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Underhanded, The

Secret Societies and Sinister Schemes Author: Adam Sikes Professor William Dresden has never fit in, not with his family, and not with the academic world, which has just terminated his promising career over his recent work. He thinks he has nothing left to lose when he agrees to meet with a mysterious stranger at a Parisian café to talk about his failed studies. Instead, he discovers that his research has led MI6 to some critical findings about an international neo-fascist organization called the Strasbourg Executive. The complication? MI6 is compromised, the Executive has already deployed several assassins, and Professor Dresden’s family [...]

2024-08-25T10:49:42-07:00August 25th, 2024|Tags: , , , |

Black Cake

Family Secrets and Heart Scars All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. ~ Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina Author: Charmaine Wilkerson Sometimes, the only thing left that can bring the broken back together is tragedy. This has proven true for estranged siblings Byron and Benny Bennett. Their father died years ago, and Benny refused to come to his funeral, cementing the family fracture. Now, their mother has passed suddenly, and Benny is back, confronting her brother and her past, trying to make sense of where it all fell apart. But it’s a past that neither [...]

2024-08-18T13:22:16-07:00August 18th, 2024|Tags: , , , , |

Horse

Horse Racing, Freedom, and History Author: Geraldine Brooks What do a record-breaking thoroughbred; a dusty, forgotten skeleton in a museum’s storage; a discarded painting; a thesis about a young artist’s depiction of Black grooms pre-Civil War; and a young couple’s tumultuous interracial relationship have to do with each other? In Horse author Geraldine Brooks oscillates between the past and the present to bring readers an epic story about horses and the fraught racial history of Black trainers and grooms in America’s history of horse racing. It’s a story with a huge scope, ranging from present-day Australia to Kentucky in the 1850s, [...]

2024-08-17T11:00:36-07:00August 17th, 2024|Tags: , , , |
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