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The crooked cross

by Charles J. Dutton ...

In "The Crooked Cross," Charles J. Dutton explores the intersection of faith, morality, and the human condition against a backdrop of socio-political strife. Engagingly written, the novel employs a blend of realism and allegory, allowing readers to delve deep into the lives of its richly drawn characters. Dutton's narrative style is characterized by intricate prose that is both evocative and ... Read more

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In "The Crooked Cross," Charles J. Dutton explores the intersection of faith, morality, and the human condition against a backdrop of socio-political strife. Engagingly written, the novel employs a blend of realism and allegory, allowing readers to delve deep into the lives of its richly drawn characters. Dutton's narrative style is characterized by intricate prose that is both evocative and
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The Crooked Cross

by Charles J. Dutton ...

As a rule the first of June always found Bartley out of the city. With the coming of the first days of spring, he would begin to grow restless. One would find upon the large rosewood desk in his library various fishing flies, and maps showing far-off lakes and streams. For a while he would even drop his books and pamphlets which told of the 18th century of France, and pore over various guides of ... Read more

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As a rule the first of June always found Bartley out of the city. With the coming of the first days of spring, he would begin to grow restless. One would find upon the large rosewood desk in his library various fishing flies, and maps showing far-off lakes and streams. For a while he would even drop his books and pamphlets which told of the 18th century of France, and pore over various guides of
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PARIS TROUT

by Pete Dexter ...

Narrated by Charles S. Dutton ...

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2 hours 58 min

A respected white citizen of Cotton Point, Georgia, Paris Trout is a shopkeeper, a money-lender, and a murderer of blacks. And his friends, family and foes do not realize the danger they face in a man who simply will not see his own guilt. ... Read more

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A respected white citizen of Cotton Point, Georgia, Paris Trout is a shopkeeper, a money-lender, and a murderer of blacks. And his friends, family and foes do not realize the danger they face in a man who simply will not see his own guilt.
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Inspired By … The Bible Experience Audio Bible - Today's New International Version, TNIV: Old Testament

by Zondervan ...

Narrated by Full Cast, Yolanda Adams, India Arie, Angela Bassett, James Brown, LeVar Burton, Juanita Bynum, Shirley Caesar, Nick Cannon, Common Common, Ruby Dee, Charles Dutton, Faith Evans, Kim Fields, Kirk Franklin, Tyrese Gibson, Cuba Gooding Jr., Regina Hall, Fred Hammond, Billy Ingram, Samuel Jackson, T. D. Jakes, Orlando Jones, Yolanda King, Boris Kodjoe, Nikki Kodjoe, Eriq LaSalle, Derek Luke, MC Lyte, Greg Mathis, Donnie McClurkin, Mo'nique Mo'nique, Tahj Mowry, Tamera Mowry, Tia Mowry, Dwight Myers, Keke Palmer, Tyler Perry, Kelly Price, Della Reese, Star Reynolds, Angie Stone, Cheri Townsend, Tye Tribbett, Cicely Tyson, Blair Underwood, Denzel Washington, Forest Whitaker, Vanessa Williams, Chandra Wilson ...

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66 hours 47 min

Some of Today's Leading Black Voices—Including 3 Oscar® Winners, 23 Grammy® Winners, 8 Emmy® Winners, and 5 Golden Globe® Winners—Performing Today’s New International Version (TNIV)This ambitious and critically-acclaimed presentation of the Bible is set to an original musical underscore performed by the Prague Symphony Orchestra and a Hollywood-style sound design created by Technicolor Studios. ... Read more

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Some of Today's Leading Black Voices—Including 3 Oscar® Winners, 23 Grammy® Winners, 8 Emmy® Winners, and 5 Golden Globe® Winners—Performing Today’s New International Version (TNIV)This ambitious and critically-acclaimed presentation of the Bible is set to an original musical underscore performed by the Prague Symphony Orchestra and a Hollywood-style sound design created by Technicolor Studios.
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Inspired By … The Bible Experience Audio Bible - Today's New International Version, TNIV: New Testament

by Zondervan ...

Narrated by Full Cast, Yolanda Adams, Erika Alexander, Tatyana Ali, Tichina Arnold, Essence Atkins, James Avery, Angela Bassett, Bill Bellamy, A.R. Bernard, Charles Blake, John Boyd, James Brown, Wren Brown, LeVar Burton, Juanita Bynum, Shirley Caesar, Vanessa Calloway, Common Common, Terry Crews, Billy Davis, Loretta Devine, Gary Dourdan, Charles Dutton, Idris Elba, Faith Evans, Kim Fields, Kirk Franklin, Tyrese Gibson, Meagan Good, Cuba Gooding Jr., Robert Guillaume, Jasmine Guy, Anthony Hamilton, Hill Harper, Taraji Henson, Dule Hill, Donald Hilliard, Billy Ingram, Samuel Jackson, T. D. Jakes, Cheryl James, Star Jones, Boris Kodjoe, Nikki Kodjoe, Eriq LaSalle, Harry Lennix, Dawnn Lewis, Tommy Lister, Victor Love, Derek Luke, Tisha Campbell-Martin, Greg Mathis, Clarence McClendon, Donnie McClurkin, MC Lyte, Mo'nique Mo'nique, Garrett Morris, Phil Morris, Mya Mya, Dwight Myers, Keke Palmer, CCH Pounder, Lawrence Powell, Daphne Reid, Tim Reid, Latanya Richardson, Richie Righteous, Wendy Robinson, John Salley, Kenneth Ulmer, Blair Underwood, Iyanla Vanzant, Joseph Walker, Denzel Washington, Marvin Winans, Alfre Woodard, Charlayne Woodard, Jeffrey Wright ...

Unabridged

20 hours 29 min

Some of Today's Leading Black Voices—Including 3 Oscar® Winners, 23 Grammy® Winners, 8 Emmy® Winners, and 5 Golden Globe® Winners—Performing Today’s New International Version (TNIV)This ambitious and critically-acclaimed presentation of the Bible is set to an original musical underscore performed by the Prague Symphony Orchestra and a Hollywood-style sound design created by Technicolor Studios. ... Read more

$21.99 USD

Some of Today's Leading Black Voices—Including 3 Oscar® Winners, 23 Grammy® Winners, 8 Emmy® Winners, and 5 Golden Globe® Winners—Performing Today’s New International Version (TNIV)This ambitious and critically-acclaimed presentation of the Bible is set to an original musical underscore performed by the Prague Symphony Orchestra and a Hollywood-style sound design created by Technicolor Studios.
... Read more
Paris Trout

A Novel

by Pete Dexter ...

Pete Dexter’s National Book Award–winning tour de force tells the mesmerizing story of a shocking crime that shatters lives and exposes the hypocrisies of a small Southern town.The time and place: Cotton Point, Georgia, just after World War II. The event: the murder of a fourteen-year-old black girl by a respected white citizen named Paris Trout, who feels he’s done absolutely nothing wrong. As a ... Read more

$8.99 USD

Pete Dexter’s National Book Award–winning tour de force tells the mesmerizing story of a shocking crime that shatters lives and exposes the hypocrisies of a small Southern town.The time and place: Cotton Point, Georgia, just after World War II. The event: the murder of a fourteen-year-old black girl by a respected white citizen named Paris Trout, who feels he’s done absolutely nothing wrong. As a
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Paper Trails

True Stories of Confusion, Mindless Violence, and Forbidden Desires, a Surprising Number of Which Are Not About Marriage

by Pete Dexter ...

In the 1970s and '80s, before he earned national acclaim for his award-winning novels, Pete Dexter was a newspaper columnist. Every week, in a few hundred words, Dexter cut directly to the heart of the American character at a time of national turmoil and crucial change. With haunting urgency, his columns laid bare the violence, hypocrisy, and desperation he saw on the streets of Philadelphia and ... Read more

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In the 1970s and '80s, before he earned national acclaim for his award-winning novels, Pete Dexter was a newspaper columnist. Every week, in a few hundred words, Dexter cut directly to the heart of the American character at a time of national turmoil and crucial change. With haunting urgency, his columns laid bare the violence, hypocrisy, and desperation he saw on the streets of Philadelphia and
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Deadwood

by Pete Dexter ...

Series series Vintage Contemporaries
DEADWOOD, DAKOTA TERRITORIES, 1876: Legendary gunman Wild Bill Hickcock and his friend Charlie Utter have come to the Black Hills town of Deadwood fresh from Cheyenne, fleeing an ungrateful populace. Bill, aging and sick but still able to best any man in a fair gunfight, just wants to be left alone to drink and play cards. But in this town of played-out miners, bounty hunters, upstairs girls, ... Read more

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DEADWOOD, DAKOTA TERRITORIES, 1876: Legendary gunman Wild Bill Hickcock and his friend Charlie Utter have come to the Black Hills town of Deadwood fresh from Cheyenne, fleeing an ungrateful populace. Bill, aging and sick but still able to best any man in a fair gunfight, just wants to be left alone to drink and play cards. But in this town of played-out miners, bounty hunters, upstairs girls,
... Read more
The Paperboy

A Novel

by Pete Dexter ...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER“An eerie and beautiful novel . . . Its secrets continue to reveal themselves long after the book has been finished.”—The New York Times Book ReviewThe sun is rising over Moat County, Florida, when Sheriff Thurmond Call is found on the highway, gutted like an alligator. A local redneck is tried, sentenced, and set to fry. Then Ward James, hotshot investigative reporter for ... Read more

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER“An eerie and beautiful novel . . . Its secrets continue to reveal themselves long after the book has been finished.”—The New York Times Book ReviewThe sun is rising over Moat County, Florida, when Sheriff Thurmond Call is found on the highway, gutted like an alligator. A local redneck is tried, sentenced, and set to fry. Then Ward James, hotshot investigative reporter for
... Read more
God's Pocket

A Novel

by Pete Dexter ...

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTUREIn this striking debut from the author of the National Book Award winner Paris Trout, Pete Dexter chronicles a murder and its consequences in the fictional blue-collar Philadelphia neighborhood of God’s Pocket.Leon Hubbard makes other men nervous, talking to himself or anyone who will listen about the things he’s cut with his straight razor. So when he crosses the wrong ... Read more

$14.99 USD

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTUREIn this striking debut from the author of the National Book Award winner Paris Trout, Pete Dexter chronicles a murder and its consequences in the fictional blue-collar Philadelphia neighborhood of God’s Pocket.Leon Hubbard makes other men nervous, talking to himself or anyone who will listen about the things he’s cut with his straight razor. So when he crosses the wrong
... Read more
Spooner

by Pete Dexter ...

Warren Spooner was born after a prolonged delivery in a makeshift delivery room in a doctor's office in Milledgeville, Georgia, on the first Saturday of December, 1956. His father died shortly afterward, long before Spooner had even a memory of his face, and was replaced eventually by a once-brilliant young naval officer, Calmer Ottosson, recently court-martialed out of service.This is the story ... Read more

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Warren Spooner was born after a prolonged delivery in a makeshift delivery room in a doctor's office in Milledgeville, Georgia, on the first Saturday of December, 1956. His father died shortly afterward, long before Spooner had even a memory of his face, and was replaced eventually by a once-brilliant young naval officer, Calmer Ottosson, recently court-martialed out of service.This is the story
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Brotherly Love

A Novel

by Pete Dexter ...

In the City of Brotherly Love, a car skids off the ice and ignites a chain of events that changes everything for eight-year-old Peter Flood. Peter’s father is a powerful man, a union boss with mob connections, but all the power in the world is useless to a grieving son. Raised by his uncle, Peter tries to distance himself from the casual brutality of the family business, gravitating instead toward ... Read more

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In the City of Brotherly Love, a car skids off the ice and ignites a chain of events that changes everything for eight-year-old Peter Flood. Peter’s father is a powerful man, a union boss with mob connections, but all the power in the world is useless to a grieving son. Raised by his uncle, Peter tries to distance himself from the casual brutality of the family business, gravitating instead toward
... Read more