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The Angel's Game

2009

From master storyteller Carlos Ruiz Zafon, author of the international phenomenon The Shadow of the Wind, comes The Angel’s Game — a dazzling new page-turner about the perilous nature of obsession, in literature and in love.The whole of B....[more]

Walking Through Walls : A Memoir

2008

Running with Scissors meets Bewitched in this irresistible memoir, as Philip Smith describes growing up in 1960s Miami with his decorator father, who one day discovers he has the miraculous power to talk to the dead and heal the sick.After a full day....[more]

The Gargoyle

2008

An extraordinary debut novel of love that survives the fires of hell and transcends the boundaries of timeThe narrator of The Gargoyle is a very contemporary cynic, physically beautiful and sexually adept, who dwells in the moral vacuum that is moder....[more]

One Hundred Years of Solitude

1970

"One Hundred Years of Solitude" tells the story of the rise and fall, birth and death of the mythical town of Macondo through the history of the Buendia family. Inventive, amusing, magnetic, sad, and alive with unforgettable men and women -- brimming....[more]

Beloved

Staring unflinchingly into the abyss of slavery, this spellbinding audio transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and as intimate as a lullaby. Sethe, its protagonist, was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is....[more]

The Bluest Eye

The Bluest Eye, published in 1970, is the first novel written by Toni Morrison, winner of the 1993 Nobel Prize in Literature.It is the story of eleven-year-old Pecola Breedlove--a black girl in an America whose love for its blond, blue-eyed children ....[more]

Song of Solomon

Milkman Dead was born shortly after a neighborhood eccentric hurled himself off a rooftop in a vain attempt at flight. For the rest of his life he, too, will be trying to fly. With this brilliantly imagined novel, Toni Morrison transfigures the comin....[more]

Tar Baby

2003

The author of Song of Solomon now sets her extraordinary novelistic powers on a striking new course. Tar Baby, audacious and hypnotic, is masterful in its mingling of tones--of longing and alarm, of urbanity and a primal, mythic force in which the la....[more]

Jazz

1986

2 casettes / 3 hoursRead by Toni MorrisonFrom the author of Paraidse and Beloved, Jazz, is spellbinding for the haunting passion of its profound love story, and for the bittersweet lyricism and refined sensuality of its powerful and elegant style."Mo....[more]

Native Son

Right from the start, Bigger Thomas had been headed for jail. It could have been for assault or petty larceny; by chance, it was for murder and rape. Native Son tells the story of this young black man caught in a downward spiral after he kills a youn....[more]

Black Boy

1945

Richard Wright grew up in the woods of Mississippi, with poverty, hunger, fear, and hatred. He lied, stole, and raged at those around him; at six he was a "drunkard," hanging about taverns. Surly, brutal, cold, suspicious, and self-pitying, he was su....[more]

The Trial

A new translation of Franz Kafka's work by David Wyllie.

Ark of Bones and Other Stories

1970

A free-lance writer, active in the area of “little magazine” writing and publishing, and a member of the teaching staff of the Experiment in Higher Education at Southern Illinois University in East St. Louis, Henry Dumas had amassed a con....[more]

Selected Poetry of Amiri Baraka/LeRoi Jones

1979

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

A phenomenal #1 bestseller that has appeared on the New York Times bestseller list for nearly three years, this memoir traces Maya Angelou's childhood in a small, rural community during the 1930s. Filled with images and recollections that point to th....[more]

The Heart of a Woman

1978

2 cassettes / 3 hoursRead by Maya AngelouTwo-time Grammy Award-winner Maya Angelou performs her memorable fourth volume of autobiography, which began so auspiciously with I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.The Heart of a Woman sings with Maya Angelou's ....[more]

The Shadow of the Wind : A Novel

2004

The international literary sensation-a runaway bestseller in Spain, rights sold in more than 20 countries-about a boy's quest through the secrets and shadows of postwar Barcelona for a mysterious author whose book has proved as dangerous to own as it....[more]

Black Sunlight

1980

Scrapiron Blues

1999

A collection of Marechera's last writings which,evoke city life and its many disparate facets -,from the glittering fashion shops to the tramps in,back alleys. What at first sight often seems,peaceful and harmless, is suddenly disrupted by,flashes of....[more]

The House of Hunger

This volume features startling stories of distinction by a remarkable writer who vividly describes the township squalor of growing up in settler-exploited Rhodesia.

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Toni Morrison

Art, Fiction, Juvenile Fiction, Juvenile Nonfiction, Language Arts & Disciplines, Literary Criticism, Social Science

7 readers

Edward P. Jones

Fiction

1 readers

John Edgar Wideman

Biography & Autobiography, Literary Criticism

1 readers

Harold Bloom

Biography & Autobiography, Drama, Fiction, History, Juvenile Fiction, Juvenile Nonfiction, Language Arts & Disciplines, Literary Collections, Literary Criticism, Performing Arts, Poetry, Political Science, Religion, Social Science

1 readers

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