The Color of Water

• Author : James McBride
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release Date : 2008-04-18
• ISBN : 1435242521

An African American man describes life as the son of a white mother and Black father, reflecting on his mother's contributions to his life and his confusion over his own identity.

• Author : James McBride
• Publisher : Penguin
• Release Date : 2006-02-07
• ISBN : 9781440636103

From the bestselling author of Deacon King Kong and the National Book Award-winning The Good Lord Bird: The modern classic that spent more than two years on The New York Times bestseller list and that Oprah.com calls one of the best memoirs of a generation. Who is Ruth McBride Jordan? A self-declared "light-skinned" woman evasive about her ethnicity, yet steadfast in her love for her twelve black children. James McBride, journalist, musician, and son, explores his mother's past, as

• Author : James McBride
• Publisher : Penguin
• Release Date : 2008-02-05
• ISBN : 9781101217665

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Good Lord Bird, winner of the 2013 National Book Award for Fiction, Deacon King Kong, Five-Carat Soul, and Kill 'Em and Leave, a James Brown biography. In the days before the Civil War, a runaway slave named Liz Spocott breaks free from her captors and escapes into the labyrinthine swamps of Maryland’s eastern shore, setting loose a drama of violence and hope among slave catchers, plantation owners, watermen, runaway slaves, and

• Author : Nora Carroll
• Publisher : Lake Union Publishing
• Release Date : 2015-08-18
• ISBN : 1503945634

It's been a long seventeen years since Jess last saw her grandmother or visited the family cottage set on an idyllic lake in Northern Michigan. For all that time, she's been haunted by loss--of her innocence and her ability to trust and, most of all, of a profound summer romance that might have been something more. So when her grandmother leaves the house to her, Jess summons her courage and returns to a place full of memories--and secrets. There, she

• Author : James McBride
• Publisher : Random House
• Release Date : 2016-04-05
• ISBN : 9780679645627

“You won’t leave this hypnotic book without feeling that James Brown is still out there, howling.”—The Boston Globe From the New York Times bestselling author of The Good Lord Bird, winner of the 2013 National Book Award for Fiction, Deacon King Kong, and Five-Carat Soul Kill ’Em and Leave is more than a book about James Brown. Brown embodied the contradictions of American life: He was an unsettling symbol of the tensions between North and South, black and white,

• Author : Geraldine Schwarz
• Publisher : Simon and Schuster
• Release Date : 2020-09-22
• ISBN : 9781501199103

“[Makes] the very convincing case that, until and unless there is a full accounting for what happened with Donald Trump, 2020 is not over and never will be.” —The New Yorker “Riveting…we can never be reminded too often to never forget.” —The Wall Street Journal Journalist Géraldine Schwarz’s astonishing memoir of her German and French grandparents’ lives during World War II “also serves as a perceptive look at the current rise of far-right nationalism throughout Europe and the

• Author : Emily X.R. Pan
• Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
• Release Date : 2018-03-20
• ISBN : 9780316464000

A stunning, heartbreaking debut novel about grief, love, and family, perfect for fans of Jandy Nelson and Celeste Ng. Leigh Chen Sanders is absolutely certain about one thing: When her mother died by suicide, she turned into a bird. Leigh, who is half Asian and half white, travels to Taiwan to meet her maternal grandparents for the first time. There, she is determined to find her mother, the bird. In her search, she winds up chasing after ghosts, uncovering family

• Author : Jim Davis,Mark Milligan
• Publisher : Utah Geological Survey
• Release Date : 2011-03
• ISBN : 9781557918420

In addition to its splendor, Bear Lake is a scientific wonder. Over the past few decades, Bear Lake has been intensely studied because it is one of the oldest lakes in North America, has not dried up during extended warm and dry climates, and is in an area sensitive to changes in regional climate pattterns. Therefore, Bear Lake research helps us to understand past climates and environments of this area. For the first time, a non-technical publication - this brochure

• Author : Nathan Harris
• Publisher : Little, Brown
• Release Date : 2021-06-15
• ISBN : 9780316461269

An Instant New York Times bestseller / An Oprah’s Book Club Pick In the spirit of The Known World and The Underground Railroad, an award-winning “miraculous debut” (Washington Post) about the unlikely bond between two freedmen who are brothers and the Georgia farmer whose alliance will alter their lives, and his, forever In the waning days of the Civil War, brothers Prentiss and Landry—freed by the Emancipation Proclamation—seek refuge on the homestead of George Walker and his wife,

• Author : James McBride
• Publisher : Hachette UK
• Release Date : 2010-11-01
• ISBN : 9780733627026

High in the Tuscan mountains, four soldiers of the US Army's 92nd Division of African-American 'Buffalo' soldiers rescue a traumatised Italian boy from the Germans and stumble into a war-torn villages looking for help. Instead they find themselves stranded between worlds, with the German Army hidden on one side and their racist and largely mismanaged American commanding officers on the other. Floating between myth and reality in a place where belief in magic co-exists with the most horrific acts of

• Author : Brandon Sanderson
• Publisher : Tor Books
• Release Date : 2009-06-09
• ISBN : 9781429967945

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson, Warbreaker is the story of two sisters, who happen to be princesses, the God King one of them has to marry, the lesser god who doesn't like his job, and the immortal who's still trying to undo the mistakes he made hundreds of years ago. Their world is one in which those who die in glory return as gods to live confined to a pantheon in Hallandren's capital city and where a

• Author : James McBride
• Publisher : Penguin
• Release Date : 2017-09-26
• ISBN : 9780735216716

One of The New York Times' 100 Notable Books of 2017 “A pinball machine zinging with sharp dialogue, breathtaking plot twists and naughty humor... McBride at his brave and joyous best.” —New York Times Book Review From the New York Times bestselling author of The Good Lord Bird, winner of the 2013 National Book Award for Fiction, Deacon King Kong, and Kill 'Em and Leave, a James Brown biography. The stories in Five-Carat Soul—none of them ever published before—spring from the

• Author : James McBride
• Publisher : Penguin
• Release Date : 2013-08-20
• ISBN : 9781101616185

Now a Showtime limited series starring Ethan Hawke and Daveed Diggs Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction From the bestselling author of Deacon King Kong (an Oprah Book Club pick) and The Color of Water comes the story of a young boy born a slave who joins John Brown’s antislavery crusade—and who must pass as a girl to survive. Henry Shackleford is a young slave living in the Kansas Territory in 1856--a battleground between anti- and

• Author : Terrance Crawford
• Publisher : Scholastic Incorporated
• Release Date : 2021-07-06
• ISBN : 1338745174

Discover tons of exciting pranks, jokes, and hijinks from the films of the Harry Potter in this hilarious and interactive book with a paintbrush that reveals hidden messages. Ever wanted to tell a joke like Fred or George Weasley? See Wrackspurts like Luna Lovegood? Or leave class early with a Skiving Snackbox? In this fun and interactive Water-Color! book, you'll use a water-activated paintbrush to reveal: - Who used a Love Potion on whom - The Weasley twins' impressive Wildfire

• Author : Hiroshi Osada
• Publisher : Enchanted Lion Books
• Release Date : 2020-04-07
• ISBN : 1592702910

Poetic and sparse, a bedtime story told by the elements.