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The Ancient Child
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /"An intriguing combination of myth, fiction, and storytelling that demonstrates the continuing power and range of Momaday's creative vision....Thes...
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Bird Girl and the Man Who Followed the Sun
PaperbackOriginal price $13.99 - Original price $13.99Original price $13.99$14.99$14.99 - $14.99Current price $14.99| /"A wonderful read. Wallis's writing is simple yet rich. . . . The story delivers a message of overcoming hardship, of being true to yourself even w...
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Memoir: Delaware County Prison
PaperbackOriginal price $14.95 - Original price $14.95Original price $14.95$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /After committing credit card fraud at a local department store, 18-year-old Reginald Hall lands an eight-month sentence at the Delaware County Pris...
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Ojibway Heritage
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Rarely accessible to the general public, Ojibway mythology is as rich in meaning, as broad, as deep, and as innately appealing as the mythologies...
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Contending Forces: A Romance Illustrative of Negro Life North and South
PaperbackOriginal price $26.99 - Original price $26.99Original price $26.99$38.99$38.99 - $38.99Current price $38.99| /The best-known work of a 19th century American black novelist, this book uses the conventions of the sentimental novel with the goal of effecting s...
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The Harris Men
PaperbackOriginal price $20.99 - Original price $20.99Original price $20.99$20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /RM Johnson's extraordinary debut is a stirring family portrait that resonates with emotion and wit, as a father faces death -- and the three sons h...
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Black Thunder: Gabriel's Revolt: Virginia, 1800
PaperbackOriginal price $22.00 - Original price $22.00Original price $22.00$30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /'Gabriel Prosser's 1800 slave revolt allowed Bontemps to warn of the rebellion that would come of poverty and racial oppression. This metaphor of r...
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The Magazine Novels of Pauline Hopkins: (Including Hagar's Daughter, Winona, and of One Blood)
PaperbackOriginal price $54.00 - Original price $54.00Original price $54.00$68.99$68.99 - $68.99Current price $68.99| /First published in May 1900, the Colored American Magazine provided a pioneering forum for black literary talent previously stifled by lack of enco...
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Black!
PaperbackOriginal price $25.00Original price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price $25.00Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /Black! brings together three short novels by Clarence Cooper, Jr., a rediscovered genius of African-American writing. "The Dark Messenger" is a sho...
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Nobody Knows My Name
PaperbackOriginal price $14.00 - Original price $14.00Original price $14.00$14.99$14.99 - $14.99Current price $14.99| /From one of the most brilliant writers and thinkers of the twentieth century comes a collection of "passionate, probing, controversial" essays (The...
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All I Need to Get by
PaperbackOriginal price $22.99Original price $22.99 - Original price $22.99Original price $22.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Crita has come a long way from her small-town Ohio roots. A successful tax accountant living in Manhattan, she finally has the independent life tha...
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Afrekete: An Anthology of Black Lesbian Writing
PaperbackOriginal price $21.00Original price $21.00 - Original price $21.00Original price $21.00Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Destined to become a classic in the tradition of the best-selling Black-Eyed Susans/Midnight Birds and Erotique Noire/ Black Erotica. Afrekete give...
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The Collected Works of Phillis Wheatley
PaperbackOriginal price $26.99 - Original price $26.99Original price $26.99$38.99$38.99 - $38.99Current price $38.99| /The past two decades have seen a dramatic resurgence of interest in black women writers, as authors such as Alice Walker and Toni Morrison have com...
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For the Love of Money: A Novel
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Tracy Ellison, the sizzling heroine of the bestselling Flyy Girl, returns in this razor-sharp sequel from acclaimed author Omar Tyree.From hard-k...
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Daddy Was a Number Runner / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $16.95 - Original price $16.95Original price $16.95$21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /This modern classic is “a tough, tender, bitter novel of a black girl struggling towards womanhood” in 1930s Harlem—with a foreword by James Bald...
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Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /In Close to the Knives, David Wojnarowicz gives us an important and timely document: a collection of creative essays -- a scathing, sexy, sublimely...
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