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Speak
Laurie Halse Anderson - Square Fish
Format: Paperback
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Freshman year at Merryweather High is not going well for Melinda Sordino. She busted an end-of-summer party by calling the cops, and now her friends - and even strangers - all hate her. So she stops trying, stops talking. She retreats into her head, and all the lies and hypocrisies of high... |
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What I Saw And How I Lied
Judy Blundell - Scholastic Paperbacks; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback
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This National Book Award winner set during the aftermath of WWII is now available in paperback!When Evie's father returned home from World War II, the family fell back into its normal life pretty quickly. But Joe Spooner brought more back with him than just good war stories. When... |
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Between the World and Me
Ta-Nehisi Coates - Spiegel & Grau
Format: Print book
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER | NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER | NAACP IMAGE AWARD WINNER | PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST | NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST | NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review * O: The Oprah Magazine * The Washington... |
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Invisible Man
Ralph Ellison - Random House Audio
Format: Audiobook
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Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all timeRalph Elllison's Invisible Man is a monumental novel, one that can well be called an epic of modern American Negro life. It is a strange story, in which many extraordinary things happen, some of them shocking and brutal,... |
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Head Off & Split: Poems
Nikky Finney - TriQuarterly
Format: Paperback
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. Winner, 2011 National Book Award for Poetry Winner, 2012 GCLS Award for Poetry Winner, 2012 SIBA Book Award for Poetry Nominee, 2012 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work in Poetry. The poems in Nikky Finneys breathtaking new collection Head Off & Split sustain a sensitive and intense... |
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The Corrections
Jonathan Franzen - Farrar Straus Giroux
Format: Hardcover
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THE CORRECTIONS is a grandly entertaining novel for the new century-a comic, tragic masterpiece about a family breaking down in an age of easy fixes. After almost fifty years as a wife and mother, Enid Lambert is ready to have some fun. Unfortunately, her husband, Alfred, is losing his sanity... |
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The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia
MASHA GESSEN - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover
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WINNER OF THE 2017 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN NONFICTIONThe essential journalist and bestselling biographer of Vladimir Putin reveals how, in the space of a generation, Russia surrendered to a more virulent and invincible new strain of autocracy. Hailed for her "fearless indictment of the most... |
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Hummingbird House
Patricia Henley
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FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD 1999 When Kate Banner, an American midwife in Nicaragua, loses another patient - a young Nicaraguan woman who had given birth only the night before - she knows it is time to go home. Travelling home leads her to Guatemala, where she becomes |
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New and Selected Poems
Mary Oliver - Beacon Press; First edition. edition
Format: Hardcover
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Winner of the 1992 National Book Award for PoetryA New York Times Notable Book of the Year 1993"One of the astonishing aspects of [Oliver's] work is the consistency of tone over this long period. What changes is an increased focus on nature and an increased precision with language... |
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Indecency
Justin Phillip Reed - Coffee House Press
Format: Paperback
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Winner of the 2018 National Book Award in PoetryIndecency is boldly and carefully executed and perfectly ragged. In these poems, Justin Phillip Reed experiments with language to explore inequity and injustice and to critique and lament the culture of white supremacy and the dominant social... |
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