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  • James Baldwin

    Escape from America, Exile in Provence

    To escape racism in America, James Baldwin fled to Saint-Paul de Vence, France, in 1970, where he lived in self-imposed exile until his death in 1987. This book focuses on this seventeen-year period of his life and literature. Author Jules B. Farber presents "life with Jimmy" through more than seventy interviews of personal reminisces with well-known literary figures, musicians, artists, and ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Pope's Jews in Provence

    Itineraries

    by Jules Farber ...
    Revealing insight to a little-known chapter of Jewish life in Provence from the 6th century B.C. to over five centuries' protection by popes. ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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  • Begin Again

    James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A powerful study of how to bear witness in a moment when America is being called to do the same.”—TimeJames Baldwin grew disillusioned by the failure of the civil rights movement to force America to confront its lies about race. What can we learn from his struggle in our own moment?One of the Best Books of the Year: Time, The Washington Post, Chicago Tribune • One of ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • The Indestructible Jews

    by Max I. Dimont ...
    From the author of Jews, God, and History, this comprehensive history of the Jewish people is "an epic drama, searching and nobly conceived" ( Publishers Weekly).A compelling and readable account of the four thousand year history of a people that spans the globe and transcends the ages. From the ancient and simple faith of a small tribe to a global religion with adherents in every nation, the path ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • James Baldwin

    A Biography

    by David Leeming ...
    James Baldwin was one of the great writers of the last century. In works that have become part of the American canon-Go Tell It on a Mountain, Giovanni’s Room, Another Country, The Fire Next Time, and The Evidence of Things Not Seen-he explored issues of race and racism in America, class distinction, and sexual difference. A gay, African American writer who was born in Harlem, he found the freedom ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Constantine's Sword

    The Church and the Jews, A History

    by James Carroll ...
    The "monumental" New York Times bestseller in which a Catholic explores the problem of anti-Semitism through Church history ( The Washington Post).A Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year and a New York Times Notable BookIn this "masterly history" ( Time), National Book Award-winning author James Carroll maps the profoundly troubling two-thousand-year course of the Church's battle against Judaism ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Painted Word

    by Tom Wolfe ...
    "America's nerviest journalist" (Newsweek) trains his satirical eye on Modern Art in this "masterpiece" (The Washington Post)Wolfe's style has never been more dazzling, his wit never more keen. He addresses the scope of Modern Art, from its founding days as Abstract Expressionism through its transformations to Pop, Op, Minimal, and Conceptual. The Painted Word is Tom Wolf... ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Paris

    The Secret History

    by Andrew Hussey ...
    If Adam Gopnik's Paris to the Moon described daily life in contemporary Paris, this book describes daily life in Paris throughout its history: a history of the city from the point of view of the Parisians themselves. Paris captures everyone's imaginations: It's a backdrop for Proust's fictional pederast, Robert Doisneau's photographic kiss, and Edith Piaf's serenaded soldier-lovers; a home as much ... Read more

    $18.69 USD

  • Baldwin: A Love Story

    WINNER OF THE NBCC JOHN LEONARD PRIZEWINNER OF THE PEN/ JACQUELINE BOGRAD WELD AWARD FOR BIOGRAPHYA TIME TOP 10 BOOK OF 2025AN ATLANTIC TOP 10 BOOK OF 2025A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2025AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERAN AMAZON BEST BOOK OF THE YEARDrawing on new archival material, original research, and interviews, this spellbinding boo... ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The Atheist's Bible

    The Most Dangerous Book That Never Existed

    Translated by Lys Ann Weiss ...
    This intellectual history of a rumored book of heresy reveals a persistent undercurrent of atheism from the Middle Ages into the 18th century.In 1239, Pope Gregory IX accused Frederick II, the Holy Roman Emperor, of heresy. Without disclosing evidence of any kind, Gregory announced that Frederick had written a supremely blasphemous book— De tribus impostoribus, or the Treatise of the Three ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • City Boy

    My Life in New York During the 1960s and '70s

    by Edmund White ...
    In the New Y ork of the 1970s, in the wake of Stonewall and in the midst of economic collapse, you might find the likes of Jasper Johns and William Burroughs at the next cocktail party, and you were as likely to be caught arguing Marx at the New York City Ballet as cruising for sex in the warehouses and parked trucks along the Hudson. This is the New York that Edmund White portrays in City Boy: a ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Holy Blood, Holy Grail

    The Secret History of Christ. The Shocking Legacy of the Grail

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Is the classic, accepted view of the life of Christ in some way incomplete? The authors of The Messianic Legacy present a provocative and meticulously researched look at Christ and the history of Christianity.“Enough to seriously challenge many traditional beliefs, if not alter them.”—Los Angeles Times Book ReviewExplosive, thought-provoking, fiercely compelling, Holy ... Read more

    $12.99 USD