Walker Walker: 3764 books

The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Color Purple weaves a “glorious and iridescent” tapestry of interrelated lives in this New York Times bestseller (Library Journal). In The Temple of My Familiar, Celie and Shug from The Color Purple subtly shadow the lives of dozens of characters,...

“A classic novel of both feminism and the Civil Rights movement” in 1960s Atlanta by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Color Purple (Ms.). As she approaches the end of her teen years, Meridian Hill has already married, divorced, and given birth to a son. She’s looking for a second...

**Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, this novel about a resilient and courageous woman has become a Broadway show and a cultural phenomenon. A PBS Great American Read Top 100 Pick** Celie has grown up poor in rural Georgia, despised by the society around her and...

Babe Walker, center of the universe, is a painstakingly manicured white girl with an expensive smoothie habit, a proclivity for Louboutins, a mysterious mother she's never met, and approximately 50 bajillion Twitter followers. But her "problems" have landed her in shopping rehab-that's what...

**NATIONAL BESTSELLER A PEN/HEMINGWAY AWARD FINALIST A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR:* THE NEW YORKER • ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY • VULTURE • VOGUE • LIT HUB  Jesus' Son meets Reservoir Dogs in a breakneck-paced debut novel...

Short fiction about the female experience from the New York Times–bestselling author of The Color Purple, “one of the best American writers of today” (The Washington Post).   Here are stories of women traveling with the weight of broken dreams, with kids in tow, with doubt and regret,...

With a dangerous young sorcerer and his dragon on the rise to power, can two unlikely companions stop him from taking control of Kartania? When Theodor is forced to join the king’s army in response to the attacks led by Merglan and his deadly dragon, the simple farmer’s son meets an unlikely...

A young man forced into action. A juvenile dragon alone in a new world. Whispers of a terrible evil returning to power. Nineteen-year-old Anders lived a fairly normal life until the only family he had was taken away from him. When he finds himself forced to embark on an action packed adventure,...

On July 28, 1996, two young men stumbled upon human bones in the shallow water along the shore of the Columbia River near Kennewick, Washington. Was this an unsolved murder? The remnants of some settler's or Native American's unmarked grave? What was the story behind this skeleton? Within weeks,...

Public transit is a powerful tool for addressing a huge range of urban problems, including traffic congestion and economic developmas well as climate change. But while many people support transit in the abstract, it's often hard to channel that support into good transit investments. Part of the problem...

**A literary anthology of important and artful interpretations of the civil rights movement and the fight against white supremacy, past and present—including pieces by Maya Angelou, James Baldwin, Ralph Ellison, Alice Walker, Richard Wright, and John Lewis ** Editor Jon Meacham has chosen...

In Complete Without Kids Licensed Clinical Psychologist Ellen L. Walker examines the often-ignored question of what it means to be childfree by choice or by circumstance in a family-focused society. Recognizing that there is no one childfree adult the author guides the reader through the positive and...

Myth. Monster. Mine. Spectre I wasn’t even a man when I took a life for the first time, although you couldn’t say I was a child. If I’d ever had a childhood, it hadn’t lasted long. My father, may he rot in hell, had seen to that. I took his life as well and that, too, happened...

Playing it safe isn’t all it’s cracked up to be… Lori is a good girl, although she’s got something of a wild streak trying to break free. Her nice, safe fiancé doesn’t want to play, though, so Lori keeps her dreams of sexy bedroom games tucked away in the back of her mind. Then...