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Cooking with Grease: Stirring the Pots in America

by Donna Brazile

Published: 2005-06-02

Paperback: 368 pages

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Cooking with Grease is an inspiring, behind-the-scenes memoir of the life and times of a tenacious political organizer and the first African-American woman to head a major presidential campaign. Donna Brazile fought her first political fight at age nine -- campaigning (successfully) for a...

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Consequences

by Linda R. Herman

Published: 2009-01-19

Paperback: 252 pages

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It all begins with the look; that initial contact when the eyes speak loud and clear as to what the body craves. Deep, wet, passionate kisses leading to mind blowing orgasms that leaves the body trembling much like a leaf on a tree on the windiest of days. Sex. It's meant to be a beautiful bond, a physically...

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The Known World: A Novel

by Edward P. Jones

Published: 2017-10-10

Paperback: 496 pages

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From Edward P. Jones comes one of the most acclaimed novels in recent memory—winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction—now available in a limited Olive Edition.The Known World tells the story of Henry Townsend, a black farmer and fo...

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Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad

by Ann Petry

Published: 2007-08-14

Paperback: 256 pages

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The quintessential biography for middle grade readers of Harriet Tubman, the anti-slavery hero who is expected to be the face of the new $20 bill. The New Yorker praised this book as “an evocative portrait,” and the Chicago Tribune called it “superb.”Harriet Tubman was born a slave...

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Underground To Canada 25th Anniversary Edition

by Barbara Smucker

Published: 2003-02-11

Mass Market Paperback: 144 pages

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Taken away from her mother by a ruthless slave trader, all Julilly has left is the dream of freedom. Every day that she spends huddled in the slave trader’s wagon travelling south or working on the brutal new plantation, she thinks about the land where it is possible to be free, a land s...

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The Living is Easy

by Dorothy West

Published: 1995-07-01

Paperback: 376 pages

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This stunning first novel by the author of The Wedding is one of only a handful of novels published by black women during the 1940s. It tells the story of Cleo Judson—daughter of southern sharecroppers and wife of "Black Banana King" Bart Judson. Cleo seeks to recreate her original famil...

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The UnSimple Truth

by Renee LaCour

Published: 2011

Paperback: 316 pages

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Upstate: A Novel

by Kalisha Buckhanon

Published: 2006-01-10

Paperback: 256 pages

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"Baby, the first thing I need to know from you is do you believe I killed my father?"So begins Upstate, a powerful story told through letters between seventeen-year-old Antonio and his sixteen-year-old girlfriend, Natasha, set in the 1990's in New York. Antonio and Natasha's world is turne...

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Don't Want No Sugar

by J. D. Mason

Published: 2004-10-07

Hardcover: 320 pages

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Everyone knew that Eula May had lost her mind over loving a married man. It was what drove her to kill herself and leave her only daughter, Roberta, in the care of the local mid-wife. So it was no wonder that Roberta became obsessed with Charles Harris the very first time she laid eyes o...

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Love (Morrison, Toni)

by Toni Morrison

Published: 2003-10-28

Kindle Edition: 224 pages

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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 alm...