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  • Great Short Stories by African-American Writers (Dover Thrift Editions)

    • UPC: 800759471393
    • ASIN: 048647139X
    • ISBN: 9780486471396
    • Brand: Blaisdell, Bob (EDT)
    • Manufacturer: Dover Publications

    Offering diverse perspectives on the black experience, this anthology of short fiction spotlights works by influential African-American authors. Nearly 30 outstanding stories include tales by W. E. B. Du Bois, Zora Neale Hurston, Claude McKay, and Jamaica Kincaid. From the turn of the twentieth century come Alice Ruth Moore's "A Carnival Jangle," C... [Read More]

  • An American Marriage (Oprah's Book Club): A Novel

    • ASIN: B01NCUXEFR
    • 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 SELECTION LONGLISTED FOR THE 2018 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION“A moving portrayal of the effects of a wrongful conviction on a young African... [Read More]

  • Black American Short Stories: A Century of the Best (American Century Series)

    • ASIN: 0374523541
    • ISBN: 0374523541
    • Brand: Hill and Wang
    • Manufacturer: Hill and Wang

    The success of John Henrik Clarke's American Negro Short Stories, first published in 1966, affirmed the vitality and importance of black fiction. Now this expanded edition of that best-selling book, with a new title, offers the reader thirty-one stories included in the original―from Charles W. Chesnutt and Paul Laurence Dunbar in the late ninetee... [Read More]

  • Children of the Night: The Best Short Stories by Black Writers, 1967 to the Present

    • ASIN: 0316599239
    • ISBN: 0316599239
    • Manufacturer: Little, Brown and Company

    In 1969, Little, Brown and Company published The Best Short Stories by Black Writers, edited by Langston Hughes - the classic compendium of African-American short fiction from 1897 to 1967. Now, a quarter of a century later, Gloria Naylor has compiled an encore volume, Children of the Night, bringing this extraordinary series up to date. Gathering ... [Read More]

  • Best American Short Stories 03 Pa (The Best American Series ®)

    • UPC: 046442197335
    • ASIN: 0618197338
    • ISBN: 9780618197330
    • Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin Company

    Since its inception in 1915, the Best American series has become the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction. For each volume, a series editor reads pieces from hundreds of periodicals, then selects between fifty and a hundred outstanding works. That selection is pared down to twenty or so very best pieces by a... [Read More]

  • The Best of Simple: Stories (American Century)

    • ASIN: 0374521336
    • ISBN: 0374521336
    • Manufacturer: Hill and Wang

    Langston Hughes's stories about Jesse B. Semple--first composed for a weekly column in the Chicago Defender and then collected in Simple Speaks His Mind, Simple Takes a Wife, and Simple Stakes a Claim--have been read and loved by hundreds of thousands of readers. In The Best of Simple, the author picked his favorites from these earlier volumes, sto... [Read More]

  • The Best American Short Stories 2006 (The Best American Series)

    • UPC: 046442543521
    • ASIN: 061854352X
    • ISBN: 061854352X
    • Manufacturer: Mariner Books

    “While a single short story may have a difficult time raising enough noise on its own to be heard over the din of civilization, short stories in bulk can have the effect of swarming bees, blocking out sound and sun and becoming the only thing you can think about,” writes Ann Patchett in her introduction to The Best American Short Stories 2006. ... [Read More]

  • Read-Aloud African-American Stories: 40 Selections from the World's Best-Loved Stories for Parent and Child to Share

    • ASIN: 1579129226
    • ISBN: 1579129226
    • Manufacturer: Black Dog & Leventhal

    A collection of legends and lore that's perfect for sharing during Black History Month or any time of the year: Read-Aloud African-American Stories brings together 40 best-loved selections, designed to be read aloud in ten minutes, including well-known stories like The Fairy Frog, songs, poems and brief biographies of heroes and leaders. Sharing th... [Read More]

  • The Best Short Stories by Black Writers, 1899-1967: The Classic Anthology

    • ASIN: 0316380318
    • ISBN: 0316380318
    • Manufacturer: Back Bay Books

    Collects short stories by African American writers such as James Baldwin, Zora Neale Hurston, Gwendolyn Brooks, Ralph Ellison, and Alice Walker

  • The Best American Short Stories 2000 (The Best American Series)

    • UPC: 046442926867
    • ASIN: 0395926866
    • ISBN: 0395926866
    • Manufacturer: Best American

  • The Alchemist

    • ASIN: B00U6SFUSS
    • Brand: HarperOne
    • Manufacturer: HarperOne

  • 100 African-Americans Who Shaped American History (100 Series)

    • ASIN: 0912517182
    • ISBN: 0912517182
    • Brand: Bluewood Books
    • Manufacturer: Bluewood Books

    Teeming with interesting nuggets of fact and information, 100 African Americans Who Shaped American History includes such legendary men and women as Benjamin Banneker, Dred Scott, Mary Church Terrell, George Washington Carver and Bessie Smith. Also included are Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, Jr., Thurgood Marshall and many, many more. Organized ch... [Read More]

  • Her Stories: African American Folktales, Fairy Tales, and True Tales (Coretta Scott King Author Award Winner)

    • ASIN: 0590473700
    • ISBN: 9780590473705
    • Brand: Blue Sky Press
    • Manufacturer: Blue Sky Press

  • Gumbo: A Celebration of African American Writing

    • ASIN: 0767910419
    • ISBN: 0767910419
    • Manufacturer: Broadway Books

    A literary rent party to benefit the Hurston/Wright Foundation of African-American fiction, with selections to savor from bestselling authors as well as talented rising stars.Not since Terry McMillan’s Breaking Ice have so many African-American writers been brought together in one volume. A stellar collection of works from more than fifty hot nam... [Read More]

  • Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"

    • ASIN: 0062748203
    • ISBN: 0062748203
    • Manufacturer: Amistad

    New York Times Bestseller • Amazon's Best History Book of the Year 201 • TIME Magazine’s Best Nonfiction Book of 2018 • New York Public Library’s Best Book of 2018 • NPR’s Book Concierge Best Book of 2018 • Economist Book of the Year • SELF.com’s Best Books of 2018 • Audible’s Best of the Year • BookRiot’... [Read More]

  • Calling the Wind: Twentieth Century African-American Short Stories

    • ASIN: 0060982012
    • ISBN: 0060982012
    • Brand: Perennial
    • Manufacturer: Perennial

    Jean Toomer, Zora Neale Hurston, Charles Wright, and more than fifty other important black authors record the experiences of African Americans from the Reconstruction to the present and demonstrate the evolution of the American short story form. Original.

  • African Proverbs, Parables And Wise Sayings

    • ASIN: 145201292X
    • ISBN: 145201292X
    • Manufacturer: AuthorHouse

    Proverbs, parables and wise sayings are life experiences.  In actual fact, these are wisdoms, truths, warnings, morals, experiences and traditional views passed down from generation to generation.

  • Doing What's Best for Bianca: Maryland Romances Short Story Series

    • ASIN: B07GPXGZH1

    Bianca Davenport and her sister had trailed behind their cousin Journie all their lives. Approaching thirty was not easy for Bianca. She needed to step out on her own. She had to make life-changing career and personal decisions that could alter her relationships with her sister Tamela and her cousin. Bianca's choice to accept financial support f... [Read More]

  • The Wedding Party

    • ASIN: B07JL42SQ6
    • Manufacturer: Berkley

    As seen on The Today Show! The new exhilarating New York Times bestselling romance from author of The Proposal, a Reese Witherspoon x Hello Sunshine Book Club Pick!   Maddie and Theo have two things in common: 1. Alexa is their best friend 2. They hate each other After an “oops, we made a mistake” night together, neither one can stop thin... [Read More]

  • Addy's Short Story Collection (American Girl)

    • ASIN: 159369122X
    • ISBN: 159369122X
    • Manufacturer: Amer Girl Pub

    Five short stories starring the African American girl Addy are followed by brief actual accounts of what life was like for African Americans after the Civil War ended.

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