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Deacon King Kong by James McBride
Category: Fiction
In September 1969, a fumbling, cranky old church deacon known as Sportcoat shuffles into the courtyard of the Cause Houses housing project in south Brooklyn, pulls a .38 from his pocket, and in front of everybody shoots the project's drug dealer at point-blank range. The reasons for this desperate burs ...Show more
Deacon King Kong by James McBride
Category: Fiction
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICKTOP TEN BOOKS OF 2020, NEW YORK TIMES'A hilarious, pitch-perfect comedy set in the Brooklyn projects of the late 1960s. This alone may qualify it as one of the year's best novels.' The Washington PostFrom the winner of a National Book Award and aut ...Show more
Deacon King Kong - A Novel by James McBride
Category: Fiction
From James McBride, author of the National Book Award-winning The Good Lord Bird, one of the most anticipated novels of the year: a wise and witty tale about what happens to the witnesses of a shooting.In September 1969, a fumbling, cranky old church deacon known as Sportcoat shuffles into the courtyard ...Show more
Deacon King Kong - A Novel by James McBride
Category: Fiction
The New York Times bestseller "Cracking...Terrific...Deeply felt, beautifully written, and profoundly humane." -The New York Times Book Review cover "Hilarious...A rich and vivid multicultural history." -Time Magazine From James McBride, author of the National Book Award-winning The Good Lord Bird and t ...Show more
Dodo Book of the Precious Pet by Naomi (ILT) James; Mcbride Rebecca; Hough Naomi; Jay Mcbride
Category: Fiction
Five-Carat Soul by James McBride
Category: Fiction
Exciting new fiction from James McBride, the first since his National Book Award-winning novel The Good Lord Bird. The stories in Five-Carat Soul--none of them ever published before--spring from the place where identity, humanity, and history converge. They're funny and poignant, insightful and unpredic ...Show more
Kill 'Em and Leave - Searching for the Real James Brown by James McBride
Category: Biography
The definitive biography of the soul legend James Brown by National Book Award-winning novelist James McBride The music of James Brown was almost a genre in its own right, and he was one of the biggest and most influential cultural figures of the twentieth century. But the singer known as the 'Hardest W ...Show more
Kill 'Em and Leave: Searching for the Real James Brown by James McBride
Category: Biography and Memoir
'A formidable free-style book that isn't straight biography but a mix of history, street-level investigative reporting, hagiography, Deep South sociology, music criticism, memoir and some fiery preaching' Rolling Stone magazine A Guardian best music book of 2016 The music of James Brown was almost a gen ...Show more
Miracle at St. Anna by James McBride
Category: Fiction
Look out for McBride's new book, Five-Carat Soul From the New York Times bestselling author of The Good Lord Bird, winner of the 2013 National Book Award for Fiction, and Kill 'Em and Leave, a James Brown biography. James McBride's powerful memoir, The Color of Water, was a groundbreaking literary phe ...Show more
Miracle at St Anna by James McBride
Category: Fiction
Based on an unspeakable massacre at the site of St Anna Di Stazzema and the experiences of the famed Buffalo soldiers in World War II, this is the story of four American negro soldiers and an Italian boy who encounter a miracle - though perhaps the true miracle lies in themselves.