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  • The Street

    by Ann Petry ...
    WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION FROM NEW YORK TIMES BEST-SELLING AUTHOR TAYARI JONES"How can a novel’s social criticism be so unflinching and clear, yet its plot moves like a house on fire? I am tempted to describe Petry as a magician for the many ways that The Street amazes, but this description cheapens her talent… Petry is a gifted artist." — Tayari Jones, from the IntroductionThe Street follows the ... Read more

    Was $13.99 USD Now $2.99 USD

  • Chiefs of Industry

    Maori Tribal Enterprise in Early Colonial New Zealand

    by Hazel Petrie ...
    Drawing on a wide range of sources in both English and Maori, this study explores the entrepreneurial activity of New Zealand's indigenous Maori in the early colonial period. Focusing on the two industries—coastal shipping and flourmilling—where Maori were spectacularly successful in the 1840s and 1850s, this title examines how such a society was able to develop capital-intensive investments and ... Read more

    $31.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Country Place

    A Novel

    by Ann Petry ...
    “Petry is the writer we have been waiting for; hers are the stories we need to fully illuminate the questions of our moment, while also offering a page-turning good time. Ann Petry, the woman, had it all, and so does her insightful, prescient and unputdownable prose.” — Tayari Jones, New York Times Book ReviewFrom the author of the bestselling novel The Street, Ann Petry’s classic 1947 ... Read more

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  • Outcasts of the Gods?

    The Struggle Over Slavery in Maori New Zealand

    by Hazel Petrie ...
    'Us Maoris used to practice slavery just like them poor Negroes had to endure in America . . .' says Beth Heke in Once Were Warriors. 'Oh those evil colonials who destroyed Maori culture by ending slavery and cannibalism while increasing the life expectancy,' wrote one sarcastic blogger. So was Maori slavery 'just like' the experience of Africans in the Americas and were British missionaries or ... Read more

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  • Audiobook

    Black Notice: Episode 4

    by Lotte Petri ...
    Narrated by Olivia Mace ...
    Series Audiobook 4 - Black Notice

    Unabridged

    1 hour 1 min

    A couple of old yearbooks from a school in a posh suburb north of Copenhagen show a boy who looks eerily similar to the man with the strange eyes. But with the rest of Europe's police focusing on border crossings and refugee camps, Felix is now on his own.He believes that the killer has a medical background, perhaps even an employee of Denmark's largest hospital, Rigshopitalet, where the first ... Read more

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  • Harriet Tubman

    Conductor on the Underground Railroad

    by Ann Petry ...
    This quintessential middle grade biography of Harriet Tubman now features a cover by NAACP Image Award winner and Caldecott Honor illustrator Kadir Nelson, a foreword by National Book Award finalist Jason Reynolds, and additional new material. A selection of the Schomburg Center's Black Liberation Reading List.Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad was praised by the New Yorker as ... Read more

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  • Drawing Landscapes in Pencil

    Learn versatile drawing techniques from a master with step-by-step instructions on how to draw every landscape element: trees, mountains, hills, rocks, boats, harbors & more.Comprehensive and insightful, Ferdinand Petrie's Drawing Landscapes in Pencil is full of invaluable lessons in the subtle art of pencil drawing. The course begins with a thorough overview of materials and fundamental pencil ... Read more

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  • Ann Petry: The Street, The Narrows (LOA #314)

    by Ann Petry ...
    In one volume, two landmark novels about the terrible power of race in America from one of the foremost African American writers of the past century.Ann Petry is increasingly recognized as one of the essential American novelists of the twentieth century. Now, she joins the Library of America series with this deluxe hardcover volume gathering her two greatest works. Published in 1946 to widespread ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • The Narrows

    A Novel

    by Ann Petry ...
    “Petry is the writer we have been waiting for; hers are the stories we need to fully illuminate the questions of our moment, while also offering a page-turning good time. Ann Petry, the woman, had it all, and so does her insightful, prescient and unputdownable prose.” — Tayari Jones, New York Times Book ReviewFrom author of the bestselling novel The Street, a “masterpiece of social realism” (Wall ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Black Notice: Episode 5

    by Lotte Petri ...
    Translated by Martin Reib Petersen ...
    Series Book 5 - Black Notice
    When Kathrine is kidnapped, the police quickly arrest a suspect. But when it becomes clear that they've got the wrong man, Felix Jørgensen goes after a gynecologist with a suspended medical license. The tracks lead the investigator to a seemingly abandoned house in rural Lolland in southern Denmark.Is Kathrine in the house? Does the murderer know about their trap? And will Felix manage to save his ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Drifter

    by Nick Petrie ...
    Series Book 1 - A Peter Ash Novel
    **The first explosive thriller featuring Peter Ash, a veteran who finds that the demons of war aren’t easily left behind...“Lots of characters get compared to my own Jack Reacher, but Petrie’s Peter Ash is the real deal.”—Lee Child**Peter Ash came home from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan with only one souvenir: what he calls his “white static,” the buzzing claustrophobia due to post-traumatic ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Miss Muriel and Other Stories

    by Ann Petry ...
    “Petry is the writer we have been waiting for; hers are the stories we need to fully illuminate the questions of our moment, while also offering a page-turning good time. Ann Petry, the woman, had it all, and so does her insightful, prescient and unputdownable prose.” — Tayari Jones, New York Times Book ReviewFrom the author of the bestselling novel The Street, comes a powerful collection of ... Read more

    $14.99 USD