Leonard Pitts Jr.

• Mar-2009
• / Literary
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“An unsettling, compelling first novel about secrets, illness, and the role of African-American men in society and family life.” -- Publishers Weekly (starred review)   This powerful novel of three generations of black men bound by blood --...

• May-2012
• / Historical
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A former slave embarks on a hellish journey through the post-Civil War South to reunite with his wife, in this novel by the Pulitzer Prize�"winning author. With the news of General Lee’s surrender, Sam, a runaway slave who served in the Union Army...

• Oct-2015
• / Literary
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Two Chicago newspapermen grapple with race and the past in this contemporary terrorist thriller by the Pulitzer Prize�"winning author of Freeman. Disillusioned Chicago columnist Malcolm Toussaint, fueled by yet another report of unarmed Black men ki...

• Oct-2018
• / Historical
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Three Americans in the Jim Crow South face enormous changed triggered by World War II in this epic novel by the Pulitzer-winning author of Freeman.Could you find the courage to do what’s right in a world on fire? An affluent white marine survives P...

• Jul-2024
• / General Fiction
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The free-standing successor and next novel by the author of the critically acclaimed The Last Thing You Surrender, Leonard Pitts, Jr.’s 54 Miles launches forward twenty years to the fateful weeks of March 1965—from the infamous “Blo...