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“jamila minnicks”

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  • Moonrise Over New Jessup

    A Novel

    by Jamila Minnicks ...
    "With compelling characters and a heart-pounding plot, Jamila Minnicks pulled me into pages of history I’d never turned before."―Barbara Kingsolver, New York Times bestselling author of Demon CopperheadWinner of the PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction, an enchanting and thought-provoking debut novel about a Black woman doing whatever it takes to protect all she loves on Alabama soil ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

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    Moonrise Over New Jessup

    by Jamila Minnicks ...
    Narrated by Karen Chilton ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 47 min

    Winner of the 2021 PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction, a thought-provoking and enchanting debut about a Black woman doing whatever it takes to protect all she loves at the beginning of the civil rights movement in Alabama.It’s 1957, and after leaving the only home she has ever known, Alice Young steps off the bus into the all-Black town of New Jessup, Alabama, where residents have ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Ploughshares Spring 2024 Guest-edited by Laila Lalami

    by Mosab Abu Toha, Nathalie Handal, January Gill O'Neil, Farah Abdessamad, Francisco Goldman, Tommy Orange, Nathan Blum, Emily Doyle, Nina McConigley, Jamila Minnicks, Andrew Porter, Ehsaneh Sadr, Cal Shook, Jane Smiley, Terese Svoboda, Tochi Onyebuchi, Hannah Rose Roberts, Dorsey Craft, Kevin Dublin, Barbara Hamby, Vandana Khanna, Khaled Mattawa, Campbell McGrath, David Romtvedt, Martha Ronk, Emily Schulten, Rob Shapiro, Jaz Sufi, Othuke Umukoro, Conor Watkins-Xu, Ellie Eberlee ...
    The Spring 2024 Issue. Ploughshares is an award-winning journal of new writing. Since 1971, Ploughshares has discovered and cultivated the freshest voices in contemporary American literature, and now provides readers with thoughtful and entertaining literature in a variety of formats. Find out why the New York Times named Ploughshares “the Triton among minnows.”The Spring 2024 Issue, guest-edited ... Read more

    $12.35 CAD

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    Daughter in Exile

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    Neruda on the Park

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    NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE • An exhilarating debut novel following members of a Dominican family in New York City who take radically different paths when faced with encroaching gentrification“Strikes all the right notes—captivating characters, lyrical language, and a storyline that captures your imagination and refuses to let go . . . an unforgettable debut!”—Tayari Jones, New York Times ... Read more

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    Carmen and Grace

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    Perish

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    **“Watkins’s prose is effortless and forthright. . . . This is an impressive feat of storytelling. . . . It’s a difficult read and a tender story of silences and secrets. It’s a novel about coming home, despite that home being broken. And it’s a brave triumph of a novel that readers won’t forget long after finishing it.”—The New York Times Book ReviewNamed a Most Anticipated Book of the Year by ... Read more

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