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The Wedding
ISBN: 9780385471442 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In her final novel, Dorothy West offers an intimate glimpse into African American middle class. Set on bucolic Martha's Vineyard in the 1950s, The Wedding tells the story of life in the Oval, a proud, insular community made up of the best and brightest of the East Coast's black bourgeoisie. Within this inner circle of "blue-vein society," we witness the prominent Coles family gather for the wedding of the loveliest daughter, Shelby, who could have chosen from "a whole area of eligible men of the right colors and the right professions." Instead, she has fallen in love with and is... In her final novel, Dorothy West offers an intimate glimpse into African American middle class. Set on bucolic Martha's Vineyard in the 1950s, T... |
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67,37 zł |
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The Slave Girl
ISBN: 9780807609521 / Angielski / Miękka / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The Slave Girl follows the fortunes of Ogbanje Ojebeta, a Nigerian woman who is sold into slavery in her own land after disease and tragedy leave her orphaned as a child. In her fellow slaves, she finds a surrogate family that clings together under the unbending will of their master. As Ogbanje Ojebeta becomes a woman and discovers her need for home and family, and for freedom and identity, she realizes that she must ultimately choose her own destiny.
The Slave Girl follows the fortunes of Ogbanje Ojebeta, a Nigerian woman who is sold into slavery in her own land after disease and tragedy l...
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75,58 zł |
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Daddy Was a Number Runner
ISBN: 9781558614420 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This beloved modern classic documents the lives and hardships of an African American family living in Depression-era Harlem. While 12-year-old Francie Coffin's world and family threaten to fall apart, this remarkable young heroine must call upon her own wit and endurance to survive amidst the treacheries of racism and sexism, poverty and violence.
This beloved modern classic documents the lives and hardships of an African American family living in Depression-era Harlem. While 12-year-old Francie...
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84,92 zł |
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Louisiana
ISBN: 9781578060313 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This is the first American publication of Brodber's eagerly awaited third novel. In Louisiana: A Novel she explores her continuing fascination with the power of the past to live in the present. Here, Ella Townsend, a young African American anthropologist whose roots are Caribbean, researches Louisiana folk life and discovers not only the world of voodoo and carnival but also the mystical connection of the living and the dead. With her tape recorder she explores the rich heritage of Creole Louisiana, but Mammy, Ella's primary informant, dies during the project. Then from beyond the... This is the first American publication of Brodber's eagerly awaited third novel. In Louisiana: A Novel she explores her continuing fascinati... |
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124,19 zł |
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Lonely Crusade
ISBN: 9781560251422 / Angielski / Miękka / 398 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. A classic of African-American fiction, Chester Himes's tale of a young black man who becomes a union organizer during WWII examines major problems in American life: racism, anti-Semitism, labor strife, and corruption.
A classic of African-American fiction, Chester Himes's tale of a young black man who becomes a union organizer during WWII examines major problems in ...
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84,17 zł |
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La Cabaa del To Tom
ISBN: 9781517220884 / Hiszpański / Miękka / 522 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. La obra tiene la maldad y el abuso de la esclavitud como tema principal. La historia se desarolla en la cabana del Tio Tom quien nos relata la historia, un esclavo afroamericano. Nos habla de otros personajes, tanto esclavos como propietarios de ellos. La novela muestra la dura y cruel realidad de la esclavitud mientras nos ensena que el amor y la fe pueden superar algo tan atroz como la esclavizacion de seres humanos."
La obra tiene la maldad y el abuso de la esclavitud como tema principal. La historia se desarolla en la cabana del Tio Tom quien nos relata la histori...
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88,38 zł |
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Destiny's Dilemma
ISBN: 9781514209615 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. An African American woman moved home to take care of her dying mother giving up the opportunity to experience a world beyond segregation. Zoraida Hughes Williams finds that some things have changed about her hometown of Fort Worth, Texas while some have stayed the same, like Hell's Half Acre, an area where saloons, prostitution and gambling runs wild. Like most of the residents, she wants to keep her head down and stay away from trouble, but it comes in the unlikely form of an Anglo Baptist preacher. He messes up everything and almost gets them killed.
An African American woman moved home to take care of her dying mother giving up the opportunity to experience a world beyond segregation. Zoraida Hugh...
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44,22 zł |
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The N-Word of the Narcissus
ISBN: 9789076660110 / Angielski / Miękka / 170 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. "The N-word of the Narcissus" tells the tale of a fateful voyage of a British sailing ship, and on that voyage the ability of a lone black man to take the crew hostage. Conrad appears to have been the first to highlight the phenomenon of manipulation based in white guilt.
"The N-word of the Narcissus" tells the tale of a fateful voyage of a British sailing ship, and on that voyage the ability of a lone black man to take...
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72,74 zł |
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The Skeenas
ISBN: 9781535476751 / Angielski / Miękka / 34 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. I sat heavy-hearted alongside my sister and cuz in the funkily cramped waiting room of the trauma ward at Keystone med, my mind racing and my heart pounding on awaiting just the tiniest sliver of news from the doc on my good old coworker and longtime friend's progress while his sister, Rhonda was nearly down to the cuticles of her nails in extreme rhinoceros anxiety.
I sat heavy-hearted alongside my sister and cuz in the funkily cramped waiting room of the trauma ward at Keystone med, my mind racing and my heart po...
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26,48 zł |
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Justice for Toby: A Fish Springs Novel
ISBN: 9780692740859 / Angielski / Miękka / 258 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The year is 1883. The place is Fish Springs-a remote mountain community in rugged East Tennessee. The grisly murder of a black man and the pursuit of his killer in predominantly white Carter County rekindle old hatred and bigotry. Will the victim's killer be caught and brought to justice? Or will the white power structure in this mountain community dismiss the murder as just another Negro who got out of line and deserved to die? The Ku Klux Klan gets involved, and the accused murderer hires a take-no-prisoners, crafty defense attorney. Witnesses are threatened, property is destroyed and the...
The year is 1883. The place is Fish Springs-a remote mountain community in rugged East Tennessee. The grisly murder of a black man and the pursuit of ...
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83,78 zł |
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Betsey Brown
ISBN: 9780312541231 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Praised as "exuberantly engaging" by the Los Angeles Times and a "beautiful, beautiful piece of writing" by the Houston Post, acclaimed artist Ntozake Shange brings to life the story of a young girl's awakening amidst her country's seismic growing pains. Set in St. Louis in 1957, the year of the Little Rock Nine, Shange's story reveals the prismatic effect of racism on an American child and her family. Seamlessly woven into this masterful portrait of an extended family is the story of Betsey's adolescence, the rush of first romance, and the sobering responsibilities of... Praised as "exuberantly engaging" by the Los Angeles Times and a "beautiful, beautiful piece of writing" by the Houston Post, acclaim... |
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79,96 zł |
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Clotel: Or, the President's Daughter: A Narrative of Slave Life in the United States
ISBN: 9780312621070 / Angielski / Miękka / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 25-30 dni roboczych. Clotel; or The President's Daughter (1853), the first published novel by an African American, has recently emerged as a canonical text for courses in African American as well as nineteenth-century American literature courses. The story was inspired by the rumored sexual relationship between Thomas Jefferson and his slave Sally Hemings, and this edition of Clotel is the only one to reprint selections from the key texts and cultural documents that Brown drew on (and even appropriated) when he wrote his novel. The streamlined second edition includes an updated...
Clotel; or The President's Daughter (1853), the first published novel by an African American, has recently emerged as a canonical...
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105,03 zł |
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Gathering of Waters
ISBN: 9781617750311 / Angielski / Miękka / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Selected as a Go On Girl Book Pick
"100 Notable Books of 2012" "--New York Times" "50 Best Books of 2012" "--Washington Post" "McFadden works a kind of miracle -- not only do her characters] retain their appealing humanity; their story eclipses the bonds of history to offer continuous surprises . . . Beautiful and evocative, "Gathering of Waters" brings three generations to life . . . The real power of the narrative lies in the richness and complexity of the characters. While they inhabit these pages they live, and they do so gloriously and messily and magically, so that we are... Selected as a Go On Girl Book Pick
"100 Notable Books of 2012" "--New York Times" "50 Best Books of 2012" "--Washington Post" "McFadden wo... |
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75,58 zł |
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From Rum to Roots
ISBN: 9780989216104 / Angielski / Miękka / 452 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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79,58 zł |
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Hard Times on a Southern Chain Gang : Originally Published as the Novel Georgia Nigger (1932)
ISBN: 9781611170443 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 25-30 dni roboczych. The New York Times praised Communist Party reporter John L. Spivak s shocking 1932 novel Georgia Nigger as having the weight and authority of a sociological investigation. This Southern Classics edition makes Spivak s narrative available to modern readers, augmented with a new introduction by David A. Davis as well as additional documents Spivak gathered during his investigation into the abuses of the Depression-era Southern prison system.
Georgia Nigger exposes the institutionalized system of sharecropping, debt peonage, and exorbitant chain gang sentences that trapped many southern... The New York Times praised Communist Party reporter John L. Spivak s shocking 1932 novel Georgia Nigger as having the weight and authority of a sociol...
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68,89 zł |
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The Peach Seed
ISBN: 9781466401129 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The Peach Seed needs no comparison to other books it stands alone in its telling of a tragic yet triumphant story. A story that starts with a tranquil old-timey feel to the narrative that grows and expands with the reader. Adelia Wade is a reluctant psychic who doesn't intervene when her son E. J. joins the Marine Corps completely unaware of the tragic fate that awaits him. His brother Bobby who hates his decision, sees 1968 America in a totally different light wondering if E. J. joined for all the wrong reasons. Adelia won't accept the news of E. J.'s death when a uniformed officer knocks on...
The Peach Seed needs no comparison to other books it stands alone in its telling of a tragic yet triumphant story. A story that starts with a tranquil...
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70,70 zł |
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Yonder Lies Josiah's Gold: The Possibility of America's First Successful Prospector
ISBN: 9781470194611 / Angielski / Miękka / 214 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Slave miners prior to 1860 who freed themselves from slavery with great prospecting skills. Josiah learned about gold from his grandfather. His skills took him through Gold Rushes in Georgia, North Carolina, California and Colorado.
Slave miners prior to 1860 who freed themselves from slavery with great prospecting skills. Josiah learned about gold from his grandfather. His skills...
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43,98 zł |
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Buffalo Soldier: Homecoming
ISBN: 9781475276688 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Second in the YA history series about the Buffalo Soldiers in the American west.
Second in the YA history series about the Buffalo Soldiers in the American west.
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30,72 zł |
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The Good Lord Bird : A Novel
ISBN: 9781594486340 / Angielski / Twarda / 417 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Winner of the 2013 National Book Award for Fiction
Soon to be a major motion picture starring Liev Schreiber and Jaden Smith A Washington Post, Publishers Weekly, Oprah Magazine Top 10 Book of the Year Winner of the Morning News Tournament of Champions -A magnificent new novel by the best-selling author James McBride.- -cover review of The New York Times Book Review -Outrageously entertaining.- -USA Today -James McBride delivers another tour de force- -Essence -So imaginative, you'll race to the finish.-... Winner of the 2013 National Book Award for Fiction
Soon to be a major motion picture starring Liev Schreiber and Jaden Smith A Washing... |
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117,68 zł |
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Chronicles of a Slave Girl: A Slave Narrative
ISBN: 9781482358568 / Angielski / Miękka / 386 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This is the rather unique saga of Mary, the beautiful mulatto woman, who has been led to believe that because of her mixed blood, fair complexion and straight hair she has an advantage over dem Afreecans of less stature, and who slave in the masters fields from can't see in the morning 'til can't see at night and who can hardly speak the language. Not only can she speak the language she can read it. This and a host of other issues, like growing up in the big house lead Mary to truly believe that she is better than the other slaves and especially the Africans. But a series of events brings her...
This is the rather unique saga of Mary, the beautiful mulatto woman, who has been led to believe that because of her mixed blood, fair complexion and ...
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88,38 zł |
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