![]() In her childhood world of white Birmingham, the bombing's immediate consequence was trivial: a spasm of anxiety and the cancellation of a rehearsal for ''The Music Man,'' in which she had a part. ''But I was growing up on the wrong side of the revolution,'' she writes. 15, 1963, she was about the same age as the four black girls who were killed by the bomb at the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala. This happened either in real time or later, in a kind of retrospective anguish that has produced fine scholarship, fiction and journalism and even enlightened politics. Lacking the detachment that allowed most Northerners to make judgments without making commitments, Southern whites who valued justice were forced to confront themselves, their families, their place of privilege. THERE are few white people in America more passionately perceptive about our vexing national problem of race than liberal-minded whites from the South, especially those who lived through the turbulent years of the civil rights movement. ![]() ![]() Birmingham, Alabama: The Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution. ![]()
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"This exploration shows how sailors emerged from deadly working conditions on merchant and naval ships, turned pirate, and created a starkly different reality aboard their own vessels. ![]() Summary: "Villains of All Nations explores the Golden Age of Atlantic piracy and the infamous generation whose images underlie our modern, romanticized view of pirates. ![]() ![]() ![]() While Red London is caught up in the pageantry and thrills of the Element Games, another London is coming back to life, and those who were thought to be forever gone have returned.Īs darkness sweeps the Maresh Empire, the once precarious balance of power among the four Londons has reached its breaking point. To save all of the worlds, they'll first need to stay alive. ![]() Now perilous magic is afoot, and treachery lurks at every turn. After one such visit goes awry, Kell escapes his home for Grey London and runs into Delilah Bard, a cut-purse with lofty aspirations. Kell serves the Maresh Empire―Red London, as he calls it―as an official ambassador, traveling between the frequent bloody regime changes in White London and the court of George III in the dullest of Londons. It's a defiant hobby with dangerous consequences. Unofficially, Kell is a smuggler, servicing people willing to pay for even the smallest glimpses of a world they'll never see. ![]() Kell is one of the last Antari―magicians with a rare, coveted ability to travel between parallel Londons Red, Grey, White, and, once, Black. Schwab’s New York Times bestselling Shades of Magic trilogy together in a boxset with additional content. Schwab – BookaliciousMYĮxperience the fate of beloved heroes and notorious foes in V. Shades of Magic Paperback Boxed Set: A Darker Shade of Magic, A Gathering of Shadows, A Conjuring of Light By V.E. ![]() ![]() ![]() In two months’ time, the circle of six will face Lilith and her army in Geall. 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New York Times bestselling author Katherine Arden returns with another creepy, spine-tingling adventure in this follow-up to the critically acclaimed Small Spaces and Dead Voices. ![]() ![]() ![]() Renting a room from Adam is the first step in making a home for him and Finn, but falling for the former firefighter was never part of the plan. With his neatly planned future in ruins, he will do anything to make a new life for his son, even if it means moving to the other side of the country. ![]() When Cameron and Finn land on his doorstep, he never dreamed that he would fall in love with the small family or that maybe he’d get to be a hero again.Ĭameron goes from being a devoted husband to a single dad overnight. ![]() Living with chronic pain, and at his lowest moments, he had friends who wouldn’t let him give up, a family who had his back, and even though his future was different from what he’d always planned, he at least had hope. 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