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Deacon King Kong by James McBride
37.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
In September 1969, a fumbling, cranky old church deacon known as Sportcoat shuffles into the courtyard of the Cause Houses housing project in south Brooklyn, pulls a .38 from his pocket, and in front of everybody shoots the project's drug dealer at point-blank range. The reasons for this desperate burs ...Show more
Kill 'Em and Leave: Searching for the Real James Brown by James McBride
27.99 NZD
Category: Music
'A formidable free-style book that isn't straight biography but a mix of history, street-level investigative reporting, hagiography, Deep South sociology, music criticism, memoir and some fiery preaching' Rolling Stone magazine A Guardian best music book of 2016 The music of James Brown was almost a gen ...Show more
M.I.L.K: Family: Moments of Intimacy Laughter and Kinship: Vol 1 by James McBride
89.90 NZD
Category: Coffee Table Books
âFamily love is like the wind: instinctive, raw, fragile, beautiful, at times angry, but always unstoppable. It is our last miracle.â So writes James McBride in his Prologue to this first of three volumes of the worldâs most telling photographs. The 100 breathtaking photographs in FAMILY have b ...Show more
Miracle at St Anna by James McBride
24.99 NZD
26.99 (7% off)
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Based on an unspeakable massacre at the site of St Anna Di Stazzema and the experiences of the famed Buffalo soldiers in World War II, this is the story of four American negro soldiers and an Italian boy who encounter a miracle - though perhaps the true miracle lies in themselves.
Song Yet Sung by James McBride
38.99 NZD
39.99 (2% off)
Category: Historical Fiction
Liz Spocott is a captured runaway slave, shot and near death, and shackled to other runaway slaves in the attic of the notorious slave-catcher Patty Cannon. The ancient nameless woman she is bound to reveals 'the Code', a fiercely guarded, cryptic means of communication for slaves on the run. When ...Show more
The Color of Water by James Mcbride
27.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
As a boy in Brooklyn, James McBride knew his mother was different. But when he asked her about it, she'd simply say, 'I'm light-skinned.' Later he wondered if he was different too and asked his mother if he was black or white. 'You're a human being,' she snapped. 'Educate yourself or you'll be a nobody! ...Show more
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