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This re-imagining of Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby offered sparkling prose and a challenging look at the world of prosperous Black Los Angeles in the 1940s.
In this poignant retelling of The Great Gatsby, set amongst L.A.'s Black elite, a young veteran finds his way post-war, pulled into a new world of tantalizing possibilities—and explosive tensions.
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In 1945, Charlie Trammell steps off a cross-country train into the vibrant tapestry of Los Angeles. Lured by his cousin Marguerite's invitation to the esteemed West Adams Heights, Charlie is immediately captivated by the Black opulence of L.A.'s newly rechristened “Sugar Hill.”
Settling in at a local actress's energetic boarding house, Charlie discovers a different way of life—one brimming with opportunity—from a promising career…
It is April 1st, 2038. Day 60 of China's blockade of the rebel island of Taiwan.
The US government has agreed to provide Taiwan with a weapons system so advanced that it can disrupt the balance of power in the region. But what pilot would be crazy enough to run…
Dickey Chappelle (1919-1965) was America’s first female professional war photographer. This fictionalized account honors her life, devoted to showing the brutal human costs of armed conflicts. “I want to get the picture to end all wars,” she says at a late-career speaking engagement. Dickey rises above her peers from early on. MIT offers her a full scholarship; she’s one of the first women admitted there. She quits school to become a pilot, but bad vision blunts that goal. She trains with the US Marines and, though only five feet tall, keeps up with them in most exercises. She is the first American woman to parachute into combat, comes under fire at Iwo Jima and is later imprisoned and tortured by Russians in Hungary. On assignment to Cuba, she meets the young mesmerizing Fidel Castro at his mountain hide-out and then again after he had turned into a murderous dictator. Many…
From bestselling author Erika Robuck comes the perilous and awe-inspiring true story of award-winning photojournalist Dickey Chapelle as she risks everything to show the American people the price of war through the lens of her camera.
Manhattan, 1956.
Since her arrest for disobeying orders and going ashore at Iwo Jima almost a decade earlier, combat correspondent Georgette "Dickey" Chapelle has been unmoored. Her military accreditation revoked, her marriage failing, and her savings dwindling, Dickey jumps at an opportunity to work with an international refugee association-one with intelligence ties. In the aftermath of a refugee rescue that goes wrong, a flame…
