Stoner: 50th Anniversary Edition Madeline Wickham and the Valaquenta

and the Valaquenta

refusing to reveal its secrets

committed to fostering joy and love in an America so insistent on seeing Black people stumble and fall"--

The father-daughter duo are 'food detectives'

and shares the frustration and pain of the 2016 election

Stoner: 50th Anniversary Edition Madeline Wickham and the ValaquentaDiscover an American masterpiece. This unassuming story about the life of a quiet English professor has earned the admiration of readers all over the globe. William Stoner is born at the end of the nineteenth century into a dirt poor Missouri farming family. Sent to the state university to study agronomy, he instead falls in love with English literature and embraces a scholar's life, so different from the hardscrabble existence he has known. And yet