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Chris Washburn
Chris Washburn NONE "Ex-high school basketball star, Chris Washburn, shares his journey from NBA fame to losing everything due to a 14-year crack addiction in his upcoming memoir. His redemptive stor...
Addicted to Crack, Basketball Great Chris Washburn Tells His Story
Addicted to Crack, Basketball Great Chris Washburn Tells His Story Author Interviews Chris Washburn, a former high school basketball phenom, tells his emotional story about losing millions of dollars ...
Kawai Strong Washburn
Kawai Strong Washburn 0000000500666563 Hawaiian-born author Kawai Strong Washburn is known for his work in McSweeney’s, Best American Nonrequired Reading and more. He's a 2015 Tin House and Bread Loa...
Sharks in the Time of Saviors
Sharks in the Time of Saviors Kawai Strong Washburn 9781250787316 Fiction Picador Macmillan Publishers WINNER OF THE 2020 PEN/HEMINGWAY AWARD FOR DEBUT NOVEL. One of Barack Obama’s Favorite Books o...
Chris Hayden
Chris Hayden NONE Chris Hayden, born 1950, is a renowned poet and editor. His work has featured in numerous magazines and e-zines, including Drumvoices, Black Thought, and Delmar. He is known for his...
Kansas Book Festival
Kansas Book Festival Washburn University Topeka Kansas The Kansas Book Festival, featuring Kansas-connected authors from across the country, will host a number of authors with ties to Washburn Univers...
The Wound Is Where the Light Enters: A Memoir of Resilience
The Wound Is Where the Light Enters: A Memoir of Resilience Chris Young 9780316565288 Nonfiction Little, Brown and Company Hachette Book Group The inspiring memoir of a brilliant young man who, senten...
Toward a Living Archive of African Poetry: Kwame Dawes and Chris Abani on the New-Generation African Poets Chapbook Series
Toward a Living Archive of African Poetry: Kwame Dawes and Chris Abani on the New-Generation African Poets Chapbook Series Kwame Dawes and Chris Abani 9781636142555 Nonfiction Akashic Books Akashic Bo...
Sixty-One: Life Lessons from Papa, on and Off the Court
Sixty-One: Life Lessons from Papa, on and Off the Court Chris Paul and Michael Wilbon 9781250276711 Nonfiction St. Martin’s Press Macmillan Publishers By the NBA superstar: A powerful and unexpected m...
Permission to Dream
Permission to Dream Chris Gardner 9780063031562 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins In the spirit of The Last Lecture, The Secret, and The Alchemist, this small book presents BIG ideas for turning your...
Everybody Hates First Girlfriends (Everybody Hates Chris)
Everybody Hates First Girlfriends (Everybody Hates Chris) Felicia Pride 9781416937982 Fiction Simon Pulse Simon & Schuster, Inc. Chris has a girlfriend! "You’re my Prince Charming," she says. And norm...
Chris Gardner and Quincy Troupe
Chris Gardner and Quincy Troupe MULTIPLE Chris Gardner is a renowned author, entrepreneur, and motivational speaker, best known for his autobiography “The Pursuit of Happyness.” Quincy Troupe is a ce...
Kwame Dawes and Chris Abani
Kwame Dawes and Chris Abani MULTIPLE Kwame Dawes and Chris Abani are renowned authors, recognized for their profound contributions to literature. Dawes, a poet and writer, merges cultural experiences...
Chris Abani and Percival Everett
Chris Abani and Percival Everett MULTIPLE Chris Abani and Percival Everett are renowned authors. Abani is known for exploring themes of politics and culture while Everett's works often tackle identit...
Chris Hedges
Chris Hedges 0000000120255957 Chris Hedges was a foreign correspondent for nearly two decades for The New York Times, The Dallas Morning News, The Christian Science Monitor and National Public...
Chris Young
Chris Young 0000000354841270 Chris Young is a consultant, author, and public speaker. Raised in Clarksville, Tennessee, he came of age in a community shaped by severe poverty, instability, and limit...
A Boy and His Mirror
A Boy and His Mirror Marchánt Davis 9780593110553 Fiction Nancy Paulsen Books Penguin Random House Debut author and actor Marchánt Davis joins forces with the bestselling illustrator Keturah A....
Streetball Crew Book Two Stealing The Game
Streetball Crew Book Two Stealing The Game Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Raymond Obstfeld 9781423178712 Fiction Disney-Hyperion Disney Publishing Worldwide Chris Richards has always looked up to Jax, his ol...
Drop
Drop Mat Johnson 9781582341040 Fiction Bloomsbury USA Bloomsbury Publishing A new voice in American fiction recalling the work of Ralph Ellison and James Baldwin, Drop is an irreverent and unforgettab...
Chris Tomlinson
Chris Tomlinson NONE Chris Tomlinson, a seasoned reporter, has covered major global events from 50 countries and nine war zones. Based in Austin, he currently writes for The Houston Chronicle. Chris ...
Malcolm Nance and Chris Sampson
Malcolm Nance and Chris Sampson MULTIPLE Malcolm Nance and Chris Sampson are renowned authors specializing in national security, intelligence analysis, and terrorism studies. Their work provides insi...
Chris Brunner
Chris Brunner 0000000459817277 Chris Brunner is a renowned author known for his compelling narratives and unique storytelling prowess. His works have significantly impacted the literary world. Chris ...
Chris Abani
Chris Abani 0000000083877772 Chris Abani, born in Nigeria in 1966, is a renowned author and educator who faced imprisonment for his literary work. After escaping to the US, he published eight books o...
Christopher D. Burns
Christopher D. Burns NONE Christopher D. Burns, from Memphis, served in the US Navy as an electrician before becoming a QA analyst and basketball coach. He wrote his first book after an injury halted...
Chris Gardner
Chris Gardner 0000000040093476 Chris Gardner is an entrepreneur, author, philanthropist, and single parent who overcame homelessness to become a best-selling author. His memoir, The Pursuit of Happyn...
Chris Barton
Chris Barton 0000000082953972 Chris Barton, an award-winning, best-selling author, has written numerous children's books, drawing from a lifelong passion for storytelling. He grew up in Texas, nurtur...
Chris Raschka
Chris Raschka 000000008396928X Chris Raschka, born in 1959, is a renowned author, illustrator, and violist from Pennsylvania. Notable for his books “Hello, Goodbye Window,” and “A Ball for Daisy,” bo...
N. K. Jemisin, Yoon Ha Lee, Juliette Wade, Chris Roberson, and William Browning Spencer
N. K. Jemisin, Yoon Ha Lee, Juliette Wade, Chris Roberson, and William Browning Spencer MULTIPLE "N. K. Jemisin, Yoon Ha Lee, Juliette Wade, Chris Roberson, and William Browning Spencer are prominent...
Chris Stuck
Chris Stuck NONE Chris Stuck is a Portland-based freelance writer with an MFA in Fiction from George Mason University. He's a fiction fellow at several workshops, a Pushcart Prize winner, and has bee...
Chris Webber
Chris Webber 0000000031515227 Chris Webber was a five-time All-Star and a five-time All-NBA selection. In a career that spanned fifteen seasons, Webber is one of five NBA players to average at least ...
Chris Crowe
Chris Crowe 0000000035515435 Chris Crowe, Ph.D. was born in Danville, Illinois, and is the author of several acclaimed books, most notably Mississippi Trial, 1955, which received numerous honors, in...
By God’s Grace
By God’s Grace Chris Webber 9781645432777 Nonfiction Webber Publishing Group Webber Publishing Group From basketball legend Chris Webber comes By God’s Grace, the highly anticipated memoir by the pola...
What Do You Do with a Voice Like That?
What Do You Do with a Voice Like That? Chris Barton 9781481465618 Nonfiction Beach Lane Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. “When Barbara Jordan talked, we listened.” —Former President of the United States, ...
America: The Farewell Tour
America: The Farewell Tour Chris Hedges 9781501152672 Nonfiction Simon & Schuster Simon & Schuster, Inc. Chris Hedges’s profound and provocative examination of America in crisis is "an exceedingly…pro...
Unspeakable
Unspeakable Chris Hedges 9781510712737 Nonfiction Hot Books Skyhorse Publishing Chris Hedges on the most taboo topics in America, with David Talbot.Chris Hedges has been telling truth to (and against)...
New-Generation African Poets (TATU): A Chapbook Box Set
New-Generation African Poets (TATU): A Chapbook Box Set Kwame Dawes and Chris Abani 9781617754517 Poetry Akashic Books Akashic Books The box set is an annual project started in 2014 to ensure the cont...
The Face: Cartography of the Void
The Face: Cartography of the Void Chris Abani 9781632060433 Fiction Restless Books Restless Books A profound and gorgeously wrought short memoir by acclaimed Nigerian-born author and poet Chris Abani ...
The Secret History of Las Vegas: A Novel
The Secret History of Las Vegas: A Novel Chris Abani 9780143124955 Fiction Penguin Group USA Penguin Random House A gritty, riveting, and wholly original murder mystery from PEN/Hemingway Award-winnin...
Open Letter to Chris Brown
Open Letter to Chris Brown Kevin Powell Article Open Letter to Chris Brown by Kevin Powell March 23rd, 2011 Dear Chris: I really did not want to write this open letter, and would have prefe...
Sanctificum
Sanctificum Chris Abani 9781556593161 Poetry Copper Canyon Press Copper Canyon Press “Abani … explores place and humor, exile and freedom with poems of experience and imagination … [he] enters the wou...
Start Where You Are: Life Lessons In Getting From Where You Are To Where You Want To Be
Start Where You Are: Life Lessons In Getting From Where You Are To Where You Want To Be Chris Gardner and Mim E. Rivas 9780061537110 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins “Gardner is encouraging us all to ...
Song for Night: A Novella
Song for Night: A Novella Chris Abani 9781933354316 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books "Not since Jerzy Kosinski’s The Painted Bird or Agota Kristof’s Notebook Trilogy has there been such a harrowing...
The Virgin Of Flames
The Virgin Of Flames Chris Abani 9780143038771 Fiction Penguin Books Penguin Random House From the author of the award-winning GraceLand comes a searing, dazzlingly written novel of a tarnished City o...
Hands Washing Water
Hands Washing Water Chris Abani 9781556592478 Poetry Copper Canyon Press Copper Canyon Press “Chris Abani’s poetry resonates with a devastating beauty which cuts through to the heart of human strength...
Becoming Abigail
Becoming Abigail Chris Abani 9781888451948 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books "Compelling and gorgeously written, this is a coming-of-age novella like no other. Chris Abani explores the depths of los...
Chris L. Terry
Chris L. Terry NONE Chris L. Terry was born in 1979 to an African American father and an Irish American mother. He has an MA in English from Virginia Commonwealth University and a creative writing M...
Chris Smalls
Chris Smalls NONE Chris Smalls is the co-founder of the Amazon Labor Union and the labor activist who helped make history by leading the first successful unionization of an Amazon warehouse in the U...
Tami Charles with Chris Charles
Tami Charles with Chris Charles MULTIPLE Tami Charles and her son, Chris Charles
Top Five
Top Five Kam Williams Top-Five-Movie-Poster.jpg Film Review Top Five In Theaters: Dec 12, 2014 Wide R (for strong sexual content, nudity, crude humor, language throughout and some drug use) Run...
That Beautiful Mind
That Beautiful Mind Tami Charles with Chris Charles 9781546116387 Fiction Orchard Books Orchard Books From New York Times bestselling author Tami Charles and her son, Chris Charles, comes a soaring an...
When the Revolution Comes: A Fight for the Future of the Working Class
When the Revolution Comes: A Fight for the Future of the Working Class Chris Smalls 9780593700631 Nonfiction Pantheon Books Penguin Random House From one of the most influential figures to emerge from...
Give My Love to the Savages: Stories
Give My Love to the Savages: Stories Chris Stuck 9780063029972 Fiction Amistad HarperCollins A provocative and raw debut collection of short fiction reminiscent of Junot Diaz’s Drown. A Black man’s l...
This Life
This Life Quntos Kunquest 9781572842823 Fiction Agate Bolden Agate Publishing, Inc This Life is the debut novel by Quntos KunQuest, a longtime inmate at Angola, the infamous Louisiana State Penitentia...
Black Card
Black Card Chris L. Terry 9781646220199 Fiction Catapult Catapult In this NPR Best Book of the Year, a mixed-race punk rock musician must face the real dangers of being Black in America in this “wise ...
Lagos Noir
Lagos Noir Chris Abani 9781617755231 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books Akashic Books continues its award-winning series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each book c...
Book or Bell?
Book or Bell? Chris Barton 9781681197296 Fiction Bloomsbury USA Children's Books Bloomsbury Publishing The first page has Henry hooked.The second page has him captivated.The third page …BBBBRRRRIIIIIN...
Mighty Truck: Muddymania!
Mighty Truck: Muddymania! Chris Barton 9780062344793 Fiction HarperCollins HarperCollins Disney’s Cars meets Superman with Mighty Truck: Muddymania, the second picture book in this series about an ord...
88 Instruments
88 Instruments Chris Barton 9780553538144 Fiction Knopf Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House "The rhythmic, onomatopoeic text dances across exuberant watercolors with lots of movement. This ce...
Mighty Truck
Mighty Truck Chris Barton 9780062344786 Fiction HarperCollins HarperCollins Meet Clarence, a rickety old truck who goes from average to awesome when an unexpected trip through a mysterious truck wash ...
Tomlinson Hill: The Remarkable Story of Two Families Who Share the Tomlinson Name - One White, One Black
Tomlinson Hill: The Remarkable Story of Two Families Who Share the Tomlinson Name - One White, One Black Chris Tomlinson 9781250070449 Nonfiction St. Martin’s Griffin Macmillan Publishers A New York T...
Wages of Rebellion
Wages of Rebellion Chris Hedges 9781568589664 Nonfiction Bold Type Books Hachette Book Group Revolutions come in waves and cycles. We are again riding the crest of a revolutionary epic, much like 1848...
Clarkesworld Issue 94
Clarkesworld Issue 94 N. K. Jemisin, Yoon Ha Lee, Juliette Wade, Chris Roberson, and William Browning Spencer 9780692248263 Fiction Clarkesworld Magazine Wyrm Publishing Clarkesworld is a Hugo Award-w...
Kisses Don’t Lie 2 (Delphine Publications Presents)
Kisses Don’t Lie 2 (Delphine Publications Presents) Tamika Newhouse 9780984692392 Fiction Delphine Publications Delphine Publications After moving on from her first love Dean, Kyla finds love with his...
Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt
Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt Chris Hedges 9781568586434 Nonfiction Bold Type Books Hachette Book Group Two years ago, Pulitzer Prize winner Chris Hedges and award-winning cartoonist and journal...
Hiv/Aids - The Facts And The Fiction
Hiv/Aids - The Facts And The Fiction Chris Jennings 9780936571119 Fiction Health Alert Communications Health Alert Communications "The theory that AIDS originated in African monkeys arose from an inci...
Shark vs. Train
Shark vs. Train Chris Barton 9780316007627 Fiction LB Kids Hachette Book Group Shark VS. Train! WHO WILL WIN?!If you think Superman vs. Batman would be an exciting matchup, wait until you see Shark vs...
There Are No Names for Red
There Are No Names for Red Chris Abani and Percival Everett 9781597094573 Poetry Red Hen Press Red Hen Press There Are No Names for Red is a collaborative work featuring the poetry of Chris Abani and ...
Best African American Fiction 2010
Best African American Fiction 2010 Dorothy Sterling and Chris Abani 9780553385359 Fiction One World Penguin Random House Bursting with energy and innovation, the second volume in the annual anthology ...
Empire Of Illusion: The End Of Literacy And The Triumph Of Spectacle
Empire Of Illusion: The End Of Literacy And The Triumph Of Spectacle Chris Hedges 9781568584379 Nonfiction Bold Type Books Hachette Book Group We now live in two Americas. Onenow the minorityfunctio...
When Atheism Becomes Religion: America’s New Fundamentalists
When Atheism Becomes Religion: America’s New Fundamentalists Chris Hedges 9781416570783 Nonfiction Free Press Free Press From the New York Times bestselling author of American Fascists and the NBCC fi...
Collateral Damage: America’s War Against Iraqi Civilians
Collateral Damage: America’s War Against Iraqi Civilians Chris Hedges 9781568583730 Nonfiction Bold Type Books Hachette Book Group Best-selling author and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedge...
I Don’t Believe in Atheists
I Don’t Believe in Atheists Chris Hedges 9781416567950 Nonfiction Free Press Free Press From the New York Times bestselling author of American Fascists and the NBCC finalist for War Is a Force That Gi...
American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America
American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America Chris Hedges 9780743284462 Fiction Free Press Free Press Twenty-five years ago, when Pat Robertson and other radio and televangelists firs...
The Pursuit of Happyness
The Pursuit of Happyness Chris Gardner and Quincy Troupe 9780060744878 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins Read an AALBC.com Movie Review The astounding yet true rags-to-riches saga of a homeless fa...
Bessie: Revised and Expanded Edition
Bessie: Revised and Expanded Edition Chris Albertson 9780300107562 Nonfiction Yale University Press Yale University Press The basis for the HBO film airing in May 2015, this revised and expanded editi...
Losing Moses on the Freeway: The 10 Commandments in America
Losing Moses on the Freeway: The 10 Commandments in America Chris Hedges 9780743255134 Nonfiction Free Press Free Press In Losing Moses on the Freeway, Chris Hedges, veteran war correspondent and auth...
Blackout: The Untold Story of Jackie Robinson’s First Spring Training
Blackout: The Untold Story of Jackie Robinson’s First Spring Training Chris Lamb 9780803229563 Nonfiction University of Nebraska Press University of Nebraska Press In the spring of 1946, following the...
A Vampyre Blues: The Passion Of Varnado
A Vampyre Blues: The Passion Of Varnado Chris Hayden 9780971201941 Fiction Door of Kush Door of Kush Our handsome hero…an African American vampire…falls in love with a married human woman, Sheba Fergu...
War Is A Force That Gives Us Meaning
War Is A Force That Gives Us Meaning Chris Hedges 9781400034635 Fiction Anchor Penguin Random House As a veteran war correspondent, Chris Hedges has survived ambushes in Central America, imprisonment ...
What Every Person Should Know About War
What Every Person Should Know About War Chris Hedges 9780743255127 Nonfiction Free Press Free Press Acclaimed New York Times journalist and author Chris Hedges offers a critical — and fascinating — le...
War Is A Force That Gives Us Meaning
War Is A Force That Gives Us Meaning Chris Hedges 9781586480493 Nonfiction PublicAffairs Hachette Book Group General George S. Patton famously said, "Compared to war all other forms of human endeavor ...
Rev. Run, Justine Simmons and Chris Morrow
Rev. Run, Justine Simmons and Chris Morrow MULTIPLE
