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The Sellout by Paul Beatty
Category: Fiction
A biting satire about a young man's isolated upbringing and the race trial that sends him to the Supreme Court, Paul Beatty's "The Sellout "showcases a comic genius at the top of his game. It challenges the sacred tenets of the United States Constitution, urban life, the civil rights movement, the fathe ...Show more
The Sellout: Winner of the 2016 Booker Prize (Audio CD; unabridged; 8 CDs) by Paul Beatty
Category: Audio Books
Born in Dickens, Los Angeles, the narrator of The Sellout spent his childhood as the subject in his father's racially charged psychological studies. He is told that his father's memoir will solve their financial woes. But when his father is killed, he discovers there never was a memoir. Fuelled by despa ...Show more
The Sellout: Winner of the 2016 Booker Prize - (HB) by Paul Beatty
Category: Fiction
A biting satire about a young man's isolated upbringing and the race trial that sends him to the Supreme Court, Paul Beatty's "The Sellout "showcases a comic genius at the top of his game. It challenges the sacred tenets of the United States Constitution, urban life, the civil rights movement, the fathe ...Show more
The White Boy Shuffle by Paul Beatty
Category: Fiction
Paul Beatty's hilarious and scathing debut novel is about Gunnar Kaufman, an awkward, black surfer bum who is moved by his mother from Santa Monica to urban West Los Angeles. There, he begins to undergo a startling transformation from neighborhood outcast to basketball superstar, and eventually to reluc ...Show more
The White Boy Shuffle by Paul Beatty
Category: Literature
Born into a long line of uncle Toms - including an ancestor who escaped into slavery and a relative who set up Malcolm X - Gunnar Kaufman grew up doing the perfect white boy shuffle in Santa Monica. Now the street-stupid kid has to learn - and fast - how to survive the hard-line homeboys of inner-city L ...Show more
The World According to Drucker - The Life and Work of the World's Greatest Management Thinker by Jack Beatty
Category: Business, Economics and Law
Major biography and examination of the business philosophy of Peter Drucker, the century's most influential management thinker. For many business managers across the world, Peter Drucker is the Doyen of management theory. Born in Austria in 1909, Drucker was raised in Vienna between the wars. Emigrated ...Show more
Theseus and the Minotaur by Beatty
Category: Learning Material & Coursework (ELT) | Series: Pearson English Active Readers, Level 1
This reader is accompanied with a CD that contains the full audio of the text in MP3 format. Theseus is the son of Poseidon, the god of the sea, but he is the son of King Aegeus of Athenstoo. Every year the Minotaur eats people from Athens. Theseus is strong and angry, but he is only a young man. Can h ...Show more
Titanic Collections Volume 1: Fragments of History: The Ship by MIKE BEATTY
Category: Technology and Transport | Series: Titanic Collections
A beautifully designed book showcasing important collections of Titanic-related memorabilia. This is the first in a two-part series showcasing rare and important artefacts relating to the history of RMS Titanic. Many collectors prefer to hide their treasures away, but the items presented in these beauti ...Show more
Titanic Collections Volume 2: Fragments of History: The People by MIKE BEATTY
Category: Reference
A beautifully designed book showcasing important collections of Titanic-related memorabilia. This is the second in a two-part series showcasing rare and important artefacts relating to the history of RMS Titanic. Many collectors prefer to hide their treasures away, but the items presented in these beau ...Show more
Tuff by Paul Beatty
Category: Fiction
'Beatty insistently finds poetry in the projects, dignity on the street.' Guardian 'Beatty's blunt, impious, streetwise eloquence [is] transfixing' New York Times 'The writing here is seamless and teeming with momentum' New York Times Book Review Winston 'Tuffy' Foshay is a 19-year-old, 24-stone 'player ...Show more
White Boy Shuffle by Paul Beatty
Category: Fiction
'A thousand-miles-an-hour hoot.' Esquire 'Hilarious...and immensely moving.' The New Yorker 'A blast of satirical heat from the talented heart of black American life.' New York Times White Boy Shuffle is Man Booker-winner Paul Beatty's electrifying debut novel about teenage-surf-bum Gunnar Kaufman who i ...Show more
Who was... Anne Boleyn : The Queen who lost her head by Laura Beatty
Category: Children's
The wife who lost her headAnne Boleyn was beautiful, gifted and clever. As a teenager, when she arrived at the English court after completing her education in France, she soon caught the eye of King Henry VIII. Henry wooed Anne with passionate love letters, and finally, after a great struggle, was allow ...Show more