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Fast forward 20 years and a journalist is snooping around, threatening to reveal who was behind the stunt and disrupt their lives.

In his latest novel, two teens fall in love and pull off a public art stunt that spins out of control. Kevin Wilson is a master of creating edgy characters with endearing peculiarities and putting them in unique situations in witty stories that ultimately prove compassionate and deeply human. Freaknik, strip clubs, LaFace Records, crunk, trap houses, OutKast, Lil Yachty - no stone goes unturned in this cultural survey of the Dirty South, one of the most influential forces in music today. New York Times culture reporter Joe Coscarelli takes an in-depth look at the people, places and events, both past and present, that define Atlanta’s rap scene and, in the process, examines its intersection with talent, race, class and money. Despite the odds, Demon manages to persevere. He endures family dysfunction, poverty, foster care, child labor and lousy schools.

Demon (a nickname for Damon) is born in a trailer to a single mother in a community ravaged by opioid addiction. The incomparable bestselling author of 10 novels including “The Poisonwood Diary,” Barbara Kingsolver takes on the ambitious endeavor of re-imagining Charles Dickens’ Victorian saga “David Copperfield” in modern-day Southern Appalachia. But her hope for a new beginning takes a dark turn when scratches on the walls, whispers in the night and a forest that is just a little too quiet are a prelude to the horrors this house holds. Georgia author Andy Davidson delivers a gothic thriller about an abused wife and mother who inherits Redfern Hill, a turpentine estate in Georgia, and escapes there with her 11-year-old son. Taken as a whole, it illustrates how far race relations have come in the United States and how much has remained the same. This collection of her writings spans five decades from the civil rights movement to the election of a Black president and beyond. She would later become a journalist, working for The New Yorker, The New York Times and “The McNeil-Lehrer NewsHour,” for which she won two Emmys and a Peabody Award. “My People: Five Decades of Writing About Black Lives”Ĭharlayne Hunter-Gault made history in 1961 when, following a legal battle, she became the first Black woman to attend the University of Georgia.

The story is set against the backdrop of a heated governor’s race between a racist and a moderate. Complicating the case is a cast of characters with competing agendas including law enforcement officials from the local, state and federal levels, as well as civil rights leaders and politicians. Honoring the adage to write what you know, WSB-TV news anchor John Pruitt centers his literary debut on a pair of journalists covering the murder investigation of a Black serviceman in 1964 rural Georgia. But her visit there turns fearful when she discovers there’s something rotten in paradise and escaping it could risk her life.

John explores that juicy terrain with a thriller about a young woman who mysteriously inherits a wellness center in a Mexican jungle.

#Black book case series

What is it about nefarious activities roiling beneath the surface of luxurious resorts and health retreats in exotic locations that fascinates us? Think “Nine Perfect Strangers,” the Liane Moriarty book and Hulu series with Nicole Kidman, or “The White Lotus” on HBO.