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One More River to Cross: Standing on the Promises, Book One
ISBN: 9780984360383 / Angielski / Miękka / 366 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. After this groundbreaking, deeply moving trilogy about black LDS pioneers was first published, modern-day descendants came forward with further information, photographs, and more detailed history. In this new edition, the authors have corrected some errors and dramatized the experience of additional black pioneers.
After this groundbreaking, deeply moving trilogy about black LDS pioneers was first published, modern-day descendants came forward with further inform...
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68,99 zł |
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Necessary Evil
ISBN: 9780578081250 / Angielski / Miękka / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Necessary Evil is a tale based on the social ecology of New York City's drug trade during the early 90s. I felt that it was a story that was needed as a young black man who has experienced many perils growing up on the streets of New York. We often reflect back on the infamous black drug lords of our past like " Bumpy Johnson ","Pappy Mason " etc. romanticizing with the fast money and risky life style that came with the early 70's "heroin" and the 80's "crack ." The old wino that reminisces of the good old days, how there was honor amongst thieves and how New York was never a place for Bloods...
Necessary Evil is a tale based on the social ecology of New York City's drug trade during the early 90s. I felt that it was a story that was needed as...
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96,80 zł |
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The Bishop's Granddaughters
ISBN: 9780615721552 / Angielski / Miękka / 170 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. One summer Rev. Viola Flowers, a highly respected pastor of a church in Los Angeles, returns home from a family reunion in the Deep South with an old dog-eared Bible that relatives at the reunion claimed was her late grandfather's Bible. Upon examining it closely she discovers that certain pages had been ripped out. ?What happened years ago so horrendous that our family history had to be torn from the family Bible she wonders with alarm. She's so troubled by the obliterated material that she travels to the South to investigate her family history. And she's not prepared for what she finds...
One summer Rev. Viola Flowers, a highly respected pastor of a church in Los Angeles, returns home from a family reunion in the Deep South with an old ...
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40,35 zł |
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Not This Time Around
ISBN: 9781467989572 / Angielski / Miękka / 290 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Justin born in Manhattan is raised by his mother and communicates with his father who was deported back to Jamaica. Winston from Los Angeles is inspired by his Jamaican grandmother. Donovan is from Washington, DC and comes from three generations of Lawyers. Carlton from Chicago is raised by both his mother and grandmother. Fredric from Atlanta is inspired by his father a minister and mother an educator. These five gentlemen will take you on a journey with their family members who at times are somewhat comical but everyone can relate to them. Their common bond is their fraternity. The five are...
Justin born in Manhattan is raised by his mother and communicates with his father who was deported back to Jamaica. Winston from Los Angeles is inspir...
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60,53 zł |
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The Color of Murder
ISBN: 9781937329792 / Angielski / Miękka / 114 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A sensational murder trial brings a young African American attorney, Kevin Johnson to Briarton, Connecticut to represent a black drug dealer accused of murdering a Caucasian socialite, Charlotte Knowles. Kevin does his best to defend his client, even though he knows the real reason his two white law partners have given him this high-profile case is that he's black and so is the client. Even though he's the "token-minority" partner, Kevin is still determined to do the best job he can. But is his client telling him the truth? And if he didn't kill Charlotte Knowles, who did?
A sensational murder trial brings a young African American attorney, Kevin Johnson to Briarton, Connecticut to represent a black drug dealer accused o...
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40,31 zł |
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Harlem Blues
ISBN: 9781482359336 / Angielski / Miękka / 316 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the tradition of Langston Hughes' Simple Speaks His Mind Harlem Blues continues to glance at the myriad of everyday Black voices that make up America's Black Mecca. Recounted from the mouth of William Wadsworth Longfellow better known as Willie the Wino we are introduced and come to know to a myriad of personalities from the preacher and the prostitute to Saul the little Jewish butcher and Monica his African queen. With Willie's help we are subtly immersed in the lives of these characters and others and share their joy and laughter as well as the pain and heartache that constitute their...
In the tradition of Langston Hughes' Simple Speaks His Mind Harlem Blues continues to glance at the myriad of everyday Black voices that make up Ameri...
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80,66 zł |
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These Evil Streets
ISBN: 9781530401789 / Angielski / Miękka / 178 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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40,31 zł |
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The Pledge
ISBN: 9781530266531 / Angielski / Miękka / 258 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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48,43 zł |
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Spin It Like That
ISBN: 9781530215119 / Angielski / Miękka / 278 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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48,43 zł |
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Playing with Fire
ISBN: 9781523655687 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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48,43 zł |
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The Breaking Point: A Story of Betrayal
ISBN: 9781480210998 / Angielski / Miękka / 134 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. John Moore had it all, but he could not stop. He had power, money, influence, respect, and sex. But still, it was not enough. He had to have MORE. The more he saw, the more he wanted, until he met the right ONE - or so he thought. Wealthy International Interior Designer Amanda Moore, traded in a prominent career for a fairy tale life - or so she thought. This Hollywood fairy tale marriage quickly became a hellish nightmare, trapping each of them in a web full of lies, broken promises, secret rendezvous, betrayal and finally death. As this web spins out of control, lives are left hanging in...
John Moore had it all, but he could not stop. He had power, money, influence, respect, and sex. But still, it was not enough. He had to have MORE. The...
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60,53 zł |
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Yang But Yin: The Legend of Miss Dragonheel
ISBN: 9781481947688 / Angielski / Miękka / 126 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Florence Orville, once the top agent for the Blanchstone Agengy, and undone by her exposition as a Black woman passing for white, fluctuates between reality and fantasy as she seeks refuge in adventures in the oak tree in her backyard, tormented by her past and an Afrocentric vagabond. A chance encounter with a dark-skinned and seemingly innocent artisan forces her outside of her self-absorption and into an examination and rediscovery of her own identity and nature.
Florence Orville, once the top agent for the Blanchstone Agengy, and undone by her exposition as a Black woman passing for white, fluctuates between r...
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72,43 zł |
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Good Gumbo: A Collection of Short Stories from the Mind of a New Orleanian Vol 1
ISBN: 9781478708919 / Angielski / Miękka / 122 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 2006 a storm raged through the city of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast that changed my life and the lives of many citizens of the city. Life as I knew it and as many knew it instantly changed on the day the storm came ashore. Those who were affected by the storm will never be the same including the fictional characters of this book. My entire purpose in writing these fictional stories is to capture a New Orleans that may be extinct. The simple yet complicated life of New Orleans has given way to a post storm version of the city. The city we now know is bursting at the seams with crime,...
In 2006 a storm raged through the city of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast that changed my life and the lives of many citizens of the city. Life as I kn...
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77,26 zł |
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The Loudest Silence, New Edition
ISBN: 9780615737584 / Angielski / Miękka / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Why bother to be his wife when you can never be his best friend? For Terrence, the best friend role has always been filled; wifey was the only available slot. Lani took that position with pride, but now she realizes that she has the entire game backward - she was foolish enough to think that the woman with the biggest diamond was the winner. Instead, she feels like just another obligation while Kenya, Terrence's best friend, is where he has hidden his heart. But Lani isn't your average house wife. And a smashed heart doesn't make her lie down and die. Just the opposite, she jumps in the...
Why bother to be his wife when you can never be his best friend? For Terrence, the best friend role has always been filled; wifey was the only availab...
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56,45 zł |
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Lola & The World of Buddy Shortt
ISBN: 9781483917771 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is an unconventional story about a beautiful, internationally acclaimed African American dancer named Lola Fleming and a well-known white American race-car driver who share a secret that, if known, could destroy everything Lola has worked a lifetime to achieve. This is not a romance novel. It's a story about friendship and betrayal. It's about Lola Fleming's exciting artistic life and what happened to it when it became entangled with Buddy's bawdy, action-packed life as a world-class Formula One race-car driver. Lola's life is one involving modern dancing, while Buddy's world is one of...
This is an unconventional story about a beautiful, internationally acclaimed African American dancer named Lola Fleming and a well-known white America...
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52,42 zł |
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Black Pulp
ISBN: 9781484135716 / Angielski / Miękka / 308 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From Today's Best Authors and up and coming writers comes BLACK PULP from Pro Se Productions BLACK PULP is a collection of stories featuring characters of African origin, or descent, in stories that run the gamut of genre fiction A concept developed by noted crime novelist Gary Phillips, BLACK PULP brings bestselling authors Walter Mosley and Joe R. Lansdale, Gary Phillips, Charles R. Saunders, Derrick Ferguson, D. Alan Lewis, Christopher Chambers, Mel Odom, Kimberly Richardson, Ron Fortier, Michael A. Gonzales, Gar Anthony Haywood, and Tommy Hancock together to craft adventure tales,...
From Today's Best Authors and up and coming writers comes BLACK PULP from Pro Se Productions BLACK PULP is a collection of stories featuring characte...
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73,64 zł |
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The Chinaberry Tree: A Novel of American Life
ISBN: 9780486493220 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Adultery, incest, and questions of racial identity simmer beneath the tranquil surface of suburban life in this novel, set in a small New Jersey town of the early 1900s. Lovely young Laurentine is obsessed with her "bad blood," inherited from a common-law interracial union. Proud and independent, she longs for the respectability of a conventional marriage. Laurentine's vivacious and self-confident cousin, Melissa, also aspires to "marry up." But a family secret shadows Melissa's dreams and ambitions as she approaches an explosive revelation.
African-American editor, poet, essayist, and... Adultery, incest, and questions of racial identity simmer beneath the tranquil surface of suburban life in this novel, set in a small New Jersey town ...
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57,46 zł |
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Synchronistic thoughts: Poetry from here to there: There is a Balm in Gilead
ISBN: 9781478192558 / Angielski / Miękka / 60 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Poetry that speaks to you where you are and where you hope to be.
Poetry that speaks to you where you are and where you hope to be.
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25,75 zł |
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A Song For Terri Ross
ISBN: 9781483941523 / Angielski / Miękka / 266 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This novel is about a beautiful young lady from a small Iowa town whose longtime college sweetheart becomes a famous NBA basketball star, and how this affects her own hopes and dreams. This is more than just a smart love story. It's also about friendship, family, and the unexpected surprises in life. It's set in San Francisco in 1982. Terri Ross and Harold Tomlin have lived together since college, and they intend to marry someday. But after Harold signs his big pro contract he begins to change to the detriment of their relationship. It hurts Terri deeply to watch him become a different person...
This novel is about a beautiful young lady from a small Iowa town whose longtime college sweetheart becomes a famous NBA basketball star, and how this...
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52,42 zł |
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Bound for Canaan: Standing on the Promises, Book Two
ISBN: 9780984360390 / Angielski / Miękka / 424 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Book two of the Standing on the Promises trilogy. After this groundbreaking, deeply moving trilogy on black LDS pioneers was first published, modern-day descendants came forward with further information, photographs, and more detailed history. In this new edition, the authors have corrected some errors and dramatized the experience of additional black pioneers.
Book two of the Standing on the Promises trilogy. After this groundbreaking, deeply moving trilogy on black LDS pioneers was first published, modern-d...
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cena:
72,83 zł |
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