Author : Ally Carter
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 10,17 MB
Release : 2016-12-27
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 054565498X
New York Times bestselling author Ally Carter returns with the third entry in this runaway series. For the past three years, Grace Blakely has been desperate to find out the truth about her mother's murder. She thought it would bring her peace. She thought it would lead her to answers. She thought she could put the past to rest. But the truth has only made her a target. And the past? The only way to put the past to rest is for Grace to kill it once and for all.
Author : James Forman, Jr.
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 39,92 MB
Release : 2017-04-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0374712905
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR GENERAL NON-FICTON ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEWS' 10 BEST BOOKS LONG-LISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST, CURRENT INTEREST CATEGORY, LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZES "Locking Up Our Own is an engaging, insightful, and provocative reexamination of over-incarceration in the black community. James Forman Jr. carefully exposes the complexities of crime, criminal justice, and race. What he illuminates should not be ignored." —Bryan Stevenson, author of Just Mercy and founder of the Equal Justice Initiative "A beautiful book, written so well, that gives us the origins and consequences of where we are . . . I can see why [the Pulitzer prize] was awarded." —Trevor Noah, The Daily Show Former public defender James Forman, Jr. is a leading critic of mass incarceration and its disproportionate impact on people of color. In Locking Up Our Own, he seeks to understand the war on crime that began in the 1970s and why it was supported by many African American leaders in the nation’s urban centers. Forman shows us that the first substantial cohort of black mayors, judges, and police chiefs took office amid a surge in crime and drug addiction. Many prominent black officials, including Washington, D.C. mayor Marion Barry and federal prosecutor Eric Holder, feared that the gains of the civil rights movement were being undermined by lawlessness—and thus embraced tough-on-crime measures, including longer sentences and aggressive police tactics. In the face of skyrocketing murder rates and the proliferation of open-air drug markets, they believed they had no choice. But the policies they adopted would have devastating consequences for residents of poor black neighborhoods. A former D.C. public defender, Forman tells riveting stories of politicians, community activists, police officers, defendants, and crime victims. He writes with compassion about individuals trapped in terrible dilemmas—from the men and women he represented in court to officials struggling to respond to a public safety emergency. Locking Up Our Own enriches our understanding of why our society became so punitive and offers important lessons to anyone concerned about the future of race and the criminal justice system in this country.
Author : Ben Garrison
Publisher :
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 47,79 MB
Release : 2018-05-16
Category :
ISBN : 9780692126608
Ben Garrison's second cartoon collection continues where his "The Election Collection" left off. From the moment Trump was sworn in as President to the Mueller witch hunt, it's all chronicled here in Ben's hard hitting style.Obama, Hillary, Comey, McCain, Mueller and more get the "treatment" as no one is spared. Fun and entertaining and always bringing the spice to cartoons, Ben does not disappoint. The book contains 140 pages in full color and exclusive cartoons that have never been released to the public. This book also contains Ben's most infamous cartoon "Making the First Lady Great Again" seen by millions. If you want to LOCK THEM UP- you will love Ben's new cartoon book.
Author : Lexi Cross
Publisher : E-Book Publishing World Inc.
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 35,66 MB
Release :
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Lock It Up is book 9 of the Triple Threat series. Parts 1-9 can be found everywhere now! Book 1: Wrapped Up Book 2: Knocked Up Book 3: Tied Up Book 4: Pinned Down Book 5: Down for the Count Book 6: Touch Me Down Book 7: Locked In Book 8: Locked On Him Book 9: Lock It Up I HIT THE HOLE HARD – EVERY. SINGLE. TIME. I’m exactly what I look like: a ladykiller, a cocky S.O.B., an unrepentant player. I talk the talk. I walk the walk. My bed has seen half the girls in this town, although their stays are strictly one-night only. I take them home, rock their world, and send them packing. Then onto the next. That is, until she showed up. No one’s ever told me no before, but Melinda Clark gives as good as she gets. The more time I spend around her, the more I want her. The more I need her. The more I won’t stop until I have her. Forever. HE WRAPPED ME UP, PINNED ME DOWN, AND LEFT ME BEGGING FOR MORE. Harley Marks is a dangerous man. Playboys like him usually are. He’s got a jaw like granite, biceps like pythons, and a c*ck like…well, use your imagination. What’s worse is, he doesn’t care about a girl like me. I’m just another notch on his belt, a trophy to be collected and neglected. But that doesn’t stop me from craving his touch. Try as I might, I can’t convince myself to stay away from him. I know I’m straying into forbidden territory, but one brush of his lips reveals the truth: I just don’t give a damn.
Author : Tina Parker
Publisher : Accents Publishing
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 38,71 MB
Release : 2021-03-17
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781936628650
"Tina Parker's haunting new collection Lock Her Up is a tribute, a beautifully rendered defense of women who throughout the late 1800s and mid-1900s were admitted into the Southwestern Lunatic Asylum in Virginia. It is an examination of the platitudes, misdiagnoses and treatments administered to women who needed succor not restraint, understanding not punishment; women who had been set aside by their families or bored husbands, were abused, widowed or their children dead or taken from them. This poet has done her research. "The day they came for me/ I cartwheeled into the sea/ And sang open the snow." Reader, you will wince, you will curse, you will weep." -Kari Gunter-Seymour
Author : Adam Serwer
Publisher : One World
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 34,36 MB
Release : 2021-06-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0593230809
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From an award-winning journalist at The Atlantic, these searing essays make a powerful case that “real hope lies not in a sunny nostalgia for American greatness but in seeing this history plain—in all of its brutality, unadorned by euphemism” (The New York Times). NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR • “No writer better demonstrates how American dreams are so often sabotaged by American history. Adam Serwer is essential.”—Ta-Nehisi Coates To many, our most shocking political crises appear unprecedented—un-American, even. But they are not, writes The Atlantic’s Adam Serwer in this prescient essay collection, which dissects the most devastating moments in recent memory to reveal deeply entrenched dynamics, patterns as old as the country itself. The January 6 insurrection, anti-immigrant sentiment, and American authoritarianism all have historic roots that explain their continued power with or without President Donald Trump—a fact borne out by what has happened since his departure from the White House. Serwer argues that Trump is not the cause, he is a symptom. Serwer’s phrase “the cruelty is the point” became among the most-used descriptions of Trump’s era, but as this book demonstrates, it resonates across centuries. The essays here combine revelatory reporting, searing analysis, and a clarity that’s bracing. In this new, expanded version of his bestselling debut, Serwer elegantly dissects white supremacy’s profound influence on our political system, looking at the persistence of the Lost Cause, the past and present of police unions, the mythology of migration, and the many faces of anti-Semitism. In so doing, he offers abundant proof that our past is present and demonstrates the devastating costs of continuing to pretend it’s not. The Cruelty Is the Point dares us, the reader, to not look away.
Author : R. Austin Freeman
Publisher : House of Stratus
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 33,61 MB
Release : 2012-09-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0755128761
When a store of priceless jewels vanishes without a trace, the brilliant Dr Thorndyke and his skilled associate, Mr Polton, are called in to chase a thief who leaves no trace. A mysterious stranger, incendiary bombs, and intrigue weave a magnificently enjoyable trail through a great read.
Author : Amanda Marcotte
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 25,14 MB
Release : 2018-04-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1510737464
“Amanda Marcotte drains the swamp and reveals a Republican Party hijacked by grifters and frauds.” ?David Daley The election of Donald Trump in 2016, like most of his campaign, came as a shock to many Americans. How could a man so lacking in capacity, so void of any intellectual heft, become the president of the United States? How did Trump, a man with no detectable personal qualities outside of resentment and the will to dominate, appeal to millions of Americans and win the highest office in the land? The American right has spent decades turning away from reasoned discourse toward a rhetoric of pure resentment—it’s this shift that laid the groundwork for Trump’s ascendency. In Troll Nation, journalist Amanda Marcotte outlines how Trump was the inevitable result of American conservatism’s degradation into an ideology of blind resentment. For years now, the purpose of right wing media, particularly Fox News, has not been to argue for traditional conservative ideals, such as small government or even family values, so much as to stoke bitterness and paranoia in its audience. Traditionalist white people have lost control over the culture, and they know it, and the only option they feel they have left is to rage at a broad swath of supposed enemies ? journalists, activists, feminists, city dwellers, college professors ? that they blame for stealing “their” country from them. Conservative pundits, politicians, and activists have abandoned any hope of winning the argument through reasoned discourse, and instead have adopted a series of bad faith claims, conspiracy theories, and culture war hysterics. Decades of these antics created a conservative voting base that was ready to elect a mindless bully like Donald Trump.
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