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Stepping Away
In no other professional field do senior leaders habitually return to the rank-and-file workforce in the twilight of their careers. Corporate CEOs rarely conclude their working lives by resuming the duties of a mid-level account executive; on the verge of retirement, four-star generals do not return to the infantry. But in academia former senior leaders often conclude their careers by reprising the roles and responsibilities of a professor. Until now, leaders and institutions have been left to navigate these transitions on their own—often learning hard lessons that might have been avoided. Stepping Away moves beyond the well-worn clichés of “stepping down” to examine how senior leader...
Black and Smart
Even academically talented students face challenges in college. For high-achieving Black women, their racial, gender, and academic identities intensify those issues. Inside the classroom, they are spotlighted and feel forced to be representatives for their identity groups. In campus life, they are isolated and face microaggressions from peers. Using intersectionality as a theoretical framework, Davis addresses the significance of the various identities of high-achieving Black women in college individually and collectively, revealing the ways institutional oppression functions at historically white institutions and in social interactions on and off campus. Based on interviews with collegiate Black women in honors communities, Black and Smart analyzes the experiences of academically talented Black undergraduate women navigating their social and academic lives at urban historically white institutions and offers strategies for creating more inclusive academic and social environments for talented undergraduates.
THE BALLAD OF NEVER AFTER
Dear Evangeline, Kau akan bertemu Jacks lagi dan, saat itu terjadi, jangan tertipu gara-gara lesung pipinya yang menawan, mata birunya yang memukau, atau kupu-kupu yang beterbangan di perutmu ketika dia memanggilmu Rubah Kecil—itu bukan panggilan sayang. Itu manipulasi. Dia adalah Takdir dan baginya kau hanyalah alat untuk membuka Pelengkung Valory, yang menyimpan sesuatu yang sangat dia inginkan. Dia adalah Takdir dan apa pun yang diinginkan Takdir, biasanya bukan sesuatu yang baik, bahkan berpotensi membawa kehancuran. Kau hanya perlu fokus pada satu tujuan: mendapatkan akhir bahagia selamanya agar Jacks mendapatkan ganjaran yang setimpal atas perbuatannya. Tertanda, Evangeline
Brotherhood University
How do young Black men navigate the transition to adulthood in an era of labor market precarity, an increasing emphasis on personal independence, and gendered racism? In Brotherhood University, Brandon A. Jackson utilizes longitudinal qualitative data to examine the role of emotions and social support among a group of young Black men as they navigate a “structural double bind” as college students and into early adulthood. While prevailing stereotypes portray young Black men as emotionally aloof, Jackson finds that the men invested in an emotion culture characterized by vulnerability, loyalty, and trust, which created a system of mutual social support, or brotherhood, among the group as they navigated college, prepared for the labor market, and experienced romantic relationships. Ten years later, as they managed the early stages of their careers and considered marriage and child-rearing, the men continued to depend on the emotional vulnerability and close relationships they forged in their college years.
People, Land & Water
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Winterborne Home for Vengeance and Valor
New York Times best-selling author Ally Carter's middle grade debut is full of mystery, mayhem, and friendship, and it will keep you guessing until the very end. April had absolutely no intention of becoming the only person who knows that Gabriel Winterborne, the missing-and-presumed-dead billionaire, is actually living in the basement of Winterborne House, sharpening his swords and looking for vengeance. Now it's up to April to keep him alive. But there's only so much a twelve-year-old girl can do, so April must turn to the other orphans for help. Together, they'll have to unravel the riddle of a missing heir and a creepy legend, and find a secret key, before the only home they've ever known is lost to them forever.
Once Upon A Broken Heart
Seberapa jauh kau akan bertindak demi mendapatkan akhir bahagia selamanya? Tak ada yang memahami patah hati lebih baik daripada Jacks, sang Pangeran Hati, dan untuk itulah Evangeline Fox membutuhkan bantuannya: membatalkan pernikahan kekasihnya dengan saudari tirinya. Yang tidak Evangeline sadari, Jacks bukan berbahaya karena dia jahat, melainkan karena dia tidak bisa membedakan baik atau buruk. Dan, sudah terlambat bagi Evangeline untuk menyesali bencana macam apa yang dia sebabkan akibat permintaan egoisnya. Jacks hidup abadi dengan kutukan mengerikan: siapa pun yang menciumnya akan mati. Dan, kini Evangeline berutang kepadanya. Tiga ciuman. Kapan pun lelaki itu inginkan. Dengan siapa pun yang lelaki itu tentukan. Yang tentu saja tidak sesederhana kedengarannya karena segala hal terkait Pangeran Hati, selalu melibatkan hati yang patah atau jasad yang mati.
A Curse for True Love
Tak ada yang lebih diinginkan Evangeline Fox selain akhir bahagia selamanya. Dia menikahi pangeran tampan dan tinggal di istana kerajaan. Dia seharusnya bersenang-senang tanpa satu pun kekhawatiran. Namun, mengapa dia malah merasa hampa? Mengapa rasanya seolah ada sesuatu yang hilang dan meninggalkan lubang menganga di hatinya? Mengapa jantungnya berdebar kencang untuk lelaki asing selain suaminya? Malaikat rupawan berambut keemasan yang memicu sebuah ingatan yang sepertinya terlupakan: Lelaki itu rela menggendongnya melewati apa saja, bukan hanya perairan membekukan. Lelaki itu akan menyeretnya menerjang api jika perlu, menggotongnya agar selamat dari impitan perang, dari kota-kota yang runtuh dan dunia-dunia yang hancur …. Ada yang berubah dalam diri Evangeline. Sepertinya, saat ini, dia bukan lagi gadis yang memiliki harapan abadi, yang memercayai dongeng, cinta pandangan pertama, ataupun akhir bahagia selamanya.
