James McBride

A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother

The Color of Water

From James McBride, author of the bestselling Oprah’s Book Club pick Deacon King Kong and the National Book Award–winning The Good Lord Bird, a novel about small-town secrets and the people who keep them In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new development, the last thing they expected to find was a skeleton at the bottom of a well. Who the skeleton was and how it got there were two of the long-held secrets kept by the residents of Chicken Hill, the dilapidated neighborhood where immigrant Jews and African Americans lived side by side and shared ambitions and sorrows. Chicken Hill was where Moshe and Chona Ludlow lived when Moshe integrated his theater and where Chona ran the Heaven & Earth Grocery Store. When the state came looking for a deaf boy to institutionalize him, it was Chona and Nate Timblin, the Black janitor at Moshe’s theater and the unofficial leader of the Black community on Chicken Hill, who worked together to keep the boy safe. As these characters’ stories overlap and deepen, it becomes clear how much the people who live on the margins of white, Christian America struggle and what they must do to survive. When the truth is finally revealed about what happened on Chicken Hill and the part the town’s white establishment played in it, McBride shows us that even in dark times, it is love and community—heaven and earth—that sustain us. Bringing his masterly storytelling skills and his deep faith in humanity to The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store, James McBride has written a novel as compassionate as Deacon King Kong and as inventive as The Good Lord Bird.

A Novel

The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store

Lieveheersvogel is een opmerkelijk en tot de verbeelding sprekend boek, geschreven door de opvallend veelzijdige auteur James McBride. Het is een geweldige combinatie van geschiedenis en verbeeldingskracht, geschreven met een nauwkeurig gevoel voor detail en personages. Slavenzoon en wees Henry Shackleford is gedwongen te vluchten en wordt aan de vooravond van de Amerikaanse burgeroorlog opgenomen in het gezelschap van John Brown, een militant voorstander van de afschaffing van de slavernij. Henry wordt door de blanke Brown voor een meisje aangezien. Hoewel hij zich in eerste instantie schaamt, ziet hij al gauw de voordelen van zijn nieuwe identiteit en vrijheid. Het verhaal van Lieveheersvogel ontspint zich rondom deze twee onvergetelijke karakters tijdens een cruciaal moment in de Amerikaanse geschiedenis, waarin de afschaffing van de slavernij centraal staat. McBride diept met lef, humor en gevoel dit pijnlijke onderwerp uit en biedt een nieuw perspectief op deze beslissende periode.

Lieveheersvogel

M.I.L.K. (Project)

The M.I.L.K. Collection portrays unforgettable images of human life, from its fragile moments to its last. They tell us that the rich bond that exists between families and friends is universal. Representing many diverse cultures, the compelling and powerful photographs convey feelings experienced by people around the globe. Transcending borders, the M.I.L.K. imagery reaches across continents to celebrate and reveal the heart of the community. Inspired by the 1950's landmark photographic exhibition, "The Family Man", M.I.L.K. began as a global search to develop a collection of extraordinary and geographically diverse images portraying humanity's Moments of Intimacy, Laughter and Kinship. This epic search, took the form of a photographic competition-probably the biggest, and almost certainly the most ambitious of its kind, ever to be conducted.

Moments, Intimacy, Laughter, Kinship

Family

Dominic Hoffman

Deacon King Kong

This work explores the relationship between male games and violence against women by examining various theoretical rubrics, including the classic authoritarian personality model of Adorno and Sanford. It also looks at Girard's theory of scapegoating, androcentrism and other theories.

The Gulf Between American Men and Women

War, Battering, and Other Sports

Ta-Nehisi Coates

Victoria Christopher Murray

Fiona Davis

Kim Michele Richardson

C. W. Gortner

Brit Bennett

Chanel Cleeton

Anna North

Min Jin Lee

Stuart Turton

Maggie O'Farrell

Kristin Harmel

Erika Robuck

Jennifer Ryan

Kaitlyn Greenidge

Lauren Fox

Janet Skeslien Charles

Taylor Jenkins Reid

Maggie Shipstead

Jessica Anya Blau

Dennis Lehane

M. J. Rose

Lisa Wingate

Yangsze Choo

Anita Diamant

Lauren Willig

Kelly Rimmer

Alka Joshi

Sarah Penner

Madeline Martin

Lynda Rutledge

Pip Williams

Karin Tanabe

Afia Atakora

Bryn Turnbull

Nathan Harris

Sadeqa Johnson

Vanessa Riley

Camille Aubray

Denny S. Bryce

Nicola Harrison

Sara Ackerman

Kaia Alderson

Marisel Vera

Jennifer Zeynab Joukhadar

Historical Fiction

Kindle

«Au cours de ses quarante-cinq ans de carrière, James Brown a vendu plus de deux cents millions de disques, il a enregistré trois cent vingt et un albums, dont seize ont été des hits, il a écrit huit cent trente deux chansons et a reçu quarante-cinq disques d'or. Il a révolutionné la musique américaine. Il était extraordinairement talentueux Un danseur génial. Un spectacle à lui tout seul. Un homme qui aimait rire. Un drogué, un emmerdeur. Un type qui avait le chic pour s'attirer des ennuis. Un homme qui échappait à toute tentative de description. La raison ? Brown était l'enfant d'un pays de dissimulation : le Sud des États-Unis. » Jazzman et romancier, lauréat du National Book Award, James McBride se lance sur les traces d'une l'icône de la musique américaine. De rencontres en entretiens, il nous offre un tableau magistral de l'univers de James Brown et nous livre une vision troublante de la société américaine actuelle.

A la recherche de James Brown et de l'âme de l'Amérique

Mets le feu et tire-toi

L'Oiseau du Bon Dieu

“Chacun dans sa vie, homme ou femme, a sa chanson, et si vous avez un peu de chance, vous ne l’oubliez pas. La chanson de votre mariage, la chanson de votre premier amour, la chanson de votre enfance. Pour nous, les Africains-Américains, la chanson de notre vie, la chanson de toute une histoire, s’incarne dans l’existence et l’époque de James Brown”. Mais qui était James Brown et quelle était cette époque ? Pourquoi, surtout, est-il devenu une part de l’âme de l’Amérique au même titre que Martin Luther King ou Mohamed Ali ? Une enquête virtuose pour percer le secret du génie de la soul, complexe et intense.

Conflito e humor se mesclam na epopeia pela libertação que levou o National Book Award de 2013. Henry Shackleford é um menino escravizado no território do Kansas em 1856. Uma das grandes figuras do momento é John Brown, lendário abolicionista que vê na insurreição armada o único caminho para a libertação. E, quando Brown chega ao Kansas, o garoto vê-se forçado a deixar a cidade na companhia do abolicionista, que o toma por uma menina. O excêntrico Brown, então, apelida Henry de "Cebola", adotando-o como seu amuleto, e o jovem, de modo a permanecer vivo, oculta sua verdadeira identidade. A pequena Cebola pode contar apenas com a própria engenhosidade para sobreviver à violência crescente entre Brown, com o apoio de seu exército esfarrapado, e os senhores de escravos, antes do lendário ataque a Harpers Ferry, onde a história norte-americana tomará novos rumos. Uma narrativa arrebatadora, descrita pela voz de um ancião que rememora sua infância, O pássaro do bom senhor fará o leitor rir e pensar. É uma aventura envolvente, contada a partir do olhar meticuloso para personagens e detalhes característicos de McBride.

O pássaro do bom senhor

Fleeing her violent master at the side of legendary abolitionist John Brown at the height of the slavery debate in mid-19th-century Kansas Territory, Henry pretends to be a girl to hide his identity throughout the historic raid on Harpers Ferry in 1859. By the best-selling author of The Color of Water. (historical fiction).

The Good Lord Bird

“You won’t leave this hypnotic book without feeling that James Brown is still out there, howling.”—The Boston Globe From 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 Soul Kill ’Em and Leave is more than a book about James Brown. Brown embodied the contradictions of American life: He was an unsettling symbol of the tensions between North and South, black and white, rich and poor. After receiving a tip that promises to uncover the man behind the myth, James McBride goes in search of the “real” James Brown. McBride’s travels take him to forgotten corners of Brown’s never-before-revealed history, illuminating not only our understanding of the immensely troubled, misunderstood, and complicated Godfather of Soul, but the ways in which our cultural heritage has been shaped by Brown’s enduring legacy. Praise for Kill ’Em and Leave “A tour de force of cultural reportage.”—The Seattle Times “Thoughtful and probing.”—The New York Times Book Review “Masterly . . . powerful.”—Los Angeles Review of Books “McBride provides something lacking in most of the books about James Brown: an intimate feeling for the musician, a veracious if inchoate sense of what it was like to be touched by him. . . . It may be as close [to ‘the real James Brown’] as we’ll ever get.”—David Hajdu, The Nation “A feat of intrepid journalistic fortitude.”—USA Today “[McBride is] the biographer of James Brown we’ve all been waiting for. . . . McBride’s true subject is race and poverty in a country that doesn’t want to hear about it, unless compelled by a voice that demands to be heard.”—Boris Kachka, New York “Illuminating . . . engaging.”—The Washington Post “A gorgeously written piece of reportage that gives us glimpses of Brown’s genius and contradictions.”—O: The Oprah Magazine

Searching for James Brown and the American Soul

Kill 'Em and Leave

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 Working Man in Show Business' was also an immensely troubled, misunderstood and complicated man. Award-winning writer James McBride, himself a professional musician, has undertaken a journey of discovery in search of the 'real' James Brown, delving into the heartbreaking saga of Brown's childhood and destroyed estate, and uncovering the hidden history of Brown's early years. But this book is more than the story of the larger-than-life soul genius. It is an acutely insightful account of the racism and Southern culture which both produced and destroyed James Brown, a portrait of the musicians who created the 'James Brown sound' yet were lost to history, a nuanced appreciation of what made Brown's music so special, and a series of conversations with the friends and protégés whose lives were changed by the 'Godfather of Soul'. Vividly written and thoroughly researched, James McBride has crafted a deeply personal story of a man and a legend.

Ohio

Passed February 2, 1822 : Together with the Rules and Articles of War, for the Government of the Army of the United States

An Act for Disciplining the Militia of the State of Ohio

In a historical novel based on events at a small village in Tuscany during World War II, four African American soldiers from the 92nd Division, a band of partisans, and a young Italian boy come together to experience a miracle.

Miracle at St. Anna

An African American man describes life as the son of a white mother and Black father, reflecting on his mother's contributions to his life and his confusion over his own identity.

John Cleves Symmes

Demonstrating that the Earth is Hollow, Habitable Within, and Widely Open about the Poles

Symmes's Theory of Concentric Spheres

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