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The New York Times bestselling story from the author of The Good Lord Bird, winner of the 2013 National Book Award for Fiction.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 well as his own upbringing and heritage, in a poignant and powerful debut, The Color Of Water: A Black Man's Tribute ...

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 c...

**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 ReviewFrom 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

FROM THE MILLION-COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE HEAVEN & EARTH GROCERY STORE'Just so brilliant'John Green'Wildly entertaining. A rollicking saga about one of America's earliest abolitionists'PeopleHenry Shackleford is a young slave living in the Kansas Territory in 1856.When an argument between Henry's master and legendary abolitionist John ...

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Brought to you by Penguin.THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICKFrom the winner of a National Book Award and author of The Good Lord Bird, soon to be a TV series starring Ethan HawkeThe year is 1969. In a housing project in south Brooklyn, a shambling old church deacon called Sportscoat shoots - for no apparent reason - the local drug-dealer who used to be part of the church's baseball tea...

“You won’t leave this hypnotic book without feeling that James Brown is still out there, howling.”—The Boston GlobeFrom 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 SoulKill ’Em and Leave is more than a book about James Brown. Brown embodied the contradictions of American life: He was an ...

FROM THE MILLION-COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE HEAVEN & EARTH GROCERY STORE'I envy those about to discover Miracle at St. Anna for the first time'Bonnie Garmus, author of Lessons in Chemistry'Searingly, soaringly beautiful'Baltimore SunTowards the end of World War Two, four soldiers from the Army's Negro 92nd Division find themsel...