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Secret Life of Bees

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 ...

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Their Eyes Were Watching God

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 ...

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Poisonwood Bible

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 ...

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Lesson Before Dying

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 ...

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Invisible Man

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 ...

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The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream

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.

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Power of One

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."

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Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance

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 ...

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Raisin in the Sun

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.

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The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency

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.

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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. ...

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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.

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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 ...

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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.

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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.

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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.

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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, ...

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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.

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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."

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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.

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