More than sixty years ago, the Supreme Court ruled in Brown v. Board of Education that America's schools could no longer be segregated by race. Critically acclaimed novelist Jim Grimsley was eleven years old in 1966 when federally mandated integration of schools went into effect in the state and the school in his small eastern North Carolina town was first integrated. Until then, blacks and whites didn't sit next to one another in a public space or eat in the same restaurants, and they certainly didn't go to school together. Going to one of the private schools that almost immediately sprang up was not an option for Jim: his family was too poor to pay tuition, and while they shared the community's dismay over the mixing of the races, they had no choice but to be on the front lines of his school's desegregation. What he did not realize until he began to meet these new students was just how deeply ingrained his own prejudices were and how those prejudices had... Views: 147
A three-year-old who communicates with her deceased great-grandmother sets Crockett on a course seeking justice for the wife and family of a murdered cop. Crockett, Stitch, and Clete, with help from Satin's daughter, Danni and her friend, Whisper, infiltrate a drug business with ties to Italy and Afghanistan as Crockett goes UNDERCOVER. Views: 147
The stunning new science fiction novel by leading science writer MJ Walker.
The anteater, elephant, budgie and pin monkey know of only one way to save their ruined circus.
They must seek out Lord Morgan, and his huge new cannon, which can only be operated by the cleverest animals in all the world.
The old leopard meanwhile, fancies taking a piece of Lord Morgan's thighs.
So begins MJ Walker’s endearing and revealing story about the nature of humans and animals; what we think and feel, and the differences, if any, between us. Views: 147
Chloe: Moses has been my best friend since kindergarten. We met when I shoved him face first in the dirt and took his action figures. Ever since, we’ve been tighter than blood, but we’re not blood, and my body knows that. My heart has known that for years.
The fact that being a pole dancer has interfered with my relationship status is an understatement. Moses is literally the longest I’ve been with a man, except I’m not really
‘with’ him.
Now I’m approaching a place where I’m curious enough to tell him about my feelings. I’ve gotten close, but a man as hot as my bestie has had really small gaps between girlfriends. I know it could be a big mistake, and he’s never seen me that way, but I won’t know for sure unless I act right? Only problem is, I might be too late again.
Moses: I’m not blind to the fact that my best friend is dangerously hot. She’s basically every man’s dream but she’s not mine. I’m the one that protects her, councils her, and encourages her, knowing she will do the same for me. She’s my girl.
But now something is different, and I can’t put a name to it. Something feels changed, but I’m putting all that on the back burner because I think I found my perfect girlfriend.
Still, Chloe is in my head; I’m not sure she would handle knowing that. After all, I’m in the friend zone…
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Saskia Roth is the stereotypical starving artist. She's failed as an original artist. She's failing as a reproduction artist. So why not try con artist? A local art collector and tech tycoon with far too much money for his own good has taken Saskia's bait. She's promised to steal a nude he covets from a private collector, but plans to substitute her own forgery instead. But which one of them is really the mark? Views: 147
