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Home by Toni Morrison 9780099555940
RRP: $18.98Booksplease Price: $14.23A stirring exploration of war, race and belonging from the Nobel-prize winning author of Beloved.An angry and self-loathing veteran of the Korean War, Frank Money finds himself back in racist America... -
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Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee 9781784752460 [USED COPY]
RRP: $18.98Booksplease Price: $2.45_________________A landmark new novel from Harper Lee, set two decades after her beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece To Kill a Mockingbird.Maycomb, Alabama. Twenty-six-year-old Jean Louise... -
The Great Oklahoma Swindle: Race, Religion, and Lies in America's Weirdest State by Russell Cobb 9781496230409
RRP: $36.08Booksplease Price: $31.29Board of Directors Award for special merit, 2021 Oklahoma Book Awards Far from being a placid place in the heart of Flyover Country, Oklahoma has been a laboratory for all kinds of social, political,... -
Race: Vintage Minis Toni Morrison 9781784872779
RRP: $11.38Booksplease Price: $9.22An exploration of race from one of the twentieth century's primary chroniclers of the African American experience.Is who we are really only skin deep? In this searing, remonstrative book, Toni... -
Love and Mr Lewisham by H. G. Wells 9780141441054
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $16.00Young, impoverished and ambitious, science student Mr Lewisham is locked in a struggle to further himself through academic achievement. But when his former sweetheart, Ethel Henderson, re-enters his... -
The Book of Daniel by E. L. Doctorow
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $17.54Based on the trial and execution of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, convicted of delivering information about the atomic bomb to the Soviet Union E.L. Doctorow's The Book of Daniel includes a new... -
Al-Qur'an: A Contemporary Translation by Ahmed Ali 9780691074993
RRP: $32.28Booksplease Price: $28.60This bilingual edition of the Qur'an, the Holy Book of Islam, was first published in the United States in 1988. Ahmed Ali, the distinguished Pakistani novelist, poet, critic, and diplomat, presents... -
Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work by Edwidge Danticat 9780691140186
RRP: $32.28Booksplease Price: $28.03"Create dangerously, for people who read dangerously. This is what I've always thought it meant to be a writer. Writing, knowing in part that no matter how trivial your words may seem, someday,... -
Reading Obama: Dreams, Hope, and the American Political Tradition by James T. Kloppenberg 9780691154336
RRP: $28.48Booksplease Price: $25.14Derided by the Right as dangerous and by the Left as spineless, Barack Obama puzzles observers. In Reading Obama, James T. Kloppenberg reveals the sources of Obama's ideas and explains why his... -
Gordon Parks Centennial: His Legacy at Wichita State University by Patricia McDonnell
RRP: $37.98Booksplease Price: $30.82This book celebrates photographer, filmmaker, composer, and author Gordon Parks, drawing on photographs and archival material held at Wichita State University. Parks's legacy involves a delicate... -
Atomic Light (Shadow Optics) by Akira Mizuta Lippit
RRP: $36.08Booksplease Price: $31.29This book explores the "avisual" and its effect on the visual world. Dreams, x-rays, atomic radiation, and "invisible men" are phenomena that are visual in nature but unseen. "Atomic Light (Shadow... -
Fat Time and Other Stories Jeffery Renard Allen 9781644452394
RRP: $26.58Booksplease Price: $18.49In Fat Time and Other Stories, Jimi Hendrix, Francis Bacon, the boxer Jack Johnson, Miles Davis, and a space-age Muhammad Ali find themselves in the otherworldly hands of Jeffery Renard Allen,... -
Flying Home And Other Stories by John Callahan
RRP: $18.98Booksplease Price: $15.11Raw, lyrical and blazing with intensity, these short stories are a potent distillation of the genius of Ralph Ellison, author of Invisible Man.'He saw the dark bird glide into the sun and glow like a... -
Mine Eyes Have Seen: Bearing Witness to the Struggle for Civil Rights by Bob Adelman 9780500543481
RRP: $13.28Booksplease Price: $11.51This searing collection of photographs by LIFE photographer Bob Adelman takes the reader on a rollercoaster ride through Americas Civil Rights Movement. These unforgettable photographs of Americas... -
The Island of Doctor Moreau: A Norton Critical Edition by H. G. Wells 9780393920154
RRP: $22.78Booksplease Price: $20.63This Norton Critical Edition includes: The 1896 William Heinemann edition of Wells's novel-a cauldron of scientific ambition, interspecies conflict, and neocolonial violence-with a glossary of... -
The Novel Experience: Reading Fiction with Nagarjuna, Nietzsche, and William James Helmut Müller-Sievers 9781501785634
RRP: $28.48Booksplease Price: $25.76The Novel Experience introduces new approaches to the study of narrative fiction, for scholars, critics, teachers, and readers. At the heart of this concise book is a conception of experience that is... -
Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky 9780393976120
Booksplease Price: $30.80"Backgrounds and Sources" includes relevant writings by Dostoevsky, among them "Winter Notes on Summer Impressions," the author's account of a formative trip to the West. New to the Second Edition... -
Who Will Pay Reparations on My Soul?: Essays Jesse McCarthy (Harvard University) 9781324091479
RRP: $26.58Booksplease Price: $24.91Ranging from Ta-Nehisi Coates's case for reparations to D'Angelo's simmering blend of R&B and racial justice, Jesse McCarthy's dazzling essays capture debates at the intersection of art, literature... -
My Amputations: A Novel by Clarence Major 9781573661430
RRP: $32.28Booksplease Price: $28.73Originally published in 1986, this is a work of American fiction.About the AuthorClarence Major is a prize-winning poet, novelist, painter, and a Bronze Medal finalist for the National Book Award... -
Telling the Truth: The Theory and Practice of Documentary Fiction by Barbara C. Foley 9781501722882
RRP: $37.98Booksplease Price: $31.29Barbara Foley here focuses on the relatively neglected genre of documentary fiction: novels that are continually near the borderline between factual and fictive discourse. She links the development... -
Revisionaries: What We Can Learn from the Lost, Unfinished, and Just Plain Bad Work of Great Writers Kristopher Jansma 9781683693734
RRP: $34.18Booksplease Price: $26.89Find creative inspiration in this fascinating rummage through the wastebaskets, secret diaries, and abandoned files of 20 literary superstars. If you like to write whether it s a pastime, a... -
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Phonographies: Grooves in Sonic Afro-Modernity by Alexander G. Weheliye 9780822335771 [USED COPY]
RRP: $163.40Booksplease Price: $49.67Phonographies explores the numerous links and relays between twentieth-century black cultural production and sound technologies from the phonograph to the Walkman. Highlighting how black authors,... -
On Being and Becoming: An Existentialist Approach to Life by Jennifer Anna Gosetti-Ferencei
RRP: $36.08Booksplease Price: $22.59While existentialism has long been associated with Parisian Left Bank philosophers sipping cocktails in smoke-filled cafes, or with a brooding, angst-filled outlook on life, Gosetti-Ferencei shows... -
Letters of Note: New York by Shaun Usher
RRP: $15.18Booksplease Price: $11.44In Letters of Note: New York, Shaun Usher curates a collection of extraordinary written exchanges about the Big Apple, from the marvelling of wide-eyed newcomers and the devoted outpourings of native... -
Philadelphia Fire by John Edgar Wideman
RRP: $18.98Booksplease Price: $6.44In 1985 police bombed a West Philadelphia row house. Eleven people died and a fire started that destroyed sixty other houses. John Edgar Wideman brings these events and their repercussions to... -
Any Day Now: Toward a Black Aesthetic by Larry Neal 9781644231203
RRP: $20.81Booksplease Price: $15.20A comprehensive and inspiring collection of essays by Larry Neal, a founder of the seminal Black Arts Movement. "The Black Arts Movement is radically opposed to any concept of the artist that... -
The Healing Gayl Jones 9780349012186
RRP: $18.98Booksplease Price: $14.69THE FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD'A literary giant, and one of my absolute favourite writers' TAYARI JONES'The novel's richness lies in its entertaining meandering, and the vitality of its... -
Brown Glass Windows by devorah major 9781880684870
RRP: $26.58Booksplease Price: $25.50Brown Glass Windows is the story of the Evermans, an African-American family in the Filmore District of San Francisco and the tragic history of their son, Ranger, who returns scarred from his... -
The Northern Stories of Charles W. Chesnutt by Charles W. Chesnutt 9780821415436
RRP: $36.08Booksplease Price: $31.69The first African American fiction writer to earn a national reputation, Charles W. Chesnutt remains best known for his depictions of Southern life before and after the Civil War. But he also... -
Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner
RRP: $18.98Booksplease Price: $16.25This postbellum Greek tragedy is the perfect introduction to Faulkner's elaborate descriptive syntax.Quentin Compson and Shreve, his Harvard roommate, are obsessed with the tragic rise and fall of... -
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Within the Circle: An Anthology of African American Literary Criticism from the Harlem Renaissance to the Present by Angelyn Mitchell 9780822315360 [USED COPY]
RRP: $243.20Booksplease Price: $25.71Within the Circle is the first anthology to present the entire spectrum of twentieth-century African American literary and cultural criticism. It begins with the Harlem Renaissance, continues through... -
Blackness Visible: Essays on Philosophy and Race by Charles W. Mills
RRP: $53.18Booksplease Price: $44.10Charles Mills makes visible in the world of mainstream philosophy some of the crucial issues of the black experience. Ralph Ellison's metaphor of black invisibility has special relevance to... -
The Paris Review Interviews: Vol. 3 by Philip Gourevitch
RRP: $28.48Booksplease Price: $19.97Since The Paris Review was founded in 1953, it has given us invaluable conversations with the greatest writers of our age, vivid self-portraits that are themselves works of finely-crafted literature... -
Aberrations In Black: Toward A Queer Of Color Critique by Roderick A. Ferguson 9780816641291
RRP: $32.28Booksplease Price: $28.33A hard-hitting look at the regulation of sexual difference and its role in circumscribing African American culture The sociology of race relations in America typically describes an intersection of... -
The Intuitionist by Colson Whitehead
RRP: $18.98Booksplease Price: $11.70Verticality, architectural and social, is at the heart of Colson Whitehead's first novel that takes place in an unnamed high-rise city that combines twenty-first-century engineering feats with... -
Cane: A Norton Critical Edition Jean Toomer 9781324088059
RRP: $26.58Booksplease Price: $24.91This Norton Critical Edition includes: The text of Toomer's genre-bending masterpiece as edited by Darwin T. Turner for the First Norton Critical Edition (1988).A revised and expanded introduction,... -
The Changeling by Victor LaValle
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $14.71NOW AN APPLE TV+ SERIES STARRING LAKEITH STANDFIELDONE OF TIME'S 100 BEST FANTASY BOOKS OF ALL TIME Winner of an American Book Award, a Locus Award for Best Horror Novel, a British Fantasy Award for... -
No Name in the Street James Baldwin 9780241711187
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $15.11'Candid, insightful, moving . . . a memoir, a chronicle of and commentary on America's abortive civil-rights movement' -The New York TimesIn this deeply personal book, Baldwin reflects on the... -
The American Sentence: From Pulpit to Pulp Fiction Ira B. Nadel 9781350473089
RRP: $34.18Booksplease Price: $30.10A compelling quest to locate a history and poetics of the American sentence, this book applies four stages of communication to the story of American writing - the sermon, the telegraph, the newspaper... -
Once You Go Black: Choice, Desire, and the Black American Intellectual by Robert F. Reid-Pharr 9780814775837 [USED COPY]
RRP: $163.40Booksplease Price: $16.342007 Lambda Literary Award Finalist, LGBT Studies Richard Wright. Ralph Ellison. James Baldwin. Literary and cultural critic Robert Reid-Pharr asserts that these and other post-World War II...