<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[author results for McBride, James,]]></title><description><![CDATA[author results for McBride, James,]]></description><link>https://gateway.bibliocommons.com/v2/libraries/smplibrary/rss/search?query=McBride%2C%20James%2C&amp;searchType=author&amp;origin=core-catalog-explore&amp;view=grouped</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 08:58:35 GMT</lastBuildDate><item><title><![CDATA[The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store]]></title><description><![CDATA["In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new development, the last thing they expected to find was a skeleton at the bottom of a well. Who the skeleton was and how it got there were two of the long-held secrets kept by the residents of Chicken Hill, the dilapidated neighborhood where immigrant Jews and African Americans lived side by side and shared ambitions and sorrows. Chicken Hill was where Moshe and Chona Ludlow lived when Moshe integrated his theater and where Chona ran the Heaven & Earth Grocery Store. When the state came looking for a deaf boy to institutionalize him, it was Chona and Nate Timblin, the Black janitor at Moshe's theater and the unofficial leader of the Black community on Chicken Hill, who worked together to keep the boy safe. As these characters' stories overlap and deepen, it becomes clear how much the people who live on the margins of white, Christian America struggle and what they must do to survive. When the truth is finally revealed about what happened on Chicken Hill and the part the town's white establishment played in it, McBride shows us that even in dark times, it is love and community--heaven and earth--that sustain us."-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://smplibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S76C3546287</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://smplibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S76C3546287</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[McBride, James]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://smplibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/3546287076</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>A Novel</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780593422946/MC.GIF&amp;client=penlibsys&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store]]></title><description><![CDATA["In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new development, the last thing they expected to find was a skeleton at the bottom of a well. Who the skeleton was and how it got there were two of the long-held secrets kept by the residents of Chicken Hill, the dilapidated neighborhood where immigrant Jews and African Americans lived side by side and shared ambitions and sorrows. Chicken Hill was where Moshe and Chona Ludlow lived when Moshe integrated his theater and where Chona ran the Heaven & Earth Grocery Store. When the state came looking for a deaf boy to institutionalize him, it was Chona and Nate Timblin, the Black janitor at Moshe's theater and the unofficial leader of the Black community on Chicken Hill, who worked together to keep the boy safe. As these characters' stories overlap and deepen, it becomes clear how much the people who live on the margins of white, Christian America struggle and what they must do to survive. When the truth is finally revealed about what happened on Chicken Hill and the part the town's white establishment played in it, McBride shows us that even in dark times, it is love and community--heaven and earth--that sustain us"-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://smplibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S76C3563510</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://smplibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S76C3563510</guid><category><![CDATA[LPRINT]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[McBride, James]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://smplibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/3563510076</comments><format>LPRINT</format><subtitle>A Novel</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780593743775/MC.GIF&amp;client=penlibsys&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store]]></title><description><![CDATA["In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new development, the last thing they expected to find was a skeleton at the bottom of a well. Who the skeleton was and how it got there were two of the long-held secrets kept by the residents of Chicken Hill, the dilapidated neighborhood where immigrant Jews and African Americans lived side by side and shared ambitions and sorrows. Chicken Hill was where Moshe and Chona Ludlow lived when Moshe integrated his theater and where Chona ran the Heaven & Earth Grocery Store. When the state came looking for a deaf boy to institutionalize him, it was Chona and Nate Timblin, the Black janitor at Moshe's theater and the unofficial leader of the Black community on Chicken Hill, who worked together to keep the boy safe. As these characters' stories overlap and deepen, it becomes clear how much the people who live on the margins of white, Christian America struggle and what they must do to survive. When the truth is finally revealed about what happened on Chicken Hill and the part the town's white establishment played in it, McBride shows us that even in dark times, it is love and community--heaven and earth--that sustain us."-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://smplibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S76C3561886</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://smplibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S76C3561886</guid><category><![CDATA[EBOOK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[McBride, James]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://smplibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/3561886076</comments><format>EBOOK</format><subtitle>A Novel</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780593422960/MC.GIF&amp;client=penlibsys&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Deacon King Kong]]></title><description><![CDATA["From James McBride, author of the National Book Award-winning The Good Lord Bird, comes a wise and witty novel about what happens to the witnesses of a shooting. In September 1969, a fumbling, cranky old church deacon known as Sportcoat shuffles into the courtyard of the Cause Houses housing project in south Brooklyn, pulls a .45 from his pocket, and in front of everybody shoots the project's drug dealer at point-blank range. The reasons for this desperate burst of violence and the consequences that spring from it lie at the heart of Deacon King Kong, James McBride's funny, moving novel and his first since his National Book Award-winning The Good Lord Bird. In Deacon King Kong, McBride brings to vivid life the people affected by the shooting: the victim, the African-American and Latinx residents who witnessed it, the white neighbors, the local cops assigned to investigate, the members of the Five Ends Baptist Church where Sportcoat was deacon, the neighborhood's Italian mobsters, and Sportcoat himself. As the story deepens, it becomes clear that the lives of the characters--caught in the tumultuous swirl of 1960s New York--overlap in unexpected ways. When the truth does emerge, McBride shows us that not all secrets are meant to be hidden, that the best way to grow is to face change without fear, and that the seeds of love lie in hope and compassion. Bringing to these pages both his masterly storytelling skills and his abiding faith in humanity, James McBride has written a novel every bit as involving as The Good Lord Bird and as emotionally honest as The Color of Water. Told with insight and wit, Deacon King Kong demonstrates that love and faith live in all of us"-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://smplibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S76C2852496</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://smplibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S76C2852496</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[McBride, James]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://smplibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2852496076</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780735216723/MC.GIF&amp;client=penlibsys&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Deacon King Kong]]></title><description><![CDATA["In September 1969, a fumbling, cranky old church deacon known as Sportcoat shuffles into the courtyard of the Cause Houses housing project in south Brooklyn, pulls a .45 from his pocket, and in front of everybody shoots the project's drug dealer at point-blank range. The reasons for this desperate burst of violence and the consequences that spring from it lie at the heart of Deacon King Kong, James McBride's funny, moving novel and his first since his National Book Award-winning The Good Lord Bird. In Deacon King Kong, McBride brings to vivid life the people affected by the shooting: the victim, the African-American and Latinx residents who witnessed it, the white neighbors, the local cops assigned to investigate, the members of the Five Ends Baptist Church where Sportcoat was deacon, the neighborhood's Italian mobsters, and Sportcoat himself. As the story deepens, it becomes clear that the lives of the characters--caught in the tumultuous swirl of 1960s New York--overlap in unexpected ways. When the truth does emerge, McBride shows us that not all secrets are meant to be hidden, that the best way to grow is to face change without fear, and that the seeds of love lie in hope and compassion. Bringing to these pages both his masterly storytelling skills and his abiding faith in humanity, James McBride has written a novel every bit as involving as The Good Lord Bird and as emotionally honest as The Color of Water. Told with insight and wit, Deacon King Kong demonstrates that love and faith live in all of us"-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://smplibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S76C2929611</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://smplibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S76C2929611</guid><category><![CDATA[LPRINT]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[McBride, James]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://smplibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2929611076</comments><format>LPRINT</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780593171837/MC.GIF&amp;client=penlibsys&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Five-carat Soul]]></title><description><![CDATA["Exciting new fiction from James McBride, the first since his National Book Award-winning novel The Good Lord Bird. The stories in Five-Carat Soul--none of them ever published before--spring from the place where identity, humanity, and history converge. They're funny and poignant, insightful and unpredictable, imaginative and authentic--all told with McBride's unrivaled storytelling skill and meticulous eye for character and detail. McBride explores the ways we learn from the world and the people around us. An antiques dealer discovers that a legendary toy commissioned by Civil War General Robert E. Lee now sits in the home of a black minister in Queens. Five strangers find themselves thrown together and face unexpected judgment. An American president draws inspiration from a conversation he overhears in a stable. And members of The Five-Carat Soul Bottom Bone Band recount stories from their own messy and hilarious lives. As McBride did in his National Book award-winning The Good Lord Bird and his bestselling The Color of Water, he writes with humor and insight about how we struggle to understand who we are in a world we don't fully comprehend. The result is a surprising, perceptive, and evocative collection of stories that is also a moving exploration of our human condition"-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://smplibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S76C2567925</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://smplibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S76C2567925</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[McBride, James]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2017 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://smplibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2567925076</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780735216693/MC.GIF&amp;client=penlibsys&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Color of Water]]></title><description><![CDATA["Who is Ruth McBride Jordan? A self-declared "light-skinned" woman evasive about her ethnicity, yet steadfast in her love for her twelve black children. James McBride, journalist, musician, and son, explores his mother's past, as well as his own upbringing and heritage, in a poignant and powerful debut, The Color Of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother. The son of a black minister and a woman who would not admit she was white, James McBride grew up in "orchestrated chaos" with his eleven siblings in the poor, all-black projects of Red Hook, Brooklyn. "Mommy," a fiercely protective woman with "dark eyes full of pep and fire," herded her brood to Manhattan's free cultural events, sent them off on buses to the best (and mainly Jewish) schools, demanded good grades, and commanded respect. As a young man, McBride saw his mother as a source of embarrassment, worry, and confusion--and reached thirty before he began to discover the truth about her early life and long-buried pain. In The Color of Water, McBride retraces his mother's footsteps and, through her searing and spirited voice, recreates her remarkable story. The daughter of a failed itinerant Orthodox rabbi, she was born Rachel Shilsky (actually Ruchel Dwara Zylska) in Poland on April 1, 1921. Fleeing pogroms, her family emigrated to America and ultimately settled in Suffolk, Virginia, a small town where anti-Semitism and racial tensions ran high. With candor and immediacy, Ruth describes her parents' loveless marriage; her fragile, handicapped mother; her cruel, sexually-abusive father; and the rest of the family and life she abandoned. At seventeen, after fleeing Virginia and settling in New York City, Ruth married a black minister and founded the all- black New Brown Memorial Baptist Church in her Red Hook living room. "God is the color of water," Ruth McBride taught her children, firmly convinced that life's blessings and life's values transcend race. Twice widowed, and continually confronting overwhelming adversity and racism, Ruth's determination, drive and discipline saw her dozen children through college--and most through graduate school. At age 65, she herself received a degree in social work from Temple University. Interspersed throughout his mother's compelling narrative, McBride shares candid recollections of his own experiences as a mixed-race child of poverty, his flirtations with drugs and violence, and his eventual self- realization and professional success. The Color of Water touches listeners of all colors as a vivid portrait of growing up, a haunting meditation on race and identity, and a lyrical valentine to a mother from her son" -- from publisher's web site.]]></description><link>https://smplibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S76C2293111</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://smplibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S76C2293111</guid><category><![CDATA[BOOK_CD]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[McBride, James]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://smplibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2293111076</comments><format>BOOK_CD</format><subtitle>A Black Man&apos;s Tribute to His White Mother</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780553546590/MC.GIF&amp;client=penlibsys&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Color of Water]]></title><link>https://smplibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S76C2275542</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://smplibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S76C2275542</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[McBride, James]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2006 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://smplibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2275542076</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>A Black Man&apos;s Tribute to His White Mother</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781594481925/MC.GIF&amp;client=penlibsys&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Miracle at St. Anna]]></title><link>https://smplibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S76C1442916</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://smplibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S76C1442916</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[McBride, James]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2002 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://smplibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1442916076</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781573222129/MC.GIF&amp;client=penlibsys&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Miracle at St. Anna]]></title><link>https://smplibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S76C1073321</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://smplibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S76C1073321</guid><category><![CDATA[LPRINT]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[McBride, James]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2003 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://smplibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1073321076</comments><format>LPRINT</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781587244735/MC.GIF&amp;client=penlibsys&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Miracle at St. Anna]]></title><description><![CDATA[In a historical novel based on events at a small village in Tuscany during World War II, four African American soldiers from the 92nd Division, a band of partisans, and a young Italian boy come together to experience a miracle.]]></description><link>https://smplibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S76C2065296</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://smplibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S76C2065296</guid><category><![CDATA[EBOOK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[McBride, James]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2002 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://smplibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2065296076</comments><format>EBOOK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Color of Water]]></title><link>https://smplibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S76C2273533</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://smplibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S76C2273533</guid><category><![CDATA[EBOOK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[McBride, James]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 1996 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://smplibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2273533076</comments><format>EBOOK</format><subtitle>A Black Man&apos;s Tribute to His White Mother</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781440636103/MC.GIF&amp;client=penlibsys&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store]]></title><description><![CDATA[In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new development, the last thing they expected to find was a skeleton at the bottom of a well. Who the skeleton was and how it got there were two of the long-held secrets kept by the residents of Chicken Hill, the dilapidated neighborhood where immigrant Jews and African Americans lived side by side and shared ambitions and sorrows. Chicken Hill was where Moshe and Chona Ludlow lived when Moshe integrated his theater and where Chona ran the Heaven & Earth Grocery Store. When the state came looking for a deaf boy to institutionalize him, it was Chona and Nate Timblin, the Black janitor at Moshe's theater and the unofficial leader of the Black community on Chicken Hill, who worked together to keep the boy safe.]]></description><link>https://smplibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S76C3555407</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://smplibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S76C3555407</guid><category><![CDATA[BOOK_CD]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[McBride, James]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://smplibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/3555407076</comments><format>BOOK_CD</format><subtitle>A Novel</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780593684146/MC.GIF&amp;client=penlibsys&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Deacon King Kong]]></title><description><![CDATA["In September 1969, a fumbling, cranky old church deacon known as Sportcoat shuffles into the courtyard of the Cause Houses housing project in south Brooklyn, pulls a .45 from his pocket, and in front of everybody shoots the project's drug dealer at point-blank range. The reasons for this desperate burst of violence and the consequences that spring from it lie at the heart of Deacon King Kong, James McBride's funny, moving novel and his first since his National Book Award-winning The Good Lord Bird. In Deacon King Kong, McBride brings to vivid life the people affected by the shooting: the victim, the African-American and Latinx residents who witnessed it, the white neighbors, the local cops assigned to investigate, the members of the Five Ends Baptist Church where Sportcoat was deacon, the neighborhood's Italian mobsters, and Sportcoat himself. As the story deepens, it becomes clear that the lives of the characters--caught in the tumultuous swirl of 1960s New York--overlap in unexpected ways. When the truth does emerge, McBride shows us that not all secrets are meant to be hidden, that the best way to grow is to face change without fear, and that the seeds of love lie in hope and compassion. Bringing to these pages both his masterly storytelling skills and his abiding faith in humanity, James McBride has written a novel every bit as involving as The Good Lord Bird and as emotionally honest as The Color of Water. Told with insight and wit, Deacon King Kong demonstrates that love and faith live in all of us"-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://smplibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S76C2854386</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://smplibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S76C2854386</guid><category><![CDATA[BOOK_CD]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[McBride, James]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://smplibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2854386076</comments><format>BOOK_CD</format><subtitle>A Novel</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780593166970/MC.GIF&amp;client=penlibsys&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kill 'em and Leave]]></title><description><![CDATA["A product of the complicated history of the American South, James Brown was a cultural shape-shifter who arguably had the greatest influence of any artist on American popular music. Brown was long a figure of fascination for James McBride, a noted professional musician as well as a writer. When he received a tip that promised to uncover the man behind the myth, McBride set off to follow a trail to better understand the personal, musical, and societal influences that created this immensely troubled, misunderstood, and complicated soul genius."--flyleaf.]]></description><link>https://smplibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S76C2394152</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://smplibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S76C2394152</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[McBride, James]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://smplibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2394152076</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Searching for James Brown and the American Soul</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780812993509/MC.GIF&amp;client=penlibsys&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Good Lord Bird]]></title><description><![CDATA[Fleeing his violent master at the side of abolitionist John Brown at the height of the slavery debate in mid-nineteenth-century Kansas Territory, Henry pretends to be a girl to hide his identity throughout the raid on Harpers Ferry in 1859.]]></description><link>https://smplibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S76C2181125</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://smplibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S76C2181125</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[McBride, James]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://smplibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2181125076</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781594486340/MC.GIF&amp;client=penlibsys&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Good Lord Bird]]></title><link>https://smplibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S76C2227412</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://smplibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S76C2227412</guid><category><![CDATA[LPRINT]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[McBride, James]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://smplibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2227412076</comments><format>LPRINT</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781410464859/MC.GIF&amp;client=penlibsys&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Good Lord Bird]]></title><link>https://smplibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S76C2232781</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://smplibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S76C2232781</guid><category><![CDATA[EBOOK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[McBride, James]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://smplibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2232781076</comments><format>EBOOK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781101616185/MC.GIF&amp;client=penlibsys&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Good Lord Bird]]></title><description><![CDATA[Henry Shackleford is a young slave living in the Kansas Territory in 1857, when the region is a battleground between anti- and pro-slavery forces. When John Brown, the legendary abolitionist, arrives in the area, an argument between Brown and Henry's master quickly turns violent. Henry is forced to leave town - with Brown, who believes he's a girl. Over the ensuing months, Henry - whom Brown nicknames Little Onion - conceals his true identity as he struggles to stay alive. Eventually Little Onion finds himself with Brown at the historic raid on Harpers Ferry in 1859 - one of the great catalysts for the Civil War. An absorbing mixture of history and imagination, The Good Lord Bird is both a rousing adventure and a moving exploration of identity and survival.]]></description><link>https://smplibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S76C2503482</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://smplibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S76C2503482</guid><category><![CDATA[AB]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[McBride, James]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://smplibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2503482076</comments><format>AB</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781666592535/MC.GIF&amp;client=penlibsys&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[L'épicerie du paradis sur terre]]></title><link>https://smplibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S76C3786247</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://smplibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S76C3786247</guid><category><![CDATA[AB]]></category><category><![CDATA[fre]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[McBride, James]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://smplibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/3786247076</comments><format>AB</format><subtitle/><language>fre</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781004195091/MC.GIF&amp;client=penlibsys&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store]]></title><link>https://smplibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S76C3573575</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://smplibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S76C3573575</guid><category><![CDATA[AB]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[McBride, James]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://smplibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/3573575076</comments><format>AB</format><subtitle>A Novel</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780593684139/MC.GIF&amp;client=penlibsys&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Deacon King Kong]]></title><description><![CDATA["From James McBride, author of the National Book Award-winning The Good Lord Bird, comes a wise and witty novel about what happens to the witnesses of a shooting. In September 1969, a fumbling, cranky old church deacon known as Sportcoat shuffles into the courtyard of the Cause Houses housing project in south Brooklyn, pulls a .45 from his pocket, and in front of everybody shoots the project's drug dealer at point-blank range. The reasons for this desperate burst of violence and the consequences that spring from it lie at the heart of Deacon King Kong, James McBride's funny, moving novel and his first since his National Book Award-winning The Good Lord Bird. In Deacon King Kong, McBride brings to vivid life the people affected by the shooting: the victim, the African-American and Latinx residents who witnessed it, the white neighbors, the local cops assigned to investigate, the members of the Five Ends Baptist Church where Sportcoat was deacon, the neighborhood's Italian mobsters, and Sportcoat himself. As the story deepens, it becomes clear that the lives of the characters--caught in the tumultuous swirl of 1960s New York--overlap in unexpected ways. When the truth does emerge, McBride shows us that not all secrets are meant to be hidden, that the best way to grow is to face change without fear, and that the seeds of love lie in hope and compassion. Bringing to these pages both his masterly storytelling skills and his abiding faith in humanity, James McBride has written a novel every bit as involving as The Good Lord Bird and as emotionally honest as The Color of Water. Told with insight and wit, Deacon King Kong demonstrates that love and faith live in all of us"-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://smplibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S76C2933724</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://smplibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S76C2933724</guid><category><![CDATA[AB]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[McBride, James]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://smplibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2933724076</comments><format>AB</format><subtitle>A Novel</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780593166994/MC.GIF&amp;client=penlibsys&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Deacon King Kong]]></title><description><![CDATA["From James McBride, author of the National Book Award-winning The Good Lord Bird, comes a wise and witty novel about what happens to the witnesses of a shooting. In September 1969, a fumbling, cranky old church deacon known as Sportcoat shuffles into the courtyard of the Cause Houses housing project in south Brooklyn, pulls a .45 from his pocket, and in front of everybody shoots the project's drug dealer at point-blank range. The reasons for this desperate burst of violence and the consequences that spring from it lie at the heart of Deacon King Kong, James McBride's funny, moving novel and his first since his National Book Award-winning The Good Lord Bird. In Deacon King Kong, McBride brings to vivid life the people affected by the shooting: the victim, the African-American and Latinx residents who witnessed it, the white neighbors, the local cops assigned to investigate, the members of the Five Ends Baptist Church where Sportcoat was deacon, the neighborhood's Italian mobsters, and Sportcoat himself. As the story deepens, it becomes clear that the lives of the characters--caught in the tumultuous swirl of 1960s New York--overlap in unexpected ways. When the truth does emerge, McBride shows us that not all secrets are meant to be hidden, that the best way to grow is to face change without fear, and that the seeds of love lie in hope and compassion. Bringing to these pages both his masterly storytelling skills and his abiding faith in humanity, James McBride has written a novel every bit as involving as The Good Lord Bird and as emotionally honest as The Color of Water. Told with insight and wit, Deacon King Kong demonstrates that love and faith live in all of us"-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://smplibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S76C2919449</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://smplibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S76C2919449</guid><category><![CDATA[EBOOK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[McBride, James]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://smplibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2919449076</comments><format>EBOOK</format><subtitle>A Novel</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780735216747/MC.GIF&amp;client=penlibsys&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Five-carat Soul]]></title><description><![CDATA[In this collection of stories, James McBride explores the ways we learn from the world and the people around us. An antiques dealer discovers that a legendary toy commissioned by Civil War General Robert E. Lee now sits in the home of a black minister in Queens. Five strangers find themselves thrown together and face unexpected judgment. An American president draws inspiration from a conversation he overhears in a stable. 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