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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]

  • 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 African American Writer's Handbook: How to Get in Print and Stay in Print

    • ASIN: 0345423275
    • ISBN: 0345423275
    • Manufacturer: One World

  • African-American Voices: Writers Poster Set of 16

    • ASIN: 0756060516
    • ISBN: 0756060516
    • Brand: Teacher's Discovery
    • Size: 11 x 17 Inch
    • Manufacturer: Teacher's Discovery

    Let the voices of wisdom and experience speak to your students to inspire, motivate, and challenge. Includes quotes from contemporary and historical writers and educators : Colson Whitehead Alice Walker Nikki Giovanni Frederick Douglass Maya Angelou Langston Hughes Dorothy West Marva Collins Richard Wright Gwendolyn Brooks Mary McLeod Bethune Count... [Read More]

  • I Almost Forgot About You: A Novel

    • ASIN: 1524762318
    • ISBN: 1524762318
    • Manufacturer: Broadway Books

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The bestselling author of How Stella Got Her Groove Back and Waiting To Exhale is back with the inspiring story of a woman who shakes things up in her life to find greater meaningNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY LIBRARY JOURNALIn I Almost Forgot About You, Dr. Georgia Young's wonderful life—great friends... [Read More]

  • Perfect Peace: A Novel

    • ASIN: 0312571658
    • ISBN: 0312571658
    • Brand: Griffin
    • Manufacturer: St. Martin's Griffin

    Daniel Black's Perfect Peace is the heartbreaking portrait of a large, rural southern family's attempt to grapple with their mother's desperate decision to make her newborn son into the daughter she will never have When the seventh child of the Peace family, named Perfect, turns eight, her mother Emma Jean tells her bewildered daughter, "You was bo... [Read More]

  • Becoming

    • ASIN: B079ZYWJJ8
    • Manufacturer: Crown

    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]

  • 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]

  • 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]

  • Six Women's Slave Narratives (The Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers)

    • ASIN: 0195060830
    • ISBN: 0195060830
    • Manufacturer: Oxford University Press

    The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave (1831) was the first female slave narrative from the Americas. The Story of Mattie J.Jackson (1866) recounts a quest for personal freedom and ends with a family reunion in the North after the Civil War. The Memoir of Old Elizabeth, a Colored Woman (1863) is the tale of a 97-year-old ex-slave who becam... [Read More]

  • Diamonds and Pearl (A Diamonds Novel)

    • ASIN: 1250102618
    • ISBN: 1250102618
    • Brand: St Martin s Griffin
    • Manufacturer: St. Martin's Griffin

    From # 1 Essence best-selling Crime Novelist K'Wan comes a tale of forbidden love, high stakes murder and the robbery gone bad that set it all in motion, Diamonds and Pearl.They say that good girls like bad boys, and this was especially true for Pearl Stone. A child born of privilege to a drug baron and reputed killer known in the streets as Big St... [Read More]

  • Voices from Slavery: 100 Authentic Slave Narratives (African American)

    • UPC: 800759409129
    • ASIN: 0486409120
    • ISBN: 0486409120
    • Manufacturer: Dover Publications

    In the late 1930s, the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration embarked upon a project to interview 100 former American slaves. The result of that unique undertaking is this collection of authentic firsthand accounts documenting the lives of men and women once held in bondage in the antebellum South.In candid, often blunt narr... [Read More]

  • Are You Still Down: Standalone

    • ASIN: B07S6KBZVH
    • Manufacturer: Dream Writers Publishing Group, LLC

    “ It was all a Dream”Rashaad Wilson always dreamed of going to the NBA since he was five years old. The raw talent that he possessed only came around once in a generation. Rashaad, with the gift God gave him, had a plan to get him, his girlfriend, and his friends out the hood where the rough streets of Chicago have taken their fair share of liv... [Read More]

  • Booker T. Washington - African American Author & Leader - Classroom Poster

    • UPC: 799491507821
    • ASIN: B00AI62L7Q
    • Brand: PosterEnvy
    • Size: 12 x 18 Inch
    • Manufacturer: PosterEnvy

    Booker T. Washington - African American Author & Leader - Classroom Poster 12" x 18" Classroom Poster Printed on High Quality Paper - PosterEnvy EXCLUSIVE! That means you won't find it anywhere else!

  • I Am Enough

    • ASIN: 0062667122
    • ISBN: 0062667122
    • Brand: HarperCollins
    • Manufacturer: Balzer + Bray

    A New York Times bestseller and Goodreads Choice Awards picture book winner!This is a gorgeous, lyrical ode to loving who you are, respecting others, and being kind to one another—from Empire actor and activist Grace Byers and talented newcomer artist Keturah A. Bobo. This is the perfect gift for mothers and daughters, baby showers, and graduatio... [Read More]

  • The Woman in the Window: A Novel

    • ASIN: B06Y55Z36S
    • Manufacturer: William Morrow

  • Heritage: African American Readings for Writers (2nd Edition)

    • ASIN: 0130141224
    • ISBN: 0130141224
    • Manufacturer: Pearson

    Unique in its perspective and range, this anthology uses diverse essays, short stories, poems and plays by and about African Americans to stimulate critical reading, thinking, discussion, and writing. It first provides a comprehensive process-oriented writing guide, and then offers a diverse collection of readings that provide models and reflect... [Read More]

  • Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood

    • ASIN: B01DHWACVY
    • 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 • N... [Read More]

  • Out of the Depths, Or, the Triumph of the Cross (AFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMEN WRITERS, 1910-1940)

    • ASIN: 0783814259
    • ISBN: 0783814259
    • Manufacturer: G K Hall

    African-American Women Writers, 1910-1940 seriesHenry Louis Gates, Jr., General EditorThe past decade has seen the increasing popularity of African-American women writers, from Alice Walker, to the Delany sisters, to Nobel Prize winner Toni Morrison. Although African-American women have been publishing their work since at least 1733, when Phyllis W... [Read More]

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