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  Shadows and Sorrows

  Michael D. Graves

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  Pete Stone and Cocky Wright met on a baseball field, a pair of boys with skinned knees, lots of moxie, and a friendship that lasted long after time stole their youth.     
  Now, Cocky is dead, his widow and daughter are in danger, and shady characters are after something he was hiding. All Cocky left behind was a key and lots of questions. Was he dealing secrets to the German American Bund? Was he a threat to the safety of the country? Was his death an accident or murder? 
  When his pal’s ghost whispers, “You got moxie, kid,” Pete Stone knows he must find the answers. He must uncover the truth and save the wife and daughter Cocky left behind.   
   The award-winning Pete Stone Private Investigator series is set in 1930s Wichita, Kansas. Books 1 and 3 are Kansas Notable titles. All Hallows’ Shadows was the 2020 J. Donald Coffin Memorial Book Award winner and a Midwest Book Award Finalist. 
   

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  Heaven & Earth Grocery Store...

  Alexander Pike

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  This content is an independent and unofficial summary created for informational and educational purposes only. It is not affiliated with, authorized, approved, licensed, or endorsed by the original author or publisher. All rights to the original work belong to its respective copyright holders. This summary is not intended to substitute the original book, but to offer a concise overview and interpretation of its main ideas.
   
  
  
   
  In a small, spirited neighborhood where Jewish, Black, and immigrant communities live side by side, one humble grocery store becomes the heart of resistance, compassion, and unshakable humanity.
   
  The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store invites listeners into the world of Chicken Hill, a vibrant enclave in 1920s Pennsylvania where the most marginalized find dignity, connection, and a sense of belonging. At the center stands Chona Ludlow—a fiercely compassionate woman who runs a modest store with fierce resolve and quiet strength. When a young Black boy named Dodo is targeted by authorities for institutionalization, the community must come together to protect him—risking everything in the process.
   
  Told with warmth, wit, and profound emotional insight, this audiobook is a powerful testament to what it means to do good in a world that often rewards silence. It’s a story of small acts with big impact, of hidden heroes, and of a neighborhood that becomes a movement.

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  Rasselas: Prince of Abyssinia

  Samuel Johnson

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  The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia is a philosophical tale by Samuel Johnson that explores the nature of happiness and the human condition.Rasselas, the prince of Abyssinia, lives in the idyllic and seemingly perfect "Happy Valley," where all desires are met, yet he feels a profound sense of dissatisfaction. This restlessness leads him to question the purpose of life and the nature of true happiness. 
  Despite the comforts surrounding him, Rasselas longs to understand life beyond the confines of his sheltered existence.Driven by his discontent, Rasselas escapes the valley with his sister Nekayah, her maid Pekuah, and their wise companion Imlac. Together, they embark on a journey to Cairo, seeking to uncover what brings genuine fulfillment. Throughout their travels, they encounter various individuals—pleasure-seekers, philosophers, and those burdened by life's hardships—each providing insights into the complexities of happiness.

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  Blues in Stereo - The Early...

  Langston Hughes

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  Publishers Weekly’s Top Ten Fall 2024 Poetry Books From Harlem Renaissance poet Langston Hughes, a stunning collection of early works written from 1921-1927 and curated by award winning poet and National Book Award finalist, Danez Smith. Before Langston Hughes and his literary prowess became synonymous with American poetry, he was a seventeen-year-old on a train to Mexico City, seeking funds to pursue his passion. His early poems, beloved verses like “The Negro Speaks of Rivers,” were written without formal training, often on the back of napkins and envelopes, and were inspired by the sights and sounds of Black working-class people he encountered in his early life.  Blues in Stereo is a posthumous collection of these early works, in which we see Langston Hughes like we’ve never seen him before. In the intimate pages of his handwritten journals,you will travel with Hughes outside of Harlem as he ventures to the American South and Mexico, sails through the Caribbean, and becomes the only Harlem renaissance poet to visit Africa. He celebrates love as a tool of liberation in his poems and journal entries. His songs included showcase musicality of verse poetry. And the book even includes a play he co-wrote with Duke Ellington with a full score that experiments with rhythm and structure. Blues in Stereo portrays a young man coming of age in a changing world. Page by page, a young, fresh-faced Hughes contends with matters beyond his years with raw talent. National Book Award nominated poet Danez Smith offers their insight and notes on themes, challenges, and obsessions that Hughes early work contains. Blues in Stereo foreshadows a master poet that will go on to define literature for centuries to come.  

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  Lunatics - Last Men on the Moon

  Brian d'Eon

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  Wernher von Braun, reluctant Nazi, personal friend of President Lyndon Johnson, and master builder of the Saturn V rocket, is on the verge of seeing his lifelong dream fulfilled as he joins to the crew of Apollo XX on mankind’s last visit to the Moon. All his life has been a struggle to get to this moment: surviving Allied bombing, uncomfortable accommodations with the SS, anti-German sentiment in post-war America, and the march of time itself—is he finally just too old to join the astronaut corps? On the moon, von Braun will reach the pinnacle of his professional life but there he also desperately hopes to exorcise demons from his past. 
  Landing men on the moon? Why bother? And, precariously, inside the bowels of Copernicus crater? Crazy? Impossible? And the men and women dedicated to this exploit? What to call them but Lunatics. 
  Two other voices play large roles in telling von Braun’s story: Mission Commander, Alan Bean, the only artist among the corps who hopes to capture the true essence of what it means to step on the moon. What it really looks like, feels like. Because if he doesn’t do it, who ever will? 
    
  The final voice belongs to fellow astronaut, Deke Slayton, a no-nonsense test pilot interested in neither science nor art. His mantra during the mission will be “don’t screw up”.

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  Ravage & Son

  Jerome Charyn

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  A master storyteller's novel of crime, corruption, and antisemitism in early twentieth-century Manhattan 
   
   
   
  Ravage & Son reflects the lost world of Manhattan's Lower East Side—the cradle of Jewish immigration during the first years of the twentieth century—in a dark mirror. 
   
   
   
  Abraham Cahan, editor of the Jewish Daily Forward, serves as the conscience of the Jewish ghetto teeming with rogue cops and swindlers. He rescues Ben Ravage, an orphan, from a trade school and sends him off to Harvard to earn a law degree. But upon his return, Ben rejects the chance to escape his gritty origins and instead becomes a detective for the Kehilla, a quixotic gang backed by wealthy uptown patrons to help the police rid the Lower East Side of criminals. Charged with rooting out the Jewish "Mr. Hyde," a half-mad villain who attacks the prostitutes of Allen Street, Ben discovers that his fate is irrevocably tied to that of this violent, sinister man. 
   
   
   
  A lurid tale of revenge, this wildly evocative, suspenseful noir is vintage Jerome Charyn.

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