In this series, a state security officer named Holger investigates an unusual case, which initially involves the kidnapping of a teenager named Mexx. When the missing person mysteriously reappears, he seems like a changed man. No one can say where he has been all this time, nor what has happened to him during this time. Now Holger and his team are set to explain the disappearance and the strange behavior of the boy. Holger already has a premonition, but it turns out to be not only correct, but much worse than he could have ever imagined. As Holger in the course of his investigations, even the victim of an abduction, he receives extensive knowledge about humanity, their ancestors and the Grey Aliens.
Changing how we look at and think about the color grey Why did many of the twentieth century’s best-known abstract painters often choose grey, frequently considered a noncolor and devoid of meaning? Frances Guerin argues that painters (including Jasper Johns, Cy Twombly, Agnes Martin, Brice Marden, Mark Rothko, and Gerhard Richter) select grey to respond to a key question of modernist art: What is painting? By analyzing an array of modernist paintings, Guerin demonstrates that grey has a unique history and a legitimate identity as a color. She traces its use by painters as far back as medieval and Renaissance art, through Romanticism, to nineteenth- and twentieth-century modernism to show how grey is the perfect color to address the questions asked by painting within art history and to articulate the relationship between painting and the historical world of industrial modernity. A work of exceptional erudition, breadth, and clarity, presenting an impressive range of canonical paintings across centuries as examples, The Truth Is Always Grey is a treatise on color that allows us to see something entirely new in familiar paintings and encourages our appreciation for the innovation and dynamism of the color grey.
Three women scorned, one wealthy, vengeful bigamist--and killer bad news no one saw coming. In Shelly Ellis’ shocking follow-up to The Three Mrs. Greys, a trio of betrayed wives finds that no one can be trusted— definitely not their wealthy, vengeful bigamist husband, and maybe not even themselves… Diamond. Noelle. Vanessa. As Cyrus Grey recovers from a near-fatal shooting, the women who each thought they were his only wife are fighting hard to make new dreams—even if it means going one dangerous step too far… On trial for Cyrus’s shooting, Diamond is determined to clear her name—and get back the husband she still loves. But uncovering the truth will reveal more secrets than she ever imagined. And unexpected desire is bringing them all too close to home… Beautiful Noelle has found happiness with new love Tariq. But Cyrus’ scheming confronts her with an unthinkable conspiracy—and an impossible choice to save all she hopes for… As seemingly sweet suburban wife Vanessa helps Cyrus recover, she's about to finish him off for good—and keep the expensive lifestyle she earned. But her manipulations will push her up against two relentless—and all-too-intimate—enemies… Now with lethal agendas clashing, passions high, and everyone's future on the line, which rules will each woman break to finally end the past—and who will survive to secure everything?
Think a newspaper can’t be responsible for mass murder? Think again. As flagship of the American news media, the New York Times is the world’s most powerful news outlet. With thousands of reporters covering events from all corners of the globe, the Times has the power to influence wars, foment revolution, shape economies and change the very nature of our culture. It doesn’t just cover the news: it creates it. The Gray Lady Winked pulls back the curtain on this illustrious institution to reveal a quintessentially human organization where ideology, ego, power and politics compete with the more humble need to present the facts. In its 10 gripping chapters, The Gray Lady Winked offers readers an eye-opening, often shocking, look at the New York Times’s greatest journalistic failures, so devastating they changed the course of history. How its World War II Berlin bureau chief, a known Nazi collaborator, skewed coverage in favor of the Third Reich for over a decade. Its notorious coverup of the Ukraine Famine, a genocide committed by Stalin, showing that it was the newspaper's owners who directed the coverup in order to advance their own financial and ideological interests. The “1619 Project," a cynical, ideologically driven attempt to revise American history by rooting the nation's birth in slavery instead of liberty. The result is an essential look at the tangled relationship between media, power and politics in a post-truth world told with novelistic flair to reveal a uniquely powerful institution’s tortured relationship with the truth. Most importantly of all, The Gray Lady Winked presents a cautionary tale that shows what happens when the guardians of the truth abandon that sacred value in favor of self-interest and ideology—and what this means for our future as much as for our past.
One wealthy businessman, a trio of unsuspecting wives, and an explosive turn of events. In this scandalous, twist-filled new series from Shelly Ellis, will too many secrets and one devastating bond unite three women—or destroy them? Noelle. Diamond. Vanessa. Each woman believes she is Cyrus Grey’s only wife—until he’s nearly shot to death. Now, as he lies in a coma, the deceptions keep coming, unraveling everything they thought they knew . . . Gorgeous model Noelle’s marriage to Cyrus anchored her—though she couldn’t understand why he wouldn’t have a baby with her. They certainly had the money. But she’s learning fast just how Cyrus became so rich—thanks to his fatally attractive business partner . . . For Diamond, marrying Cyrus saved her from the streets—and being a pimp’s punching bag. But her past makes her the police’s prime suspect in Cyrus’s shooting. She’s determined to get to the truth—if she can survive long enough to tell it . . . Even with her beautiful house, three kids, and elegant lifestyle, Vanessa sensed something was wrong in her marriage. But she never expected this—or that taking a lover for comfort would change the game completely. With danger closing in, Cyrus’s life hanging in the balance, and collateral damage threatening to take them all down, how far will each woman go to be the real Mrs. Grey?
A story about the trials and triumphs of a Black chef from Queens, New York, and a White media entrepreneur from Staten Island who built a relationship and a restaurant in the Deep South, hoping to bridge biases and get people talking about race, gender, class, and culture. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST COOKBOOKS OF THE YEAR BY GARDEN & GUN • “Black, White, and The Grey blew me away.”—David Chang In this dual memoir, Mashama Bailey and John O. Morisano take turns telling how they went from tentative business partners to dear friends while turning a dilapidated formerly segregated Greyhound bus station into The Grey, now one of the most celebrated restaurants in the country. Recounting the trying process of building their restaurant business, they examine their most painful and joyous times, revealing how they came to understand their differences, recognize their biases, and continuously challenge themselves and each other to be better. Through it all, Bailey and Morisano display the uncommon vulnerability, humor, and humanity that anchor their relationship, showing how two citizens commit to playing their own small part in advancing equality against a backdrop of racism.
This modern classic is organized as follows: Introduction Hints for Teachers Games to Be Played With the Children Course I Lesson I. Sin: What It Is Lesson III. Sin: Of Believers and Unbelievers Lesson IV. Sin: What God Does With Our Sins Lesson IX. The Believer’s Two Natures Lesson XII. The Believer’s Two Natures Lesson XIII. Faith and Works Lesson XIV. Faith and Works Lesson XV. Faith and Works Lesson XVI. Faith and Works Lesson XVII. Eternal Life Lesson XVIII. Eternal Life Lesson XIX. Eternal Life Lesson XX. Eternal Life Test Questions—Course One Course Two Lesson I. Christ Our Deliverer Lesson II. Christ Our Deliverer Lesson III. Christ Our Deliverer Lesson IV. Christ Our Deliverer Section Study on John 14:1-15 Lesson V. The Shepherd Work of Christ Lesson VI. The Shepherd Work of Christ Lesson VII. The Shepherd Work of Christ Lesson VIII. The Shepherd Work of Christ Section Study of John 10:12-18 Lesson IX. Acceptable Prayer Lesson X. Acceptable Prayer Lesson XI. Acceptable Prayer Lesson XII. Acceptable Prayer Lesson XIII. Practical Christianity Lesson XIV. Practical Christianity Lesson XV. Practical Christianity Lesson XVI. Practical Christianity Lesson XVII. Second Coming of Christ Lesson XVIII. Second Coming of Christ Lesson XIX. Second Coming of Christ Lesson XX. Second Coming of Christ Test Questions—Course Two Course Three Lesson I. The Bible God’s Revelation Lesson II. The Bible Inspiration Lesson III. The Bible Lesson IV. The Bible Lesson V. Freedom Lesson VI. Freedom Lesson VII. Freedom Lesson VIII. Freedom Lesson IX. Salvation and Rewards Lesson X. Salvation and Rewards Lesson XI. Salvation and Rewards Lesson XII. Salvation and Rewards Lesson XIII. Things to Come Lesson XIV. Things to Come Lesson XV. Things to Come Lesson XVI. Things to Come Lesson XVII. Satan Lesson XVIII. Satan Lesson XIX. Satan Lesson XX. Satan Text Questions—Course Three Course Four Lesson I. Believers and Unbelievers Lesson II. Believers and Unbelievers the Contrast in Relation to Family Lesson III. Believers and Unbelievers Lesson IV. Believers and Unbelievers Lesson VI. Full Assurance Lesson VII. Full Assurance Lesson VIII. Full Assurance Lesson IX. Standing and State or Position and Condition Lesson X. Standing and State Lesson XI. Standing and State Lesson XII. Standing and State Lesson XIII. Man Lesson XIV. Man Lesson XV. Man Lesson XVI. Man Lesson XVII. God Tests Man Lesson XVIII. God Tests Man Lesson XIX. God Tests Juan Lesson XX. God Tests Man Test Questions—Course Four
From the Pulitzer Prize–winning coauthor of American Prometheus—this biography of the Bundy Brothers inspired the Academy Award–winning film Oppenheimer. In this definitive biography of McGeorge Bundy and William Bundy, two of "the best and the brightest" who advised presidents about peace and war during the most dangerous years of the Cold War, Kai Bird pens a portrait of the fiercely patriotic, brilliant, and brazenly self-confident men who directed a steady escalation of a war they did not believe could be won. Drawing on seven years of research, nearly one hundred interviews, and scores of still-classified top secret documents in a masterful reevaluation of America's actions throughout the Cold War and Vietnam, The Color of Truth tells the tale of the anti-communist liberals who, despite their grave doubts about sending Americans to fight in Southeast Asia, became key architects of America's war in Vietnam. Like the bestselling The Wise Men, this dual biography is both an inside account of the making of US foreign policy in an era of nuclear weapons and a stunning group portrait of the heirs of the Wise Men—including Robert McNamara, George Ball, and Robert Kennedy—and the presidents they served.
Accompany the state security officers, Holger and his colleagues to solve their creepiest and most exciting case. In the process, the officers keep coming across new eerie details. Holger already has a premonition of what might have been going on, but should it prove true, it could mean the end for mankind.
