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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, the #1 New York Times bestseller from Colson Whitehead, a magnificent tour de force chronicling a young slave's adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. Life is hell for all the slaves, but especially bad for Cora; an outcast even among her fellow Africans, she is coming into womanhoodâwhere even greater pain awaits. When Caesar, a recent arrival from Virginia, tells her about the Underground Railroad, they decide to take a terrifying risk and escape. Matters do not go as plannedâCora kills a young white boy who tries to capture her. Though they manage to find a station and head north, they are being hunted.    In Whiteheadâs ingenious conception, the Underground Railroad is no mere metaphorâengineers and conductors operate a secret network of tracks and tunnels beneath the Southern soil. Cora and Caesarâs first stop is South Carolina, in a city that initially seems like a haven. But the cityâs placid surface masks an insidious scheme designed for its black denizens. And even worse: Ridgeway, the relentless slave catcher, is close on their heels. Forced to flee again, Cora embarks on a harrowing flight, state by state, seeking true freedom.    Like the protagonist of Gulliverâs Travels, Cora encounters different worlds at each stage of her journeyâhers is an odyssey through time as well as space. As Whitehead brilliantly re-creates the unique terrors for black people in the preâCivil War era, his narrative seamlessly weaves the saga of America from the brutal importation of Africans to the unfulfilled promises of the present day. The Underground Railroad is at once a kinetic adventure tale of one womanâs ferocious will to escape the horrors of bondage and a shattering, powerful meditation on the history we all share.
Hardcover:
9780385537032 | Doubleday, September 13, 2016, cover price $26.95
Paperback:
9781524734633 | Large print edition (Random House Large Print, September 13, 2016), cover price $27.00
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9780735285576 | Unabridged edition (Random House, September 13, 2016), cover price $40.00 | About this edition: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, the #1 New York Times bestseller from Colson Whitehead, a magnificent tour de force chronicling a young slave's adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia.
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9781590179819 | New York Review of Books, March 22, 2016, cover price $15.95
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9780385537056 | Doubleday, May 6, 2014, cover price $24.95
9780312756062, titled "State and Society in Dar Fur" | Palgrave Macmillan, September 1, 1980, cover price $35.00 | also contains State and Society in Dar Fur
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9780345804334, titled "The Noble Hustle: Poker, Beef Jerky and Death" | Reprint edition (Anchor Books, March 3, 2015), cover price $15.00
9780380299768, titled "Oprah Book Club Selection #28" | Avon Books, November 1, 1999, cover price $13.00 | also contains Oprah Book Club Selection #28
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9781410446213 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, March 7, 2012), cover price $31.99
Paperback:
9780307455178 | Reprint edition (Anchor Books, July 10, 2012), cover price $15.00
Hardcover:
9780385528078 | Doubleday, October 18, 2011, cover price $25.95
The warm, funny, and supremely original new novel from one of the most acclaimed writers in America The year is 1985. Benji Cooper is one of the only black students at an elite prep school in Manhattan. He spends his falls and winters going to roller-disco bar mitzvahs, playing too much Dungeons and Dragons, and trying to catch glimpses of nudity on late-night cable TV. After a tragic mishap on his first day of high school—when Benji reveals his deep enthusiasm for the horror movie magazine Fangoria—his social doom is sealed for the next four years. But every summer, Benji escapes to the Hamptons, to Sag Harbor, where a small community of African American professionals have built a world of their own. Because their parents come out only on weekends, he and his friends are left to their own devices for three glorious months. And although he’s just as confused about this all-black refuge as he is about the white world he negotiates the rest of the year, he thinks that maybe this summer things will be different. If all goes according to plan, that is. There will be trials and tribulations, of course. There will be complicated new handshakes to fumble through, and state-of-the-art profanity to master. He will be tested by contests big and small, by his misshapen haircut (which seems to have a will of its own), by the New Coke Tragedy of ’85, and by his secret Lite FM addiction. But maybe, with a little luck, things will turn out differently this summer.In this deeply affectionate and fiercely funny coming-of-age novel, Whitehead—using the perpetual mortification of teenage existence and the desperate quest for reinvention—lithely probes the elusive nature of identity, both personal and communal.
Hardcover:
9780385527651 | Doubleday, April 28, 2009, cover price $24.95
Paperback:
9780307455161 | 1 reprint edition (Anchor Books, June 15, 2010), cover price $15.95
CD/Spoken Word:
9780739381908 | Unabridged edition (Random House, April 28, 2009), cover price $39.95 | About this edition: The warm, funny, and supremely original new novel from one of the most acclaimed writers in America The year is 1985.
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9781602855069 | Large print edition (Center Point Pub, June 1, 2009), cover price $32.95 | About this edition: The warm, funny, and supremely original new novel from one of the most acclaimed writers in America The year is 1985.
In search of a new name for their town, the Winthrop town council decides to hire a nomenclature consultant best known for his crowning achievement, Apex, a multicultural bandage that has revolutionized the adhesive bandage industry, in a tour de force exploring the mysteries of identity, history, and marketing. Reprint.
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9780786287956 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, August 2, 2006), cover price $28.95 | About this edition: In search of a new name for their town, the Winthrop town council decides to hire a nomenclature consultant best known for his crowning achievement, Apex, a multicultural bandage that has revolutionized the adhesive bandage industry.
9780385507950 | Doubleday, March 21, 2006, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: In search of a new name for their town, the Winthrop town council decides to hire a nomenclature consultant best known for his crowning achievement, Apex, a multicultural bandage that has revolutionized the adhesive bandage industry.
Paperback:
9781400031269 | Reprint edition (Anchor Books, January 2, 2007), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: In search of a new name for their town, the Winthrop town council decides to hire a nomenclature consultant best known for his crowning achievement, Apex, a multicultural bandage that has revolutionized the adhesive bandage industry, in a tour de force exploring the mysteries of identity, history, and marketing.
Paperback:
9788439711889 | Grijalbo Mondadori, June 30, 2005, cover price $18.95
Hardcover:
9780385507943 | Doubleday, October 1, 2003, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: In a series of personal reminiscences, anecdotes, lyrical meditations, and vignettes, captures the complex inner and outer landscapes of New York, New York in an intimate portrait of life in the city.
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9781400031245 | Reprint edition (Anchor Books, October 1, 2004), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: In a series of personal reminiscences, anecdotes, lyrical meditations, and vignettes, the award-winning author of The Intuitionist captures the complex inner and outer landscapes of the city of New York in an intimate portrait of life in the city.
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9781887128766 | Cmc edition (Soft Skull Pr, November 1, 2002), cover price $11.00 | About this edition: A first collection of the website cartoonist's observations on the war on terrorism and other contemporary issues critiques such subjects as the anthrax mailings, Enron, the Office for Homeland Security, and the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.
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9780385498197 | Doubleday, May 1, 2001, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: An assignment for a travel Web site takes J.
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9781841155708 | New edition (Harpercollins Pub Ltd, June 5, 2002), cover price $10.80 | About this edition: This novel is set around the first John Henry Days festival which marks the launch of a stamp commemorating John Henry.
9780385498203 | Reprint edition (Anchor Books, May 1, 2002), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: On assignment for a travel Web site, J.
Product Description: From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Underground RailroadColson Whiteheadâs triumphant novel is on one level a multifaceted retelling of the story of John Henry, the black steel-driver who died outracing a machine designed to replace him...read more
Hardcover:
9781587242311 | Large print edition (Wheeler Pub Inc, June 1, 2002), cover price $30.95 | About this edition: From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Underground RailroadColson Whiteheadâs triumphant novel is on one level a multifaceted retelling of the story of John Henry, the black steel-driver who died outracing a machine designed to replace him.
As two factions at the Department of Elevator Inspectors--the Empiricists and the Intuitionists--wage war on each other, Intuitionist Lila Mae, the first black elevator inspector, faces bedlam when an elevator freefalls on her watch and the mysterious notebooks from the founder of Intuitionism suddenly appear. Reprint.
Hardcover:
9780385492997 | Anchor Books, January 1, 1999, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: As two factions at the Department of Elevator Inspectors--the Empiricists and the Intuitionists--wage war on each other, Intuitionist Lila Mae, the first Black elevator inspector, faces bedlam when an elevator freefalls on her watch and the mysterious notebook from the founder of Intuitionism suddenly appears
Paperback:
9780385493000 | Anchor Books, January 1, 2000, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: As two factions at the Department of Elevator Inspectors--the Empiricists and the Intuitionists--wage war on each other, Intuitionist Lila Mae, the first Black elevator inspector, faces bedlam when an elevator freefalls on her watch and the mysterious notebook from the founder of Intuitionism suddenly appears
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