These initiatives have functioned as a potent political decoy to avoid more fundamental reforms and racial redress. Mehrsa Baradaran challenges the long-standing notion that black banking and community self-help is the solution to the racial wealth gap. Not only could black banks not "control the black dollar" due to the dynamics of bank depositing and lending but they drained black capital into white banks, leaving the black economy with the scraps. The catch-22 of black banking is that the very institutions needed to help communities escape the deep poverty caused by discrimination and segregation inevitably became victims of that same poverty. The Color of Money pursues the persistence of this racial wealth gap by focusing on the generators of wealth in the black community: black banks. More than 150 years later, that number has barely budged. When the Emancipation Proclamation was signed in 1863, the black community owned less than one percent of the United States' total wealth.
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Anxious to learn more about the man who had briefly stolen her heart, Mira delves into the hidden mysteries of Battle Lake, including a old land deed with ancient Ojibwe secrets, an obscure octogenarian crowd with freaky social lives, and a handful of thirtysomething high school buddies who hold bitter, decades old grudges. Right away she is offered jobs as an assistant librarian and part time reporter, and falls into an unexpected romance with a guy who seems to be the perfect man until he turns up dead between the reference stacks her tenth day on the job. Due to a dead end job and a cheating boyfriend, the Twin Cities have lost their charm, and Mira decides to begin a new life in rural Battle Lake. Minneapolitan Mira James has been taking it easy since college graduation too easy. You just want your characters to be happy.” Nathan even said, “Problems are closer to home like a movie, so it has a beginning and ending. The Game Master will decide on whether or not it can last longer or if it will be wrapped up earlier than expected. Some players tend to get attached to their character’s life and issues so they can extend the campaign. Players will be using cards and will also need to play a song for background music during their character’s turn. Unlike other tabletop RPGs, a campaign can last as long as the player’s want, but most of the storylines will be resolved by the fourth session. The players will play fictional versions of themselves and choose their faction, meet notable NPCs (non-playable characters), engage in a campaign, and test their mettle against other supernatural creatures. Takipsilim as a game can have two players, a Game Master and the player, or as many as five people to create a party with a Game Master. To be fair, characters will certainly understand that money and connections are also a huge part of the game and it’s just as powerful as real magic. In an RPG set in a world that is similar to ours, where the supernatural happens on a daily basis, players are able to explore magic and fantasy while tackling real-life situations.Ĭharacters will be exposed to the consequences of their choices, their connections to their surroundings and the actual importance of influence and wealth. The central volume in Ivan Doig' s acclaimed Montana trilogy, 'Dancing at the Rascal Fair' is an authentic saga of the American experience at the turn of this century and a passionate, portrayal of the immigrants who dared to try new lives in the imposing Rocky Mountains. About the Author:īook Description Paperback. Pamela Guillard San Francisco Chronicle Dazzling.I find myself filled With such high praise for this book that instead of relating paltry bits of it, I want to quote the whole glorious thing.Doig plunges right in and, while giving us a gorgeous story, simultaneously peels that tale back to expose, the nubbins of human despair - injustice, failure, and that incalculable restlessness exemplifled by the immigrant. Dancing at the Rascal Fair races with real vigor and wit and passion. Doig addresses his real subject: love between friends, between the sexes, between the generations.His is a prose as tight as a new thread and as special as handmade candy. Abbott The New York Times Book Review Against this masterfully evoked backdrop. Henry Kaisor Chicago Sun-Times Doig's prose is so muscular and sculpted, so simple and purposeful that I can think only of Edward Hoagland and Wallace Stegner as Doig's equals. Dancing at the Rascal Fair further establishes its author in the front ranks of contemporary American wrriters. Michael Dorris The Seattle Times Magnificent. Witty banter / bickering that’ll have you LOL’ing.Heroines who aren’t afraid to fight for what they want.The perfect reader for Bad Girl Reputation loves: When not busy writing romances full of bromance, banter, and bad-ass heroines, Elle loves to spend her time in quaint coastal towns and on the beach, swimming with her dogs, or catching up on her favorite true-crime shows and podcasts. Too bad their past has a way of coming back to haunt them… Easier said than done, though.Įvan’s not ready to let the passion between them go, and he’ll do anything to prove to Gen that they can be good together, even if he has to turn over a new leaf himself. In Elle’s latest book, BAD GIRL REPUTATION, former bad girl Genevieve comes home for a family obligation, ready to leave her reputation (and ex) in the past. It's our great pleasure to present Elle Kennedy!Ībout second chances, forgiveness, undeniable chemistry, and happily-ever-afters. Instead of trying to find your perfect match in a dating app, we bring you the “Author-Reader Match" where we introduce you to authors you may fall in love with. She tackles such timelessly debated questions as “How do dogs know they have penises?” We see how her vacuum cleaner almost set her house on fire, how she was attacked by three bears, business ideas she wants to pitch to Shark Tank, and why she can never go back to the post office. Jenny discusses the frustration of dealing with her insurance company in “An Open Letter to My Insurance Company,” which should be an anthem for anyone who has ever had to call their insurance company to try and get a claim covered. In Broken, she explores her experimental treatment of transcranial magnetic stimulation with brutal honesty–but also with brutal humor. Books will be shipped after the event and can take 7 – 10 business days to receive due to Covid-related USPS delays!Presented in partnership with the National JCC Literary Consortium.From #1 New York Times bestselling author Jenny Lawson comes her most personal book yet.As Jenny Lawson’s hundreds of thousands of fans know, she suffers from depression. Shipping is only available to the US destinations. All books include a signed bookplate and will be shipped from Books & Books, Coral Gables, FL. An Evening with Jenny Lawson: Broken (In the Best Possible Way)In Conversation with Judy Blume, NYT Bestselling Author and Owner, Books & Books at The Studios of Key WestZoom Author Talk & Q&AA book purchase is required to access the stream. An accessible and entertaining lens for navigating the ethics of our time, On Being Awesome provides a new and inspiring framework for understanding ourselves and creating meaningful connections in our everyday lives. From street art to folk singers, Proust to the great etiquette writer Emily Post, President Obama to former Los Angeles Dodger Glenn Burke, Riggle draws on pop culture, politics, history, and sports to explore the origins of awesome, and delves into the nuances of what it means to suck and why it’s so important to strive for awesomeness. And if you’re a cheapskate, self-promoter, killjoy, or douchebag, you’re the type of person who shuts social openings down. Awesome people excel at creating social openings that encourage expressions of individuality and create community. But don’t miss its profound ambition, which is to show how philosophy unearths the structure of ordinary language, defines the meaning of life in routine business, and poses the question of how best to live. But don’t miss its profound ambition, which is to show how philosophy unearths the structure of ordinary language, defines the meaning of life in routine business, and poses the question of how best to live.” -Aaron James, author of Assholes: A Theory We all know people who are awesome and people who suck, but what do we really mean by these terms? Have you ever been chill or game? Do you rock or rule? If so, then you’re tapped into the ethics of awesomeness. Nick Riggle’s fun book is ‘awesome’ by its own definition. In this lively treatise, pro-skater-turned-philosopher Nick Riggle presents a theory of awesomeness (and its opposite, suckiness) that’s both sharply illuminating and more timely than ever “Nick Riggle’s fun book is ‘awesome’ by its own definition. As his tragic backstory is gradually revealed, you genuinely feel sorry for him and get to know him as a character in a deeper sense. He seems gentle and relaxed, but behind his blue eyes is knowledge of the horrors of Society and the things Officials don't tell the public. The aura of mystery that surrounds him instantly makes me want to know more. Her varied personality relates to nearly everyone, and I think the success of this character comes from the fact that we all have a little bit of her personality inside us. As this book is written in the first person through her point of view, you feel what she feels and understand her more than anyone else in the book. As the book progresses, her rebellious side begins to show, and her reaction to all she has learned about the Society, when all she begins to doubt the way things are, makes interesting reading. Physics could do with more characters like Tegmark. Brilliantly argued and beautifully written, it is never less than thought-provoking about the greatest mysteries of our existence' - New York Times 'An amazing ride through the rich landscape of contemporary cosmology. 'Our Mathematical Universe is nothing if not impressive. What he proposes is an elegant and fascinating idea: that our physical world not only is described by mathematics, but that it is mathematics. Where do we come from? What makes the universe the way it is? In essence, why are we here? With dazzling clarity, Max Tegmark ponders these deep mysteries and allows us to grasp the most cutting-edge and mind-boggling theories of physics. In Our Mathematical Universe, Max Tegmark, one of the most original physicists at work today, leads us on an astonishing journey to explore the mysteries uncovered by cosmology and to discover the nature of reality Part-history of the cosmos, part-intellectual adventure, Our Mathematical Universe travels from the Big Bang to the distant future via parallel worlds, across every possible scale - from the sub-atomic to the intergalactic - showing how mathematics provides the answers to our questions about the world. Murlock believes that his seemingly dead wife has returned as a ghost and as fear immobilizes him, she actually does die a most horrific death. The story deals with a turning point in a man’s life, one which has the ability to completely change his future. Critics who have paid it attention have generally commented on its surprise and sudden ending. The Boarded Window is not a popular story that is, reviewers rarely discuss it and reference to it among Bierce scholars is almost nonexistent. In the second volume of this work, amongst the gripping Civil War tales which perhaps have brought him his greatest renown, Bierce chose to included the slight weird tale The Boarded Window. Shortly before his disappearance, Bierce also took on the monumental task of organizing his body of work into the twelve-volume Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce. In both of these genres, Bierce explores his interest in bizarre forms of death and the horror of existence in a meaningless world. His literary reputation, however, rests primarily on his short stories of the Civil War and the supernatural. To contemporary audiences, Ambrose Bierce is known for his writings-journalism, essays, and short fictions-for his cynicism and his misanthropy, and for his famous disappearance into revolution-torn Mexico in 1913, an adventure from which he never returned. |