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  • The World in Flames

    A Black Boyhood in a White Supremacist Doomsday Cult

    by Jerald Walker ...
    A lively memoir of growing up with blind African American parents in a segregated cult preaching the imminent end of the world—for fans of James McBride’s The Good Lord Bird.It’s 1970, and Jerry Walker is six years old. His consciousness revolves around being a member of a church whose beliefs he finds not only confusing but terrifying. Composed of a hodgepodge of requirements and restrictions ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Magically Black and Other Essays

    by Jerald Walker ...
    *** Finalist for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay**** ****Semi-Finalist for the Thurber Prize for American Humor**** ****Finalist for the New England Book Award**** ****Longlisted for the Massachusetts Book Award****In this engaging follow up to How to Make a Slave and Other Essays, the recipient of PEN New England Award for nonfiction and finalist for the National ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • After Montaigne

    Contemporary Essayists Cover the Essays

    by Chris Arthur, Barrie Jean Borich, Steven Church, Brian Doyle, Lisa Ferreira, Vivian Gornick, Wayne Koestenbaum, Shannon Lakanen, Desirae Matherly, Maggie Nelson, Jose Orduna, Elena Passarello, Kristen Radtke, Amy Scott, Jerald Walker, Marcia Aldrich, Robert Atwan, Mary Cappello, Danielle Cadena Deulen, E. J. Levy, Phillip Lopate, Bret Lott, Lia Purpura, Nicole Walker, Judith Ortiz Cofer, Lina M. Ferreira, Robin Hemley ...
    Writers of the modern essay can trace their chosen genre all the way back to Michel de Montaigne (1533–92). But save for the recent notable best seller How to Live: A Life of Montaigne by Sarah Bakewell, Montaigne is largely ignored. After Montaigne—a collection of twenty-four new personal essays intended as tribute—aims to correct this collective lapse of memory and introduce modern readers and ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Street Shadows

    A Memoir of Race, Rebellion, and Redemption

    by Jerald Walker ...
    Masterfully told, marked by irony and humor as well as outrage and a barely contained sadness, Jerald Walker’s Street Shadows is the story of a young man’s descent into the “thug life” and the wake-up call that led to his finding himself again.Walker was born in a Chicago housing project and raised, along with his six brothers and sisters, by blind parents of modest means but middle-class ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • How to Make a Slave and Other Essays

    by Jerald Walker ...
    Series series 21st Century Essays
    Finalist, National Book Award in NonfictionWinner, Massachusetts Book AwardA Book of the Year pick from Kirkus, BuzzFeed, and Literary Hub“The essays in this collection are restless, brilliant and short.…The brevity suits not just Walker’s style but his worldview, too.…Keeping things quick gives him the freedom to move; he can alight on a truth without pinning it into place.” —Jennifer Szalai, the ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Switzerland in Every Season

    A Year-Round Travel Handbook

    by Jerald Walker ...
    Switzerland in Every Season: A Year-Round Travel Handbook is your ultimate guide to exploring the captivating country of Switzerland throughout the year. Discover the diverse landscapes, cultural treasures, and exhilarating experiences that await you in this enchanting destination. Whether you're seeking alpine adventures, vibrant city escapades, or tranquil lakeside retreats, this comprehensive ... Read more

    $14.89 USD

  • Audiobook

    Magically Black and Other Essays

    by Jerald Walker ...
    Narrated by Aaron Goodson ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 56 min

    *** Finalist for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay********Semi-Finalist for the Thurber Prize for American Humor********Finalist for the New England Book Award********Longlisted for the Massachusetts Book Award****In this engaging follow up to How to Make a Slave and Other Essays, the recipient of PEN New England Award for nonfiction and finalist for the National Book ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Audiobook

    The World in Flames

    A Black Boyhood in a White Supremacist Doomsday Cult

    by Jerald Walker ...
    Narrated by C.S. Treadway ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 39 min

    A lively memoir of growing up with blind African American parents in a segregated cult preaching the imminent end of the world—for fans of James McBride’s The Good Lord Bird.It’s 1970, and Jerry Walker is six years old. His consciousness revolves around being a member of a church whose beliefs he finds not only confusing but terrifying. Composed of a hodgepodge of requirements and restrictions ... Read more

    $15.00 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    A Peculiar Indifference

    The Neglected Toll of Violence on Black America

    by Elliott Currie ...
    Narrated by Sean Patrick Hopkins ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 47 min

    From a Pulitzer Prize finalist, a devastating exploration of the racial disparities in violent death and injury in America and a blueprint for ending this fundamental social injusticeAbout 170,000 black Americans have died in homicides just since the year 2000. Violence takes more years of life from black men than cancer, stroke, and diabetes combined; a young black man in the United States has a ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    Once Upon an Algorithm

    How Stories Explain Computing

    by Martin Erwig ...
    Narrated by Walter Dixon ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 48 min

    How Hansel and Gretel, Sherlock Holmes, the movie Groundhog Day, Harry Potter, and other familiar stories illustrate the concepts of computing.Picture a computer scientist, staring at a screen and clicking away frantically on a keyboard, hacking into a system, or perhaps developing an app. Now delete that picture. In Once Upon an Algorithm, Martin Erwig explains computation as something that takes ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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    Also available as: eBook

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    Einstein on the Run

    How Britain Saved the World’s Greatest Scientist

    by Andrew Robinson ...
    Narrated by Antony Ferguson ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 24 min

    The first account of the role Britain played in Einstein’s life—first by inspiring his teenage passion for physics, then by providing refuge from the NazisIn autumn 1933, Albert Einstein found himself living alone in an isolated holiday hut in rural England. There, he toiled peacefully at mathematics while occasionally stepping out for walks or to play his violin. But how had Einstein come to ... Read more

    $19.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    Trace

    Memory, History, Race, and the American Landscape

    by Lauret Savoy ...
    Narrated by Allyson Johnson ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 6 min

    Sand and stone are Earth's fragmented memory. Each of us, too, is a landscape inscribed by memory and loss. One life-defining lesson Lauret Savoy learned as a young girl was this: the American land did not hate. As an educator and Earth historian, she has tracked the continent's past from the relics of deep time; but the paths of ancestors toward her—paths of free and enslaved Africans, colonists ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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    Also available as: eBook