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Thelonious "Monk" Ellison's writing career has bottomed out: his latest manuscript has been rejected by seventeen publishers, which stings all the more because his previous novels have been "critically acclaimed." He seethes on the sidelines of the literary establishment as he watches the meteoric success of We's Lives in Da Ghetto, a first novel by a woman who once visited "some relatives in Harlem for a couple of days."

Erasure is Percival Everett's hilarious satire about race and publishing, now an Oscar-nominated film, American Fiction, directed by Cord Jefferson and starring Jeffrey Wright and Tracee Ellis Ross. 'Hilarious . . . Everett is a first-rate word-wrangler.' – Nicholas Lezard, The Guardian...

Erasure is Percival Everett's hilarious satire about race and publishing, now an Oscar-nominated film, American Fiction, directed by Cord Jefferson and starring Jeffrey Wright and Tracee Ellis Ross. 'Hilarious . . . Everett is a first-rate word-wrangler.' – Nicholas Lezard, The Guardian...

A civil service exam score of 94.7. A house in LeDroit Park. A president's written promise of justice. By 1915, all of it was gone. When Woodrow Wilson entered the White House in 1913, James Cornelius Saunders was living proof that merit could triumph over prejudice. A Treasury Department clerk who had earned his position through one of the highest exam scores in Washington, he owned his home, sent his son to Howard University, and believed in the American promise. Within two years, wooden screens surrounded his desk. His salary was cut in half. His house was seized.

The dinosaurs are out of control, the city is under siege, and lives are starting to unravel. The Amparlium growth formula has had a devastating effect on the stolen dinosaurs and there is very little that can stop them now. Dolly is quickly learning exactly who she can trust - and who she can't. Still blaming herself, she is determined to find a solution for the disaster and at this point, she isn't counting the cost. Alan's mental decline has accelerated at a phenomenal rate, but he hasn't yet deteriorated to the stage where he can forget those who he's trying to protect. And what about ...

This book shows how today’s waves of book bans and disinformation campaigns intentionally drive the cultural erasure of marginalized communities—and what we can do to stop them. Across schools, libraries, and museums—in the United States and elsewhere—the coordinated onslaught of efforts...

This book is written for those who seek the truth—not only about history but about how identity, law, and power intersect to shape our lives today. Whether you are a descendant of those reclassified, an advocate for justice, a legal scholar, or a curious student, this book invites you to question what you’ve been taught about race, rights, and recognition in America. The term paper genocide is not metaphor—it is a documented legal reality with generational consequences. It is about the loss of not just legal status, but of community, ancestry, and belonging. My hope is that by ...

PULITZER PRIZE WINNER #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, both harrowing and darkly humorous, told from the enslaved Jim's point of view NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST ONE...

Don’t miss the eagerly anticipated epic new fantasy from Christopher Paolini—Murtagh! A new adventure hatches in Book One of the Inheritance Cycle, perfect for fans of Lord of the Rings! This New York Times bestselling series has sold over 40 million copies and is an international fantasy...

It starts with a murder on the Downtown train. Then Mara blinks, and it is Monday morning again. She didn't wake up, because she never fell asleep. Mara's bedroom exists on two planes simultaneously. On one side, a quiet apartment. On the other, an impossible subway platform where it has been raining for fifteen years. Trapped in the space between, she has found a strange peace in the collapse of boundaries. But as the walls begin to flicker and her reflection shows a woman she no longer recognizes, she realizes that the loop protecting her from unbearable truth is beginning to decay. The ...

How do I know I have been forgiven? What if I am not perfect? Does God forgive terrible things I have done to others? What if I keep sinning? Is there forgiveness for my addictions? Is there an unforgivable sin? How can I forgive myself? As Christians, we think we know everything about God, sin, and salvation. You may be surprised to find that some of the things you have learned all your life may not be entirely right. It may be time to challenge your old ideas about what the Lord can do for you. The Biblical teachings about God’s love and forgiveness are much better than imagined. You ...

On the morning of August 13, 2018, Shanann Watts and her two young daughters vanished from their home in Frederick, Colorado. Within days, the case would expose one of the most disturbing acts of domestic homicide in modern American history. The Watts Family Murders: Disengagement, Deception, and Erasure is a comprehensive true crime case analysis that moves beyond headlines, speculation, and sensationalism to examine how this crime became possible—and why it was so widely misunderstood. Rather than presenting a recycled narrative of shock or focusing on lurid detail, this book ...

The Giver meets Scythe. Erased is a gripping, near-future, dystopian young adult novel, which combines adventure, coming-of-age discovery, and an endearing first-love romance. Seph lives in a world meticulously engineered for efficiency. Every decision is optimized by the nano chip embedded beneath his skin. The chip promises safety, health, and order, but Seph has always felt like an outlier, and as graduation approaches, he faces a choice: embrace the path set before him or question the system that governs every aspect of life. When Seph lands his dream job, the truth behind NexTech, the ...

Kevin Pace is working on a painting that he won't allow anyone to see: not his children, not his best friend, Richard, not even his wife, Linda. The painting is a canvas of 12 feet by 21 feet (and three inches) that is covered entirely in shades of blue. It may be his masterpiece or it may not; he doesn't know or, more accurately, doesn't care. What Kevin does care about are the events of the past.

History did not erase America’s first peoples. Paper did. This book exposes how laws, records, census codes, court designations, and bureaucratic classifications quietly transformed entire Indigenous populations into something else on paper—Negro, Colored, Freedman, Mulatto—severing them from land, lineage, treaty rights, and legal standing without a single battlefield victory. The Administrative Erasure of America’s Aboriginal Populations traces how identity was not merely misnamed, but reassigned—through statutes, registries, church records, land patents, school systems, and ...

“At once a scholar’s homage to The Iliad and startlingly original work of art by an incredibly talented new novelist….A book I could not put down.” —Ann Patchett “Mary Renault lives again!” declares Emma Donoghue, author of Room, referring to The Song of Achilles, Madeline...

From the bestselling author of How Fascism Works, a global call to action that tells us “why the past is a frontline in the struggle for a future free of fascism” (Jeff Sharlet, New York Times bestselling author) as it reveals the far right’s efforts to rewrite history and undo a century...

The protagonist of Percival Everett's puckish new novel is a brilliant professor of mathematics who goes by Wala Kitu. (Wala, he explains, means "nothing" in Tagalog, and Kitu is Swahili for "nothing.") He is an expert on nothing. That is to say, he is an expert, and his area of study is nothing, and he does nothing about it.

This new audiobook is written and read New York Times bestselling author of The Three Mothers, Anna Malaika Tubbs. In Erased, Anna recovers all that American patriarchy has tried to destroy. Patriarchy has oppressed women and denied their contributions worldwide, but the United States of America...

Much has been written about the storied New Hollywood of the 1970s, but while Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, and Francis Ford Coppola were making their first classic movies, a parallel universe of directors gave birth to the modern horror film - aggressive, raw, and utterly original. Based on unprecedented access to the genre's major players, New York Times critic Jason Zinoman's Shock Value delivers the first definitive account of horror's golden age.