Clarke Peters
Author
Description
The latest in Spike Lee's Chronicles of Brooklyn series (which also include SHE'S GOTTA HAVE IT, DO THE RIGHT THING, CROOKLYN, CLOCKERS, and HE GOT GAME), RED HOOK SUMMER tells the story of Flik Royale, a sullen young boy from middle-class Atlanta who has come to spend the summer with his deeply religious grandfather, Bishop Enoch Rouse, in the housing projects of Red Hook. Having never met before, things quickly get off on the wrong foot as Bishop...
Author
Formats
Description
In this novel the author takes us to Telegraph Avenue. It is a story that explores the profoundly intertwined lives of two Oakland, California families, one black and one white. Here he creates a world grounded in pop culture: Kung Fu, 1970s Blaxploitation films, vinyl LPs, jazz and soul music, and an epic of friendship, race, and secret histories. Longtime band mates Archy and Nat preside over Brokeland Records, a used-record emporium. All is well...
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
Agatha Christie's charming crime-solvers Tommy and Tuppence Beresford are an ordinary married couple living in 1950s Britain at the start of the Cold War. Sometimes bickering but always sweet on each other, they find themselves knee-deep in danger when they stumble into spy craft and end up being rather good at it.--Container.
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
After months have passed without a culprit in her daughter's murder case, Mildred Hayes makes a bold move, painting three signs leading into her town with a controversial message directed at William Willoughby, the town's revered chief of police. When his second-in-command Officer Dixon, an immature mother's boy with a penchant for violence, gets involved, the battle between Mildred and Ebbing's law enforcement is only exacerbated.
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
New Orleans, 38 months after. The city's musicians, chefs, Mardi Gras Indians, and others continue to rebuild their lives in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. But the promise of recovery, heightened by the historic election of a new president, is tempered by sobering economics, continued police corruption, and the ongoing specter of violence and crime. In these five final episodes of Treme, New Orleans' protagonists strive to build their own legacy...
Author
Formats
Description
America's most influential writing teacher offers an engaging and practical guide to effective short-form writing.
In HOW TO WRITE SHORT, Roy Peter Clark turns his attention to the art of painting a thousand pictures with just a few words. Short forms of writing have always existed-from ship logs and telegrams to prayers and haikus. But in this ever-changing Internet age, short-form writing has become an essential skill. Clark covers how to write...
Author
Description
Alexander Nemerov is the Carl and Marilynn Thoma Provostial Professor in the Arts and Humanities at Stanford University. His many books include Fierce Poise: Helen Frankenthaler and 1950s New York and Soulmaker: The Times of Lewis Hine (Princeton).
This audiobook narrated by Clarke Peters shares a vivid historical imagining of the lives of individuals-from painters, poets, and politicians to enslaved people, artisans, and travelers-in the early...
Pub. Date
[2013]
Description
Rampant crime and government ineptitude continue to cripple the city's recovery, with outside profiteers looking to cash in on short-term gains. The series' focus is still on ordinary people, but they no longer accept their lack of influence on the institutions that have controlled the city
Author
Series
La Fortuna volume 4
Description
Alex and Lucía use all of their wit and resources to surmount Frank Wild's mischievous schemes.
Author
Series
La Fortuna volume 6
Description
Alex is on the verge of recovering the treasure, Wild obstructs the delivery of the coins.
Author
Series
La Fortuna volume 2
Description
Alex begins a race against time in an effort to identify the sunken ship.
Author
Series
La Fortuna volume 3
Description
Alex focuses on the only thing to prove the stolen treasure was the one hidden in La Fortuna.
Author
Series
La Fortuna volume 5
Description
Alex travels to Washington to coordinate the return operation of the treasure.
Author
Series
La Fortuna volume 1
Description
Captain Frank Wild finds a treasure inside an old sunken frigate, at the bottom of the sea.