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1	Secret Life of Bees more books like this by S Kidd Lily Owens is growing up in South Carolina in the mid-1960s, raised by her cruel father but cared for by Rosaleen, her African-American nanny. When Rosaleen tries to vote and is beaten for her trouble, she and Lily head for the town of Tiburon, a place with ties to Lily's dead mother, where they live with a local beekeeper, and where Lily learns ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.74! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	Their Eyes Were Watching God more books like this by Zora Neale Hurston Zora Neale Hurston's now-classic novel about Janie Crawford, the granddaughter of an ex-slave, and her three husbands: Mr. Killicks, Mayor Starks and, finally, Tea Cake--the love of her life. The novel is set in a black community in rural Florida, and the characters speak in dialect--a technique that inspired both anger and praise from other black ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
3	Poisonwood Bible more books like this by Barbara Kingsolver In 1959, a missionary named Nathan Price transports his wife and four daughters to a remote village in the Belgian Congo to convert the natives. The family is met with hostility from the locals, particularly a vengeful witch doctor. They also face bands of desperate rebels, dangerous wildlife, and the inevitable petty inconveniences a hyper ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.10! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	Lesson Before Dying more books like this by Ernest J Gaines In this story of injustice and redemption set in rural Louisiana during the late 1940s, Grant Wiggins, a backwoods schoolmaster, is asked visit a young black prisoner on death row. Jefferson, the prisoner, was falsely accused and convicted of murder and is sentenced to hang, and Wiggins's job, once he realizes the impossibility of overturning the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	Invisible Man more books like this by Ralph Waldo Ellison Ellison's classic 1952 novel is about a black man from the South who travels to New York City in the 1930s. He becomes involved with the Communist Party, but is soon disillusioned: the Communists see him not as a person but as a symbol of oppressed humanity, as does the Black Nationalist Group he encounters. This inability of a blind and hostile ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.54! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
6	The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream more books like this by Barack Obama Senator Obama has written a book of transforming power. Only by returning to the principles that gave birth to the Constitution, he says, can Americans repair a political process that is broken, and restore to working order a government that has fallen dangerously out of touch with millions of ordinary Americans. see all copies from $3.20! new only from $5.10! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
7	Power of One more books like this by Bryce Courtenay "Episodic and bursting with incident, this sprawling memoir of an English boy's lonely childhood in South Africa during WW II pays moderate attention to questions of race but concerns itself primarily with epic melodrama."--"Publishers Weekly." see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.57! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
8	Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance more books like this by Barack Obama (Read by) When Barack Obama learns of the death of his African father, whom he hardly knew, he is compelled to trace his unusual family history. Obama, who became a nationally known figure in 2004 when he gave the keynote address at the Democratic Convention, writes movingly about being raised in Hawaii by his white mother. He goes on to describe his years ... see all copies from $5.00! new only from $9.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
9	Raisin in the Sun more books like this by Lorraine Hansberry The award-winning, now classic drama about a working-class African-American family on the South Side of Chicago--their hopes, their dreams, their aspirations. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.43! \| first editions \| SVS
10	The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency more books like this by Alexander McCall Smith Precious Ramotswe lives to help people, a predilection that directs her to embark on a career as a private detective. It proves to be a remarkably prescient notion as upon opening the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, she is inundated with cases--including tracking down a missing boy who appears to have been kidnapped by witchdoctors. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	Corduroy more books like this by Don Freeman A gentle stuffed bear who wears a pair of green overalls, Corduroy sits on a shelf in the toy section of a large department store, eagerly awaiting the day that someone will decide to buy him and bring him home. He thinks that day has finally come when a young girl named Lisa picks him up and declares that he's the very bear she's always wanted. ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.20! \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	Bluest Eye more books like this by Toni Morrison 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
13 view cover	Heart of Darkness more books like this by Joseph Conrad Conrad's only spy novel, THE SECRET AGENT is set in the filthy and depraved city of London of the 1880s. Adolf Verloc, a bumbling police informer and the undercover agent for an unnamed European embassy, is recruited to bomb the Greenwich Observatory. Horrified and afraid, he fools his wife (who married him only so he would support her) into ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	Double Cross more books like this by James Patterson Alex Cross rejoins the police force to face the most diabolical villain he has ever encountered--a serial killer with a hunger for mega-celebrity--in Patterson's latest #1 "New York Times" bestseller, now in a tall Premium Edition. see all copies from $2.20! new only from $6.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	The Big Bad Wolf more books like this by James Patterson Patterson's perennial hero, homicide detective Alex Cross, returns for another adventure--and this time it's his own family that's in danger. The villains are a team of kidnappers with bizarre motives. Alex races against time as he tries to convince his hidebound colleagues on the D.C. police force that he has the key to solving the crimes. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	Native Son more books like this by Richard Wright Bigger Thomas, a young black man in Chicago, murders two women and is condemned to death. Bigger, whose crimes escalate as the story takes its sad and terrible course, feels--like Dostoyevsky's Raskolnikov in CRIME AND PUNISHMENT--that the act of murder is a kind of existential act, and is the only kind of freedom he has ever known. Wright ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	Cross more books like this by James Patterson Forensic psychologist Alex Cross's storied career in private practice, with the FBI and as a Washington, D.C., cop has brought him into contact with all kinds of seriously disturbed killers, but his 12th outing from bestseller Patterson (after 2005's Mary, Mary) may be the ultimate in lunatic deadliness. Beginning with a flashback to the murder of ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	Color Purple more books like this by Alice Walker Celie is a poor black woman whose letters tell the story of 20 years of her life, beginning at age 14 when she is being abused and raped by her father and attempting to protect her sister from the same fate, and continuing over the course of her marriage to "Mister," a brutal man who terrorizes her. Celie eventually learns that her abusive husband ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.95! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings more books like this by Dr. Maya Angelou In this first volume of her celebrated collection of memoirs, the poet Maya Angelou describes in vivid, lyrical detail her childhood as a young black girl in the South. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.09! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	Sula more books like this by Toni Morrison 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 $3.85! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	The Obama Nation more books like this by Jerome R Corsi, PH.D. (Read by) In this thoroughly researched and documented book, the #1 "New York Times" bestselling co-author of "Unfit for Command: Swift Boat Veterans Speak Out Against John Kerry" explains why the extreme leftism of an Obama presidency would leave the United States weakened, diminished and divided, why Obama must be defeated -- and how he can be. Barack ... see all copies from $14.00! new only from $14.00! \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	Autobiography of Malcolm X more books like this by Malcolm X Malcolm X was a controversial figure in the early sixties as one of the most forceful and eloquent spokesmen for African-Americans. In his writings and public appearances he addressed the issues of Black pride, separatism (a position he eventually renounced), and self-esteem. In the years prior to his assassination in 1965, he granted Alex Haley, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.86! \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	The Measure of a Man: A Spiritual Autobiography more books like this by Sidney Poitier Here, the celebrated, Oscar-winning screen actor looks back over his childhood in the Bahamas and the difficult path that led him to become a breakthrough actor in Hollywood--one of America's first successful African-American actors. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.19! \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	Kalahari Typing School for Men more books like this by Alexander McCall Smith Now that the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency is established, its founder, Precious Ramotswe, can look upon her life with pride. But life is never without its problems, as she discovers in this fourth book in a series the "Los Angeles Times" calls "thoroughly engaging and entertaining." see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.48! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	Tears of the Giraffe more books like this by Alexander McCall Smith In her second outing (following THE NO. 1 LADIES' DETECTIVE AGENCY), Precious Ramotswe tries to help a women whose son disappeared into the plains years earlier, while also dealing with a number of changes at the agency and in her personal life. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS

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