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The Color Purple
Set in the period between the world wars, this novel tells of two sisters, their trials, and their survival.
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A Lesson Before Dying
NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER • A deep and compassionate novel about a young man who returns to 1940s Cajun country to visit a Black youth on death row …
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Meridian
Meridian is a poignant and powerful story of the American South in the 1960s and of one woman who risks her life for the people she loves. Meridian Hill, a …
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The Women of Brewster Place
The National Book Award-winning novel—and contemporary classic—that launched the brilliant career of Gloria Naylor, now with a foreword by Tayari Jones “[A] shrewd and lyrical portrayal of many of the …
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The Men of Brewster Place
Naylor returns to the fictional neighborhood, this time focusing on the men behind the women who inhabited that desolate block of row houses, telling their tragic, sad, funny, and heroic …
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Property
Property is Valerie Martin's powerful, starting novel set in America's deep South in the early nineteenth century : a story of freedom, both political and personal.
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A Gathering of Old Men
A powerful depiction of racial tensions arising over the death of a Cajun farmer at the hands of a black man--set on a Louisiana sugarcane plantation in the 1970s. The …
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The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
“Grand, robust, a rich and big novel.”—Alice Walker, The New York Times Book Review “In [Jane Pittman], Ernest Gaines has created a legendary figure. . . . Gaines’s novel brings …
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Go tell it on the mountain : [a novel]
This novel of Black life in America is written with an impartial attitude
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Beloved
Sethe. Proud and beautiful, she escaped from slavery but is haunted by its heritage - from the fires of the flesh to the heartbreaking challenges to the spirit.
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Invisible Man
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • In this deeply compelling novel and epic milestone of American literature, a nameless narrator tells his story from the basement lair of …
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Black Boy
Richard Wright describes what it was like growing up in Jim Crow-era Mississippi.
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Wolf Whistle
In 1955, in Arrow-Catcher, Mississippi, fourth-grade teacher Alice Conroy, hoping to teach her children something important, takes her class on field trips to the bedside of a terminally burned classmate, …