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Live at Five
ISBN: 9780156005036 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Sparks fly when a black television anchorman looking for real life (and higher ratings) hooks up with a spunky young woman from the inner city in this touching and wickedly funny novel (Publishers Weekly) by one of Granta s Best Young american Novelists.
" Sparks fly when a black television anchorman looking for real life (and higher ratings) hooks up with a spunky young woman from the inner city in this...
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93,84 zł |
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Banjo
ISBN: 9780156106757 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Lincoln Agrippa Daily, known on the 1920s Marseilles waterfront as Banjo, prowls the rough waterfront bistros with his drifter friends, drinking, looking for women, playing music, fighting, loving, and talking - about their homes in Africa, the West Indies, or the american South and about being black.
" Lincoln Agrippa Daily, known on the 1920s Marseilles waterfront as Banjo, prowls the rough waterfront bistros with his drifter friends, drinking, look...
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100,42 zł |
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Black No More: A Novel
ISBN: 9780375753800 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Modern Library Harlem Renaissance
What would happen to the race problem in America if black people turned white? Would everybody be happy? These questions and more are answered hilariously in Black No More, George S. Schuyler's satiric romp. Black No More is the story of Max Disher, a dapper black rogue of an insurance man who, through a scientific transformation process, becomes Matthew Fisher, a white man. Matt dreams up a scam that allows him to become the leader of the Knights of Nordica, a white supremacist group, as well as to marry the white woman who rejected him when he was... Modern Library Harlem Renaissance
What would happen to the race problem in America if black people turned white? Would everybody be happy? These q... |
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96,10 zł |
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Mama Day
ISBN: 9780679721819 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. On the island of Willow Springs, off the Georgia coast, the powers of healer Mama Day are tested by her great niece, Cocoa, a stubbornly emancipated woman endangered by the island's darker forces. A powerful generational saga at once tender and suspenseful, overflowing with magic and common sense.
On the island of Willow Springs, off the Georgia coast, the powers of healer Mama Day are tested by her great niece, Cocoa, a stubbornly emancipated w...
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78,62 zł |
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Red Light Wives
ISBN: 9780758200020 / Angielski / Miękka / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From the bestselling author of "God Don't Like Ugly" comes a powerful and passionate novel about the hopes, dreams, laughter--and limits--of six unique women surviving on the streets of San Francisco.
From the bestselling author of "God Don't Like Ugly" comes a powerful and passionate novel about the hopes, dreams, laughter--and limits--of six uniqu...
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109,20 zł |
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It's All About The Moon When The Sun Ain't Shining
ISBN: 9780758202802 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. With his lyrical storytelling and unerring ear for dialogue, Ernest Hill has been praised as "remarkable" (Robert Olen Butler) and "a skilled storyteller" ("The New York Times Book eview). In this latest novel, he portrays the emotionally-resonant story of a young man's struggle to pursue his dreams and find the woman who can share his life. It's year of firsts for Maurice Dupree. He's the first person in his family to go to college. and now he's well of his way to becoming the first African American attorney in his hometown of Brownsville, Louisiana, and its entire parish. His parents...
With his lyrical storytelling and unerring ear for dialogue, Ernest Hill has been praised as "remarkable" (Robert Olen Butler) and "a skilled storytel...
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69,89 zł |
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God Still Don't Like Ugly
ISBN: 9780758203434 / Angielski / Miękka / 325 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the sequel to "God Don't Like Ugly," Annette reconnects with her father and gets engaged. But everything falls apart when her checkered past comes back to haunt her, and she must reevaluate what is best for her.
In the sequel to "God Don't Like Ugly," Annette reconnects with her father and gets engaged. But everything falls apart when her checkered past comes ...
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78,62 zł |
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God Don't Play
ISBN: 9780758203472 / Angielski / Miękka / 329 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From New York Times bestselling author Mary Monroe comes the story of two lifelong friends, their secrets and lies, and the new challenge that may divide them once and for all. . .
With a lovely home and family, Annette Goode finally has it all. Heaven knows she paid her dues--from an abusive childhood to a rocky start as an adult. Annette's friend Rhoda knows too, for Rhoda has been both her savior and her greatest fear. Their relationship has survived some serious shake-ups. But now that things are good, someone apparently thinks they're a little too good. . . When Annette... From New York Times bestselling author Mary Monroe comes the story of two lifelong friends, their secrets and lies, and the new challenge that ...
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78,62 zł |
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Laughing Cry
ISBN: 9780930523336 / Angielski / Miękka / 314 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Satirizes African politics through the story of the adventures of the dictator Marshal Hannibal-Ideloy Bwakamabe Na Sakkade.
Satirizes African politics through the story of the adventures of the dictator Marshal Hannibal-Ideloy Bwakamabe Na Sakkade.
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97,60 zł |
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Gotham Diaries
ISBN: 9781401308025 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A hilarious first novel that provides a peek into the world of the super-rich, super-connected African Americans in Manhattan. Lauren is trying to be an independent woman, starting her own documentary film company, but it's difficult when you're married to Ed Thomas, one of the wealthiest African-American businessmen in the country--and particularly when he seems to have a roving eye. Manny is an up-and-coming gay real estate agent who arrived in Manhattan from Alabama with only the clothes on his back. He's made his way to the top of his profession--yet he still wants more. Tandy is one...
A hilarious first novel that provides a peek into the world of the super-rich, super-connected African Americans in Manhattan. Lauren is trying to...
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96,05 zł |
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Home to Harlem
ISBN: 9781555530242 / Angielski / Miękka / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. With sensual, often brutal accuracy, Claude McKay traces the parallel paths of two very different young men struggling to find their way through the suspicion and prejudice of American society. At the same time, this stark but moving story touches on the central themes of the Harlem Renaissance, including the urgent need for unity and identity among blacks.
With sensual, often brutal accuracy, Claude McKay traces the parallel paths of two very different young men struggling to find their way through the s...
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137,32 zł |
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Sons of Darkness, Sons of Light: A Novel of Some Probability
ISBN: 9781555533960 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Originally published in 1969, this parable of racial intrigue centers on the killing of an unarmed black youth by Sergeant Carrigan, a white policeman. The murder prompts Eugene Browning, second in command at the Institute for Racial Justice, a civil rights organization, to seek revenge by hiring a professional killer to assassinate Carrigan. Browning enlists the help of an aging Mafia don, who passes the hit to a former terrorist from Israel. This single act of retribution sets in motion a crisis of unprecedented proportions as a band of black militants proceed to launch a violent plan of...
Originally published in 1969, this parable of racial intrigue centers on the killing of an unarmed black youth by Sergeant Carrigan, a white policeman...
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174,00 zł |
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Songs My Mother Taught Me: Stories, Plays, and Memoir
ISBN: 9781558610866 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Songs My Mother Taught Me is the first collection of literature by Wakako Yamauchi. In her eloquent prose, Yamauchi, a Nisei (second-generation Japanese American) illuminates the neglected social and emotional history of two generations of Japanese in the United States, recalling the harsh lives of rural immigrants, tenant farmers, and itinerant laborers. Informed by her own family history, her stories and plays recreate the wartime relocation of Japanese Americans and their postwar return to urban centers, capturing their ambivalent longings for the prewar family and culture of Japan....
Songs My Mother Taught Me is the first collection of literature by Wakako Yamauchi. In her eloquent prose, Yamauchi, a Nisei (second-generation...
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98,50 zł |
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Losing Absalom
ISBN: 9781566891707 / Angielski / Miękka / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Sonny Goodman may have hopped the -modern underground railroad called education- and arrived in far-flung Minneapolis, but with the impending death of his father, North Philadelphia is calling him home. Quickly caught in the web that inner-city life has woven around his family's dreams, Sonny must find the strength to confront the toll urban corrosion has wrought upon the ones he loves. Named Best First Novel by the Black Caucus of the American Library Association, winner of the Minnesota Book Award and compared to the work of James Baldwin and August Wilson, Alexs D. Pate's... Sonny Goodman may have hopped the -modern underground railroad called education- and arrived in far-flung Minneapolis, but with the impending death... |
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65,52 zł |
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Our Time Has Come
ISBN: 9781593090265 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An ENGAGING and PROVOCATIVE new novel
that CHALLENGES all the political, social, and economic INADEQUACIES of the AMERICAN CIVIL RIGHTS System. In a dazzling display of political insight and masterful storytelling, Sylvester Stephens presents a new novel about what has been wrong throughout America's past -- and what can be made right in its future. Solomon Chambers is born in Saginaw, Michigan, in 1940. His parents and his uncle moved to Michigan from Mississippi years earlier, hoping to avoid the racism of their home state. Solomon eventually becomes a lawyer,... An ENGAGING and PROVOCATIVE new novel
that CHALLENGES all the political, social, and economic INADEQUACIES of the AMERICAN CIVIL RIGHT... |
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100,42 zł |
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Gotham Diaries
ISBN: 9781401301194 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A hilarious first novel that provides a peek into the world of the super-rich, super-connected African Americans in Manhattan. Lauren is trying to be an independent woman, starting her own documentary film company, but it's difficult when you're married to Ed Thomas, one of the wealthiest African-American businessmen in the country--and particularly when he seems to have a roving eye. Manny is an up-and-coming gay real estate agent who arrived in Manhattan from Alabama with only the clothes on his back. He's made his way to the top of his profession--yet he still wants more. Tandy...
A hilarious first novel that provides a peek into the world of the super-rich, super-connected African Americans in Manhattan. Lauren is try...
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157,25 zł |
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Foreigners
ISBN: 9781400079841 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From an acclaimed, award-winning novelist comes this brilliant hybrid of reportage, fiction, and historical fact: the stories of three black men whose tragic lives speak resoundingly to the problem of race in British society.
With his characteristic grace and forceful prose, Phillips describes the lives of three very different men: Francis Barber, given to the 18th-century writer Samuel Johnson, whose friendship with Johnson led to his wretched demise; Randolph Turpin, a boxing champion who ended his life in debt and decrepitude; and David Oluwale, a Nigerian stowaway who arrived in Leeds... From an acclaimed, award-winning novelist comes this brilliant hybrid of reportage, fiction, and historical fact: the stories of three black men whose...
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100,46 zł |
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MVP (Murder Vengeance Power)
ISBN: 9780970610218 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. MVP is the story of two best friends and business partners. Jonathon Parker and Coltrane Jones have a history. The best friends and business partners have been involved in everything from murder to blackmail, whatever it took to rise to stardom they did. Now that they're sitting on top of the world, heading up the two largest and most infamous strip clubs in the nation, the duo has the world at their feet. But now they both want out for different reasons.
MVP is the story of two best friends and business partners. Jonathon Parker and Coltrane Jones have a history. The best friends and business partners ...
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68,57 zł |
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Preacher Man Blues
ISBN: 9780970610225 / Angielski / Miękka / 316 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Terrell (TJ) Money and Percival (PC) Turner have achieved their goal of becoming preachers and heading up a megachurch in the Southeast. Now the best friends battle temptation and each other.
Terrell (TJ) Money and Percival (PC) Turner have achieved their goal of becoming preachers and heading up a megachurch in the Southeast. Now the best ...
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68,57 zł |
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The Bachelor's Fool & Life, Nothing But Drama
ISBN: 9780980147018 / Angielski / Miękka / 282 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This two-in-one features The Bachelor's Fool in which Ken tries to maintain his relationship with his daughter, despite his ex-wife's crazy drama; and Life, Nothing but Drama, which highlights the struggles five friends have to deal with.
This two-in-one features The Bachelor's Fool in which Ken tries to maintain his relationship with his daughter, despite his ex-wife's crazy drama; and...
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87,09 zł |
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