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Men assume they understand the desert like they assume they understand violence. Wrong on both counts. Wyatt and Lucy Smith—twins, inseparable—run a ranch that's bleeding money. They can't afford to keep going, can't afford to stop.
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She walked into that building Black and walked out white. Their eyes transformed her. Two light-skinned Black twin girls—Desiree the bold one, Stella the careful one—growing up in a Louisiana backwater town.
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Suddenly escaping death became the main project of his existence, a life now reducible to the chronicle of his physical collapse. The man in question has reached his final act. Had a solid advertising career.
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Beyond good and evil there is a field. I'll meet you there. (Rumi, Persian poet) At the heart of this novel sit two young girls. Smadar and Abir. Fourteen and ten. One Israeli, one Palestinian.
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He stopped at the thought that life was just a dance with death, that he'd blown through spring too fast and then summer and was already halfway through autumn. He really needed to handle things better because everyone knows.
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Any white person had the right to grab all of you for any reason. Not just to work you, kill you, or mutilate you, but to dirty you. Dirty you so thoroughly you'd never get clean again.
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Hyper-capitalism is war, with multiple fronts, battles and casualties, a quiet march toward oblivion. Let's imagine. Imagine that in 2025 the international community actually grasped the danger humanity faced.
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Becoming a woman means facing the knife. Learning to endure the blade's edge and the wounds. Learning to bleed. And despite the scars, staying beautiful and having knees strong enough to mop floors.
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I was born into slavery a while back and it wasn't for me to accomplish my dreams of what a woman should be and do. That's one of slavery's obstacles. But you ain't got nothing stopping you from wanting.
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Adventure, more than an interruption of events or a journey to some unknown thrilling elsewhere, is mostly a disposition to exist within time. A mother and her son. She's struggling to recover from a sudden breakup.
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