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Glasgow: The Real Mean City: True Crime and Punishment in the Second City of Empire

Malcolm Archibald

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There cannot be many cities where crime could mean anything from stealing a ship to singing a...

Black Gods of the Asphalt: Religion, Hip-Hop, and Street Basketball

Onaje X. O. Woodbine

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J-Rod moves like a small tank on the court, his face mean, staring down his opponents. "I play just...

Gateway to Equality: Black Women and the Struggle for Economic Justice in St. Louis

Keona K. Ervin

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Like most of the nation during the 1930s, St. Louis, Missouri, was caught in the stifling grip of...

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Jun 10, 2021

Today's special guest on my blog is James Wade, Writer sharing his top 5 novels set in East Texas. There's also a spotlight on his new crime fiction novel RIVER, SING OUT. Check it out, and enter the giveaway to win an autographed first-edition hardcover the book plus an autographed paperback of his multiple award-winning coming of age novel All Things Left Wild - two winners!

https://alltheupsandowns.blogspot.com/2021/06/book-blog-tour-and-giveaway-river-sing.html

**BOOK SYNOPSIS**
“And through these ages untold, the river did act as the lifeblood of all those things alongside it.”

Jonah Hargrove is celebrating his thirteenth birthday by avoiding his abusive father, when a girl named River stumbles into his yard, injured and alone. The teenager has stolen thousands of dollars’ worth of meth from her murderous, drug-dealing boyfriend, but lost it somewhere in the Neches River bottoms during her escape. Jonah agrees to help her find and sell the drugs so she can flee East Texas.

Chasing after them is John Curtis, a local drug kingpin and dog fighter, as well as River’s boyfriend, the dangerous Dakota Cade.

Each person is keeping secrets from the others—deadly secrets that will be exposed in violent fashion as all are forced to come to terms with their choices, their circumstances, and their own definition of God.

With a colorful cast of supporting characters and an unflinching violence juxtaposed against lyrical prose, River, Sing Out dives deep into the sinister world of the East Texas river bottoms, where oppressive poverty is pitted against the need to believe in something greater than the self.