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Native Sons
Written by James Baldwin and Sol Stein
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: One World/Ballantine
On Sale: July 26, 2005
Price: $13.95
ISBN: 978-0-345-46936-6 (0-345-46936-4)
James Baldwin was beginning to be recognized as the most brilliant black writer of his generation when his first book of essays, Notes of a Native Son, established his reputation in 1955. No one was more pleased by the book’s reception than Baldwin’s high school friend Sol Stein. A rising New... Read more >
Written by James Baldwin and Sol Stein
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: One World/Ballantine
On Sale: July 26, 2005
Price: $13.95
ISBN: 978-0-345-46936-6 (0-345-46936-4)
James Baldwin was beginning to be recognized as the most brilliant black writer of his generation when his first book of essays, Notes of a Native Son, established his reputation in 1955. No one was more pleased by the book’s reception than Baldwin’s high school friend Sol Stein. A rising New... Read more >
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No Name in the Street
Written by James Baldwin
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: January 9, 2007
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-27592-9 (0-307-27592-2)
This stunningly personal document and extraordinary history of the turbulent sixties and early seventies displays James Baldwin’s fury and despair more deeply than any of his other works. In vivid detail he remembers the Harlem childhood that shaped his early conciousness, the later events that scored his heart with pain—the murders... Read more >
Written by James Baldwin
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: January 9, 2007
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-27592-9 (0-307-27592-2)
This stunningly personal document and extraordinary history of the turbulent sixties and early seventies displays James Baldwin’s fury and despair more deeply than any of his other works. In vivid detail he remembers the Harlem childhood that shaped his early conciousness, the later events that scored his heart with pain—the murders... Read more >
Notes of a Native Son
Written by James Baldwin
Foreword by Edward P. Jones
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Beacon Press
On Sale: November 20, 2012
Price: $27.95
ISBN: 978-0-8070-0611-5 (0-8070-0611-4)
A new edition published on the twenty-fifth anniversary of Baldwin’s death, including a new introduction by an important contemporary writer
Since its original publication in 1955, this first nonfiction collection of essays by James Baldwin remains an American classic. His impassioned essays on life in Harlem, the protest novel, movies, and... Read more >
Written by James Baldwin
Foreword by Edward P. Jones
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Beacon Press
On Sale: November 20, 2012
Price: $27.95
ISBN: 978-0-8070-0611-5 (0-8070-0611-4)
A new edition published on the twenty-fifth anniversary of Baldwin’s death, including a new introduction by an important contemporary writer
Since its original publication in 1955, this first nonfiction collection of essays by James Baldwin remains an American classic. His impassioned essays on life in Harlem, the protest novel, movies, and... Read more >
Notes of a Native Son
Written by James Baldwin
Illustrated by Edward P. Jones
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
Publisher: Beacon Press
On Sale: July 9, 1984
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-0-8070-6431-3 (0-8070-6431-9)
Originally published in 1955, James Baldwin’s first nonfiction book has become a much-studied classic. These searing essays on life in Harlem, the protest novel, movies, and Americans abroad remain as powerful today as when they were written.
“He named for me the things you feel but couldn’t utter. . . ... Read more >
Written by James Baldwin
Illustrated by Edward P. Jones
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
Publisher: Beacon Press
On Sale: July 9, 1984
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-0-8070-6431-3 (0-8070-6431-9)
Originally published in 1955, James Baldwin’s first nonfiction book has become a much-studied classic. These searing essays on life in Harlem, the protest novel, movies, and Americans abroad remain as powerful today as when they were written.
“He named for me the things you feel but couldn’t utter. . . ... Read more >
Notes of a Native Son
Written by James Baldwin
Foreword by Edward P. Jones
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
Publisher: Beacon Press
On Sale: November 20, 2012
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-8070-0623-8 (0-8070-0623-8)
Since its original publication in 1955, this first nonfiction collection of essays by James Baldwin remains an American classic. His impassioned essays on life in Harlem, the protest novel, movies, and African Americans abroad are as powerful today as when they were first written. This new edition, published for the 25th... Read more >
Written by James Baldwin
Foreword by Edward P. Jones
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
Publisher: Beacon Press
On Sale: November 20, 2012
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-8070-0623-8 (0-8070-0623-8)
Since its original publication in 1955, this first nonfiction collection of essays by James Baldwin remains an American classic. His impassioned essays on life in Harlem, the protest novel, movies, and African Americans abroad are as powerful today as when they were first written. This new edition, published for the 25th... Read more >
One Day When I Was Lost
Written by James Baldwin
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: August 14, 2007
Price: $13.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-27594-3 (0-307-27594-9)
Based on Alex Haley’s bestselling classic The Autobiography of Malcolm X comes a rare, lucidly composed screenplay from one of America’s great masters of letters.
Son of a Baptist minister; New York City hustler; honor student; convicted criminal; powerful minister in the Nation of Islam; father and husband: Malcolm X transformed himself... Read more >
Written by James Baldwin
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: August 14, 2007
Price: $13.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-27594-3 (0-307-27594-9)
Based on Alex Haley’s bestselling classic The Autobiography of Malcolm X comes a rare, lucidly composed screenplay from one of America’s great masters of letters.
Son of a Baptist minister; New York City hustler; honor student; convicted criminal; powerful minister in the Nation of Islam; father and husband: Malcolm X transformed himself... Read more >
Vintage Baldwin
Written by James Baldwin
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: January 6, 2004
Price: $10.95
ISBN: 978-1-4000-3394-2 (1-4000-3394-2)
“One of the few genuinely indispensable writers.” —The Saturday Review
James Baldwin’s ability to create lasting literature that continues to challenge us is made abundantly clear in the short story “Sonny’s Blues”; the essays “My Dungeon Shook: Letter to My Nephew on the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Emancipation” from The Fire... Read more >
Written by James Baldwin
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: January 6, 2004
Price: $10.95
ISBN: 978-1-4000-3394-2 (1-4000-3394-2)
“One of the few genuinely indispensable writers.” —The Saturday Review
James Baldwin’s ability to create lasting literature that continues to challenge us is made abundantly clear in the short story “Sonny’s Blues”; the essays “My Dungeon Shook: Letter to My Nephew on the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Emancipation” from The Fire... Read more >
Gorilla, My Love
Written by Toni Cade Bambara
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: June 30, 1992
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-73898-5 (0-679-73898-3)
In these fifteen stories, written in a style at once ineffable and immediately recognizable, Toni Cade Bambara gives us compelling portraits of a wide range of unforgettable characters, from sassy children to cunning old men, in scenes shifting between uptown New York and rural North Carolina. A young girl suffers her... Read more >
Written by Toni Cade Bambara
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: June 30, 1992
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-73898-5 (0-679-73898-3)
In these fifteen stories, written in a style at once ineffable and immediately recognizable, Toni Cade Bambara gives us compelling portraits of a wide range of unforgettable characters, from sassy children to cunning old men, in scenes shifting between uptown New York and rural North Carolina. A young girl suffers her... Read more >
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The Salt Eaters
Written by Toni Cade Bambara
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: June 30, 1992
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-679-74076-6 (0-679-74076-7)
Set in Claybourne, a town somewhere in the South, The Salt Eaters is the story of a community of black people searching for the healing properties of salt, who witness an event that will change their lives forever. From the men who live off welfare-women to the mud mothers who carry... Read more >
Written by Toni Cade Bambara
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: June 30, 1992
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-679-74076-6 (0-679-74076-7)
Set in Claybourne, a town somewhere in the South, The Salt Eaters is the story of a community of black people searching for the healing properties of salt, who witness an event that will change their lives forever. From the men who live off welfare-women to the mud mothers who carry... Read more >
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The Sea Birds Are Still Alive
Written by Toni Cade Bambara
Format: Trade Paperback, 220 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: August 12, 1982
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-394-71176-8 (0-394-71176-9)
Here are ten stories of Black life written with Bambara's characteristic vigor, sensibility and winning irony. The stories range from the timid and bumbling confusion of a novice community worker in "The Apprentice" to the love-versus-politics crisis of an organizer's wife, to the dark and bright notes of the title story... Read more >
Written by Toni Cade Bambara
Format: Trade Paperback, 220 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: August 12, 1982
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-394-71176-8 (0-394-71176-9)
Here are ten stories of Black life written with Bambara's characteristic vigor, sensibility and winning irony. The stories range from the timid and bumbling confusion of a novice community worker in "The Apprentice" to the love-versus-politics crisis of an organizer's wife, to the dark and bright notes of the title story... Read more >
Those Bones Are Not My Child
A Novel
Written by Toni Cade Bambara
Format: Trade Paperback, 688 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: October 24, 2000
Price: $24.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-77408-2 (0-679-77408-4)
In a suspenseful novel of uncommon depth and intensity, Toni Cade Bambara renders a harrowing portrait of a city under siege. Having elected its first black mayor in 1980, Atlanta projected an image of political progressiveness and prosperity. But between September 1979 and June 1981, more than forty black children were... Read more >
A Novel
Written by Toni Cade Bambara
Format: Trade Paperback, 688 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: October 24, 2000
Price: $24.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-77408-2 (0-679-77408-4)
In a suspenseful novel of uncommon depth and intensity, Toni Cade Bambara renders a harrowing portrait of a city under siege. Having elected its first black mayor in 1980, Atlanta projected an image of political progressiveness and prosperity. But between September 1979 and June 1981, more than forty black children were... Read more >
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Beloved Harlem
A Literary Tribute to Black America's Most Famous Neighborhood, From the Classics to The Contemporary
Written by William H. Banks, Jr.
Format: Trade Paperback, 544 pages
Publisher: Broadway
On Sale: August 2, 2005
Price: $27.00
ISBN: 978-0-7679-1478-9 (0-7679-1478-3)
A passionate ode to an American mecca, Beloved Harlem is a literary look into the vibrant African-American haven, edited by one of its celebrated native sons. William H. Banks, Jr., award-winning writer and Executive Director of the esteemed Harlem Writers Guild, combines the classics with the contemporary as he showcases some... Read more >
A Literary Tribute to Black America's Most Famous Neighborhood, From the Classics to The Contemporary
Written by William H. Banks, Jr.
Format: Trade Paperback, 544 pages
Publisher: Broadway
On Sale: August 2, 2005
Price: $27.00
ISBN: 978-0-7679-1478-9 (0-7679-1478-3)
A passionate ode to an American mecca, Beloved Harlem is a literary look into the vibrant African-American haven, edited by one of its celebrated native sons. William H. Banks, Jr., award-winning writer and Executive Director of the esteemed Harlem Writers Guild, combines the classics with the contemporary as he showcases some... Read more >
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The Seventh Child
Written by Freddie Mae Baxter and Gloria Bley Miller
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: May 9, 2000
Price: $12.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-70593-9 (0-375-70593-7)
Told with the irrepressible warmth and humor of a natural-born storyteller, The Seventh Child is the chronicle of a remarkable woman's life, and of three generations of an African-American family.
The seventh of eight children, Freddie Mae Baxter was born in 1923 in rural South Carolina. When her father left the family... Read more >
Written by Freddie Mae Baxter and Gloria Bley Miller
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: May 9, 2000
Price: $12.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-70593-9 (0-375-70593-7)
Told with the irrepressible warmth and humor of a natural-born storyteller, The Seventh Child is the chronicle of a remarkable woman's life, and of three generations of an African-American family.
The seventh of eight children, Freddie Mae Baxter was born in 1923 in rural South Carolina. When her father left the family... Read more >
Tuff
A Novel
Written by Paul Beatty
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: August 21, 2001
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-385-72111-0 (0-385-72111-0)
As fast-paced and hard-edged as the Harlem streets it portrays, Tuff shows off all of the amazing skill that Paul Beatty showed off in his first novel, The White Boy Shuffle.
Weighing in at 320 pounds, Winston “Tuffy” Foshay, is an East Harlem denizen who breaks jaws and shoots dogs and dreams... Read more >
A Novel
Written by Paul Beatty
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: August 21, 2001
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-385-72111-0 (0-385-72111-0)
As fast-paced and hard-edged as the Harlem streets it portrays, Tuff shows off all of the amazing skill that Paul Beatty showed off in his first novel, The White Boy Shuffle.
Weighing in at 320 pounds, Winston “Tuffy” Foshay, is an East Harlem denizen who breaks jaws and shoots dogs and dreams... Read more >
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My Song
A Memoir of Art, Race, and Defiance
Written by Harry Belafonte and Michael Shnayerson
Format: Trade Paperback, 480 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: November 13, 2012
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-47342-4 (0-307-47342-2)
An eloquently told personal account of an era of enormous cultural and political change, which reveals Harry Belafonte as not only one of America’s greatest entertainers, but also one of our most profoundly influential activists.
Harry Belafonte spent his childhood in both Harlem and Jamaica, where the toughness of the city and... Read more >
A Memoir of Art, Race, and Defiance
Written by Harry Belafonte and Michael Shnayerson
Format: Trade Paperback, 480 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: November 13, 2012
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-47342-4 (0-307-47342-2)
An eloquently told personal account of an era of enormous cultural and political change, which reveals Harry Belafonte as not only one of America’s greatest entertainers, but also one of our most profoundly influential activists.
Harry Belafonte spent his childhood in both Harlem and Jamaica, where the toughness of the city and... Read more >
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unabridged audio CD,
unabridged audiobook download,
eBook,
hardcover and in
large print trade paperback.
The Haunting of Hip Hop
A Novel
Written by Bertice Berry
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Broadway
On Sale: August 13, 2002
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-7679-1212-9 (0-7679-1212-8)
Now In Paperback.
In ancient West Africa, the drum was more than a musical instrument, it was a vehicle of communication–it conveyed information, told stories, and passed on the wisdom of generations. The magic of the drum remains alive today, and with her memsmerizing second novel, Berry brings those powerful beats to... Read more >
A Novel
Written by Bertice Berry
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Broadway
On Sale: August 13, 2002
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-7679-1212-9 (0-7679-1212-8)
Now In Paperback.
In ancient West Africa, the drum was more than a musical instrument, it was a vehicle of communication–it conveyed information, told stories, and passed on the wisdom of generations. The magic of the drum remains alive today, and with her memsmerizing second novel, Berry brings those powerful beats to... Read more >
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eBook.
Bright Boulevards, Bold Dreams
The Story of Black Hollywood
Written by Donald Bogle
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
Publisher: One World/Ballantine
On Sale: January 31, 2006
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-345-45419-5 (0-345-45419-7)
In Bright Boulevards, Bold Dreams, Donald Bogle tells–for the first time–the story of a place both mythic and real: Black Hollywood. Spanning sixty years, this history uncovers the audacious manner in which many blacks made a place for themselves in an industry that originally had no place for them.
Through interviews... Read more >
The Story of Black Hollywood
Written by Donald Bogle
Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages
Publisher: One World/Ballantine
On Sale: January 31, 2006
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-345-45419-5 (0-345-45419-7)
In Bright Boulevards, Bold Dreams, Donald Bogle tells–for the first time–the story of a place both mythic and real: Black Hollywood. Spanning sixty years, this history uncovers the audacious manner in which many blacks made a place for themselves in an industry that originally had no place for them.
Through interviews... Read more >
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eBook.
Black Thunder
Gabriel's Revolt: Virginia, 1800
Edited by Anna Bontemps
Format: Trade Paperback, 248 pages
Publisher: Beacon Press
On Sale: April 1, 1992
Price: $20.00
ISBN: 978-0-8070-6337-8 (0-8070-6337-1)
“Written in 1936 and based on an actual slave revolt, this critically acclaimed novel celebrates slave Gabriel Prossier’s struggle to end racial oppression.” — Publishers Weekly
“Gabriel Prosser’s 1800 slave revolt allowed Bontemps to warn of the rebellion that would come of poverty and racial oppression. This metaphor of revolution is at... Read more >
Gabriel's Revolt: Virginia, 1800
Edited by Anna Bontemps
Format: Trade Paperback, 248 pages
Publisher: Beacon Press
On Sale: April 1, 1992
Price: $20.00
ISBN: 978-0-8070-6337-8 (0-8070-6337-1)
“Written in 1936 and based on an actual slave revolt, this critically acclaimed novel celebrates slave Gabriel Prossier’s struggle to end racial oppression.” — Publishers Weekly
“Gabriel Prosser’s 1800 slave revolt allowed Bontemps to warn of the rebellion that would come of poverty and racial oppression. This metaphor of revolution is at... Read more >
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The Harlem Reader
A Celebration of New York's Most Famous Neighborhood, from the Renaissance Years to the 21st Century
Written by Herb Boyd
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: Broadway
On Sale: May 13, 2003
Price: $19.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-4681-2 (1-4000-4681-5)
From its humble beginnings as a farming district and country retreat for the rich, Harlem rapidly developed and grew to achieve international prominence as the mecca of black art and culture. Then, due to various socio-economic changes and cultural changes, it became a city symbolizing urban decay.
However,during all of its... Read more >
A Celebration of New York's Most Famous Neighborhood, from the Renaissance Years to the 21st Century
Written by Herb Boyd
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: Broadway
On Sale: May 13, 2003
Price: $19.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-4681-2 (1-4000-4681-5)
From its humble beginnings as a farming district and country retreat for the rich, Harlem rapidly developed and grew to achieve international prominence as the mecca of black art and culture. Then, due to various socio-economic changes and cultural changes, it became a city symbolizing urban decay.
However,during all of its... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
Unafraid of the Dark
A Memoir
Written by Rosemary Bray
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: March 16, 1999
Price: $16.95
ISBN: 978-0-385-49475-5 (0-385-49475-0)
In her deeply affecting, vividly written memoir, Rosemary L. Bray describes with remarkable frankness growing up poor in Chicago in the 1960s, and her childhood shaped by welfare, the Roman Catholic Church, and the civil rights movement. Bray writes poignantly of her lasting dread of the cold and the dark that... Read more >
A Memoir
Written by Rosemary Bray
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: March 16, 1999
Price: $16.95
ISBN: 978-0-385-49475-5 (0-385-49475-0)
In her deeply affecting, vividly written memoir, Rosemary L. Bray describes with remarkable frankness growing up poor in Chicago in the 1960s, and her childhood shaped by welfare, the Roman Catholic Church, and the civil rights movement. Bray writes poignantly of her lasting dread of the cold and the dark that... Read more >
Big Girls Don't Cry
Written by Connie Briscoe
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
Publisher: One World/Ballantine
On Sale: July 1, 1997
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-0-345-41362-8 (0-345-41362-8)
The New York Times Bestseller
The 1997 Blackboard African American Bestseller's Book of the Year
Born into a comfortable Washington, D.C. home, Naomi Jefferson leads a life that is only occasionally marred by racism. But all that changes when her older brother Joshua--who seems destined for greatness--is killed in a tragic car accident on... Read more >
Written by Connie Briscoe
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
Publisher: One World/Ballantine
On Sale: July 1, 1997
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-0-345-41362-8 (0-345-41362-8)
The New York Times Bestseller
The 1997 Blackboard African American Bestseller's Book of the Year
Born into a comfortable Washington, D.C. home, Naomi Jefferson leads a life that is only occasionally marred by racism. But all that changes when her older brother Joshua--who seems destined for greatness--is killed in a tragic car accident on... Read more >
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Neecey's Lullaby
A novel
Written by Cris Burks
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Broadway
On Sale: March 14, 2006
Price: $12.95
ISBN: 978-0-7679-1983-8 (0-7679-1983-1)
The story of a girl tempered in a crucible of abuse and neglect, Neecey’s Lullaby is a superbly crafted narrative in the spirit of the bestselling novels Push and Bastard Out of Carolina.
Growing up in Chicago in the 1950s, Neecey once felt that her world was perfect. She was loved... Read more >
A novel
Written by Cris Burks
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Broadway
On Sale: March 14, 2006
Price: $12.95
ISBN: 978-0-7679-1983-8 (0-7679-1983-1)
The story of a girl tempered in a crucible of abuse and neglect, Neecey’s Lullaby is a superbly crafted narrative in the spirit of the bestselling novels Push and Bastard Out of Carolina.
Growing up in Chicago in the 1950s, Neecey once felt that her world was perfect. She was loved... Read more >
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eBook.
Kindred
Written by Octavia Butler
Format: Hardcover, 264 pages
Publisher: Beacon Press
On Sale: February 1, 2009
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 978-0-8070-8310-9 (0-8070-8310-0)
Dana, a modern black woman, is celebrating her twenty-sixth birthday with her new husband when she is snatched abruptly from her home in California and transported to the antebellum South. Rufus, the white son of a plantation owner, is drowning, and Dana has been summoned to save him. Dana is drawn... Read more >
Written by Octavia Butler
Format: Hardcover, 264 pages
Publisher: Beacon Press
On Sale: February 1, 2009
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 978-0-8070-8310-9 (0-8070-8310-0)
Dana, a modern black woman, is celebrating her twenty-sixth birthday with her new husband when she is snatched abruptly from her home in California and transported to the antebellum South. Rufus, the white son of a plantation owner, is drowning, and Dana has been summoned to save him. Dana is drawn... Read more >
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Kindred
Written by Octavia Butler
Format: Trade Paperback, 264 pages
Publisher: Beacon Press
On Sale: February 1, 2004
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-8070-8369-7 (0-8070-8369-0)
Dana, a modern black woman, is celebrating her twenty-sixth birthday with her new husband when she is snatched abruptly from her home in California and transported to the antebellum South. Rufus, the white son of a plantation owner, is drowning, and Dana has been summoned to save him. Dana is drawn... Read more >
Written by Octavia Butler
Format: Trade Paperback, 264 pages
Publisher: Beacon Press
On Sale: February 1, 2004
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-8070-8369-7 (0-8070-8369-0)
Dana, a modern black woman, is celebrating her twenty-sixth birthday with her new husband when she is snatched abruptly from her home in California and transported to the antebellum South. Rufus, the white son of a plantation owner, is drowning, and Dana has been summoned to save him. Dana is drawn... Read more >
Fledgling
A Novel
Written by Octavia E. Butler
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
On Sale: October 4, 2005
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 978-1-58322-690-2 (1-58322-690-7)
Fledgling, Octavia Butler’s first new novel in seven years, is the story of an apparently young, amnesiac girl whose alarmingly un-human needs and abilities lead her to a startling conclusion: she is in fact a genetically modified, 53-year-old vampire. Forced to discover what she can about her stolen former life, she... Read more >
A Novel
Written by Octavia E. Butler
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
On Sale: October 4, 2005
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 978-1-58322-690-2 (1-58322-690-7)
Fledgling, Octavia Butler’s first new novel in seven years, is the story of an apparently young, amnesiac girl whose alarmingly un-human needs and abilities lead her to a startling conclusion: she is in fact a genetically modified, 53-year-old vampire. Forced to discover what she can about her stolen former life, she... Read more >
