![]() ![]() ![]() But while his friends are losing their virginity left and right, Randy is in a mighty struggle for self-acceptance-a struggle that must confront his Baptist religion, Southern values, and African American culture.ĭuring a momentous semester that will push Randy toward new and surprising discoveries, he finds himself in a non-traditional production of Romeo & Juliet, a student film that pairs him with a potential love interest, and a slow reconciliation with his long-absent father. This is not your typical case of denial, since many around Randy presume he’s gay and don’t fuss. ![]() Waking up in a bed full of unholy emissions after dreaming about the high school football star, Randy frantically searches to save his soul. Unfortunately, Randy also can’t stop having fantasies that Jesus might not approve of. In small-town Mississippi, high school choirboy Randy is practically a perfect saint: a virgin who prays regularly and takes care of his devout but unhinged mother, he doesn’t curse, drink, or indulge in pleasures of the flesh. Expected to attend: Actor/Producer Mo’Nique, Director Patrik-Ian Polk, Actor Julian Walker, Producers Keith Brown and Carol Ann ShineĪdapted from Larry Duplechan’s beloved novel of the same name, Blackbird reunites the creative team behind Frameline24’s Closing Night hit Punks, who join forces with established veterans of independent American cinema and a talented ensemble of newcomers. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() This sixtieth anniversary edition of Fanon’s most famous text stands proudly alongside such pillars of anti-colonialism and anti-racism as Edward Said’s Orientalism and The Autobiography of Malcolm X. Alongside Cornel West’s introduction, the book features critical essays by Jean-Paul Sartre and Homi K. The sixtieth anniversary edition of Frantz Fanon’s landmark text, now with a new introduction by Cornel Westįirst published in 1961, and reissued in this sixtieth anniversary edition with a powerful new introduction by Cornel West, Frantz Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth is a masterful and timeless interrogation of race, colonialism, psychological trauma, and revolutionary struggle, and a continuing influence on movements from Black Lives Matter to decolonization.Ī landmark text for revolutionaries and activists, The Wretched of the Earth is an eternal touchstone for civil rights, anti-colonialism, psychiatric studies, and Black consciousness movements around the world. ![]() ![]() ![]() Nothing and no one are quite what they seem to be–not even Deka herself. But as she journeys to the capital to train for the biggest battle of her life, she will discover that the great walled city holds many surprises. Knowing the dangers that lie ahead yet yearning for acceptance, Deka decides to leave the only life she's ever known. And they are the only ones who can stop the empire's greatest threat. ![]() They are called alaki–near-immortals with rare gifts. Then a mysterious woman comes to her with a choice: stay in the village and submit to her fate, or leave to fight for the emperor in an army of girls just like her. Already different from everyone else because of her unnatural intuition, Deka prays for red blood so she can finally feel like she belongs.īut on the day of the ceremony, her blood runs gold, the color of impurity–and Deka knows she will face a consequence worse than death. Sixteen-year-old Deka lives in fear and anticipation of the blood ceremony that will determine whether she will become a member of her village. Must read!" –Dhonielle Clayton, New York Times bestselling author of The Belles "A dark feminist tale spun with blood and gold. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY TEEN VOGUE. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Even worse is the fact that Brown’s novel “The Lost Symbol” was initially planned to be the third Hanks feature before the switch to “Inferno.” That change might be telling us something about the source material we’re watching. ![]() Considering the landscape of both books and television, it’s hard not to feel like a TV series devoted to Brown’s character is arriving a few years past its expiration date. Now, though, it’s hard to remember what all the fuss was about. The eventual adaptation in 2006, starring Tom Hanks, didn’t have as much controversy as the novel, but it did have plenty of its own success. ![]() It’s hard to describe the events of 2003 to someone who didn’t feverishly rush out to read Brown’s “The Da Vinci Code,” one of the most popular books at the time, equally loved and castigated for its claims about Jesus being married and having children. It’s been five years since audiences last saw Dan Brown’s character Robert Langdon in the 2016 feature film “Inferno” and it honestly feels like a moment in time that can’t be recreated. ![]() ![]() ![]() But journeying anywhere on Christmas Eve is never easy, and with flight delays, inclement weather, and the unexpected company of a feisty young woman who?s about to become his traveling companion, Heath will need a Christmas miracle to make his way home in time to open presents. It?s only as the lights on the stage go down and the Christmas lights outside come on that Heath realizes there?s just one place he wants to be for the holidays: back home in Okmulgee, Oklahoma. After a year full of the kind of success he could only dream of, it?s December 23, and he?s headlining a sold-out show at Madison Square Garden. Thirty-five-year-old Heath Sawyer has finally made it to the big-time as a country music star. ![]() NOW THE HALLMARK MOVIES & MYSTERIES ORIGINAL TIME FOR ME TO COME HOME FOR CHRISTMAS! The fireplace is lit, the snow is falling, and sleigh bells echo in the distance?it?s Christmas, and it?s time to come home in this charming holiday novel based on Dorothy Shackleford and Blake Shelton?s hit song. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() George belongs to the same minority as they do: he is gay.įord has created a highly stylised, hermetically sealed world, controlled down to the last cufflinkįord claims his story is universal. As he speaks, some of the male students in the class shift uncomfortably in their seats. George, an English lecturer, uses his classes on Aldous Huxley as the pretext for musing on paranoia, political repression and hidden minorities. It's 1962, the height of the Cuban missile crisis, and another day in the life, perhaps the last day of the life, of Firth's character. The fashion designer Tom Ford's debut feature - designed with equal elegance and a fastidious attention to detail - has snared an Oscar nomination for Colin Firth as a British academic In Los Angeles battling depression after the death of his long-time lover. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Begin at the summit of the Capitoline, the most sacred of Rome’s seven hills and the center of the ancient city. The best way to get a handle on this divine welter is to take a walking tour. Pagan polytheism in ancient Rome was dizzyingly complicated, the gods seen as constant companions who hovered over the city’s mortal residents from birth to death, communicating with them incessantly but obliquely from their temples and shrines. If you think that Roman religion was essentially Greek mythology with Latinized names, think again. But Rome and its environs conceal many holy places beyond the ken of the Bible. Most pilgrims to the Eternal City declare victory when they reach St Peter’s Square. If you know where to look or what you’re looking at, you’ll find many of these shrines in the historic center, though a few require short treks by train or car. ![]() ![]() ![]() destined to become the classic reference on the subject." -Charles Lebeau and David Lucas Technical Trader's Bulletin "I believe Steve Nison's new candlestick book is destined to become one of the truly great books for this time period. Critical praise for Steve Nison's first book. Beyond Candlesticks provides step-by-step instructions, detailed charts and graphs, and clear-cut guidance on tracking and analyzing results-everything you need to pick up these sharp new tools and take your place at the cutting edge of technical analysis. Stunningly effective on their own, these new techniques pack an even greater wallop when teamed up with traditional trading, investing, or hedging strategies, and Steve Nison shows you how to do it. The man who revolutionized technical analysis by introducing Japanese candlestick charting techniques to Western traders is back-this time with a quartet of powerful Japanese techniques never before published or used in the West. From the "Father of Candlesticks"-penetrating new Japanese techniques for forecasting and tracking market prices and improving market timing Steve Nison has done it again. ![]() ![]() ![]() Kevin Young’s “Crowning” celebrates the birth of his son. Together, these five poets represent the various and powerful ways poetry can speak to the experiences that bind us-not only culturally but privately, and in the most personal of moments. He’ll join poets Patricia Smith and Marilyn Chin, whose work we’ve recently featured on this blog, as well as Brenda Shaughnessy and Brian Turner. This Wednesday at 4:00 PM, Kevin Young will join a group of five poets in a reading to celebrate Natasha Trethewey’s year as Poet Laureate. ![]() Young is the Atticus Haygood Professor of Creative Writing & English and Curator of Literary Collections and the Raymond Danowski Poetry Library at Emory University in Atlanta. ![]() The Grey Album: On the Blackness of Blackness (Graywolf, 2012) won the Graywolf Nonfiction Prize and was a New York Times Notable book of the year as well sa a finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award for criticism. He is also the editor of eight other collections, most recently The Hungry Ear: Poems of Food & Drink and The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton (with Michael S. Kevin Young is the author of eight volumes of poetry, including Ardency: A Chronicle of the Amistad Rebels (Knopf, 2011), which won an American Book Award, and Book of Hours (forthcoming in 2014). ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She is also the author of the Seekers, Survivors, and Bravelands series. to see all the Cover Art for the entire Wars of Light and Shadow Series by Janny. ![]() In addition to having great respect for nature in all its forms, Erin enjoys creating rich mythical explanations for animal behavior. Shadows represent the dream-world and the escape from the light of day. This box set includes all six books in the Vision of Shadows series and is perfect for the collections of long-time Erin Hunter fans and readers new to the Warriors world.įor the first time, all five warrior Clans are united in their territories around the lake-but establishing a new peace, and new borders, will not be easy, especially when a dangerous rogue threatens to tear ShadowClan apart.įull of epic adventure and thrilling intrigue, this fifth Warriors series follows the events of Omen of the Stars.Įrin Hunter is inspired by a love of cats and a fascination with the ferocity of the natural world. Warriors : Vision of Shadows Box Set: Volumes 1 to 6Įrin Hunter's #1 nationally bestselling Warriors series continues in Warriors: A Vision of Shadows! ![]() |