Books with author T. C. Whitehead

COLSON WHITEHEAD: The Underground Railroad, A Signed Edition FACTORY SEALED - SHRINK WRAPPED Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction! Winner of the National Book Award! Personally signed by Colson Whitehead. A powerful story of slavery and escape, Colson Whitehead's masterpiece reimagines the Underground Railroad as an actual railroad. In honoring the work, the Pulitzer committee recognized Whitehead's masterful work for its 'smart melding of realism and allegory that combines the violence of slavery and the drama of escape in a myth that speaks to contemporary America.' This exclusive leather-bound edition is personally signed by Colson Whitehead. 6 1/4" x 9 1/4", 320pp

Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. All the slaves lead a hellish existence, but Cora has it worse than most; she is an outcast even among her fellow Africans and she is approaching womanhood, where it is clear even greater pain awaits. When Caesar, a slave recently arrived from Virginia, tells her about the Underground Railroad, they take the perilous decision to escape to the North. In Whitehead's razor-sharp imagining of the antebellum South, the Underground Railroad has assumed a physical form: a dilapidated box car pulled along subterranean tracks by a steam locomotive, picking up fugitives wherever it can. Cora and Caesar's first stop is South Carolina, in a city that initially seems like a haven. But its placid surface masks an infernal scheme designed for its unknowing black inhabitants. And even worse: Ridgeway, the relentless slave catcher sent to find Cora, is close on their heels. Forced to flee again, Cora embarks on a harrowing flight, state by state, seeking true freedom. At each stop on her journey, Cora encounters a different world. As Whitehead brilliantly recreates the unique terrors for black people in the pre-Civil War era, his narrative seamlessly weaves the saga of America, from the brutal importation of Africans to the unfulfilled promises of the present day. The Underground Railroad is at once the story of one woman's ferocious will to escape the horrors of bondage and a shatteringly powerful meditation on history.

"If I Were a Space Moose" and "If I Were a Space Moose Too!!!" are joined in this fun book about travel and imagination. "If I Were a Space Moose" I strive to connect a child’s passion to explore with the established landmarks of our great nation. The story is targeted for early readers and is written and illustrated in the same vein of classic P.D. Eastman stories with colorful illustrations and a powerful rhythm and rhyme. In the story, a moose that is dressed like an old fashioned astronaut travels around to various landmarks of the North America and explains why he likes to visit them. The story features such landmarks as The Great Lakes, The Grand Canyon, Niagara Falls, and Mount Rushmore. Each page contains a colorful illustration of the space moose visiting the landmark. The story also features a steady and consistent rhyme that children will pull children into the story. "If I Were a Space Moose Too!!!" The Space Moose makes his second journey and with a broken spaceship he must find some new ways to travel. Full of colorful artwork of the Space Moose and his friends.The story also features a steady and consistent rhyme that will pull children into the story.

Whitehead's writing does what writing should do; it refreshes our sense of the world' John Updike. A Fleet Superlead? From prize-winning, bestselling author Colson Whitehead, a magnificent, wrenching, thrilling tour de force chronicling a young slave's adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South. In powerful, precise prose, at once spellbinding and ferocious, the book follows Cora's incredible journey north, step by step... the story is literature at its finest and history at its most barbaric. Would that this novel were required reading for every American citizen" Publishers Weekly Magnetizing and wrenching. Each stop Cora makes along the Underground Railroad reveals another shocking and malignant symptom of a country riven by catastrophic conflicts, a poisonous moral crisis, and diabolical violence. Each galvanizing scene blazes with terror and indictment as Whitehead tracks the consequences of the old American imperative to seize, enslave, and profit. Hard-driving, lasersharp, artistically superlative, and deeply compassionate, Whitehead's unforgettable odyssey adds a clarion new facet to the literature of racial tyranny and liberation -Booklist ? "Masterful, urgent. one of the finest novels written about our country's still unabsolved original sin" Charles Finch USA Today

"Princess Deodara and the Golden Leaf" is a tale of a free spirited princess, struggling to escape the confines of her father's kingdom. The only thing standing in her way is the cursed forest that surrounds the kingdom. To find her way out she must first learn the secrets of the forest and face the evil sorcerer behind the evil curse. Early readers will enjoy this chapter book with the artwork of a picture book on each turn of the page.

In this brilliantly original take on the post-apocalyptic horror novel, American novelist Colson Whitehead shakes up the zombie genre with genius results. A pandemic has devastated the planet, sorting humanity into two types: the uninfected and the infected, the living and the living dead. Now the plague is receding, and Americans are busy rebuilding civilisation under orders from the provisional government based in Buffalo. Their top mission: the resettlement of Manhattan. Armed forces have successfully reclaimed the island south of Canal Street - aka 'Zone One' - eliminating the most dangerous plague victims, but pockets of infected squatters remain. Teams of civilian volunteers are tasked with clearing out the 'malfunctioning' stragglers who exist in a catatonic state, transfixed by their former lives, but who are lethal when roused. Mark Spitz is a member of one of the civilian teams working in lower Manhattan. The novel alternates between flashbacks of Spitz's desperate fight for survival during the worst of the outbreak and his present narrative, unfolding over three surreal days as he undertakes the mundane mission of straggler removal, suffers the rigours of Post-Apocalyptic Stress Disorder, and attempts to come to terms with a fallen world. And then things start to go wrong.

A young boy falls into an incredible journey into an unknown land. Trying to find his way home he encounters a mysterious man and soon realizes he is not the only one who needs to find his way home. Out of his element the young boy must develop relationships with unlikely allies. Soon he learns the secrets of the forest and the fragile thread that ties so many lives together.

Captain Shellfish takes a field trip to America's oldest federal fish hatchery still serving. While at the Neosho National Fish Hatchery he tours the park like grounds. Where he learns about the fish being raised there. He also learns to read signs and follow rules. Captain Shellfish has a great time at the hatchery and recommends it for everyone. “This is a great place and there is so much to do. Thanks to the hard work and support of good people like you.” Captain Shellfish

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