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Warmth of Other Suns (10 Edition) by Isabel Wilkerson Staff Pick The Warmth of Other Suns is a fascinating epic narrative of the Great Migration by the brilliant and beautiful Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson. Recommended by Adrienne, Powells.com List Price $30.00 Your price: $15.00 Used - Hardcover 
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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander Synopsis The New Jim Crow was initially published with a modest first printing and reasonable expectations for a hard-hitting book on a tough topic. Now, ten-plus printings later, the long-awaited paperback version of the book Lani Guinier calls “brave and... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $13.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Warriors Don't Cry: The Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High by Melba Patillo Beals Publisher Comments Originally published more than a decade ago, this searing account of the 1957 integration of Central High School in Little Rock--an ALA Nonfiction Book of the Year--is written by one of the black teenagers chosen to become warriors on the front lines of... (read more) List Price $6.99 Your price: $4.95 Used - Mass Market
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Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention by Manning Marable Publisher Comments Pandgt; andquot;An extraordinary portrait of a man and his time. . . .A masterpiece.andquot; -San Francisco Chronicle The late Manning Marable's acclaimed biography of Malcolm X finally does justice to one of the most influential and controversial... (read more) Your price: $18.00 New - Trade Paper
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Steel Drivin' Man: John Henry, the Untold Story of an American Legend by Scott Reynolds Nelson Publisher Comments Scott Reynolds Nelson recounts the true story of the man behind the iconic American hero John Henry, telling the poignant tale of a young Virginia convict who died working on one of the most dangerous enterprises of the time, the first rail route through... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave by Frederick Douglass Book News Annotation **** A reprint of the Harvard University Press publication of 1960, cited in BCL3. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)... (read more) List Price $9.99 Your price: $2.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup Publisher Comments Gripping autobiography presents exceptionally detailed and accurate description of slave life and plantation society. "A moving, vital testament . . ."--"Saturday Review." 7 illus.... (read more) List Price $8.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Magazine Novels of Pauline Hopkins: Including Hagar's Daughter, Winona, and of One Blood (Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers) by Pauline Hopkins Review "Brilliant....It is not hard to imagine that, once her fiction is given the attention it deserves, Hopkins could replace Chestnutt as the foremost black novelist of the period."--Eric J. Sundquist, The New York Times Book Review "The three novels... (read more) List Price $49.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Spoken Soul: The Story of Black English by John Russe Rickford Publisher Comments In Praise of Spoken Soul: The Story of Black English "Spoken Soul brilliantly fills a huge gap. . . . a delightfully readable introduction to the elegant interweave between the language and its culture." –Ralph W. Fasold, Georgetown university "A... (read more) List Price $32.50 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Live from Death Row by Mumia Abu Jamal Publisher Comments National Public Radio refuses to air him, his publisher has received threats, and "patriotic" citizens across the country have tried to ban him from the shelves. It's not hard to see why. In this brilliant collection of vignettes on life inside... (read more) List Price $12.99 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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