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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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A Mercy
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: August 11, 2009
Price: $15.00
National Bestseller
One of The New York Times 10 Best Books of the Year
In the 1680s the slave trade in the Americas is still in its infancy. Jacob Vaark is an Anglo-Dutch trader and adventurer, with a small holding in the harsh North. Despite his distaste for dealing in “flesh,” he... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: August 11, 2009
Price: $15.00
National Bestseller
One of The New York Times 10 Best Books of the Year
In the 1680s the slave trade in the Americas is still in its infancy. Jacob Vaark is an Anglo-Dutch trader and adventurer, with a small holding in the harsh North. Despite his distaste for dealing in “flesh,” he... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audio CD,
unabridged audiobook download,
eBook,
hardcover and in
large print trade paperback.
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Beloved
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: June 8, 2004
Price: $15.00
Staring unflinchingly into the abyss of slavery, this spellbinding novel 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 eighteen years later she is still not free. She has too many memories of... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: June 8, 2004
Price: $15.00
Staring unflinchingly into the abyss of slavery, this spellbinding novel 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 eighteen years later she is still not free. She has too many memories of... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audio CD,
unabridged audiobook download,
eBook,
hardcover,
hardcover and in
large print trade paperback.
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The Bluest Eye
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
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 >
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
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 >
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Song of Solomon
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: June 8, 2004
Price: $15.00
Milkman Dead was born shortly after a neighborhood eccentric hurled himself off a rooftop in a vain attempt at flight. For the rest of his life he, too, will be trying to fly. With this brilliantly imagined novel, Toni Morrison transfigures the coming-of-age story as audaciously as Saul Bellow or Gabriel... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: June 8, 2004
Price: $15.00
Milkman Dead was born shortly after a neighborhood eccentric hurled himself off a rooftop in a vain attempt at flight. For the rest of his life he, too, will be trying to fly. With this brilliantly imagined novel, Toni Morrison transfigures the coming-of-age story as audaciously as Saul Bellow or Gabriel... Read more >
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Sula
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: June 8, 2004
Price: $14.00
Two 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. Their devotion is fierce enough to withstand bullies... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: June 8, 2004
Price: $14.00
Two 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. Their devotion is fierce enough to withstand bullies... Read more >
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The Black Book
Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
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 >
Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
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 >
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Jazz
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: June 8, 2004
Price: $13.95
In the winter of 1926, when everybody everywhere sees nothing but good things ahead, Joe Trace, middle-aged door-to-door salesman of Cleopatra beauty products, shoots his teenage lover to death. At the funeral, Joe’s wife, Violet, attacks the girl’s corpse. This passionate, profound story of love and obsession brings us back and... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: June 8, 2004
Price: $13.95
In the winter of 1926, when everybody everywhere sees nothing but good things ahead, Joe Trace, middle-aged door-to-door salesman of Cleopatra beauty products, shoots his teenage lover to death. At the funeral, Joe’s wife, Violet, attacks the girl’s corpse. This passionate, profound story of love and obsession brings us back and... Read more >
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Love
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: January 4, 2005
Price: $13.95
Nobel Prize laureate Toni Morrison’s spellbinding new novel is a Faulknerian symphony of passion and hatred, power and perversity, color and class that spans three generations of black women in a fading beach town.
In life, Bill Cosey enjoyed the affections of many women, who would do almost anything to gain his... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: January 4, 2005
Price: $13.95
Nobel Prize laureate Toni Morrison’s spellbinding new novel is a Faulknerian symphony of passion and hatred, power and perversity, color and class that spans three generations of black women in a fading beach town.
In life, Bill Cosey enjoyed the affections of many women, who would do almost anything to gain his... Read more >
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A Mercy
Format: Hardcover, 176 pages
On Sale: November 11, 2008
Price: $23.95
A powerful tragedy distilled into a jewel of a masterpiece by the Nobel Prize–winning author of Beloved and, almost like a prelude to that story, set two centuries earlier.
In the 1680s the slave trade was still in its infancy. In the Americas, virulent religious and class divisions, prejudice and oppression were... Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 176 pages
On Sale: November 11, 2008
Price: $23.95
A powerful tragedy distilled into a jewel of a masterpiece by the Nobel Prize–winning author of Beloved and, almost like a prelude to that story, set two centuries earlier.
In the 1680s the slave trade was still in its infancy. In the Americas, virulent religious and class divisions, prejudice and oppression were... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audio CD,
unabridged audiobook download,
eBook,
trade paperback and in
large print trade paperback.
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Beloved
Format: Hardcover, 360 pages
On Sale: October 17, 2006
Price: $24.00
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
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... Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 360 pages
On Sale: October 17, 2006
Price: $24.00
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
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... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audio CD,
unabridged audiobook download,
eBook,
hardcover,
trade paperback and in
large print trade paperback.
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Tar Baby
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: June 8, 2004
Price: $14.00
Ravishingly beautiful and emotionally incendiary, Tar Baby is Toni Morrison’s reinvention of the love story. Jadine Childs is a black fashion model with a white patron, a white boyfriend, and a coat made out of ninety perfect sealskins. Son is a black fugitive who embodies everything she loathes and desires. As... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: June 8, 2004
Price: $14.00
Ravishingly beautiful and emotionally incendiary, Tar Baby is Toni Morrison’s reinvention of the love story. Jadine Childs is a black fashion model with a white patron, a white boyfriend, and a coat made out of ninety perfect sealskins. Son is a black fugitive who embodies everything she loathes and desires. As... Read more >
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Playing In The Dark
Format: Trade Paperback, 112 pages
On Sale: July 27, 1993
Price: $11.95
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Beloved and Jazz now gives us a learned, stylish, and immensely persuasive work of literary criticism that promises to change the way we read American literature even as it opens a new chapter in the American dialogue on race.
Toni Morrison's brilliant discussions of the "Africanist" presence... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 112 pages
On Sale: July 27, 1993
Price: $11.95
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Beloved and Jazz now gives us a learned, stylish, and immensely persuasive work of literary criticism that promises to change the way we read American literature even as it opens a new chapter in the American dialogue on race.
Toni Morrison's brilliant discussions of the "Africanist" presence... Read more >
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The Bluest Eye
Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
On Sale: December 28, 1993
Price: $19.95
The Bluest Eye, published in 1970, is the first novel written by Toni Morrison, winner of the 1993 Nobel Prize in Literature.
It is the story of eleven-year-old Pecola Breedlove -- a black girl in an America whose love for its blond, blue-eyed children can devastate all others -- who prays for... Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
On Sale: December 28, 1993
Price: $19.95
The Bluest Eye, published in 1970, is the first novel written by Toni Morrison, winner of the 1993 Nobel Prize in Literature.
It is the story of eleven-year-old Pecola Breedlove -- a black girl in an America whose love for its blond, blue-eyed children can devastate all others -- who prays for... Read more >
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A Mercy
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: November 11, 2008
Price: $29.95
In the 1680s the slave trade was still in its infancy. In the Americas, virulent religious and class divisions, prejudice and oppression were rife, providing the fertile soil in which slavery and race hatred were planted and took root.
Jacob is an Anglo-Dutch trader and adventurer, with a small holding in the... Read more >
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: November 11, 2008
Price: $29.95
In the 1680s the slave trade was still in its infancy. In the Americas, virulent religious and class divisions, prejudice and oppression were rife, providing the fertile soil in which slavery and race hatred were planted and took root.
Jacob is an Anglo-Dutch trader and adventurer, with a small holding in the... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audiobook download,
eBook,
hardcover,
trade paperback and in
large print trade paperback.
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Beloved
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: March 20, 2007
Price: $29.95
Staring unflinchingly into the abyss of slavery, this spellbinding audio 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 eighteen years later she is still not free. She has too many memories of... Read more >
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: March 20, 2007
Price: $29.95
Staring unflinchingly into the abyss of slavery, this spellbinding audio 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 eighteen years later she is still not free. She has too many memories of... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audiobook download,
eBook,
hardcover,
hardcover,
trade paperback and in
large print trade paperback.
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The Bluest Eye
Format: Abridged Compact Disc
On Sale: May 8, 2007
Price: $24.95
The Bluest Eye, published in 1970, is the first novel written by Toni Morrison, winner of the 1993 Nobel Prize in Literature.
It is the story of eleven-year-old Pecola Breedlove--a black girl in an America whose love for its blond, blue-eyed children can devastate all others--who prays for her eyes to turn... Read more >
Format: Abridged Compact Disc
On Sale: May 8, 2007
Price: $24.95
The Bluest Eye, published in 1970, is the first novel written by Toni Morrison, winner of the 1993 Nobel Prize in Literature.
It is the story of eleven-year-old Pecola Breedlove--a black girl in an America whose love for its blond, blue-eyed children can devastate all others--who prays for her eyes to turn... Read more >
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Song of Solomon
Format: Hardcover, 416 pages
On Sale: November 14, 1995
Price: $20.00
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
In this celebrated novel, Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison created a new way of rendering the contradictory nuances of black life in America. Its earthy poetic language and striking use of folklore and myth established Morrison as a major voice in contemporary fiction.
Song of Solomon begins with one... Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 416 pages
On Sale: November 14, 1995
Price: $20.00
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
In this celebrated novel, Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison created a new way of rendering the contradictory nuances of black life in America. Its earthy poetic language and striking use of folklore and myth established Morrison as a major voice in contemporary fiction.
Song of Solomon begins with one... Read more >
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The Collected Novels of Toni Morrison
Format: Hardcover
On Sale: March 1, 1994
Price: $125.00
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Format: Hardcover
On Sale: March 1, 1994
Price: $125.00
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Beloved
Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
On Sale: September 29, 1998
Price: $19.95
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 >
Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
On Sale: September 29, 1998
Price: $19.95
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 >
Also available as an
unabridged audio CD,
unabridged audiobook download,
eBook,
hardcover,
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
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The Nobel Lecture In Literature, 1993
Format: Hardcover, 40 pages
On Sale: March 1, 1994
Price: $22.50
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Format: Hardcover, 40 pages
On Sale: March 1, 1994
Price: $22.50
Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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A Mercy
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: November 11, 2008
Price: $24.00
A powerful tragedy distilled into a jewel of a masterpiece by the Nobel Prize–winning author of Beloved and, almost like a prelude to that story, set two centuries earlier.
In the 1680s the slave trade was still in its infancy. In the Americas, virulent religious and class divisions, prejudice and oppression were... Read more >
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: November 11, 2008
Price: $24.00
A powerful tragedy distilled into a jewel of a masterpiece by the Nobel Prize–winning author of Beloved and, almost like a prelude to that story, set two centuries earlier.
In the 1680s the slave trade was still in its infancy. In the Americas, virulent religious and class divisions, prejudice and oppression were... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audio CD,
unabridged audiobook download,
eBook,
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
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Sula
Format: Hardcover, 192 pages
On Sale: April 5, 2002
Price: $24.95
Toni Morrison's first novel, The Bluest Eye (1970), was acclaimed as the work of an important talent, written--as John Leonard said in The New York Times--in a prose "so precise, so faithful to speech and so charged with pain and wonder that the novel becomes poetry."
Sula has the same power, the... Read more >
Format: Hardcover, 192 pages
On Sale: April 5, 2002
Price: $24.95
Toni Morrison's first novel, The Bluest Eye (1970), was acclaimed as the work of an important talent, written--as John Leonard said in The New York Times--in a prose "so precise, so faithful to speech and so charged with pain and wonder that the novel becomes poetry."
Sula has the same power, the... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audio CD,
unabridged audiobook download,
eBook and a
trade paperback.
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Sula
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: August 14, 2007
Price: $29.95
Two 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. Their devotion is fierce enough to withstand bullies... Read more >
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: August 14, 2007
Price: $29.95
Two 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. Their devotion is fierce enough to withstand bullies... Read more >
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Love
Format: Hardcover, 208 pages
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 >
Format: Hardcover, 208 pages
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 >
Also available as an
unabridged audio CD,
unabridged audiobook download,
eBook and a
trade paperback.
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Jazz
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
On Sale: April 7, 1992
Price: $28.95
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 >
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
On Sale: April 7, 1992
Price: $28.95
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 >
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
