Bøger af Cynthia Hamilton

The title of this book, Will of Fire, came from my young physical therapist. We were talking about the events in Ferguson and the Black Lives Matter movement. I assured him that there was much that preceded this most recent movement. Many Blacks spoke out without any assurance of protection, particularly when they addressed unpopular subjects like homosexuality, interracial relations, prostitution, promiscuity, and color prejudice.These were the topics that a small group of young writers chose to address. "Fire!!" was the title of the literary magazine that this group established. The founding editors are among my favorites: Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Wallace Thurman, Aaron Douglas (whose painting we have used as our cover); John Davis, Richard Bruce Nugent, Gwendolyn Bennet, Lewis Grandson Alexander, and Countee Cullen.

Two dead husbands. Accident, suicide or murder?Life in beautiful Santa Barbara County will never be the same for two grieving widows. One is serving a lengthy sentence for the bizarre tractor death of her much older, land-rich husband. The other is convinced her husband's death was no suicide. During Madeline's four-month convalescence, Steven Ridley-her jailbird ex-manages to get parole on the pretext of retraining inmates for their reentry into society. He has the audacity to enlist Mike's help to find out if inmate Lindsay Bartholomew had been set up to take the fall for her husband's death. Santa Barbara D.A. Conrad Adams makes a personal appeal to MDPI on behalf of Natalie Sheckle, hoping Madeline and Mike can prove whether her husband took his own life, or if someone stitched him up for his own murder.Never ones to shy away from long shots or lost causes, the duo dives into both cases. But now they must figure out what secrets these two men took to their graves. The Trouble with Paradise is the fourth book in the Madeline Dawkins Series ★★★★★ "I was drawn to it by the title, promising a gorgeous setting and captivating mystery."★★★★★ "The book delivered on both fronts!"★★★★★ "A heart pounding thriller!"★★★★★ "The book pulls you in from the very beginning and I didn't want to put it down until I had finished the last page."

Do some people fall in love more often than others? Opposites attract, but can they ever hold? Are some people incapable of learning from their mistakes? These questions haunt journalist Allison Tyler-Wilcox after meeting Jake Sorenson at his sister's wedding. Despite his seven divorces, Jake considers himself uncommonly lucky at love. Baffled by his sanguine attitude-and his offhand suggestion that she could be the next Mrs. Sorenson-Allison talks her editor into letting her explore the compulsion some people have when it comes to saying "I do".As soon as she arrives at Jake's 1,500-acre ranch in rural Oregon, Allison realizes she has misjudged him, underestimating his appeal to the opposite sex and his worldliness in general. Despite his multiple divorces-and his current dubious relationships-Jake maintains his marriages weren't failures even though they ended. During muleback rides and impromptu tango dances, Jake shares with level-headed Allison his unique philosophy on life and love, leaving her confused for the first time about her own marriage, her ideals, and her feelings for the roguish mule breeder.

This is the first book-length study of Sara Paretsky's detective fiction. Paretsky is known for her influential V.I. Warshawski series, which transformed the masculine hard-boiled detective formula into a vehicle for feminist values. -- .