![]() ![]() ![]() Here, Purnell invites readers to envision new systems that work to address the root causes of violence. The book travels across geography and time, and offers lessons that activists have learned from Ferguson to South Africa, from Reconstruction to contemporary protests against police shootings. Purnell details how multi-racial social movements rooted in rebellion, risk-taking, and revolutionary love pushed her and a generation of activists toward abolition. Calling them felt like something, and something feels like everything when the other option seems like nothing. She saw too much sexual violence and buried too many friends to consider getting rid of police in her hometown of St. In her critically acclaimed first book Becoming Abolitionists, Purnell draws from her experiences as a lawyer, writer, and organizer initially skeptical about police abolition. Millions of people continue to protest police violence because these "solutions" do not match the problem: the police cannot be reformed. ![]() ![]() Now in paperback and with new material, a 2021 Kirkus Best Book of the year in both Nonfiction and Current Events, the book Naomi Klein called: “a triumph of political imagination and a tremendous gift to all movements struggling towards liberation.”įor more than a century, activists in the United States have tried to reform the police. ![]()
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Pull it together, focus, get the job done. ![]() One minute and twelve seconds had passed since the guys in the compound had started collapsing, and Gray could hear Darius in his mind, calling him knucklehead in that sharp tone that demanded attention. In a race against time, Gray didn’t allow himself to consider defeat. In Gray and Darius’s fight for freedom and a future where they aren’t haunted by the ghosts of their pasts, they’ll make you laugh, cry, possibly yell at your e-reader, and swoon just a little bit. The Auctioned Series is a journey packed with action, nail-biting suspense, family, and love. ![]() ![]() All-out war now looms as conflict grows between the factions and their ideologies. Tris, her brother Caleb, Tobias, Peter, and Marcus are on the run, as are the other surviving members of Abnegation and those members of Dauntless who chose not to unite with Erudite. ![]() Tris is initiated into her new faction after leaving her home and family amongst the Abnegation in book one of the series, Divergent.Īs Insurgent opens, Tris finds herself immersed in a faction war: the Erudite faction has overtaken the minds of the Dauntless faction in order to use them as soldiers to slaughter members of the Abnegation faction. The protagonist, Beatrice Prior, or Tris, is one such Divergent, having chosen Dauntless from among her three aptitudes: Erudite, Dauntless, and Abnegation. In addition, those who fail their factions’ initiation process are exiled and to live, or starve, among the factionless. ![]() The Divergent are hunted and killed in order to preserve the smooth functioning of the society. ![]() Each 16 year old undergoes an aptitude test to determine his or her future faction those whose tests determine that they have an aptitude for more than one faction are deemed Divergent, and therefore dangerous to the order of the society. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He takes to task the statesmen of Britain for using the law to suit their own ends and thereby wiping out that precious liberty it had taken centuries to acquire. But he cautions that as a liberal, he bent over backward and endorsed unsound notions simply because the conservatives denounced them. He calls them deluded who prophesy disaster wherever the republican cause is not turned back. He scoffs at what he considers the futile attempts of British conservatives to stem the tide of progress and reform. The government and senate seem ineffectual, but Wordsworth's hope is in the people. There is very little in the scene to encourage the idealist nevertheless, the poet is optimistic. In particular, it features the poet's account of his struggle to find a middle road between the sanguine radicalism of the revolutionary movement in France and the timidity, hesitancy, and slowness of liberal reform in England. Much of this book deals with political science, and it shows the change which is beginning to take place in Wordsworth's political philosophy. ![]() ![]() I go to the library every Monday morning and take out about 3-4 books. I read everyday, which usually amounts to a few books a week. For me nothing beat that–I still feel this way. I loved jumping into new worlds and meeting different characters. My parents actually had to take books away from me because I would get eyestrain from reading so much. I was the kid who wanted to learn to read because I loved books. Kelly: I can’t remember a time when I didn’t read. How did you get started in reading as a child? Out of curiosity, how many books do you read in a week? And how big is your library? It’s not a hobby it’s my life.Īllison: You also read a lot. I’m lucky enough to have a very supportive family who understands that writing is part of who I am. My personal favorite is writing fantasy, and since I taught middle school I have a special place in my heart for that age group. ![]() I constantly challenge myself to write outside of my comfort zone to see what I can do. I always had ideas swimming through my head, and I wanted to get them down on paper. Then I moved to short stories, and I even wrote a novel in middle school. Kelly: Growing up I loved to write poems. How did you get started in writing as a child? How you juggle between writing for different ages and genres? Do you have a favorite age group and/or favorite genre for which you like to write? Who have been your best supports for you as a writer? ![]() ![]() Allison: From your blog you also seemed to have always been writing. ![]() ![]() ![]() The HBO productions, under the able direction of David Benioff and D.B. Many readers were drawn in by season one last year, and it's likely this new season will also create new fans. ![]() Now at five volumes with two more (and possibly others) on their way, the series continue to attract new readers: as of last fall, the book series had nearly 12 million copies in print. This Sunday, Games of Thrones returns to HBO for its second season, which is based on A Clash of Kings, the second volume in George R.R. Note that there's plenty of time to catch up before Catching Fire, based on the second book in the series, is released in November next year. Many moviegoers and reviewers say that reading the books leads to a better appreciation of the film. alone and has been at or near the top of bestseller lists for three years, all the more amazing considering that the initial title was published only in 2008. The books, too, have been setting milestones: the series now has more than 36.5 million copies in print in the U.S. 1 in all major world markets and had the third largest opening weekend in the U.S. Taking in $214.5 million worldwide last weekend, the film was No. ![]() A week ago, The Hunger Games, based on the first book in Suzanne Collins's trilogy of the same name, opened to critical and popular acclaim. It's a great moment for book-related blockbusters in theaters and on the silver screen. ![]() ![]() The young lady in question, significantly named Door, has stumbled into our world, London Above, from her own mythopoeic world, London Below. It seems that the marquis has lost one of his lives (how many he has is never mentioned - at least I didn't catch it) in the service of a teenage girl. And then he said, in a hoarse voice that was little more than a grinding whisper, 'I think my throat's been cut. It took a long time to purge the water from his body. ![]() ![]() "The marquis de Carabas vomited sewer water over the London Wall, staining the gray stones with brown foulness. There is little or no sex on display here, but there is a fair amount of Grand Guignol, much of it cartoonish and deeply amusing, as in this sequence describing a roguish fellow returning from the dead: Indeed, the title is one of the few ordinary things about this first full-length work by an author of popular "graphic novels" - comic books featuring dollops of sex and lots of gory action. In spite of its generic title, Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere is as good a fantasy as one is likely to find on current bookshelves. ![]() Through the Portals of the Underworld By Tim Sullivan ![]() ![]() ![]() When the wounded warrior falls from his horse, she is drawn to his strong, lean body. Miraculously, his life is saved by the soft touch of a Highland angel, a courageous beauty who will put to the test his fealty to his clan, his honor, and his deepest desires.An outcast from her own clan, Keeley McDonald was betrayed by those she loved and trusted. But on his way to claim the hand of Rionna McDonald, daughter of a neighboring chieftain, he is ambushed and left for dead. Now he is prepared to wed for duty, as well. In Seduction of a Highland Lass, an indomitable Highland warrior is caught between loyalty and forbidden love. Fiercely loyal to his elder brother, Alaric McCabe leads his clan in the fight for their birthright. Maya Banks, the New York Times bestselling author of romance and romantic suspense has captivated readers with her steamy Scottish historical novels, perfect for fans of Julie Garwood. ![]() ![]() ![]() He illustrates how the emerging values of the spirit are changing marriages into spiritual partnerships, psychology into spiritual psychology, and transforming our everyday lives. Using his scientist's eye and philosopher's heart, Zukav shows how infusing the activities of life with reverence, compassion, and trust makes them come alive with meaning and purpose. ![]() He shows how the pursuit of external power has produced our survival-of-the-fittest understanding of evolution, generated conflict between lovers, communities, and superpowers, and brought us to the edge of destruction. ![]() With lucidity and elegance, Zukav explains that we are evolving from a species that pursues power based upon the perceptions of the five senses - external power - into a species that pursues authentic power - power that is based upon the perceptions and values of the spirit. With the same extraordinary skill that he used to demystify scientific abstraction and the new physics, Gary Zukay, the award-winning author of The Dancing Wu Li Masters, here takes us on a brilliant and penetrating exploration of the new phase of evolution we have now entered. ![]() ![]() The Immortals after Dark (IAD) series was the first series that Kresley Cole wrote. Her characters and settings are based on her experiences when traveling around the world. She holds a Masters degree and is a former athlete. ![]() She enjoys skiing on water with her husband when she is not writing. ![]() She lives in Florida with her family, and what she describes as ‘far too many animals’. She was also the 14th person to get inducted into RWA Hall of Fame.Ĭole is a native of Alabama. It has been translated into about 20 foreign languages and appears on bestseller lists all around the world. She has received three Romance Writers of America RITA awards for the “Immortals after Dark” series. She has penned the enthralling series “Immortals after Dark”, the “Arcana Chronicles” series, the “Erotic Gamemakers” series as well as 5 other historical romances. ![]() She writes paranormal romance and young adult novels. Kresley Cole is a #1 New York Times bestselling author. The Warlord Wants Forever / Blood Red Kissĭeep Kiss of Winter (With: Gena Showalter) ![]() |