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12 Years a Slave (Movie Tie-In) (Penguin Classics)
Solomon Northup - Penguin Books
Format: Paperback
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The official movie tie-in edition to the winner of the 2014 Academy Award for Best Picture, starring Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Fassbender, and Lupita Nyongo, and directed by Steve McQueen New York Times bestseller"I could not believe that I had never heard of this book. It felt as important... |
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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
Sherman Alexie - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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Bestselling author Sherman Alexie tells the story of Junior, a budding cartoonist growing up on the Spokane Indian Reservation. Determined to take his future into his own hands, Junior leaves his troubled school on the rez to attend an all-white farm town high school where the only other... |
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American Street
Ibi Zoboi - Balzer + Bray
Format: Hardcover
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American Street is an evocative and powerful coming-of-age story perfect for fans of Everything, Everything; Bone Gap; and All American Boys. In this stunning debut novel, Pushcart-nominated author Ibi Zoboi draws on her own experience as a young Haitian immigrant, infusing this lyrical... |
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The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Malcolm X - Ballantine Books
Format: Hardcover
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ONE OF TIME'S TEN MOST IMPORTANT NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURYIn the searing pages of this classic autobiography, originally published in 1964, Malcolm X, the Muslim leader, firebrand, and anti-integrationist, tells the extraordinary story of his life and the growth of the Black... |
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Barracoon: The Story of the Last Slave
ZORA NEALE HURSTON - Amistad
Format: Hardcover
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New York Times Bestseller"A profound impact on Hurston's literary legacy." - New York Times"One of the greatest writers of our time." - Toni Morrison"Zora Neale Hurston's genius has once again produced a Maestrapiece." - Alice WalkerA major literary event:... |
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Becoming
Michelle Obama - Crown Publishing Group
Format: Hardcover
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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 States of Americathe first African American to serve in that roleshe helped create the most welcoming and inclusive White House... |
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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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Between the World and Me
Ta-Nehisi Coates - Spiegel & Grau
Format: Print book
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER * NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review * The Washington Post * People * Entertainment Weekly * Vogue * Los Angeles Times * Chicago Tribune * Newsday * Vulture * Library... |
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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 all others -- who prays... |
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Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
Trevor Noah - Spiegel & Grau
Format: Paperback
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#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... |
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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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The Count of Monte Cristo
Alexandre Dumas - Everyman's Library; Everyman's Library edition
Format: Book
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This beloved novel tells the story of Edmond Dants, wrongfully imprisoned for life in the supposedly impregnable sea fortress, the Chteau dIf. After a daring escape, and after unearthing a hidden treasure revealed to him by a fellow prisoner, he devotes the rest of his life to tracking... |
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Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
Barack Obama - Crown; Reprint edition
Format: Hardcover
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Nine years before the Senate campaign that made him one of the most influential and compelling voices in American politics, Barack Obama published this lyrical, unsentimental, and powerfully affecting memoir, which became a #1 New York Times bestseller when it was reissued in 2004. Dreams... |
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Every Falling Star
SUNGJU LEE - Harry N. Abrams
Format: Paperback
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Every Falling Star, the first book to portray contemporary North Korea to a young audience, is the intense memoir of a North Korean boy named Sungju who was forced at age twelve to live on the streets and fend for himself. To survive, Sungju creates a gang and lives by thieving, fighting,... |
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Frida: Viva La Vida! Long Live Life!
Carmen T. Bernier-Grand - Amazon Children's Publishing
Format: Hardcover
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"Wearing the white huipil with the lavender tassel,hiding my amputated leg in red-leather boots,I wheel the wheelchair to the Blue House studiothat Diego so lovingly built for me.I dip the brush in blood-red paintand, embracing life with all its light,I print on a watermelon cut open—like... |
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The God of Small Things
Arundhati Roy
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"They all crossed into forbidden territory. They all tampered with the laws that lay down who should be loved and how. And how much. "The year is 1969. In the state of Kerala, on the southernmost tip of India, a skyblue Plymouth with chrome tailfins is stranded on the highway amid a Marxist... |
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The Hate U Give
A C THOMAS - Balzer + Bray
Format: Hardcover
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8 starred reviews William C. Morris Award Winner National Book Award Longlist Printz Honor Book Coretta Scott King Honor Book #1 New York Times Bestseller!"Absolutely riveting!" - Jason Reynolds"Stunning." - John Green"This story is necessary. This story... |
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Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet: A Novel
Jamie Ford - Ballantine Books
Format: Book
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"Sentimental, heartfelt ... .the exploration of Henry's changing relationship with his family and with Keiko will keep most readers turning pages...A timely debut that not only reminds readers of a shameful episode in American history, but cautions us to examine the present and take... |
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The House of the Spirits
Isabel Allende
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A best seller and critical success all over the world, The House of the Spirits is the magnificent epic of the Trueba family -- their loves, their ambitions, their spiritual quests, their relations with one another, and their participation in the history of their times, a history that becomes... |
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The House on Mango Street
Sandra Cisneros - Alfred A. Knopf
Format: Book
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In hardcover for the first time--on the tenth anniversary of its initial publication--the greatly admired and bestselling book about a young girl growing up in the Latino section of Chicago. Sometimes heartbreaking, sometimes deeply joyous, this novel depicts a new American landscape through... |
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How dare the sun rise : memoirs of a war child
Sandra Uwiringiyimana - Katherine Tegen Books
Format: eAudiobook
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This profoundly moving memoir is the remarkable and inspiring true story of Sandra Uwiringiyimana, a girl from the Democratic Republic of the Congo who tells the tale of how she survived a massacre, immigrated to America, and overcame her trauma through art and activism. Sandra was just... |
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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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Infidel
Ayaan Hirsi Ali - Free Press; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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In this profoundly affecting memoir from the internationally renowned author of "The Caged Virgin, " Ayaan Hirsi Ali tells her astonishing life story, from her traditional Muslim childhood in Somalia, Saudi Arabia, and Kenya, to her intellectual awakening and activism in the Netherlands,... |
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Interpreter of Maladies: Stories
Jhumpa Lahiri - Thorndike Press
Format: Large print book
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A New York Times Bestseller Winner of the Pulitzer Prize Winner of the PEN/Hemingway Award Notable Book of the Year: The New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Los Angeles Times, Seattle Times, and Publishers Weekly The nine stories in this stunning debut collection unerringly chart the emotional... |
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The Inexplicable Logic of My Life
Benjamin Alire Sáenz - Clarion Books
Format: Hardcover
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"Friendships, family, grief, joy, rage, faith, doubt, poetry, and love - this complex and sensitive book has room for every aspect of growing up!" - Margarita Engle, Newbery Honor-Winning author of The Surrender Tree Sal used to know his place with his adoptive gay father,... |
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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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The Joy Luck Club
Amy Tan
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Make this your next book club selection and everyone saves.Get 15% off when you order 5 or more of this title for your book club.Simply enter the coupon code TANJOY at checkout.This offer does not apply to eBook purchases. This offer applies to |
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Kafka on the Shore
Haruki Murakami - Knopf
Format: Print book
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With Kafka on the Shore, Haruki Murakami gives us a novel every bit as ambitious and expansive as The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, which has been acclaimed both here and around the world for its uncommon ambition and achievement, and whose still-growing popularity suggests that it will be read... |
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Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation
Octavia E Butler - Abrams ComicArts
Format: Hardcover
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Instant #1 New York Times BestsellerWinner of the 2018 Eisner Award for Best Adaptation from Another Medium Octavia E. Butler's bestselling literary science-fiction masterpiece, Kindred, now in graphic novel format. More than 35 years after its release, Kindred continues... |
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The Kite Runner
Khaled Hosseini
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As a young boy growing up in pre-Soviet Afghanistan, Amir befriends his servants son, Hassan. Occupying polar ends of Kabuls social hierarchy, the two boys nevertheless play together and defend each other against neighbourhood bullies. However, during Kabuls annual kite-fighting tournament... |
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Life Of Pi
Yann Martel - Mariner Books; lst U.S edition
Format: Audiobook
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Winner of the 2002 Man Booker Prize for FictionPi Patel is an unusual boy. The son of a zookeeper, he has an encyclopedic knowledge of animal behavior, a fervent love of stories, and practices not only his native Hinduism, but also Christianity... |
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The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven
Sherman Alexie - Atlantic Monthly Press; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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The acclaimed native American poet captures a fictional portrait of the characters, themes, and language of the Spokane Indian Reservation. By the author of I Would Steal Horses. 25,000 first printing. National ad/promo. Tour. |
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Love in the Time of Cholera
Gabriel Garcia Marquez - Vintage
Format: Paperback
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"A love story of astonishing power." - Newsweek The International Bestseller and modern literary classic by Nobel Prize-winning author Gabriel Garcia MarquezIn their youth, Florentino Ariza and Fermina Daza fall passionately in love. When Fermina eventually chooses to marry a wealthy,... |
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Malala Yousafzai and the Girls of Pakistan
David Aretha - Morgan Reynolds Pub
Format: Library Binding
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In 2012, a Taliban gunman shot a bullet into the head of Malala Yousafzai. The fifteen-year-old Pakistani girl needed to die, Taliban leaders reasoned, because she spoke out against the group's policies, which had included the suppression of girls' education in Malala's home region of Swat... |
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March: Book One
John Lewis - Top Shelf Productions
Format: Paperback
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Congressman John Lewis (GA-5) is an American icon, one of the key figures of the civil rights movement. His commitment to justice and nonviolence has taken him from an Alabama sharecropper's farm to the halls of Congress, from a segregated schoolroom to the 1963 March on Washington, and from... |
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The Namesake: A Novel
Jhumpa Lahiri - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover
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Jhumpa Lahiri's Interpreter of Maladies established this young writer as one the most brilliant of her generation. Her stories are one of the very few debut works -- and only a handful of collections -- to have won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Among the many other awards and honors it received... |
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Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
Azar Nafisi - Random House
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We all have dreams - things we fantasize about doing and generally never get around to. This is the story of Azar Nafisi's dream and of the nightmare that made it come true.For two years before she left Iran in 1997, Nafisi gathered seven young women at her house every Thursday morning... |
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Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Mildred D. Taylor - Puffin Books
Format: Paperback
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With the land to hold them together, nothing can tear the Logans apart.Why is the land so important to Cassie's family? It takes the events of one turbulent year - the year of the night riders and the burnings, the year a white girl humiliates Cassie in public simply because she is black... |
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The Round House: A Novel
Louise Erdrich - Harper
Format: Hardcover
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The Round House won the National Book Award for fiction.One of the most revered novelists of our time - a brilliant chronicler of Native-American life - Louise Erdrich returns to the territory of her bestselling, Pulitzer Prize finalist The Plague of Doves with The Round House, transporting... |
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Saints and Misfits
S K ALI - Salaam Reads / Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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Saints and Misfits is an unforgettable debut novel that feels like a modern day My So-Called Life ... starring a Muslim teen.There are three kinds of people in my world: 1. Saints, those special people moving the world forward. Sometimes you glaze over them. Or, at least,... |
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Song of Solomon
Toni Morrison
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Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon, a novel of large beauty and power, creates a magical world out of four generations of black life in America, a world we enter on the day of the birth of Macon Dead, Jr. (known as Milkman) , son of the richest black family in a mid-western town; |
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Sounder
James Barkley
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A landmark in children's literature, winner of the 1970 Newbery Medal and the basis of an acclaimed film, Sounder traces the keen sorrow and the abiding faith of a poor African-American boy in the 19th-century South. |
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
Zora Neale Hurston - Harper; 1st HarperCollins hardcover ed edition
Format: Hardcover
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“A deeply soulful novel that comprehends love and cruelty, and separates the big people from the small of heart, without ever losing sympathy for those unfortunates who don’t know how to live properly.” —Zadie SmithOne of the most important and enduring books of the twentieth... |
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Things Fall Apart (Everyman's Library)
Chinua Achebe - Everyman's Library; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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[This book is] a simple story of a "strong man" whose life is dominated by fear and anger ... Uniquely ... African, at the same time it reveals [the author's] ... awareness of the human qualities common to men of all times and places.-Back cover. |
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Up from Slavery: An Autobiography
Booker T. Washington - Skyhorse Publishing
Format: Paperback
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In 1856, Washington was born into a family of slaves in Virginia. From there it seemed that his fate had been sealed - to live out his life as a worker in Virginia. But, this was not the case for Washington, whose impoverished childhood and undying desire for education fueled him into a dedicated... |
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