Blood at the Root by Patrick Phillips6/30/2023 Many black residents were poor sharecroppers, but others owned their own farms and the land on which they'd founded the county's thriving black churches.īut then in September of 1912, three young black laborers were accused of raping and murdering a white girl. A gripping tale of racial cleansing in Forsyth County, Georgia, and a harrowing testament to the deep roots of racial violence in America.įorsyth County, Georgia, at the turn of the 20th century was home to a large African American community that included ministers and teachers, farmers and field hands, tradesmen, servants, and children.
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Deep water patricia highsmith summary6/30/2023 While there, Ripley gets into a fight with Pritchard in a bar. He photographs Tom's house and follows him on a trip to Tangier. Pritchard initially harasses Ripley by talking about his knowledge of the suspicious death of Dickie Greenleaf, whom Ripley murdered in The Talented Mr. An obnoxious American named David Pritchard, motivated by malice rather than any financial interest, threatens to expose Tom's role in the disappearance of Thomas Murchison, an art collector whom Ripley murdered in Ripley Under Ground when Murchison threatened to expose Ripley's art forgery scheme. Tom Ripley spends his days tending his garden and playing the harpsichord at his home near Fontainebleau. Ripley Under Water is a 1991 psychological thriller by Patricia Highsmith, the last of five novels featuring Tom Ripley, "an intelligent, cultured gentleman who dabbles in art, music and, occasionally, murder". Book hook shot by kennedy ryan6/30/2023 Different…and yet they’re completely in synch. One lives on the East Coast, while the other lives on the West Coast. One likes to text, while the other likes to handwrite notes. One is an extrovert, while the other is an introvert. One likes “mumble rap,” while the other likes classic jazz. Lotus, who works in the fashion industry, and Kenan, who is an NBA player, could not be more different from each other. I don’t want to take away from Iris and August ( Long Shot), Banner and Jared ( Block Shot), and Avery and Decker ( HOOPS Holiday), but Lotus and Kenan steal the show with their opposites-attract chemistry and nobody’s-gonna-bring-us-down respect they have for each other. And I gotta say, Kennedy saved the best for last. Hook Shot is the fourth and final book (third full-length novel) of the HOOPS series. I need to say that upfront because what you’re about to read is a little different from previous reviews we’ve written. This is the hardest review I’ll ever write because this book was personal to me. The Sea of Trolls by Nancy Farmer6/30/2023 Though Sunny's initiative is thin-she is pushed into most of her choices by her friends and by Leopard adults-the worldbuilding for Leopard society is stellar, packed with details that will enthrall readers bored with the same old magical worlds. Now she spends the day in mundane Lamb school and sneaks out at night to learn magic with her cadre of Leopard friends: a handsome American bad boy, an arrogant girl who is Orlu’s childhood friend and Orlu himself. Sunny, it seems, is a Leopard person, one of the magical folk who live in a world mostly populated by ignorant Lambs. When a boy in her class, Orlu, rescues her from a beating, Sunny is drawn in to a magical world she's never known existed. She can't play soccer with the boys because, as she says, "being albino made the sun my enemy," and she has only enemies at school. Who can't love a story about a Nigerian-American 12-year-old with albinism who discovers latent magical abilities and saves the world? Sunny lives in Nigeria after spending the first nine years of her life in New York. |