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In ‘Williamsburg Bridge’ a man contemplates his life as he sits on the edge of the bridge, meaning to jump. In ‘JB & FD’ Wideman imagines conversations between white anti-slavery crusader John Brown and abolitionist Frederick Douglass. With a cast of real and fictional characters as diverse as Frederick Douglass, Jean-Michel Basquiat, and Wideman’s own family, it is a journey through the soul of America. Book excerpt: In this new short story collection, John Edgar Wideman blends the historical and the imaginary, the personal and the political, to invent complex, charged stories about love, death and struggle. This book was released on with total page 216 pages. With the shadow of death looming, his powers fading and Bandakar crumbling before the Imperial Order, Richard must lead a desperate people to victory.īook Synopsis American Histories by : John Edgar Widemanĭownload or read book American Histories written by John Edgar Wideman and published by Canongate Books. The price they demand is salvation from annihilation. until the war Richard unleashed destroyed it. Richard has been poisoned by an agent of the Bandakar, a people protected from the ravages of the Imperial Order by an ancient magical barrier. There is an antidote, but it comes at a high price. The Imperial Order has D'Hara under siege, Wizard's Keep is threatened, and Richard Rahl has been poisoned. His quest will take him far from home, embroiling him in an ancient war, three-millennia past, that is about to re-ignite with world-shattering violence.

Book excerpt: The Sword of Truth series follows Richard Cypher, a young woodsman intent on tracking down his father's murderer. This book was released on with total page 790 pages.

With the shadow of death looming near, the empire crumbling before the invading hordes, and time running out, Richard is offered not only his own life but the salvation of a people, in exchange for delivering his wife, Kahlan, into bondage to the enemy.Īt the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.Book Synopsis Naked Empire by : Terry Goodkindĭownload or read book Naked Empire written by Terry Goodkind and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. Saving an empire from annihilation is the price of the antidote. Here Goodkind returns with a broad-canvas adventure of epic intrigue, violent conflict, and terrifying peril for the beautiful Kahlan Amnell and her husband, the heroic Richard Rahl, the Sword of Truth. The Sword of Truth saga continues with Naked Empire, from New York Times-bestselling Terry Goodkind-Ī sprawling epic adventure focusing on the central figures of Richard and Kahlan.īeginning with Wizard's First Rule and continuing with subsequent fantasy masterpieces, Terry Goodkind has thrilled and awed millions of readers worldwide with his Sword of Truth series, the basis for the TV show Legend of the Seeker.