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The Pretty Kings are back! After offing Mitch, the Plug, the Kennedy family must deal with the consequence and it has a name…the billionaire Abd Al-Qadir. Using bombs, gunfire and murder at his disposal, Al-Qadir is threatening to bring down the Kennedy Kings if Mitch doesn’t surface in ten days. After losing Noah and Camp while battling the Russians, the Kennedy’s can’t bear another casualty and so they retreat into hiding for protection and come up with a plan. And that’s where the trouble begins... Inside a self-imposed prison, within the compound, Race discovers the steamy affair between Ramirez and Scarlett, which sends her on a mission of revenge. Secrets come to surface and blood flows as they breakdown from the inside. Before long it becomes evident that the real danger is amongst themselves as they face the question…can their family survive?

After offing Mitch, the Plug, the Kennedy family must deal with the consequence and it has a name...the billionaire Abd Al-Qadir. Using bombs, gunfire and murder at his disposal, Al-Qadir is threatening to bring down the Kennedy Kings if Mitch doesn't surface in ten days. After losing Noah and Camp while battling the Russians, the Kennedy's can't bear another casualty and so they retreat into hiding for protection and come up with a plan. And that's where the trouble begins... Inside a self-imposed prison, within the compound, Race discovers the steamy affair between Ramirez and Scarlett, which sends her on a mission of revenge. Secrets come to surface and blood flows as they breakdown from the inside. Before long it becomes evident that the real danger is amongst themselves as they face the question...can their family survive?

The Pretty Kings are back! After offing Mitch, the Plug, the Kennedy family must deal with the consequence and it has a name...the billionaire Abd Al-Qadir. Using bombs, gunfire and murder at his disposal, Al-Qadir is threatening to bring down the Kennedy Kings if Mitch doesn't surface in ten days. After losing Noah and Camp while battling the Russians, the Kennedy's can't bear another casualty and so they retreat into hiding for protection and come up with a plan. And that's where the trouble begins... Inside a self-imposed prison, within the compound, Race discovers the steamy affair between Ramirez and Scarlett, which sends her on a mission of revenge. Secrets come to surface and blood flows as they breakdown from the inside. Before long it becomes evident that the real danger is amongst themselves as they face the question...can their family survive?

This is how the reign of the notorious drug lords, The Pretty Kings, begins. Bambi and her sisters-in-law are married to cousins of the Kennedy family, rich and in love. As promised, the Kennedy Kings decide to get out of the drug game, but first they must return home for a one hundred million dollar meeting with The Russians. But, while in a casino, something devastating happens to the husbands, which their wives witness via video calling, that changes the women's lives forever.

"También de este lado hay sueños. On this side, too, there are dreams. Lydia Quixano Perez lives in the Mexican city of Acapulco. She runs a bookstore. She has a son, Luca, the love of her life, and a wonderful husband who is a journalist. And while there are cracks beginning to show in Acapulco because of the drug cartels, her life is, by and large, fairly comfortable. Even though she knows they'll never sell, Lydia stocks some of her all-time favorite books in her store. And then one day a man enters the shop to browse and comes up to the register with four books he would like to buy--two of them her favorites. Javier is erudite. He is charming. And, unbeknownst to Lydia, he is the jefe of the newest drug cartel that has gruesomely taken over the city. When Lydia's husband's tell-all profile of Javier is published, none of their lives will ever be the same. Forced to flee, Lydia and eight-year-old Luca soon find themselves miles and worlds away from their comfortable middle-class existence. Instantly transformed into migrants, Lydia and Luca ride la bestia--trains that make their way north toward the United States, which is the only place Javier's reach doesn't extend. As they join the countless people trying to reach el norte, Lydia soon sees that everyone is running from something. But what exactly are they running to? American Dirt will leave readers utterly changed when they finish reading it. A page-turner filled with poignancy, drama, and humanity on every page, it is a literary achievement."--

Named one of Vulture’s Top 10 Best Books of 2020! Leftist firebrand Fredrik deBoer exposes the lie at the heart of our educational system and demands top-to-bottom reform. Everyone agrees that education is the key to creating a more just and equal world, and that our schools are broken and failing. Proposed reforms variously target incompetent teachers, corrupt union practices, or outdated curricula, but no one acknowledges a scientifically-proven fact that we all understand intuitively: Academic potential varies between individuals, and cannot be dramatically improved. In The Cult of Smart, educator and outspoken leftist Fredrik deBoer exposes this omission as the central flaw of our entire society, which has created and perpetuated an unjust class structure based on intellectual ability. Since cognitive talent varies from person to person, our education system can never create equal opportunity for all. Instead, it teaches our children that hierarchy and competition are natural, and that human value should be based on intelligence. These ideas are counter to everything that the left believes, but until they acknowledge the existence of individual cognitive differences, progressives remain complicit in keeping the status quo in place. This passionate, voice-driven manifesto demands that we embrace a new goal for education: equality of outcomes. We must create a world that has a place for everyone, not just the academically talented. But we’ll never achieve this dream until the Cult of Smart is destroyed.

Drawing on startling new evidence from the mapping of the genome, an explosive new account of the genetic basis of race and its role in the human story Fewer ideas have been more toxic or harmful than the idea of the biological reality of race, and with it the idea that humans of different races are biologically different from one another. For this understandable reason, the idea has been banished from polite academic conversation. Arguing that race is more than just a social construct can get a scholar run out of town, or at least off campus, on a rail. Human evolution, the consensus view insists, ended in prehistory. Inconveniently, as Nicholas Wade argues in A Troublesome Inheritance, the consensus view cannot be right. And in fact, we know that populations have changed in the past few thousand years—to be lactose tolerant, for example, and to survive at high altitudes. Race is not a bright-line distinction; by definition it means that the more human populations are kept apart, the more they evolve their own distinct traits under the selective pressure known as Darwinian evolution. For many thousands of years, most human populations stayed where they were and grew distinct, not just in outward appearance but in deeper senses as well. Wade, the longtime journalist covering genetic advances for The New York Times, draws widely on the work of scientists who have made crucial breakthroughs in establishing the reality of recent human evolution. The most provocative claims in this book involve the genetic basis of human social habits. What we might call middle-class social traits—thrift, docility, nonviolence—have been slowly but surely inculcated genetically within agrarian societies, Wade argues. These “values” obviously had a strong cultural component, but Wade points to evidence that agrarian societies evolved away from hunter-gatherer societies in some crucial respects. Also controversial are his findings regarding the genetic basis of traits we associate with intelligence, such as literacy and numeracy, in certain ethnic populations, including the Chinese and Ashkenazi Jews. Wade believes deeply in the fundamental equality of all human peoples. He also believes that science is best served by pursuing the truth without fear, and if his mission to arrive at a coherent summa of what the new genetic science does and does not tell us about race and human history leads straight into a minefield, then so be it. This will not be the last word on the subject, but it will begin a powerful and overdue conversation.

Newberry Honour Award Winner & National Book Award Winner. Matt is six years old when he discovers that he is different from other children and other people. To most, Matt isn't considered a boy at all, but a beast, dirty and disgusting. But to El Patron, lord of a country called Opium, Matt is the guarantee of eternal life. El Patron loves Matt as he loves himself - for Matt is himself. They share the exact same DNA. As Matt struggles to understand his existence and what that existence truly means, he is threatened by a host of sinister and manipulating characters, from El Patron's power-hungry family to the brain-deadened eejits and mindless slaves that toil Opium's poppy fields. Surrounded by a dangerous army of bodyguards, escape is the only chance Matt has to survive. But even escape is no guarantee of freedom . . . because Matt is marked by his difference in ways that he doesn't even suspect. Praise for The House of Scorpions: 'It's a pleasure to read science fiction that's full of warm, strong characters... that doesn't rely on violence as the solution to complex problems of right and wrong. It's a pleasure to read.' Ursula K. LeGuin 'Fabulous' Diana Wynne Jones Also by Nancy Farmer: The Sea of Trolls Land of the Silver Apples The Islands of the Blessed The Lord of Opium