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Acts of Faith: Daily Meditations for People of Colorby Iyanla VanzantISBN 0671864165 (0-671-86416-5)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyerby Mark Twain, Barry MoserISBN 068807510X (0-688-07510-X)
Hardcover, William Morrow & Co
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Readers will enjoy the antics of that irrepressible boy-hero, Tom, who lies to his Aunt Polly and still is forgiven, wins the heart of Becky Thatcher by getting whipped at school, gets out of whitewashing a fence by tricking his friends into doing it, and has dangerous adventures with his sidekick Huckleberry Finn but emerges unscathed.
Barry Moser's seventeen unforgettable watercolors bring Mark Twain's beloved novel to life in this deluxe gift edition that readers will want to return to again and again.
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All about Love: New Visionsby bell hooksISBN 0688168442 (0-688-16844-2)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Publishers
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All Souls' Rising : A Novelby Madison Smartt BellISBN 0679439897 (0-679-43989-7)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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American Psychoby Bret Easton EllisISBN 0679735771 (0-679-73577-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'American Psycho'Book summary:Now a major motion picture from Lion's Gate Films starring Christian Bale (Metroland), Chloe Sevigny (The Last Days of Disco), Jared Leto (My So Called Life), and Reese Witherspoon (Cruel Intentions), and directed by Mary Harron (I Shot Andy Warhol).
In American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis imaginatively explores the incomprehensible depths of madness and captures the insanity of violence in our time or any other. Patrick Bateman moves among the young and trendy in 1980s Manhattan. Young, handsome, and well educated, Bateman earns his fortune on Wall Street by day while spending his nights in ways we cannot begin to fathom. Expressing his true self through torture and murder, Bateman prefigures an apocalyptic horror that no society could bear to confront. [via]More editions of American Psycho:
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The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Manby James Weldon JohnsonISBN 0679727531 (0-679-72753-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man'Book summary:With the possible exceptions of Dr. Alain Locke and W.E.B. Du Bois, no African American excelled on as many different levels as James Weldon Johnson. Along This Way--the first autobiography by a person of color to be reviewed in The New York Times--not only chronicles his life as an educator, lawyer, diplomat, newspaper editor, lyricist, poet, essayist, and political activist but also outlines the trials and triumphs of African Americans from post-Reconstruction to the rise and fall of the Harlem Renaissance. Born in Florida in 1871 to middle-class West Indian parents, Johnson recognized the challenges and absurdities of segregated America early on. But it was his experience as a tutor to rural blacks while a student at Atlanta University that was to alter the course of his life: "It was this period that marked the beginning of psychological change from boyhood to manhood," he writes. "It was this period that marked also the beginning of my knowledge of my own people as a race."
With a rare blend of pride and humility, Johnson recounts how he, among other accomplishments, became Florida's first black lawyer in 1898, a diplomat in Venezuela and Nicaragua, and lyricist for his brother Rosamond Johnson's famous song, "Lift Every Voice and Sing." Johnson's commentary on his epochal novel, The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man, as well as writings on his works of poetry--The Creation, God's Trombones, and Fifty Years and Other Poems--is priceless. Equally important are the logical and even-tempered opinions on race that he wrote for The New York Age, which offered comprehensive critiques of Du Bois, Booker T. Washington, and Marcus Garvey, along with his analysis of the racial climate while serving as head of the NAACP. This remarkable man left a mark on the 20th century that goes beyond the boundary of race. --Eugene Holley Jr. [via]
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Bag of Bonesby Stephen KingISBN 0684853507 (0-684-85350-7)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bag of Bones'Book summary:Bag of Bones is partly inspired by Daphne du Maurier's classic Rebecca, but there's more than homage in this novel of horror and romance. Like du Maurier's Manderley, King's scary old place (on the shore of Maine's remote Dark Score Lake) is haunted by the late lady of the manor. There are many gory ghosts afoot, though: men, women, and wailing kids. The hero, a thriller novelist, stirs up hell's plenty of angry shades while investigating his wife's death. It turns out she either had a dark secret herself or was onto some dread scandal lurking in Dark Score Lake. As in King's previous book, Wizard and Glass, the fabric of reality is thin, and nosy narrators are in peril of plunging right out of this world and into a rather hostile otherworld.
Bag of Bones is a writer-haunted book, too. The spirits of Herman Melville and Ray Bradbury are deeply felt, and so are the tale's two romances (the hero muses on his marriage and falls for a young single mom with a marvelous, psychic daughter). There is also good-humored satire of the real bestseller book world--the hero complains that "the publicity process is like going to a sushi bar where you're the sushi." In its deep concerns with love, sprawling families, the writer's life, endangered children, and good old-fashioned storytelling, the book resembles a John Irving novel. It is also absolutely classic Stephen King, packed with nifty turns of phrase, irreverent wit, and lurid ghouls who grab you from beneath the bed while you cower under the covers. --Tim Appelo [via]
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Bailey's Cafeby Gloria NaylorISBN 0679748210 (0-679-74821-0)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bailey's Cafe'Book summary:Set in a diner where the food isn't very good and the ambience veers between heaven and hell, this bestselling novel from the author of Mama Day and The Women of Brewster Place is a feast for the senses and the spirit. "A virtuoso orchestration of survival, suffering, courage and humor."--New York Times Book Review. [via]
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Before Color Prejudice: The Ancient View of Blacksby Frank M. SnowdenISBN 0674063813 (0-674-06381-3)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Before Color Prejudice: The Ancient View of Blacks'Book summary:Further developing the themes he so eloquently outlines in Blacks in Antiquity, Frank M. Snowden Jr. continues his investigations into attitudes towards Africans in the classical civilizations of Rome and Greece. Snowden identifies the African blacks from Egypt, Nubia (the modern Sudan), Ethiopia, and Carthage (Tunisia), discussing their interactions--including intermarriage--with the Greco-Romans. (He also notes that many of the artistic representations of these people resemble present-day African Americans.) From the trade missions of the Egyptian dynasties to their conquest of the Mediterranean and ultimate downfall at the hands of the Romans, Snowden unravels a complex history of cultural exchanges that went on for several millennia in which racial prejudice was not a factor. "There was a clear-cut respect among the Mediterranean peoples for Ethiopians and their way of life," he writes, "and above all, the ancients did not stereotype blacks as primitives defective in religion and culture." --Eugene Holley Jr. [via]
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Black Iceby Lorene CaryISBN 0679737456 (0-679-73745-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Black Jacks: African American Seamen in the Age of Sailby W. Jeffrey BolsterISBN 0674076273 (0-674-07627-3)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Black Jacks: African American Seamen in the Age of Sail'Book summary:Among the more intriguing facts that this fascinating book contains is this statistic: by 1803, nearly 20 percent of seamen's jobs were filled by black men, most of them freemen. Historian Jeffrey Bolster, himself a sailor for a decade, covers the story of black sailors from Africa through mid-1800s America. Working as seamen helped blacks support families and helped facilitate communication among widely dispersed people. There were dangers--free blacks could be kidnapped and sold into slavery, and all black sailors were subject to vicious racism. Yet for all the drawbacks, sailing was a profession black men saw as "an occupation of opportunity." [via]
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Black Lies, White Lies: The Truth According to Tony Brownby Tony BrownISBN 0688151310 (0-688-15131-0)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Black Pearls: Daily Meditations, Affirmations, and Inspirations for African-Americansby Eric V. CopageISBN 0688122914 (0-688-12291-4)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Black Pearls: Daily Meditations, Affirmations, and Inspirations for African-Americans'Book summary:Eric V. Copage's Black Pearls is an extraordinary book of inspirational thoughts and practical advice for African-Americans. The 365 quotes that begin each day's entry range from African proverbs to wisdom from Oprah Winfrey, Malcolm X, Terry McMillan, Bill Cosby, Rosa Parks, Spike Lee, Marian Wright Edelman, Alice Walker, and Martin Luther King, Jr., among hundreds of other diverse and accomplished people of African descent. And each day's entry covers a new topic: Love, Anger, Pride, Dieting, Stress, Stereotypes, Power, and Success are just a few! From the daily inspirations, author Eric V. Copage suggests meditations and specific actions that will help readers boost their spirits -- and achieve their dreams.
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The Black Westby William Loren KatzISBN 0684814781 (0-684-81478-1)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Black Women in White America: A Documentary Historyby Gerda LernerISBN 0679743146 (0-679-74314-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Blacks in Antiquity: Ethiopians in the Greco-Roman Experienceby Frank M. SnowdenISBN 0674076265 (0-674-07626-5)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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Confessions of a Crap Artist-Jack Isidoreby Philip K. DickISBN 0679741143 (0-679-74114-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Destined to Witness: Growing up Black in Nazi Germanyby Hans MassaquoisISBN 0688171559 (0-688-17155-9)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Publishers
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Devil in a Blue Dressby Walter MosleyISBN 0671740504 (0-671-74050-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Devil in a Blue Dress'Book summary:Walter Mosley's Easy Rawlins has few illusions about the world--at least not about the world of a young black veteran in the late 1940s in Southern California. His stint in the Army didn't do anything to dissuade him from his belief that justice doesn't come cheap, especially for men like him. "I thought there might be some justice for a black man if he had money to grease it," Easy says. Fired from his job on the line at an aircraft plant, he's in danger of losing his home, symbol of his tenuous hold on middle class status. That's a good enough reason to accept a white man's offer to pay him for finding a beautiful, mysterious Frenchwoman named Daphne Monet, last seen in the company of a well-known gangster. Easy's search takes the reader to an L.A. few writers have shown us before--the mean streets of South Central, the after-hours joints in dirty basement clubs, the cheap hotels and furnished rooms, the places people go when they don't want to be found. Evocative of a past time, and told in a style that's reminiscent of Hammet and Chandler, yet uniquely his own, Mosley's depiction of an inherently decent man in a violent world of intrigue and corruption rang up big sales when it was published in 1990 (although the movie version, with Denzel Washington as Easy, never found the audience it deserved). The minor characters are deftly and brilliantly developed, especially Mouse, who saves Easy's life even as he draws him deeper into the mystery of Daphne Monet. Like many of Mosley's characters, Mouse makes a return appearance in the succeeding Easy Rawlins mysteries, such as A Red Death, Black Betty, and White Butterfly, every one of which is as good as Devil in a Blue Dress, his first. --Jane Adams [via]
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Disappearing Actsby Terry McMillan, Jane RosenmanISBN 0671708430 (0-671-70843-0)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Disappearing Acts'Book summary:The national bestseller that the New York Times Book Review called "a love story waiting to explode." Terry McMillan has created a tale so eloquently rich in characterization and so deeply moving that it defies any reader to put it down. [via]
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Double Snaps: For Advanced Snappers and Those Who Like the Dozens Raw... an All New Book of More Than 500 of the Funniest, Rudest, and Most Creative Snaps, Caps, and Insults for Playing the Dozensby James Percelay, Monteria Ivey, Stephen Dweck, Geneva SmithermanISBN 0688140114 (0-688-14011-4)
Softcover, HarperCollins Publishers
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Double Snaps: For Advanced Snappers and Those Who Like the Dozens Raw... an All New Book of More Than 500 of the Funniest, Rudest, and Most Creative Snaps, Caps, and Insults for Playing the Dozens'Book summary:Double Warning. Even more explicit snaps than in the first book. Definately not for the easily offended. Your mother is so hairy, you could sell her as a Chia Pet.
Your father is so stupid, he saw a sign that said wet floor, so he took a piss.
Your sister is so nasty, she has more clap than an auditorium.
Your mother is so fat, she can do the wave by herself.
Your mother is so fat, when she goes to the beach kids yell, "Free Willy! Free Willy!"
You're so ugly, your parents rent out your baby videos for horror films.
You're so White, you think Malcolm X's name is Malcolm the tenth.
Your mother's breath is so bad, she sucks on Odor-Eaters.
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Dreamerby Charles JohnsonISBN 0684854430 (0-684-85443-0)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Dutchman and the Slave: Two Playsby Leroy JonesISBN 0688210848 (0-688-21084-8)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Faith in the Valley : Lessons for Women on the Journey to Peaceby Iyanla VanzantISBN 0684801132 (0-684-80113-2)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Faith in the Valley: Lessons for Women on the Journey Toward Peace'Book summary:Beloved friend,
When this little book was first published many years ago, it became a beacon of light for many people who found themselves time and time again in one valley or another. Valleys are nothing new for any of us. Some of you may be in a valley right now, or, since you never know what's around the corner, you may be on the brink of tottering into yet another valley. Or maybe you've just survived a valley that you swear you'll never revisit -- but guess what? That's precisely the valley you'll probably see again. And again.
Being in a valley can be a lonely and bewildering experience. This book was written to help you feel less lonely by reminding you that you really aren't ever alone since God is always by your side, but more important, you are always by your own side. No matter how dire the situation may seem, no matter how dark and bleak the valley may be, you have all you need within you to survive the valley -- any valley. Even though you may not know how you got into the valley in the first place, you do know, deep inside yourself, how to get through and out and free. You just need a little faith in yourself and a little guidance to find that faith within yourself.
When you are at your wit's end, take this little book and let it guide you toward the ever-present but often elusive light at the end of the tunnel. Faith in the Valley is designed to help you find the light when you need it most -- when you're in that damn tunnel. When you're most confused and in the dark and clueless as to how you got there (again!) and when you're trying to figure out not just how to get out, but stay out. For good.
Faith in the Valley has helped so many through so much that we felt it only fitting to issue this lovely gift edition to acknowledge the special place it holds in many hearts. Please share it with a friend who has served as your beacon in the past, or offer it to yourself as a reminder of the strength and wisdom you possess and can offer to others.
Iyanla [via]
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The Fall of Romeby Martha SouthgateISBN 0684865009 (0-684-86500-9)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Flyboy in the Buttermilk: Essays on Contemporary Americaby Greg TateISBN 0671729659 (0-671-72965-9)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Flyy Girlby Omar TyreeISBN 0684835665 (0-684-83566-5)
Softcover, Scribner
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Flyy Girl'Book summary:From a fresh new voice with talent to burn comes this brash bitter sweet novel about Tracy Ellison, a young girl with knockout looks, slanted hazel eyes, tall hair, and attitude, as she comes of age during the hip-hop era. Motivated by the material life, Tracy, her friends, and the young men who will do anything to get next to them are plunged into a world of violence, gratuitous sex, and heartbreak. Slowly, Tracy begins to examine her life, her goals, and her sexualityas she evolves from a Flyy Girl into a woman.
A captivating tale, written with fluid narrative and contemporary dialect, Flyy Girl captures the complete feel and sounds of the streets and is destined to become an urban classic.
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The Future and Its Enemies: The Growing Conflict over Creativity, Enterprise and Progressby Virginia PostrelISBN 0684862697 (0-684-86269-7)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Future and Its Enemies: The Growing Conflict over Creativity, Enterprise and Progress'Book summary:Virginia Postrel smashes conventional political boundaries in this libertarian manifesto. World-views should be defined not by how they view the present, she says, but the future. Do they aim to control it, as many conservative reactionaries and liberal planners want to do? Or do they embrace it, even though they can't know what lies ahead? Postrel (editor of Reason magazine) firmly places herself in this latter category--the dynamists, she calls her happy tribe--and urges the rest of us to sign up. The future of economic prosperity, technological progress, and cultural innovation depends upon embracing principles of choice and competition. The downside of this philosophy, Postrel readily notes, is that it doesn't allow us to manage tomorrow by acting today. And that's exactly the point: we shouldn't want to. A future constructed by an infinite number of individual decisions, made privately, is one she believes we should encourage. The Future and Its Enemies is at once intellectually sweeping and reader-friendly; it has the potential to join a pantheon of books about freedom that includes works by Friedrich Hayek and Milton Friedman. --John J. Miller [via]
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The Future of the Raceby Cornel West, Henry Louis GatesISBN 0679763783 (0-679-76378-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The Future of the Raceby Gates, Henry Louis, Jr., Cornel WestISBN 067944405X (0-679-44405-X)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Future of the Race'Book summary:In a ground-breaking collaboration, and taking the great W.E.B. Du Bois as their model, two of our foremost African-American intellectual address the dreams, fears, aspirations, and responsibilities of the black community--especially the black elite--on the eve of the twenty-first century. [via]
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Going to Meet the Manby James BaldwinISBN 0679761799 (0-679-76179-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Going to Meet the Man'Book summary:"There's no way not to suffer. But you try all kinds of ways to keep from drowning in it." The men and women in these eight short fictions grasp this truth on an elemental level, and their stories, as told by James Baldwin, detail the ingenious and often desperate ways in which they try to keep their head above water. It may be the heroin that a down-and-out jazz pianist uses to face the terror of pouring his life into an inanimate instrument. It may be the brittle piety of a father who can never forgive his son for his illegitimacy. Or it may be the screen of bigotry that a redneck deputy has raised to blunt the awful childhood memory of the day his parents took him to watch a black man being murdered by a gleeful mob.
By turns haunting, heartbreaking, and horrifying--and informed throughout by Baldwin's uncanny knowledge of the wounds racism has left in both its victims and its perpetrators--Going to Meet the Man is a major work by one of our most important writers. [via]More editions of Going to Meet the Man:
The Good Citizen: A History of American Civic Lifeby Michael SchudsonISBN 0684827298 (0-684-82729-8)
Hardcover, Free Pr
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Henry Vby William Shakespeare, Paul Werstine, Barbara A. MowatISBN 0671722654 (0-671-72265-4)
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Hiding My Candy: The Autobiography of the Grand Empress of Savannahby Lady Chablis, Theodore BouloukosISBN 0671520946 (0-671-52094-6)
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Hiding My Candy: The Autobiography of the Grand Empress of Savannahby Theodore Bouloukos, Chablis, John Berendt, Robin BowmanISBN 0671520954 (0-671-52095-4)
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Hugo L. Black and the Dilemma of American Liberalismby Tony Freyer, Oscar HandlinISBN 0673399516 (0-673-39951-6)
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Inequality in American Society:Social Stratification: Social Stratificationby Leonard ReissmanISBN 0673059219 (0-673-05921-9)
Hardcover, Scott, Foresman
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Kaffir Boyby Mark MathabaneISBN 0684848287 (0-684-84828-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Kaffir Boy'Book summary:Kaffir Boy does for apartheid-era South Africa what Richard Wright's Black Boy did for the segregated American South. In stark prose, Mathabane describes his life growing up in a nonwhite ghetto outside Johannesburg--and how he escaped its horrors. Hard work and faith in education played key roles, and Mathabane eventually won a tennis scholarship to an American university. This is not, needless to say, an opportunity afforded to many of the poor blacks who make up most of South Africa's population. And yet Mathabane reveals their troubled world on these pages in a way that only someone who has lived this life can. [via]
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The Kidnapped Prince: The Life of Olaudah Equianoby Ann Cameron, Gates, Henry Louis, Jr., Olaudah EquianoISBN 0679856196 (0-679-85619-6)
Hardcover, Random House Children's Books
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A Lesson Before Dyingby Ernest GainesISBN 0679455612 (0-679-45561-2)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Lesson Before Dying'Book summary:Oprah Book Club® Selection, September 1997: In a small Cajun community in 1940s Louisiana, a young black man is about to go to the electric chair for murder. A white shopkeeper had died during a robbery gone bad; though the young man on trial had not been armed and had not pulled the trigger, in that time and place, there could be no doubt of the verdict or the penalty.
"I was not there, yet I was there. No, I did not go to the trial, I did not hear the verdict, because I knew all the time what it would be..." So begins Grant Wiggins, the narrator of Ernest J. Gaines's powerful exploration of race, injustice, and resistance, A Lesson Before Dying. If young Jefferson, the accused, is confined by the law to an iron-barred cell, Grant Wiggins is no less a prisoner of social convention. University educated, Grant has returned to the tiny plantation town of his youth, where the only job available to him is teaching in the small plantation church school. More than 75 years after the close of the Civil War, antebellum attitudes still prevail: African Americans go to the kitchen door when visiting whites and the two races are rigidly separated by custom and by law. Grant, trapped in a career he doesn't enjoy, eaten up by resentment at his station in life, and angered by the injustice he sees all around him, dreams of taking his girlfriend Vivian and leaving Louisiana forever. But when Jefferson is convicted and sentenced to die, his grandmother, Miss Emma, begs Grant for one last favor: to teach her grandson to die like a man.
As Grant struggles to impart a sense of pride to Jefferson before he must face his death, he learns an important lesson as well: heroism is not always expressed through action--sometimes the simple act of resisting the inevitable is enough. Populated by strong, unforgettable characters, Ernest J. Gaines's A Lesson Before Dying offers a lesson for a lifetime. [via]
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The Life of King Henry the Fifthby William ShakespeareISBN 0671727184 (0-671-72718-4)
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Losing the Race : Self-Sabotage in Black Americaby John H. McWhorterISBN 0684836696 (0-684-83669-6)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Makes Me Wanna Hollerby Nathan McCallISBN 0679740708 (0-679-74070-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Makes Me Wanna Holler'Book summary:Examining the complexities of the problems of black youths from an insider's perspective, an African-American journalist recalls his own troubled childhood, his rehabilitation while in prison, and his successful Washington Post career. Reprint. 150,000 first printing. [via]
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Makes Me Wanna Holler: A Young Black Man in Americaby Nathan McCallISBN 0679412689 (0-679-41268-9)
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Mamaby Terry McMillanISBN 0671745239 (0-671-74523-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mama'Book summary:Mildred Peacock is the touch, funny, feisty heroine of "Mama, " a survivor who'll do anything to keep her family together. In Mildred's world, men come and go as quickly as her paychecks, but her five children are her dream, her hope and her future. Not since Alice Walker's "The Color Purple" has a black woman's story been portrayed with such rich power, honesty, and love. [via]
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Mama Dayby Gloria NaylorISBN 0679721819 (0-679-72181-9)
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Master And Margaritaby Michael Glenny, Mikhail BulgakovISBN 0679410465 (0-679-41046-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'MASTER AND MARGARITA'Book summary:Surely no stranger work exists in the annals of protest literature than The Master and Margarita. Written during the Soviet crackdown of the 1930s, when Mikhail Bulgakov's works were effectively banned, it wraps its anti-Stalinist message in a complex allegory of good and evil. Or would that be the other way around? The book's chief character is Satan, who appears in the guise of a foreigner and self-proclaimed black magician named Woland. Accompanied by a talking black tomcat and a "translator" wearing a jockey's cap and cracked pince-nez, Woland wreaks havoc throughout literary Moscow. First he predicts that the head of noted editor Berlioz will be cut off; when it is, he appropriates Berlioz's apartment. (A puzzled relative receives the following telegram: "Have just been run over by streetcar at Patriarch's Ponds funeral Friday three afternoon come Berlioz.") Woland and his minions transport one bureaucrat to Yalta, make another one disappear entirely except for his suit, and frighten several others so badly that they end up in a psychiatric hospital. In fact, it seems half of Moscow shows up in the bin, demanding to be placed in a locked cell for protection.
Meanwhile, a few doors down in the hospital lives the true object of Woland's visit: the author of an unpublished novel about Pontius Pilate. This Master--as he calls himself--has been driven mad by rejection, broken not only by editors' harsh criticism of his novel but, Bulgakov suggests, by political persecution as well. Yet Pilate's story becomes a kind of parallel narrative, appearing in different forms throughout Bulgakov's novel: as a manuscript read by the Master's indefatigable love, Margarita, as a scene dreamed by the poet--and fellow lunatic--Ivan Homeless, and even as a story told by Woland himself. Since we see this narrative from so many different points of view, who is truly its author? Given that the Master's novel and this one end the same way, are they in fact the same book? These are only a few of the many questions Bulgakov provokes, in a novel that reads like a set of infinitely nested Russian dolls: inside one narrative there is another, and then another, and yet another. His devil is not only entertaining, he is necessary: "What would your good be doing if there were no evil, and what would the earth look like if shadows disappeared from it?"
Unsurprisingly--in view of its frequent, scarcely disguised references to interrogation and terror--Bulgakov's masterwork was not published until 1967, almost three decades after his death. Yet one wonders if the world was really ready for this book in the late 1930s, if, indeed, we are ready for it now. Shocking, touching, and scathingly funny, it is a novel like no other. Woland may reattach heads or produce 10-ruble notes from the air, but Bulgakov proves the true magician here. The Master and Margarita is a different book each time it is opened. --Mary Park [via]
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Master And Margaritaby Mikhail Bulgakov, Katherine Tiernan O'Connor, Diana Lewis BurginISBN 0679760806 (0-679-76080-6)
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A Midsummer Night's Dreamby William Shakespeare, Paul Werstine, Barbara A. MowatISBN 0671722794 (0-671-72279-4)
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A Midsummer Night's Dreamby Leon Garfield, Elena Prorokova, William ShakespeareISBN 0679838708 (0-679-83870-8)
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Miles: The Autobiographyby Miles DavisISBN 0671725823 (0-671-72582-3)
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Momentous Events, Vivid Memoriesby David B. PillemerISBN 0674004183 (0-674-00418-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Momentous Events, Vivid Memories'Book summary:The bombing of Pearl Harbor, the assassination of President Kennedy, the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger: every generation has unforgettable events, the shared memory of which can create fleeting intimacy among strangers. These public memories, combined with poignant personal moments--the first day of college, a baseball game with one's father, praise from a mentor--are the critical shaping events of individual lives.
Although experimental memory studies have long been part of empirical psychology, and psychotherapy has focused on repressed or traumatizing memories, relatively little attention has been paid to the inspiring, touching, amusing, or revealing moments that highlight most lives. What makes something unforgettable? How do we learn to share the significance of memories?
David Pillemer's research, brought together in this gracefully written book, extends the current study of narrative and specific memory. Drawing on a variety of evidence and methods--cognitive and developmental psychology, cross-cultural study, psychotherapy case studies, autobiographies and diaries--Pillemer elaborates on five themes: the function of memory; how children learn to construct and share personal memories; memory as a complex interactive system of image, emotion, and narrative; individual and group differences in memory function and performance; and how unique events linger in memory and influence lives. A provocative last chapter, full of striking examples, considers potential variations in memory across gender, culture, and personality. Momentous Events, Vivid Memories is itself a compelling and memorable book.
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Mufaro's Beautiful Daughtersby John SteptoeISBN 0688129358 (0-688-12935-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters'Book summary:Mufaro was a happy man. Everyone agreed that his two daughters were very beautiful. Nyasha was kind and considerate as well as beautiful, but everyone -- except Mufaro -- knew that Manyara was selfish, badtempered, and spoiled.
When the king decided to take a wife and invited "The Most Worthy and Beautiful Daughters in the Land" to appear before him, Mufaro declared proudly that only the king could choose between Nyasha and Manyara. Manyara, of course, didn't agree, and set out to make certain that she would be chosen.
John Steptoe has created a memorable modem fable of pride going before a fall, in keeping with the moral of the folktale that was his inspiration. He has illustrated it with stunning paintings that glow with the beauty, warmth, and internal vision of the land and people of his ancestors.
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Mumbo Jumboby Ishmael ReedISBN 0684824779 (0-684-82477-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mumbo Jumbo'Book summary:The Classic Freewheeling Look at Race Relations Through the Ages
Mumbo Jumbo is Ishmael Reed's brilliantly satiric deconstruction of Western civilization, a racy and uproarious commentary on our society. In it, Reed, one of our preeminent African-American authors, mixes portraits of historical figures and fictional characters with sound bites on subjects ranging from ragtime to Greek philosophy. Cited by literary critic Harold Bloom as one of the five hundred most significant books in the Western canon, Mumbo Jumbo is a trenchant and often biting look at black-white relations throughout history, from a keen observer of our culture. [via]
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My American Journey: An Autobiographyby Joseph E. Persico, Colin L. PowellISBN 0679432965 (0-679-43296-5)
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No Disrespectby SouljahISBN 0679767088 (0-679-76708-8)
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Preparing for the Twenty-First Centuryby Paul KennedyISBN 0679747052 (0-679-74705-2)
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The Promised Land: The Great Black Migration and How It Changed Americaby Nicholas LemannISBN 0679733477 (0-679-73347-7)
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Ragtimeby E.L. DoctorowISBN 0679602976 (0-679-60297-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ragtime'Book summary:Published in 1975, Ragtime changed our very concept of what a novel could be. An extraordinary tapestry, Ragtime captures the spirit of America in the era between the turn of the century and the First World War.
The story opens in 1906 in New Rochelle, New York, at the home
of an affluent American family.
One lazy Sunday afternoon, the famous escape artist Harry Houdini swerves his car into a telephone pole outside their house. And almost magically, the line between fantasy and historical fact, between real and imaginary characters, disap-
pears. Henry Ford, Emma Goldman, J. P. Morgan, Evelyn Nesbit, Sig- mund Freud, and Emiliano Zapata slip in and out of the tale, crossing paths with Doctorow's imagined family and other fictional characters, including an immigrant peddler and a ragtime musician from Harlem whose insistence on a point of justice drives him to revolutionary violence.
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Raisin in the Sunby Lorraine HansberryISBN 0679755330 (0-679-75533-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Raisin in the Sun'Book summary:"Never before, the entire history of the American theater, has so much of the truth of black people's lives been seen on the stage," observed James Baldwin shortly before A Raisin in the Sun opened on Broadway in 1959.
Indeed Lorraine Hansberry's award-winning drama about the hopes and aspirations of a struggling, working-class family living on the South Side of Chicago connected profoundly with the psyche of black America--and changed American theater forever. The play's title comes from a line in Langston Hughes's poem "Harlem," which warns that a dream deferred might "dry up/like a raisin in the sun."
"The events of every passing year add resonance to A Raisin in the Sun," said The New York Times. "It is as if history is conspiring to make the play a classic." This Modern Library edition presents the fully restored, uncut version of Hansberry's landmark work with an introduction by Robert Nemiroff. [via] 
The Real Cool Killersby Chester B. HimesISBN 0679720391 (0-679-72039-1)
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Righteous Discontent: The Women's Movement in the Black Baptist Church 1880-1920by Evelyn Brooks HigginbothamISBN 0674769783 (0-674-76978-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Righteous Discontent: The Women's Movement in the Black Baptist Church 1880-1920'Book summary:What Du Bois noted has gone largely unstudied until now. In this book, Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham gives us our first full account of the crucial role of black women in making the church a powerful institution for social and political change in the black community. Between 1880 and 1920, the black church served as the most effective vehicle by which men and women alike, pushed down by racism and poverty, regrouped and rallied against emotional and physical defeat. Focusing on the National Baptist Convention, the largest religious movement among black Americans, Higginbotham shows us how women were largely responsible for making the church a force for self-help in the black community. In her account, we see how the efforts of women enabled the church to build schools, provide food and clothing to the poor, and offer a host of social welfare services. And we observe the challenges of black women to patriarchal theology. Class, race, and gender dynamics continually interact in Higginbotham's nuanced history. She depicts the cooperation, tension, and negotiation that characterized the relationship between men and women church leaders as well as the interaction of southern black and northern white women's groups.
Higginbotham's history is at once tough-minded and engaging. It portrays the lives of individuals within this movement as lucidly as it delineates feminist thinking and racial politics. She addresses the role of black Baptist women in contesting racism and sexism through a "politics of respectability" and in demanding civil rights, voting rights, equal employment, and educational opportunities.
Righteous Discontent finally assigns women their rightful place in the story of political and social activism in the black church. It is central to an understanding of African American social and cultural life and a critical chapter in the history of religion in America.
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Selected Poemsby Rita DoveISBN 0679750800 (0-679-75080-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Selected Poems'Book summary:Here in one volume is a selection of the extraordinary poems of Rita Dove, who, as the nation's Poet Laureate from 1993 to 1995, brought poetry into the lives of millions of people. Along with a new introduction and poem, Selected Poems comprises Dove's collections The Yellow House on the Corner, which includes a group of poems devoted to the themes of slavery and freedom; Museum, intimate ruminations on home and the world; and finally, Thomas and Beulah, winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1987, a verse cycle loosely based on her grandparents' lives. Precisely yet intensely felt, resonant with the voices of ordinary people, Rita Dove's Selected Poems is marked by lyric intensity and compassionate storytelling. [via]
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Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmasby Maya AngelouISBN 0679457771 (0-679-45777-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas'Book summary:In this third self-contained volume of her autobiography, which began with I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou moves into the adult world, and the white world as well, as she marries, enters show business, and tours Europe and Africa in Porgy and Bess.
As the book opens, Maya, in order to support herself and her young son, gets a job in a record shop run by a white woman. Suspicious of almost any kindness shown her, she is particularly confused by the special attentions of a young white customer. Soon the relationship grows into love and then marriage, and Maya believes a permanent relationship is finally possible. But it is not to be, and she is again forced to look for work.
This time she finds a job as a dancer in a sleazy San Francisco bar. Her remarkable talent, however, soon brings her attention of a different kind, and before long she is singing in one of the most popular nightclubs on the coast. From there, she is called to New York to join the cast of Porgy and Bess, which is just about to begin another tour abroad.
The troupe's joyous and dramatic adventure through Italy, France, Greece, Yugoslavia, and Egypt becomes the centerpiece of Singin' and Swingin'. This remarkable portrayal of one of the most exciting and talented casts ever put together, and of the encounters between these larger-than-life personalities and audiences who had rarely seen black people before, makes a hilarious and poignant story. The excitement of the journey -- full of camaraderie, love affairs, and memorable personalities -- is dampened only by Maya's nagging guilt that she has once again abandoned the person she loves most in life, her son.
Back home, and driven close to suicide by her guilt and concern, she takes her son with her to Hawaii, where she discovers that devotion and love, in spite of forced absence, have the power to heal and sustain.
As always, Maya Angelou's writing is charged with that remarkable sense of life and love and unique celebration of the human condition that have won her such a loyal following. [via]More editions of Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas:
Snapsby James Percelay, Monteria Ivey, Stephan DweckISBN 0688128963 (0-688-12896-3)
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Songs of Zionby Verolga Nix, Jefferson ClevelandISBN 0687391202 (0-687-39120-2)
Softcover, Abingdon Pr
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Triple Snaps: The Latest Word Off the Street on the Hot Game of Snapping...an All-New Book...by James Percelay, Monteria Ivey, Stephan DweckISBN 0688145914 (0-688-14591-4)
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Two Nations: Black and White, Separate, Hostile, Unequalby Andrew HackerISBN 0684191482 (0-684-19148-2)
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Uncle Tom's Cabinby Harriet Beecher StoweISBN 0679443657 (0-679-44365-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Uncle Tom's Cabin'Book summary:Uncle Tom's Cabin is an American classic written by Harriet Beecher Stowe. Harriet Beecher Stowe was appalled by slavery, and she took one of the few options open to nineteenth-century women who wanted to affect public opinion: she wrote a novel, a huge, enthralling narrative that claimed the heart, soul, and politics of pre-Civil War Americans. An overtly moralistic work of unabashed propaganda, it is an attempt to make whites North and South see slaves as mothers, fathers, and children as human beings. Her basic question remains penetrating even today: Is man ever a creature to be trusted with wholly irresponsible power? Uncle Tom's Cabin is an American classic that every American should read. [via]
Waiting To Exhaleby Terry McMillanISBN 0671537458 (0-671-53745-8)
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The Ways of White Folksby Langston HughesISBN 0679728171 (0-679-72817-1)
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Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Nowby Maya AngelouISBN 0679427430 (0-679-42743-0)
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Las Bellas Hijas De Mufaroby Clarita Kohen, John SteptoeISBN 0688154816 (0-688-15481-6)
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