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Based on the bittersweet story of food writer Nigel Slater's childhood, this film is a delicious love letter to the tastes and smells that a young boy associates with his journey into adulthood.

It follows Aisholpan, a 13-year-old girl, as she trains to become the first female in twelve generations of her Kazakh family to become an eagle hunter, and rises to the pinnacle of a tradition that has been typically been handed down from father...

"The most revealing and subjectively penetrating assessment of Baldwin's life yet published." -- The New York Times Book Review. " The first Baldwin biography in which one can recognize the human features of this brilliant, troubled, principled,...

'A scrupulous biography' - Publishers Weekly 'Fresh, incisive, and uplifting' - Kirkus In the first major biography of Baldwin in more than a decade, Bill V. Mullen celebrates the life of the great African-American writer who created some of the...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER * The book that galvanized the nation, gave voice to the emerging civil rights movementin the 1960s--and still lights the way to understanding race in America today. * "The finest essay I've ever read." --Ta-Nehisi Coates At...