Two-time National Book Award-winner Jesmyn Ward (for Sing Unburied, Sing; and Salvage the Bones) takes a different direction with her fourth novel, Let Us Descend. Beautifully written and heartrending, this historical novel sensitively handles grief, love, and recovery, as readers follow enslaved Annis from a rice plantation in North Carolina through her journey with the "Georgia Man" and a line of other chained-together stolen people to the chattel slavery market in New Orleans.
The novel opens with the loving foundation laid by Annis's mother, who teaches her how to forage for mushrooms and how to defend herself, as well as tells her stories about her African warrior grandmother, Mama Aza. With these tools plus her natural gifts--intelligence and curiosity--Annis discovers her own sense of agency, even at the most constrained moments. Although spirits of storms and the earth attempt to guide Annis, it's her mother and grandmother's spirits that give Annis the strength to survive.
#1 New York Times bestselling, award-winning New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast's new graphic narrative, exploring the surreal nighttime world inside her mind-and untangling one of our most enduring human mysteries: dreams....
"This brilliant book will shatter your assumptions about what it takes to improve and succeed. I wish I could go back in time and gift it to my younger self. It would've helped me find a more joyful path to progress."...
An inspirational and bold memoir from the most successful woman ever to compete on Jeopardy!--and an exploration of what it means to ask questions of the world and of yourself.
In eighth grade, Amy was voted "Most likely...
An American Master returns: The author of The Things They Carried delivers his first new novel in two decades, a brilliant and rollicking odyssey, in which a bank robbery by a disgraced journalist sparks a cross-country...
The #1 New York Times bestselling author and Food Network favorite The Pioneer Woman Ree Drummond returns with an exciting new cookbook filled with no-fuss family recipes for dinners, desserts, and more.
Cook smarter, not...
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson--creator of The Stormlight Archive, the Mistborn Saga, and countless bestselling works of science fiction and fantasy--comes this gripping story set in the Cosmere...
A beautiful celebration of Dolly Parton's iconic sense of style through entertaining personal stories and 450 full-color photographs, including exclusive images from her private costume archive
In Behind the Seams: My Life...
From Bill Watterson and John Kascht comes a mysterious and beautifully illustrated fable about what lies beyond human understanding.
The first short story collection by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author and master of the form since her number one New York Times best seller Unaccustomed Earth - Rome--metropolis and monument, suspended between past and future,...
The third book in the Harry Potter series, illustrated in brilliant full color by MinaLima and featuring eight exclusive interactive elements, including the Marauder's Map and more!
Return to Hogwarts in this stunning edition...
The highly original, blistering, and unconventional memoir by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sympathizer, which has now sold over one million copies worldwide
New York Times bestselling and award-winning author Jason Reynolds's debut picture book is a snappy, joyous ode to Word King, literary genius, and glass-ceiling smasher Langston Hughes and the luminaries he inspired.
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