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54 Miles

A Novel

by Leonard Pitts ...

Set in mid-60s Harlem and Alabama, two families grapple with the promise and brutality of the civil rights era in the American South, reckoning with family secrets, unresolved trauma, and the heavy question of what justice demands.The free-standing successor and next novel by the author of the critically acclaimed The Last Thing You Surrender, Leonard Pitts, Jr.'s 54 Miles launches forward twenty ... Read more

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Set in mid-60s Harlem and Alabama, two families grapple with the promise and brutality of the civil rights era in the American South, reckoning with family secrets, unresolved trauma, and the heavy question of what justice demands.The free-standing successor and next novel by the author of the critically acclaimed The Last Thing You Surrender, Leonard Pitts, Jr.'s 54 Miles launches forward twenty
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Freeman

A Novel

by Leonard Pitts ...

A former slave embarks on a hellish journey through the post-Civil War South to reunite with his wife, in this novel by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author.With the news of General Lee's surrender, Sam, a runaway slave who served in the Union Army, decides to leave his refuge in Philadelphia. He sets out on foot on an almost-suicidal journey through the terrifying, war-torn South to Buford, ... Read more

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A former slave embarks on a hellish journey through the post-Civil War South to reunite with his wife, in this novel by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author.With the news of General Lee's surrender, Sam, a runaway slave who served in the Union Army, decides to leave his refuge in Philadelphia. He sets out on foot on an almost-suicidal journey through the terrifying, war-torn South to Buford,
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Grant Park

A Novel

by Leonard Pitts ...

Two Chicago newspapermen grapple with race and the past in this contemporary terrorist thriller by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Freeman.Disillusioned Chicago columnist Malcolm Toussaint, fueled by yet another report of unarmed Black men killed by police, hacks into his newspaper's server to post an incendiary column that had been rejected by his editors. Toussaint then disappears, and his ... Read more

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Two Chicago newspapermen grapple with race and the past in this contemporary terrorist thriller by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Freeman.Disillusioned Chicago columnist Malcolm Toussaint, fueled by yet another report of unarmed Black men killed by police, hacks into his newspaper's server to post an incendiary column that had been rejected by his editors. Toussaint then disappears, and his
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The Angry House

by Leonard Pitts Jr. ...

The Fall of the House of Usher meets Tananarive Due’s The Reformatory crossed with The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois as adapted by Stephen King in this provocative supernatural horror fever dream from Pulitzer Prize–winner Leonard Pitts, Jr., as a sentient and vengeful house awakens to unleash its seething fury.Keep your head down. Ignore the g... ... Read more

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The Fall of the House of Usher meets Tananarive Due’s The Reformatory crossed with The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois as adapted by Stephen King in this provocative supernatural horror fever dream from Pulitzer Prize–winner Leonard Pitts, Jr., as a sentient and vengeful house awakens to unleash its seething fury.Keep your head down. Ignore the g...
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Before I Forget

A Novel

by Leonard Pitts ...

"An unsettling, compelling first novel about secrets, illness, and the role of African-American men in society and family life." — Publishers Weekly (starred review)This powerful novel of three generations of black men bound by blood—and by histories of mutual love, fear, and frustration—gives Pulitzer Prize–winning writer Leonard Pitts the opportunity to explore the painful truths of black men's ... Read more

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"An unsettling, compelling first novel about secrets, illness, and the role of African-American men in society and family life." — Publishers Weekly (starred review)This powerful novel of three generations of black men bound by blood—and by histories of mutual love, fear, and frustration—gives Pulitzer Prize–winning writer Leonard Pitts the opportunity to explore the painful truths of black men's
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54 Miles

A Novel

by Leonard Pitts, Jr. ...

The free-standing successor and next novel by the author of the critically acclaimed The Last Thing You Surrender, Leonard Pitts, Jr.’s 54 Miles launches forward twenty years to the fateful weeks of March 1965—from the infamous “Bloody Sunday” march at the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma on the 7th to the triumphant entry into Montgomery on the 25th that climaxed the voting rights campaign—and the ... Read more

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The free-standing successor and next novel by the author of the critically acclaimed The Last Thing You Surrender, Leonard Pitts, Jr.’s 54 Miles launches forward twenty years to the fateful weeks of March 1965—from the infamous “Bloody Sunday” march at the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma on the 7th to the triumphant entry into Montgomery on the 25th that climaxed the voting rights campaign—and the
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Sourdough Starter Guide

by Leonard Pitts ...

If you’ve ever pulled a loaf of crusty sourdough from the oven… cracked it open… and watched steam roll out of that chewy, tangy crumb… You already know the truth. Real sourdough isn’t just bread. It’s an obsession. But here’s the problem most beginners run into. They try to make a starter… follow a few random internet instructions… wait a week… and end up with a jar of weird-smelling paste that ... Read more

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If you’ve ever pulled a loaf of crusty sourdough from the oven… cracked it open… and watched steam roll out of that chewy, tangy crumb… You already know the truth. Real sourdough isn’t just bread. It’s an obsession. But here’s the problem most beginners run into. They try to make a starter… follow a few random internet instructions… wait a week… and end up with a jar of weird-smelling paste that
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The Last Thing You Surrender

by Leonard Pitts, Jr. ...

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Could you find the courage to do what's right in a world on fire?Pulitzer-winning journalist and bestselling author (Freeman) Leonard Pitts, Jr.'s new historical novel is a great American tale of race and war, following three characters from the Jim Crow South as they face the enormous changes World War II triggers in the United States.An affluent white marine survives Pearl Harbor at the cost of ... Read more

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Could you find the courage to do what's right in a world on fire?Pulitzer-winning journalist and bestselling author (Freeman) Leonard Pitts, Jr.'s new historical novel is a great American tale of race and war, following three characters from the Jim Crow South as they face the enormous changes World War II triggers in the United States.An affluent white marine survives Pearl Harbor at the cost of
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Forward From this Moment

Selected Columns, 1994-2008

by Leonard Pitts, Jr. ...

Since 1976, when he was an 18-year-old junior at USC, Leonard Pitts' writing has been winning awards, including the Pulitzer and five National Headliner Awards. This book collects his best newspaper columns, along with select longer pieces. The book is arranged chronologically under three broad subject headings: Waiting for Someday to Come,” about children and family; White Men Can’t Jump (and ... Read more

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Since 1976, when he was an 18-year-old junior at USC, Leonard Pitts' writing has been winning awards, including the Pulitzer and five National Headliner Awards. This book collects his best newspaper columns, along with select longer pieces. The book is arranged chronologically under three broad subject headings: Waiting for Someday to Come,” about children and family; White Men Can’t Jump (and
... Read more
My Brain on Fire

Paris and Other Obsessions

by Leonard Pitt ...

This is Leonard Pitt’s story of growing up the misfit in Detroit in the 1940s and 50s. In a later age he would have been put on Ritalin and paraded before psychiatrists because he couldn’t pay attention in school. In 1962, at the end of a misguided foray towards a career in advertising he took the ultimate cure, a trip to Paris. He thought it would only be a visit. He stayed seven years. There in ... Read more

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This is Leonard Pitt’s story of growing up the misfit in Detroit in the 1940s and 50s. In a later age he would have been put on Ritalin and paraded before psychiatrists because he couldn’t pay attention in school. In 1962, at the end of a misguided foray towards a career in advertising he took the ultimate cure, a trip to Paris. He thought it would only be a visit. He stayed seven years. There in
... Read more
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The Angry House

by Leonard Pitts, Jr. ...

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19 hours 44 min

The Fall of the House of Usher meets Tananarive Due’s The Reformatory crossed with The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois as adapted by Stephen King in this provocative supernatural horror fever dream from Pulitzer Prize–winner Leonard Pitts, Jr., as a sentient and vengeful house awakens to unleash its seething fury.Keep your head down. Ignore the ghosts. Drown out the talking walls…even if they’re ... Read more

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The Fall of the House of Usher meets Tananarive Due’s The Reformatory crossed with The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois as adapted by Stephen King in this provocative supernatural horror fever dream from Pulitzer Prize–winner Leonard Pitts, Jr., as a sentient and vengeful house awakens to unleash its seething fury.Keep your head down. Ignore the ghosts. Drown out the talking walls…even if they’re
... Read more
Deadline Artists—Scandals, Tragedies & Triumphs

More of America's Greatest Newspaper Columns

by Jack London, H. L. Mencken, Dorothy Thompson, Richard Wright, Damon Runyon, Shirley Povich, Murray Kempton, Mike Ryoko, Ruben Salazar, Mary McGrory, Mike Barnicle, Molly Ivins, Pete Hamill, Carl Hiaasen, Nicholas Kristof, Steve Lopez, Peggy Noonan, Mitch Albom, Leonard Pitts ...

An anthology of newspaper columns from the 19th century to the present—"engaging eyewitness pieces [that] elicit admiration, wonder and gasps of surprise" ( Kirkus Reviews).Deadline Artists: America's Greatest Newspaper Columns drew together some of the finest examples of America's greatest unsung literary form: the newspaper column. In this new Deadline Artists collection, some of America's ... Read more

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An anthology of newspaper columns from the 19th century to the present—"engaging eyewitness pieces [that] elicit admiration, wonder and gasps of surprise" ( Kirkus Reviews).Deadline Artists: America's Greatest Newspaper Columns drew together some of the finest examples of America's greatest unsung literary form: the newspaper column. In this new Deadline Artists collection, some of America's
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