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Galardonada con el Premio Pulitzer 2017 y con el National Book Award, El ferrocarril subterráneo ha sido el acontecimiento literario del año en Estados Unidos.
Colson Whitehead es uno de los pocos escritores que ha conseguido ambos premios por el mismo libro. Con El ferrocarril subterráneo entra a formar parte del grupo de grandes nombres como Faulkner, Proulx, Updike y A. Walker.
Una renovada visión
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From the bestselling, two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys, a novel that is "funny and wise and sumptuously written" (Jonathan Franzen, The New York Times Book Review).
Colson Whitehead’s 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....
Colson Whitehead’s 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....
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Bellevue - Adult Non-Fiction
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"In a dazzlingly original work of nonfiction, the award-winning novelist Colson Whitehead re-creates the exuberance, the chaos, the promise, and the heartbreak of New York. Here is a literary love song that will entrance anyone who has lived in--or spent time--in the greatest of American cities. A masterful evocation of the city that never sleeps, The Colossus of New York captures the city's inner and outer landscapes in a series of vignettes, meditations,...
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Green Hills - Adult Fiction
Fiction Whitehe
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Hermitage - Adult Fiction
Fiction Whitehe
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Fiction Whitehe
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Main Library - Adult Fiction
Fiction Whitehe
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Fiction Whitehe
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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.
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Green Hills - Adult Non-Fiction
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"In THE NOBLE HUSTLE Colson Whitehead does for participatory journalism what he did for zombie novels in ZONE ONE: Take one literary genius, add $10,000 and a seat at the World Series of Poker, and stir. On one level, Colson Whitehead's THE NOBLE HUSTLE is a familiar species of participatory journalism - a longtime neighborhood poker player, Colson was given a $10,000 stake and an assignment from the online ESPN offshoot Grantland to see how far he...
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Green Hills - Adult Fiction
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Thompson Lane - Adult Fiction
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Benji, one of the only black kids at an elite prep school in Manhattan, tries desperately to fit in, but every summer, he and his brother, Reggie, escape to the East End of Sag Harbor, where a small community of African American professionals has built a world of its own.
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Donelson - Adult Fiction
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Inglewood - Adult Fiction
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Fiction Whitehe
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Overview: In this wry take on the post-apocalyptic horror novel, a pandemic has devastated the planet. The plague has sorted humanity into two types: the uninfected and the infected, the living and the living dead. Now the plague is receding, and Americans are busy rebuilding civilization under orders from the provisional government based in Buffalo. Their top mission: the resettlement of Manhattan. Armed forces have successfully reclaimed the island...
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Series
Harlem trilogy (Colson Whitehead) volume 1
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Bellevue - Adult Fiction
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Bellevue - Adult Audiobook
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Green Hills - Adult Audiobook
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Checked Out
3 copies, 10 people are on the wait list.
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Bordeaux - Adult Large Print
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Edgehill - Adult Large Print
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Bordeaux - Adult Audiobook
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Goodlettsville - Adult Audiobook
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North - Adult Audiobook
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""Ray Carney was only slightly bent when it came to being crooked..." To his customers and neighbors on 125th street, Carney is an upstanding salesman of reasonably-priced furniture, making a life for himself and his family. He and his wife Elizabeth are expecting their second child, and if her parents on Striver's Row don't approve of him or their cramped apartment across from the subway tracks, it's still home. Few people know he descends from a...
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Bellevue - Adult Fiction
Fiction Whitehe
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Fiction Whitehe
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Green Hills - Adult Fiction
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Fiction Whitehe
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Hermitage - Adult Fiction
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Fiction Whitehe
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Green Hills - Adult Audiobook
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Main Library - Adult Audiobook
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Richland Park - Adult Audiobook
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This debut novel by the two time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys wowed critics and readers everywhere and marked the debut of an important American writer.
Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read.
It is a time of calamity in a major metropolitan city's Department of Elevator Inspectors, and Lila Mae Watson,...
Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read.
It is a time of calamity in a major metropolitan city's Department of Elevator Inspectors, and Lila Mae Watson,...
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Bellevue - Adult Fiction
Fiction Whitehe
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Fiction Whitehe
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Bordeaux - Adult Fiction
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Fiction Whitehe
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Donelson - Adult Fiction
Fiction Whitehe
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Bellevue - Adult Audiobook
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Edgehill - Adult Audiobook
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Edmondson Pike - Adult Audiobook
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2 copies, 3 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
2 copies, 3 people are on the wait list.
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Main - Upon Request - Adult Book Club In A Bag
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Book Club in a Bag
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Bellevue - Adult Large Print
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Bordeaux - Adult Large Print
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Edgehill - Adult Large Print
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Bordeaux - Adult Audiobook
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East - Adult Audiobook
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In this bravura follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize, and National Book Award-winning The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead brilliantly dramatizes another strand of American history through the story of two boys sentenced to a hellish reform school in Jim Crow-era Florida. As the Civil Rights movement begins to reach the black enclave of Frenchtown in segregated Tallahassee, Elwood Curtis takes the words of Dr. Martin Luther King to heart: He is "as...
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Bellevue - Adult Fiction
Fiction Whitehe
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Fiction Whitehe
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Bordeaux - Adult Fiction
Fiction Whitehe
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Fiction Whitehe
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Donelson - Adult Fiction
Fiction Whitehe
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Fiction Whitehe
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Bellevue - Adult Audiobook
CD AUDIO Fiction Whitehe
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CD AUDIO Fiction Whitehe
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Edgehill - Adult Audiobook
CD AUDIO Fiction Whitehe
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CD AUDIO Fiction Whitehe
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Edmondson Pike - Adult Audiobook
CD AUDIO Fiction Whitehe
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CD AUDIO Fiction Whitehe
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Main - Upon Request - Adult Book Club In A Bag
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Book Club in a Bag
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Bellevue - Adult Large Print
Fiction Whitehe Large Type
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Fiction Whitehe Large Type
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Bordeaux - Adult Large Print
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Fiction Whitehe Large Type
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Green Hills - Adult Large Print
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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. When Caesar, a recent arrival from Virginia, tells her about the Underground Railroad, they decide to take a terrifying risk and escape. Though they manage to find a station and head north, they are being hunted. Their first stop is South Carolina, in a city that initially...