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Good, God

A Creation Story

by Kiese Laymon ...

A powerful, benedictive new memoir from a master of the form, Good, God: A Creation Story probes the comic, and often ghoulish, experience of creating children, creating good friendship, creating good art, and creating good Gods while waiting to die in America.When Kiese Laymon’s best friend invites him to help her create a child in the age of Trump, Laymon must reckon with how a romanticization ... Read more

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A powerful, benedictive new memoir from a master of the form, Good, God: A Creation Story probes the comic, and often ghoulish, experience of creating children, creating good friendship, creating good art, and creating good Gods while waiting to die in America.When Kiese Laymon’s best friend invites him to help her create a child in the age of Trump, Laymon must reckon with how a romanticization
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How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America

Essays

by Kiese Laymon ...

A New York Times Notable BookA revised collection with thirteen essays, including six new to this edition and seven from the original edition, by the “star in the American literary firmament, with a voice that is courageous, honest, loving, and singularly beautiful” (NPR).Brilliant and uncompromising, piercing and funny, How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America is essential reading. This ... Read more

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A New York Times Notable BookA revised collection with thirteen essays, including six new to this edition and seven from the original edition, by the “star in the American literary firmament, with a voice that is courageous, honest, loving, and singularly beautiful” (NPR).Brilliant and uncompromising, piercing and funny, How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America is essential reading. This
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Long Division

A Novel

by Kiese Laymon ...

Winner of the NAACP Image Award for FictionFrom the author of the critically acclaimed memoir Heavy, comes a “funny, astute, searching” (The Wall Street Journal) debut novel about Black teenagers that is a satirical exploration of celebrity, authorship, violence, religion, and coming of age in post-Katrina Mississippi.Written in a voice that’s alternately humorous, lacerating, and wise, Long ... Read more

$17.99 CAD

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Winner of the NAACP Image Award for FictionFrom the author of the critically acclaimed memoir Heavy, comes a “funny, astute, searching” (The Wall Street Journal) debut novel about Black teenagers that is a satirical exploration of celebrity, authorship, violence, religion, and coming of age in post-Katrina Mississippi.Written in a voice that’s alternately humorous, lacerating, and wise, Long
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City Summer, Country Summer

by Kiese Laymon ...

Illustrated by Alexis Franklin ...

CORETTA SCOTT KING ILLUSTRATOR HONOR BOOK • A lyrical picture book from the award-winning author of Heavy, about three Black boys who form a deep connection during a transformative summer trip down South to visit family.On the ground of that garden, covered in vegetables and dirt, coated in laughter, I want to say that the Mississippi and New York in our Black boy bodies were indistinguishable ... Read more

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CORETTA SCOTT KING ILLUSTRATOR HONOR BOOK • A lyrical picture book from the award-winning author of Heavy, about three Black boys who form a deep connection during a transformative summer trip down South to visit family.On the ground of that garden, covered in vegetables and dirt, coated in laughter, I want to say that the Mississippi and New York in our Black boy bodies were indistinguishable
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Good, God

by Kiese Laymon ...

Unabridged

7 hours

A powerful, benedictive new memoir from a master of the form, Good, God: A Creation Story probes the comic, and often ghoulish, experience of creating children, creating good friendship, creating good art, and creating good Gods while waiting to die in America.When Kiese Laymon’s best friend invites him to help her create a child in the age of Trump, Laymon must reckon with how a romanticization ... Read more

$33.99 CAD

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A powerful, benedictive new memoir from a master of the form, Good, God: A Creation Story probes the comic, and often ghoulish, experience of creating children, creating good friendship, creating good art, and creating good Gods while waiting to die in America.When Kiese Laymon’s best friend invites him to help her create a child in the age of Trump, Laymon must reckon with how a romanticization
... Read more
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Heavy

An American Memoir

by Kiese Laymon ...

Narrated by Kiese Laymon ...

Unabridged

6 hours 17 min

*Selected as One of the Best Books of the 21st Century by The New York Times**Winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal and Finalist for the Kirkus Prize**Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times, Publishers Weekly,NPR, Broadly, BuzzFeed, and more*The powerful, provocative, award-winning, and universally lauded memoir by genre-bending essayist and nove... ... Read more

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*Selected as One of the Best Books of the 21st Century by The New York Times**Winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal and Finalist for the Kirkus Prize**Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times, Publishers Weekly,NPR, Broadly, BuzzFeed, and more*The powerful, provocative, award-winning, and universally lauded memoir by genre-bending essayist and nove...
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bone

by Yrsa Daley-Ward ...

Narrated by Yrsa Daley-Ward, Kiese Laymon ...

Unabridged

1 hour 36 min

**“yrsa daley-ward’s bone is a symphony of breaking and mending. . . . she lays her hands on the pulse of the thing. . . . an expert storyteller. of the rarest. and purest kind.” —nayyirah waheed, author of salt.From the celebrated poet Yrsa Daley-Ward, a poignant collection of poems about the heart, life, and the inner self.**Foreword by Kiese Laymon, author of Heavy: An American MemoirBone. ... Read more

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**“yrsa daley-ward’s bone is a symphony of breaking and mending. . . . she lays her hands on the pulse of the thing. . . . an expert storyteller. of the rarest. and purest kind.” —nayyirah waheed, author of salt.From the celebrated poet Yrsa Daley-Ward, a poignant collection of poems about the heart, life, and the inner self.**Foreword by Kiese Laymon, author of Heavy: An American MemoirBone.
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City Summer, Country Summer

by Kiese Laymon ...

Narrated by Samuel Eubanks ...

Unabridged

7 min

A lyrical audiobook from the award-winning author of Heavy, about three Black boys who form a deep connection during a transformative summer trip down South to visit family.On the ground of that garden, covered in vegetables and dirt, coated in laughter, I want to say that the Mississippi and New York in our Black boy bodies were indistinguishable.Three Black boys spend one special summer ... Read more

$6.95 CAD

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A lyrical audiobook from the award-winning author of Heavy, about three Black boys who form a deep connection during a transformative summer trip down South to visit family.On the ground of that garden, covered in vegetables and dirt, coated in laughter, I want to say that the Mississippi and New York in our Black boy bodies were indistinguishable.Three Black boys spend one special summer
... Read more

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How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America

Essays

by Kiese Laymon ...

Narrated by Kiese Laymon ...

Unabridged

5 hours 7 min

A New York Times Notable BookA revised collection with thirteen essays, including six new to this edition and seven from the original edition, by the “star in the American literary firmament, with a voice that is courageous, honest, loving, and singularly beautiful” (NPR).Brilliant and uncompromising, piercing and funny, How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America is essential reading. This ... Read more

$25.99 CAD

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A New York Times Notable BookA revised collection with thirteen essays, including six new to this edition and seven from the original edition, by the “star in the American literary firmament, with a voice that is courageous, honest, loving, and singularly beautiful” (NPR).Brilliant and uncompromising, piercing and funny, How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America is essential reading. This
... Read more

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Heavy

An American Memoir

by Kiese Laymon ...

*Selected as One of the Best Books of the 21st Century by The New York Times**Winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal and Finalist for the Kirkus Prize**Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times, Publishers Weekly,NPR, Broadly, BuzzFeed, and more*The powerful, provocative, award-winning, and universally lauded memoir by genre-bending essayist and nove... ... Read more

$12.99 CAD

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*Selected as One of the Best Books of the 21st Century by The New York Times**Winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal and Finalist for the Kirkus Prize**Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times, Publishers Weekly,NPR, Broadly, BuzzFeed, and more*The powerful, provocative, award-winning, and universally lauded memoir by genre-bending essayist and nove...
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Belly of the Beast

The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness

by Da'Shaun L. Harrison ...

**The 2022 Lammy Award Winner in Transgender Nonfiction**Exploring the intersections of Blackness, gender, fatness, health, and the violence of policing.To live in a body both fat and Black is to exist at the margins of a society that creates the conditions for anti-fatness as anti-Blackness. Hyper-policed by state and society, passed over for housing and jobs, and derided and misdiagnosed by ... Read more

$19.99 CAD

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**The 2022 Lammy Award Winner in Transgender Nonfiction**Exploring the intersections of Blackness, gender, fatness, health, and the violence of policing.To live in a body both fat and Black is to exist at the margins of a society that creates the conditions for anti-fatness as anti-Blackness. Hyper-policed by state and society, passed over for housing and jobs, and derided and misdiagnosed by
... Read more

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Long Division

A Novel

by Kiese Laymon ...

Narrated by Ruffin Prentiss III, Jaime Lincoln Smith ...

Unabridged

8 hours 10 min

Winner of the NAACP Image Award for FictionFrom the author of the critically acclaimed memoir Heavy, comes a “funny, astute, searching” (The Wall Street Journal) debut novel about Black teenagers that is a satirical exploration of celebrity, authorship, violence, religion, and coming of age in post-Katrina Mississippi.Written in a voice that’s alternately humorous, lacerating, and wise, Long ... Read more

$33.99 CAD

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Winner of the NAACP Image Award for FictionFrom the author of the critically acclaimed memoir Heavy, comes a “funny, astute, searching” (The Wall Street Journal) debut novel about Black teenagers that is a satirical exploration of celebrity, authorship, violence, religion, and coming of age in post-Katrina Mississippi.Written in a voice that’s alternately humorous, lacerating, and wise, Long
... Read more

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