![]() ![]() "John Howard Griffin, a brave white man, wanted to experience how it felt to be a black man in the segregated Jim Crow south. Speaking about the story behind the new single, Bibb explains: A powerful reminder of historical discrimination and the ongoing struggle for racial equality, still relevant to this day over 50 years on. Bibb’s soulful storytelling highlights the challenges Griffin faced as a result of his transformation. ![]() “ The Ballad of John Howard Griffin" draws on the 1961 book "Black Like Me" and tells the true story of Griffin's experiment to change his skin colour from white to black. STREAM “THE BALLAD…” ON ALL SERVICES HERE || WATCH THE LYRIC VIDEO HERE Bibb will also tour the UK and Ireland throughout May - tickets. The new single arrives as Bibb also prepares to release his timely new album ‘ Ridin’’ on 24 March, a deeply personal collection all inspired by true stories from African American history. In commemoration of US Black History Month 2023, Blues legend - ERIC BIBB - has released a potent, powerful new single: “The Ballad of John Howard Griffin". ![]()
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![]() Hal just has to figure out exactly who this girl was…without getting herself killed. As Hal desperately tries to keep up her charade of belonging to the family, she realizes that the malevolent atmosphere of Trepassen House has strong roots in the past, when a young girl came to live there, fell in love, and was imprisoned in her bedroom. There she meets several possible uncles and a creepy old housekeeper right out of a Daphne du Maurier novel, all against the backdrop of a run-down mansion. ![]() ![]() So when she receives a letter saying she's been named in the will of, possibly, an unknown grandmother, she decides to travel to Cornwall, despite fearing that it’s probably all a mistake. Worse still, she’s under threat from a loan shark who’s come to collect the interest on an earlier debt. Her mother died in a hit-and-run several years before, and in her grief, Hal has drifted into a solitary and impecunious life. In Ware’s ( The Lying Game, 2017, etc.) fourth novel in as many years, Harriet “Hal” Westaway is barely making ends meet as a tarot reader on the Brighton Pier. Is it a case of mistaken identity, or will it reveal some truth about her family? ![]() A young woman receives notice of a mysterious bequest. ![]() ![]() ![]() Through sheer determination, and with the help of a few angels along the way, David managed to get into college and achieve professional success. ![]() Soon he remarried, and David learned that his stepmother was just as vicious and abusive as his father. One day, Thurston packed up the house and took the kids, leaving her homeless and destitute. David's mom, too mentally ill to care for her children, couldn't protect him. ![]() But as time passed, David discovered the other side of Thurston Crow, the ex-con with his own code of ethics that justified cruelty, violence, lies, and even murder.Ī shrewd con artist, Thurston intimidated David with beatings to coerce him into doing his criminal bidding. Tall, strong, smart, and brave, the self-taught Cherokee regaled his family with stories of his World War II feats. Growing up on the Navajo Indian Reservation, David Crow and his siblings idolized their dad. ![]() ![]() ![]() Until then, Stephanie makes it her business to meet up with all the city's most dangerous characters from the underground and up. ![]() ![]() Plus, there's the Morelli question: can a Jersey girl keep her head on straight when more than just bullets are aiming for her heart? And with Stephanie and Morelli on the rocks, is it time for Ranger to move in for the kill? To The Nines The pursuit of a skip takes Stephanie, Lula, and Grandma to Vegas, where three mob guys will do whatever it takes to make sure it's a one-way ticket. But things aren't always as they seem-and soon Stephanie must determine if she's working for the right side of the law. When a child is kidnapped by his own father, Stephanie is hired to find them both. Twice the trouble and double the fun-two Stephanie Plum novels in one special edition! Hard Eight Stephanie, along with Morelli, Ranger, Lula, Valerie, Grandma Mazur, and Mooner, is strapped in for the ride of a lifetime. ![]() ![]() ![]() View the recording of the New Zealand wine Zoom session. ![]()
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Axel and his children are sort of a mess after the death of his wife, so there’s a hurt/comfort element of the story too as Jens comes in and has to tread carefully, and yet he ultimately brings so much healing to this family. I loved that Axel and Jens are basically soul mates who met when the time was not right, and later find each other again. And Axel very quickly has to convince Jens he’s not going to mess with his head again, that he wants to try for a real relationship It turns out Jens has been in love with Axel all these years. The widower, Axel, decides he must reconnect with his old friend. They’d been the closest of best friends until a kiss caused awkwardness between them. When Axel runs across a photo of Jens on a blog post, he realizes it’s a guy he knew in college. The romance is set in Oslo and it’s between a professor of poetry, Axel, who lost his wife a year ago and is struggling to get through every day with this four children, and a male midwife/nurse, Jens, who is single. I’m happy to give it my rave review as well! I’d never heard of the author, but based on the blurb and enthusiastic recommendations, I decided to try it. ![]() ![]() ![]() “The tournament is still four nights away,” the creature says. Her black eyes meet mine in the claw-footed mirror on my dressing table. The imp’s fingers are long, her nails sharp. I sit on a cushion as an imp braids my hair back from my face. But as civil war threatens to drown the Courts of Faerie in violence, Jude will need to risk her life in a dangerous alliance to save her sisters, and Faerie itself.įrom #1 New York Times bestselling author Holly Black comes the stunning The Folk of the Air trilogy filled with twists and enchantment, as one girl learns the meaning of true power when she finds herself caught in a web of royal faerie intrigue. In doing so, she becomes embroiled in palace intrigues and deceptions, discovering her own capacity for bloodshed. To win a place at the Court, she must defy him–and face the consequences. Especially Prince Cardan, the youngest and wickedest son of the High King. ![]() Ten years later, Jude wants nothing more than to belong there, despite her mortality. ![]() Jude was seven years old when her parents were murdered and she and her two sisters were stolen away to live in the treacherous High Court of Faerie. ![]() I hate him so much that sometimes when I look at him, I can hardly breathe. They will live forever.Īnd Cardan is even more beautiful than the rest. They’re beautiful as blades forged in some divine fire. ![]() ![]() ![]() Living a life of poverty and petty crime, his luck changes dramatically after foiling an attack on the royal Prince, Lord Edward. Backdropped by the failing crusades of western rulers, we follow the tale of Peter, an orphan who has grown up in the Christain-held city of Acre. Longsword: Edward and the Assassin is a rousing historical fiction piece set in the Holy Land during the 13th century. ![]() Longsword shows you the world of sword brothers' bravery and the power of friendship. Enemies will unite and new alliances will be forged in the struggle for power and peace. With the help of his new friends, Peter will ride to the edge of the realm to prove the strength of his bloodline. Peter encounters knights, mercenaries, infidels, and nobility and he learns about treachery, love, and loyalty in his journey toward the truth of his own origins as well as the truth of the murder attempt. When he saves the life of the crown prince of England on his first day as a guard in the royal household, Peter is drawn irreversibly into a deep plot to discover who ordered the assassination and why. The Crusaders and Mamluks have recently signed a peace treaty when Peter Longsword, an orphan raised in a monastery, is caught in the storm of an assassination attempt on the royal Crusader. City of Acre, Holy Land, Friday, 17th of June, in the year 1272 of the incarnation of Christ, on the eve of Edward's birthday. "The War must be for the sake of Peace" -Aristotle. ![]() ![]() Littered with memories of Claire s years as a girl detective in 1980s Brooklyn, Claire DeWitt and The City of the Dead is a knockout start to a bracingly original new series. Has an angry criminal enacted revenge on Vic? Or did he use the storm as a means to disappear? Claire follows the clues, finding old friends and making new enemies foremost among them Andray Fairview, a young gang member who just might hold the key to the mystery. Claire is investigating the disappearance of Vic Willing, a prosecutor known for winning convictions in a homicide plagued city. The tattooed, pot smoking Claire has just arrived in post Katrina New Orleans, the city she’s avoided since her mentor, Silette s student Constance Darling, was murdered there. But Claire also uses her dreams, omens, and mind expanding herbs to help her solve mysteries, and relies on D tection the only book published by the late, great, and mysterious French detective Jacques Silette. ![]() She has brilliant deductive skills and is an ace at discovering evidence. The book serves as something between a field manual and a spiritual text for Claire DeWitt, the PI created by author Sara Gran. Claire DeWitt is not your average private investigator. ![]() |