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Season 2 has a soap opera flair
Michael Rainey Jr. as Tariq St. Patrick in Power Book II: GhostPhoto: StarzSeven years ago, viewers discovered Tariq St. Patrick (Michael Rainey Jr.), the 12-year-old son of drug lord James "Ghost" St. Patrick and his wife Tasha St.!-->!-->…
Meghan apologizes to court for forgetting about book talks
LONDON - The Duchess of Sussex has apologized for misleading a UK court over the extent of her cooperation with the authors of a sympathetic book on her and Prince Harry.
Former Meghan Markle, 40, is embroiled in a legal…
BOOK REVIEW: THE UNHEARD | The military press
By Elise Cooper | November 9, 2021
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The unheard of
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William Morrow Pub
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Book Review: Signs and Wonders, Delia Falconer
In Signs and wonders: Dispatches from a time of beauty and loss, Delia Falconer looks for ways to describe how modern and developed societies are increasingly captivated by nature as we wipe it out. One of the nicest offerings is…
Damon Galgut wins Booker Prize for “The Promise”
When South African writer Damon Galgut learned that his novel "The Promise" was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, he was filled with anxiety. Galgut had already been shortlisted twice, in 2003 and 2010, and both times the stress of the…
Justice Department sues Penguin Random House over Simon & Schuster case
The Biden administration sued Tuesday to prevent Penguin Random House, the largest publisher in the United States, from acquiring rival Simon & Schuster, as part of a new campaign in Washington against corporate consolidation.In an…
Book Review: Coffee and Cookies with God, Volume 2
Coffee and cookies with God, volume 2Written by members of Word Weavers North AlabamaKeryso Press, 2021
Six seasoned writers - Becky Alexander, June Foster, Bonita Y. McCoy, Suzanne D. Nichols, Ginger Solomon, and Lisa Worthey Smith -…
RIC bike patrol ambush came weeks before the truce
THE poet Patrick Kavanagh saw how the essence of the Iliad was “a local row”. We now all seem to accept politics as local, but a book based on a single ambush in central Kerry in June 1921 reminds us that with war, the local is especially…
The first “Surrogate” is a mystery, a family story and quite a trick – Twin Cities
I could feel him looking at me. I didn't know where to start. While I was holding her, he had decided my turn had come, and he had taken the baby from my arms and had given it to Cally. He had touched Cally's shoulder. And I didn't like…
Henrietta Szold: The Life of a Hero – Book Review
World War II was raging in Europe and the Red Army was advancing towards Berlin, but the headlines of all Hebrew newspapers in pre-state Israel on February 14, 1945, and for several days thereafter, concerned the death of…