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The Bean Treesby Barbara KingsolverISBN 0060158638 (0-06-015863-8)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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Bluest Eyeby Toni MorrisonISBN 0030850746 (0-03-085074-6)
Hardcover, Henry Holt & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bluest Eye'Book summary:Oprah Book Club® Selection, April 2000: Originally published in 1970, The Bluest Eye is Toni Morrison's first novel. In an afterword written more than two decades later, the author expressed her dissatisfaction with the book's language and structure: "It required a sophistication unavailable to me." Perhaps we can chalk up this verdict to modesty, or to the Nobel laureate's impossibly high standards of quality control. In any case, her debut is nothing if not sophisticated, in terms of both narrative ingenuity and rhetorical sweep. It also shows the young author drawing a bead on the subjects that would dominate much of her career: racial hatred, historical memory, and the dazzling or degrading power of language itself.
Set in Lorain, Ohio, in 1941, The Bluest Eye is something of an ensemble piece. The point of view is passed like a baton from one character to the next, with Morrison's own voice functioning as a kind of gold standard throughout. The focus, though, is on an 11-year-old black girl named Pecola Breedlove, whose entire family has been given a cosmetic cross to bear:
You looked at them and wondered why they were so ugly; you looked closely and could not find the source. Then you realized that it came from conviction, their conviction. It was as though some mysterious all-knowing master had given each one a cloak of ugliness to wear, and they had each accepted it without question.... And they took the ugliness in their hands, threw it as a mantle over them, and went about the world with it.
There are far uglier things in the world than, well, ugliness, and poor Pecola is subjected to most of them. She's spat upon, ridiculed, and ultimately raped and impregnated by her own father. No wonder she yearns to be the very opposite of what she is--yearns, in other words, to be a white child, possessed of the blondest hair and the bluest eye.This vein of self-hatred is exactly what keeps Morrison's novel from devolving into a cut-and-dried scenario of victimization. She may in fact pin too much of the blame on the beauty myth: "Along with the idea of romantic love, she was introduced to another--physical beauty. Probably the most destructive ideas in the history of human thought. Both originated in envy, thrived in insecurity, and ended in disillusion." Yet the destructive power of these ideas is essentially colorblind, which gives The Bluest Eye the sort of universal reach that Morrison's imitators can only dream of. And that, combined with the novel's modulated pathos and musical, fine-grained language, makes for not merely a sophisticated debut but a permanent one. --James Marcus [via]
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Fancy Strutby Lee SmithISBN 0060139285 (0-06-013928-5)
Hardcover, Harper & Row
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A History of the Old Southby Clement EatonISBN 0023313102 (0-02-331310-2)
Hardcover, Waveland Pr Inc
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Homeplaceby Anne Rivers SiddonsISBN 0060157585 (0-06-015758-5)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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The Impending Crisis, 1848-1861by David Morris Potter, Don Edward FehrenbacherISBN 0060134038 (0-06-013403-8)
Hardcover, Harper & Row
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Impending Crisis, 1848-1861'Book summary:David M. Potter's Pulitzer Prize-winning The Impending Crisis is the definitive history of antebellum America. Potter's sweeping epic masterfully charts the chaotic forces that climaxed with the outbreak of the Civil War: westward expansion, the divisive issue of slavery, the Dred Scott decision, John Brown's uprising, the ascension of Abraham Lincoln, and the drama of Southern secession. Now available in a new edition, The Impending Crisis remains one of the most celebrated works of American historical writing.
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In Countryby Bobbie Ann MasonISBN 0060154691 (0-06-015469-1)
Hardcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'In Country'Book summary:Published to tie in with a film of the same name, this story describes the return of a war veteran from Vietnam who finds difficulty in relating to life. His relationship with the daughter of his friend, who was killed in Vietnam, is at the centre of the book. [via]
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Love Lifeby Bobbie Ann MasonISBN 006016042X (0-06-016042-X)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglassby Frederick DouglassISBN 0030554543 (0-03-055454-3)
Hardcover, Holt Rinehart & Winston
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass'Book summary:The book has no illustrations or index. Purchasers are entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Subjects: Slaves; Abolitionists; African American abolitionists; Slaves - United States; Abolitionists - United States; Douglass, Frederick; History / United States / General; Social Science / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies; Biography [via]
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Nettie's Trip Southby Ann Warren Turner, Ronald HimlerISBN 0027892409 (0-02-789240-9)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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The Origins of the Civil Rights Movement: Black Communities Organizing for Changeby Aldon D. MorrisISBN 0029221307 (0-02-922130-7)
Softcover, Free Pr
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The Past That Would Not Die.by Walter LordISBN 0060127007 (0-06-012700-7)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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Presidential Power and the Modern Presidentsby Richard E. NeustadtISBN 0029227968 (0-02-922796-8)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Presidential Power and the Modern Presidents'Book summary:Thirty years ago Richard Neustadt published "Presidential Power", which became a widely studied book on the theory and practice of presidential leadership. Presidents themselves read it and assign it to their staff for study, as did the intructors of hundreds of thousands of students of government. Now Richard Neustadt re-examines the theory of presidential power by testing it against events and decisions in the administrations of the later modern presidents who followed FDR, Truman and Eisenhower. To the original study of presidential power, Neustadt has added a series of chapters appraising the presidential styles and skills of John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, and Ronald Reagan in the light of his guiding belief that the President must consider the effect a decision will have on his prospects for the successful exercise of presidential power in the future. [via]
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Presidential Power and the Modern Presidents: The Politics of Leadership from Roosevelt to Reaganby Richard E. NeustadtISBN 002922795X (0-02-922795-X)
Hardcover, Free Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Presidential Power and the Modern Presidents: The Politics of Leadership from Roosevelt to Reagan'Book summary:Thirty years ago Richard Neustadt published "Presidential Power", which became a widely studied book on the theory and practice of presidential leadership. Presidents themselves read it and assign it to their staff for study, as did the intructors of hundreds of thousands of students of government. Now Richard Neustadt re-examines the theory of presidential power by testing it against events and decisions in the administrations of the later modern presidents who followed FDR, Truman and Eisenhower. To the original study of presidential power, Neustadt has added a series of chapters appraising the presidential styles and skills of John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, and Ronald Reagan in the light of his guiding belief that the President must consider the effect a decision will have on his prospects for the successful exercise of presidential power in the future. [via]
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Racial Matters: The Fbi's Secret File on Black America, 1960-1972by Kenneth O'ReillyISBN 0029236827 (0-02-923682-7)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Reconstruction, America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877by Eric FonerISBN 0060158514 (0-06-015851-4)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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Shiloh and Other Storiesby Bobbie Ann MasonISBN 0060150629 (0-06-015062-9)
Hardcover, Harper & Row
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Shiloh and Other Stories'Book summary:" The stories in Bobbie Ann Mason's remarkable collection read like poetic transcriptions of day-to-day life. With her keen eye and ear for late twentieth-century popular culture, Mason can render a photograph of a brightly lit supermarket or a bit of wisdom from the Donahue show. This special edition of a beloved local author's work includes a new foreword by George Ella Lyon, Kentucky writer and friend of the author.
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Six of Oneby Rita Mae BrownISBN 0060105240 (0-06-010524-0)
Hardcover, Harper & Row
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The Southby B.C. Hall, C.T. WoodISBN 0025474502 (0-02-547450-2)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Spence and Lilaby Bobbie Ann MasonISBN 0060159111 (0-06-015911-1)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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Where the Red Fern Growsby Wilson RawlsISBN 0030547741 (0-03-054774-1)
Hardcover, Holt Rinehart & Winston
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Where the Red Fern Grows'Book summary:Author Wilson Rawls spent his boyhood much like the character of this book, Billy Colman, roaming the Ozarks of northeastern Oklahoma with his bluetick hound. A straightforward, shoot-from-the-hip storyteller with a searingly honest voice, Rawls is well-loved for this powerful 1961 classic and the award-winning novel Summer of the Monkeys. In Where the Red Fern Grows, Billy and his precious coonhound pups romp relentlessly through the Ozarks, trying to "tree" the elusive raccoon. In time, the inseparable trio wins the coveted gold cup in the annual coon-hunt contest, captures the wily ghost coon, and bravely fights with a mountain lion. When the victory over the mountain lion turns to tragedy, Billy grieves, but learns the beautiful old Native American legend of the sacred red fern that grows over the graves of his dogs. This unforgettable classic belongs on every child's bookshelf. (Ages 9 and up) [via]
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