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Ace of Spades received a starred review from School Library Journal and Publishers Weekly, as well as a positive review from Booklist.. In their review, Publishers Weekly noted, "Àbíké-Íyímídé excels in portraying the conflict of characters who exist in two worlds, one of white privilege and one in which Blackness is not a disadvantage but a point of pride.
Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé is a British novelist, short-story writer and columnist. Her debut novel, the young adult thriller Ace of Spades (2021), received the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work – Youth/Teens in 2022, and reached the top ten on The New York Times Best Seller list . Additionally, Àbíké-Íyímídé has ...
David Matthews (born November 8, 1967) is an American author and screenwriter. Matthews is of African-American and Jewish descent. His memoir Ace of Spades recounts growing up in the inner city of Baltimore, Maryland as a biracial child who could pass for white . Matthews' Jewish mother had schizophrenia and left his father when Matthews was ...
16 November 1983. ( 1983-11-16) Reilly, Ace of Spies is a 1983 British television programme dramatizing the life of Sidney Reilly, a Russian-born adventurer who became one of the greatest spies ever to work for the United Kingdom and the British Empire. Among his exploits, in the early 20th century, were the infiltration of the German General ...
Ace of Spades is the fourth studio album by English rock band Motörhead, released in October 1980 via Bronze Records. It is the band's most commercially successful album, peaking at number four on the UK Albums Chart and reaching gold status in the UK by March 1981. It was preceded by the release of the title track as a single in October ...
This list of playing card nicknames shows the nicknames of playing cards in a standard 52-card pack.Some are generic while some are specific to certain card games; others are specific to patterns, such as the courts of French playing cards for example, which often bear traditional names.
A standard 52-card French-suited deck comprises 13 ranks in each of the four suits: clubs ( ♣ ), diamonds ( ♦ ), hearts ( ♥) and spades ( ♠ ). Each suit includes three court cards (face cards), King, Queen and Jack, with reversible (i.e. double headed) images. Each suit also includes ten numeral cards or pip cards, from one (Ace) to ten.
Renee had the Ace and King and a few of the smaller spades. We were running a Boston on those two silly suckas. Right as we were about to collect the last book, I stood up with my Big Joker in ...