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Deacon King Kong by James McBride
$37.00 NZD
Category: Fiction and NZ Fiction
In September 1969, a fumbling, cranky old church deacon known as Sportcoat shuffles into the courtyard of the Cause Houses housing project in south Brooklyn, pulls a .38 from his pocket, and in front of everybody shoots the project's drug dealer at point-blank range. The reasons for this desperate burs ...Show more
Kill 'Em and Leave: Searching for the Real James Brown by James McBride
$28.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
'A formidable free-style book that isn't straight biography but a mix of history, street-level investigative reporting, hagiography, Deep South sociology, music criticism, memoir and some fiery preaching' Rolling Stone magazine A Guardian best music book of 2016 The music of James Brown was almost a gen ...Show more
Song Yet Sung by James McBride
$39.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Liz Spocott is a captured runaway slave, shot and near death, and shackled to other runaway slaves in the attic of the notorious slave-catcher Patty Cannon. The ancient nameless woman she is bound to reveals 'the Code', a fiercely guarded, cryptic means of communication for slaves on the run. When ...Show more
The Color of Water by James Mcbride
$30.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
As a boy in Brooklyn, James McBride knew his mother was different. But when he asked her about it, she'd simply say, 'I'm light-skinned.' Later he wondered if he was different too and asked his mother if he was black or white. 'You're a human being,' she snapped. 'Educate yourself or you'll be a nobody! ...Show more
The Good Lord Bird by James McBride
$37.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Henry Shackleford is a young slave living in the Kansas Territory in 1857, the region a battlefield between anti and pro slavery forces. When John Brown, the legendary abolitionist, arrives in the area, an arguement between Brown and Henry's master quickly turns violent. Henry is forced to leave town wi ...Show more
The Good Lord Bird by James McBride
$26.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Winner of the 2013 National Book Award for FictionSoon to be a major motion picture starring Liev Shreiber and Jaden Smith A Washington Post, Publishers Weekly, Oprah Magazine Top 10 Book of the Year "A magnificent new novel by the best-selling author James McBride." -cover review of "The New York Times ...Show more
The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store: The Major International Bestseller by James McBride
$37.99 NZD
Category: World fiction
The new novel from the bestselling, National Book Award-winning, Oprah Book Club-picked, Barack Obama favourite James McBride. In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new development, the last thing they expected to find was a skeleton at the bottom of a we ...Show more
The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store - 'I Loved This Book' Bonnie Garmus, Author of Lessons in Chemistry by James McBride
$45.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
'I loved this book' BONNIE GARMUS 'I can't recommend this one highly enough ' HARLAN COBEN 'I keep thinking every time I read one of his books, "That's his best book." No. THIS is his best book' ANN PATCHETT THE MAJOR INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER BARACK OBAMA'S BOOK OF THE YEAR PICKAMAZON.COM #1 BOOK OF TH ...Show more
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