Chicago, 1954. When his father goes missing, twenty-two-year-old army veteran Atticus Turner embarks on a road trip to New England to find him. On his journey he encounters both mundane terrors of...
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Auteur: Goines, DonaldSommaire:Trapped in the festering sore of a major American ghetto, a young man and his girlfriend--both attractive, talented, and full of promise--are inexorably pulled into the living death of the...
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Auteur: Dundas, ChadSommaire:A story of second chances and a sport at the cusp of major change. In 1921, former lightweight wrestling champion Pepper Van Dean accepts an offer to train Garfield Taft, a heavyweight contender...
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Auteur: Arenson, DanielSommaire:The Aelarian Empire, once a humble city-state, sends its tentacles across the Encircled Sea. Now the waters run red with blood. In the kingdom of Zohar, the wealthy Sela family commands the sea's...
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Auteur: Arenson, DanielSommaire:The old emperor is dead. His daughter, the sadistic Porcia Octavius, has won a bloodthirsty battle for the crown. But she will not rest easy on her throne. Already her brother sails to foreign...
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Auteur: Baldwin, JamesSommaire:A classic memoir recounting Baldwin's early life in Harlem, the civil rights struggle, the murders of Malcolm X and MLK, and his eventual confrontation with the violent American South.
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Auteur: Baldwin, JamesSommaire:Records the last months of Baldwin's ten-year self-exile in Europe, his return to Harlem, and his first trip south at the time of the school integration battles.
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Auteur: Banks, RussellSommaire:Get to know the colorful cast of characters at the Granite State Trailerpark, where Flora in number 11 keeps more than a hundred guinea pigs and screams at people to stay away from her babies;...
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Auteur: Owen, HowardSommaire:
Willie Black knew he had a father, even if he didn't know where he was buried. Artie Lee, a saxophonist and race man who did not suffer bigots gladly, died in a car crash. Willie knew that. When...
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Auteur: Goines, DonaldSommaire:
Whoreson Jones is the son of a beautiful black prostitute and an unknown white john. At age twelve, his street education begins as he learns trickology. By sixteen, his childhood abruptly ends,...
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Auteur: Baldwin, JamesSommaire:
Between Leo Proudhammer's childhood and his arrival into the world of the theater lies a wilderness of desire and loss, shame and rage. There are love affairs with both a man and a woman. And...
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Auteur: Hubbard, LadeeSommaire:
At seventy-two, Johnny Ribkins shouldn't have such problems: he's got one week to come up with the money he stole from his mobster boss or it's curtains. What may or may not be useful to Johnny as...
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Auteur: Tyson, Neil deGrasse, Goldsmith, DonaldSommaire:Our true origins are not just human, or even terrestrial, but in fact cosmic. Drawing on scientific breakthroughs and the current cross-pollination among geology, biology, astrophysics, and...
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Auteur: Couto, MiaSommaire:
Told through two haunting, interwoven diaries, this novel reveals the mysterious world of Kulumani, a village in Mozambique whose traditions and beliefs are threatened when ghost-like lionesses...
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Auteur: Sexton, Margaret WilkersonSommaire:Evelyn, a New Orleans Creole woman in the 1940s, comes from a family of upper-echelon blacks. When she falls for no-name Renard, she must choose between him and her life of privilege. For Evelyn,...