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1	Beloved more books like this by Toni Morrison (Read by) add to wishlist It is the mid-1800s. At Sweet Home in Kentucky, an era is ending as slavery comes under attack from the abolitionists. The worlds of Halle and Paul D. are to be destroyed in a cataclysm of torment and agony. The world of Sethe, however, is to turn from one of love to one of violence and death - the death of Sethe's baby daughter Beloved, whose ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.49! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	Bluest Eye more books like this by Toni Morrison add to wishlist The chronicle of the tragic lives of a poor black family in 1940s America. Every night Pecola, unlovely and unloved, prays for blue eyes like those of her white schoolfellows. She becomes the focus of the mingled love and hatred engendered by her family's frailty and the world's cruelty. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.29! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	Sula more books like this by Toni Morrison add to wishlist A novel set in a small town in Ohio, focusing on two girls, Nell and Sula, both black, both poor, who share their dreams until Sula escapes to live a vagrant city life for ten years. When she returns, the bond of their friendship is broken. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.95! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	A Mercy more books like this by Toni Morrison add to wishlist "A Mercy" is a powerful tragedy distilled into a jewel of a masterpiece by the Nobel Prize-winning author of "Beloved" and is almost like a prelude to that story, set two centuries earlier. see all copies from $4.65! new only from $8.67! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	Song of Solomon more books like this by Toni Morrison add to wishlist This is the story of Macon "Milkman" Dead, heir to the richest black family in a Midwestern town, as he makes a voyage of rediscovery, travelling southwards geographically and inwards spiritually. Through the enlightenment of one man, the novel recapitulates the history of slavery and liberation. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.75! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
6	Paradise more books like this by Toni Morrison add to wishlist The theme of this novel is the anatomy of an internecine war, cultural, religious and racial. It is waged between a community of nuns and the strays and misfits who arrive at their convent for safe haven, and those who dwell in the surrounding black township in Oklahoma. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
7	Jazz more books like this by Toni Morrison add to wishlist Joe Trace, door-to-door salesman, erstwhile devoted husband, shoots to death his lover of three months, 18 year old Dorcas. At the funeral, his determined, hardworking wife Violet tries to disfigure the corpse with a knife. Captures the complex humanity of black urban life. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.19! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
8	Love more books like this by Toni Morrison (Read by) add to wishlist Toni Morrison's eighth novel centers on the Cosey family. Bill Cosey rose from poverty to become the millionaire owner of a prosperous resort. His son, Billy Boy, and Billy's daughter, Christine, have opposing views about the place. As years go by, Cosey's wealthy widow, Heed, struggles to keep the upper hand, and Billy's widow, May, becomes ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
9	Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination more books like this by Toni Morrison add to wishlist Morrison ponders the effect that living in a historically racialized society has had on American writing in the 19th and 20th centuries. She argues that race has become a metaphor, a way of referring to forces, events and forms of social decay, economic division and human panic. Her point is that the central characteristics of American literature ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.19! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
10	Tar Baby more books like this by Toni Morrison add to wishlist Into a white millionaire's Caribbean mansion comes: Jadine, a graduate of the Sorbonne, art historian - an American black now living in Paris and Rome and Son, a criminal on the run, uneducated, violent, contemptuous - an American black from small-town Florida. He is a threat to her freedom she is a threat to his identity. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	Big Box more books like this by Toni Morrison, Slade Morrison, Giselle Potter (Illustrator) add to wishlist To make three youngsters - Patty, Mickey and Liza Sue - abide by their rules, the grown-ups - parents, teachers and other adults - create a world inside a box, a world with toys, games, treats and gifts. But all Patty, Mickey and Liza Sue really want is the freedom to be themselves. see all copies from $10.48! new only from $43.99! \| signed copies \| first editions
12 view cover	Remember: The Journey to School Integration more books like this by Toni Morrison add to wishlist The Pulitzer Prize winner presents a treasure chest of archival photographs that depict the historical events surrounding school desegregation. see all copies from $2.34! new only from $11.75! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	Book of Mean People more books like this by Toni Morrison, Slade Morrison, Pascal Lemaitre (Illustrator) add to wishlist Noble prize-winning author Toni Morrison collaborates with her son, Slade, to present this reassuring look at mean people and angry feelings. Color illustrations accompany the text. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.29! \| first editions
14 view cover	Race-Ing Justice, En-Gendering Power: Essays on Anita Hill, Clarence Thomas, and the Construction of Social Reality more books like this by Toni Morrison (Editor) add to wishlist In October 1991, one of the most controversial cases in recent years unfolded in the US Supreme Court - the Clarence Thomas/Anita Hill hearings, a disturbing series of hearings which were broadcast on television and radio throughout the world. The case focused on language, on the legal problems in establishing the truth and on the justice system ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.49! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	Beloved-Gift Edition more books like this by Toni Morrison add to wishlist Sethe, an escaped slave, kills her own daughter Beloved with a handsaw to prevent her from being claimed as a slave in this stunningly rendered story. Beloved returns to her mother as a ghost 20 years later. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.85! \| first editions
16 view cover	Conversations with Toni Morrison more books like this by Danille K Taylor-Guthrie (Editor), Toni Morrison add to wishlist This is a collection of interviews, beginning in 1974, with Toni Morrison, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. Morrison describes herself as an African-American writer, and these essays show her to be an artist whose creativity is intimately linked with her African-American experience. see all copies from $4.47! new only from $13.94! \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	The House That Race Built: Original Essays by Toni Morrison, Angela Y. Davis, Cornel West, and Others on Bl Ack Americans and Politics in America Today more books like this by Toni Morrison, Cornel West, Angela Yvonne Davis add to wishlist Like Race Matters and Playing in the Dark, The House That Race Built is a cutting-edge work that confronts, honestly and passionately, the most critical issues facing American culture today along the fissure of race. In these essays, brought together by the scholar Wahneema Lubiano, some of today's most respected intellectuals share their ideas on ... see all copies from $2.20! new only from $10.89! \| SVS
18 view cover	Birth of a nation'hood : gaze, script and spectacle in the O.J. Simpson case more books like this by Toni Morrison, Claudia Brodsky Lacour add to wishlist A collection of 13 essays by academics - black and white, male and female - which explore the historical, political, cultural, psychological, racial and linguistic aspects of the O.J. Simpson case. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.16! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	Deep Sightings & Rescue Missions: Fiction, Essays, and Conversations more books like this by Toni Cade Bambara, Toni Morrison (Editor) add to wishlist Six stories, unpublished at Bambara's untimely death, plus six essays, all of which examine the role of the writer as activist and demonstrate her concern for the lives of the most powerless black Americans. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.90! \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	The Dancing Mind: Speech Upon Acceptance of the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished C Ontribution to American Letters more books like this by Toni Morrison add to wishlist On the occasion of her acceptance of the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters on the sixth of November, 1996, Nobel laureate Toni Morrison speaks with brevity and passion to the pleasures, the difficulties, the necessities, of the reading/writing life in our time. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	Baldwin: Collected Essays: One of Two Volume Collection more books like this by James A Baldwin, Toni Morrison (Editor) add to wishlist "Collected Essays" is the most comprehensive gathering of Baldwin's nonfiction ever published. The collection confirms his as a uniquely prophetic voice in American letters. Included are such famous essays as "The Harlem Ghetto", "Everybody's Protest Novel", Many Thousands Gone", and "Stranger in the Village". see all copies from $20.60! new only from $20.60! \| SVS
22 view cover	The Ant or the Grasshopper? more books like this by Toni Morrison, Slade Morrison, Pascal Lemaitre (Illustrator) add to wishlist An ant named Kid A works hard to prepare for winter while his friend, a grasshopper named Foxy G, makes his tasks easier by performing inspiring music for him. When winter comes, will Kid A remember Foxy G's kindness? This updated version of Aesop's "The Ant and the Grasshopper," presents the fable in a colorful comic book-style format. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $11.50! \| signed copies \| first editions
23 view cover	Burn This Book: Pen Writers Speak Out on the Power of the Word more books like this by Toni Morrison add to wishlist In "Witness: The Inward Testimony" Nadine Gordimer discusses the role of the writer as observer, and as someone who sees 'what is really taking place'. She looks to Proust, Oe, Flaubert, Graham Green to see how their philosophy squares with her own, ultimately concluding 'Literature has been and remains a means of people rediscovering themselves.' ... see all copies from $9.50! new only from $10.02! \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	What Moves at the Margin: Selected Nonfiction more books like this by Toni Morrison, Carolyn C Denard (Editor) add to wishlist Collecting three decades of Morrison's writings about her work, life, literature, and American society, this collection provides a unique glimpse into her viewpoint as an observer of the world, the arts, and the changing landscape of American culture. see all copies from $14.75! new only from $18.68! \| first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	Nobel Lecture in Literature, 1993 more books like this by Toni Morrison add to wishlist Toni Morrison, winner of the 1993 Nobel Prize in Literature, reads the speech she delivered in Stockholm, Sweden, at the Nobel Prize Award Ceremony. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $12.28! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS

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