Top 10 Best African Authors and Writers
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Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
- ASIN: 0399588191
- ISBN: 0399588191
- Manufacturer: Spiegel & Grau
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The compelling, inspiring, and comically sublime story of one man’s coming-of-age, set during the twilight of apartheid and the tumultuous days of freedom that followedNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Michiko Kakutani, New York Times • USA Today • San Francisco Chronicle • NPR • Esquire • Ne... [Read More]
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The Water Dancer (Oprah's Book Club): A Novel
- ASIN: B07NKMZT7T
- Manufacturer: One World
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Careful of the Company You Keep
- ASIN: 075821748X
- ISBN: 075821748X
- Brand: Brand: Kensington Books
- Manufacturer: Dafina
From the acclaimed author of Trouble Loves Company comes a smart, sexy, heartfelt new novel about friendship, love, lust--and a whole lot of trouble in between. After finding her husband in a compromising position, romance author Renee Moore goes back to her hometown, hoping to start over. But once again, she finds herself looking for love in all ... [Read More]
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Black Like Me
- ASIN: 0451234219
- ISBN: 0451234219
- Brand: Mass Market Paperback
- Manufacturer: Berkley
THE HISTORY-MAKING CLASSIC ABOUT CROSSING THE COLOR LINE IN AMERICA'S SEGREGATED SOUTH“One of the deepest, most penetrating documents yet set down on the racial question.”—Atlanta Journal & Constitution In the Deep South of the 1950’s, a color line was etched in blood across Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia. Journalist John H... [Read More]
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Listening with My Heart: A story of kindness and self-compassion
- ASIN: 0998958034
- ISBN: 0998958034
- Manufacturer: Skinned Knee Publishing
Kindness matters! Especially to ourselves.We talk to kids a lot about how to be friends to others. Not much about how to be friends to themselves. Yet, positive self-talk and self-acceptance help build emotional resilience, happiness and well-being.Along with Esperanza, your child can learn the importance of being a friend to themselves!Listening... [Read More]
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An American Marriage (Oprah's Book Club): A Novel
- ASIN: 1616208686
- ISBN: 1616208686
- Brand: Algonquin Books
- Manufacturer: Algonquin Books
A NEW YORK TIMES AND WASHINGTON POST NOTABLE BOOK A 2018 BEST OF THE YEAR SELECTION OF NPR * TIME * BUSTLE * O, THE OPRAH MAGAZINE * THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS * AMAZON.COM OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB 2018 SELECTIONWINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTIONWINNER OF THE 2019 ASPEN WORDS LITERARY PRIZE WINNER OF THE 2019 NAACP IMAGE AWARD FOR OUTSTA... [Read More]
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Becoming
- ASIN: 1524763136
- ISBN: 1524763136
- Brand: WaterBrook Press
- Manufacturer: Crown Publishing Group
An intimate, powerful, and inspiring memoir by the former First Lady of the United States #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK • NAACP IMAGE AWARD WINNER In a life filled with meaning and accomplishment, Michelle Obama has emerged as one of the most iconic and compelling women of our era. As First Lady of the United Stat... [Read More]
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A Long Walk to Water: Based on a True Story
- ASIN: 0547577311
- ISBN: 0547577311
- Brand: Clarion Books
- Manufacturer: HMH Books for Young Readers
The New York Times bestseller A Long Walk to Water begins as two stories, told in alternating sections, about two eleven-year-olds in Sudan, a girl in 2008 and a boy in 1985. The girl, Nya, is fetching water from a pond that is two hours’ walk from her home: she makes two trips to the pond every day. The boy, Salva, becomes one of the "lost boys"... [Read More]
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It's Trevor Noah: Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Adapted for Young Readers)
- ASIN: 0525582169
- ISBN: 0525582169
- Manufacturer: Delacorte Books for Young Readers
A New York Times BestsellerThe host of The Daily Show, Trevor Noah, tells the story of growing up half black, half white in South Africa under and after apartheid in this young readers' adaptation of his bestselling adult memoir Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood.BORN A CRIME IS SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING OSCAR WIN... [Read More]
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Nelson Mandela's Favorite African Folktales
- ASIN: 0393329909
- ISBN: 0393329909
- Brand: Mandela, Nelson
- Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company
A cause for celebration, and a landmark work that gathers in one volume many of Africa's most cherished folktales. In these beloved stories we meet a Kenyan lion named Simba, a snake with seven heads, and tricksters from Zulu folklore; we hear the voices of the scheming hyena, and we learn from a Khoi fable how animals acquired their tails and horn... [Read More]
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The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
- ASIN: 0679763880
- ISBN: 9780679763888
- Brand: Vintage Books
- Manufacturer: Vintage
In this epic, beautifully written masterwork, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Isabel Wilkerson chronicles one of the great untold stories of American history: the decades-long migration of black citizens who fled the South for northern and western cities, in search of a better life.NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNERLYNTON HISTORY PRIZE WINNE... [Read More]
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Defining Moments in Black History: Reading Between the Lies
- ASIN: 0062448714
- ISBN: 0062448714
- Manufacturer: Amistad
Dick Gregory has been an unsparing and incisive cultural force for more than fifty years: a friend of such luminaries as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Medgar Evers, Gregory is an unrelenting, lifelong activist against social injustice, whether he was marching in Selma during the Civil Rights movement or organizing student demonstrations to protest... [Read More]
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To Kill a Mockingbird (Harperperennial Modern Classics)
- ASIN: B00K0OI42W
- Manufacturer: Harper
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Kindred
- UPC: 046442083690
- ASIN: 0807083690
- ISBN: 0807083690
- Brand: Butler, Octavia E.
- Manufacturer: Beacon Press
The visionary author’s masterpiece pulls us—along with her Black female hero—through time to face the horrors of slavery and explore the impacts of racism, sexism, and white supremacy then and now.Dana, a modern black woman, is celebrating her twenty-sixth birthday with her new husband when she is snatched abruptly from her home in California... [Read More]
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Brown Girl Dreaming
- ASIN: 0147515823
- ISBN: 9780147515827
- Brand: Puffin Books
- Manufacturer: Puffin Books
Jacqueline Woodson's National Book Award and Newbery Honor winner, now available in paperback with 7 all-new poems.Jacqueline Woodson is the 2018-2019 National Ambassador for Young People’s LiteratureA President Obama "O" Book Club pickRaised in South Carolina and New York, Woodson always felt halfway home in each place. In vivid poems, she share... [Read More]
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Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
- ASIN: 081298496X
- ISBN: 9780812984965
- Brand: Spiegel Grau
- Manufacturer: Spiegel & Grau
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A powerful true story about the potential for mercy to redeem us, and a clarion call to fix our broken system of justice—from one of the most brilliant and influential lawyers of our time, as seen in the HBO documentary True Justice “[Bryan Stevenson’s] dedication to fighting for justice and equality has i... [Read More]
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Tales of the Metric System: A Novel (Modern African Writing Series)
- ASIN: 082142226X
- ISBN: 082142226X
- Manufacturer: Ohio University Press
In Tales of the Metric System, Coovadia explores a turbulent South Africa from 1970 into the present. He takes his home country’s transition from imperial to metric measurements as his catalyst, holding South Africa up and examining it from the diverse perspectives of his many characters. An elite white housewife married to a radical intellectual... [Read More]
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Mustard Seed
- ASIN: 1542045568
- ISBN: 1542045568
- Manufacturer: Lake Union Publishing
The bestselling author of Yellow Crocus returns with a haunting and tender story of three women returning to the plantation they once called home.Oberlin, Ohio, 1868. Lisbeth Johnson was born into privilege in the antebellum South. Jordan Freedman was born a slave to Mattie, Lisbeth’s beloved nurse. The women have an unlikely bond deeper than fri... [Read More]
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The Pecan Man
- UPC: 783324872040
- ASIN: 0615590586
- ISBN: 0615590586
- Manufacturer: The Pecan Man
The Pecan Man is a work of Southern fiction whose first chapter was the First Place winner of the 2006 CNW/FFWA Florida State Writing Competition in the Unpublished Novel category. In the summer of 1976, recently widowed and childless, Ora Lee Beckworth hires a homeless old black man to mow her lawn. The neighborhood children call him the Pee-can M... [Read More]
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Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
- ASIN: 0062300555
- ISBN: 9780062300553
- Manufacturer: Harper Paperbacks
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER, NAMED BY THE TIMES AS ONE OF "6 BOOKS TO HELP UNDERSTAND TRUMP'S WIN" AND SOON TO BE A MAJOR-MOTION PICTURE DIRECTED BY RON HOWARD "You will not read a more important book about America this year."—The Economist "A riveting book."—The Wall Street Journal"Essential reading."—David Brooks, New York TimesHillbilly ... [Read More]
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