The revered New York Times bestselling author returns with a novel set in 1960s Baltimore that combines modern psychological insights with elements of classic noir, about a middle-aged housewife turned aspiring reporter who pursues the murder of a forgotten young woman. In 1966, Baltimore is a city of secrets that everyone seems to know—everyone, that is, except Madeline "Maddie" Schwartz. Last year, she was a happy, even pampered housewife. This year, she's bolted from her marriage of almost twenty years, determined to make good on her youthful ambitions to live a passionate, meaningful life. Maddie wants to matter, to leave her mark on a swiftly changing world. Drawing on her own secrets, she helps Baltimore police find a murdered girl—assistance that leads to a job at the city's afternoon newspaper, the Star. Working at the newspaper offers Maddie the opportunity to make her name, and she has found just the story to do it: a missing woman whose body... Views: 68
Ndiya Grayson returns to her childhood home of Chicago as a young professional, but even her high-end job in a law office can't protect her from half-repressed memories of childhood trauma. One evening, vulnerable and emotionally disarrayed, she goes out and meets her equal and opposite: Shame Luther, a no-nonsense construction worker by day and a self-taught piano player by night. The love story that ensues propels them on an unforgettable journey from Chicago's South Side to the coast of Kenya as they navigate the turbulence of long-buried pasts and an uncertain future. A stirring novel tuned to the clash between soul music's vision of our essential responsibility to each other and a world that breaks us down and tears us apart, Another Kind of Madness is an indelible tale of human connection. Views: 68
In this charming, witty, and weird fantasy novel, Alexis Hall pays homage to Sherlock Holmes with a new twist on those renowned characters. Upon returning to the city of Khelathra-Ven after five years fighting a war in another universe, Captain John Wyndham finds himself looking for somewhere to live, and expediency forces him to take lodgings at 137b Martyrs Walk. His new housemate is Miss Shaharazad Haas, a consulting sorceress of mercurial temperament and dark reputation.When Miss Haas is enlisted to solve a case of blackmail against one of her former lovers, Miss Eirene Viola, Captain Wyndham finds himself drawn into a mystery that leads him from the salons of the literary set to the drowned back-alleys of Ven and even to a prison cell in lost Carcosa. Along the way he is beset by criminals, menaced by pirates, molested by vampires, almost devoured by mad gods, and called upon to punch a shark. But the further the companions go in pursuit of the elusive... Views: 68
In 1863 black communities owned less than 1 percent of total U.S.
wealth. Today that number has barely budged. Mehrsa Baradaran pursues
this wealth gap by focusing on black banks. She challenges the myth that
black banking is the solution to the racial wealth gap and argues that
black communities can never accumulate wealth in a segregated economy.Review
Combining a rich historical sweep with in-depth analysis of
the mechanics of banking, Baradaran unpacks the brutal dilemma facing
black banks―how to create black wealth in the context of a segregated
and unequal ‘Jim Crow’ economy. Baradaran’s brilliant and devastating
analysis leads to an irrefutable conclusion: the racial wealth gap is
the product of state law and public policy, and will only be reversed
when the same governmental tools that created segregation and
discrimination are deployed to end it. (Beryl Satter, author of Family Properties: How the Struggle over Race and Real Estate Transformed Chicago and Urban America)Observers
as different in time and ideology as Frederick Douglass, Malcolm X, and
Ronald Reagan have argued that black banks represent perhaps the best
hope for securing a just society. As Baradaran powerfully maintains,
however, any effort to restrict responsibility to banks alone or black
people alone will always be doomed to failure. A swift, beautiful, and
chastening book, The Color of Money reminds us, yet again, that
black poverty is not really an economic problem, but rather a political
problem requiring political solutions. (N. D. B. Connolly, author of A World More Concrete: Real Estate and the Remaking of Jim Crow South Florida)Baradaran
provides a pivotal understanding of how our racialized history
structured the disparity between the black and white share of the
nation’s wealth and how it continues to inhibit the development of black
capital and black banks. Her book puts to rest, once and for all, the
trope that self-help, buying black, and black banking are the panacea to
black prosperity. (Darrick Hamilton, The New School for Social
Research)In this important book, law professor Mehrsa Baradaran
uses the history of black banking from emancipation to the present as a
vehicle for exploring the origins and persistence of the racial wealth
gap in America. This is more than a history of financial institutions,
though. It is a probing, revelatory study of racism and capitalism in
the making of modern America, one that reveals how segregation, racial
prejudice, and black economic disadvantage became mutually reinforcing.
(Andrew W. Kahrl, University of Virginia)Baradaran…provides a
deep accounting of how America got to a point where a median white
family has 13 times more wealth than the median black family. (Gillian
B. White The Atlantic 2017-09-01)Baradaran’s point is to
show how white and Black Americans effectively live in two separate
economies…As a work of history, the book contains a disturbingly
coherent narrative of racist plunder spanning from the Freedman’s Bureau
bank to today’s payday lenders…Baradaran’s book is a must read for
anyone interested in closing America’s racial wealth gap. (Guy Emerson
Mount Black Perspectives 2017-12-05) Views: 67
With three months remaining of her marriage of convenience, Savannah is ready to say goodbye to her spoiled rich boy of a husband. He's annoying and argumentative and used to always getting his way. Sure, he's hot. And maybe occasionally a little bit sweet. But she doesn't want to stay married to him.Not at all.He needed a wife for a year so he could inherit his grandmother's fortune, and she needed to pay off her family's debts. That's all their marriage has ever been about.So she really needs to stop falling into bed with him. Views: 67
A killer is at large.And she's next on his holiday hit list.Someone is killing women in Detective Leah Cordon's town—women who jog the same trail as her every day. Leah will do whatever it takes to ensure the case is solved by Christmas. But when details of the crime eerily resemble what's been happening on cattleman Deacon Kent's own ranch, he shows up looking for answers. It quickly becomes obvious that the killer has his sights set on Leah. Can Leah and Deacon discover the criminal's identity before he strikes again? Views: 67
