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  • A Lovely Place, A Fighting Place, A Charmer

    The Baltimore Anthology

    by Gary M. Almeter, Rafael Alvarez ...
    Series series Belt City Anthologies
    A "diverse collection" of essays, stories, and poems about Baltimore that provide "a wide-ranging account of what the city feels like today" ( Baltimore Magazine).To many outsiders, Baltimore--sometimes derisively called "Mobtown" or "Bodymore"—is a city famous for its poverty and violence, twin ills that have been compounded by decades of racial segregation and the loss of manufacturing jobs. But ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The Sellout

    A Novel

    by Paul Beatty ...
    Winner of the Man Booker PrizeWinner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in FictionNamed one of the best books of by The New York Times Book Review and the Wall Street JournalA biting satire about a young man's isolated upbringing and the race trial that sends him to the Supreme Court, Paul Beatty's The Sellout showcases a comic genius at the top of his game. It challenges the... ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • South and West

    From a Notebook

    by Joan Didion ...
    NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “One of contemporary literature’s most revered essayists revives her raw records from a 1970s road trip across the American southwest ... her acute observations of the country’s culture and history feel particularly resonant today.” —Harper’s BazaarJoan Didion, the bestselling, award-winning author of The Year of Magical Thinking and Let Me Tell You What I Mean, has always ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • The Grace of Silence

    A Memoir

    by Michele Norris ...
    ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: San Francisco Chronicle, The Christian Science Monitor, Kansas City Star.A profoundly moving and deeply personal memoir by the co-host of National Public Radio’s flagship program All Things Considered.While exploring the hidden conversation on race unfolding throughout America in the wake of President Obama’s election, Michele Norris discovered that there were ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

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  • The Last Holiday

    A Memoir

    by Gil Scott-Heron ...
    Series series Canons
    Raised by his grandmother in Tennessee, Gil Scott-Heron's journey from humble beginnings to becoming one of the most uncompromising and influential songwriters of his generation is a remarkable one. In this, his heartfelt, beautifully written and posthumously published memoir, we are given bright insights into the music industry, New York, the civil-rights movement, modern America, governmental ... Read more

    $10.69 USD

  • The Baltimore Atrocities

    A Novel

    A whodunit without the who, this illustrated compendium of mayhem and misfortune spirals out from an investigation into two disappearances.The Baltimore Atrocities is a mordant, deadpan collection of more than one hundred murders, betrayals, heartbreaks, suicides, and bureaucratic snafus—each with a half-page illustration by the author—that tells the story of a couple who spends a year in ... Read more

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  • The Bride of Anguished English

    A Bonanza of Bloopers, Blunders, Botches, and Boo-Boos

    by Richard Lederer ...
    For years wordsmith and punster Richard Lederer has charmed and delighted fans with his bestselling "Anguished English" series. In his funniest book yet, readers will again cherish the author's latest chronicle of the goofs and gaffes and fluffs and flubs of our anguished language. And the best part? Everything in here actually occurred! Nothing has been made up!Bloopers from foreign restaurants ... Read more

    $15.19 USD

  • Studs Terkel's Chicago

    by Studs Terkel ...
    In a blend of history, memoir, and photography, the Pulitzer Prize winner paints a vivid portrait of this extraordinary American city.Chicago was home to the country's first skyscraper (a ten-story building built in 1884), and marks the start of the famed Route 66. It is also the birthplace of the remote control (Zenith) and the car radio (Motorola), and the first major American city to elect a ... Read more

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  • When My Love Returns from the Ladies Room, Will I be too Old to Care?

    by Lewis Grizzard ...
    The always outrageous, humor-contagious Lewis Gizzard is grousing his way back into our hearts once more, settling the score on the woes and wonders that plague him, such as: transplanted New Yorkers, too many ROCKY movies, and the value of alcohol for the elderly. He'll leave you laughing out loud and tearing up too.... ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • You Were Never in Chicago

    by Neil Steinberg ...
    Series series Chicago Visions and Revisions
    This "rollicking newspaperman's memoir" offers a personal tour of Chicago's cultural history and makes "a strong case for Second City exceptionalism" ( The New York Times).In 1952 the New Yorker published a three-part essay by A. J. Liebling in which he dubbed Chicago the "Second City." From the skyline to garbage collection, nothing escaped Liebling's withering gaze. Among the outraged responses ... Read more

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  • House of Smoke

    A Southerner Goes Searching for Home

    by John T. Edge ...
    NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The author of The Potlikker Papers: A Food History of the Modern South tells his own story this time. Of growing up in a house wrecked by violence and a South haunted by racism. And of how his search for home led him to find escape and belonging through food. Until he realizes that gathering at the table is just one small step toward reckoning.“A story for all Americans on a ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Kathy Sue Loudermilk, I Love You

    A good beer joint is hard to find and other facts of life

    by Lewis Grizzard ...
    PRAISE FOR LEWIS GRIZZARD“So this is what’s happened to the South since William Faulkner left! Lewis Grizzard, a great American, gives us the best collection of stories about a mother’s love, old folks, railroad trains, going home, and the No-Name Bar in Willacoochee, Georgia.”- The Chicago Sun-Times“If you’ve ever owned a truck, a good dog, or had to kiss a good woman good-bye, you need to be ... Read more

    $4.99 USD