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Surviving Paris: A Memoir of Healing in the City of Light
Surviving Paris: A Memoir of Healing in the City of Light Robin Allison Davis 9780063353138 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins A deeply personal account of a young Black woman who set out to shake up he...
Rendezvous Eighteenth (American Mysteries in Paris)
Rendezvous Eighteenth (American Mysteries in Paris) Jake Lamar 9780312336059 Fiction Minotaur Books Minotaur Books Rendezvous Eighteenth marks the emergence of an exciting voice in crime fiction. Ric...
To Paris with Love: A Family Business Novel
To Paris with Love: A Family Business Novel Carl Weber and Eric Pete 9781601626318 Fiction Urban Books Kensington Publishing Corp. Ripped from the pages of the New York Times bestselling series The Fa...
Lottie Paris and the Best Place
Lottie Paris and the Best Place Angela Johnson 9780689873782 Fiction Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers Simon & Schuster, Inc. The charming and spirited Lottie Paris is back—and she loves the li...
The Other Side Of Dare (Blessed Trinity)
The Other Side Of Dare (Blessed Trinity) Vanessa Davis Griggs 9780758273598 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. When a battle of wills threatens to tear a family apart, a child shall lead them—...
Miles of Style: Eunice W. Johnson and the Ebony Fashion Fair
Miles of Style: Eunice W. Johnson and the Ebony Fashion Fair Lisa D. Brathwaite 9781620143124 Nonfiction Lee & Low Books Lee & Low Books A chic biography about Eunice W. Johnson who brought elegant an...
An American Lost in Paris: A Novella Adapted from The Screenplay
An American Lost in Paris: A Novella Adapted from The Screenplay Marcus Anthony Hunter 9781685366551 Fiction Westwood Books Publishing Westwood Books Publishing It was 1968 and Miles Decker had just t...
To Paris with Love
To Paris with Love Carl Weber and Eric Pete 9781601625717 Fiction Urban Books Kensington Publishing Corp. A New York Times Bestselling Author; An Essence® Bestselling Author; An Essence® Bests...
The Road to Paris
The Road to Paris Nikki Grimes 9780142410820 Fiction Penguin Young Readers Group Penguin Random House Paris has just moved in with the Lincoln family, and she isn?t thrilled to be in yet another foste...
Behold the Dreamers: A Novel
Behold the Dreamers: A Novel Imbolo Mbue 9780812998481 Fiction Knopf Penguin Random House Imbolo Mbue’s The Longings of Jende Jonga one of two books to earn $1 Million+ advances at the Frankfurt Book ...
Homegoing: A Novel
Homegoing: A Novel Yaa Gyasi 9781101947135 Fiction Random House Penguin Random House Yaa Gyasi’s London Book Fair 2015: In Pre-Fair Deals, Debut Sells to Knopf for Rumored 7 Figures A riveting, kal...
Night at the Fair
Night at the Fair Donald Crews 9780688114831 Fiction Greenwillow Books HarperCollins Step right up! Crews "(Freight Train)" gives young readers an open-ended ticket to the glittery goings-on after dar...
Half-Blown Rose
Half-Blown Rose Leesa Cross-Smith 9781538755181 Fiction Grand Central Publishing Hachette Book Group An irresistible story of a woman remaking her life after her husband’s betrayal leads to a year of ...
Half-Blown Rose: A Novel
Half-Blown Rose: A Novel Leesa Cross-Smith 9781538755167 Fiction Grand Central Publishing Hachette Book Group From the award-winning author of This Close to Okay comes the irresistible story of a woma...
Lottie Paris Lives Here
Lottie Paris Lives Here Angela Johnson 9781481409667 Fiction Little Simon Simon & Schuster, Inc. Award-winning author Angela Johnson and illustrator Scott Fischer take you inside the mind of a spunky ...
Sexcapades
Sexcapades Honeyb 9780446582285 Fiction Grand Central Publishing Hachette Book Group Nick and Natalie are two lovers whose sexual lives are more than above average, but they are both competing for the...
Black Girl in Paris
Black Girl in Paris Shay Youngblood 9781481824903 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC Black Girl in Paris wends its way around the mythology or Paris as a city that has called out to African-...
Marrying Up
Marrying Up Nina Foxx 9780060750459 Fiction William Morrow Paperbacks HarperCollins The Ring Is Not Enough … … not if, like Paris Montague, you come from a long line of women who know how to marry. In...
Coq Au Vin: Nanette Hayes Mystery Series Book 2
Coq Au Vin: Nanette Hayes Mystery Series Book 2 Charlotte Carter 9780593314128 Fiction Vintage Crime/Black Lizard Penguin Random House Read a review of Coq Au Vin: A Nanette Hayes Mystery in Mosaic Li...
Mademoiselle Revolution
Mademoiselle Revolution Zoe Sivak 9780593336038 Fiction Berkley Books Penguin Random House A bisexual, biracial protagonist from the late 1700s. A violent slave uprising in Haiti and it’s rippling eff...
Fear of the Dark: A Novel
Fear of the Dark: A Novel Walter Mosley 9780446617895 Fiction Grand Central Publishing Hachette Book Group When his cousin Ulysses S. Grant IV comes knocking, Paris Minton would rather keep the door...
Fear Itself: A Fearless Jones Novel
Fear Itself: A Fearless Jones Novel Walter Mosley 9780316591126 Fiction Little, Brown and Company Hachette Book Group Paris Minton doesn’t want any trouble. He minds his used bookstore and his own bus...
Encounter on the Seine: Essays
Encounter on the Seine: Essays James Baldwin 9780807018675 Nonfiction Beacon Press Beacon Press “James Baldwin was born for truth. It called upon him to tell it on the mountains, to preach it in Harle...
Dork Diaries 15: Tales from a Not-So-Posh Paris Adventure
Dork Diaries 15: Tales from a Not-So-Posh Paris Adventure Rachel Renée Russell 9781534480483 Fiction Aladdin Simon & Schuster, Inc. Nikki Maxwell deals with the trials and triumphs of middle school in...
The Stone Face
The Stone Face William Gardner Smith 9781681375168 Fiction New York Review Books The New York Review of Books A roman à clef about racism, identity, and bohemian living amidst the tensions and ...
Spin
Spin Lamar Giles 9781338582185 Fiction Scholastic Inc Scholastic Inc. Even in murder, the music lives on.When rising star Paris Secord (aka DJ ParSec) is found dead on her turntables, it sends the loc...
Walking with the Muses: A Memoir
Walking with the Muses: A Memoir Pat Cleveland 9781501108228 Nonfiction Atria / 37 Ink Simon & Schuster, Inc. An exciting account of the international adventures of fashion model Pat Cleveland—one of ...
The Other Side of Divine
The Other Side of Divine Vanessa Davis Griggs 9780758273604 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. Paris Simmons-Holyfield is finally pregnant with the baby she’s dreamed of for so long. There’s j...
Paris, Pee Wee and Big Dog
Paris, Pee Wee and Big Dog Rosa Guy 9780440400721 Fiction Yearling Penguin Random House paris pee wee and big dog
Griffin’s Way
Griffin’s Way Frank Yerby 9780434890200 Fiction Heinemann Houghton Mifflin Harcourt One of the best novels on the Reconstruction period is Frank Yerby’s Griffin’s WayEugene Stovall Di Cadwallader. ...
Many Thousand Gone: An American Fable
Many Thousand Gone: An American Fable Ronald Fair 9781598537635 Fiction Library of America Library of America Rediscover this gripping 1965 novel about race in America—set in a rural corner of Mississ...
Hog Butcher
Hog Butcher Ronald Fair 9780810129887 Fiction Northwestern University Press Northwestern University Press It’s summer on the South Side of Chicago, and ten-year-old boys Earl and Wilford are frequentl...
The Weather and Women Treat Me Fair: Stories
The Weather and Women Treat Me Fair: Stories Percival Everett 9780874830132 Fiction August House Publishers August House Publishers The Weather and Women Treat Me Fair is a collection of short stories...
World of Nothing: Two Novellas
World of Nothing: Two Novellas Ronald Fair 9781299883673 Fiction Harper & Row HarperCollins Fair’s third major work of fiction, World of Nothing (1970), is a pair of novellas. “Jerome,” his most exper...
The Book of Harlan
The Book of Harlan Bernice L. McFadden 9781617754456 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books The Book of Harlan was inspired by the life of my paternal grandfather; Harold Isaac McFadden (pictured on the ...
The Most Secret Memory of Men
The Most Secret Memory of Men Mohamed Mbougar Sarr 9781635423273 Fiction Other Press (NY) Other Press A gripping literary mystery in the vein of Bolaño’s Savage Detectives, this coming-of-age n...
Paris in May
Paris in May D. A. Grey 9781646540495 Fiction Fulton Books Fulton Books “A refreshing technique of the author is his ability to dissect the characters completely.” …“The multilayered transparenc...
Passing Love
Passing Love Jacqueline E. Luckett 9780446542999 Fiction Grand Central Publishing Hachette Book Group Nicole-Marie Handy has loved all things French since she was a child. After the death of her best ...
Vibration Cooking: or, The Travel Notes of a Geechee Girl
Vibration Cooking: or, The Travel Notes of a Geechee Girl Vertamae Smart-Grosvenor 9780820337395 Nonfiction University of Georgia Press University of Georgia Press Vibration Cooking was first publishe...
Our Thang: Selected Poems,Selected Drawings
Our Thang: Selected Poems,Selected Drawings Ted Joans 9781894800006 Poetry Ekstasis Editions Ekstasis Editions Our Thang: Selected Poems, Selected Drawings presents the extraordinary jazz-poems of the...
Andre Leon Talley: Grand Gestures
Andre Leon Talley: Grand Gestures Paula Wallace 9780847874415 Nonfiction Rizzoli Electa Rizzoli International Publications A visual celebration of André Leon Talley’s life that centers his pers...
The Wildest Sun: A Novel
The Wildest Sun: A Novel Asha Lemmie 9780593185735 Fiction Penguin Publishing Group Penguin Random House Following her New York Times bestselling debut Fifty Words for Rain, Asha Lemmie’s next sweepin...
Fearless and Free: A Memoir
Fearless and Free: A Memoir Josephine Baker 9780593853696 Nonfiction Tiny Reparations Books Penguin Random House “A gorgeous, captivating gem of a memoir…Josephine Baker’s as enthralling on the page a...
Someone Like Us
Someone Like Us Dinaw Mengestu 9780385350006 Fiction Knopf Penguin Random House The son of Ethiopian immigrants seeks to understand a hidden family history and uncovers a past coloured by unexpected l...
A Lethal Lady
A Lethal Lady Nekesa Afia 9780593548806 Fiction Penguin Publishing Group Penguin Random House Louise Lloyd’s time away in Paris is everything she was hoping it would be until a shocking murder turns h...
Danica Dramatica: Queen Me!
Danica Dramatica: Queen Me! Lori Nelson Lee 9780979417122 Fiction NP Chapters NP Chapters Ten-year old Danica Darcy has had enough of Paris Pickett! After years of dealing with Paris bullying her way ...
The Other Side of Divine (Blessed Trinity)
The Other Side of Divine (Blessed Trinity) Vanessa Davis Griggs 9781410462794 Fiction Thorndike Press Thorndike Press Paris Simmons-Holyfield is finally pregnant with the baby she’s dreamed of for so ...
Loneliness of Angels
Loneliness of Angels Myriam J. A. Chancy 9781845231224 Poetry Peepal Tree Press Peepal Tree Press Offering a richly nuanced portrayal placing Haiti in a global context as a place of ethnic and cultura...
The Memories We Keep
The Memories We Keep Walter Zacharius 9780758217714 Fiction Kensington Kensington Publishing Corp. An unexpected letter arrives in the mail, tying the present to the past, and promising a long-awaited...
Ghosts of Saint-Michel
Ghosts of Saint-Michel Jake Lamar 9780312289256 Fiction Minotaur Books Minotaur Books Marva Dobbs has a life most people would envy. An American who has lived in Paris for most of her adult life, she ...
The Practice of Diaspora: Literature, Translation, and the Rise of Black Internationalism
The Practice of Diaspora: Literature, Translation, and the Rise of Black Internationalism Brent Hayes Edwards 9780674011038 Nonfiction Harvard University Press Harvard University Press A pathbreaking ...
Blackgammon
Blackgammon Heather Neff 9780345436115 Fiction One World/Ballantine Penguin Random House A sweeping, unforgettable debut novel that traces remarkable parallel voyages of self-discovery, Blackgammon re...
Marie in Fourth Position
Marie in Fourth Position Amy Littlesugar 9780399227943 Fiction Philomel Books Penguin Random House Marie’s dream is to dance beneath the spotlight in the Paris Opera, but she finds herself only a "rat...
Heremakhonon: A Novel
Heremakhonon: A Novel Maryse Conde 9780894102332 Fiction Three Continents Press Three Continents Press Veronica Mercier, a sophisticated Caribbean woman teaching and living in Paris, journeys to West ...
Izzy Newton and the S.M.A.R.T. Squad: Newton’s Flaw (Book 2)
Izzy Newton and the S.M.A.R.T. Squad: Newton’s Flaw (Book 2) Valerie Tripp 9781426371530 Fiction Under the Stars National Geographic Books When middle-school mishaps happen, five friends form the S.M....
The Instruction of Ptah Hotep and the Instruction of Ke’gemni
The Instruction of Ptah Hotep and the Instruction of Ke’gemni Battiscombe G. Gunn 9781770830639 Nonfiction Theophania Publishing Theophania Publishing Battiscombe Gunn published his first translation ...
Whispers From Mother Earth; Celebrate the Skin You’re In
Whispers From Mother Earth; Celebrate the Skin You’re In Maryam Khalifah 9781963981049 Fiction Fair Share Publishing Fair Share Publishing Whispers From Mother Earth; Celebrate the Skin You’re In feat...
Our Time Is Now
Our Time Is Now Stacey Abrams aka Selena Montgomery 9781250257703 Nonfiction Henry Holt & Company Macmillan Publishers Our Time Is Now: Power, Purpose, and the Fight for a Fair America “This is a nar...
Fair Oaks
Fair Oaks Frank Yerby 9780440124559 Fiction Dell Publishing Penguin Random House Book by Yerby, Frank
Downfall of the Civil Rights Department (CRD): A Survivor’s Guide, When Someone is not Playing Fair
Downfall of the Civil Rights Department (CRD): A Survivor’s Guide, When Someone is not Playing Fair Carol Denise Mitchell 9798252278711 Nonfiction Independently Published Independently Published #1 N...
St. Pierre Boyz 2: All is Fair in Love and War (Volume 2)
St. Pierre Boyz 2: All is Fair in Love and War (Volume 2) Mz. Lady P and Mesha Mesh 9781542554442 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC Completely fed up with all things St. Pierre, the women a...
We Can’t Breathe
We Can’t Breathe Ronald Fair 9780060112165 Fiction Harper & Row HarperCollins An autobiographical account of how Ernie and his friends struggle to grow up and attain manhood and self respect in the Ch...
They Dream in Gold
They Dream in Gold Mai Sennaar 9781638931102 Fiction SJP Lit Zando Shortlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize 2024 “Extraordinary … a powerful and poignant exploration of the African ...
King Penguin
King Penguin Jesse Byrd 9780692909256 Fiction Jesse B. Creative Jesse B. Creative PARIS BOOK FESTIVAL Top 3 Book of the Year!LOS ANGELES BOOK FESTIVAL: Top 10 Book of the Year!"Reminiscent of Watershi...
Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir
Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir Akwaeke Emezi 9780593329191 Nonfiction Riverhead Books Penguin Random House "[One] of our greatest living writers." —Shondaland Named a Most Anticipated Book of t...
Innocent Crook
Innocent Crook d. E. Rogers 9780970880895 Fiction REGI Books REGI Books When one is born into a family of crime, can he rise above and become someone? Are we forever bound by what life has dealt us or...
The Crossed-Out Swastika
The Crossed-Out Swastika Cyrus Cassells 9781556593796 Poetry Copper Canyon Press Copper Canyon Press "Cassells is a passionate poet whose poems touch the core of human connection through which can flo...
Death Does Not End at the Sea
Death Does Not End at the Sea Gbenga Adesina 9781496244772 Poetry University of Nebraska Press University of Nebraska Press Winner of the Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry In Gbeng...
Resting Bitch Face: Poems
Resting Bitch Face: Poems Taylor Byas 9781593767877 Poetry Soft Skull Press Soft Skull Press An Audacious Book Club Pick The author of the award-winning national bestseller I Done Clicked My Heels ...
James Baldwin 3-Book Box Set: Giovanni’s Room, If Beale Street Could Talk, and Go Tell It on the Mountain
James Baldwin 3-Book Box Set: Giovanni’s Room, If Beale Street Could Talk, and Go Tell It on the Mountain James Baldwin 9780593689714 Fiction Vintage Penguin Random House Celebrating the Centenary of ...
Aimé Césaire: No to Humiliation
Aimé Césaire: No to Humiliation NIMROD 9781644212578 Nonfiction Triangle Square Seven Stories Press The only young adult book to tell the story of Aimé Césaire, the rise of Negritude, an...
The Circuit: A Tennis Odyssey
The Circuit: A Tennis Odyssey Rowan Ricardo Phillips 9781250234926 Nonfiction Picador Macmillan Publishers Winner of the 2019 PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing “The Circuit is the best spo...
Why Young Men: Rage, Race and the Crisis of Identity
Why Young Men: Rage, Race and the Crisis of Identity Jamil Jivani 9781443453196 Nonfiction HarperCollins Publishers HarperCollins Longlisted for the Toronto Book AwardThe day after the 2015 Paris terr...
Cane River
Cane River Lalita Tademy 9780446615884 Fiction Warner Books Hachette Book Group The "New York Times" bestseller and Oprah’s Book Club Pick—the unique and deeply moving epic of four generations of Afri...
Rising Troublemaker
Rising Troublemaker Luvvie Ajayi Jones 9780593526033 Nonfiction Philomel Books Penguin Random House In this young readers edition of her New York Times bestseller Professional Troublemaker, Luvvie Aja...
Notes from Beale Street
Notes from Beale Street Phyllis R. Dixon 9781496758804 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. When their family matriarch dies in 1980s Memphis, two very different sisters battle over her legacy—o...
The Missed Connection
The Missed Connection Tia Williams 9781538770269 Fiction Grand Central Publishing Hachette Book Group New York Times bestselling author Tia Williams returns with an intensely romantic, deliciously...
Baldwin: A Love Story
Baldwin: A Love Story Nicholas Boggs 9780374178710 Nonfiction Farrar, Straus and Giroux Macmillan Publishers Baldwin: A Love Story, the first major biography of James Baldwin in three decades, reveals...
Sing the Truth: The Kweli Journal Short Story Collection
Sing the Truth: The Kweli Journal Short Story Collection Laura Pegram 9798893310252 Fiction Authors Equity Authors Equity A powerful must-read collection of bold BIPOC voices. All proceeds support T...
The Many Hundreds of the Scent: Poems
The Many Hundreds of the Scent: Poems Shane McCrae 9780374613945 Poetry Farrar, Straus and Giroux Macmillan Publishers A stunning new collection of poetry from Shane McCrae, winner of the Whiting Writ...
This Ravenous Fate
This Ravenous Fate Hayley Dennings 9781728297866 Fiction Sourcebooks Fire Sourcebooks A New York Times Bestseller! The first book in a decadent fantasy duology set in Jazz Age Harlem, where at nigh...
Village Weavers
Village Weavers Myriam J. A. Chancy 9781959030379 Fiction Tin House Books Tin House Books A TIME Best Book of April Winner of the 2025 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature “Chancy is one of ou...
Agent Josephine: American Beauty, French Hero, British Spy
Agent Josephine: American Beauty, French Hero, British Spy Damien Lewis 9781541700666 Nonfiction PublicAffairs Hachette Book Group The New Yorker, Best Books of 2022 Booklist, Best Books of 2022 S...
How to Wrestle a Girl: Stories
How to Wrestle a Girl: Stories Venita Blackburn 9780374602796 Fiction MCD x FSG Books Farrar, Straus and Giroux A Paris Review Staff Pick and an Amazon Editors’ Pick. Finalist for the Ernest J. Gaines...
The Perfect Ruin: A Riveting New Psychological Thriller
The Perfect Ruin: A Riveting New Psychological Thriller Shanora Williams 9781496731104 Fiction Dafina Kensington Publishing Corp. A thrilling new novel of lies, deception, and revenge from the bestsel...
Filthy Animals
Filthy Animals Brandon Taylor 9780525538912 Fiction Riverhead Books Penguin Random House Named a Most Anticipated Book of the Year by Time, Elle, Entertainment Weekly, Cosmopolitan, O: The Oprah Magaz...
Screams Across Time
Screams Across Time Tommie Thomas 9781986049382 Fiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC Fog enshrouds the road leading to a rural country Church encased in flames for a bomb has reduced it to rub...
Jazz Age Josephine: Dancer, singer—who’s that, who? Why, that’s MISS Josephine Baker, to you!
Jazz Age Josephine: Dancer, singer—who’s that, who? Why, that’s MISS Josephine Baker, to you! Jonah Winter 9781416961239 Nonfiction Atheneum Books for Young Readers Simon & Schuster, Inc. A picture bo...
Henry Ossawa Tanner: His Boyhood Dream Comes True
Henry Ossawa Tanner: His Boyhood Dream Comes True Faith Ringgold 9781593730925 Nonfiction Bunker Hill Publishing Inc Bunker Hill Publishing Inc This is the story of a small African American boy who fo...
Before There Was Mozart: The Story of Joseph Boulogne, Chevalier de Saint-George
Before There Was Mozart: The Story of Joseph Boulogne, Chevalier de Saint-George Lesa Cline-Ransome 9780375836008 Nonfiction Schwartz & Wade Random House Children's Books The musical superstar of 18th...
Sexcapades
Sexcapades Honeyb 9780446582292 Fiction Grand Central Publishing Hachette Book Group Nick and Natalie are two lovers whose sexual lives are more than above average. But their secret relationship is pu...
Fanon
Fanon John Edgar Wideman 9780618942633 Fiction Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Houghton Mifflin Harcourt A philosopher, psychiatrist, and political activist, Frantz Fanon was a fierce, acute critic of racis...
The Fisher King: A Novel
The Fisher King: A Novel Paule Marshall 9780684869704 Fiction Scribner Book Company Simon & Schuster, Inc. In 1949, Sonny-Rett Payne, a jazz pianist, fled New York for Paris to escape both his family’...
Fearless Jones
Fearless Jones Walter Mosley 9780316592383 Fiction Little, Brown and Company Hachette Book Group Mosley returns to mysteries at last with his most engaging hero since Easy Rawlins. When Paris Minton...
Tiepolo’s Hound
Tiepolo’s Hound Derek Walcott 9780374527792 Poetry Farrar, Straus and Giroux Macmillan Publishers From the Nobel laureate, a "resplently luminous" (Paul Gray, Time) book-length poem on two educations ...
Beirut: City of Regrets
Beirut: City of Regrets Eli Reed 9780393305074 Nonfiction W. W. Norton & Company W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. Beirut, once called the "Paris of the Middle East,’ is now half rubble and all killing zo...
Honey and Spice: A Reese’s Book Club Pick
Honey and Spice: A Reese’s Book Club Pick Bolu Babalola 9780063141483 Fiction William Morrow & Company HarperCollins “Sexy, messy and wry, Honey and Spice more than delivers.” — New York Times Book Re...
Trouble Next Door: The Carver Chronicles, Book Four
Trouble Next Door: The Carver Chronicles, Book Four Karen English 9780544801271 Fiction Clarion Books HarperCollins In the fourth book in the Carver Chronicles series, third grader Calvin is dealing w...
Race, Crime, And The Law
Race, Crime, And The Law Randall Kennedy 9780375701849 Fiction Vintage Penguin Random House Winner of the 1998 Robert F. Kennedy Book Award Grand Prize"An original, wise and courageous work that moves...
No Good Deed
No Good Deed Nekesa Afia 9780593548820 Fiction Berkley Books Penguin Random House Caught between her family back in Harlem and her glamorous new life, Louise Lloyd finds that her knack for solving cri...