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1	Push more books like this by Sapphire add to wishlist Claireece Precious Jones is an overweight, illiterate black teenager pregnant with her second child--both the result of incest by her father--and infected with the AIDS virus--also thanks to her father. This first novel by the poet and performance artist Sapphire tells the story of how Precious miraculously finds redemption and deliverance through ... see all copies from $7.32! new only from $7.32! \| signed copies \| first editions
2	The Help more books like this by Kathryn Stockett add to wishlist In Jackson, Mississippi, in 1962, there are lines that are not crossed. With the civil rights movement exploding all around them, three women start a movement of their own, forever changing a town and the way women--black and white, mothers and daughters--view one another. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.38! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream more books like this by Barack Obama (Read by) add to wishlist At the heart of The Audacity of Hope is Senator Obama?s vision of how his country can move beyond its divisions to tackle concrete problems. He examines the growing economic insecurity of American families and the racial and religious tensions within the body politic, and considers the nature of threats from outside America?s borders. By returning ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.39! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	Cross Country more books like this by James Patterson add to wishlist After the home of Alex Cross's oldest friend is turned into the worst murder scene Alex has ever seen, the destruction leads him to believe that he's chasing a horrible new breed of killer. Soon Alex and his girlfriend, Detective Brianna Stone, become entangled in the deadly African underworld of Washington, D.C. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.89! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance more books like this by Barack Obama add to wishlist The son of a black African father and a white American mother, Obama was only two years old when his father walked out on the family. Many years later, Obama receives a phone call from Nairobi: his father is dead. This sudden news inspires an emotional odyssey for Obama, determined to learn the truth of his father's life and reconcile his divided ... see all copies from $3.31! new only from $8.95! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
6	I, Alex Cross more books like this by James Patterson add to wishlist Alex Cross's niece is found brutally murdered. Overcome with grief, Alex vows to take down her killer before he strikes again. But shortly after he begins the investigation, Alex discovers that his niece had gotten mixed up with some very important, very dangerous people. see all copies from $11.89! new only from $11.89! \| first editions
7	Uncommon: Finding Your Path to Significance more books like this by Tony Dungy, Nathan Whitaker add to wishlist Super Bowl-winning coach Dungy reflects on what it takes to achieve significance. see all copies from $11.32! new only from $16.18! \| SVS
8	Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story more books like this by Benjamin S Carson, Sr., M.D. add to wishlist Gifted Hands dose not just shed light on a ghetto youth with failing grades who became director of pediatric neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins Univesity Hospital at age 33. It takes readers into the operating room to watch incredibly complex, delicate, life-saving surgeries. "He is a model to all the youth of today".--Jesse Jackson. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.95! \| first editions \| SVS
9	Quiet Strength: The Principles, Practices, & Priorities of a Winning Life more books like this by Tony Dungy (Read by), Nathan Whitaker add to wishlist In this inspiring and reflective memoir, Dungy, the first African-American coach to win a Super Bowl title, tells the story of a life lived for God and family--and challenges readers to redefine their ideas of what it means to succeed. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.98! \| first editions \| SVS
10	Hope in the Unseen more books like this by Ron Suskind add to wishlist As an honor student walking the gauntlet of sneers and threats at his crime-infested high school in Washington, D.C., Cedric Jennings achieved the impossible: a 4.02 grade-point average and acceptance into Brown University. Suskind won a Pulitzer Prize in 1995 for his stories about Jennings and now expands them into this full-length, nonfiction ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| SVS
11 view cover	The Mis-Education of the Negro more books like this by Carter Godwin Woodson add to wishlist Originally released in 1933, The Mis-Education of the Negro continues to resonate today, raising questions that readers are still trying to answer. The impact of slavery on the Black psyche is explored and questions are raised about our education system, such as what and who African Americans are educated for, the difference between education and ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.35! \| SVS
12 view cover	Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family more books like this by Annette Gordon-Reed add to wishlist This epic work tells the story of the Hemings family, whose close blood ties to the third president of America had been systematically expunged from history until very recently. Now, historian and legal scholar Annette Gordon-Reed traces the Hemingses from their origins in Virginia in the 1700s to the family's dispersal after Thomas Jefferson's ... see all copies from $8.82! new only from $12.42! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	Letters to a Young Brother: Manifest Your Destiny more books like this by Hill Harper add to wishlist Straight talk and inspiring advice for America's youth are offered by the powerhouse public speaker and star of "CSI: NY." 8-page color insert. see all copies from $3.44! new only from $5.90! \| signed copies \| SVS
14 view cover	Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?: Revised Edition more books like this by Beverly Daniel Tatum, Ph.D. add to wishlist The fifth-anniversary edition of the best-selling work on the development of racial identity. . Walk into any racially mixed high school and you will see black youth seated together in the cafeteria. Of course, it's not just the black kids sitting together-the white, Latino, Asian Pacific, and, in some regions, American Indian youth are clustered ... see all copies from $2.71! new only from $2.71! \| signed copies \| SVS
15 view cover	Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II more books like this by Douglas A Blackmon add to wishlist Blackmon brings to light one of the most shameful chapters in American history, the late 1870s through the 1940s when thousands of African-American men were arbitrarily arrested, hit with fines, charged for room and board in state and county jails, and then forced to work off the debt as unpaid laborers. see all copies from $4.08! new only from $4.12! \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	Autobiography of Malcolm X more books like this by Malcolm X add to wishlist 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 $2.99! \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	The Rose That Grew from Concrete more books like this by Tupac Shakur add to wishlist By the time of his murder at the age of 25, Tupac Shakur was a major force in rap music, with a dozen albums and six movies under his belt. But this collection of poems, written in a poetry workshop by the future star at the age of 19, shows that Shakur possessed both a poet's disarming simplicity and a writer's raw talent well before the start of ... see all copies from $5.00! new only from $7.21! \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	The First Part Last more books like this by Angela Johnson add to wishlist In this winner of the Printz Medal and Coretta Scott King Award--a companion to the Coretta Scott King Award-winning "Heaven"--Johnson probes right to the heart of the issues involved with teenage pregnancy and fatherhood with precision, grace, and keen insight.) see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.16! \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	Forged by Fire more books like this by Sharon Mills Draper add to wishlist When his mother leaves him at home while she goes to buy drugs, 3-year-old Gerald Nickelby accidentally starts a fire and is badly burned. Afterward, his mother is charged with child neglect and sentenced to jail, and Gerald is sent to live with his firm but loving Aunt Queen. Six years later, after his mother is released from jail and Aunt Queen ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.48! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	Secret Life of Bees more books like this by S Kidd add to wishlist 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 $2.95! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	Zane's Sex Chronicles more books like this by Zane add to wishlist "New York Times" bestselling author Zane presents a tantalizing short story collection, "Zane's Sex Chronicles," which is now the basis of the Cinemax series "Zane's Sex Chronicles" -- the first urban erotic series on television. The series calls for a sexual revolution and brings forth our favorite characters -- Patience James aka Zane, Maricruz, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	Their Eyes Were Watching God more books like this by Zora Neale Hurston add to wishlist 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! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave, Written by Himself more books like this by Frederick Douglass add to wishlist In 1845, just seven years after his escape from slavery, the young Frederick Douglass published this powerful account of his life in bondage and his triumph over oppression. The book, which marked the beginning of Douglass's career as an impassioned writer, journalist, and orator for the abolitionist cause, reveals the terrors he faced as a slave, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	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 $2.05! new only from $5.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	Think & Grow Rich more books like this by Napoleon Hill add to wishlist A perennial best seller in the self-help field since its first publication in 1937, Napoleon Hill's THINK AND GROW RICH sets down the basic principles of success, showing how to apply them not only to business and careers, but also to life and relationships. In 1908, Hill a journalist, was commissioned by the great American business tycoon and ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS

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