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Men We Reaped: A Memoir
by Jesmyn WardIn five years, Jesmyn Ward lost five men in her life, to drugs, accidents, suicide and the bad luck that can follow people who live in poverty, particularly black men. Dealing with these losses, one after another, made Jesmyn ask the question: why? And as she began to write about the experience of l... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2013 -
The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks about Race
by Jesmyn WardNational Book Award-winner Jesmyn Ward takes James Baldwin's 1963 examination of race in America, The Fire Next Time, as a jumping off point for this groundbreaking collection of essays and poems about race from the most important voices of her generation and our time.<p><p>In light of recent traged... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2017 -
Salvage the Bones
by Jesmyn Ward<P>As Hurricane Katrina is building over the Gulf of Mexico, a poor family deals with the life and breeding of a winner pitbull and a teen's hidden pregnancy. <P>Each family member has their own story and strong character. <P>A hurricane is building over the Gulf of Mexico, threatening the coas... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2011 -
Where the Line Bleeds: A Novel
by Jesmyn WardThe first novel from National Book Award winner and author of Sing, Unburied, Sing Jesmyn Ward, a timeless Southern fable of brotherly love and familial conflict—“a lyrical yet clear-eyed portrait of a rural South and an African-American reality that are rarely depicted” (The Boston Globe).Where the... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2008 -
Sing, Unburied, Sing: A Novel
by Jesmyn Ward<P>A searing and profound Southern odyssey by <b>National Book Award winner </b>Jesmyn Ward. <P>In Jesmyn Ward’s first novel since her National Book Award–winning Salvage the Bones, this singular American writer brings the archetypal road novel into rural twenty-first-century America. Drawing on Mo... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2017 -
The Best American Short Stories 2021 (The Best American Series ®)
A collection of the year&’s best stories selected by celebrated two-time National Book Award winner Jesmyn WardIn her introduction to The Best American Short Stories 2021, guest editor Jesmyn Ward says that the best fiction offers the reader a &“sense of repair.&” The stories in this year&’s collect... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2021 -
Fight of the Century: Writers Reflect on 100 Years of Landmark ACLU Cases
by Neil Gaiman • Dave Eggers • Scott Turow • Salman Rushdie • Michael Cunningham • Louise Erdrich • Geraldine Brooks • David Handler • Ann Patchett • Meg Wolitzer • Elizabeth Strout • Timothy Egan • Jonathan Lethem • Jacqueline Woodson • Rabih Alameddine • Lauren Groff • Victor Lavalle • Jennifer Egan • Aleksandar Hemon • Anthony Doerr • William Finnegan • Jesmyn Ward • Sergio De La Pava • George Saunders • Marlon James • Andrew Greer • Yaa Gyasi • Brit Bennett • Morgan Parker • Moriel Rothman-Zecher • Steven Okazaki • Li Yiyun • Hector Tobar • Moses Sumney • Viet Nguyen • C. J. Anders • Brenda Childs • Adrian LeBlancTo mark its 100-year anniversary, the American Civil Liberties Union partners with award-winning authors Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman to bring together many of our greatest living writers, each contributing an original piece inspired by a historic ACLU case. <P><P>On January 19, 1920, a small ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2020 -
A Love Letter to Europe: An outpouring of sadness and hope – Mary Beard, Shami Chakrabati, Sebastian Faulks, Neil Gaiman, Ruth Jones, J.K. Rowling, Sandi Toksvig and others
by Frank Cottrell Boyce • William Dalrymple • Margaret Drabble • Simon Callow • Tony Robinson • Tracey Emin • J. K. Rowling • Holly Johnson • Pete Townshend • Melvyn Bragg • Jeffrey Boakye • Onjali Rauf • Will Hutton • Prue Leith • Jonathan Meades • Chris Riddell • Various • Philip Ardagh • Mary Beard • Brian Catling • Shami Chakrabarti • Chris Cleave • Peter J Conradi • Lindsey DavisHow are great turning points in history experienced by individuals?As Britain pulls away from Europe great British writers come together to give voice to their innermost feelings. These writers include novelists, writers of books for children, of comic books, humourists, historians, biographers, nat... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2019