Whitehead: 236 books

The Lion of Babylon is a fable of men and women, Muslims and Christians, Americans and Iraqis, who look into their futures during a time of war to decide what will become of their lives. Haidar is an orphaned Iraqi boy who can see the future. The source of his special talent is a 2,500 year old statue...

‘De jongens van Nickel’ van Colson Whitehead is de hartverscheurende opvolger van de bekroonde internationale bestseller ‘De ondergrondse spoorweg’. In deze nieuwe roman ontleedt hij een nog recenter duister hoofdstuk uit de Amerikaanse geschiedenis – het tijdperk van de Jim Crow-rassenwetten...

«La ferrovia sotterranea» è il nome con cui si indica, nella storia degli Stati Uniti, la rete clandestina di militanti antischiavisti che nell’Ottocento aiutava i neri a fuggire dal Sud agli stati liberi del Nord. Nel suo romanzo storico dalle sfumature fantastiche, Colson Whitehead la trasforma...

People are scared of what they don't understand and sometimes people react violently to the unknown.I found out just how violently the day before Halloween.

Penny Wilmot leads a simple life. Together with her widowed father and best friend Boone they run a small U-Pick farm. She never asked for much, and certainly wasn't looking for him... Jackson Hawkes lives his life at one steady speed: fast. On a mission to find his father, he takes a road trip and...

Nine year old Kate is very scared when her dad Sam is badly injured in a car accident. But then she meets some special friends and things take a strange and magical turn…About the Author: Born in Sydney, I've enjoyed playing with words and creating stories most of my life, usually writing about whatever...

From the author of "An Easter Bunny's Journey", a fun rhyming book that will help children learn their colors. Parents, teachers, caregivers and children Pre-K thru 1st Grade will love this book with its whimsical, colorful illustrations.

Learn to graph while following the growth of T.J., an orphaned Siberian tiger cub who is hand-raised at the Denver Zoo. T.J. is a Siberian tiger cub born at the Denver Zoo. One day he stops eating. The zoo staff tries to tempt him with treats, but he refuses them all. The staff doesn't give...

Learn about different ways to measure time by following the growth of a baby chimp Late one night, a tiny chimpanzee is born at a zoo in Kansas. He seems very weak, and the staff is worried. Will he survive? When the mother shows no interest in her baby, a pediatrician comes in to care for...

John Wallace Whitehead has been blessed to view the church as a purist. With no agenda, program, or bias, he is able to describe clearly the perception of those who are not in the family of God yet and what is on their minds about Gods people, the Church. He is able to challenge the complicated church...

This book sets out to explore the creation of interior atmosphere as seen through the lens of mise-en-scène. You will learn how this film theory informs the concept of 'staged space' translated through the narrative and expressive qualities of a particular scene. Jean Whitehead quickly takes this...

With skillful rhetoric and tempered lyricism, the poems in A Glossary of Chickens explore, in part, the struggle to understand the world through the symbolism of words. Like the hens of the title poem, Gary J. Whitehead's lyrics root around in the earth searching for sustenance, cluck rather than...

Political science scholars consider the four-volume work Transitions from Authoritarian Rule to be a foundational text for studying the process of democratization, specifically in those cases where an authoritarian regime is giving way to some form of democratic government. The most important of the...

Het was een opdracht die hij niet kon weigeren: een verslag schrijven over de World Series of Poker. Dat hij het spel alleen als amateur kende, hoefde geen belemmering te vormen – en dat was het ook niet. Colson Whitehead duikt met volle kracht in het spel, verbaast zich op geestige wijze over de...