The Sins of the Mother: A Novel

Olivia spends months each year planning a luxurious vacation to make up for the time she lost with her family, and this summer she’s arranged a dream trip on a Mediterranean yacht, hoping it will be the most memorable of all. Her yearly lavish gesture expresses her love for her family and her regret over missing important moments during her children’s younger years. However, her younger dau…

Tar Baby

Ravishingly beautiful and emotionally incendiary, Tar Baby is Nobel Prize laureate Toni Morrison's reinvention of the love story. Jadine Childs is a black fashion model with a white patron, a white boyfriend, and a coat made out of ninety perfect sealskins. Son is a black fugitive who embodies everything she loathes and desires. As Morrison follows their affair, which plays out from the Caribbe…

The sound and the fury

The Sound and the Fury is the tragedy of the Compson family, featuring some of the most memorable characters in literature: beautiful, rebellious Caddy; the manchild Benjy; haunted, neurotic Quentin; Jason, the brutal cynic; and Dilsey, their black servant. Their lives fragmented and harrowed by history and legacy, the character’s voices and actions mesh to create what is arguably Faulkner’…

The Geography of Thought : How Asians and Westerners Think Differently

How people actually experience - and even see - the world differently, because of differing ecologies, social structures, philosophies, and educational systems that date back to ancient Greece and China, and that have survived into the modern world.

Arilla Sun Down

Arilla never asks for anything. Not even a true identity. It's hard to remember who you are when you never really knew yourself in the first place. But her brother, Jack Sun Run, doesn't have that problem. He has intelligence, beauty, and grace. He has decided who he is, and he shines as brightly as the sun. Arilla knows she walks in her brother's shadow. That's why he calls her "Moon." But …

Eight Tales Of Terror

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0590411365

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24cm., 196p.

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Forgotten Tales

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0590763717

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22cm., 89p.

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Black Like Me

A white writer recounts his experiences in the American South following treatments that darkened his skin and shares his thoughts on the problems of prejudice and racial injustice. Reissue.

Civil War Ghosts

This book provides eleven true ghost stories about famous Civil War figures and the places they continue haunt, complete with an eight-page photo insert, historical overviews and biographical information. Original.

Squanto: Friend of the Pilgrims

Squanto is captured, sold into slavery in Spain, rescued by monks. He eventually returns to America and befriends the Pilgrims. I had to remind myself that this book was written during a time period in which the author probably thought he was educating readers and showing them early American history.

Five Star Billionaire: A Novel

Phoebe is a factory girl who arrives in Shanghai full of hope, only to discover that the job she was promised doesn't exist. Gary, a country boy turned pop star, is spiraling out of control, unable to handle the pressures of fame. Justin has come to Shanghai to expand his family’s real estate empire, but he soon realizes he may not be up to the task. He’s long been infatuated with Yinghui, …

The Color Purple

Celebrating its fortieth anniversary, The Color Purple writes a message of healing, forgiveness, self-discovery, and sisterhood to a new generation of readers. An inspiration to authors who continue to give voice to the multidimensionality of Black women’s stories, including Tayari Jones, Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, Jesmyn Ward, and more, The Color Purple remains an essential read in conversa…