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To Tell the Truth Freely

The Life of Ida B. Wells

Mia Bay Hill and Wang

"Superb . . . Having been squeezed out of a role in national civil and women's rights organizations, Wells lost a prominent place in the historical record. It took several generations before her relentless and often discomforting agitation for social justice received the appreciation it deserved, as scholars over the last twenty years gradually reestablished her place in history. Mia Bay's lucid biography contributes enormously to this project."—Andrew Feffer, History News Network

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Trade Paperback : $17.95 Buy	Twice As Good Condoleezza Rice and Her Path to Power Marcus Mabry Modern Times Who is Condoleezza Rice? Award-winning Newsweek editor Marcus Mabry explores the contradictions—personal and public—of one of the most influential,...

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Upstate

A Novel

Kalisha Buckhanon St. Martin's Griffin

"Baby, the first thing I need to know from you is do you believe I killed my father?" So begins Upstate, a powerful story told through letters between...

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Trade Paperback : $14.00 Buy	The Venus Hottentot Poems Elizabeth Alexander Graywolf Press Paper "Readers owe themselves the many pleasures to be found in this book; Elizabeth Alexander creates intellectual magic in poem after poem."—The New York Times Book Review

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W.E.B. Du Bois

A Biography

David Levering Lewis A John Macrae/Holt Paperbacks Book

David Levering Lewis has carved one volume out of his superlative two-volume biography of William Edward Burghardt Du Bois, the premier architect of the civil rights movement in America, who set the standard for historical scholarship on this era.

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Waiting 'Til the Midnight Hour

A Narrative History of Black Power in America

Peniel E. Joseph Holt Paperbacks

"From Malcolm X's Harlem, through Stokely Carmichael's Mississippi, to the San Francisco of Bobby Seale and Huey Newton, Waiting 'Til the Midnight Hour is a mesmerizing journey through the radical wing of America's civil rights revolution. In vivid, moving prose Peniel Joseph re-creates the fierce passion and prophetic anger that made Black Power one of the nation's most explosive political movements."—Kevin Boyle, Professor of History, Ohio State University, and author of the National Book Award-Winning Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age

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Walker and The Ghost Dance

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Derek Walcott Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks

"These two verse dramas show 1992 Nobel Prize winner Walcott at the top of his form. They are lean, focused, and powerful . . . These are history plays at their most energetic. Highly recommended."—Thomas E. Luddy, Salem State College, Salem, Massachusetts, Library Journal (starred review)

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Trade Paperback : $16.99 Buy	The Wanderer The Last American Slave Ship and the Conspiracy That Set Its Sails Erik Calonius St. Martin's Griffin "A compelling and heartrending record of a journey that helped push the nation to the brink of the Civil War."—*The Washington Times*

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Welfare Wifeys

A Hood Rat Novel

K'wan St. Martin's Griffin

After the deaths and arrests of his entire crew and an informant-fueled investigation into his past, the man known on the streets as Animal relocates to Texas...

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Trade Paperback : $15.00 Buy	The White Boy Shuffle A Novel Paul Beatty Picador Paul Beatty's hilarious and scathing debut novel is about Gunnar Kaufman, an awkward, black surfer bum who is moved by his mother from Santa Monica to urban...

Trade Paperback : $16.00 Buy	The Women Hilton Als Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks A New York Times Notable Book Daring and fiercely original, The Women is at once a memoir, a psychological study, a sociopolitical manifesto, and an...

Trade Paperback : $15.00 Buy	Wounded A Novel Percival Everett Graywolf Press Paper "Starts rhapsodically and rewards the reader with so many moments of love and laughter—Wounded is full of shocks and surprises."—*Los Angeles Times*

Trade Paperback : $18.00 Buy	Wounds of Passion A Writing Life bell hooks Holt Paperbacks Wounds of Passion is a memoir about writing, love, and sexuality. With her customary boldness and insight, Bell Hooks critically reflects on the impact of...

Hardcover : $24.00 Buy	Young Mr. Obama Chicago and the Making of a Black President Edward McClelland Bloomsbury Press Barack Obama's inspirational politics and personal mythology have overshadowed his fascinating history. Young Mr. Obama gives us the missing chapter: the...