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Entry in the Charlie Chan Chinese sleuth series provides an opportunity for the Oriental Sherlock to perform his deductions while a guest of the NY police force. Chan uncovers the killer of two people mixed up in the big city's mob. Entry in the Charlie Chan Chinese sleuth series provides an opportunity for the Oriental Sherlock to perform his deductions while a guest of the NY police force. Chan uncovers the killer of two people mixed up in the big city’s mob.

Civil Rights Turmoil In Verse: Retelling Medgar Evers' Story Listen · 10:55 10:55 Toggle more options Download Embed Embed <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/256869886/257355489" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player"> Transcript Turn Me Loose By Frank X. Walker Purchase BookPurchase close overlay Buy Featured Book TitleTurn Me LooseAuthorFrank X. Walker Your purchase helps support NPR programming.

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FictionReviewA 12-year-old Danish boy suddenly comes of age in this tense and vivid story, pregnant with hidden meaning and sexual tension“They sailed across the sea to Denmark.” From its very first sentence, Per Petterson’s debut novel, originally published in 1989 and now available for the first time in English, in a translation by Don Bartlett, offers a compelling mix of fable with the day-to-day account of a working-class boy, just about to turn 12, as he visits his maternal grandparents in Jutland.

Samara Joy comes from a family of gospel singers and has been singing all her life. In her teens, she performed as a soloist in her church choir, but her career really launched in 2019, when, as a college student, she won the Sarah Vaughan International Jazz Vocal Competition. "I was definitely an imitator of Sarah Vaughan for a while," Joy says. "Every time I listened to a recording of hers, there was something special about it.

Top 10sScience and nature booksFrom Shakespeare and Brontë to ‘nightwalking’ guides, nature writer Tiffany Francis-Baker sheds some light on her favourite books about the dark We are all drawn to the night. It’s a hidden world full of danger, magic, excitement, night shifts and nights out. Out in the dark, landscapes that were familiar to us in daylight are transformed. The darkness smothers both the beautiful and the bad, and it reminds us of the things we can never know, and never conquer – although we try our best with coffee and blue screens.

Westside Gunn has been putting in work for years now, building his Griselda label into a bonafide made-in-Buffalo empire, and the artistic visionary continues to reap the benefits. Having firmly established himself in the mainstream, earning co-signs from the likes of Jay-Z, Eminem, and Busta Rhymes, Gunn has continued to amass victories both in his professional life and his personal life alike. FilmMagic/FilmMagic for Bonnaroo Arts And Music Festival Today, the rapper took to Instagram to share some excellent news, revealing that he has officially welcomed a new daughter into the world.

James Franco is going after a guy who claims the actor stole his idea for the actor's new movie, claiming the idea for the flick was hatched in his brain alone. Short story ... Franco has a new movie -- "Bukowski" -- which is about to be released ... it's about Charles Bukowski, a famous fiction writer who died the year O.J. killed Nicole. Enter Cyril Humphris, who owns the rights to Bukowski's autobiography.

Play video content RUNWAY RACIST UPDATE 2:11 PM PT -- A spokesperson for JetBlue tells TMZ ... the airline has banned the passenger following his racist tirade. The spokesperson said, "We have zero tolerance for racism or harassment, and after reviewing this customer’s abhorrent racist behavior, we have determined he is no longer welcome to fly JetBlue." UPDATE JetBlue also thanked the crew members for taking swift action. A JetBlue flight got turbulent before it even took off, as a man went on a racist tirade -- while wearing a Burger King crown -- and then got tossed off the flight.