African American books

Every Tongue Got to Confess: Negro Folk-tales from the Gulf States

Every Tongue Got to Confess is an extensive volume of African American folklore that Zora Neale Hurston collected on her travels through the Gulf States in the late 1920s.The bittersweet and often hilarious tales — which range from...

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One Day When I Was Lost
by James Baldwin

One Day When I Was Lost

By: James Baldwin

James Baldwin's screenplay based on Alex Haley's now classic The Autobiography Of Malcolm X makes immediate and terrfyingly real the stunning events that gave birth to a forceful, determined man . . . and created the atmosphere of hate...

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On The Pulse Of Morning

By: Maya Angelou

A beautifully packaged hardcover edition of the poem that captivated the nation and quickly became a national bestseller. From the Trade Paperback edition....

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Everyday People

By: Stewart O’Nan

Stewart O'Nan's critically acclaimed novel Everyday People brings together the stories of the people of an African-American Pittsburgh neighborhood during one fateful week in the early fall of 1998. Vibrant, poignant, and brilliantly...

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The World Will Follow Joy: Turning Madness Into Flowers (New Poems)

By: Alice Walker

“Poetry is leading us,” writes Alice Walker in The World Will Follow Joy. In this dazzling collection, the beloved writer offers over sixty new poems to incite and nurture contemporary activists. Hailed as a “lavishly gifted...

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The Untelling

By: Tayari Jones

Aria Jackson lived through the car crash that killed her father and baby sister when she was nine. At 25 she begins to unearth secrets about family, friends, her past, and her altered reality in this journey through truth and forgiveness....

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Jonah’s Gourd Vine

By: Zora Neale Hurston

The first novel by the noted black novelist, folklorist, and anthropologist. Originally published in 1934, it was praised by Carl Sandburg as “a bold and beautiful book, many a page priceless and unforgettable.”...

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Mules and Men

By: Zora Neale Hurston

Acclaimed by celebrated folklorist Alan Lomax as “the most engaging, genuine and skillfully written book in the filed of folklore.” This is Hurston's first great collection of African American tales, songs and sayings. For the...

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