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"A powerful, heart-wrenching debut novel about ambition, survival, and our responsibility toward one another. Dixon was once an Olympic-level runner. But he missed the team by two-tenths of a second, and ever since that pain decades ago, he hasn't allowed a goal to consume him. But when his charming older brother, Nate, suggests that they attempt to be the first Black American men to summit Mount Everest, Dixon can't refuse. The brothers are determined...
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Publisher
Europa Editions
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Arriving from America to explore Ghana's colonial past, Elton, Vincent and Scott, hoping to experience the country's underground queer scene, find themselves in the grip of two very different people¿́¿Kobby, their guide to Accra's privileged queer circles and Nana, the voice of tradition and religious principle.
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Series
Scooter series volume 3
Publisher
Pantheon
Pub. Date
1995.
Language
English
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In the triumphant concluding volume of the trilogy that began with Whistle Guitar and The Spyglass Tree, Albert Murray gives us what is at once an African American coming-of-age novel and a pitch-perfect evocation of a touring jazz band at the height of the Swing era. Murray's hero, Scooter, graduates from an Alabama college and becomes a bass player in an ensemble headed by the legendary Bossman. As Scooter criss-crosses the United States, he and...