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In Ta-Nehisi Coates's keenly anticipated new book, The Message, he explores the urgent question of how our stories – our reporting, imaginative narratives and mythmaking – both expose and distort our realities. Travelling to three resonant sites of conflict, he illuminates how the stories we tell – as well as the ones we don’t – work to shape us.

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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK From the National Book Award–winning author of Between the World and Me, a boldly conjured debut novel about a magical gift, a devastating loss, and an underground war for freedom. “This potent book about America’s most...

The riveting, pulse-pounding story of a year in the life of an emergency room doctor trying to steer his patients and colleagues through a crushing pandemic and a violent summer, amidst a healthcare system that seems determined to leave them behind “Gripping . . . eloquent . . . This book...

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of We Were Eight Years in Power by Ta-Nehisi Coates, read by Beresford Bennett. From 2008-2016, the leader of the free world was a black man. Obama's presidency reshaped America and transformed the international conversation around politics, race, equality...

A secret network of safe houses, committees and guides that stretched well below the Mason-Dixon Line into the brutal slave states of the American South, the Underground Railroad remains one of the most impressive and well-organised resistance movements in modern history. It facilitated the escape of more than 30,000 slave 'passengers' through America and into Canada during its peak years of 1850-60, and, in total, an estimated 100,000 slaves found their freedom through the network.

America’s foremost novelist reflects on the themes that preoccupy her work and increasingly dominate national and world politics: race, fear, borders, the mass movement of peoples, the desire for belonging. What is race and why does it matter? What motivates the human tendency to construct Others? Why does the presence of Others make us so afraid?

Brought to you by Penguin. An extraordinary coming-of-age story, adapted from the adult memoir by the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Water Dancer and Between the World and Me This was the abyss where, unguided, black boys were swallowed whole, only to re-emerge on corners and prison...

In this “urgently relevant”* collection featuring the landmark essay “The Case for Reparations,” the National Book Award–winning author of Between the World and Me “reflects on race, Barack Obama’s presidency and its jarring aftermath”*—including the election of Donald Trump...

Por toda a América as plantações de tabaco floresceram e trouxeram riqueza aos senhores de terra durante o século XIX. Quando a bonança começa seu declínio, Howell Walker já vislumbra o próprio fim e sabe que precisará de um substituto para administrar os últimos dias de Lockless, sua propriedade no coração da Virgínia, Estados Unidos. Logo fica claro que seu único herdeiro, Maynard, não tem a menor aptidão para a missão. E mesmo o jovem Hiram, com sua resiliência e memória infalíveis, não poderia fazê-lo―além de filho ilegítimo de Walker, ele é um escravo.

Le jeune Hiram Walker est né dans les fers. Le jour où sa mère a été vendue, Hiram s'est vu voler les souvenirs qu'il avait d'elle. Tout ce qui lui est resté, c'est un pouvoir mystérieux que sa mère lui a laissé en héritage. Des années plus tard, quand Hiram manque se noyer dans une rivière, c'est ce même pouvoir qui lui sauve la vie. Après avoir frôlé la mort, il décide de s'enfuir, loin du seul monde qu'il ait jamais connu.

Bisher kannte Hiram Walker nichts als ein Leben in Ketten. Aufgewachsen in der Sklaverei, musste er miterleben, wie seine Mutter verkauft wurde und für immer verschwand. Doch dann rettet ihn eine seltene Gabe vor dem Ertrinken und in Hiram wächst der Entschluss zu fliehen. Es beginnt eine abenteuerliche Reise von den Tabakplantagen West Virginias bis nach Philadelphia, wo Hiram die lang ersehnte Freiheit gefunden zu haben glaubt. Doch er hat noch eine Rechnung offen: die Frau, die er liebt, und die Frau, die ihn aufzog, in die Freiheit zu führen.

A riveting collection of the hardships, hairbreadth escapes, and mortal struggles of enslaved people seeking freedom: These are the true stories of the Underground Railroad. Featuring a powerful introduction by Ta-Nehisi Coates As a conductor for the Underground Railroad—the covert resistance...

Quase uma década depois da publicação de Entre o mundo e eu, um dos maiores pensadores da atualidade retorna à não ficção, em ensaios que mesclam memórias, reflexões e relatos de viagem para mostrar como as histórias que contamos podem forjar a realidade. Ta-Nehisi Coates apresenta, em três ensaios que se entrelaçam, uma poderosa reflexão sobre a força das palavras. No primeiro deles, relata uma viagem ao Senegal.

El célebre autor Ta-Nehisi Coates vuelve con un oportuno libro sobre sus viajes a tres lugares en conflicto —Dakar, Carolina del Sur y Palestina— en el que explora cómo las historias que contamos, y las que no, conforman nuestras realidades.

Marcus Garvey (1887-1940) was a Black political activist, journalist, entrepreneur, and orator who founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League, which had a following of more than six million African descended people worldwide. Despite his massive popularity, this Jamaican born international leader was wrongfully sentenced to prison by the U.S. government on trumped-up mail-fraud charges.