Ralph Ellison

Ralph EllisonBy: Arnold Rampersad Ralph Ellison is justly celebrated for his epochal novel Invisible Man, which won the National Book Award in 1953 and has become a classic of American literature. But Ellisons strange inability to finish a second novel, despite his dogged efforts and soaring prestige, made him a supremely enigmatic figure. Arnold Rampersad skillfully tells the story of a writer whose thunderous novel and astute, courageous essays on race,

explore the dark side of the alluring world of America’s 19th century elite in this gripping series of riveting mysteries…

We’ve all had to fight our way through administrative sludge—filling out complicated online forms

Omen of the Stars

This book will help both you and your teen rise to the challenges of these tricky transitional years and come out on the other side stronger

Kai Cheng Thom grew up a Chinese Canadian transgender girl in a hostile world

By:    | Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Series A unique anthology of poetry from around the world and through the ages celebrating thanksgiving in its many forms

Can they carry this strength back home to face their own challenges

was only three years old

Marina finally has the power to fight back—if her thirst for revenge doesn't consume her first

Now a twelfth expedition makes the attempt

in the struggle to guarantee both their own survival and that of their offspring

Whyman reveals the pressure cooker environment of elite competition