'RaMell Ross's transcendentally moving and frightening film' (Guardian, New York Film Festival) now a major motion picture and shortlisted for a Golden Globe.WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION 2020WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL FICTION 2020Winner of the Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction 2020Time #1 Novel of the Year 2019

In this “morbidly funny”(The New York Times) thriller in Ace Atkin’s southern crime series, former Mississippi sheriff Quinn Colson might be out of a job—but that doesn't mean he’s staying out of trouble...Quinn Colson is unemployed—voted out of his position as sheriff of Tibbehah County, Mississippi. He has offers in bigger and better places, but before he goes, Colson’s got one more job to do—bring down county kingpin Johnny Stagg’s criminal operations f...

2000 Gold Medallion Award winner!Christianity is more than a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. It is also a worldview that not only answers life's basic questions—Where did we come from, and who are we? What has gone wrong with the world? What can we do to fix it?—but also shows us how we should live as a result of those answers. How Now Shall We Live? gives Christians the understanding, the confidence, and the tools to confront the world's bankrupt ...

FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD (Now a major Amazon Prime TV show)'Dazzling' Guardian'Gloriously entertaining' Evening Standard'A rich, wild book' New York Times*'*Ray Carney was only slightly bent when it came to being crooked...'To his customers and neighbors on 125th street, Carney is an upstanding salesman ...

FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD (Now a major Amazon Prime TV show)'Dazzling' Guardian'Gloriously entertaining' Evening Standard'A rich, wild book' New York Times*'*Ray Carney was only slightly bent when it came to being crooked...'To his customers and neighbors on 125th street, Carney is an upstanding salesman ...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • PEN/FAULKNER AWARD FINALIST • From the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys: a hilarious and supremely original novel set in the Hamptons in the 1980s, "a tenderhearted coming-of-age story fused with a sharp look at the intersections of race and class” (The New York Times).Benji Cooper is one of the few Black students at an elite prep school in Manhattan. But every su...

From the bestselling, two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys, a novel that is "funny and wise and sumptuously written" (Jonathan Franzen, The New York Times Book Review).Colson Whitehead’s triumphant novel is on one level a multifaceted retelling of the story of John Henry, the black steel-driver who died outracing a machine designed to replace him. On another level it’s the...

A pandemic has devastated the planet, sorting humanity into two types: the uninfected and the infected, the living and the living dead. The worst of the plague is now past, and Manhattan is slowly being resettled. Armed forces have successfully reclaimed the island south of Canal Street – aka ‘Zone One’ and teams of civilian volunteers are clearing out the remaining infected ‘stragglers’.Mark Spitz is a member of one of these taskforces and over three surreal days he undertakes the...

An anthology of true crime stories headlined by the case of Amy Lee Black. In the early morning hours on December 7, 1990, 16-year-old Amy Lee Black and her boyfriend, 19-year-old Jeff Abrahamson, committed a crime that they would have to pay for with the rest of their lives. The teenagers bludgeoned David John VanBogelen in the head with a whiskey bottle and stabbed the unconscious – possibly already dead – man multiple times in the body before calling it a day. By Independence Day the fo...

Conducting and Rehearsing the Instrumental Music Ensemble is the most comprehensive guide on the rehearsalprocess for conducting instrumental music ensembles. Ideal for the advanced instrumental music conductor seeking to look beyond basic conducting technique, this work breaks the multidimensional activity of working with an ensemble, orchestra, or band into its constituent components.Advanced students of conducting will find within the full range of conducting activities:...

Branwyn and Bridgette: two blue-eyed, fair-haired sisters and all the other has in the world. An odd dream lands Branwyn in a strange world. Summoned by Netari to the Shadow lands, Branwyn learns of her and her sister’s origins and the possibility that the parents she never knew may still be alive. Confronted with their destiny as warrior witches, Branwyn and Bridgette must now train in the arts of magic, sword fighting, and herb lore in order to save a world they never knew existed as wel...

Watching = Thinking reimagines film as literature and watching as critical thinking. This book invites readers to examine how cinematography, editing, sound, performance, symbolism, genre, visual composition, and narrative structure work together to create literature. Every camera angle, cut, musical cue, lighting choice, and performance contributes to a film's story. By learning to observe, ask thoughtful questions, recognize recurring patterns, and support interpretation...