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1	A Mercy more books like this by Toni Morrison add to wishlist Nobel Prize-winning author Morrison's latest "New York Times"-bestselling masterpiece centers on a powerful tragedy involving a mother and daughter, and reveals how acts of mercy have unforeseen consequences. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.82! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	Beloved more books like this by Toni Morrison (Read by) 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 $2.32! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	Bluest Eye more books like this by Toni Morrison add to wishlist In this novel about the nature of black identity, narrated by Pecola's friend Claudia, we learn that Pecola was raped by her father, and is plagued with a desire to be white. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	Song of Solomon more books like this by Toni Morrison add to wishlist In Toni Morrison's powerful 1977 novel, Milkman Dead hears a strange story: his father and his aunt Pilate witnessed their father's murder, and Pilate has carried his bones around with her for 20 years. Milkman travels south to find that this grandfather (who fled slavery and escaped, creating a myth of flight) has been immortalized in folktales ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	Sula more books like this by Toni Morrison (Read by) add to wishlist Sula and Nel grow up together in "the Bottom," but when they become adults, their paths diverge. Sula leaves to explore the world, Nel settles down to a quiet life. When they are reunited, the differences between them become apparent--as do, in the end, the similarities. Morrison's novel evokes not only two unique women, but the entire culture of ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
6	Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination more books like this by Toni Morrison add to wishlist Toni Morrison deals with the subject of race as it has appeared in American literature--which has, she claims, often shortchanged blackness in favor of the white majority. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.18! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
7	Paradise more books like this by Toni Morrison add to wishlist Toni Morrison writes about a group of African Americans who found a community in Oklahoma called Ruby. When the outside world threatens the peace of the community, five women whose lives are particularly troubled take refuge in an abandoned convent, which alienates the men of the town. In this novel, which pits men against women and presents women ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
8	Jazz more books like this by Toni Morrison add to wishlist The unnamed omniscient narrator--like a Greek chorus, or a tribal storyteller--relates the story of Joe and Violet Trace, a pair of orphans who meet and marry in rural Virginia, then come north to Harlem in 1906. Trapped in their unfulfilling marriage for 20 years, Joe begins an affair with a young woman, Dorcas. When she leaves him, he kills her- ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.15! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
9	Love more books like this by T Morrison 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
10	Tar Baby more books like this by Toni Morrison add to wishlist The household of Valerian and Margaret Street is disrupted when Son Green--the "tar baby" of the title--arrives at Christmas instead of their son Michael. The Streets' black servants, Sydney and Ondine Childs, are also affected by Son's visit: their niece Jadine falls in love with him, and his presence in the house forces Ondine's revelation of a ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
11 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 $9.02! new only from $10.17! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	A Kind of Rapture more books like this by Robert Bergman (Photographer), Meyer Schapiro (Afterword by), Toni Morrison (Introduction by) add to wishlist Traveling by car along the East Coast and through several Midwestern states, photographer Robert Bergman has transformed images of ordinary people into powerful works of art in these 51 color photographs. see all copies from $24.99! new only from $27.31! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	Big Box more books like this by Toni Morrison, Slade Morrison, Giselle Potter (Illustrator) add to wishlist Three children find themselves locked in a box with nothing but a few toys and some pictures of the world outside. Toni Morrison wrote this story in verse--her first for children--with her son Slade. see all copies from $6.72! new only from $37.55! \| signed copies \| first editions
14 view cover	Song of Solomon : novel by Toni Morrison add to wishlist This is the story of Macon ''Milkman'' Dead, a s he makes a voyage of rediscovery, travelling southwards ge ographically and inwards spiritually. Through the enlightenm ent of one man the novel recapitulates the history of slaver y and liberation. ' see all copies from $10.00! new only from $16.88!
15 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 $3.86! new only from $10.16!
16 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 $8.00! new only from $8.95! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
17 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 $9.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
18 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 Toni Morrison writes an introduction to this wide-ranging collection of essays on the Clarence Thomas confirmation hearings. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.95! \| first editions \| SVS
19 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 $10.75! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
20 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 $12.86! \| signed copies \| first editions
21 view cover	To Die for the People: Selected Writings and Speeches more books like this by Huey P Newton, Toni Morrison (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from $24.39!
22 view cover	Who's Got Game?: The Ant or the Grasshopper?, the Lion or the Mouse?, Poppy or the Snake? more books like this by Toni Morrison (Read by), Slade Morrison add to wishlist Created by Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison and her son Slade, this is a modern-day interpretation of an Aesop's fable. When Poppy accidentally runs over a snake with his truck, he is coerced by the clever snake into taking him home, but nothing Poppy does seems to satisfy the snake's needs. However, when the snake tries to take advantage ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
23	Bluest Eye more books like this by Tony Morrison, Toni Morrison add to wishlist In this novel about the nature of black identity, narrated by Pecola's friend Claudia, we learn that Pecola was raped by her father, and is plagued with a desire to be white. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.99!
24 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 $19.95! \| first editions
25 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 $18.68! new only from $18.68! \| first editions \| SVS

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