"In White Raiment" is a thrilling book written by way of the well-known British writer William Le Queux, who's acknowledged for his work within the mystery and spy genres. This photo, which came out within the early 1900s, is a suspenseful have a look at political intrigue, espionage, and what takes place whilst power isn't always checked. Cyril Hands, the main man or woman of the tale, is a journalist who receives caught up in a dangerous plot concerning overseas espionage and political games. As Hands explores the shadowy international of secret societies and government corruption, he uncovers a web of lies that now not handiest puts his personal life in risk but additionally the steadiness of nations. Le Queux is an exquisite storyteller due to the fact he makes the plot very complex and complete of turns. "In White Raiment" is a thriller with political components that maintains readers on the brink in their seats. The book is set corruption, spying, and how the traces between loyalty and betrayal may be tough to peer. The name itself, "In White Raiment," has symbolic meanings that trace at how cheating people who work at the best ranges of energy may be.

Angela Jackson returns with a poetic collage that draws on imagery from the African American South and the South Side of Chicago, storytelling, the Black Arts Movement, and Hausa folklore. Deftly intertwining narrative and free verse, she expresses the complexities, beauty, and haunts of the multilayered Black voice. Jackson offers a stirring mixture of the music, food, and soul that have come to characterize her lyrical work. The speakers of these poems reflect on memory and saga, history and legend. Voices recall evenings spent catching fireflies with a younger sister, the aroma of homemade rolls, the father who squeezes papers into his wallet alongside bills in order to appear wealthy (“a flock of green birds rustling inside / to get out for some extravagance”). A Black girl watches TV and dreams of the perfect partner. A citizen contends with the unrelenting devastation of police violence in a work reminiscent of Gwendolyn Brooks’s “verse journalism.” A mother loses her daughter only to witness her rebirth: “Praise be / the human being / that is being.” In “For Our People,” an homage to Margaret Walker, Jackson summons the resilience and imagination of African Americans, celebrating “each of us injured or exalted, betrayer or betrayed, muted / and declamatory, all one, each of us all of us, each a private star beloved in the universe.” Lauded as one of American poetry’s most vivid voices, Jackson continues her reign among the country’s foremost wordsmiths. This sublime collection delves deep into the porch stories and folktales that have carried the Black voice through all its histories.

Pioneering New Zealand poet Jan Kemp's memoir of her first 25 years is a vivid and frank account of growing up in the 1950s, and of university life in the late 1960s and early 1970s. It tracks from an innocent Waikato childhood to the seedy flats of Auckland, where anarchic student life, drugs, sexual experimentation, and a failing marriage could not keep her away from poetry. She became one of the few young women poets of her era to be allowed into the then male poet club. Weaving its own patterns and colours, Raiment shines a clear-eyed light on the heady, hedonistic hothouse of our literary community in the 1970s and reveals what it took, back then, to be an independent woman.

Two years after the events of Danny Kane and the Hunt for Mullah Omar, Chief Warrant Officer Earl Ivory is ordered by intelligence officials with the CIA to return to the Middle East, locate his friend Danny, with whom he lost contact following the initial Mullah Omar mission, and who has since joined forces with Baloch rebels in southern Pakistan. Earl must convince his friend Danny, to return to America and turn his back on the rebel movement for which he has become a highly charismatic and effective leader, or he must neutralize him. Danny's leadership in the rebel movement has become a threat to regional stability as the rebels are gaining ground against the corrupt Pakistan government and showing signs of uniting with rebel groups in India, Pakistan's enemy to the east. Earl, still devoted to America and his duty as a soldier, must decide what to do once he finds Danny. Clothed in White Raiment provides rare insight into the operations of intelligence and counterintelligence as well as the political underpinnings of events in this part of the world. Suggested events in this novel have either occurred, are currently active or, are likely to occur in the future.

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During a field trip with their middle school classmates, childhood friends Kaguya and Himawari are abducted by the secret society Millennium. The evil organization is notorious for the havoc it's wreaked, but is it possible they're...not the bad guys? After Kaguya gets a glimpse behind the curtain, everything starts to change, and she becomes privy to the truth underneath the world she lives in. Now that she's bestowed with the power to transform into a magical girl, what path will she choose?