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Finding Langston volume 2
Language
English
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Raised by his grandparents, first in Mississippi then in Wisconsin, ten-year-old Lymon moves to Chicago in 1945 to live with the mother he never knew, while yearning for his father.
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Language
English
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"Egypt, 1926.Fiercely independent American Jane Wunderly has made up her mind: she won?t be swept off her feet on a trip abroad. Despite her Aunt Millie?s best efforts, the young widow would rather gaze at the Great Pyramids of Giza than into the eyes of a dashing stranger. Yet Jane?s plans to remain cool and indifferent become ancient history in the company of Mr. Redvers, a roguish banker she can?t quite figure out . . . While the Mena House has...
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster BFYR
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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With the Rodney King riots closing in on high school senior Ashley and her family, the privileged bubble she has enjoyed, protecting her from the difficult realities most black people face, begins to crumble.
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Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
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"In this spellbinding blend of memoir and insight, bestselling author Chuck Palahniuk shares stories and generous advice on what makes writing powerful and what makes for powerful writing. With advice grounded in years of careful study and a keenly observed life, Palahniuk combines practical advice and concrete examples from beloved classics, his own books, and a "kitchen-table MFA" culled from an evolving circle of beloved authors and artists, with...
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Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
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"A glimpse into a beloved novelist's inner world, shaped by family, art, and literature. In her fiction, Claire Messud "has specialized in creating unusual female characters with ferocious, imaginative inner lives" (Ruth Franklin, New York Times Magazine). Kant's Little Prussian Head and Other Reasons Why I Write opens a window on Messud's own life: a peripatetic upbringing; a warm, complicated family; and, throughout it all, her devotion to art and...
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