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Linden Hills

By: Naylor, Gloria

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Ticknor & Fields: January 1985

Seller ID: 105316

ISBN: 0899193579

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Dust jacket has been clipped. Writing inside cover from previous owner.
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Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful

By: Paton, Alan

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Scribner: February 1982

Seller ID: 86831

ISBN: 0684173360

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Acceptable

The Measure of a Man: A Spiritual Autobiography (Oprah's Book Club)

By: Poitier, Sidney

Price: $4.00

Publisher: HarperSanFrancisco: January 2007

Seller ID: 91363

ISBN: 0061357901

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

"I have no wish to play the pontificating fool, pretending that I've suddenly come up with the answers to all life's questions. Quite that contrary, I began this book as an exploration, an exercise in self-questing. In other words, I wanted to find out, as I looked back at a long and complicated life, with many twists and turns, how well I've done at measuring up to the values I myself have set."
--Sidney Poitier

In this luminous memoir, a true American icon looks back on his celebrated life and career. His body of work is arguably the most morally significant in cinematic histo...
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The Negro in the Making of America

By: Quarles, Benjamin

Price: $3.75

Publisher: Collier Books: January 1967

Seller ID: 55801

ISBN: B000I8UJSW

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The trouble with being a mama

By: Rutland, Eva

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Abingdon Press: January 1964

Seller ID: 89444

ISBN: B0007DE6G4

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Acceptable

Dust jacket has shelf wear and tears. Text has some highlights.
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Emancipation of Robert Sadler, The: The Powerful True Story of a Twentieth-Century Plantation Slave

By: Sadler, Robert,Chapian, Marie

Price: $6.01

Publisher: Bethany House Publishers: January 2012

Seller ID: 105768

ISBN: 076420940X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

At age 5, Robert Sadler was sold into slavery. This is his story of his quest for freedom and his determination to serve others.
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A Century of Great African-Americans

By: Schwartz, Alison Mundy

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Gramercy: October 1999

Seller ID: 105325

ISBN: 0517207249

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Acceptable

W.E.B. DuBois, Martin Luther King, Jr., Rosa Parks, Michael Jordan and Oprah Winfrey are names and personalities well-known and celebrated, and are included in this lavishly illustrated look at African-Americans and their contributions this century. Arranged in an A-to-Z format, this comprehensive book also includes a host of people in science, education, civil rights, literature, politics and other fields of endeavor, African-American men and women whose work has made a difference.
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Himpressions: The Blackwoman's Guide to Pampering the Blackman

By: Shaw, Valerie B.

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Harpercollins: June 1996

Seller ID: 105318

ISBN: 0060174358

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Shaw believes that Blackwomen (sic) have gotten into the bad habit of expecting the worst from Blackmen (sic). This negative attitude, she says, guarantees than men will live down to these expectations and perpetuates a cycle of disappointment and frustration. In Himpressions, Shaw offers sound advice on how to break the cycle and encourages women to effect positive change so that everybody benefits.
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Black Chicago: The Making of a Negro Ghetto, 1890-1920

By: Spear, Allan H.

Price: $4.00

Publisher: University of Chicago Press: January 1967

Seller ID: 105348

ISBN: 0226768570

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Minor shelf wear on cover.
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Uncle Tom's Cabin~International Collectors Library

By: Stowe, Harriet Beecher

Price: $10.01

Publisher: International Collectors Library: January 1958

Seller ID: 105377

ISBN: B000RQD72A

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Like New

Mild shelf wear on top and bottom of spine.
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Cane River (Oprah's Book Club)

By: Tademy, Lalita

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Warner Books: April 2001

Seller ID: 105296

ISBN: 0446530522

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Race: How Blacks and Whites Think and Feel About the American Obsession

By: Terkel, Studs

Price: $7.00

Publisher: New Pr: April 1992

Seller ID: 105295

ISBN: 1565840003

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Race is once again a leading issue in American politics. The clock has been turned back on the progress of the 1960s, and again hostility, resentment and racial conflict threaten to divide the nation.
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Weep Not, Child (African Writers)

By: Thiong'o, Ngugi wa

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Heinemann: April 1988

Seller ID: 102743

ISBN: 0435908308

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Acceptable

Spine is tight pages are clean. Cover has two creases on back. Pages are starting to yellow from age.
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The Ditchdigger's Daughters: A Black Family's Astonishing Success Story

By: Thornton, Yvonne S., Coudert, Jo

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Plume: May 1996

Seller ID: 11738

ISBN: 0452276195

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Acceptable

Some shelf wear.
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The Same River Twice: A Memoir

By: Walker, Alice

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Scribner: January 1996

Seller ID: 105293

ISBN: 0684814196

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

The Temple of My Familiar

By: Walker, Alice

Price: $3.00

Publisher: Pocket Books: January 1990

Seller ID: 105331

ISBN: 0671683993

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The Color Purple

By: Walker, Alice

Price: $3.00

Publisher: Pocket Books (Mm): June 1985

Seller ID: 105367

ISBN: 0671617028

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Used - Acceptable

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Possessing the Secret of Joy

By: Walker, Alice

Price: $3.00

Publisher: Pocket: June 1993

Seller ID: 105369

ISBN: 0671789422

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Used - Acceptable

Small tear in lower corner of back cover.
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Keeping Faith: Philosophy and Race in America

By: West, Cornel

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Routledge: September 1993

Seller ID: 105291

ISBN: 0415904862

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

In this powerful collection by one of today's leading African American intellectuals, Keeping Faith situates the current position of African Americans, tracing the geneology of the "Afro-American Rebellion" from Martin Luther King to the rise of black revolutionary leftists. In Cornel West's hands issues of race and freedom are inextricably tied to questions of philosophy and, above all, to a belief in the power of the human spirit.

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Journey to Beloved

By: Winfrey, Oprah

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Hyperion: October 1998

Seller ID: 105307

ISBN: 0786864583

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Of all the events in Oprah Winfrey's life, none has affected her powerfully as playing the part of Sethe, the former slave who must come to terms with a haunting past, in Jonathan Demme's film of Toni Morrison's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel - coming from Touchstone Pictures in Fall 1998. Oprah fell in love with the book when it was first published in 1988, and instantly became determined to deliver this powerful story to film herself. But making the movie was something even more profound than she might have imagined, and JOURNEY TO THE BELOVED is her own emotional account of that experience. View More...

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