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  My Monticello - Fiction

  Jocelyn Nicole Johnson

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  An AudioFile Earphones Award winnerRead by a full cast of narrators, featuring LeVar Burton and Aja Naomi King  “A badass debut by any measure—nimble, knowing, and electrifying.” —Colson Whitehead, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Nickel Boys and Harlem Shuffle"...'My Monticello' is, quite simply, an extraordinary debut from a gifted writer with an unflinching view of history and what may come of it." — The Washington PostWinner of the Weatherford Award in FictionA winner of 2022 Lillian Smith Book AwardsA young woman descended from Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings driven from her neighborhood by a white militia. A university professor studying racism by conducting a secret social experiment on his own son. A single mother desperate to buy her first home even as the world hurtles toward catastrophe. Each fighting to survive in America.Tough-minded, vulnerable, and brave, Jocelyn Nicole Johnson’s precisely imagined debut explores burdened inheritances and extraordinary pursuits of belonging. Set in the near future, the eponymous novella, “My Monticello,” tells of a diverse group of Charlottesville neighbors fleeing violent white supremacists. Led by Da’Naisha, a young Black descendant of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings, they seek refuge in Jefferson’s historic plantation home in a desperate attempt to outlive the long-foretold racial and environmental unravelling within the nation.In “Control Negro,” hailed by Roxane Gay as “one hell of story,” a university professor devotes himself to the study of racism and the development of ACMs (average American Caucasian males) by clinically observing his own son from birth in order to “painstakingly mark the route of this Black child too, one whom I could prove was so strikingly decent and true that America could not find fault in him unless we as a nation had projected it there.” Johnson’s characters all seek out home as a place and an internal state, whether in the form of a Nigerian widower who immigrates to a meager existence in the city of Alexandria, finding himself adrift; a young mixed-race woman who adopts a new tongue and name to escape the landscapes of rural Virginia and her family; or a single mother who seeks salvation through “Buying a House Ahead of the Apocalypse.”United by these characters’ relentless struggles against reality and fate, My Monticello is a formidable collection that bears witness to this country’s legacies and announces the arrival of a wildly original new voice in American fiction.  A Macmillan Audio production from Henry Holt and Company

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  Quotes (or letters from israel)

  Paul Lazarus, Alexander Tsypkin

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  From acclaimed, Russian writer, Alexander Tsypkin, translated by Paul Lazarus, QUOTES (OR LETTERS FROM ISRAEL) is a story that paints a vivid picture of Jewish immigration to Israel from Russia in the 1980s. From a collection of short stories titled, Sammynolie and Other Stories.

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  Yes You Can! - 10 Classic...

  James Allen, P. T. Barnum,...

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  This Audiobook contains the following works :Dollars Want Me: The New Road To Opulence [Henry Harrison Brown]The Way to Wealth [Benjamin Franklin]Think and Grow Rich [Napoleon Hill ]The Art of Money Getting: Golden Rules for Making Money [P.T. Barnum]As a Man Thinketh [James Allen]The Science of Getting Rich [Wallace D. Wattles]Morning and Evening Thoughts [James Allen]The prophet [Khalil Gibran]An Iron Will [Orison Swett Marden]The Victorious Attitude  [Orison Swett Marden]

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  Oh Whistle and I'll Come to You...

  M R James

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  Montague Rhodes James is cited as perhaps the greatest English writer of ghost stories, an opinion few would disagree with. 
   
  James was born on 1st August 1862 at Goodnestone Parsonage in Kent, where his father was Curate but at age 3 the family went to live at Livermere, near Bury St Edmunds in East Anglia.  
   
  From early childhood he had a passion for mediaeval books and antiques. He was educated initially as a boarder at Temple Grove School in East Sheen, west London, before gaining a scholarship to Eton and thence Cambridge where he gained a double first, becoming a distinguished linguist and mediaevalist.  
   
  Before the Great War vacations were usually spent touring Europe absorbing cultures and references for his later writing. 
   
  A man of enormous knowledge it was said he timed his breakfast egg whilst he completed the Times crossword.  
   
  Many of his elegant yet terrifying tales were created by discarding the prevailing gothic cliches and placing his characters and narrative in a realistic setting.  Thereby the stories gained atmosphere and menace on a grand scale and he was famed as the originator of the antiquarian ghost story. 
   
  Although story-telling and writing these 30 or so tales was a hobby, when published their effect transformed the genre and still chill the bones in our more modern times. 
   
  James was also a medievalist scholar and translator whose work remains highly respected. He was also Provost of Eton College between 1918 and 1936. 
   
  M R James died on 12th June 1936 at Eton in Buckinghamshire.  He was 73.   
   
  His classic story ‘Whistle and I’ll Come to You My Lad’ exquisitely reveals how a young professor on holiday chances on a buried whistle and folklore becomes terrifying fact.

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  Rejected Of Men; A Story Of Today

  Howard Pyle

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  This is a setting of the story of Jesus as if it had occurred during early twentieth century America. The narrator's point of view is that of an outsider looking in at the story of Jesus.  Howard Pyle (1853 - 1911) was an American illustrator and author.   - Summary by Wikipedia and david wales

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  Almost Forever

  Deborah Raney

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  A Christy Award finalist, best-selling author Deborah Raney has garnered the RITA Award, the HOLT Medallion, and a Silver Angel for her soul-stirring  fiction. In Almost Forever, five firefighters perish battling the flames of the homeless shelter in Hanover Falls. Shelter volunteer Bryn Hennesey’s grief at the loss of her  husband is compounded by a secret, haunting question: Did she extinguish the candle before falling asleep on that fateful night?

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