https://manchester.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/ALLENQ?QRY=GENBSOPAC%3A%20(COLSON%20%2B%20WHITEHEAD)&QRYTEXT=Anywhere%3A%20colson%20whitehead%20(Keywords)&SETLVL=SET&SORTS=MAIN.CREATED_DATE.DESC%5DMAIN.CREATED_TIME.DESC&NRECS=20&ISGLB=0 Spydus Search Results en © 2022 Civica Pty Limited. All rights reserved. https://manchester.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=3681054&ISGLB=0 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 life straight.But then he needs Jackson 5 tickets for his daughter May and he decides to hit up an old police contact, who wants favours in return. For Ray, staying out of the game gets a lot more complicated – and deadly.In scalpel-sharp prose and with unnerving clarity and wit, Colson Whitehead writes about a city that runs on cronyism, threats, ego, ambition, incompetence and even, sometimes, pride. Crook Manifesto is a kaleidoscopic portrait of Harlem, and a searching portrait of how families work in the face of chaos and hostility. 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 life straight.But then he needs Jackson 5 tickets for his daughter May and he decides to hit up an old police contact, who wants favours in return. For Ray, staying out of the game gets a lot more complicated – and deadly.In scalpel-sharp prose and with unnerving clarity and wit, Colson Whitehead writes about a city that runs on cronyism, threats, ego, ambition, incompetence and even, sometimes, pride. Crook Manifesto is a kaleidoscopic portrait of Harlem, and a searching portrait of how families work in the face of chaos and hostility.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Whitehead, Colson<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>[Place of publication not identified] : Bolinda audio, 2023<br />1 online resource (1 audio file)<br />Ray Carney ; 2<br /><br />Online Service - (Manchester Libraries) - eAudio - BorrowBox - eAudiobook - eAudiobook - Borrow this eAudiobook - DUMMY<br /> https://manchester.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=3598052&ISGLB=0 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 life on the straight and narrow. His only immediate need is Jackson 5 tickets for his daughter May, so what harm could it do to hit up Munson, his old police contact and fixer extraordinaire? And suddenly, staying out of the game becomes more complicated - and deadly. When one of Ray's tenants is badly injured in a fire, he enlists the enduringly violent Pepper to look into how it started, leading the duo to battle their way through a crumbling metropolis run by the shady, the violent and the utterly corrupt. 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 life on the straight and narrow. His only immediate need is Jackson 5 tickets for his daughter May, so what harm could it do to hit up Munson, his old police contact and fixer extraordinaire? And suddenly, staying out of the game becomes more complicated - and deadly. When one of Ray's tenants is badly injured in a fire, he enlists the enduringly violent Pepper to look into how it started, leading the duo to battle their way through a crumbling metropolis run by the shady, the violent and the utterly corrupt.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Whitehead, Colson, 1969-<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>London : Fleet, 2023.<br />319 pages ; 25 cm<br /><br />Abraham Moss Library - (Manchester Libraries) - Adult Fiction - Adult Hardback - Available - C0000020467475<br />Brooklands Library - (Manchester Libraries) - Adult Fiction - Adult Hardback - Available - C0000020467992<br />City Library - (Manchester Libraries) - Adult Fiction - Adult Hardback - Onloan - Due: 04 May 2024 - C0000020467578<br />Didsbury Library - (Manchester Libraries) - Adult Fiction - Adult Hardback - Available - C0000020467989<br />Gorton Library - (Manchester Libraries) - Adult Fiction - Adult Hardback - Available - C0000020467988<br />Hulme High St - (Manchester Libraries) - Adult Fiction - Adult Hardback - Available - C0000020468412<br />Longsight Library - (Manchester Libraries) - Adult Fiction - Adult Hardback - Available - C0000020467991<br />Withington Library - (Manchester Libraries) - Adult Fiction - Adult Hardback - Available - C0000020467759<br /> https://manchester.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=3344544&ISGLB=0 Sara Paretsky selects the twenty best mystery short stories of the year, including tales by Michael Connelly, Jo Nesbo, Joyce Carol Oates, Colson Whitehead, and more. Sara Paretsky selects the twenty best mystery short stories of the year, including tales by Michael Connelly, Jo Nesbo, Joyce Carol Oates, Colson Whitehead, and more.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>London : Head of Zeus -- an Aries book, 2022.<br />480 pages ; 23 cm<br /><br />City Library - (Manchester Libraries) - Adult Fiction - Crime Hardback - Available - C0000020455974<br /> https://manchester.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=3313867&ISGLB=0 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'Heartbreaking and astoundingly good' Rebecca Makkai, author of The Great Believers'Haunting, ironic and poetic in its resonance, this slender volume is a must-read...Don't miss this beautifully written, heartfelt, wry and wistful exploration of loss.' Woman & Home'I'm in awe of how this beautiful, graceful novel can hold so much grief and loss and love in its pages: a literary gem.' Nicci Gerard, author of Soham: A Story Of Our TimesFrom the internationally bestselling author of The Buddha in the AtticUp above there are wildfires, smog alerts, epic droughts, paper jams, teachers' strikes, insurrections, revolutions, record-breaking summers of unendurable heat, but down below, at the pool, it is always a comfortable eighty-one degrees ...Alice is one of a group of obsessed recreational swimmers for whom their local swimming pool has become the centre of their lives - a place of unexpected kinship, freedom, and ritual. Until one day a crack appears beneath its surface ... As cracks also begin to appear in Alice's memory, her husband and daughter are faced with the dilemma of how best to care for her. As Alice clings to the tethers of her past in a Home she feels certain is not her home, her daughter must navigate the newly fractured landscape of their relationship.A novel about mothers and daughters, grief and memory, love and implacable loss, The Swimmers is spellbinding, incantatory and unforgettable. The finest work yet from a true modern master.'An unforgettable novel about mothers and daughters by a spellbinding talent' Daily Mail'Stylistically ambitious and deeply moving' Kirkus Reviews'A goddamn heartbreaker' Emma Straub, author of The Vacationers 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'Heartbreaking and astoundingly good' Rebecca Makkai, author of The Great Believers'Haunting, ironic and poetic in its resonance, this slender volume is a must-read...Don't miss this beautifully written, heartfelt, wry and wistful exploration of loss.' Woman & Home'I'm in awe of how this beautiful, graceful novel can hold so much grief and loss and love in its pages: a literary gem.' Nicci Gerard, author of Soham: A Story Of Our TimesFrom the internationally bestselling author of The Buddha in the AtticUp above there are wildfires, smog alerts, epic droughts, paper jams, teachers' strikes, insurrections, revolutions, record-breaking summers of unendurable heat, but down below, at the pool, it is always a comfortable eighty-one degrees ...Alice is one of a group of obsessed recreational swimmers for whom their local swimming pool has become the centre of their lives - a place of unexpected kinship, freedom, and ritual. Until one day a crack appears beneath its surface ... As cracks also begin to appear in Alice's memory, her husband and daughter are faced with the dilemma of how best to care for her. As Alice clings to the tethers of her past in a Home she feels certain is not her home, her daughter must navigate the newly fractured landscape of their relationship.A novel about mothers and daughters, grief and memory, love and implacable loss, The Swimmers is spellbinding, incantatory and unforgettable. The finest work yet from a true modern master.'An unforgettable novel about mothers and daughters by a spellbinding talent' Daily Mail'Stylistically ambitious and deeply moving' Kirkus Reviews'A goddamn heartbreaker' Emma Straub, author of The Vacationers<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Otsuka, Julie<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>[Place of publication not identified] : Penguin, 2022<br />1 online resource (1 text file)<br /><br />Online Service - (Manchester Libraries) - eBook - BorrowBox - eBook - eBook - Borrow this eBook - DUMMY<br /> https://manchester.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=3298903&ISGLB=0 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 from the subway tracks, it's still home. Few people know he descends from a line of uptown hoods and crooks, and that his façade of normality has more than a few cracks in it. Cracks that are getting bigger all the time. Cash is tight, especially with all those instalment plan sofas, so if his cousin Freddie occasionally drops off the odd ring or necklace at the furniture store, Ray doesn't see the need to ask where it comes from. He knows a jeweller downtown who also doesn't ask questions. Then Freddie falls in with a crew who plan to rob the Hotel Theresa and volunteers Ray's services as the fence. 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 from the subway tracks, it's still home. Few people know he descends from a line of uptown hoods and crooks, and that his façade of normality has more than a few cracks in it. Cracks that are getting bigger all the time. Cash is tight, especially with all those instalment plan sofas, so if his cousin Freddie occasionally drops off the odd ring or necklace at the furniture store, Ray doesn't see the need to ask where it comes from. He knows a jeweller downtown who also doesn't ask questions. Then Freddie falls in with a crew who plan to rob the Hotel Theresa and volunteers Ray's services as the fence.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Whitehead, Colson, 1969-<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>London : Fleet, 2022.<br />320 pages ; 20 cm<br /><br />Withington Library - (Manchester Libraries) - Adult Fiction - Adult Paperback - Onloan - Due: 16 May 2024 - C0000020392367<br /> https://manchester.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=3197693&ISGLB=0 '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 parents on Striver's Row don't approve of him or their cramped apartment across from the subway tracks, it's still home. Few people know he descends from a line of uptown hoods and crooks, and that his façade of normalcy has more than a few cracks in it. Cracks that are getting bigger and bigger all the time.See, cash is tight, especially with all those instalment plan sofas, so if his cousin Freddie occasionally drops off the odd ring or necklace at the furniture store, Ray doesn't see the need to ask where it comes from. He knows a discreet jeweller downtown who also doesn't ask questions. Then Freddie falls in with a crew who plan to rob the Hotel Theresa – the 'Waldorf of Harlem' – and volunteers Ray's services as the fence. The heist doesn't go as planned; they rarely do, after all. Now Ray has to cater to a new clientele, one made up of shady cops on the take, vicious minions of the local crime lord and numerous other Harlem lowlifes.Thus begins the internal tussle between Ray the striver and Ray the crook. As Ray navigates this double life, he starts to see the truth about who actually pulls the strings in Harlem. Can Ray avoid getting killed, save his cousin and grab his share of the big score, all while maintaining his reputation as the go-to source for all your quality home furniture needs? '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 parents on Striver's Row don't approve of him or their cramped apartment across from the subway tracks, it's still home. Few people know he descends from a line of uptown hoods and crooks, and that his façade of normalcy has more than a few cracks in it. Cracks that are getting bigger and bigger all the time.See, cash is tight, especially with all those instalment plan sofas, so if his cousin Freddie occasionally drops off the odd ring or necklace at the furniture store, Ray doesn't see the need to ask where it comes from. He knows a discreet jeweller downtown who also doesn't ask questions. Then Freddie falls in with a crew who plan to rob the Hotel Theresa – the 'Waldorf of Harlem' – and volunteers Ray's services as the fence. The heist doesn't go as planned; they rarely do, after all. Now Ray has to cater to a new clientele, one made up of shady cops on the take, vicious minions of the local crime lord and numerous other Harlem lowlifes.Thus begins the internal tussle between Ray the striver and Ray the crook. As Ray navigates this double life, he starts to see the truth about who actually pulls the strings in Harlem. Can Ray avoid getting killed, save his cousin and grab his share of the big score, all while maintaining his reputation as the go-to source for all your quality home furniture needs?<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Whitehead, Colson<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>[Place of publication not identified] : Bolinda audio, 2021<br />1 online resource (1 audio file)<br />Ray Carney ; 1<br /><br />Online Service - (Manchester Libraries) - eAudio - BorrowBox - eAudiobook - eAudiobook - Borrow this eAudiobook - DUMMY<br /> https://manchester.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=3193387&ISGLB=0 All the slaves lead a hellish existence, but Cora has it worse than most; she is an outcast even among her fellow Africans. When Caesar, a slave recently arrived from Virginia, tells her about the Underground Railroad, they take the perilous decision to escape to the North, embarking on a harrowing flight, state by state, seeking true freedom. All the slaves lead a hellish existence, but Cora has it worse than most; she is an outcast even among her fellow Africans. When Caesar, a slave recently arrived from Virginia, tells her about the Underground Railroad, they take the perilous decision to escape to the North, embarking on a harrowing flight, state by state, seeking true freedom.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Whitehead, Colson<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>[Place of publication not identified] : Clipper Audiobooks, 2020<br />1 online resource (1 audio file)<br /><br />Online Service - (Manchester Libraries) - eAudio - BorrowBox - eAudiobook - eAudiobook - Borrow this eAudiobook - DUMMY<br /> https://manchester.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=3135511&ISGLB=0 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 the subway tracks, it's still home. Few people know he descends from a line of uptown hoods and crooks, and that his façade of normalcy has more than a few cracks in it. Cracks that are getting bigger all the time. Cash is tight, especially with all those instalment plan sofas, so if his cousin Freddie occasionally drops off the odd ring or necklace at the furniture store, Ray doesn't see the need to ask where it comes from. He knows a jeweller downtown who also doesn't ask questions. Then Freddie falls in with a crew who plan to rob the Hotel Theresa and volunteers Ray's services as the fence. 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 the subway tracks, it's still home. Few people know he descends from a line of uptown hoods and crooks, and that his façade of normalcy has more than a few cracks in it. Cracks that are getting bigger all the time. Cash is tight, especially with all those instalment plan sofas, so if his cousin Freddie occasionally drops off the odd ring or necklace at the furniture store, Ray doesn't see the need to ask where it comes from. He knows a jeweller downtown who also doesn't ask questions. Then Freddie falls in with a crew who plan to rob the Hotel Theresa and volunteers Ray's services as the fence.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Whitehead, Colson, 1969-<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>London : Fleet, 2021.<br />320 pages ; 24 cm<br /><br />Abraham Moss Library - (Manchester Libraries) - Adult Fiction - Adult Hardback - Available - C0000020379943<br />Beswick Library - (Manchester Libraries) - Adult Fiction - Adult Hardback - Available - C0000020379945<br />Didsbury Library - (Manchester Libraries) - Adult Fiction - Adult Hardback - Onloan - Due: 17 May 2024 - C0000020379944<br />Forum Library Wythenshawe - (Manchester Libraries) - Adult Fiction - Adult Hardback - Onloan - Due: 12 Feb 2024 - C0000020379947<br />Gorton Library - (Manchester Libraries) - Adult Fiction - Adult Hardback - Available - C0000020379946<br />Hulme High St - (Manchester Libraries) - Adult Fiction - Adult Hardback - Available - C0000020379796<br />Longsight Library - (Manchester Libraries) - Adult Fiction - Adult Hardback - Available - C0000020379428<br />Moss Side Powerhouse Library - (Manchester Libraries) - Adult Fiction - Adult Hardback - Available - C0000020379811<br />Northenden Outreach Library - (Manchester Libraries) - Adult Fiction - Adult Hardback - Available - C0000020368976<br /> https://manchester.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=3089322&ISGLB=0 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 Virginia, tells her about the Underground Railroad, they take the perilous decision to escape to the North. In Whitehead's razor-sharp imagining of the antebellum South, the Underground Railroad has assumed a physical form: a dilapidated box car pulled along subterranean tracks by a steam locomotive, picking up fugitives wherever it can. 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 Virginia, tells her about the Underground Railroad, they take the perilous decision to escape to the North. In Whitehead's razor-sharp imagining of the antebellum South, the Underground Railroad has assumed a physical form: a dilapidated box car pulled along subterranean tracks by a steam locomotive, picking up fugitives wherever it can.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Whitehead, Colson, 1969-<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>London : Fleet, 2021.<br />366 pages ; 20 cm<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">1 reserve</span><br /><br />Gorton Library - (Manchester Libraries) - Adult Fiction - Adult Paperback - Available - C0000020385120<br />Gorton Library - (Manchester Libraries) - Adult Fiction - Adult Paperback - In-transit from Gorton Library to City Library (Set: 15 Feb 2024) - C0000020385121<br /> https://manchester.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/ARCENQ?SETLVL=&RNI=7839703&ISGLB=0 <span style="font-weight:bold;">Date of work: </span>02 Apr 1855<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Reference number: </span>GB127.M116/2/4/87<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Level: </span>Item from Fonds: Manchester Quarter Session Records (GB127.M116)<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Part of: </span>Series: Quarter Sessions Files (GB127.M116/2/4)<br /> https://manchester.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=3050123&ISGLB=0 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 taskforces and over three surreal days he undertakes the mundane mission of malfunctioning zombie removal, the rigours of Post-Apocalyptic Stress Disorder, and attempting to come to terms with a fallen world. But then things start to go terribly wrong… 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 taskforces and over three surreal days he undertakes the mundane mission of malfunctioning zombie removal, the rigours of Post-Apocalyptic Stress Disorder, and attempting to come to terms with a fallen world. But then things start to go terribly wrong…<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Whitehead, Colson<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>[Place of publication not identified] : Vintage Digital, 2012<br />1 online resource (1 audio file)<br /><br />Online Service - (Manchester Libraries) - eAudio - BorrowBox - eAudiobook - eAudiobook - Borrow this eAudiobook - DUMMY<br /> https://manchester.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=2967157&ISGLB=0 '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 school in Jim-Crow-era Florida. '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 school in Jim-Crow-era Florida.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Whitehead, Colson, 1969-<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>London : Fleet, 2020.<br />211 pages ; 20 cm<br /><br />Arcadia Library - (Manchester Libraries) - Adult Fiction - Adult Paperback - Available - C0000020328005<br />Hulme High St - (Manchester Libraries) - Adult Fiction - Adult Paperback - Available - C0000020311227<br />Longsight Library - (Manchester Libraries) - Adult Fiction - Adult Paperback - Available - C0000020328006<br /> https://manchester.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=2902681&ISGLB=0 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 school senior about to start classes at a local college. But for a black boy in the Jim Crow South of the early 1960s, one innocent mistake is enough to destroy the future. Elwood is sentenced to a juvenile reformatory called the Nickel Academy, whose mission statement says it provides ‘physical, intellectual and moral training’ so that the delinquent boys in their charge can become ‘honourable and honest men.’In reality, the Nickel Academy is a grotesque chamber of horrors where the sadistic staff beats and sexually abuses the students, corrupt officials and locals steal food and supplies and any boy who resists is likely to disappear ‘out back.’ Stunned to find himself in such a vicious environment, Elwood tries to hold on to Dr King’s ringing assertion ‘Throw us in jail and we will still love you.’ His friend Turner thinks that Elwood is worse than naive, that the world is crooked, and that the only way to survive is to scheme and avoid trouble. The tension between Elwood’s ideals and Turner’s skepticism leads to a decision with repercussions that will echo down the decades. Formed in the crucible of the evils Jim Crow wrought, the boys’ fates will be determined by what they endured at the Nickel Academy. 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 school senior about to start classes at a local college. But for a black boy in the Jim Crow South of the early 1960s, one innocent mistake is enough to destroy the future. Elwood is sentenced to a juvenile reformatory called the Nickel Academy, whose mission statement says it provides ‘physical, intellectual and moral training’ so that the delinquent boys in their charge can become ‘honourable and honest men.’In reality, the Nickel Academy is a grotesque chamber of horrors where the sadistic staff beats and sexually abuses the students, corrupt officials and locals steal food and supplies and any boy who resists is likely to disappear ‘out back.’ Stunned to find himself in such a vicious environment, Elwood tries to hold on to Dr King’s ringing assertion ‘Throw us in jail and we will still love you.’ His friend Turner thinks that Elwood is worse than naive, that the world is crooked, and that the only way to survive is to scheme and avoid trouble. The tension between Elwood’s ideals and Turner’s skepticism leads to a decision with repercussions that will echo down the decades. Formed in the crucible of the evils Jim Crow wrought, the boys’ fates will be determined by what they endured at the Nickel Academy.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Whitehead, Colson<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>[Place of publication not identified] : Bolinda audio, 2019<br />1 online resource (1 audio file)<br /><br />Online Service - (Manchester Libraries) - eAudio - BorrowBox - eAudiobook - eAudiobook - Borrow this eAudiobook - DUMMY<br /> https://manchester.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=2840177&ISGLB=0 '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 school in Jim-Crow-era Florida. '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 school in Jim-Crow-era Florida.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Whitehead, Colson, 1969-<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>London : Fleet, 2019.<br />211 pages ; 23 cm<br /><br />Abraham Moss Library - (Manchester Libraries) - Adult Fiction - Adult Hardback - Available - C0000020260314<br />Avenue Library - (Manchester Libraries) - Adult Fiction - Adult Hardback - Available - C0000020260291<br />Forum Library Wythenshawe - (Manchester Libraries) - Adult Fiction - Adult Hardback - Available - C0000020260352<br />Longsight Library - (Manchester Libraries) - Adult Fiction - Adult Hardback - Available - C0000020261522<br />North City Library - (Manchester Libraries) - Adult Fiction - Adult Hardback - Available - C0000020264116<br />Northenden Outreach Library - (Manchester Libraries) - Adult Fiction - Adult Hardback - Available - C0000020261525<br />Withington Library - (Manchester Libraries) - Adult Fiction - Adult Hardback - Onloan - Due: 04 May 2024 - C0000020260376<br /> https://manchester.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=2605487&ISGLB=0 Odd-mannered, obsessive, withdrawn, Aster has little to offer folks in the way of rebuttal when they call her ogre and freak. She's used to the names; she only wishes there was more truth to them. If she were truly a monster, as they accuse, she'd be powerful enough to tear down the walls around her until nothing remained of her world, save for stories told around the cookfire.Aster lives in the low-deck slums of the HSS Matilda, a space vessel organized much like the antebellum South. For generations, the Matilda has ferried the last of humanity to a mythical Promised Land. On its way, the ship's leaders have imposed harsh moral restrictions and deep indignities on dark-skinned sharecroppers like Aster, who they consider to be less than human.When the autopsy of Matilda's sovereign reveals a surprising link between his death and her mother's suicide some quarter-century before, Aster retraces her mother's footsteps. Embroiled in a grudge with a brutal overseer and sewing the seeds of civil war, Aster learns there may be a way off the ship if she's willing to fight for it.An Unkindness of Ghosts will appeal to a broad audience, including fans of books such as The Magicians by Lev Grossman, The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern, Cold Magic by Kate Elliott, The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman, The Intuitionist by Colson Whitehead, and Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel. Odd-mannered, obsessive, withdrawn, Aster has little to offer folks in the way of rebuttal when they call her ogre and freak. She's used to the names; she only wishes there was more truth to them. If she were truly a monster, as they accuse, she'd be powerful enough to tear down the walls around her until nothing remained of her world, save for stories told around the cookfire.Aster lives in the low-deck slums of the HSS Matilda, a space vessel organized much like the antebellum South. For generations, the Matilda has ferried the last of humanity to a mythical Promised Land. On its way, the ship's leaders have imposed harsh moral restrictions and deep indignities on dark-skinned sharecroppers like Aster, who they consider to be less than human.When the autopsy of Matilda's sovereign reveals a surprising link between his death and her mother's suicide some quarter-century before, Aster retraces her mother's footsteps. Embroiled in a grudge with a brutal overseer and sewing the seeds of civil war, Aster learns there may be a way off the ship if she's willing to fight for it.An Unkindness of Ghosts will appeal to a broad audience, including fans of books such as The Magicians by Lev Grossman, The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern, Cold Magic by Kate Elliott, The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman, The Intuitionist by Colson Whitehead, and Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Solomon, Rivers<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>[Place of publication not identified] : Akashic Books, 2017<br />1 online resource (1 text file)<br /><br />Online Service - (Manchester Libraries) - eBook - BorrowBox - eBook - eBook - Borrow this eBook - DUMMY<br /> https://manchester.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=2588754&ISGLB=0 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 Virginia, tells her about the Underground Railroad, they take the perilous decision to escape to the North. In Whitehead's razor-sharp imagining of the antebellum South, the Underground Railroad has assumed a physical form: a dilapidated box car pulled along subterranean tracks by a steam locomotive, picking up fugitives wherever it can. 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 Virginia, tells her about the Underground Railroad, they take the perilous decision to escape to the North. In Whitehead's razor-sharp imagining of the antebellum South, the Underground Railroad has assumed a physical form: a dilapidated box car pulled along subterranean tracks by a steam locomotive, picking up fugitives wherever it can.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Whitehead, Colson, 1969-<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>Rearsby : Clipper Audiobooks, 2017.<br />9 CDs (645 min.) : digital, stereo<br /><br />Books to Go - (Manchester Libraries) - Adult Spoken Word(All formats) - Compact Disc - Available - C0000009328475<br /> https://manchester.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=2557279&ISGLB=0 After creating the perfect beat, DJ Darky goes in search of Charles Stone, a little know avant-garde jazzman, to play over his sonic masterpiece. His quest brings him to a recently unified Berlin, where he stumbles through the city's dreamy streets ruminating about race, sex, love, Teutonic gods , the prevent defence, and Wynton Marsalis in search of his artistic-and spiritual-other. Ferocious, bombastic, and laugh-out-loud funny, Slumberland is vintage Paul Beatty and belongs on the shelf next to Jonathan Lethem, Colson Whitehead and Junot Diaz. After creating the perfect beat, DJ Darky goes in search of Charles Stone, a little know avant-garde jazzman, to play over his sonic masterpiece. His quest brings him to a recently unified Berlin, where he stumbles through the city's dreamy streets ruminating about race, sex, love, Teutonic gods , the prevent defence, and Wynton Marsalis in search of his artistic-and spiritual-other. Ferocious, bombastic, and laugh-out-loud funny, Slumberland is vintage Paul Beatty and belongs on the shelf next to Jonathan Lethem, Colson Whitehead and Junot Diaz.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Beatty, Paul<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>[Place of publication not identified] : Oneworld Publications, 2017<br />1 online resource (1 text file)<br /><br />Online Service - (Manchester Libraries) - eBook - BorrowBox - eBook - eBook - Borrow this eBook - DUMMY<br /> https://manchester.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=2502793&ISGLB=0 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 Virginia, tells her about the Underground Railroad, they take the perilous decision to escape to the North. In Whitehead's razor-sharp imagining of the antebellum South, the Underground Railroad has assumed a physical form: a dilapidated box car pulled along subterranean tracks by a steam locomotive, picking up fugitives wherever it can. 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 Virginia, tells her about the Underground Railroad, they take the perilous decision to escape to the North. In Whitehead's razor-sharp imagining of the antebellum South, the Underground Railroad has assumed a physical form: a dilapidated box car pulled along subterranean tracks by a steam locomotive, picking up fugitives wherever it can.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Whitehead, Colson, 1969-<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>London : Fleet, 2017.<br />366 pages ; 20 cm<br /><br />Arcadia Library - (Manchester Libraries) - Adult Fiction - Adult Paperback - Available - C0000020065992<br />Forum Library Wythenshawe - (Manchester Libraries) - Adult Fiction - Adult Paperback - Available - C0000020084061<br />Hulme High St - (Manchester Libraries) - Adult Fiction - Adult Paperback - Available - C0000020064832<br />Moss Side Powerhouse Library - (Manchester Libraries) - Adult Fiction - Adult Paperback - Available - C0000020065030<br />Withington Library - (Manchester Libraries) - Adult Fiction - Adult Paperback - Reservation allocation expired (Set: 26 Feb 2023) - In-transit from Withington Library to Didsbury Library (Set: 21 Feb 2023) - C0000020218035<br /> https://manchester.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=2485701&ISGLB=0 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 Mae Watson, the city's first black female elevator inspector, is its embattled token of upward mobility. 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 Mae Watson, the city's first black female elevator inspector, is its embattled token of upward mobility.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Whitehead, Colson, 1969-<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>London : Fleet, 2017.<br />255 pages ; 20 cm<br /><br />Books to Go - (Manchester Libraries) - Adult Fiction - Adult Paperback - Available - C0000020309063<br /> https://manchester.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=2470003&ISGLB=0 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 Virginia, tells her about the Underground Railroad, they take the perilous decision to escape to the North. In Whitehead's razor-sharp imagining of the antebellum South, the Underground Railroad has assumed a physical form: a dilapidated box car pulled along subterranean tracks by a steam locomotive, picking up fugitives wherever it can. Cora and Caesar's first stop is South Carolina, in a city that initially seems like a haven. But its placid surface masks an infernal scheme designed for its unknowing black inhabitants. 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 Virginia, tells her about the Underground Railroad, they take the perilous decision to escape to the North. In Whitehead's razor-sharp imagining of the antebellum South, the Underground Railroad has assumed a physical form: a dilapidated box car pulled along subterranean tracks by a steam locomotive, picking up fugitives wherever it can. Cora and Caesar's first stop is South Carolina, in a city that initially seems like a haven. But its placid surface masks an infernal scheme designed for its unknowing black inhabitants.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Whitehead, Colson, 1969-<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>Rearsby : Clipper Large Print Books, 2017.<br />397 pages (large print)<br /><br />City Library - (Manchester Libraries) - Large Print AF - Available - C0000009328131<br /> https://manchester.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=2389150&ISGLB=0 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 Virginia, tells her about the Underground Railroad, they take the perilous decision to escape to the North. In Whitehead's razor-sharp imagining of the antebellum South, the Underground Railroad has assumed a physical form: a dilapidated box car pulled along subterranean tracks by a steam locomotive, picking up fugitives wherever it can. Cora and Caesar's first stop is South Carolina, in a city that initially seems like a haven. But its placid surface masks an infernal scheme designed for its unknowing black inhabitants. 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 Virginia, tells her about the Underground Railroad, they take the perilous decision to escape to the North. In Whitehead's razor-sharp imagining of the antebellum South, the Underground Railroad has assumed a physical form: a dilapidated box car pulled along subterranean tracks by a steam locomotive, picking up fugitives wherever it can. Cora and Caesar's first stop is South Carolina, in a city that initially seems like a haven. But its placid surface masks an infernal scheme designed for its unknowing black inhabitants.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Whitehead, Colson, 1969-<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>London : Fleet, 2016.<br />306 pages ; 24 cm<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Average rating: </span><span style="vertical-align: middle;"><img style="margin:0;" src="https://manchester.spydus.co.uk/gifs/small-star.gif" alt="★" /><img style="margin:0;" src="https://manchester.spydus.co.uk/gifs/small-star.gif" alt="★" /><img style="margin:0;" src="https://manchester.spydus.co.uk/gifs/small-star.gif" alt="★" /><img style="margin:0;" src="https://manchester.spydus.co.uk/gifs/small-star.gif" alt="★" /><img style="margin:0;" src="https://manchester.spydus.co.uk/gifs/small-star.gif" alt="★" /><img style="margin:0;" src="https://manchester.spydus.co.uk/gifs/small-star.gif" alt="★" /><img style="margin:0;" src="https://manchester.spydus.co.uk/gifs/small-star.gif" alt="★" /><img style="margin:0;" src="https://manchester.spydus.co.uk/gifs/small-star.gif" alt="★" /><img style="margin:0;" src="https://manchester.spydus.co.uk/gifs/small-blankstar.gif" alt="☆" /><img style="margin:0;" src="https://manchester.spydus.co.uk/gifs/small-blankstar.gif" alt="☆" /></span> (1 review)<br /><br />Didsbury Library - (Manchester Libraries) - Adult Fiction - Adult Hardback - Available - C0000020067829<br />Newton Heath Library - (Manchester Libraries) - Adult Fiction - Adult Hardback - Available - C0000020067828<br />North City Library - (Manchester Libraries) - Adult Fiction - Adult Hardback - Available - C0000020062214<br /> https://manchester.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=331051&ISGLB=0 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. 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.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Whitehead, Colson, 1969-<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>London : Vintage, 2011.<br />273 p. ; 20 cm.<br /><br />City Library - (Manchester Libraries) - Adult Fiction - Adult Paperback - Available - C0000020380285<br />Moss Side Powerhouse Library - (Manchester Libraries) - Adult Fiction - Adult Paperback - Available - C0000020380584<br />