In a world plagued by systematic oppression, Billy Evans finds out early how ruthless life could be for a fatherless, teenage boy growing up in America's ghetto. Exposed to his family's financial difficulties immediately after his father's death, Evan's turns to his neighbor, T-bone, for guidance and answers. Despite mama's forbiddance, Evan's learns from T-bone that life is a rat race in a dog eat dog world, and quickly becomes absorbed into the false riches of a drug dealer's life. Caught up in a whirlwind of violence, corruption, addiction, murder, and greed, Evans inevitably crosses paths with a corrupt cop named John Green who, sadly, has become a product of America's cut throat, greedy, capitalistic system.
Humanity has emerged, blinking, from the Age of Misrule into a world substantially changed: cities lie devasted, communications are limited, anarchy rages across the land. Society has been thrown into a new Dark Age where superstition holds sway. The Tuatha De Danaan roam the land once more, their terrible powers dwarfing anything mortals have to offer. And in their wake come all the creatures of myth and legend, no longer confined to the shadows. Fighting to find their place in this new world, the last remnants of the Christian Church call for a group of heroes: a new Knights Templar to guard the priesthood as they set out on their quest for souls. But as everything begin to fall apart, the Knights begin to realize their only hope is to call on the pagan gods of Celtic myth for help...
A book of the year for Waterstones, the Daily Telegraph, The Times, the FT, and the Irish Independent. The instant #1 New York Times bestseller. From the reporter who was there at the very beginning comes the revealing inside story of the partnership between Steve Bannon and Donald Trump — the key to understanding the rise of the alt-right, the fall of Hillary Clinton, and the hidden forces that drove the greatest upset in American political history. Based on dozens of interviews conducted over six years, Green spins the master narrative of the 2016 campaign from its origins in the far fringes of right-wing politics and reality television to its culmination inside Trump’s penthouse on election night. The shocking elevation of Bannon to head Trump’s flagging presidential campaign on August 17, 2016, hit political Washington like a thunderclap and seemed to signal the meltdown of the Republican Party. Bannon was a bomb-throwing pugilist who’d never run a campaign and was despised by Democrats and Republicans alike. Yet Bannon’s hard-edged ethno-nationalism and his elaborate, years-long plot to destroy Hillary Clinton paved the way for Trump’s unlikely victory. Trump became the avatar of a dark but powerful worldview that dominated the airwaves and spoke to voters whom others couldn’t see. Trump’s campaign was the final phase of a populist insurgency that had been building up in America for years, and Bannon, its inscrutable mastermind, believed it was the culmination of a hard-right global uprising that would change the world. Any study of Trump’s rise to the presidency is unavoidably a study of Bannon. Devil’s Bargain is a tour-de-force telling of the remarkable confluence of circumstances that decided the election, many of them orchestrated by Bannon and his allies, who really did plot a vast, right-wing conspiracy to stop Clinton. To understand Trump's extraordinary rise and Clinton’s fall, you have to weave Trump’s story together with Bannon’s, or else it doesn't make sense.
"GREEN DEVIL: The Book of Belial" is the second book in "The Evil on Earth Series" by David Saperstein, author of the best selling novel, "Cocoon." Evil fallen archangel, Belial the Green Devil, plans to obliterate God's creation, mankind, by destroying the Earth's environment. He has the ability to take on the form of animals and birds, but now exists in human form as mega entrepreneur Nicholas Perez. By catering to the greed of high-level government officials, he gains control over huge amounts of nuclear waste materials to introduce into the water supply of major cities. Only a small, dedicated, international and diverse group of men and women known as The Vigilant, are aware of the archangel's existence. They alone stand between Belial's evil plan and the salvation of the planet.
For thirty years, Rusher John has lived with a curse. Tricked into a deal with a devil, John is cursed with immortality and invulnerability. While seemingly a desirable thing, this power comes with a price, and that price is pain. Pain--Rusher John's world is filled with it--from old battle wounds to the loss of everyone he has ever loved, John's life is ruled by pain, and because of his curse, he is doomed to live out each day with it. But tonight, on the anniversary of John's so called 'deal,' the demonic being who caused the whole matter has returned, and this 'Green Devil' brings with him an offer to end John's pain. But like all things of this sort, it comes with a price....
The inspiring true story of an enslaved woman who liberated an infamous slave jail and transformed it into one of the nation’s first HBCUs In The Devil’s Half Acre, New York Times bestselling author Kristen Green draws on years of research to tell the extraordinary and little-known story of young Mary Lumpkin, an enslaved woman who blazed a path of liberation for thousands. She was forced to have the children of a brutal slave trader and live on the premises of his slave jail, known as the “Devil’s Half Acre.” When she inherited the jail after the death of her slaveholder, she transformed it into “God’s Half Acre,” a school where Black men could fulfill their dreams. It still exists today as Virginia Union University, one of America’s first Historically Black Colleges and Universities. A sweeping narrative of a life in the margins of the American slave trade, The Devil’s Half Acre brings Mary Lumpkin into the light. This is the story of the resilience of a woman on the path to freedom, her historic contributions, and her enduring legacy.
