![]() ![]() The baby bump deprived Iris of her own introduction into society: now she must look on as her daughter descends the stairs wearing the white dress she was not permitted to wear and is serenaded by an orchestra playing an instrumental version of Prince’s “Darling Nikki”. Melody is also the product of a teenage pregnancy that has left her estranged from her mother, Iris, who chose the distance of college in Ohio over nappies, baby bottles and the domesticity of her parents’ Brooklyn brownstone. ![]() Melody is smart, pretty, private school privileged and much adored by her father, Aubrey, and proud grandparents, Sabe and Po’Boy. I n US author Jacqueline Woodson’s haunting novel, a 16-year-old girl’s coming-of-age party prompts an avalanche of memories for her middle-class African American family. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() There’s three books and a short story collection I could do this all day. …every single character description in the Machineries of Empire series sounds like that “diversity win!” memeĭiversity win! the mass murderer kept alive for centuries as a living weapon who just bombed your planet is a bi person of color with dyscalculia.ĭiversity win! the general who ordered you into a near-suicide mission then left you to die when you didn’t follow orders instantly and to the letter is a lesbian Woman In STEM from a marginalized ethnic group.ĭiversity win! the immortal scientist brainwashing you so he can use your body as raw material for experimentation is a gay person of color.ĭiversity win! the military plant running your ostensibly-democratic puppet government is a trans man of color in a t4t relationship. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() With only one another to depend on, they searched for answers and found the truth about their terrifying fate. They faced an empty, unknown place of twisting tunnels and human bones. She and the other young people she was chosen to lead awoke in strange coffins with no memory of their names or their pasts. Savage-or Em, as she is called-has made a bewildering and ominous discovery. “If it’s war they want, they messed with the wrong girl.” ![]() Once again Em's group is caught in a race against time, but will they survive this time as the challenges become more life-threatening both on the outside as well as in the inside? But this planet turns out to be challenging and deathly as a new nemesis threatens the whole group in this new land. Scott Sigler, the New York Times best-selling author, pens the next book from his The Generations Trilogy called, Alight that unfolds the story of Em and other survivors who woke up from a closed coffin in a strange and horrifying place, later finding out that they were going to land on a strange planet called, Omeyocan. ![]() ![]() ![]() He also represents Jeff Tietz (National Magazine Award nominee), Tara Bray Smith, Pulitzer Prize winner Tamara Jones, historian James Swanson, journalist Mitchell Zuckoff, Editor-in-Chief of The Boston Globe Brian McGrory, National Book Award nominee David McCumber, and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Andrew Snyder. ![]() He also represents YA authors Daniel Kraus, Lisi Harrison, and Melissa De La Cruz. Richard represents many literary writers such as Sally Ball, Kate Christensen (PEN/Faulkner winner), Sana Krasikov (Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature winner), and Oscar Casares, and screenwriter-authors as well such as Attica Locke, Amy Sohn, and Chuck Hogan (screenwriter and author of The Town and Hammett Award winner). ![]() and Josh Hamilton he has also worked with top sports personalities such as Al Michaels, Colin Cowherd, and The Talented Mr. He has worked with sports celebrities Dale Earnhardt, Jr. He has also worked closely with Bob Harper to create his NY Times #1 bestselling diet and health series, The Skinny Rules. He has worked with the award winning scientist, physician, and NYT bestselling author Sharon Moalem on titles including Survival of the Sickest and DNA Restart. Novak, Guillermo del Toro, Tim Kring, Howard Gordon, and others. He has worked with top creative talent such as Tina Fey, Mindy Kaling, Issa Rae, B.J. In 2009 he joined 3 Arts Entertainment, a premier management company based in Los Angeles, to begin their literary division in New York. Bio: Richard Abate has been a literary manager for over fifteen years. ![]() ![]() Henceforth, they decided to beat the Deep State at their own election game, without letting them know they too were in the same game.Although the Q-group didn't reach unanimity they selected Donald Trump by 6 to 4. The patriots were all personally acquainted with members of the Deep State and obtained first-hand knowledge on their plans.The most crucial part of the overall plan was to put a trustworthy president into office and subsequently, the right people into positions in the government, which would ultimately result in 'We, the People' being able to take America back from the Globalists.Supported by their powerful, secret alliance, they reached out to trusted associates, motivated by the same reason as to why the Deep State had always handpicked their Presidents the assurance of a smooth implementation of their plans. They were worried about losing America to the Deep State (Globalists). ![]() ![]() ![]() THE GREAT AWAKENING (PART 2) In 2012, after the second term election of Barack Obama, three patriots formed a secret group of ten very rich and powerful billionaires loyal to the flag and constitution of America. ![]() ![]() ![]() She has inherited the strength and the courage of her foremothers-and she will have to summon everything they have given her to banish La Llorona forever. And she will not leave until Alejandra follows her mother, her grandmother, and all the women who came before her into the darkness.īut Alejandra has inherited more than just pain. She is La Llorona, the vengeful and murderous mother of Mexican legend. As she goes deeper into the lives of the women in her family, she learns that heartbreak and tragedy are not the only things she has in common with her ancestors.īecause the crying woman was with them, too. story about generational trauma, colonization, systemic oppression, and the horror at the heart of motherhood (Library Journal, starred review). When Alejandra visits a therapist, she begins exploring her family’s history, starting with the biological mother she never knew. Castro A woman is haunted by the Mexican folk demon La Llorona in this utterly terrifying and wholly immersive. Nor can they see what Alejandra sees. In times of despair, a ghostly vision appears to her, the apparition of a crying woman in a ragged white gown. But they cannot see who Alejandra has become: a woman struggling with a darkness that threatens to consume her. To her own adoptive mother, she is a daughter. To her husband, she is a wife, and to her children, a mother. ![]() ”- Paste (Most Anticipated Horror Novels of 2023)Īlejandra no longer knows who she is. “Castro is one of the most exciting genre authors on the scene right now, and this might be her most powerful book yet. ![]() story about generational trauma, colonization, systemic oppression, and the horror at the heart of motherhood” ( Library Journal, starred review). A woman is haunted by the Mexican folk demon La Llorona in this “utterly terrifying and wholly immersive. ![]() ![]() HERNANDEZ, AMELIA SUTHERLAND, WHITNEY BUCKNER, FIONA BATTERSBY, ELIZABETH MURPHREE, NELSON, LARENE SIMMONS, DAVID COUTER, MAGGIE ROBINSON, AUDREY SMITH, CHRISTINA LUKE HEFNER, JERRY ROGERS, BRADLEY KAREL, ZACHARY KRASNOW, DILLAN ERB, CAMERON LUCENTE, Scenic Design & Pre-Curtain Narration: KENNETH ELLIS Production Stage Manager: TRAVIS BLACKWELL He is again betrayed- this time by a prostitute-and sentenced to death.ĭirector & Choreographer: MARK ALLAN DAVIS ![]() After being freed by the police chief's daughter, Secretly marries the daughter of Soho's underworld boss, but is soon betrayed by his ![]() London, the bitter tale is told of the predatory outlaw known as Mack the Knife. Savage, biting commentary on bourgeois capitalism and modern morality. With Lyrics by Bertolt Brecht and Music by Kurt Weillīrecht and Weill turned to John Gay's 18th-century The Beggar's Opera to fashion this ![]() |