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Baby Brother's Bluesby Pearl CleageISBN 0345481119 (0-345-48111-9)
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Babylon Sistersby Pearl CleageISBN 0345456106 (0-345-45610-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Babylon Sisters'Book summary:Catherine Sanderson seems to have it all: a fulfilling career helping immigrant women find jobs, a lovely home, and a beautiful, intelligent daughter on her way to Smith College. What Catherine doesnt have: a father for her child and shes spent many years dodging her daughters questions about it. Now Phoebe is old enough to start poking around on her own. It doesnt help matters that the mystery man, B.J. Johnsonthe only man Catherine has ever loveddoesnt even know about Phoebe. Hes been living in Africa.
Now B.J., a renowned newspaper correspondent, is back in town and needs Catherines help cracking a story about a female slavery ring operating right on the streets of Atlanta. Catherine is eager to help B.J., despite her hearts uncertainty over meeting him again after so long, and confessing the truth to himand their daughter.
Meanwhile, Catherines hands are more than full since shes taken on a new client. Atlantas legendary Miss Mandevillea housekeeper turned tycoonis eager to have Catherine staff her housekeeping business. But why are the steely Miss Mandeville and her all-too-slick sidekick Sam so interested in Catherines connection to B.J.? What transpires is an explosive story that takes her worldnot to mention the entire city of Atlantaby storm.
From the New York Times bestselling author of What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day . . . comes another fast-paced and emotionally resonant novel, by turns warm and funny, serious and raw. Pearl Cleages ability to create a gripping story centered on strong, spirited black women and the important issues they face remains unrivaled. [via]-
Deals With the Devil: And Other Reasons to Riotby Pearl CleageISBN 0345388712 (0-345-38871-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Deals With the Devil: And Other Reasons to Riot'Book summary:Dead on, to the point, fearless. A third-generation black nationalist feminist, Pearl Cleage recognizes the pure power of telling the truth -- about African-American life and about the fate of the race in racist America. This book will incite any and all thinking people to ponder, argue, rage, reflect, and maybe even riot . . . .
"Uncompromising . . . Blistering." -- San Francisco Chronicle
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Deals With the Devil and Other Reasons to Riot: And Other Reasons to Riotby Pearl CleageISBN 0345382781 (0-345-38278-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Deals With the Devil and Other Reasons to Riot: And Other Reasons to Riot'Book summary:"Pearl Cleage breaks down for sisters all the old rules and unspoken taboos. She tells us the truths our mothers are still afraid to confront, the essential wisdom we need to stay alive. Her book mourns and rages all in one breath."
BEBE MOORE CAMPBELL
Author of YOUR BLUES AIN'T LIKE MINE
Dead-on, to the point, fearless. A third-generation black nationalist feminist, Pearl Cleage recognizes the pure power of telling the uncompromising truth--about African-American life and about the fate of the race in racist America. Whether she's writing about her--and her sisters'--defenition of good brother, or why she's so mad at Miles Davis, DEALS WITH THE DEVIL is filled with Pearl's most provactive, fascinating, and outrageous insights. [via]More editions of Deals With the Devil and Other Reasons to Riot: And Other Reasons to Riot:
I Wish I Had a Red Dressby Pearl CleageISBN 0380804883 (0-380-80488-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'I Wish I Had a Red Dress'Book summary:Joyce Mitchell was widowed far too young when her beloved husband, Mitch, died in a tragic accident five years ago. Since then she's kept her hands full and her mind and heart occupied by running The Sewing Circus, an all-girl group she founded to provide badly needed services like day care and job counseling to young women, many of whom are single mothers. More important, The Circus is a place for lively, wide-ranging, heart-to-heart discussions that will help members grow into what Joyce likes to call "twenty-first-century free women."
All in all, Joyce has a full and rich life. She has her work, her family, her friends, and her town. But there are some nights when she crawls into bed alone and has to admit that something is missing. What she doesn't have is that red dress she keeps dreaming about or a social life that would accommodate it even if she braved the mail and bought one. To further complicate matters, she may not have The Sewing Circus much longer, as the state legislature has decided not to fund the group's vital but hard-todefine work with young women who are too often regarded as problems rather than possibilities.
Feeling defeated and pessimistic, Joyce reluctantly agrees to keep a date for dinner at the home of her best friend, Sister -- a reverend like no other-and finds not only a perfect meal but a tall, dark stranger named Nate Anderson. Nate has just joined the administration at the high school and his unexpected presence in Idlewild touches a chord in Joyce that she thought her heart had forgotten how to play. Nate feels the same immediate connection, but both have enough experience with broken hearts to take it real slow. Besides, they've got too much work to do to concentrate on falling in love....
But life moves at its own pace, and as Sister says, "if you want to make God laugh, make plans." Particularly when it comes to matters of the heart. Joyce decides the trick is to stay focused and to remember that nothing is as sexy as the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, especially if you tell it while you're wearing a perfect red dress.... [via]More editions of I Wish I Had a Red Dress:
- I Wish I Had a Red Dress: ISBN 0732275776 (0-7322-7577-6)
Softcover, HarperCollins Publishers - I Wish I Had a Red Dress: ISBN 0732273315 (0-7322-7331-5)
Softcover, HarperCollins Publishers Australia - I Wish I Had a Red Dress: ISBN 0380977338 (0-380-97733-8)
Hardcover, Harpercollins - I Wish I Had a Red Dress: ISBN 0380804883 (0-380-80488-3)
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- I Wish I Had a Red Dress: ISBN 0732275776 (0-7322-7577-6)
Seen It All and Done the Rest: A Novelby Pearl CleageISBN 0345481127 (0-345-48112-7)
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Some Things I Never Thought I'd Doby Pearl CleageISBN 0345456076 (0-345-45607-6)
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- Some Things I Never Thought I'd Do: ISBN 0345456084 (0-345-45608-4)
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Softcover, Ballantine Books - Some Things I Never Thought I'd Do: ISBN 0345456068 (0-345-45606-8)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group - Some Things I Never Thought I'd Do: ISBN 0345456076 (0-345-45607-6)
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- Some Things I Never Thought I'd Do: ISBN 0345456084 (0-345-45608-4)
We Speak Your Names: A Celebrationby Pearl Cleage , Zaron W. BurnettISBN 0345490274 (0-345-49027-4)
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What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Dayby Pearl CleageISBN 038079487X (0-380-79487-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day'Book summary:Oprah Book ClubŪ Selection, September 1998: What makes Pearl Cleage's novel so damned enjoyable? At first glance, after all, What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day seems pretty heavy going: HIV, suicide, sudden infant death syndrome, and drunk driving all figure prominently in the lives of narrator Ava Johnson and her older sister Joyce. It isn't long before crack addiction, domestic violence, and unwed motherhood have joined the list--so, where's the pleasure? The answer lies in the sharp and funny attitude Cleage brings to her depiction of one African American community in the troubled '90s. Ava Johnson, for example, might be HIV-positive, but she's refreshingly forthright about it: "Most of us got it from the boys. Which is, when you think about it, a pretty good argument for cutting men loose, but if I could work up a strong physical reaction to women, I would already be having sex with them. I'm not knocking it. I'm just saying I can't be a witness. Too many titties in one place to suit me."
Ada has spent the last 10 years living in Atlanta. When she discovers she's infected, she sells her hairdressing business and heads back to her childhood home of Idlewild, Michigan, to spend the summer with her recently widowed sister before moving on to San Francisco. Once there, however, she finds herself embroiled in big-city problems--drugs, violence, teen pregnancy, and an abandoned crack-addicted baby, to name just a few--in a small-town setting. Ava also meets Eddie Jefferson, a man with a past who just might change her mind about the imprudence of falling in love.
In less assured hands, such a catalog of disasters would make for maudlin, melodramatic reading indeed. But Cleage, an accomplished playwright, has a way both with characters and with language that lifts this tale above its movie-of-the-week tendencies. In Ava she has created a character who not only effortlessly carries the weight of the story but also provides entertaining commentary on African American life as she goes. Discussing the insular nature of the black community in Atlanta, she recalls, "I'd walk into a reception room and there'd be a room full of brothers, power-brokering their asses off, and I'd realize I'd seen them all naked. I'd watch them striding around, talking to each other in those phony-ass voices men use when they want to make it clear they got juice, and it was so depressing, all I'd want to do was go home and get drunk." Later, she describes the preacher's wife's hair as "pressed and hot-curled within an inch of its life.... Hardly anybody asks for that kind of hard press anymore. Sister seems to have missed the moment when we decided it was okay for the hair to move."
As the trials and tribulations pile on, the experiences of Cleage's characters prove to be universal: death, love, second chances. Ava's acerbic, smart-mouthed narrative keeps the story buoyant; by the time this endearingly imperfect heroine and her cohorts have negotiated the rocky road to a happy ending, readers will be sorry to see her go, even as they wish her well. --Alix Wilber [via]
More editions of What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day:
- What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day: ISBN 038097584X (0-380-97584-X)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Publishers - What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day: ISBN 073361065X (0-7336-1065-X)
Softcover, Hachette Livre Australia - What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day: ISBN 0752841599 (0-7528-4159-9)
Softcover, Orion Books Limited - What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day: ISBN 061312264X (0-613-12264-X)
Hardcover, Bt Bound - What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day: ISBN 038079487X (0-380-79487-X)
Softcover, Harpercollins
- What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day: ISBN 038097584X (0-380-97584-X)
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