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sensuous without being extravagant reconciliation with the past ghosts and regrets strong and powerful imageryStaring unflinchingly into the abyss of slavery, this spellbinding New York Times bestseller transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and as intimate as a lullaby.
Sethe, its protagonist, was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighte... More details on Beloved
124 WAS SPITEFUL. Full of a baby’s venom. The women in the house knew it and so did the children. For years each put up with the spite in his own way, but by 1873 Sethe and her daughter Denver were it...
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What do readers say about Song of Solomon?
brilliantly imagined novel thick and dense too much weirdness detailed, riveting, and powerfulAn official Oprah Winfrey's "The Books That Help Me Through" selection
With this brilliantly imagined New York Times bestselling novel, Toni Morrison transfigures the coming-of-age story as audaciously as Saul Bellow or Gabriel García Márquez.
The North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance agent promised to fly from Mercy to the other side of Lake Superior at three o’clock. Two days before the event was to take place he tacked a note on the door ...
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What do readers say about Sula?
dark, beatiful and unique a memorable novel violence and misfortune an extended fableTwo girls who grow up to become women. Two friends who become something worse than enemies. In this brilliantly imagined novel, Toni Morrison tells the story of Nel Wright and Sula Peace, who meet as children in the small town of Medallion, Ohio.
Except for World War II, nothing ever interfered with the celebration of National Suicide Day. It had taken place every January third since 1920, although Shadrack, its founder, was for many years the...
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What do readers say about The Color Purple?
diary and letter style oppression, redemption, and transformation finding your voice heart wrenching novelA powerful cultural touchstone of modern American literature, The Color Purple depicts the lives of African American women in early twentieth-century rural Georgia. Separated as girls, sisters Celie and Nettie sustain their loyalty to and hope in eac... More details on The Color Purple
Harpo girl daddy say Harpo not good enough for her. Harpo been courting the girl a while. He say he sit in the parlor with her, the daddy sit right there in the corner till everybody feel terrible. Th...
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What do readers say about The Nickel Boys?
metaphorical and lyrical jarring & sad a florida reform school powerful and well writtenIn this Pulitzer Prize-winning, New York Times bestselling follow-up to The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead brilliantly dramatizes another strand of American history through the story of two boys unjustly sentenced to a hellish reform school i... More details on The Nickel Boys
Elwood received the best gift of his life on Christmas Day 1962, even if the ideas it put in his head were his undoing. Martin Luther King at Zion Hill was the only album he owned and it never left th...
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What do readers say about The Hate U Give?
little infants fucks everybody a depressingly realistic novel first person narrative teenage drama bookBoston Globe-Horn Book Award
National Book Award Longlist
William C. Morris Award
Coretta Scott King Honor (Author) ... More details on The Hate U Give
I’m not even sure I belong at this party. That’s not on some bougie shit, either. There are just some places where it’s not enough to be me. Either version of me. Big D’s spring break party is one of ...
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What do readers say about Their Eyes Were Watching God?
authentic southern dialect thick, beautiful prose a woman’s story concise but very evocativeOne of the most important works of twentieth-century American literature, Zora Neale Hurston's beloved 1937 classic, Their Eyes Were Watching God, is an enduring Southern love story sparkling with wit, beauty, and heartfelt wisdom.
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Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board. For some they come in with the tide. For others they sail forever on the horizon, never out of sight, never landing until the Watcher turns his eyes...
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What do readers say about Housekeeping?
gorgeous and lyrical poetically beautiful language poetic and often beautiful poetic introspective languageFrom the Orange Prize winning author of Home
Acclaimed on publication as a contemporary classic, Housekeeping is the story of Ruth and Lucille, orphansgrowing up in the small desolate town of Fingerbone in the vast northwest of America.
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My name is Ruth. I grew up with my younger sister, Lucille, under the care of my grandmother, Mrs. Sylvia Foster, and when she died, of her sisters-in-law, Misses Lily and Nona Foster, and when they f...
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What do readers say about Invisible Man?
relevance and beauty racism and invisibility overwrought and distracting stone cold classicBoth a deeply compelling bestselling novel and an epic milestone of American literature.
Originally published in 1952 as the first novel by a then unknown author, it remained on the bestseller list for sixteen weeks, won the National Book Award for ... More details on Invisible Man
It goes a long way back, some twenty years. All my life I had been looking for something, and everywhere I turned someone tried to tell me what it was. I accepted their answers too, though they were o...
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What do readers say about Between the World and Me?
complex and thought-provoking raw and scathing a slight memoir stream of consciousnessIn a profound work that pivots from the biggest questions about American history and ideals to the most intimate concerns of a father for his son, Ta-Nehisi Coates offers a powerful new framework for understanding our nation's history and current cri... More details on Between the World and Me
Last Sunday the host of a popular news show asked me what it meant to lose my body. The host was broadcasting from Washington, D.C., and I was seated in a remote studio on the far west side of Manhatt...
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