Books like The Divine Nine by Kensington

The ninth and final volume of Kieron Gillen’s high‑energy, comic‑style series, combining gods, pop stars, and a glittering, sound‑system‑laden climax that launches a cinematic, music‑driven spectacle into a final, unforgettable adventure.

Elle St. James battles her father's ruined company and a forbidden romance with Apollo Savas, a Greek stepbrother who holds the remnants of her legacy, while twelve‑month pregnancy forces her to confront revenge and redemption.

High school drama unfolds at South Bay High as Jayd Jackson balances drag racing, a budding romance with new Latino student Emilio, and the launch of the first African Student Union.

For over two centuries, in the North as well as the South, both within their own community and in the public arena, African Americans have presented their bodies in culturally distinctive ways. Shane White and Graham White consider the deeper significance of the ways in which African Americans have dressed, walked, danced, arranged their hair, and communicated in silent gestures. They ask what elaborate hair styles, bright colors, bandanas, long watch chains, and zoot suits, for example, have really meant, and discuss style itself as an expression of deep-seated cultural imperatives. Their wide-ranging exploration of black style from its African origins to the 1940s reveals a culture that differed from that of the dominant racial group in ways that were often subtle and elusive. A wealth of black-and-white illustrations show the range of African American experience in America, emanating from all parts of the country, from cities and farms, from slave plantations, and Chicago beauty contests. White and White argue that the politics of black style is, in fact, the politics of metaphor, always ambiguous because it is always indirect. To tease out these ambiguities, they examine extensive sources, including advertisements for runaway slaves, interviews recorded with surviving ex-slaves in the 1930s, autobiographies, travelers' accounts, photographs, paintings, prints, newspapers, and images drawn from popular culture, such as the stereotypes of Jim Crow and Zip Coon.