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Musical Landscapes in Color

Conversations with Black American Composers

by William C. Banfield, William C. Banfield, Michael Abels, H. Leslie Adams, Lettie Beckon Alston, Thomas J Anderson, Dwight Andrews, Regina Harris Baiocchi, David Baker, Ysaye Maria Barnwell, Billy Childs0, Noel DaCosta1, Anthony Davis2, George Duke3, Leslie Dunner4, Donal Fox5, Adolphus Hailstork6, Jester Hairston7, Herbie Hancock8, Jonathan Holland9, Anthony Kelley0, Wendell Logan1, Bobby McFerrin2, Dorothy Rudd Moore3, Jeffrey Mumford4, Gary Powell Nash5, Stephen Newby6, Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson7, Michael Powell8, Patrice Rushen9, George Russell0, Kevin Scott1, Evelyn Simpson-Curenton2, Hale Smith3, Billy Taylor4, Frederick C Tillis5, George Walker6, James Kimo Williams7, Julius Williams8, Tony Williams9, Olly Wilson0, Michael Woods1 ...

Series series Music in American Life
Now available in paperback, William C. Banfield’s acclaimed collection of interviews delves into the lives and work of forty-one Black composers. Each of the profiled artists offers a candid self-portrait that explores areas from training and compositional techniques to working in a exclusive canon that has existed for a very long time. At the same time, Banfield draws on sociology, Western ... Read more

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Now available in paperback, William C. Banfield’s acclaimed collection of interviews delves into the lives and work of forty-one Black composers. Each of the profiled artists offers a candid self-portrait that explores areas from training and compositional techniques to working in a exclusive canon that has existed for a very long time. At the same time, Banfield draws on sociology, Western
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Speaking of Work: A Story of Love, Suspense and Paperclips

by Jonathan Ames, Lee Child, Billy Collins, Jonathan Coulton, Sloane Crosley, Joshua Ferris, Jonathan Safran Foer, Roxane Gay, Valeria Luiselli, Alain Mabanckou, Aimee Mann, Joyce Carol Oates, Gary Shteyngart ...

Lee Child's street corner. Gary Shteyngart's bed. Joyce Carol Oates's classroom. Roxane Gay's dream house. Billy Collins's New York City. Aimee Mann and Jonathan Coulton's kitchen. Valeria Luiselli's writing desk. Sloane Crosley's conference call. Alain Mabanckou's Department of Human Resources. Jonathan Ames's shrink's office. Jonathan Safran Foer's Genius Bar. Joshua Ferris's America.What do ... Read more

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Lee Child's street corner. Gary Shteyngart's bed. Joyce Carol Oates's classroom. Roxane Gay's dream house. Billy Collins's New York City. Aimee Mann and Jonathan Coulton's kitchen. Valeria Luiselli's writing desk. Sloane Crosley's conference call. Alain Mabanckou's Department of Human Resources. Jonathan Ames's shrink's office. Jonathan Safran Foer's Genius Bar. Joshua Ferris's America.What do
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The Best American Short Stories 2024

by Lauren Groff, Heidi Pitlor ...

A collection of the year’s best contemporary fiction, these short stories are selected by celebrated bestselling author Lauren Groff, author of Matrix and The Vaster Wilds, and series editor Heidi Pitlor.“There have never been as many exquisitely built stories in existence than there are now,” proclaims guest editor Lauren Groff in her introduction. This abundance led to a volume of robust stories ... Read more

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A collection of the year’s best contemporary fiction, these short stories are selected by celebrated bestselling author Lauren Groff, author of Matrix and The Vaster Wilds, and series editor Heidi Pitlor.“There have never been as many exquisitely built stories in existence than there are now,” proclaims guest editor Lauren Groff in her introduction. This abundance led to a volume of robust stories
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Cult Classic

A Novel

by Sloane Crosley ...

**Hilariously insightful and delightfully suspenseful, Cult Classic is an original: a masterfully crafted tale of love, memory, morality, and mind control, as well as a fresh foray into the philosophy of romance.A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR at the Washington Post, the BBC, Esquire, Harper’s Bazaar, and more!**One night in New York City’s Chinatown, a woman is at a work reunion dinner with former ... Read more

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**Hilariously insightful and delightfully suspenseful, Cult Classic is an original: a masterfully crafted tale of love, memory, morality, and mind control, as well as a fresh foray into the philosophy of romance.A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR at the Washington Post, the BBC, Esquire, Harper’s Bazaar, and more!**One night in New York City’s Chinatown, a woman is at a work reunion dinner with former
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Jack Reacher

A Mysterious Profile

by Lee Child ...

Series series Mysterious Profiles
The #1 New York Times –bestselling author reveals the story behind "one of this century's most original, tantalizing pop-fiction heroes" ( The Washington Post ).In this short piece the creator of Jack Reacher, shares the origins of the ex-military cop who now makes use of his skills in the civilian world—a place where he never feels quite at home. In addition, Lee Child reflects ... ... Read more

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The #1 New York Times –bestselling author reveals the story behind "one of this century's most original, tantalizing pop-fiction heroes" ( The Washington Post ).In this short piece the creator of Jack Reacher, shares the origins of the ex-military cop who now makes use of his skills in the civilian world—a place where he never feels quite at home. In addition, Lee Child reflects ...
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Stealing

A Novel

by Margaret Verble ...

“This powerful novel should join classics like Ernest J. Gaines’s The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, Helena Maria Viramontes’s Under the Feet of Jesus, and Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird.”—New York Times Book ReviewA gripping, gut-punch of a novel about a Cherokee child removed from her family and sent to a Christian boarding school in the 1950s—an ambitious, eye-opening reckoning of ... Read more

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“This powerful novel should join classics like Ernest J. Gaines’s The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, Helena Maria Viramontes’s Under the Feet of Jesus, and Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird.”—New York Times Book ReviewA gripping, gut-punch of a novel about a Cherokee child removed from her family and sent to a Christian boarding school in the 1950s—an ambitious, eye-opening reckoning of
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Eartheater

A Novel

by Dolores Reyes ...

Dolores Reyes' Eartheater is an "outstanding" ( New York Times) synthesis of mystery and magical realism that explores the dark tragedies of ordinary lives.NAMED A MUST-READ AND ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS BY TIME, VULTURE, BOSTON GLOBE, COSMOPOLITAN, WIRED, AND MORESet in an unnamed slum in contemporary Argentina, this is the story of a young woman who finds herself drawn to eating the... ... Read more

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Dolores Reyes' Eartheater is an "outstanding" ( New York Times) synthesis of mystery and magical realism that explores the dark tragedies of ordinary lives.NAMED A MUST-READ AND ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS BY TIME, VULTURE, BOSTON GLOBE, COSMOPOLITAN, WIRED, AND MORESet in an unnamed slum in contemporary Argentina, this is the story of a young woman who finds herself drawn to eating the...
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Death of a Lesser God

the warm, witty and utterly addictive cozy mystery with a brilliant female sleuth

by Vaseem Khan ...

Series series The Malabar House Series
In a thrilling new murder mystery in the Malabar House series, Persis Wadia and Archie Blackfinch travel to the old colonial capital of Calcutta, where they collide head-on with the prejudices and bloody politics of an era engulfed in flame.Can a white man receive justice in post-colonial India?Bombay, 1950. James Whitby, sentenced to death for the murder of prominent lawyer and former Quit India ... Read more

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In a thrilling new murder mystery in the Malabar House series, Persis Wadia and Archie Blackfinch travel to the old colonial capital of Calcutta, where they collide head-on with the prejudices and bloody politics of an era engulfed in flame.Can a white man receive justice in post-colonial India?Bombay, 1950. James Whitby, sentenced to death for the murder of prominent lawyer and former Quit India
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Liberation Day

Stories

by George Saunders ...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “One of our most inventive purveyors of the form returns with pitch-perfect, genre-bending stories that stare into the abyss of our national character. . . . An exquisite work from a writer whose reach is galactic.”—Oprah DailyBooker Prize winner George Saunders returns with his first collection of short stories since the New York Times bestseller Tenth of December.ONE ... Read more

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “One of our most inventive purveyors of the form returns with pitch-perfect, genre-bending stories that stare into the abyss of our national character. . . . An exquisite work from a writer whose reach is galactic.”—Oprah DailyBooker Prize winner George Saunders returns with his first collection of short stories since the New York Times bestseller Tenth of December.ONE
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The Lost Shtetl

A Novel

by Max Gross ...

A Polish village overlooked by Nazis remains hidden until a troubled local marriage launches them into the twenty-first century in this imaginative debut.Spared by the Holocaust and the Cold War, the tiny Jewish shtetl of Kreskol existed in happy isolation, virtually untouched and unchanged for decades. But when a local couple disappears, the existence of Kreskol soon makes headlines nationwide, ... Read more

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A Polish village overlooked by Nazis remains hidden until a troubled local marriage launches them into the twenty-first century in this imaginative debut.Spared by the Holocaust and the Cold War, the tiny Jewish shtetl of Kreskol existed in happy isolation, virtually untouched and unchanged for decades. But when a local couple disappears, the existence of Kreskol soon makes headlines nationwide,
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The Best American Short Stories 2021

by Heidi Pitlor, Jesmyn Ward ...

Series series Best American
A collection of the year’s best stories selected by celebrated two-time National Book Award winner Jesmyn WardIn her introduction to The Best American Short Stories 2021, guest editor Jesmyn Ward says that the best fiction offers the reader a “sense of repair.” The stories in this year’s collection accomplish just that, immersing the reader in powerfully imagined worlds and allowing them to bring ... Read more

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A collection of the year’s best stories selected by celebrated two-time National Book Award winner Jesmyn WardIn her introduction to The Best American Short Stories 2021, guest editor Jesmyn Ward says that the best fiction offers the reader a “sense of repair.” The stories in this year’s collection accomplish just that, immersing the reader in powerfully imagined worlds and allowing them to bring
... Read more

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The Color of Air

A Novel

by Gail Tsukiyama ...

PARADE’sBest Books to Read this Summer"A rich historical novel that illustrates why connection is more important and more vital than ever.” -New York Times bestselling author Lisa SeeDaniel Abe, a young doctor in Chicago, is finally coming back to Hawai'i. He has his own reason for returning to his childhood home, but it is not to revisit the past, unlike his Uncle Koji. Koji lives with the ... Read more

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PARADE’sBest Books to Read this Summer"A rich historical novel that illustrates why connection is more important and more vital than ever.” -New York Times bestselling author Lisa SeeDaniel Abe, a young doctor in Chicago, is finally coming back to Hawai'i. He has his own reason for returning to his childhood home, but it is not to revisit the past, unlike his Uncle Koji. Koji lives with the
... Read more

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