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  • Audiobook

    The Amethyst Box and Other Detective Stories

    Unabridged

    5 hours 20 min

    In The Amethyst Box, a vial of incredibly potent poison goes missing on the eve of a wedding. The groom and the best man set out to find it and prevent its misuse. A man's unexpected but natural death in a hotel become more and more mysterious when we learn his obituary was printed before he died. In The Ruby and the Cauldron, a precious gem is lost then found then lost again...finding it will ... Read more

    $9.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Marilynne Robinson

    Series series Contemporary American and Canadian Writers
    Best known for a trilogy of historical novels set in the fictional town of Gilead, Iowa, Marilynne Robinson is a prolific writer, teacher, and public speaker, who has won the Pulitzer Prize and was awarded the National Humanities Medal by Barack Obama. This collection intervenes in Robinson’s growing critical reputation, pointing to new and exciting links between the author, the historical ... Read more

    $93.59 USD

  • Richard Yates and the Flawed American Dream

    Critical Essays

    Edited by Jennifer Daly ...
    Richard Yates (1926-1992) has been described as a "writer's writer" but has never received the critical attention befitting that designation. Firmly rooted in the zeitgeist of 1950s, his work remains startlingly relevant, addressing themes of American identity, the nature of marriage and relationships between men and women, and what it means to get ahead in a society entranced by a flawed American ... Read more

    $32.79 USD

  • Audiobook

    Franck's Wild Ride

    Unabridged

    5 hours 49 min

    As Franck's SUV careens toward the old New England house, he has no idea the secrets hidden within will upend his life. Racing against time and an unscrupulous real estate mogul, he must navigate a tangled history of interracial love, the Underground Railroad, and dark shadows of slavery unexpectedly linked to his unsuspecting roommate. Can Franck untangle the past before it consumes him and those ... Read more

    $9.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Eye of the Master

    Figures of the Québécois Colonial Imaginary

    by Dalie Giroux ...
    Translated by Jennifer Henderson ...
    Series Book 262 - Carleton Library Series
    In the Québécois political vision of the twentieth century, sovereignty became synonymous with mastery. French Canadians sometimes claimed solidarity with racialized and Indigenous peoples, yet they saw their liberation as a matter of taking their rightful place in the seat of the oppressors. The idea of mastery has prevented the Québécois from seeing that their liberation is bound up with that of ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

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  • The Michael Eric Dyson Reader

    Over the past ten years, the work of Michael Eric Dyson has become the first stop for readers, writers, and thinkers eager for uncommon wisdom on the racial and political dynamics of contemporary America. Whether writing on religion or sexuality or notions of whiteness, on Martin Luther King, Jr. or Tupac Shakur, Dyson's keen insight and rhetorical flair continue to surprise and challenge. This ... Read more

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  • Open Mike

    Here, collected for the first time, are interviews and essays representing Michael Eric Dyson's most important thinking on race and identity. Exploring such topics as "whiteness" as seen through a black man's eye, modernism and postmodernism in black culture, and the emancipating role of black music from the plantation to the ghetto, Open Mike is a perfect introduction to Dyson's work and a must ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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    Ethics, Literature, and Theory: An Introductory Reader brings together the work of contemporary scholars, teachers, and writers into lively discussion on the moral role of literature and the relationship between aesthetics, art, and ethics. Do the rich descriptions and narrative shapings of literature provide a valuable resource for readers, writers, philosophers, and everyday people to imagine ... Read more

    $55.09 USD

  • Truth Considered and Applied

    Examining Postmodernism, History, and Christian Faith

    For philosophy and theology students, Truth Considered and Applied examines the leading theories of truth in relation to postmodernism, history, and the Christian faith. Author Stewart E. Kelly defends Christianity in the face of postmodernist challenges that would label such religious faith as merely one version of truth among many in a pluralistic world. Likewise, in looking at Christianity as a ... Read more

    $21.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Ground Has Shifted

    The Future of the Black Church in Post-Racial America

    Series Book 6 - Religion, Race, and Ethnicity
    "An exuberant, thought-provoking assessment of the dilemmas facing black churches" examining their historic role in today's cultural landscape ( Publishers Weekly, starred review).In The Ground Has Shifted, Walter Earl Fluker discusses the historical and current role of the Black church and argues that the older race-based language and metaphors of religious discourse have outlived their utility. ... Read more

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  • The Dialectic of Freedom

    by Maxine Greene ...
    Series series John Dewey Lecture Series
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