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Exploring Diverse Authors

Discover a vibrant collection of literary voices on our Diverse Authors at Diverse Reads Bookstore. Immerse yourself in narratives that celebrate cultural richness, perspectives, and experiences from around the world. From thought-provoking essays to captivating fiction, our curated selection highlights the power of diversity in storytelling. Explore the works of talented authors who amplify underrepresented voices and expand your reading horizons with us.
  • Afraid Of The Christmas Lights: An eclectic mix of festive shorts with all profits going to support domestic abuse survivors

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    All profits from the sale of this anthology will be donated to frontline domestic abuse charitiesIT WOULDN'T BE CHRISTMAS WITHOUT A LITTLE CRIME......

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  • Interesting Women

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    From the acclaimed author of Red Island House, Andrea Lee's brilliant, outrageous collection of short stories confronts identity, desire, colliding...

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  • Look for Me and I'll Be Gone: Stories

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    *A Wall Street Journal Top 10 Best Book of the Year* From John Edgar Wideman, a modern "master of language" (The New York Times Book Review), comes...

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  • Fifty Famous People: A Book of Short Stories

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    Offers stories about real persons who actually lived and performed their parts in the great drama of the world's history. Some of these persons wer...

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  • The Goth House Experiment

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    An uncanny and electric story collection from SJ Sindu, Lambda Literary finalist and Publishing Triangle Edmund White Debut Fiction Award-winning a...

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  • Fifty Famous Stories Retold

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    There are numerous time-honored stories which have become so incorporated into the literature and thought of our race that a knowledge of them is a...

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  • The Short Fiction of Nella Larsen

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    Nella Larsen was an important writer associated with the Harlem Renaissance. While she was not prolific her work was powerful and critically acclai...

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  • Spunk & Sweat - Two Short Stories;Including the Introductory Essay 'A Brief History of the Harlem Renaissance'

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    From the prolific Harlem Renaissance writer Zora Neale Hurston, 'Spunk' and 'Sweat' are thought-provoking short stories set in the heart of African...

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  • Sweat - A Short Story;Including the Introductory Essay 'A Brief History of the Harlem Renaissance'

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    'Sweat' is an early feminist short story by Harlem Renaissance writer, Zora Neale Hurston. This pocket-sized tale presents the contrasting lives of...

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  • Spunk - A Short Story;Including the Introductory Essay 'A Brief History of the Harlem Renaissance'

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    Harlem Renaissance writer Zora Neale Hurston explores a battle between physical and moral strength in this pocket-sized short story, 'Spunk'. Set i...

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  • The Selected Short Stories of Paul Laurence Dunbar: With Illustrations by E. W. Kemble

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    Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906) was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet during the start of the 20th century. Born to ex-slave pare...

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  • The Short Fiction of Nella Larsen

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    Nella Larsen was an important writer associated with the Harlem Renaissance. While she was not prolific her work was powerful and critically acclai...

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  • Cane

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    A series of vignettes exploring African American life as it relates to social, political and family dynamics. For many, Cane is considered a litera...

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  • Cane

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    A series of vignettes exploring African American life as it relates to social, political and family dynamics. For many, Cane is considered a litera...

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  • American Histories: Stories

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    "A powerful assemblage of short stories exploring late-in-life angst through personal myth, cultural memory, and riffs on an empire scorched by its...

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  • The Conjure Woman and Other Conjure Tales

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    The stories in The Conjure Woman were Charles W. Chesnutt's first great literary success, and since their initial publication in 1899 they have com...

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  • Difficult Women

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    A national bestseller from the "prolific and exceptionally insightful" (Globe and Mail) Roxane Gay, Difficult Women is a collection of stories of r...

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  • Six Easy Pieces: Easy Rawlins Stories

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    A collection of seven stories from bestselling and award-winning mystery writer Walter Mosley come together in a single trade paperback volume. Now...

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  • You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down

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    A natural evolution from the earlier, much-acclaimed collection In Love & Trouble, these fourteen provocative and often humorous stories show w...

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  • Go Gator and Muddy the Water: Writings

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    When Pamala Bordelon was researching a work on the Florida Federal Writers Project, she discovered writings in the collection that were unmistakabl...

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  • How Long 'Til Black Future Month?: Stories

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    Three-time Hugo Award winner and NYT bestselling author N. K. Jemisin challenges and delights readers with thought-provoking narratives of destruct...

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  • Specimen Days

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    In each section of Michael Cunningham's bold new novel, his first since The Hours, we encounter the same group of characters: a young boy, a man, a...

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  • The Power of Sympathy and the Coquette

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    Written in epistolary form and drawn from actual events, Brown's The Power of Sympathy (1789) and Foster's The Coquette (1797) were two of the earl...

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  • Let the Dead Bury Their Dead: And Other Stories

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    Product DetailsISBN-13: 9780063325258 Media Type: Paperback Publication Date: 08-22-2023 Pages: 336 Product Dimensions: 7.99h x 5.40w x 0.80d