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Black Klansman, le flic noir qui infiltra le Klux Klux Klan

BLACK KLANSMAN est le livre autobiographique de Ron Stallworth, un officier de police afro-américain qui, dans les années 70, a réussi à infiltrer le KKK en se faisant passer pour un suprématiste blanc au téléphone, avec l’aide d’un collègue juif qui se rendait aux réunions à sa place.

Cette incroyable histoire a attiré l’intérêt de Spike Lee qui tournera une adaptation cinématographique avec, à l’affiche, John David Washington, fils de Denzen, Topher Grace, Adam Driver et Jasper Paakkonen ! La production et le scénario seront assurés par Jordan Peele et l’équipe de GET OUT, l’un des plus grands succès au box-office en 2017. Le film est prévu pour l’automne 2018.

D’abord publié en 2014 par un éditeur indépendant, le livre BLACK KLANSMAN sortira dans une édition revisitée chez Flatiron en juin 2018 :

The extraordinary true story of the African American police officer who goes undercover to investigate the KKK, the basis for the forthcoming major motion picture directed by Spike Lee, and written by Jordan Peele

BLACK KLANSMAN
A Memoir
by Ron Stallworth
Flatiron Books, June 2018 

When Detective Ron Stallworth comes across a classified ad in the local paper looking for new Klan recruits in the Colorado Springs area, he responds with interest, using his real name while posing as a white man. His inquiry sparks a quick and welcoming response from the recruiter, and Ron begins to gain the Klan’s trust. Eager to recruit him, the Klan recruiter asks for a face-to-face meeting, necessitating Stallworth’s partner to play the “white” Ron Stallworth, while Stallworth himself conducts all subsequent phone conversations.
During his seven months of undercover work, Stallworth sabotages cross burnings and attempts by the Klan to further expand their membership, and weaponize a militia. As Stallworth rises higher and higher in the Klan, he realizes just how deeply seeded the hate group is in Colorado government. As the Klan holds a public rally headed by Grandwizard David Duke, Stallworth’s investigation comes to a tragic climax.
Ron Stallworth’s amazing story reads like a crime thriller, and is a searing portrait of a divided America and the extraordinary heroes who dare to fight back.

Ron Stallworth is a 32-year, highly decorated, law enforcement veteran, who worked undercover narcotics, vice, criminal intelligence and organized crime beats in four states. As the first black man accepted into the Colorado Springs police department and its youngest detective ever, Ron became the Jackie Robinson of his time and place, overcoming fierce racial hostility to achieve a long and distinguished career in law enforcement.

CASE CLOSED (#1-#3) de Lauren Magaziner

Mise à jour du 6 novembre 2017: droits cédés à Bayard Jeunesse

In this hilarious, interactive, and puzzle-filled adventure series—sold at auction—YOU pick which suspects to interview, which questions to ask, and which clues to follow

CASE CLOSED (#1-#3)
by Lauren Magaziner
Katherine Tegen Books, August 2018; 2019; 2020

Carlos Serrano has never solved a mystery in his life. And he’s counting on you to solve his first one. On the morning of a big investigation that would save her failing detective agency, Carlos’s mom gets sick with a nasty flu. But Las Pistas Detective Agency can’t afford to lose this case, or they will close down for sure. That’s where Carlos—and you—come in. With the help of his best friend, Eliza, and her wild little brother, Frank, Carlos takes over the investigation. The mystery involves an eccentric local millionaire, who starts receiving death threats. It appears that someone wants to get their hands on a buried fortune. However, the search for the culprit is complicated by tricky riddles, cagey suspects, hidden secrets, and dozens of impossible choices. Can you help Carlos and his friends figure out who’s sending the death threats, find a lost treasure, and save Las Pistas Detective Agency? Or will it be case closed? You pick the path, you crack the case!

Lauren Magaziner is the author of the humorous middle grade books “Pilfer Academy”, “The Only Thing Worse Than Witches” and “Wizardmatch” (Penguin/Dial Books for Young Readers).

Le nouveau livre de John Green enfin annoncé!

C’est l’un des événements de l’édition américaine cette année : après six ans, l’auteur de NOS ÉTOILES CONTRAIRES et de QUI ES-TU ALASKA? est de retour !

Dans TURTLES ALL THE WAY DOWN, qui devrait être publié par Dutton Books en octobre, il sera question d’un milliardaire en fuite, d’une jeune fille de 16 ans, atteinte d’une trouble psychique, qui partira à sa poursuite et d’une récompense…

 

Voici un extrait du communiqué de presse de Penguin Young Readers :

Dutton Books, an imprint of Penguin Young Readers, will publish a new novel by #1 internationally bestselling author John Green, whose works have been translated into 54 languages with more than 45 million copies in print worldwide. Scheduled for publication on October 10, 2017, Turtles All the Way Down is the story of sixteen-year-old Aza Holmes, a young woman looking for clues in the disappearance of a fugitive billionaire, while grappling with mental illness. Turtles All the Way Down will have a first print run of 1.5 million copies.

Turtles All the Way Down begins with a fugitive billionaire and a cash reward. It is about lifelong friendship, the intimacy of an unexpected reunion, Star Wars fan fiction, and tuatara. But at its heart is Aza Holmes, a young woman navigating daily existence within the ever-tightening spiral of her own thoughts. In his long-awaited return, John Green tells Aza’s story with shattering, unflinching clarity.

“I’ve been working on Turtles All the Way Down for years, and I’m so excited to share it with readers this October,” says John Green. “This is my first attempt to write directly about the kind of mental illness that has affected my life since childhood, so while the story is fictional, it is also quite personal. »

SCI-FI JUNIOR HIGH de John Martin and Scott Seegert

This gleefully illustrated space adventure is a laugh on every page. That’s a lot of laughs!

SCI-FI JUNIOR HIGH
by John Martin and Scott Seegert
James Patterson (Little, Brown and Company), February 2017

Kelvin Klosmo isn’t just the new kid at school – he’s the new kid in the galaxy! Welcome to Sci-Fi Junior High: an inter-galactic space station with students of all shapes, sizes, smells, and… slime content. As the son of Earth’s two most famous geniuses, Kelvin isn’t just the smartest kid in the world….he’s the smartest kid in the UNIVERSE. At least, that’s what everybody at Sci-Fi Junior High thinks.
So, maybe Kelvin lied a little about being a genius to fit in. And maybe a mad scientist is about to take over the universe unless Kelvin can stop him. Maybe everyone is doomed.
Well, at least Kelvin won’t have to worry about math homework anymore.
SCI-FI JUNIOR HIGH is an out-of-this-world story about friendship, accepting our differences, and the fight against evil… bunnies. Yes, evil bunnies – don’t ask.

Scott Seegert is the author of the “Vordak the Incomprehensible” series.

John Martin is an illustrator, graphic artist, and website designer. He is the illustrator for the “Vordak the Incomprehensible” series.

Octavia Butler’s KINDRED, A Graphic Novel Adaptation by Damian Duffy and John Jennings

“A glorious tribute to Octavia Butler’s masterpiece. Extraordinary”-Junot Diaz, Pulitzer Prize-winning author

Octavia Butler’s
KINDRED
A Graphic Novel Adaptation
by Damian Duffy and John Jennings
Abrams Comic Arts, January 2017

KindredKINDRED, Octavia Butler’s literary science-fiction masterpiece first published in 1979, tells the story of Dana, a young black woman who is suddenly and mysteriously transported from her home in 1970s California to the antebellum South. Dana moves between worlds: one in which she is a free woman and another where she is part of a complicated familial history on a southern plantation, forced to interact with and save the life of Rufus, a conflicted white slaveholder and one of her ancestors. Frightening, compelling, and richly detailed, KINDRED takes an imagined yet unstinting look at our complicated social history.
Adapted as a graphic novel by celebrated academics Damian Duffy and John Jennings with the full co-operation of the Butler estate, Kindred explores the violence, sexuality, loss of humanity, and twisted relationships engendered by slavery, in a format that introduces the work to a new generation of readers.

Octavia Estelle Butler (1947–2006), often referred to as the « grand dame of science fiction, » was born in Pasadena, California, on June 22, 1947. She received an Associate of Arts degree in 1968 from Pasadena Community College, and also attended California State University in Los Angeles and the University of California, Los Angeles. Butler was the first science-fiction writer to win a MacArthur Fellowship (« genius » grant). She is widely considered the best science-fiction writer of her generation and is beloved in feminist literary circles, and her many works are widely included in women’s studies syllabi. She won the PEN Lifetime Achievement Award and the Nebula and Hugo Awards, among others.

John Jennings is Associate Professor of Visual Studies at SUNY-Buffalo and has written several works on African-American comics creators. His research is concerned with the topics of representation and authenticity, visual culture, visual literacy, social justice, and design pedagogy. He is an accomplished designer, curator, illustrator, cartoonist, and award-winning graphic novelist. His work overlaps into various disciplines including American Studies, African American Studies, Design History, Media Studies, Sociology, Women and Gender Studies, and Literature.

Damian Duffy, cartoonist, writer, and comics letterer, is a PhD student in the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Graduate School of Library and Information Science, and a founder of the Eye Trauma Comix collective (eyetrauma.net). His first published graphic novel, The Hole: Consumer Culture, created with artist John Jennings, was released by Front 40 Press in 2008. Along with Jennings, Duffy has curated several comics art shows, including Other Heroes: African American Comics Creators, Characters, and Archetypes and Out of Sequence: Underrepresented Voices in American Comics, and published the art book Black Comix: African American Independent Comics Art & Culture. Duffy has also published academic essays in comics form about curation, new media, diversity, and critical pedagogy.