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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Maya Angelou - Random House; Reissue edition
Format: Hardcover
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Here is a book as joyous and painful, as mysterious and memorable, as childhood itself. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings captures the longing of lonely children, the brute insult of bigotry, and the wonder of words that can make... |
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The Complete Poetry
Maya Angelou - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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Throughout her illustrious career in letters, Maya Angelou gifted, healed, and inspired the world with her words. Now the beauty and spirit of those words live on in this new and complete collection of poetry that reflects and honors the writer's remarkable life. Every poetic phrase,... |
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Go Tell It on the Mountain
James Baldwin - Everyman's Library
Format: Print book
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This haunting coming-of-age story, based in part on James Baldwin's childhood in Harlem, is an American classic. Originally published in 1953, Go Tell It on the Mountain was Baldwin's first major work. With a potent combination of lyrical compassion and resonant rage, he portrays... |
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Jimmy's Blues and Other Poems
James Baldwin - Beacon Press
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All of the published poetry of James Baldwin, including six significant poems previously only available in a limited edition During his lifetime (1924–1987), James Baldwin authored seven novels, as well as several plays and essay collections, which were published to wide-spread... |
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Fledgling: A Novel
Octavia E. Butler - Seven Stories Press; First Edition edition
Format: Print book
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Fledgling, Octavia Butler's last novel, is the story of an apparently young, amnesiac girl whose alarmingly un-human needs and abilities lead her to a startling conclusion: she is in fact a genetically modified, 53-year-old vampire. Forced to discover what she can about her stolen former... |
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Kindred
Octavia E Butler
Format: Paperback
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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 and transported to the antebellum South. With more than 100,000 copies in print, Kindred is a classic timetravel novel by an acclaime |
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Some Love, Some Pain, Sometime: Stories
J California Cooper
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Whether through her stories or her legendary readings, J. California Cooper has an uncanny ability to reach out to readers like an old and dear friend. Her characters are plain-spoken and direct: simple people for whom life, despite its ever-present struggles, is always worth the |
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Countee Cullen: Collected Poems:
Countee Cullen - Library of America; 1st Edition, 1st Printing edition
Format: Book
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A major and sometimes controversial figure of the Harlem Renaissance, Countee Cullen fused a mastery of the formal lyric with a passionate engagement with themes social, religious, racial, and personal in such books as Color, Copper Sun, and The Black Christ. Certain of his poems—“Heritage,”... |
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Finding Gideon
ERIC JEROME DICKEY - Dutton
Format: Hardcover
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A professional job turns personal for jet-setting contract killer Gideon in this sexy, thrilling page-turner by New York Times bestselling author Eric Jerome Dickey. As a hit man from the time he was very young, money, women, and danger have always ruled Gideon's life; but for the first... |
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One Night
Eric Jerome Dickey - Dutton
Format: Print book
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The New York Times bestselling author checks in to the hotel of readers' dreams for an ardent romantic adventure that lasts just One Night. For one night, a couple checks in to an upscale hotel. The pair seem unlikely companions, from opposing strata of society, but their attraction... |
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Collected poems : 1974-2004
Rita Dove - W W Norton, 2016.
Format: Print book
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Three decades of powerful lyric poetry from a virtuoso of the English language in one unabridged volume.Rita Dove's Collected Poems 1974-2004 showcases the wide-ranging diversity that earned her a Pulitzer Prize, the position of U.S. poet laureate, a National Humanities Medal, and a National... |
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Sonata Mulattica: Poems
Rita Dove
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In a book-length lyric narrative inspired by history and imagination, a much celebrated poet re-creates the life of a nineteenth-century virtuoso violinist. The son of a white woman and an "African Prince," George Polgreen Bridgetower (1780-1860) travels to Vienn |
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W.E.B. Du Bois: A Reader
David L Lewis
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The essential writings of Du Bois have been selected and edited by David Levering Lewis, his Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer. |
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I Greet the Dawn: Poems by Paul Laurence Dunbar
Paul Laurence Dunbar
Format: Book
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A brief biography of the poet precedes a collection of his works, most in standard English rather than dialect, with such themes as love, hate, death, nature, and religion. |
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Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America
ANONYMOUS. - St. Martin's Press
Format: Print book
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A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITOR'S CHOICE | NAMED A BEST/MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2017 BY: The Washington Post * Bustle * Men's Journal * The Chicago Reader * StarTribune * Blavity "One of the most... |
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Invisible Man
Ralph Ellison - Vintage Books
Format: Paperback
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Invisible Man is a milestone in American literature, a book that has continued to engage readers since its appearance in 1952. A first novel by an unknown writer, it remained on the bestseller list for sixteen weeks, won the National Book Award for fiction, and established Ralph... |
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Finding Fish: A Memoir
Antwone Quenton Fisher - HarperTorch
Format: Print book
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Soon to be a major motion picture starring and directed by Denzel Washington, Finding Fish is the memoir of Antwone Fisher's miraculous journey from abandonment and abuse to liberation, manhood, and extraordinary success -- a modern-day Oliver Twist.Baby Boy Fisher -- as he was documented... |
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A Lesson Before Dying
Ernest J Gaines - Alfred A. Knopf
Format: Print book
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From the author of A Gathering of Old Men and The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman comes a deep and compassionate novel. A young man who returns to 1940s Cajun country to teach visits a black youth on death row for a crime he didn't commit. Together they come to understand the heroism... |
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The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
Ernest J. Gaines - Dial Press Trade Paperback; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback
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Miss Jane Pittman. She is one of the most unforgettable heroines in American fiction, a woman whose life has come to symbolize the struggle for freedom, dignity, and justice. Ernest J. Gaines’s now-classic novel—written as an autobiography—spans one hundred years of Miss... |
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A Raisin in the Sun
Lorraine Hansberry - Vintage; Rep Rei edition
Format: Paperback
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This groundbreaking play starred Sidney Poitier, Claudia McNeill, Ruby Dee and Diana Sands in the Broadway production which opened in 1959. Set on Chicagos South Side, the plot revolves around the divergent dreams and conflicts within three generations of the Younger family son Walter... |
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THE COMPLETE STORIES.
Zora Neale Hurston
Format: Book
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This landmark gathering of Zora Neale Hurston's short fiction - most of which appeared only in literary magazines during her lifetime - reveals the evolution of one of the most important African American writers. Spanning her career from 1921 to 1955, these stories attest to Hu |
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
Zora Neale Hurston
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Fair and long-legged, independent and articulate, Janie Crawford sets out to be her own person -- no mean feat for a black woman in the '30s. Janie's quest for identity takes her through three marriages and into a journey back to her roots. |
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To Be A Slave
Julius Lester - Puffin; Reissue edition
Format: Paperback
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What was it like to be a slave? Listen to the words and learn about the lives of countless slaves and ex-slaves, telling about their forced journey from Africa to the United States, their work in the fields and houses of their owners, and their passion for freedom. You will... |
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The Big Sea: An Autobiography
Langston Hughes
Format: Book
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Introduction by Arnold Rampersad.Langston Hughes, born in 1902, came of age early in the 1920s. In The Big Sea he recounts those memorable years in the two great playgrounds of the decade--Harlem and Paris. In Paris he was a cook and waiter in nightclubs. He knew |
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The Weary Blues
Langston Hughes - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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Nearly ninety years after its first publication, this celebratory edition of The Weary Blues reminds us of the stunning achievement of Langston Hughes, who was just twenty-four at its first appearance. Beginning with the opening "Proem" (prologue poem) - "I am a Negro: / Black... |
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Who Asked You?
Terry McMillan - Viking Adult
Format: Hardcover
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Family ties are tested and transformed in the new novel from 1 New York Times bestselling author of Waiting to Exhale and How Stella Got Her Groove BackWith her wise, wry, and poignant novels of families and friendshipsWaiting to Exhale, Getting to Happy, and A Day Late and a Dollar Short... |
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Beloved
Toni Morrison - Alfred A. Knopf; 1st edition
Format: Print book
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Toni Morrison--author of Song of Solomon and Tar Baby--is a writer of remarkable powers: her novels, brilliantly acclaimed for their passion, their dazzling language and their lyric and emotional force, combine the unassailable truths of experience and emotion with the vision of legend... |
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I Almost Forgot About You: A Novel
Terry Mcmillan - Crown
Format: Print book
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The #1 New York Times 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 meaningIn I Almost Forgot About You, Dr. Georgia Young's wonderful life--great... |
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The Bluest Eye
Toni Morrison
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The Bluest Eye, published in 1970, is the first novel written by Toni Morrison, winner of the 1993 Nobel Prize in Literature.It is the story of eleven-year-old Pecola Breedlove -- a black girl in an America whose love for its blond, blue-eyed children can devastate |
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Inside a Silver Box
Walter Mosley - Tor Books
Format: Hardcover
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Walter Mosley's talent knows no bounds. Inside a Silver Box continues to explore the cosmic questions entertainingly discussed in his Crosstown to Oblivion. From life's meaning to the nature of good and evil, Mosley takes readers on a speculative journey beyond reality.In Inside... |
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And Sometimes I Wonder About You: A Leonid McGill Mystery
Walter Mosley - Doubleday Books
Format: Hardcover
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The welcome return of Leonid McGill, Walter Mosley's NYC-based private eye, his East Coast foil to his immortal L.A.-based detective Easy Rawlins. As the Boston Globe raved, "A poignantly real character, [McGill is] not only the newest of the great fictional detectives, but also... |
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For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf
Ntozake Shange - Scribner; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback
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From its inception in California in 1974 to its highly acclaimed critical success at Joseph Papp's Public Theater and on Broadway, the Obie Award-winning for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf has excited, inspired, and transformed audiences all over... |
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What I Know for Sure: My Story of Growing Up in America
Tavis Smiley - Doubleday; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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“I Have a Dream,” Dr. King intoned. In English class, we were just starting to learn about similes and metaphors and figures of speech. Those concepts weren’t immediately clear to me as Dr. King talked about “symbolic shadow,” but …I understood the power... |
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Pecking Order: A Novel
Omar Tyree
Format: Book
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* Bestselling author: One of the most popular and acclaimed African-American novelists of his generation, Omar Tyree has had five New York Times bestsellers, in addition to numerous other national lists over the years. Pecking Order, with its perfect blend of money, sex, and vuln |
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In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose
Alice Walker
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In this, her first collection of nonfiction, Alice Walker speaks out as ablack woman, writer, mother, and feminist in thirty-six pieces rangingfrom the personal to the political. Among the contents are essays aboutother writers, accounts of the civil rights movement of |
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The Color Purple: Tenth Anniversary Editon
Alice Walker - Harcourt [u.a.]
Format: Hardcover
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The Pulitzer Prize-winning novel that tells the story of two sisters through their correspondence. With a new Preface by the author. |
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Black Prophetic Fire
Cornel West - Beacon Press
Format: Hardcover
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An unflinching look at nineteenth- and twentieth-century African American leaders and their visionary legacies In an accessible conversational format Cornel West with distinguished scholar Christa Buschendorf provides a fresh perspective on six revolutionary African American leaders Frederick... |
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Hope on a Tightrope
Cornel West - Hay House; 3 edition
Format: Paperback
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“You can’t lead the people if you don’t love the people. You can’t save the people if you don’t serve the people.” The New York Times bestselling author of Race Matters and Democracy Matters offers provocative, open-hearted wisdom for our times.... |
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Writing to Save a Life: The Louis Till File
John Edgar Wideman - Scribner
Format: Print book
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An award-winning writer traces the life of the father of iconic Civil Rights martyr Emmett Till - a man who was executed by the Army ten years before Emmett's murder. An evocative and personal exploration of individual and collective memory in America by one of the most formidable Black... |
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The Piano Lesson
August Wilson
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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for DramaWinner of the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best PlayAugust Wilson has already given the American theater such spell-binding plays about the black experience in 20th-century America as Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, |
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Fences
August Wilson - Plume; Reissue edition
Format: Paperback
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From legendary playwright August Wilson comes the powerful, stunning dramatic bestseller that won him critical acclaim, including the Tony Award for Best Play and the Pulitzer Prize.Troy Maxson is a strong man, a hard man. He has had to be to survive.... |
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Richard Wright : Early Works : Lawd Today! / Uncle Tom's Children / Native Son
Richard Wright - Library of America
Format: Print book
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The library of America is dedicated to publishing America's best and most significant writing in handsome, enduring volumes, featuring authoritative texts. Hailed as the "finest-looking, longest-lasting editions ever made" (The New Republic) , Library of America volumes make a fine... |
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Great African American literary voices
Langston Hughes
Format: Audiobook
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Hear rare recordings from five of the most-respected African American poets reading their own works: Langston Hughes, The Negro Speaks of Rivers; Arna Bontemps, Nocturne At Bethesda; Countee Cullen, Heritage; Gwendolyn Brooks, The Vacant Lot; and Sonia Sanchez, Black Magic. |
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Rosa
Nikki Giovanni
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The story of Rosa Parks and her courageous act of defiance. Provides the story of the young black woman who refused to give up her seat to a white passenger in Alabama, setting in motion all the events of the Civil Rights Movements that resulted in the end of the segregated south, |
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Ellington was not a street
Ntozake Shange
Format: Audiobook
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In this touching memoir, children's poet Ntozake Shange recalls her segregated childhood and reveals how different things were then. |
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Black Boy
Richard Wright - HarperCollins e-books; Anv edition
Format: Hardcover
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Sacred FireBlack Boy is Richard Wright's unforgettable story of growing up in the Jim Crow South. Published in 1945, it is often considered a fictionalized autobiography or an autobiographical novel because of Wright's use of fiction techniques (and possibly fictional events) to tell... |
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