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List view record 1: Crook Manifesto [electronic resource]List view anchor tag for record 1: Crook Manifesto [electronic resource]
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Crook Manifesto [electronic resource]

Whitehead, Colson2023
eAudioBook
1971. In New York City trash piles up on the streets, crime is at an all-time high, the city is going bankrupt and a shooting war has broken out between the NYPD and the Black Liberation Army. Furniture store owner and ex-fence Ray Carney is trying to keep his head down, his business up and his l...
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Crook manifesto

Whitehead, Colson, 1969-2023
Books, Manuscripts
1971. Trash is piled on the streets, crime is at a record high, and the city is careening towards bankruptcy. A shooting war has broken out between the NYPD and the Black Liberation Army. Ray Carney, furniture-store owner and ex fence, is trying to keep his head down, his business up, and his lif...
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Harlem shuffle

Whitehead, Colson, 1969-2022
Books, Manuscripts
To his customers and neighbours on 125th Street, Ray Carney is an upstanding salesman of reasonably-priced furniture, making a life for himself and his family. He and his wife Elizabeth are expecting their second child, and if her parents don't approve of him or their cramped apartment across fro...
List view record 4: Harlem Shuffle [electronic resource]List view anchor tag for record 4: Harlem Shuffle [electronic resource]
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Harlem Shuffle [electronic resource]

Whitehead, Colson2021
eAudioBook
'Ray Carney was only slightly bent when it came to being crooked ...'To his customers and neighbours on 125th street, Carney is an upstanding salesman of reasonably-priced furniture, making a life for himself and his family. He and his wife Elizabeth are expecting their second child and if her pa...
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Harlem shuffle

Whitehead, Colson, 1969-2021
Books, Manuscripts
To his customers and neighbours on 125th street, Carney is an upstanding salesman of reasonably-priced furniture, making a life for himself and his family. He and his wife Elizabeth are expecting their second child, and if her parents don't approve of him or their cramped apartment across from th...
List view record 6: The Underground RailroadList view anchor tag for record 6: The Underground Railroad
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The Underground Railroad

Whitehead, Colson, 1969-2021
Books, Manuscripts
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 Vi...
List view record 7: The Underground Railroad [electronic resource]List view anchor tag for record 7: The Underground Railroad [electronic resource]
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List view record 8: The nickel boysList view anchor tag for record 8: The nickel boys
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The nickel boys

Whitehead, Colson, 1969-2020
Books, Manuscripts
'The Nickel Boys' is Colson Whitehead's follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winning bestseller 'The Underground Railroad', in which he dramatises another strand of United States history, this time through the story of two boys sentenced to a stretch in a hellish reform scho...
List view record 9: The Nickel Boys [electronic resource]List view anchor tag for record 9: The Nickel Boys [electronic resource]
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The Nickel Boys [electronic resource]

Whitehead, Colson2019
eAudioBook
As the Civil Rights movement begins to reach the black enclave of Frenchtown in segregated Tallahassee, Elwood Curtis takes the words of Dr Martin Luther King Jr to heart: He is ‘as good as anyone.’ Abandoned by his parents, but kept on the straight and narrow by his grandmother, Elwood is a high...
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The nickel boys

Whitehead, Colson, 1969-2019
Books, Manuscripts
'The Nickel Boys' is Colson Whitehead's follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winning bestseller 'The Underground Railroad', in which he dramatises another strand of United States history, this time through the story of two boys sentenced to a stretch in a hellish reform scho...
List view record 11: The Underground RailroadList view anchor tag for record 11: The Underground Railroad
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The Underground Railroad

Whitehead, Colson, 1969-2017
Audiobooks
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 Vi...
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The Underground Railroad

Whitehead, Colson, 1969-2017
Books, Manuscripts
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 Vi...
List view record 13: The intuitionistList view anchor tag for record 13: The intuitionist
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The intuitionist

Whitehead, Colson, 1969-2017
Books, Manuscripts
Verticality, architectural and social, is at the heart of Colson Whitehead's first novel that takes place in an unnamed high-rise city that combines 21st-century engineering feats with 19th-century pork-barrel politics. Elevators are the technological expression of the vertical ideal, and Lila ...
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The underground railroad

Whitehead, Colson, 1969-2017
Large Print
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 Vi...
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The underground railroad

Whitehead, Colson, 1969-2016
Books, Manuscripts
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 Vi...
List view record 16: Zone One [electronic resource]List view anchor tag for record 16: Zone One [electronic resource]
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Zone One [electronic resource]

Whitehead, Colson2012
eAudioBook
The worst of the plague is now past, and Manhattan is slowly being resettled. Armed forces have successfully reclaimed the island south of Canal Street – aka ‘Zone One’ and teams of civilian volunteers are clearing out the remaining infected ‘stragglers’. Mark Spitz is a member of one of these ta...
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Zone one : a novel

Whitehead, Colson, 1969-2011
Books, Manuscripts
In this wry take on the post-apocalyptic horror novel, a pandemic has devastated the planet. The plague has sorted humanity into two types: the uninfected and the infected, the living and the living dead.
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Sag Harbor

Whitehead, Colson, 1969-2011
Books, Manuscripts
It's the summer of 1985 and Benji is determined that this is the summer that things will change and he'll fit in. For starters he'll be reinvented as 'Ben'. When that doesn't catch on, it's another summer of the perpetual mortification that is teenage existence.
List view record 19: The best crime stories of the year 2022List view anchor tag for record 19: The best crime stories of the year 2022
List view record 20: The Swimmers [electronic resource]List view anchor tag for record 20: The Swimmers [electronic resource]
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The Swimmers [electronic resource]

Otsuka, Julie2022
eBook
A Vogue Best Book of 2022A Bookseller Editor's ChoiceRed Magazine's '10 Best New Books Out This Month''Here comes the new Julie Otsuka novel, so we can begin to live again' Colson Whitehead, author of Harlem Shuffle'Her wisdom is staggeringly beautiful, implicating each of us' The Irish Times...
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