COATES TA-NEHISI

Ο ΧΟΡΕΥΤΗΣ ΤΟΥ ΝΕΡΟΥ
Ο ΧΑΪΡΑΜ ΓΟΥΟΚΕΡ γεννιέται στη σκλαβιά σε μια φυτεία της Βιρτζίνια. Είναι προικισμένος με μια ανεξήγητη δύναμη που θα ανακαλύψει -σχεδόν άντρας- όταν θα διακινδυνεύσει να χάσει τα πάντα σε μια προσπάθεια να δραπετεύσει. Μια δύσκολη απόφαση θα τον απομακρύνει από την προσωρινή του οικογένεια -τη θετή του μητέρα Θίνα, μια λιγομίλητη γυναίκα με πολλά μυστικά, και την αγαπημένη του Σοφία- και θα τον οδηγήσει στην καρδιά του υπόγειου πολέμου κατά της δουλείας. ΕΚΕΙ, ένα εκτενές δίκτυο μυστικών πρακτόρων εργάζονται για την απελευθέρωση των μαύρω...
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(P/B) BETWEEN THE WORLD AND ME
In the 150 years since the end of the Civil War and the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment, the story of race and America has remained a brutally simple one, written on flesh: it is the story of the black body, exploited to create the country's foundational wealth, violently segregated to unite a nation after a civil war, and, today, still disproportionately threatened, locked up and killed in the streets. What is it like to inhabit a black body and find a way to live within it? And how can America reckon with its fraught racial hist...
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(H/b) The message
Ta-Nehisi Coates originally set out to write a book about writing, but soon found himself grappling with deeper questions about the destructive myths that shape our world. First we join Coates on his inaugural trip to Africa a journey to Dakar, where he finds himself in two places at once: a modern city in Senegal and the ghost-haunted country of his imagination. He then takes readers to Columbia, South Carolina, where he reports on the banning of his own work and the deep roots of a false and fiercely protected American mythology - visibl...
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(P/B) THE WATER DANCER
A war for the right to life, to family, to freedom. Born into bondage on a Virginia plantation, he is also born gifted with a mysterious power that he won't discover until he is almost a man, when he risks everything for a chance to escape. One fateful decision will carry him away from his makeshift plantation family and into the heart of the underground war on slavery..(From the publisher)...
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(P/B) THE WATER DANCER
Hiram Walker is born into bondage on a Virginia plantation. But he is also born gifted with a mysterious power that he won't discover until he is almost a man, when he risks everything for a chance to escape. One fateful decision will carry him away from his makeshift plantation family - his adoptive mother, Thena, a woman of few words and many secrets, and his beloved, angry Sophia - and into the covert heart of the underground war on slavery. Hidden amidst the corrupt grandeur of white plantation society, exiled as guerrilla cells in the...
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(P/B) BLACK PANTHER
The world building of Wakanda continues in a love story where tenderness is matched only by brutality! You know them now as the Midnight Angels, but in this story they are just Ayo and Aneka, young women recruited to become Dora Milaje, an elite task force trained to protect the crown of Wakanda at all costs. Their first assignment will be to protect Queen Shuri... but what happens when your nation needs your hearts and minds, but you already gave them to each other? Meanwhile, former king T'Challa lies with bedfellows so dark, disgrace is...
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(P/B) WE WERE EIGHT YEARS IN POWER
Powerful and necessary, a state-of-the-nation portrait of America under Obama from the prize-winning, bestselling author of Between the World and Me From 2008-2016, the leader of the free world was a black man. Obama's presidency reshaped America and transformed the international conversation around politics, race, equality. But it attracted criticism and bred discontent as much as it inspired hope - so much so, that the world now faces an uncertain future under a very different kind of US President. In this essential new book, Ta-Nehisi C...
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