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African American Folktales
Stories from Black Traditions in the New World
Written by Roger Abrahams


Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Pantheon
On Sale: January 9, 1999
Price: $16.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-70539-7 (0-375-70539-2)

From the canefields of the ante-bellum South, the villages of the Caribbean islands, and the streets of contemporary inner cities, here are more than one hundred tales from an "incredibly rich and affirmative storytelling tradition" --Choice.Full of life, wisdom, and humor, these tales range from wiley tricksters to the creation of... Read more >

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The Thing Around Your Neck

Written by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie


Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: June 16, 2009
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-27107-5 (0-307-27107-2)

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie burst onto the literary scene with her remarkable debut novel, Purple Hibiscus, which critics hailed as “one of the best novels to come out of Africa in years” (Baltimore Sun), with “prose as lush as the Nigerian landscape that it powerfully evokes” (The Boston Globe); The Washington Post... Read more >
Also available as an eBook and a trade paperback.

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Even the Stars Look Lonesome

Written by Maya Angelou


Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
Publisher: Bantam
On Sale: September 1, 1998
Price: $12.00
ISBN: 978-0-553-37972-3 (0-553-37972-0)

Available in paperback, Maya Angelou's most recent book Even the Stars Look Lonesome is a continuation of her celebrated Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now. In this new book, Angelou shares more vital lessons gleaned from intimate personal experiences and reveals insights into a wide variety of subjects. She tells... Read more >
Also available as an unabridged audiobook download and a hardcover.

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Gather Together in My Name

Written by Maya Angelou


Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
On Sale: April 21, 2009
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-8129-8030-1 (0-8129-8030-1)

Gather Together in My Name continues Maya Angelou’s personal story, begun so unforgettably in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. The time is the end of World War II and there is a sense of optimism everywhere. Maya Angelou, still in her teens, has given birth to a son. But... Read more >
Also available as an eBook, hardcover and a paperback.

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Gather Together in My Name

Written by Maya Angelou


Format: Paperback, 192 pages
Publisher: Bantam
On Sale: January 1, 1985
Price: $6.50
ISBN: 978-0-553-26066-3 (0-553-26066-9)

The second book in Angelou’s series of autobiographies. The poet, still in her teens, gives birth to a son, tries to keep a job, chases after her kidnapped baby, and goes to work in a house of prostitution thinking she is helping the man she loves. Read more >
Also available as an eBook, hardcover and a trade paperback.

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The Heart of a Woman

Written by Maya Angelou


Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
On Sale: April 21, 2009
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-8129-8032-5 (0-8129-8032-8)

In The Heart of a Woman, Maya Angelou leaves California with her son, Guy, to move to New York. There she enters the society and world of black artists and writers, reads her work at the Harlem Writers Guild, and begins to take part in the struggle of black Americans for... Read more >
Also available as an unabridged audiobook download, hardcover and a paperback.

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The Heart of a Woman

Written by Maya Angelou


Format: Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: Bantam
On Sale: July 1, 1984
Price: $6.99
ISBN: 978-0-553-24689-6 (0-553-24689-5)

In this fourth, and again self-contained, volume of her autobiography, the author tells how she began her writing career and first became politically active. Read more >

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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Written by Maya Angelou


Format: Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books
On Sale: April 21, 2009
Price: $6.99
ISBN: 978-0-345-51440-0 (0-345-51440-8)

Sent by their mother to live with their devout, self-sufficient grandmother in a small Southern town, Maya and her brother, Bailey, endure the ache of abandonment and the prejudice of the local “powhitetrash.” At eight years old and back at her mother’s side in St. Louis, Maya is attacked by a... Read more >

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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Written by Maya Angelou


Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
On Sale: April 21, 2009
Price: $17.00
ISBN: 978-0-8129-8002-8 (0-8129-8002-6)

Here is a book as joyous and painful, and 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 the world right. Maya Angelou’s first memoir, published in... Read more >

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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Written by Maya Angelou


Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Bantam
On Sale: May 12, 1997
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-553-38001-9 (0-553-38001-X)

Angelou's moving account of her childhood and adolescence in the Depression-era South. This is an unforgettable memoir of growing up black in the 1930s and 1940s in a tiny Arkansas town where Angelou's grandmother's store was the heart of the community and white people seemed as strange as aliens from another... Read more >

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I Shall Not Be Moved

Written by Maya Angelou


Format: Trade Paperback, 64 pages
Publisher: Bantam
On Sale: October 1, 1991
Price: $12.00
ISBN: 978-0-553-35458-4 (0-553-35458-2)

The best selling author presents a new collection of poems. This volume of poetry captures the pain and triumph of being black and speaks out about history, heartbreak and love. Here are three volumes of classic Maya Angelou -- including her first poetry collection, Just Give Me a Cool Drink of... Read more >
Also available as a hardcover.

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Poems
Maya Angelou
Written by Maya Angelou


Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Bantam
On Sale: May 12, 1997
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-0-553-37985-3 (0-553-37985-2)

Tenderly, joyously, sometimes in sadness, sometimes in pain, Maya Angelou writes from the heart and celebrates life as only she has discovered it. In this moving volume of poetry, we hear the multi-faceted voice of one of the most powerful and vibrant writers of our time. Includes the full texts of... Read more >
Also available as a paperback.

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Poems
Maya Angelou
Written by Maya Angelou


Format: Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Bantam
On Sale: January 1, 1996
Price: $6.99
ISBN: 978-0-553-25576-8 (0-553-25576-2)

In this moving volume of poetry, Angelou writes from the heart and celebrates life as she has discovered it in poems such as “Just Give a Cool Drink of Water ’Fore I Diiie,” “Oh Pray My Wings Are Gonna Fit Me Well,” “Still I Rise, Shaker,” and “Why Don’t You Sing.”... Read more >
Also available as a trade paperback.

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Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas

Written by Maya Angelou


Format: Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Bantam
On Sale: March 1, 1985
Price: $6.99
ISBN: 978-0-553-25199-9 (0-553-25199-6)

Angelou casts the spotlight on her show business career–a pageant of international scope. Maya, the woman, shares her sad, failed marriage to a white man, her early motherhood and achingly sensitive relationship with her young son, and her bone-deep, painful suspicion of the white world that welcomes her talent so dramatically... Read more >
Also available as an eBook and a trade paperback.

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Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas

Written by Maya Angelou


Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
On Sale: April 21, 2009
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-8129-8031-8 (0-8129-8031-X)

In this third self-contained volume of her autobiography, which began with I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou moves into the adult world. Maya struggles to support herself and her son through a series of odd jobs and weathers a failed marriage to a white man before landing a... Read more >
Also available as an eBook and a paperback.

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A Song Flung Up to Heaven

Written by Maya Angelou


Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
Publisher: Random House
On Sale: April 2, 2002
Price: $23.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-50747-2 (0-375-50747-7)

The culmination of a unique achievement in modern American literature: the six volumes of autobiography that began more than thirty years ago with the appearance of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.

A Song Flung Up to Heaven opens as Maya Angelou returns from Africa to the United States to work... Read more >

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A Song Flung Up to Heaven

Written by Maya Angelou


Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Bantam
On Sale: April 1, 2003
Price: $13.00
ISBN: 978-0-553-38203-7 (0-553-38203-9)

A Song Flung Up To Heaven is the powerful conclusion to the autobiographical journey that began more than thirty years ago with I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.

Angelou picks up her story in 1964, when she returned from Africa to the United States to work with Malcolm X—only to learn... Read more >

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The Amen Corner
A Play
Written by James Baldwin


Format: Trade Paperback, 112 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: February 17, 1998
Price: $12.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-70188-7 (0-375-70188-5)

Only a boy preacher who had grown up to become one of America's most eminent writers could have produced a play like The Amen Corner. To his first work for the theater, James Baldwin brought all the fervor and majestic rhetoric of the storefront churches of his childhood, along with an... Read more >

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Blues for Mister Charlie
A Play
Written by James Baldwin


Format: Trade Paperback, 144 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: April 25, 1995
Price: $11.95
ISBN: 978-0-679-76178-5 (0-679-76178-0)

Noted by The New York Times as, "A play with fires of fury in its belly, tears of anguish in its eyes, a roar of protest in its throat," James Baldwin's drama takes us into a small Southern town where a white man murders a black man, then throws his body... Read more >

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The Devil Finds Work

Written by James Baldwin


Format: Trade Paperback, 144 pages
Publisher: Delta
On Sale: June 13, 2000
Price: $11.95
ISBN: 978-0-385-33460-0 (0-385-33460-5)

Offering an incisive look at racism in American movies and a vision of America’s self-delusions and deceptions, Baldwin challenges the underlying assumptions in such films as In the Heat of the Night, Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, and The Exorcist. Here are our loves and hates, biases and cruelties, fears and... Read more >

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The Fire Next Time

Written by James Baldwin


Format: Trade Paperback, 128 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: December 1, 1992
Price: $12.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-74472-6 (0-679-74472-X)

A national bestseller when it first appeared in 1963, The Fire Next Time galvanized the nation and gave passionate voice to the emerging civil rights movement. At once a powerful evocation of James Baldwin's early life in Harlem and a disturbing examination of the consequences of racial injustice, the book is... Read more >

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Giovanni's Room

Written by James Baldwin


Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
Publisher: Delta
On Sale: June 13, 2000
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-33458-7 (0-385-33458-3)

Set in the 1950s Paris of American expatriates, liaisons, and violence, a young man finds himself caught between desire and conventional morality. With a sharp, probing imagination, James Baldwin's now-classic narrative delves into the mystery of loving and creates a moving, highly controversial story of death and passion that reveals the... Read more >

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Go Tell It on the Mountain

Written by James Baldwin


Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Dial Press Trade Paperback
On Sale: June 13, 2000
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-33457-0 (0-385-33457-5)

Baldwin’s first major work, a novel that has established itself as an American classic, chronicles a fourteen-year-old boy’s discovery one Saturday in March of 1935 of the terms of his identity as the stepson of the minister of a storefront Pentecostal church in Harlem. Read more >
Also available as a hardcover and a paperback.

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Going to Meet the Man
Stories
Written by James Baldwin


Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: April 25, 1995
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-76179-2 (0-679-76179-9)

"There's no way not to suffer. But you try all kinds of ways to keep from drowning in it." The men and women of eight short stories grasp the aforesaid truth on an elemental level, and their tales, as told by James Baldwin, detail the ingenious and often desperate ways in... Read more >

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If Beale Street Could Talk

Written by James Baldwin


Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: October 10, 2006
Price: $13.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-27593-6 (0-307-27593-0)

In this honest and stunning novel, James Baldwin has given America a moving story of love in the face of injustice. Told through the eyes of Tish, a nineteen-year-old girl, in love with Fonny, a young sculptor who is the father of her child, Baldwin’s story mixes the sweet and the... Read more >
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