Hero Nature_Gift_Guide as it deliberately over-emphasizes a

as it deliberately over-emphasizes a version of history that treats civil rights gains as categorically suspect

in a friendship that transcends the damaged legacies they’ve inherited

Joan Didion’s first work of nonfiction

and travel between the communities they serve and the halls of power where decisions get made

Hero Nature_Gift_Guide as it deliberately over-emphasizes aA Booklist, Kirkus, and Deadly Pleaures Magazine Best Thriller of the Year A private security agent finds that being branded as the City of Angels' latest hero could also make her its next victim. . . . Justine Poole provides security for wealthy and high profile Hollywood stars, but that all changes when a job puts her in the limelight. When she prevents a brazen robbery at the Beverly Hills home of two of her clientskilling two of the five armed