thing - a secret so dangerous and well-guarded that no one will give it up.Ī ticket to the Land of the Fae so she can find her dad and finally get some answers about her past. She knows how to drink, fight, and steal dangerous magical artifacts - but not for money. Meet Quinn MacKenna, a black magic arms dealer from the mean streets of Boston. until she accidentally stole from Nate Temple. ***PREORDER NOW AT A DISCOUNTED PRICE! 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Sebastian Frost was a man with an interesting reputation. ![]() ![]() ![]() In that speech, delivered at the Soldiers’ National Cemetery (now known as Gettysburg National Cemetery) in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania in November 1863, Lincoln had urged his listeners to continue in the fight for freedom, envisioning the day when all Americans – including Black slaves – would be free. ![]() ![]() The opening words to his speech, ‘Five score years ago’, allude to a specific speech Lincoln himself had made a century before: the Gettysburg Address. ![]() In his ‘I Have a Dream’ speech, King was doing more than alluding to Abraham Lincoln’s signing of the Emancipation Proclamation one hundred years earlier. No sooner has the dream gathered momentum than it becomes a more concrete ‘hope’. What’s more, in moving from ‘dream’ to a different noun, ‘hope’, King suggests that what might be dismissed as an idealistic ambition is actually something that is both possible and achievable. 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Nevertheless, in working from ‘I have a dream’ to a different four-word phrase, ‘this is our hope’. ![]() ![]() ![]() Trapped inside a picture-perfect, make-believe world that is home to a frightening reality, Martin must find a way out that will allow him to stay alive without becoming the very thing he hates.Ī novel of rage and compassion, good and evil, trust and betrayal, Forty Acres is the thought-provoking story of one man’s desperate attempt to escape the clutches of a terrifying new moral order. ![]() Martin finds out that his glittering new friends are part of a secret society dedicated to the preservation of the institution of slavery-but this time around, the black men are called “Master.” Joining them seems to guarantee a future without limits rebuking them almost certainly guarantees his death. But far from home and cut off from everyone he loves, he discovers a disturbing secret that challenges some of his deepest convictions… Forty Acres Dwayne Alexander Smith 3.93 3,552 ratings746 reviews What if overcoming the legacy of American slavery meant bringing back that very institution A young black attorney is thrown headlong into controversial issues of race and power in this page-turning and provocative new novel. They invite him for a weekend away from it all-no wives, no cell phones, no talk of business. He’s dazzled by what they’ve accomplished, and they seem to think he has the potential to be as successful as they are. Martin Grey, a smart, talented black lawyer working out of a storefront in Queens, becomes friendly with a group of some of the most powerful, wealthy, and esteemed black men in America. Read the page-turning, provocative thriller that will forever change the way you think about slavery and its legacy in today’s America. “A thriller in a class by itself - brilliant and scary!” - Terry McMillan ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The disturbances of 1968 made the book known. La Société du spectacle was first published in November 1967 by the Paris publishers Buchet-Chastel. The extraordinary new conditions in which this entire generation has lived constitute a comprehensive summary of all that, henceforth, the spectacle will forbid and also all that it will permit.”- Guy Debord (1988) Read more Quite simply, the spectacle’s domination has succeeded in raising a whole generation moulded to its laws. “In all that has happened in the last twenty years, the most important change lies in the very continuity of the spectacle. Now finally available in a superb English translation approved by the author, Debord’s text remains as crucial as ever for understanding the contemporary effects of power, which are increasingly inseparable from the new virtual worlds of our rapidly changing image / information culture. ![]() From its publication amid the social upheavals of the 1960s to the present, the volatile theses of this book have decisively transformed debates on the shape of modernity, capitalism, and everyday life in the late twentieth century. Few works of political and cultural theory have been as enduringly provocative as Guy Debord’s Society of the Spectacle. ![]() |