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Notes of a Native Son (Beacon Paperback) List Price: $14.00 List Price: $14.00 Your Price: $7.50- Originally published in 1955, James Baldwin’s first nonfiction book has become a classic. These searing essays on life in Harlem, the protest novel, movies, and Americans abroad remain as powerful today as when they were written. Your Price: $7.50 [...]

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The Wedding: A Novel List Price: $13.95 List Price: $13.95 Your Price: $2.54-    In her first novel in forty-seven years, Dorothy West, the last surviving member of the Harlem Renaissance, offers an intimate glimpse into African American middle class.  Set on bucolic Martha’s Vineyard in the 1950s, The Wedding tells the st Your Price: $2.54 [...]

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Freedom Train: The Story of Harriet Tubman List Price: $5.99 ISBN13: 9780590436281 Condition: New Notes: BRAND NEW FROM PUBLISHER! 100% Satisfaction Guarantee. Tracking provided on most orders. Buy with Confidence! Millions of books sold! List Price: $5.99 Your Price: $2.32- Born into slavery, young Harriet Tubman knew only hard work and hunger. Escape seemed impossible–certainly [...]

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Slam! List Price: $7.99 List Price: $7.99 Your Price: $3.72- An exciting, eye-catching repackage of acclaimed author Walter Dean Myers’ bestselling paperbacks, to coincide with the publication of SUNRISE OVER FALLUJA in hardcover. Seventeen-year-old Greg “Slam” Harris can do it all on the basketball cou Your Price: $3.72 – african american movies

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Blue Rage, Black Redemption: A Memoir List Price: $16.00 List Price: $16.00 Your Price: $6.11- A gripping tale of personal revolution by a man who went from Crips co-founder to Nobel Peace Prize nominee, author, and antigang activist When his L.A. neighborhood was threatened by gangbangers, Stanley Tookie Williams and a friend formed the Cri [...]

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The Forest People List Price: $16.00 List Price: $16.00 Your Price: $7.20- The Forest People — Colin M. Turnbull’s best-selling, classic work — describes the author’s experiences while living with the BaMbuti Pygmies, not as a clinical observer, but as their friend learning their customs and sharing their daily life. Tur Your Price: $7.20 – [...]

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Finding Fish: A Memoir List Price: $13.99 List Price: $13.99 Your Price: $6.24- Baby Boy Fisher was raised in institutions from the moment of his birth in prison to a single mother. He ultimately came to live with a foster family, where he endured near-constant verbal and physical abuse. In his mid-teens he escaped and [...]

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The Contender List Price: $6.99 List Price: $6.99 Your Price: $1.03- Before you can be a champion, you have to be a contender. Alfred Brooks is scared. He’s a highschool dropout and his grocery store job is leading nowhere. His best friend is sinking further and further into drug addiction. Some street kids are a [...]

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Getting to Happy List Price: $27.95 ISBN13: 9780670022045 Condition: New Notes: BRAND NEW FROM PUBLISHER! 100% Satisfaction Guarantee. Tracking provided on most orders. Buy with Confidence! Millions of books sold! List Price: $27.95 Your Price: $4.96- An exuberant return to the four unforgettable heroines of Waiting to Exhale–the novel that changed African American fiction forever. [...]

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Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market List Price: $23.00 List Price: $23.00 Your Price: $16.10- Soul by Soul tells the story of slavery in antebellum America by moving away from the cotton plantations and into the slave market itself, the heart of the domestic slave trade. Taking us inside the New Orleans [...]

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