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The Adventures of Tom Sawyerby Mark TwainISBN 0140366733 (0-14-036673-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer'Book summary:The classic adventure story of boyhood escapades on the shores of the Mississippi. [via]
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All Souls' Risingby Madison Smartt BellISBN 0140259473 (0-14-025947-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'All Souls' Rising'Book summary:In his breathtaking and powerful novel that garnered nominations for both the National Book Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award, Madison Smartt Bell leaves the dark contemporary world he has so brilliantly made his own in nine previously acclaimed novels and short story collections, such as Save Me, Joe Louis. Now he turns to the past and brings viscerally to life the slave rebellion that would bring an end to the white rule of Haiti in the late eighteenth century. The result is an explosive, epic historical novel of astonishing depth and range, catapulting Bell into the ranks of the finest living authors. [via]
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Almost Innocentby Sheila BosworthISBN 0140084436 (0-14-008443-6)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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American Skinby Don De GraziaISBN 0099272520 (0-09-927252-0)
Softcover, Vintage Uk
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› Find signed collectible books: 'American Skin'Book summary:When Alex Verdi returns home from school one day to find his home surrounded by armed police, he immediately thinks of the packages of marijuana stashed in his father's desk and decides to hide. When he returns at night he discovers from the newspaper that he is sought for questioning. [via]
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And the Walls Came Tumbling Down: An Autobiographyby Ralph D. AbernathyISBN 0060919868 (0-06-091986-8)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'And the Walls Came Tumbling Down: An Autobiography'Book summary:[via]Originally published in 1989, this beautifully written autobiography of the Rev. Dr. Ralph David AbernathyMartin Luther King Jr.'s partner and eventual successornot only tells his own story but also expounds on the leaders he knew intimately, including King, Jesse Jackson, Andrew Young, and Lyndon Johnson, among others. Revealing the planning that went into major protests and the negotiations that brought them to a close, Abernathy chronicles a movement, recalling the bitter defeats they faced, the misery and deaths they suffered. Amidst these struggles, though, he celebrates the victories that integrated communities, gave economic and political power to the disenfranchised, and brought hope to people who had not dreamed of it. Throughout, Abernathy's close relationship with King is central to the storyand to the civil rights movement. In 1956, when Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus, it was Abernathy who enlisted King to join the protest. Together, they led the landmark bus boycott for 381 days, during which Abernathys house was bombed and his church dynamited. From there, the two helped found the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), and they were jailed together more than 40 times. Their protests and marches took them all over the SouthSelma, Albany, Birminghamand to Washington and Chicago as well. An unsung hero of his era, Abernathy's inspiring memoir ultimately shows how their victories, and even their setbacks, led to social and legislative changes across the entire country.More editions of And the Walls Came Tumbling Down: An Autobiography:
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Around the World in Eighty Daysby Jules VerneISBN 014036711X (0-14-036711-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Black Theology and Black Powerby James H. ConeISBN 0062548646 (0-06-254864-6)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley
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Blackface: Reflections on African-Americans and the Moviesby Nelson GeorgeISBN 0060926589 (0-06-092658-9)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold: The History of a Lesbian Communityby Elizabeth L. Kennedy, Madeline D. DavisISBN 0140235507 (0-14-023550-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group Australia
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold: The History of a Lesbian Community'Book summary:"Soars on the plain yet eloquent voices of the women...A necessary and overdue addition to the archives of lesbian and gay history."The Boston Globe. Chronicles working-class lesbians in Buffalo, New York from the 1930s through the 60s.[via]More editions of Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold: The History of a Lesbian Community:
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Brave New Worldby Aldous HuxleyISBN 0060929871 (0-06-092987-1)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Brave New World'Book summary:A fantasy of the future that sheds a blazing critical light on the present--considered to be Aldous Huxley's most enduring masterpiece.
"Mr. Huxley is eloquent in his declaration of an artist's faith in man, and it is his eloquence, bitter in attack, noble in defense, that, when one has closed the book, one remembers."
--Saturday Review of Literature"A Fantastic racy narrative, full of much excellent satire and literary horseplay."
--Forum"It is as sparkling, provocative, as brilliant, in the appropriate sense, as impressive ads the day it was published. This is in part because its prophetic voice has remained surprisingly contemporary, both in its particular forecasts and in its general tone of semiserious alarm. But it is much more because the book succeeds as a work of art...This is surely Huxley's best book."
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Burger's Daughterby Nadine GordimerISBN 0140055932 (0-14-005593-2)
Softcover, Penguin Books, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Burger's Daughter'Book summary:This is the moving story of the unforgettable Rosa Burger, a young woman from South Africa cast in the mold of a revolutionary tradition. Rosa tries to uphold her heritage handed on by martyred parents while still carving out a sense of self. Although it is wholly of today, Burger's Daughter can be compared to those 19th century Russian classics that make a certain time and place come alive, and yet stand as universal celebrations of the human spirit. Nadine Gordimer, winner of the 1991 Nobel Prize in Literature, was born and lives in South Africa.[via]More editions of Burger's Daughter:
The Chaneysville Incidentby David BradleyISBN 0060916818 (0-06-091681-8)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmithby Thomas KeneallyISBN 0140036202 (0-14-003620-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Content of Our Character: A New Vision of Race in Americaby Shelby SteeleISBN 006097415X (0-06-097415-X)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Content of Our Character: A New Vision of Race in America'Book summary:From the sight-lines of the university setting, Shelby Steele gives an account of race that is nothing if not controversial. Steele's nine essays derive their messages from personal experience dosed with broader social psychology. The value of this book, which won a 1990 National Book Critics Circle Award, lies in its introspection, rather than its distant calculation. Steele weeds the individual out of the group and argues for personal responsibility. He offers a unique look at the African-American experience and points a questioning finger at the children of affirmative action. The knee-jerk identification he observes "presupposes a deep racist reflex in American life that will forever try to limit black possibility." [via]
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Crossingsby Walt HarringtonISBN 0060924624 (0-06-092462-4)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Destined to Witness: Growing Up Black in Nazi Germanyby Hans J. MassaquoiISBN 0060959614 (0-06-095961-4)
Softcover, Perennial
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Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhoodby Rebecca WellsISBN 0060928336 (0-06-092833-6)
Softcover, HarperCollins Publishers
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood'Book summary:Wells is a Louisiana-born Seattle actress and playwright; her loopy saga of a 40-year-old player in Seattle's hot theater scene who must come to terms with her mama's past in steamy Thornton City, Louisiana, reads like a lengthy episode of Designing Women written under the influence of mint juleps and Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom!. The Ya-Yas are the wild circle of girls who swirl around the narrator Siddalee's mama, Vivi, whose vivid voice is "part Scarlett, part Katharine Hepburn, part Tallulah." The Ya-Yas broke the no-booze rule at the cotillion, skinny-dipped their way to jail in the town water tower, disrupted the Shirley Temple look-alike contest, and bonded for life because, as one says, "It's so much fun being a bad girl!"
Siddalee must repair her busted relationship with Vivi by reading a half-century's worth of letters and clippings contained in the Ya-Ya Sisterhood's packet of "Divine Secrets." It's a contrived premise, but the secrets are really fun to learn. [via]
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Dragonwingsby Laurence YepISBN 0064400859 (0-06-440085-9)
Softcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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Empire Strikes Back: Race and Racism in 70's Britainby Centre for Contemporary Cultural StudiesISBN 0091493811 (0-09-149381-1)
Softcover, Hutchinson Educational
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Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Years, 1954-1965by Juan WilliamsISBN 0140096531 (0-14-009653-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Years, 1954-1965'Book summary:Eyes on the prize traces the movement from the landmark brown v. The board of education case in 1954 to the march on selma and the passage of the voting rights act in 1965. This is a companion volume to the first part of the acclaimed pbs series [via]
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The Eyes on the Prize Civil Rights Reader: Documents, Speeches, and Firsthand Accounts from the Black Freedom Movement, 1954-1990by Clayborne Carson, David J. Garrow, Gerald Gill, Vincent Harding, Darlene Clark HineISBN 0140154035 (0-14-015403-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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Feet of Clayby Terry PratchettISBN 0061057649 (0-06-105764-9)
Softcover, Harper Prism
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Feet of Clay'Book summary:MASS/MARKET PAPERBACK,BY TERRY PRATCHETT. [via]
Freedom's Child: The Life of a Confederate General's Black Daughterby Carrie Allen McCrayISBN 0140282521 (0-14-028252-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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Gold Cadillacby Mildred D. Taylor, Michael HaysISBN 0140389636 (0-14-038963-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Gravity's Rainbowby Thomas PynchonISBN 0140106618 (0-14-010661-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gravity's Rainbow'Book summary:Tyrone Slothrop, a GI in London in 1944, has a big problem. Whenever he gets an erection, a Blitz bomb hits. Slothrop gets excited, and then (as Thomas Pynchon puts it in his sinister, insinuatingly sibilant opening sentence), "a screaming comes across the sky," heralding an angel of death, a V-2 rocket. The novel's title, Gravity's Rainbow, refers to the rocket's vapor arc, a cruel dark parody of what God sent Noah to symbolize his promise never to destroy humanity again. History has been a big trick: the plan is to switch from floods to obliterating fire from the sky.
Slothrop's father was an unwitting part of the cosmic doublecross. To provide for the boy's future Harvard education, he took cash from the mad German scientist Laszlo Jamf, who performed Pavlovian experiments on the infant Tyrone. Laszlo invented Imipolex G, a new plastic useful in rocket insulation, and conditioned Tyrone's privates to respond to its presence. Now the grown-up Tyrone helplessly senses the Imipolex G in incoming V-2s, and his military superiors are investigating him. Soon he is on the run from legions of bizarre enemies through the phantasmagoric horrors of Germany.
That's just the Imipolex G tip of the shrieking vehicle that is Pynchon's book. It's pretty much impossible to follow a standard plot; one must have faith that each manic episode is connected with the great plot to blow up the world with the ultimate rocket. There is not one story, but a proliferation of characters (Pirate Prentice, Teddy Bloat, Tantivy Mucker-Maffick, Saure Bummer, and more) and events that tantalize the reader with suggestions of vast patterns only just past our comprehension. You will enjoy Pynchon's cartoon inferno far more if you consult Steven Weisenburger's brief companion to the novel, which sorts out Pynchon's blizzard of references to science, history, high culture, and the lowest of jokes. Rest easy: there really is a simple reason why Kekulé von Stradonitz's dream about a serpent biting its tail (which solved the structure of the benzene molecule) belongs in the same novel as the comic-book-hero Plastic Man.
Pynchon doesn't want you to rest easy with solved mysteries, though. Gravity's Rainbow uses beautiful prose to induce an altered state of consciousness, a buzz. It's a trip, and it will last. --Tim Appelo [via]
Heartbreak Hotelby Anne Rivers SiddonsISBN 0061042781 (0-06-104278-1)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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Hip Hop Americaby Nelson GeorgeISBN 0140280227 (0-14-028022-7)
Softcover, Penguin Books, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hip Hop America'Book summary:Although it's been part of the cultural soundscape for over 25 years, hip-hop has been the focus of very few books. And when those books do pop up, they tend to be either overtly scholarly, as if the writer in question has just landed on some alien planet, or a bit too much like a fanzine. If there's anyone qualified to write a solid, informative, and entertaining tome on the culture, politics, and business of hip-hop, it's Nelson George. A veteran journalist, George is one of the smartest and most observant chroniclers of African American pop culture. Much as he broke down and illuminated R&B with his acclaimed book The Death of Rhythm and Blues, George now tackles hip-hop with the clarity of a reporter and the enthusiasm of a fan--which is fitting, because George is both. A Brooklyn native, he began writing about rap back in the late 1970s, when the beats and the lifestyle were not only foreign to most white folks, they were still underground in the black communities. Hip Hop America is filled with George's memories of the scene's nascent years, and it tells the story of rap both as an art form and a cultural and economic force--from the old Bronx nightclub the Fever to the age of Puffy. Highlighting both the major players and some of the forces behind the scenes, George gives rap a historical perspective without coming off as too intellectual. All of which makes Hip Hop America a worthwhile addition to any fan's collection. --Amy Linden [via]
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Hitler's Pope: The Secret History of Pius XIIby John CornwellISBN 0140296271 (0-14-029627-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hitler's Pope: The Secret History of Pius XII'Book summary:This devastating account of the ecclesiastical career of Eugenio Pacelli (1876-1958), who became Pope Pius XII in 1939, is all the more powerful because British historian John Cornwell maintains throughout a measured though strongly critical tone. After World War II, murmurs of Pacelli's callous indifference to the plight of Europe's Jews began to be heard. A noted commentator on Catholic issues, Cornwell began research for this book believing that "if his full story were told, Pius XII's pontificate would be exonerated." Instead, he emerged from the Vatican archives in a state of "moral shock," concluding that Pacelli displayed anti-Semitic tendencies early on and that his drive to promote papal absolutism inexorably led him to collaboration with fascist leaders. Cornwell convincingly depicts Cardinal Secretary of State Pacelli pursuing Vatican diplomatic goals that crippled Germany's large Catholic political party, which might otherwise have stymied Hitler's worst excesses. The author's condemnation has special force because he portrays the admittedly eccentric Pacelli not as a monster but as a symptom of a historic wrong turn in the Catholic Church. He meticulously builds his case for the painful conclusion that "Pacelli's failure to respond to the enormity of the Holocaust was more than a personal failure, it was a failure of the papal office itself and the prevailing culture of Catholicism." --Wendy Smith [via]
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The Horse and His Boyby C. S. Lewis, Pauline BaynesISBN 006440501X (0-06-440501-X)
Softcover, Zonderkidz
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Horse and His Boy'Book summary:Narnia where horses talk and hermits like company, where evil men turn into donkeys, where boys go into battle where the adventure begins. During the Golden Age of Narnia, when Peter is High King, a boy named Shasta discovers he is not the son of Arsheesh, the Calormene fisherman, and decides to run far away to the North -- to Narnia. When he is mistaken for another runaway, Shasta is led to discover who he really is and even finds his real father. Enter this enchanged world countless times in The Chronicles of Narnia. [via]
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Softcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books - The Horse And His Boy: ISBN 0061125245 (0-06-112524-5)
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House Made of Dawnby N. Scott MomadayISBN 0060931949 (0-06-093194-9)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'House Made of Dawn'Book summary:House Made of Dawn, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1969, tells the story of a young American Indian named Abel, home from a foreign war and caught between two worlds: one his father's, wedding him to the rhythm of the seasons and the harsh beauty of the land; the other of industrial America, a goading him into a compulsive cycle of dissipation and disgust.
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I Have a Dreamby King, Martin Luther, Jr., Bernice A. KingISBN 0062509470 (0-06-250947-0)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'I Have a Dream'Book summary:A gift edition of the most memorable and inspiring speech given by the century's greatest civil rights leader and orator to a troubled nation on August 28, 1963, at the Lincoln Memorial. [via]
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I Have a Dream: Writings and Speeches That Changed the Worldby King, Martin Luther, Jr., James M. Washington, Coretta Scott KingISBN 0062505521 (0-06-250552-1)
Softcover, Zondervan
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› Find signed collectible books: 'I Have a Dream: Writings and Speeches That Changed the World'Book summary:"His life informed us, his dreams sustain us yet."*
On August 28, 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. stood in front of the Lincoln Memorial looking out over thousands of troubled Americans who had gathered in the name of civil rights and uttered his now famous words, "I have a dream . . ." It was a speech that changed the course of history.
This fortieth-anniversary edition honors Martin Luther King Jr.'s courageous dream and his immeasurable contribution by presenting his most memorable words in a concise and convenient edition. As Coretta Scott King says in her foreword, "This collection includes many of what I consider to be my husband's most important writings and orations." In addition to the famed keynote address of the 1963 march on Washington, the renowned civil rights leader's most influential words included here are the "Letter from a Birmingham Jail," the essay "Pilgrimage to Nonviolence," and his last sermon, "I See the Promised Land," preached the day before he was assassinated.
Editor James M. Washington arranged the selections chronologically, providing headnotes for each selection that give a running history of the civil rights movement and related events. In his introduction, Washington assesses King's times and significance.
*From the citation of the posthumous award of the Presidential Medal of Freedom to the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., July 4, 1977
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Intruder in the Dustby William FaulknerISBN 0075536625 (0-07-553662-5)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill Ryerson, Limited
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Jingoby Terry PratchettISBN 0061059064 (0-06-105906-4)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jingo'Book summary:Something new has come up between the Discworld's ancient rival cites of Ankh-Morpork and Al-Khali.
Literally
It's up island, rising out of Discworld's sea, uninhabited and claimed by both cities.
Under International Law this situation clearly falls under the ancient doctrine of Acquiris Quodcumque Rapis ("You Get What You Grab"). And everyone wants to grab. Besides, the Al-Khalians may have invented algebra, astronomy and alcohol, but hey don't have a word for lawyer, and how can you talk to people like that?
Since there's no basis for negotiation, it's down to the long-suffering Commander Vimes of the City Watch to deal with a crime as awful that there's no law against it.
It's called war.
Ankh-Morpork has been at peace for a century, and so has Al-Khali. But now there are people on both sides who think it's time to give was a chance, and will happily help it on its way with a few murders...
Modern war needs modern weapons. Unfortunately, Ankh-Morpork got rich making and selling them to Al-Khali. But it's just possible that salvation lies in the hands of the great inventive genius Leonard of Quirm, whose sketchbooks are filled with devices for killing people, flying through the air, and weighing cheese.
Maybe it's in his boat tat travels under water--Leonard calls it a "Going Under-The-Water-Safely Device", or "metal sinking fish thing" for short. (Just because he's an inventor doesn't mean he's good at naming stuff.) But this is carrying something else--a device that so powerful that it can finish any war.
But don't be alarmed. It's fantasy. It all happens on Discworld, where greed and ignorance influence human behavior, politicians pursue was for selfish ends, and perfectly ordinary people occasionally act like raving idiots.
A world, in short, totally unlike our own. [via]
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Journey to Jo'burg: A South African Storyby Beverley Naidoo, Eric VelasquezISBN 0064402371 (0-06-440237-1)
Softcover, HarperCollins Publishers
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Journey to Jo'burg: A South African Story'Book summary:If only Mma was here, Naledi wished over and over. . . Mma lives and works in Johannesburg, far from the village thirteen-year-old Naledi and her younger brother, Tiro, call home. When their baby sister suddenly becomes very sick, Naledi and Tiro know, deep down, that only one person can save her. Bravely, alone, they set off on a journey to find Mma and bring her back. It isn't until they reach the city that they come to understand the dangers of their country, and the painful struggle for freedom and dignity that is taking place all around them. [via]
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July's Peopleby Nadine GordimerISBN 0140061401 (0-14-006140-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'July's People'Book summary:Not all whites in South Africa are outright racists. Some, like Bam and Maureen Smales in Nadine Gordimer's thrilling and powerful novel July's People, are sensitive to the plights of blacks during the apartheid state. So imagine their quandary when the blacks stage a full-scale revolution that sends the Smaleses scampering into isolation. The premise of the book is expertly crafted; it speaks much about the confusing state of affairs of South Africa and serves as the backbone for a terrific adventure. [via]
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Light in Augustby William FaulknerISBN 007553648X (0-07-553648-X)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill Education
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Light in August'Book summary:To declare that Light in August is William Faulkner's finest work would be to invoke debate of irreconcilable conclusion. Yet for many followers of Faulkner, this novel showcases many of his best moments and characters. As usual, he mines the rich soil of Mississippi mud to create his subjects, this time in the form of Reverend Gail Hightower, Lena Grove and Joe Christmas. The issue of black and white and rich and poor is prevalent, though to draw lines that clear would be a disservice to Faulkner's immensely layered text and the multicolored beauty of his writing. [via]
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Like Sisters on the Homefrontby Rita Williams-GarciaISBN 0140385614 (0-14-038561-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heavenby Sherman AlexieISBN 0060976241 (0-06-097624-1)
Softcover, HarperCollins Publishers Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven'Book summary:In this darkly comic short story collection, Sherman Alexie, a Spokane/Coeur d'Alene Indian, brilliantly weaves memory, fantasy, and stark realism to paint a complex, grimly ironic portrait of life in and around the Spokane Indian Reservation. These twenty-two interlinked tales are narrated by characters raised on humiliation and government-issue cheese, and yet are filled with passion and affection, myth and dream. There is Victor, who as a nine-year-old crawled between his unconscious parents hoping that the alcohol seeping through their skins might help him sleep, Thomas Builds-the-Fire, who tells his stories long after people stop listening, and Jimmy Many Horses, dying of cancer, who writes letters on stationary that reads "From the Death Bed of Jimmy Many Horses III," even though he actually writes then on his kitchen table. Against a backdrop of alcohol, car accidents, laughter, and basketball, Alexie depicts the distances between Indians and whites, reservation Indians and urban Indians, men and women, and mostly poetically between modern Indians and the traditions of the past. [via]
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Lord Jim: A Taleby Joseph Conrad, Robert Hampson, Cedric P. WattsISBN 0140180923 (0-14-018092-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lord Jim: A Tale'Book summary:When Lord Jim first appeared in 1900, many took Joseph Conrad to task for couching an entire novel in the form of an extended conversation--a ripping good yarn, if you like. (One critic in The Academy complained that the narrator "was telling that after-dinner story to his companions for eleven solid hours.") Conrad defended his method, insisting that people really do talk for that long, and listen as well. In fact his chatty masterwork requires no defense--it offers up not only linguistic pleasures but a timeless exploration of morality.
The eponymous Jim is a young, good-looking, genial, and naive water-clerk on the Patna, a cargo ship plying Asian waters. He is, we are told, "the kind of fellow you would, on the strength of his looks, leave in charge of the deck." He also harbors romantic fantasies of adventure and heroism--which are promptly scuttled one night when the ship collides with an obstacle and begins to sink. Acting on impulse, Jim jumps overboard and lands in a lifeboat, which happens to be bearing the unscrupulous captain and his cohorts away from the disaster. The Patna, however, manages to stay afloat. The foundering vessel is towed into port--and since the officers have strategically vanished, Jim is left to stand trial for abandoning the ship and its 800 passengers.
Stripped of his seaman's license, convinced of his own cowardice, Jim sets out on a tragic and transcendent search for redemption. This may sound like the bleakest of narratives. But Lord Jim is also touching, elevating, and often funny. Here, for example, the narrator describes the ship's captain (proving that clothes do indeed make the man):
He made me think of a trained baby elephant walking on hind-legs. He was extravagantly gorgeous too--got up in a soiled sleeping suit, bright green and deep orange vertical stripes, with a pair of ragged straw slippers on his bare feet, and somebody's cast-off pith hat, very dirty and two sizes too small for him, tied up with a manilla rope-yarn on the top of his big head. You understand a man like that hasn't a ghost of a chance when it comes to borrowing clothes.
This is formidable prose by any standard. But when you consider that Conrad was working in his third language, the sublime after-dinner story that is Lord Jim seems even more astonishing an accomplishment. --Teri Kieffer [via]More editions of Lord Jim: A Tale:
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Lure and Loathing: Essays on Race, Identity, and the Ambivalence of Assimilationby Gerald EarlyISBN 0140159371 (0-14-015937-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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The Malayan Trilogyby Anthony BurgessISBN 0140034471 (0-14-003447-1)
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A Man's World: How Real Is Male Privilege-And How High Is Its Price?by Ellis CoseISBN 0060927224 (0-06-092722-4)
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The Marrow of Traditionby Eric J. Sundquist, Charles Waddell ChesnuttISBN 0140186867 (0-14-018686-7)
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Member of the Club: Reflections on Life in a Racially Polarized Worldby Lawrence Otis GrahamISBN 0060984309 (0-06-098430-9)
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The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricciby Jonathan D. SpenceISBN 0140080988 (0-14-008098-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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Mickby Chris LynchISBN 0064471217 (0-06-447121-7)
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Move Your Shadow: South Africa, Black and Whiteby Joseph LelyveldISBN 0140093265 (0-14-009326-5)
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Mules and Menby Zora Neale Hurston, Arnold Rampersad, Franz Boas, Miguel CovarrubiasISBN 0060916486 (0-06-091648-6)
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Nazi Germany and the Jews: The Years of Persecution 1933-1939by Saul FriedlanderISBN 0060928786 (0-06-092878-6)
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One Man's Castle: Clarence Darrow in Defense of the American Dreamby Phyllis VineISBN 0060938277 (0-06-093827-7)
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Only the Ball Was Whiteby Robert PetersonISBN 0070495998 (0-07-049599-8)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill
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Our Kind of People: Inside America's Black Upper Classby Lawrence Otis GrahamISBN 0060984384 (0-06-098438-4)
Softcover, Perennial
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A People's History of the United States: 1492-Presentby Howard Zinn, Jeffrey ZinnISBN 0060926430 (0-06-092643-0)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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The Portable Harlem Renaissance Readerby David L. LewisISBN 0140170367 (0-14-017036-7)
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Prejudice and Racismby James M. JonesISBN 0070331170 (0-07-033117-0)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill Higher Education
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Privilege, Power, and Differenceby Allan G. JohnsonISBN 0072874899 (0-07-287489-9)
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A Respectable Tradeby Philippa GregoryISBN 0061094331 (0-06-109433-1)
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Righteous Gentile: The Story of Raoul Wallenberg, Missing Hero of the Holocaustby John BiermanISBN 0140246649 (0-14-024664-9)
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Road to Memphisby TaylorISBN 0140360778 (0-14-036077-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Road to Memphis'Book summary:The third novel in a series which started with Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, The Road to Memphis catches up with the Logan family in 1941. Cassie is entering her last year of high school in Jackson, Mississippi and her older brother Stacey is driving his first car. After a family trip to Memphis, a sequence of events, including pregnancy, death and the intrusions of Pearl Harbor and the second world war wreaks havoc on the family, threatening to separate them from each other, perhaps forever. Drawing upon their strength as a family and the support of their community, the Logans fight for survival, none more than Cassie, who dreams of becoming a lawyer. The Road to Memphis won the 1991 Coretta Scott King Award. [via]
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Shadow Linesby Amitav GhoshISBN 0140118357 (0-14-011835-7)
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The Shaping of Black America: The Struggles and Triumphs of African Americans, 1619-1990sby Bennett, Lerone, Jr., Charles WhiteISBN 0140175687 (0-14-017568-7)
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Sounderby William ArmstrongISBN 0060935480 (0-06-093548-0)
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The Star Fisherby Laurence YepISBN 0140360034 (0-14-036003-4)
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The Strangerby Albert CamusISBN 0075432277 (0-07-543227-7)
Hardcover, McGraw-Hill
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Strangers from a Different Shoreby Ronald TakakiISBN 0140138854 (0-14-013885-4)
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Stuck Rubber Babyby Howard CruseISBN 0060977132 (0-06-097713-2)
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Sweetbitterby Reginald GibbonsISBN 0140252428 (0-14-025242-8)
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Tarzan of the Apesby Edgar Rice BurroughsISBN 0140184643 (0-14-018464-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tarzan of the Apes'Book summary:First published in 1914, Edgar Rice Burroughs's romance has lost little of its force over the years--as film revivals and TV series well attest. Tarzan of the Apes is very much a product of its age: replete with bloodthirsty natives and a bulky, swooning American Negress, and haunted by what zoo specialists now call charismatic megafauna (great beasts snarling, roaring, and stalking, most of whom would be out of place in a real African jungle). Burroughs countervails such incorrectness, however, with some rather unattractive representations of white civilization--mutinous, murderous sailors, effete aristos, self-involved academics, and hard-hearted cowards. At Tarzan's heart rightly lies the resourceful and hunky title character, a man increasingly torn between the civil and the savage, for whom cutlery will never be less than a nightmare.
The passages in which the nut-brown boy teaches himself to read and write are masterly and among the book's improbable, imaginative best. How tempting it is to adopt the ten-year-old's term for letters--"little bugs"! And the older Tarzan's realization that civilized "men were indeed more foolish and more cruel than the beasts of the jungle," while not exactly a new notion, is nonetheless potent. The first in Burroughs's serial is most enjoyable in its resounding oddities of word and thought, including the unforgettable "When Tarzan killed he more often smiled than scowled; and smiles are the foundation of beauty." [via]
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Things Fall Apartby Chinua AchebeISBN 0072435186 (0-07-243518-6)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill College
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The Tortilla Curtainby T. C. BoyleISBN 014023828X (0-14-023828-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Tortilla Curtain'Book summary:[via]Winner of the Prix Medicis Etranger
Topanga Canyon is home to two couples on a collision course. Los Angeles liberals Delaney and Kyra Mossbacher lead an ordered sushi-and-recycling existence in a newly gated hilltop community: he a sensitive nature writer, she an obsessive realtor. Mexican illegals Candido and America Rincon desperately cling to their vision of the American Dream as they fight off starvation in a makeshift camp deep in the ravine. And from the moment a freak accident brings Candido and Delaney into intimate contact, these four and their opposing worlds gradually intersect in what becomes a tragicomedy of error and misunderstanding.
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Toward the African Revolutionby Frantz FanonISBN 0140211675 (0-14-021167-5)
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The Upstairs Roomby Johanna ReissISBN 006440370X (0-06-440370-X)
Softcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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When the German army occupied Holland, Annie de Leeuw was eight years old. Because she was Jewish, the occupation put her in grave danger-she knew that to stay alive she would have to hide. Fortunately, a Gentile family, the Oostervelds, offered to help. For two years they hid Annie and her sister, Sini, in the cramped upstairs room of their farmhouse.
Most people thought the war wouldn't last long. But for Annie and Sini -- separated from their family and confined to one tiny room -- the war seemed to go on forever.
In the part of the marketplace where flowers had been sold twice a week-tulips in the spring, roses in the summer-stood German tanks and German soldiers. Annie de Leeuw was eight years old in 1940 when the Germans attacked Holland and marched into the town of Winterswijk where she lived. Annie was ten when, because she was Jewish and in great danger of being cap-tured by the invaders, she and her sister Sini had to leave their father, mother, and older sister Rachel to go into hiding in the upstairs room of a remote farmhouse.
Johanna de Leeuw Reiss has written a remarkably fresh and moving account of her own experiences as a young girl during World War II. Like many adults she was innocent of the German plans for Jews, and she might have gone to a labor camp as scores of families did. "It won't be for long and the Germans have told us we'll be treated well," those families said. "What can happen?" They did not know, and they could not imagine.... But millions of Jews found out.
Mrs. Reiss's picture of the Oosterveld family with whom she lived, and of Annie and Sini, reflects a deep spirit of optimism, a faith in the ingenuity, backbone, and even humor with which ordinary human beings meet extraordinary challenges. In the steady, matter-of-fact, day-by-day courage they all showed lies a profound strength that transcends the horrors of the long and frightening war. Here is a memorable book, one that will be read and reread for years to come.
[via]1973 Newbery Honor Book
Notable Children's Books of 19711975 (ALA)
Best Books of 1972 (SLJ)
Outstanding Children's Books of 1972 (NYT)
1973 Jane Addams Award Honor Book
Children's Books of 1972 (Library of Congress)
The Buxtehude Bulla Prize 1976 (German Award for Outstanding Children's Book Promoting Peace)
1972 Jewish Book Council Children's Book Award
Why She Left Us: A Novelby R. RizzutoISBN 0060931825 (0-06-093182-5)
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Wickedby Gregory Maguire, Douglas SmithISBN 0060987103 (0-06-098710-3)
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The Women of Brewster Placeby Gloria NaylorISBN 014006690X (0-14-006690-X)
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YA-Yas in Bloomby Rebecca WellsISBN 0060953659 (0-06-095365-9)
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L' Etrangerby Albert Camus, Germaine Bree, Lynes, Carlos, Jr.ISBN 0135307902 (0-13-530790-2)
Softcover, Prentice Hall PTR
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