Nation Under Our Feet: Part 5

THE NEW YORK TIMES #1 BESTSELLER <BR><BR>OPRAH BOOK CLUB PICK<BR><BR>'One of the best books I have ever read in my entire life. I haven't felt this way since I first read Beloved . . .' Oprah Winfrey <BR><BR>Lose yourself in the stunning debut novel everyone is talking about - the unmissable historical story of injustice and redemption that resonates powerfully today<BR><BR><BR>Hiram Walker is a man with a secret, and a war to win. A war for the right to life, to family, to freedom.<BR><BR>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... <BR><BR>'A transcendent work from a crucial political and literary artist' Diana Evans<BR><BR> 'I've been wondering who might fill the intellectual void that plagued me after James Baldwin died. Clearly it is Ta-Nehisi Coates' Toni Morrison

Ta-Nehisi Coates hat mit seinem Buch 'Zwischen mir und der Welt' ein leidenschaftliches und zugleich schmerzhaftes Manifest gegen Rassismus geschrieben. In Form eines Briefes, der an seinen Sohn Samori gerichtet ist, verbindet Coates die amerikanische Geschichte mit seiner persönlichen. Er schreibt darüber, dass es nicht nur ein Problem individueller Verfehlung ist, wenn in den USA Schwarze von Polizisten ermordet werden. Denn rassistische Gewalt ist fest eingewoben in die amerikanische Identität - sie ist das, worauf das Land gebaut ist. Afroamerikaner besorgten als Sklaven seinen Reichtum und sterben heute als freie Bürger auf seinen Straßen. Coates fordert die Menschen auf, sich mit der Vergangenheit auseinanderzusetzen, um ein Bewusstsein in Bezug auf rassistische Diskriminierung zu entwickeln und gegen sie zu kämpfen. Sein Buch ist bereits wenige Monate nach Erscheinen zum Klassiker geworden, der aus keiner zukünftigen Diskussion um Rassismus wegzudenken ist.

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER<BR><BR>The renowned author returns with a timely book about his journeys to three sites of conflict - Dakar, South Carolina, and Palestine - exploring how the stories we tell, and the ones we don't, shape our realities.<BR><BR>'An earnest and intimate exploration of locations of extreme injustice' Oprah Daily<BR><BR>***<BR><BR>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.<BR><BR>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.<BR><BR>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 - visibly on display in its segregationist statues.<BR><BR>Finally in Palestine, Coates sees with devastating clarity the tragedy that grows in the clash between the stories we tell and reality on the ground.<BR><BR>Written at a dramatic moment in American and global history, this work from one of our most important writers is about the urgent need to embrace the liberating power of even the most difficult truths.<BR><BR>***<BR><BR>'Coates exhorts readers, including students, parents, educators, and journalists, to challenge conventional narratives that can be used to justify ethnic cleansing or camouflage racist policing' Booklist<BR><BR>'Coats always writes with purpose . . . These pilgrimages for him, ground his powerful writing about race' Associated Press

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK • From the National Book Award–winning author of Between the World and Me, a boldly conjured debut novel about a magical gift, a devastating loss, and an underground war for freedom.<BR><BR>“This potent book about America’s most disgraceful sin establishes [Ta-Nehisi Coates] as a first-rate novelist.”—San Francisco Chronicle<BR><BR>IN DEVELOPMENT AS A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE • Adapted by Ta-Nehisi Coates and Kamilah Forbes, directed by Nia DaCosta, and produced by MGM, Plan B, and Oprah Winfrey’s Harpo Films<BR><BR>NOMINATED FOR THE NAACP IMAGE AWARD • NAMED ONE OF PASTE’S BEST NOVELS OF THE DECADE • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Time • NPR • The Washington Post • Chicago Tribune • Vanity Fair • Esquire • Good Housekeeping • Paste • Town & Country • The New York Public Library • Kirkus Reviews • Library Journal<BR> <BR>Young Hiram Walker was born into bondage. When his mother was sold away, Hiram was robbed of all memory of her—but was gifted with a mysterious power. Years later, when Hiram almost drowns in a river, that same power saves his life. This brush with death births an urgency in Hiram and a daring scheme: to escape from the only home he’s ever known.<BR><BR> So begins an unexpected journey that takes Hiram from the corrupt grandeur of Virginia’s proud plantations to desperate guerrilla cells in the wilderness, from the coffin of the Deep South to dangerously idealistic movements in the North. Even as he’s enlisted in the underground war between slavers and the enslaved, Hiram’s resolve to rescue the family he left behind endures.<BR><BR> This is the dramatic story of an atrocity inflicted on generations of women, men, and children—the violent and capricious separation of families—and the war they waged to simply make lives with the people they loved. Written by one of today’s most exciting thinkers and writers, The Water Dancer is a propulsive, transcendent work that restores the humanity of those from whom everything was stolen.<BR><BR>Praise for The Water Dancer<BR><BR>“Ta-Nehisi Coates is the most important essayist in a generation and a writer who changed the national political conversation about race with his 2015 memoir, Between the World and Me. So naturally his debut novel comes with slightly unrealistic expectations—and then proceeds to exceed them. The Water Dancer . . . is a work of both staggering imagination and rich historical significance. . . . What’s most powerful is the way Coates enlists his notions of the fantastic, as well as his fluid prose, to probe a wound that never seems to heal. . . . Timeless and instantly canon-worthy.”—Rolling Stone

T'Challa knocks out Zenzi after tracking her and her group of rebels down but Tetu uses his power to escape with Zenzi; Ayo and Aneka continue their mission to liberate oppressed Wakandans. Aligned to Common Core standards and correlated to state standards. Spotlight is a division of ABDO.

T'Challa attempts to pacify a miners' strike but a mysterious woman named Zenzi turns it into a full-blown riot; a Dora Milaje attempts to break her beloved out of jail and flee the city; and T'Challa continues his efforts to free Shuri's trapped state between life and death. Aligned to Common Core standards and correlated to state standards. Spotlight is a division of ABDO.