Toni Morrison

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Florida

Captures the dreams, memories, conflicts, and complex interior lives of the citizens of a small, all-Black town as four young women are brutally attacked in a convent near the town during the 1970s, in a novel that blends past, present, and future

Paradise

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Amanda Gorman

Oprah Winfrey

Dust jacket smudged in a few spots; ex-library copy

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

New Jersey

An Inaugural Poem for the Country

"On January 20, 2021, Amanda Gorman became the sixth and youngest poet, at age twenty-two, to deliver a poetry reading at a presidential inauguration. Her inaugural poem, 'The Hill We Climb,' is now available to cherish in this special edition"

The Hill We Climb

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Ohio

For fans of Sorry to Bother You and The Wolf of Wall Street comes a blazing, satirical debut novel about a young man given a shot at stardom as the lone black salesman at a mysterious, cult-like, and wildly successful startup where nothing is as it seems.

Black Buck

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De'Shawn Charles Winslow

For readers of The Twelve Tribes of Hattie and The Turner House, an intimately told story about a woman living by her own rules and the rural community that struggles to understand her.

In West Mills

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Mateo Askaripour

Louisiana

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Maryland

#hardcover #fiction #tonimorrison #blackauthors  first edition, does have name of previous owner on inside front cover. Slight stain on outside bottom edge of pages.

Virginia

Helen Oyeyemi

Maine

From the award-winning author of Boy, Snow, Bird and Mr. Fox comes an enchanting collection of intertwined stories. Playful, ambitious, and exquisitely imagined, What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours is cleverly built around the idea of keys, literal and metaphorical. The key to a house, the key to a heart, the key to a secret--Oyeyemi's keys not only unlock elements of her characters' lives, they promise further labyrinths on the other side. In "Books and Roses" one special key opens a library, a garden, and clues to at least two lovers' fates. In "Is Your Blood as Red as This?" an unlikely key opens the heart of a student at a puppeteering school. "'Sorry' Doesn't Sweeten Her Tea" involves a "house of locks," where doors can be closed only with a key--with surprising, unobservable developments. And in "If a Book Is Locked There's Probably a Good Reason for That Don't You Think," a key keeps a mystical diary locked (for good reason). Oyeyemi's creative vision and storytelling are effervescent, wise, and insightful, and her tales span multiple times and landscapes as they tease boundaries between coexisting realities. Is a key a gate, a gift, or an invitation? What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours captivates as it explores the many possible answers.

What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours

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Massachusetts

New York

#fiction #africanamericans #hardcover #lovestories #fourstories #fourauthors

Four Original Love Stories

Got to be Real

Pristine condition with a gorgeous jacket. #ya #youngadult #blackvoices #blackauthors #comingofage 

Utah

Picked on at home, criticized for talking trash while beating boys at basketball, and always seen as less than her best friend, a girl struggles to like and accept herself.

Chlorine Sky

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California

Iowa

#fiction #hardcover #awardwinningauthor #singunburiedsing #blackauthors #botm #contemporary #familysaga 

Washington

A Novel

"A searing and profound Southern odyssey through Mississippi's past and present"--

Sing, Unburied, Sing

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#hardcover #fiction #americanworkforce #blackbuck #satire #blackauthors 

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Nyani Nkrumah

South Carolina

Resonant with the emotional urgency of Alice Walker's classic Meridian and the poignant charm of Sue Monk Kidd's The Secret Life of Bees, a gripping debut novel of female power and vulnerability, race, and class that explores the unlikely friendship between a precocious black girl and a mysterious white woman in a small Mississippi town in the early 1980s.

Set in 1982, in rural, racially divided Ricksville, Mississippi Wade in the Water tells the story of Ella, a black, unloved, precocious eleven-year-old, and Ms. St. James, a mysterious white woman from Princeton who appears in Ella's community to carry out some research. Soon, Ms. St. James befriends Ella, who is willing to risk everything to keep her new friend in a town that does not want her there. The relationship between Ella and Ms. St. James, at times loving and funny and other times tense and cautious, becomes more fraught and complex as Ella unwittingly pushes at Ms. St. James's carefully constructed boundaries that guard a complicated past, and dangerous secrets that could have devastating consequences.    

Told in two voices, Ella's and Ms. St. James's, and set around richly developed characters, this riveting, page turning coming of age story will keep readers entranced until the last shocking revelation.  

Wade in the Water

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Paradise by Toni Morrison (1997, Hardcover). Gently used, excellent condition. You will receive book in photos. Love the item but not the price, make an offer. #hardcover #fiction #tonimorrison #oprahsbookclub #historical #woc #blackauthors #historicalfiction 

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