• The Underground Railroad: A Novel

    #1 New York Times BestsellerWinner of the Pulitzer PrizeWinner of the National Book AwardWinner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in FictionLonglisted for the Man Booker PrizeOne of the Best books of the Year: The New York Times, The Washington Post, NPR, The Boston Globe, The Seattle Times, HuffPost, Esquire, Minneapolis Star TribuneCora is a young slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. An outcast even among her fellow Africans, she is on the cusp of womanhood—where greater pain awaits. And so when Caesar, a slave who has recently arrived from Virginia, urges her to join him on... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0345804325
    • ASIN: 0345804325
    • ISBN: 0345804325
    • Manufacturer: Anchor

  • Their Eyes Were Watching God

    A PBS Great American Read Top 100 Pick“A deeply soulful novel that comprehends love and cruelty, and separates the big people from the small of heart, without ever losing sympathy for those unfortunates who don’t know how to live properly.” —Zadie SmithOne of the most important and enduring books of the twentieth century, Their Eyes Were Watching God brings to life a Southern love story with the wit and pathos found only in the writing of Zora Neale Hurston. Out of print for almost thirty years—due largely to initial audiences’ rejection of its strong black female protagonist—Hur... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0061120065
    • ASIN: 0061120065
    • ISBN: 0061120065
    • Brand: HarperCollins Publishers
    • Manufacturer: Harper Perennial Modern Classics

  • The Secret Life of Bees


    • ASIN: 0142001740
    • ASIN: 0142001740
    • ISBN: 0142001740
    • Brand: Penguin Books
    • Manufacturer: Penguin Books

  • A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

    This is how wars are fought now: by children, hopped-up on drugs and wielding AK-47s. Children have become soldiers of choice. In the more than fifty conflicts going on worldwide, it is estimated that there are some 300,000 child soldiers. Ishmael Beah used to be one of them. What is war like through the eyes of a child soldier? How does one become a killer? How does one stop? Child soldiers have been profiled by journalists, and novelists have struggled to imagine their lives. But until now, there has not been a first-person account from someone who came through this hell and survived.In A ... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0374531269
    • ASIN: 0374531269
    • ISBN: 9780374531263
    • Brand: Sarah Crichton Books
    • Manufacturer: Sarah Crichton Books

  • Things Fall Apart


    • ASIN: 0385474547
    • ASIN: 0385474547
    • ISBN: 0385474547
    • Brand: Anchor
    • Manufacturer: Penguin Books

  • Sing, Unburied, Sing: A Novel

    WINNER of the NATIONAL BOOK AWARD and A NEW YORK TIMES TOP 10 BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR A finalist for the Kirkus Prize, Andrew Carnegie Medal, Aspen Words Literary Prize, and a New York Times bestseller, this majestic, stirring, and widely praised novel from two-time National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward, the story of a family on a journey through rural Mississippi, is a “tour de force” (O, the Oprah Magazine) and a timeless work of fiction that is destined to become a classic.Jesmyn Ward’s historic second National Book Award–winner is “perfectly poised for the moment” (The New York... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 1501126075
    • ASIN: 1501126075
    • ISBN: 1501126075
    • Manufacturer: Scribner

  • Kindred

    The visionary author’s masterpiece pulls us—along with her Black female hero—through time to face the horrors of slavery and explore the impacts of racism, sexism, and white supremacy then and now.Dana, a modern black woman, is celebrating her twenty-sixth birthday with her new husband when she is snatched abruptly from her home in California and transported to the antebellum South. Rufus, the white son of a plantation owner, is drowning, and Dana has been summoned to save him. Dana is drawn back repeatedly through time to the slave quarters, and each time the stay grows longer, more ard... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0807083690
    • UPC: 046442083690
    • ASIN: 0807083690
    • ISBN: 0807083690
    • Brand: Butler, Octavia E.
    • Manufacturer: Beacon Press

  • Invisible Man


    • ASIN: 0679732764
    • ASIN: 0679732764
    • ISBN: 9780679732761
    • Brand: Ellison, Ralph
    • Manufacturer: Vintage Books

  • To Kill a Mockingbird (Harperperennial Modern Classics)


    • ASIN: B00K0OI42W
    • ASIN: B00K0OI42W
    • Manufacturer: Harper

  • The Help

    The #1 New York Times bestselling novel and basis for the Academy Award-winning film—a timeless and universal story about the lines we abide by, and the ones we don’t—nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read.Aibileen is a black maid in 1962 Jackson, Mississippi, who’s always taken orders quietly, but lately she’s unable to hold her bitterness back. Her friend Minny has never held her tongue but now must somehow keep secrets about her employer that leave her speechless. White socialite Skeeter just graduated college. She’s full of ambition... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0425232204
    • ASIN: 0425232204
    • ISBN: 0425232204
    • Brand: Kathryn Stockett
    • Manufacturer: Berkley

  • Becoming

    An intimate, powerful, and inspiring memoir by the former First Lady of the United States  #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK • NAACP IMAGE AWARD WINNER In a life filled with meaning and accomplishment, Michelle Obama has emerged as one of the most iconic and compelling women of our era. As First Lady of the United States of America—the first African American to serve in that role—she helped create the most welcoming and inclusive White House in history, while also establishing herself as a powerful advocate for women and girls in the U.S. and around the world,... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0525633758
    • ASIN: 0525633758
    • ISBN: 0525633758
    • Brand: WaterBrook Press
    • Manufacturer: Random House Large Print

  • A Long Walk to Water: Based on a True Story

    The New York Times bestseller A Long Walk to Water begins as two stories, told in alternating sections, about two eleven-year-olds in Sudan, a girl in 2008 and a boy in 1985. The girl, Nya, is fetching water from a pond that is two hours’ walk from her home: she makes two trips to the pond every day. The boy, Salva, becomes one of the "lost boys" of Sudan, refugees who cover the African continent on foot as they search for their families and for a safe place to stay. Enduring every hardship from loneliness to attack by armed rebels to contact with killer lions and crocodiles, Salva is a surv... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0547577311
    • ASIN: 0547577311
    • ISBN: 0547577311
    • Brand: Clarion Books
    • Manufacturer: HMH Books for Young Readers

  • A Lesson Before Dying (Oprah's Book Club)


    • ASIN: 0375702709
    • ASIN: 0375702709
    • ISBN: 9780375702709
    • Brand: Vintage Books USA
    • Manufacturer: Vintage

  • Chains (The Seeds of America Trilogy)

    If an entire nation could seek its freedom, why not a girl? As the Revolutionary War begins, thirteen-year-old Isabel wages her own fight...for freedom. Promised freedom upon the death of their owner, she and her sister, Ruth, in a cruel twist of fate become the property of a malicious New York City couple, the Locktons, who have no sympathy for the American Revolution and even less for Ruth and Isabel. When Isabel meets Curzon, a slave with ties to the Patriots, he encourages her to spy on her owners, who know details of British plans for invasion. She is reluctant at first, but when the ... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 1416905863
    • ASIN: 1416905863
    • ISBN: 1416905863
    • Brand: Atheneum Books for Young Readers
    • Manufacturer: Atheneum Books for Young Readers

  • The Color Purple

    A PBS Great American Read Top 100 PickWinner of the Pulitzer Prize * Winner of the National Book Award   Published to unprecedented acclaim, The Color Purple established Alice Walker as a major voice in modern fiction. This is the story of two sisters—one a missionary in Africa and the other a child wife living in the South—who sustain their loyalty to and trust in each other across time, distance, and silence. Beautifully imagined and deeply compassionate, this classic novel of American literature is rich with passion, pain, inspiration, and an indomitable love of life.“Intense emotio... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0156028352
    • ASIN: 0156028352
    • ISBN: 9780156028356
    • Brand: Mariner Books
    • Manufacturer: Mariner Books

  • Fodor's essential south africa : with the best safari destinations - paperback: 9781640970144

    Everything about Africa that stirs the imagination is concentrated in its southernmost country. Lions freely roam vast game reserves such as Kruger National Park; vineyards stretch across the Cape Winelands; and mountains cascade into the

    • UPC: 820127524

  • Welcome to Our Hillbrow : A Novel of Postapartheid South Africa

    Welcome to Our Hillbrow is an exhilarating and disturbing ride through the chaotic and hyper-real zone of Hillbrow—microcosm of all that is contradictory, alluring, and painful in the postapartheid South African

    • UPC: 15547458
    • Rating: 5.0

  • Go Carefully, My Friend : A Novel of South Africa

    Go Carefully, My Friend: A Novel of South

    • UPC: 16567471
    • Rating: 3.0

  • The Beadle - A Novel of South Africa - eBook

    'A story of great beauty and told with simplicity and tenderness that makes it linger in the memory. It is a notable contribution to the literature of the day.' Morning

    • UPC: 419762714

  • A Slightly Sarcastic Look at the New South Africa by a Slighty Bitter Bantu - eBook

    Ive accepted that this first book is really just a novelty book: the quaint ideas of a bitter Bantu man who cannot let go of the past, the last of those so-called freedom fighters who

    • UPC: 503227151

  • Pilgrims Rest: An Historical Novel Of A Pioneering Family's Struggle In 1870s South Africa - eBook

    When Mary Llewellyn’s husband is killed in a battle between Welsh and English miners in poverty-stricken Wales, she resolves to forge a new life in the South African sun with her children.However, after overcoming a

    • UPC: 778380884

  • South African Bliss - eBook

    South African Bliss includes the experiences of Dr. Tim Martin, when he became a Visiting Professor of Entrepreneurship at the University of South Africa in Pretoria. His first assignment was to set up an entrepreneurship

    • UPC: 370167927

  • Sporting Scenes amongst the Kaffirs of South Africa - eBook

    pubOne.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. Nearly every person with whom I have conversed since my return from South Africa, has appeared to take great interest

    • UPC: 442644960

  • Lord Milner's Work in South Africa From its Commencement in 1897 to the Peace of Vereeniging in 1902 - eBook

    In sending this book to press I have only two remarks to make by way of preface. The first is wholly personal. It has been my good fortune to reside twice for a considerable period

    • UPC: 888172506

  • Divine Justice: The U.K. - South Africa Connection - eBook

    Since September 11, 2001 when thousands of innocent people lost their lives in the cruelest manner, I decided to devote my life to reduce and eventually eliminate terror as it manifests. One of my efforts

    • UPC: 921631189

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