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Toni Morrison is the author of numerous works of fiction, non-fiction, and children’s literature, most recently, the novel A Mercy. She twice has received the Pulitzer Prize–for Sula (1974) and Beloved (1988)–as well as the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Nobel Prize for Literature. Most recently the Robert F. Goheen Professor of Humanities at Princeton University, she lives in Rockland County, New York.
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The Black Book
35th Anniversary Edition
Edited by Middleton A. Harris, Ernest Smith, Morris Levitt and Roger Furman
Foreword by Toni Morrison
Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
Publisher: Random House
On Sale: November 10, 2009
Price: $35.00
Seventeenth-century sketches of Africa as it appeared to marauding European traders. Nineteenth-century slave auction notices. Twentieth-century sheet music for work songs and freedom chants. Photographs of war heroes, regal in uniform. Antebellum reward posters for capturing runaway slaves. An 1856 article titled “A Visit to the Slave Mother Who Killed Her... Read more >
35th Anniversary Edition
Edited by Middleton A. Harris, Ernest Smith, Morris Levitt and Roger Furman
Foreword by Toni Morrison
Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
Publisher: Random House
On Sale: November 10, 2009
Price: $35.00
Seventeenth-century sketches of Africa as it appeared to marauding European traders. Nineteenth-century slave auction notices. Twentieth-century sheet music for work songs and freedom chants. Photographs of war heroes, regal in uniform. Antebellum reward posters for capturing runaway slaves. An 1856 article titled “A Visit to the Slave Mother Who Killed Her... Read more >
Beloved
Written by Toni Morrison
Format: Hardcover, 360 pages
Publisher: Everyman's Library
On Sale: October 17, 2006
Price: $24.00
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Toni Morrison’s Beloved is a spellbinding and dazzlingly innovative portrait of a woman haunted by the past.
Sethe was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free. She has borne the unthinkable and not gone mad, yet she is... Read more >
Written by Toni Morrison
Format: Hardcover, 360 pages
Publisher: Everyman's Library
On Sale: October 17, 2006
Price: $24.00
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Toni Morrison’s Beloved is a spellbinding and dazzlingly innovative portrait of a woman haunted by the past.
Sethe was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free. She has borne the unthinkable and not gone mad, yet she is... Read more >
Beloved
Written by Toni Morrison
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: June 8, 2004
Price: $15.00
Toni Morrison's magnificent Pulitzer Prize-winning novel—first published in 1987—brought the unimaginable experience of slavery into the literature of our time and into our comprehension. Set in post-Civil War Ohio, it is the story of Sethe, an escaped slave who has risked her life in order to wrench herself from a living... Read more >
Written by Toni Morrison
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: June 8, 2004
Price: $15.00
Toni Morrison's magnificent Pulitzer Prize-winning novel—first published in 1987—brought the unimaginable experience of slavery into the literature of our time and into our comprehension. Set in post-Civil War Ohio, it is the story of Sethe, an escaped slave who has risked her life in order to wrench herself from a living... Read more >
Beloved
Written by Toni Morrison
Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: August 12, 1987
Price: $29.95
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Written by Toni Morrison
Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: August 12, 1987
Price: $29.95
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Beloved
Written by Toni Morrison
Format: eBook
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: July 24, 2007
Price: $15.00
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Written by Toni Morrison
Format: eBook
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: July 24, 2007
Price: $15.00
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Beloved
Written by Toni Morrison
Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
Publisher: Random House Large Print
On Sale: September 29, 1998
Price: $19.95
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Written by Toni Morrison
Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
Publisher: Random House Large Print
On Sale: September 29, 1998
Price: $19.95
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Beloved
Written by Toni Morrison
Read by Toni Morrison
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
Publisher: Random House Audio
On Sale: March 20, 2007
Price: $29.95
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Written by Toni Morrison
Read by Toni Morrison
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
Publisher: Random House Audio
On Sale: March 20, 2007
Price: $29.95
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Beloved
Written by Toni Morrison
Read by Toni Morrison
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
Publisher: Random House Audio
On Sale: May 16, 2006
Price: $22.50
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Written by Toni Morrison
Read by Toni Morrison
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
Publisher: Random House Audio
On Sale: May 16, 2006
Price: $22.50
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Birth of a Nation'hood
Gaze, Script, and Spectacle in the O. J. Simpson Case
Written by Toni Morrison
Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
Publisher: Pantheon
On Sale: February 4, 1997
Price: $15.00
Co-edited and introduced by Toni Morrison, Birth of a Nation'hood illuminates one of the grimmest--and most revealing--moments of recent American history: the O.J. Simpson case. As they relate to the scandal, the issues of race, sex, violence, money, and the media are refracted through the lens of twelve powerful essays, specially... Read more >
Gaze, Script, and Spectacle in the O. J. Simpson Case
Written by Toni Morrison
Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
Publisher: Pantheon
On Sale: February 4, 1997
Price: $15.00
Co-edited and introduced by Toni Morrison, Birth of a Nation'hood illuminates one of the grimmest--and most revealing--moments of recent American history: the O.J. Simpson case. As they relate to the scandal, the issues of race, sex, violence, money, and the media are refracted through the lens of twelve powerful essays, specially... Read more >
The Bluest Eye
Written by Toni Morrison
Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: December 28, 1993
Price: $19.95
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Written by Toni Morrison
Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: December 28, 1993
Price: $19.95
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The Bluest Eye
Written by Toni Morrison
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: May 8, 2007
Price: $14.00
Pecola Breedlove, a young black girl, prays every day for beauty. Mocked by other children for the dark skin, curly hair, and brown eyes that set her apart, she yearns for normalcy, for the blond hair and blue eyes that she believes will allow her to finally fit in.Yet as her... Read more >
Written by Toni Morrison
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: May 8, 2007
Price: $14.00
Pecola Breedlove, a young black girl, prays every day for beauty. Mocked by other children for the dark skin, curly hair, and brown eyes that set her apart, she yearns for normalcy, for the blond hair and blue eyes that she believes will allow her to finally fit in.Yet as her... Read more >
The Bluest Eye
Written by Toni Morrison
Format: eBook
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: July 24, 2007
Price: $14.00
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Written by Toni Morrison
Format: eBook
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: July 24, 2007
Price: $14.00
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The Bluest Eye
Written by Toni Morrison
Read by Toni Morrison and Ruby Dee
Format: Abridged Compact Disc
Publisher: Random House Audio
On Sale: May 8, 2007
Price: $24.95
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Written by Toni Morrison
Read by Toni Morrison and Ruby Dee
Format: Abridged Compact Disc
Publisher: Random House Audio
On Sale: May 8, 2007
Price: $24.95
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The Bluest Eye
Written by Toni Morrison
Read by Toni Morrison and Ruby Dee
Format: Abridged Audiobook Download
Publisher: Random House Audio
On Sale: April 25, 2000
Price: $9.00
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Written by Toni Morrison
Read by Toni Morrison and Ruby Dee
Format: Abridged Audiobook Download
Publisher: Random House Audio
On Sale: April 25, 2000
Price: $9.00
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The Collected Novels of Toni Morrison
Written by Toni Morrison
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: March 1, 1994
Price: $125.00
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Written by Toni Morrison
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: March 1, 1994
Price: $125.00
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The Dancing Mind
Speech upon Acceptance of the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished C ontribution to American Letters
Written by Toni Morrison
Format: Hardcover, 24 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: December 24, 1996
Price: $18.95
On the occasion of her acceptance of the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters on the sixth of November, 1996, Nobel laureate Toni Morrison speaks with brevity and passion to the pleasures, the difficulties, the necessities, of the readingwriting life in our time. Read more >
Speech upon Acceptance of the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished C ontribution to American Letters
Written by Toni Morrison
Format: Hardcover, 24 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: December 24, 1996
Price: $18.95
On the occasion of her acceptance of the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters on the sixth of November, 1996, Nobel laureate Toni Morrison speaks with brevity and passion to the pleasures, the difficulties, the necessities, of the readingwriting life in our time. Read more >
The Dancing Mind
Written by Toni Morrison
Format: eBook
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: July 24, 2007
Price: $18.95
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Written by Toni Morrison
Format: eBook
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: July 24, 2007
Price: $18.95
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Jazz
Written by Toni Morrison
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: June 8, 2004
Price: $13.95
In the afterglow of a clean triumph—her widely celebrated, Pulitzer Prize-winning best-seller, Beloved—Toni Morrison moves to even higher ground. This, her eagerly awaited new novel, Jazz, is spellbinding for the haunting passion of its profound love story, and for the bittersweet lyricism and refined sensuality of its powerful and elegant style.
It... Read more >
Written by Toni Morrison
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: June 8, 2004
Price: $13.95
In the afterglow of a clean triumph—her widely celebrated, Pulitzer Prize-winning best-seller, Beloved—Toni Morrison moves to even higher ground. This, her eagerly awaited new novel, Jazz, is spellbinding for the haunting passion of its profound love story, and for the bittersweet lyricism and refined sensuality of its powerful and elegant style.
It... Read more >
Jazz
Written by Toni Morrison
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: April 7, 1992
Price: $28.95
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Written by Toni Morrison
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: April 7, 1992
Price: $28.95
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Jazz
Written by Toni Morrison
Format: eBook
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: July 24, 2007
Price: $13.95
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Written by Toni Morrison
Format: eBook
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: July 24, 2007
Price: $13.95
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Love
A Novel
Written by Toni Morrison
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: January 4, 2005
Price: $13.95
From the internationally acclaimed Nobel laureate comes a richly conceived novel that illuminates the full spectrum of desire.
May, Christine, Heed, Junior, Vida—even L: all women obsessed by Bill Cosey. More than the wealthy owner of the famous Cosey Hotel and Resort, he shapes their yearnings for father, husband, lover, guardian, friend... Read more >
A Novel
Written by Toni Morrison
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: January 4, 2005
Price: $13.95
From the internationally acclaimed Nobel laureate comes a richly conceived novel that illuminates the full spectrum of desire.
May, Christine, Heed, Junior, Vida—even L: all women obsessed by Bill Cosey. More than the wealthy owner of the famous Cosey Hotel and Resort, he shapes their yearnings for father, husband, lover, guardian, friend... Read more >
Love
Written by Toni Morrison
Format: Hardcover, 208 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: October 28, 2003
Price: $23.95
May, Christine, Heed, Junior, Vida—even L: all women obsessed with Bill Cosey. The wealthy owner of the famous Cosey’s Hotel and Resort, he shapes their yearnings for father, husband, lover, guardian, and friend, yearnings that dominate the lives of these women long after his death. Yet while he is either the... Read more >
Written by Toni Morrison
Format: Hardcover, 208 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: October 28, 2003
Price: $23.95
May, Christine, Heed, Junior, Vida—even L: all women obsessed with Bill Cosey. The wealthy owner of the famous Cosey’s Hotel and Resort, he shapes their yearnings for father, husband, lover, guardian, and friend, yearnings that dominate the lives of these women long after his death. Yet while he is either the... Read more >
Love
Written by Toni Morrison
Format: eBook
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: October 28, 2003
Price: $13.95
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Written by Toni Morrison
Format: eBook
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: October 28, 2003
Price: $13.95
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Love
Written by Toni Morrison
Read by Toni Morrison
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
Publisher: Random House Audio
On Sale: March 20, 2007
Price: $29.95
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Written by Toni Morrison
Read by Toni Morrison
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
Publisher: Random House Audio
On Sale: March 20, 2007
Price: $29.95
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Love
Written by Toni Morrison
Read by Toni Morrison
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
Publisher: Random House Audio
On Sale: October 28, 2003
Price: $14.95
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Written by Toni Morrison
Read by Toni Morrison
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
Publisher: Random House Audio
On Sale: October 28, 2003
Price: $14.95
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