Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

New Jersey

A Novel

"A brilliant novel, lyrically lifting history towards myth. It's also compulsively readable. I devoured it in two days." -- Salman Rushdie

The Shadow King

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Illinois

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Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

District of Columbia

Stories

NPR Best Books of 2022The Christian Science Monitor 10 Best Books of JuneMost Anticipated Books of 2022: The Millions, Electric Literature, Brittle Paper, Open Country Magazine, Ms. Magazine

Winner of the 2020 Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing and the 2021 AKO Caine Prize for African Writing, Ethiopian American author Meron Hadero''s gorgeously wrought stories in A Down Home Meal for These Difficult Times offer poignant, compelling narratives of those whose lives have been marked by border crossings and the risk of displacement.

Set across the U.S. and abroad, Meron Hadero''s stories feature immigrants, refugees, and those on the brink of dispossession, all struggling to begin again, all fighting to belong. Moving through diverse geographies and styles, this captivating collection follows characters on the journey toward home, which they dream of, create and redefine, lose and find and make their own. Beyond migration, these stories examine themes of race, gender, class, friendship and betrayal, the despair of loss and the enduring resilience of hope.

Winner of the 2021 AKO Caine Prize for African Writing, "The Street Sweep" is about an enterprising young man on the verge of losing his home in Addis Ababa who pursues an improbable opportunity to turn his life around. Appearing in Best American Short Stories, "The Suitcase" follows a woman visiting her country of origin for the first time and finds that an ordinary object opens up an unexpected, complex bridge between worlds. Shortlisted for the 2019 Caine Prize, "The Wall" portrays the intergenerational friendship between two refugees living in Iowa who have connections to Germany before the fall of the Berlin Wall. A Best American Short Stories notable, "Mekonnen aka Mack aka Huey Freakin'' Newton" is a coming-of-age tale about an Ethiopian immigrant in Brooklyn encountering nuances of race in his new country.

Kaleidoscopic, powerful, and illuminative, the stories in A Down Home Meal for These Difficult Times expand our understanding of the essential and universal need for connection and the vital refuge of home--and announce a major new talent in Meron Hadero.

"Exquisite ....Sentences infused with attitude throw gut punches that land with enough power to bring on tears."

--Daphne Kalotay, The Washington Post

"Witty and wistful, complex and heartbreaking, these stories capture lives caught between cultures and continents, past and present, truth and lies. As its displaced characters seek belonging, this collection explores the challenges of connection with empathy and nuance. A thrilling debut."

--Brit Bennett, bestselling author of The Vanishing Half and The Mothers

"Debut books don''t get much stronger than this. Meron Hadero''s remarkable stories explore a diverse cast of people doing their best to find acceptance or at least stability...Hadero is deeply perceptive; her dialogue always rings true, and the regard she has for her characters is apparent. This isn''t just an excellent first book, it''s an excellent book, period."

--Michael Schaub, NPR Best Books 2022: Books We Love

"This book heralds the arrival of a gifted, stunning writer. A Down Home Meal for These Difficult Times held me spellbound...These stories unfold with an intensifying power, each of them a testament to what''s possible when we move through this world insisting on the potential of hope, and love."

--Maaza Mengiste, author of Booker Prize finalist The Shadow King

"This richly detailed, subtly impressionistic short-story collection--by the first Ethiopian-born writer to win the AKO Caine Prize for African Writing--pulls at threads of geography, language, generation, race, and gender...Hadero''s page shines...expanding instead of narrowing the range and representation of immigrant experiences."

--Daniel King, Mother Jones

"Meron Hadero''s collection, A Down Home Meal for These Difficult Times brims with lives on the margins...This style, which time and time again comes off the page as truly effortless, is what makes Hadero a new master of the form, and this collection a masterful one."

--Chigozie Obioma, author of Booker Prize finalists An Orchestra of Minorities and The Fishermen

"Intricate and precise, A Down Home Meal for These Difficult Times casts a glimmering light into the most elusive corners of estrangement which all migrants--torn between past and present, home and journey--come to know...A powerful, unforgettable collection."

--Ingrid Rojas Contreras, bestselling author of Fruit of the Drunken Tree

"In her debut story collection, Addis Ababa-born Hadero addresses Ethiopian Americans'' struggles for acceptance, the painful ties between present and past, and the elusive meaning of home.... A full range of stylistic approaches is on display in these stories.... Entertaining and affecting stories with a deft lightness of touch."

--Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review

"In this impressive debut collection, award-winning Ethiopian American writer Hadero showcases the lives of displaced people trying to create a space for themselves to call home in America and Ethiopia...Hadero''s powerful stories usher characters along their searches for belonging, often with nothing but hope and a sense of community pushing them forward."

--Emily Park, Booklist, Starred Review

"Meron Hadero''s dazzling short stories span the diaspora, poignantly portraying characters in search of opportunity and belonging. Rich with insight, compassion, and wit, A Down Home Meal for These Difficult Times is an unforgettable debut."

--Vanessa Hua, bestselling author of A River of Stars and Forbidden City

"With enormous power and wonderful subtlety, Meron Hadero grants us access to the inner worlds of people at moments when everything is at risk. In the stories that make up A Down Home Meal for These Difficult Times, the emotional stakes are high....these sharp, humane, beautiful portraits are a gift."

--Dinaw Mengestu, Achy Obejas, and Ilan Stavans, from the judges'' citation

"Although she''s concerned with specific geographies, Hadero creates a remarkable universal resonance, exquisitely illuminating quotidian moments that could, and do, happen anywhere in the world where people long to belong.... [A] stupendous collection.... From narrative to narrative, Hadero is a wondrously agile writer."

--Terry Hong, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 Best Books of June

"Hadero''s characters face challenges including racism, crushing misunderstandings, and visits home that remind them of how much they no longer belong, if they ever did.... Their experiences may be unique, but their desires to live in peace and happiness are universal. A Down Home Meal for These Difficult Times is a heartfelt collection about the highs, lows, and ordinary of Ethiopian life."

--Eileen Gonzalez, Foreword Reviews, Starred Review

"Meron Hadero''s A Down Home Meal for These Difficult Times is an astonishing debut....If the danger faced by those who live on the anxious edge of societies, whether in Ethiopia or Germany or the United States, is not always--or even often--recognized, Hadero suggests, the signs are present long before they''re understood. In A Down Home Meal for These Difficult Times, she has crafted a profound collection that identifies this sensibility while also, in its overflow of stories, signaling the hope of a teller that a good listener will be ready to receive them."

--Anita Felicelli, Alta Journal

"It is the dignity that makes this collection a stunner."

--Lauren Francis-Sharma, San Francisco Chronicle

"The dispossessed peoples of the world are explored in Ethiopian-born Hadero''s dazzling new story collection...Each story has a lyrical power. As the author says: ''To be receptive to what the story needs, I try to step back and almost hear what the story sounds like from a reader''s point of view.'' She is definitely a writer to watch."

--Melanie Fleishman, The Center for Fiction

A down Home Meal for These Difficult Times

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Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

North Carolina

Levi Benkert was playing with his children in the park when he received an urgent phone call from a friend asking him to drop everything and fly to Ethiopia to help organize a rescue orphanage for children destined to be murdered as part of a tribal superstition known as "mingi killings." Moved by his friend's story, Levi packed his bags and left for what he thought would be a short two-week trip. But upon meeting the children, Levi knew there was no turning back. Six weeks later, Levi, his wife, Jessie, and their three young children sold their home and all their belongings and relocated to Ethiopia indefinitely. No Greater Lovedocuments Levi's journey--from the challenges he faced establishing and running the orphanage to finding adoptive homes for the children.

No Greater Love

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Nevada

A Memoir

JAMES BEARD AWARD NOMINEE • NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY VOGUE • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “One of the great culinary stories of our time.”—Dwight Garner, The New York Times It begins with a simple ritual: Every Saturday afternoon, a boy who loves to cook walks to his grandmother’s house and helps her prepare a roast chicken for dinner. The grandmother is Swedish, a retired domestic. The boy is Ethiopian and adopted, and he will grow up to become the world-renowned chef Marcus Samuelsson. This book is his love letter to food and family in all its manifestations. Yes, Chef chronicles Samuelsson’s journey, from his grandmother’s kitchen to his arrival in New York City, where his outsize talent and ambition finally come together at Aquavit, earning him a New York Times three-star rating at the age of twenty-four. But Samuelsson’s career of chasing flavors had only just begun—in the intervening years, there have been White House state dinners, career crises, reality show triumphs, and, most important, the opening of Red Rooster in Harlem. At Red Rooster, Samuelsson has fulfilled his dream of creating a truly diverse, multiracial dining room—a place where presidents rub elbows with jazz musicians, aspiring artists, and bus drivers. It is a place where an orphan from Ethiopia, raised in Sweden, living in America, can feel at home. Praise for Yes, Chef “Such an interesting life, told with touching modesty and remarkable candor.”—Ruth Reichl “Marcus Samuelsson has an incomparable story, a quiet bravery, and a lyrical and discreetly glittering style—in the kitchen and on the page. I liked this book so very, very much.”—Gabrielle Hamilton “Plenty of celebrity chefs have a compelling story to tell, but none of them can top [this] one.”—The Wall Street Journal “Elegantly written . . . Samuelsson has the flavors of many countries in his blood.”—The Boston Globe “Red Rooster’s arrival in Harlem brought with it a chef who has reinvigorated and reimagined what it means to be American. In his famed dishes, and now in this memoir, Marcus Samuelsson tells a story that reaches past racial and national divides to the foundations of family, hope, and downright good food.”—President Bill Clinton

Yes, Chef

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Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Alabama

Twin brothers born from a secret love affair between an Indian nun and a British surgeon in Addis Ababa, Marion and Shiva Stone come of age in Ethiopia, where their love for the same woman drives them apart.

Cutting for Stone

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Florida

Downfall of an Autocrat

A "sensitive, powerful ... history" (The New York Review of Books) of a man living amidst nearly unimaginable pomp and luxury while his people teetered netween hunger and starvation.

Haile Selassie, King of Kings, Elect of God, Lion of Judah, His Most Puissant Majesty and Distinguished Highness the Emperor of Ethiopia, reigned from 1930 until he was overthrown by the army in 1974. While the fighting still raged, Ryszard Kapuscinski, Poland's leading foreign correspondent, traveled to Ethiopia to seek out and interview Selassie's servants and closest associates on how the Emperor had ruled and why he fell. This is Kapuscinski's rendition of their accounts--humorous, frightening, sad, groteque.

The Emperor

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Michigan

North Dakota

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Texas

Tennessee

Two Novellas

Each of the two novellas is narrated by a young woman who is in some way betrayed by, or the betrayer of, romantic love.

The Road to the City

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Cutting for Stone 

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Minnesota

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Pennsylvania

Part autobiography, part social history, memoir of life in turbulent Ethiopia. Appears unread. Solid copy with clean pages. Mark on top page edges (see photo). Gift inscription to previous owner on ffep (see photo). DJ crisp with minimal edge wear. Glue remnant on back cover from original price label, as shown in photo. #memoir #autobiography #nonfiction #hardcover #Ethiopia #history #Africa #manhood (Shelf 3F)

An Ethiopian Boyhood

In this acclaimed memoir, Mezlekia recalls his boyhood in the arid city of Jijiga, Ethiopia, and his journey to manhood during the 1970s and 1980s. He traces his personal evolution from child to soldier - forced at the age of eighteen to join a guerrilla army. And he describes the hardships that consumed Ethiopia after the fall of Emperor Haile Selassie and the rise to power of the communist junta, in whose terror thousands of Ethiopians died. Part autobiography and part social history, Notes from the Hyena's Belly offers an unforgettable portrait of Ethiopia, and of Africa, during the defining and turbulent years of the last century.

Notes from the Hyena's Belly

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Virginia

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Arizona

Travels in Ethiopia, Sudan, Somalia, and Eritrea

Robert D. Kaplan is one of our leading international journalists, someone who can explain the most complicated and volatile regions and show why they’re relevant to our world. In Surrender or Starve, Kaplan illuminates the fault lines in the Horn of Africa, which is emerging as a crucial region for America’s ongoing war on terrorism.

Reporting from Sudan, Ethiopia, Somalia, and Eritrea, Kaplan examines the factors behind the famine that ravaged the region in the 1980s, exploring the ethnic, religious, and class conflicts that are crucial for understanding the region today. He offers a new foreword and afterword that show how the nations have developed since the famine, and why this region will only grow more important to the United States. Wielding his trademark ability to blend on-the-ground reporting and cogent analysis, Robert D. Kaplan introduces us to a fascinating part of the world, one that it would behoove all of us to know more about.

Surrender or Starve

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Vermont

Oklahoma

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Maaza Mengiste

The Shadow King

Maaza Mengiste

The Shadow King

Meron Hadero

A down Home Meal for These Difficult Times

Levi Benkert; Candy Chand

No Greater Love

Marcus Samuelsson; Veronica Chambers

Yes, Chef

Abraham Verghese

Cutting for Stone

Ryszard Kapuscinski

The Emperor

Abraham Verghese

Cutting for Stone

Abraham Verghese

Cutting for Stone

Abraham Verghese

Cutting for Stone

Abraham Verghese

Cutting for Stone

Abraham Verghese

Cutting for Stone

Natalia Ginzburg; Frances Frenaye (Translator)

The Road to the City

Abraham Verghese

Cutting for Stone

Abraham Verghese

Cutting for Stone

Abraham Verghese

Cutting for Stone

Abraham Verghese

Cutting for Stone

Nega Mezlekia

Notes from the Hyena's Belly

Abraham Verghese

Cutting for Stone

Robert D. Kaplan

Surrender or Starve

Abraham Verghese

Cutting for Stone

Abraham Verghese

Cutting for Stone

Abraham Verghese

Cutting for Stone

Maaza Mengiste

The Shadow King