New Releases by James McBride

Groundbreaking Publication Now Available! Written by authors with seventy combined years of law enforcement experience with academic expertise, K-PhD School and Campus Shootings Awareness address the preventability of mass shootings directed at victims in learning environments at all levels K-PhD. The text includes a summary of school and campus shootings in America; an analysis of incident commonalities; historical insights into and social dimensions of school and campus violence; US Secret Service research relating to behavioral intelligence, threat assessment, risk management and interventions; Ohio s best security and safety practices relating to these types of emerging threats; and ten recommendations from the authors. New terms include firearms abuse, gun abuse, K-PhD, crimeaphobia, and targetology. "

Lieveheersvogel is een opmerkelijk en tot de verbeelding sprekend boek, geschreven door de opvallend veelzijdige auteur James McBride. Het is een geweldige combinatie van geschiedenis en verbeeldingskracht, geschreven met een nauwkeurig gevoel voor detail en personages. Slavenzoon en wees Henry Shackleford is gedwongen te vluchten en wordt aan de vooravond van de Amerikaanse burgeroorlog opgenomen in het gezelschap van John Brown, een militant voorstander van de afschaffing van de slavernij. Henry wordt door de blanke Brown voor een meisje aangezien. Hoewel hij zich in eerste instantie schaamt, ziet hij al gauw de voordelen van zijn nieuwe identiteit en vrijheid. Het verhaal van Lieveheersvogel ontspint zich rondom deze twee onvergetelijke karakters tijdens een cruciaal moment in de Amerikaanse geschiedenis, waarin de afschaffing van de slavernij centraal staat. McBride diept met lef, humor en gevoel dit pijnlijke onderwerp uit en biedt een nieuw perspectief op deze beslissende periode.

This book introduces Mr. Deep Positivity to the world

August 1914, Britain is aflame with war and patriotism. Men from all over the country rush to enlist, volunteering to fight for King and country. Most are young and innocent and cannot possibly foresee the horrors that await them on the bloody battlegrounds of the Western Front. How many of them will survive? Brothers Tom and David Duke have spent most of their lives playing rugby together. With the advent of war, however, they too choose to enlist, each for his own reason: Tom has an insatiable lust for adventure, and David simply cannot let his brother go to war without him. They become soldiers, and together will face the untold horrors of the First World War. Their innocence and boundless enthusiasm propel them into the infamous Battle of the Somme in 1916. The following year, they face the unspeakable horror of Passchendaelle, a name that would become synonymous with the ineffable futility of the Great War. What began as patriotic adventure becomes a fight for survival. The brothers cannot escape the brutal reality of war which has unforeseen and tragic consequences for them and the people they love most. Based on the official war diaries of the Eleventh Battalion, the London Regiment, this historical novel tells a gripping story of the true tragedy of the Great War.

Rocket Rill is a physically challenged interplanetary pilot who has who, in his retirement years, simply loves playing the game of golf. His friend Sidney (who lives on Mars) has taken up a game with his Martian friends that is eerily similar to golf, but something is really wrong with their methods and behavior. So, Mr. Rill has a huge challenge ahead of him: to teach Sidney golf etiquette!Learning ensues in a very educational and funny book. Certainly great for children, I know this because I have taught golf for 30 years. And it is fun for everyone.

Now a Showtime limited series starring Ethan Hawke and Daveed Diggs Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction From the bestselling author of The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store, Deacon King Kong (an Oprah Book Club pick) and The Color of Water comes the story of a young boy born a slave who joins John Brown’s antislavery crusade—and who must pass as a girl to survive. Henry Shackleford is a young slave living in the Kansas Territory in 1856--a battleground between anti- and pro-slavery forces--when legendary abolitionist John Brown arrives. When an argument between Brown and Henry''s master turns violent, Henry is forced to leave town--along with Brown, who believes Henry to be a girl and his good luck charm. Over the ensuing months, Henry, whom Brown nicknames Little Onion, conceals his true identity to stay alive. Eventually Brown sweeps him into the historic raid on Harpers Ferry in 1859--one of the great catalysts for the Civil War. An absorbing mixture of history and imagination, and told with McBride''s meticulous eye for detail and character, The Good Lord Bird is both a rousing adventure and a moving exploration of identity and survival.

Riverhead Books is proud to present our Summer 2013 Insider which gives readers more information about the stories behind—or sometimes from within—our Summer 2013 list. Included in the Riverhead Books Summer 2013 Insider are: A Q&A with Khaled Hosseini, author of And the Mountains Echoed, an unforgettable novel about finding a lost piece of yourself in someone else. An interview with Pransky, the layabout mutt turned therapy dog at the heart of Sue Halpern’s A Dog Walks into a Nursing Home: Lessons in the Good Life from an Unlikely Teacher. Ramona Ausubel’s essay, “Transformation,” about the inspiration for A Guide to Being Born, her enthralling new collection that uses the world of the imagination to explore the heart of the human condition. “The Story in the Mountains,” an essay by Anton DiSclafani about writing her debut novel, The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls, a lush, sexy evocative story of family secrets and girls’-school rituals set in the 1930s South. “Looking through the Looking Glass,” an essay by Anna Badkhen on how she came to write The World is a Carpet, her unforgettable portrait of a place and people shaped by centuries of art, trade and war. A note from Mark Kurlansky about “Dancing in the Street,” the iconic song he uses as a lens to examine the story of the civil rights movement’s genesis in his new book, Ready for a Brand New Beat Matthew Berry’s essay, “It’s Fantasy Sports World, You Just Live in It,” about the growing world of fantasy sports and how it has shaped his career and personal life which he details in his new book, Fantasy Life. “Noodles of the Silk Road,” a field guide by Jen Lin-Liu, author of On the Noodle Road, in which she immerses herself in a moveable feast of foods and cultures and discovers some surprising truths about commitment, independence, and love A brief history of the historic raid on Harper’s Ferry which plays a key role in James McBride’s new novel, The Good Lord Bird, the story of a young boy born a slave who joins John Brown’s antislavery crusade—and who must pass as a girl to survive. Juan Gabriel Vásquez’s essay, “Memories of the Years of Chaos,” about how Colombia’s recent history informs his new novel, The Sound of Things Falling Each of these pieces is an engaging and informative introduction to these truly wonderful books.

Una storia di amicizia e lealtà in tempo di guerra, Il racconto di una grande vittoria sul nemico peggiore: il razzismo e l''indifferenza. Seconda guerra mondiale, dicembre del ''44: quattro soldati americani di colore braccati dall''esercito tedesco si rifugiano tra gli abitanti di un villaggio nella campagna toscana, dove si nasconde anche il responsabile di un massacro di civili avvenuto a Sant''Anna, frazione del comune di Stazzema vicino a Lucca. Il piccolo Angelo è l''unico sopravvissuto e il solo a conoscere la vera identità del colpevole. Grazie all''amicizia di Sam Train, nero e gigantesco, ma di animo ingenuo e gentile, riesce a salvare se stesso e i soldati nascosti. Molti anni più tardi, i protagonisti di quella vicenda ormai dimenticata saranno testimoni di un evento prodigioso e commovente, un miracolo inaspettato.

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Good Lord Bird, winner of the 2013 National Book Award for Fiction, Deacon King Kong, Five-Carat Soul, and Kill ''Em and Leave, a James Brown biography. In the days before the Civil War, a runaway slave named Liz Spocott breaks free from her captors and escapes into the labyrinthine swamps of Maryland’s eastern shore, setting loose a drama of violence and hope among slave catchers, plantation owners, watermen, runaway slaves, and free blacks. Liz is near death, wracked by disturbing visions of the future, and armed with “the Code,” a fiercely guarded cryptic means of communication for slaves on the run. Liz’s flight and her dreams of tomorrow will thrust all those near her toward a mysterious, redemptive fate. Filled with rich, true details—much of the story is drawn from historical events—and told in McBride’s signature lyrical style, Song Yet Sung is a story of tragic triumph, violent decisions, and unexpected kindness.

This easy-to-use consumable grade-specific book contains extensions and review problems for each lesson to help families support their children''s mathematical development. Contains Study Links® Masters and Parent Letters.

This easy-to-use consumable grade-specific book contains extensions and review problems for each lesson to help families support their children''s mathematical development. Contains Home Links® Masters and Parent Letters.

This hardcover book is a child’s first mathematical reference book. It contains explanations of key mathematical content, along with directions to the Everyday Mathematics games.

This consumable book provides daily support for classroom instruction and also provides a long-term record of each student''s mathematical development.

This consumable book provides daily support for classroom instruction. It provides a long-term record of each student’s mathematical development.

From the bestselling author of Deacon King Kong and the National Book Award-winning The Good Lord Bird: The modern classic that spent more than two years on The New York Times bestseller list and that Oprah.com calls one of the best memoirs of a generation. Who is Ruth McBride Jordan? A self-declared "light-skinned" woman evasive about her ethnicity, yet steadfast in her love for her twelve black children. James McBride, journalist, musician, and son, explores his mother''s past, as well as his own upbringing and heritage, in a poignant and powerful debut, The Color Of Water: A Black Man''s Tribute to His White Mother. The son of a black minister and a woman who would not admit she was white, James McBride grew up in "orchestrated chaos" with his eleven siblings in the poor, all-black projects of Red Hook, Brooklyn. "Mommy," a fiercely protective woman with "dark eyes full of pep and fire," herded her brood to Manhattan''s free cultural events, sent them off on buses to the best (and mainly Jewish) schools, demanded good grades, and commanded respect. As a young man, McBride saw his mother as a source of embarrassment, worry, and confusion—and reached thirty before he began to discover the truth about her early life and long-buried pain. In The Color of Water, McBride retraces his mother''s footsteps and, through her searing and spirited voice, recreates her remarkable story. The daughter of a failed itinerant Orthodox rabbi, she was born Rachel Shilsky (actually Ruchel Dwara Zylska) in Poland on April 1, 1921. Fleeing pogroms, her family emigrated to America and ultimately settled in Suffolk, Virginia, a small town where anti-Semitism and racial tensions ran high. With candor and immediacy, Ruth describes her parents'' loveless marriage; her fragile, handicapped mother; her cruel, sexually-abusive father; and the rest of the family and life she abandoned. At seventeen, after fleeing Virginia and settling in New York City, Ruth married a black minister and founded the all- black New Brown Memorial Baptist Church in her Red Hook living room. "God is the color of water," Ruth McBride taught her children, firmly convinced that life''s blessings and life''s values transcend race. Twice widowed, and continually confronting overwhelming adversity and racism, Ruth''s determination, drive and discipline saw her dozen children through college—and most through graduate school. At age 65, she herself received a degree in social work from Temple University. Interspersed throughout his mother''s compelling narrative, McBride shares candid recollections of his own experiences as a mixed-race child of poverty, his flirtations with drugs and violence, and his eventual self- realization and professional success. The Color of Water touches readers of all colors as a vivid portrait of growing up, a haunting meditation on race and identity, and a lyrical valentine to a mother from her son.

These consumable books provide lesson support material for students to analyze and complete. They provide a long-term record of each student’s mathematical development.

Track your students'' long-term mathematical development with these consumable books. Each volume features lesson support materials and grade level-specific activities for students to complete.

Includes: Activity Sheets and Home Links® - This workbook is a consumable verison of the Blackline Masters contained in the Program Guide and Masters. Mathematics at Home® Books 1,2, and 3 – These three consumable booklets contain informal, flexible, and fun projects and activities that children and family members can do together to reinforce the concepts and skills taught in the classroom. They also serve to keep parents informed about their children’s learning and strengthen home-school relationships.

This consumable book provides lesson support material for students to analyze and complete. It provides a long-term record of each student’s mathematical development.

Includes: Student Math Journals (Volumes 1 & 2) – These consumable books provide lesson support material for students to analyze and complete. They provide a long-term record of each student’s mathematical development. Student Reference Book – Each student in Grades 3 through 6 receives a Student Reference Book for his or her grade level. Students use this hardbound reference book to access mathematical information and procedures that support the program. By seeing numerous worked examples and simple explanations of mathematical procedures, students learn to use numbers in context. Calculator usage, project descriptions, game rules, charts and tables, and a glossary of mathematical terms are available for use with lessons and out-of-class explorations.

These consumable books provide lesson support material for students to analyze and complete. They provide a long-term record of each student’s mathematical development.

This consumable book provides lesson support material for students to analyze and complete. It provides a long-term record of each student’s mathematical development.

These consumable books provide lesson support material for students to analyze and complete. They provide a long-term record of each student''s mathematical development.

Based on the historical incident of an unspeakable massacre at the site of Sant''Anna Di Stazzema, a small village in Tuscany, and on the experiences of the famed Buffalo soldiers from the 92nd Division in Italy during World War II, MIRACLE AT SANT''ANNA is a singular evocation of war, cruelty, passion, and heroism. It is the story of four American Negro soldiers, a band of partisans, and an Italian boy who encounter a miracle - though perhaps the true miracle lies in themselves. Traversing class, race, and geography, MIRACLE AT SANT''ANNA is above all a hymn to the brotherhood of man and the power to do good that lives in each of us.

Based on the historical incident of an unspeakable massacre at the site of Sant''Anna Di Stazzema, a small village in Tuscany, and on the experiences of the famed Buffalo soldiers from the 92nd Division in Italy during World War II, MIRACLE AT SAINT. ANNA is a singular evocation of war, cruelty, passion, and heroism. It is the story of four American Negro soldiers, a band of partisans, and an Italian boy who encounter a miracle - though perhaps the true miracle lies in themselves.Traversing class, race, and geography, MIRACLE AT SAINT. ANNA is above all a hymn to the brotherhood of man and the power to do good that lives in each of us.

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