Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick: Stories from the Harlem Renaissance
By: Zora Neale Hurston
3.97
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A collection of remarkable stories, including eight “lost” Harlem Renaissance tales now available t…
Want to Read $ 14.99"I am striving desperately for a toe-hold on the world."-Zora Neale Hurston, Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick: Stories from the Harlem Renaissance
"People value monuments above men, and signs above works."-Zora Neale Hurston, Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick: Stories from the Harlem Renaissance
"A woman robbed of her love is more terrible than an army with banners."-Zora Neale Hurston, Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick: Stories from the Harlem Renaissance
"The heart of man is an ever empty abyss into which the whole world shall fall and be swallowed up."-Zora Neale Hurston, Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick: Stories from the Harlem Renaissance
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1. Two Trains Running
By: August Wilson
4.04
Format: 110 pages, Paperback
August Wilson surged to the forefront of American playwrights with the success of such critically a… read more
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- classics
- african american
- fiction
- historical fiction
2. Wrapped in Rainbows: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston
By: Valerie Boyd
3.38
Format: None pages, Paperback
From critically acclaimed journalist Valerie Boyd comes an eloquent profile of one of the most intr… read more
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- african american
3. No Name in the Street
By: James Baldwin
4.00
Format: 199 pages, Paperback
This stunningly personal document and extraordinary history of the turbulent sixties and early seve… read more
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- classics
- african american
- race
4. Only If You Dare (Falling For A Rose Book 3)
By: Stephanie Nicole Norris
3.47
Format: 288 pages,
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- audiobook
5. The Homecoming
By: Harold Pinter
3.70
Format: 82 pages, Paperback
When Teddy, a professor in an American university, brings his wife Ruth to visit his old home in Lo… read more
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- classics
- fiction
"RUTH: If you take the glass…I’ll take you."-Harold Pinter, The Homecoming
"Look what I'm lumbered with. One load of cast-iron crap after another." --Harold Pinter: The Homecoming."-Harold Pinter, The Homecoming
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7. How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective
By: Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
3.40
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
The Combahee River Collective, a group of radical black feminists, was one of the most important or… read more
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8. Sisters of the Yam: Black Women and Self-Recovery
By: bell hooks
4.06
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
When Sisters of the Yam: Black Women and Self-Recoverywas originally released in 1994, it won criti… read more
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9. Ghost Summer
By: Tananarive Due
4.20
Format: 335 pages, Paperback
Whether weaving family life and history into dark fiction or writing speculative Afrofuturism, Amer… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
"Letitia knew words were only part of who people were, and usually the least important part."-Tananarive Due, Ghost Summer
"She had learned long ago that the truth made people angry, and to speak of it was considered evil."-Tananarive Due, Ghost Summer
"In a cold place, there's no such thing as today, just tomorrow. Will it snow tomorrow? Will it be sunny tomorrow?"-Tananarive Due, Ghost Summer
"...you know everybody has a turn, and you just try to find something interesting every day to make you glad it hasn't happened yet."-Tananarive Due, Ghost Summer
10. The Spoiled Heart
By: Sunjeev Sahota
3.82
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Nayan Olak is a man with a past. Haunted by the sudden death of his young son and his mother and dr… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- audiobook
11. A Risqué Engagement (In the Heart of a Valentine #2)
By: Stephanie Nicole Norris
4.45
Format: 214 pages, Kindle Edition
On the surface, Corinne Thomas has the world at her fingertips. As a stewardess for one of the larg… read more
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- african american
- adult
- fiction
- audiobook
12. Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick: Stories from the Harlem Renaissance
By: Zora Neale Hurston
3.97
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A collection of remarkable stories, including eight “lost” Harlem Renaissance tales now available t… read more
Want to Read $ 14.99Similar categories in Zora Neale Hurston's Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick: Stories from the Harlem Renaissance book and Zora Neale Hurston's Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick: Stories from the Harlem Renaissance
- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- classics
- race
- adult
- short stories
- fiction
- historical fiction
- african american
- audiobook
"I am striving desperately for a toe-hold on the world."-Zora Neale Hurston, Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick: Stories from the Harlem Renaissance
"People value monuments above men, and signs above works."-Zora Neale Hurston, Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick: Stories from the Harlem Renaissance
"A woman robbed of her love is more terrible than an army with banners."-Zora Neale Hurston, Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick: Stories from the Harlem Renaissance
"The heart of man is an ever empty abyss into which the whole world shall fall and be swallowed up."-Zora Neale Hurston, Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick: Stories from the Harlem Renaissance
13. And This I Swear (In The Heart of a Valentine #7)
By: Stephanie Nicole Norris
4.50
Format: 122 pages, Kindle Edition
As the matriarch in one of Chicago’s elite families, Bridgette Valentine has the weight of the worl… read more
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- audiobook
14. A Black Women's History of the United States (ReVisioning History)
By: Daina Ramey Berry
4.30
Format: 273 pages, Hardcover
A vibrant and empowering history that emphasizes the perspectives and stories of African American w… read more
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- audiobook
15. Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves
By: Glory Edim
4.37
Format: 201 pages, Hardcover
An inspiring collection of essays by black women writers, curated by the founder of the popular boo… read more
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- race
- short stories
- audiobook
"This often has a lot to do with racism and sexism, and the stories we are "allowed" to tell as people of colour."-Glory Edim, Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves
"They both squealed in the face of hope and the audacity for a black body to exist despite the system designed to dismember it."-Glory Edim, Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves
"Cassie's story made me acutely aware of the fact that in that moment, she inhabited a black body, and so marked, would never be gifted with escape."-Glory Edim, Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves
"That while I wanted to write with the narrative bravado of Toni Morrison, it might be okay if I started with something less ambitious than a book like beloved."-Glory Edim, Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves
16. Fever (Falling for a Rose #4)
By: Stephanie Nicole Norris
4.45
Format: 241 pages, Kindle Edition
Embarking on a new journey, Santana Summers wants nothing more than to enjoy her new city, new frie… read more
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- african american
- audiobook
17. Buster: A Dog
By: George Pelecanos
3.87
Format: 88 pages, Hardcover
Pelecanos breaks new literary ground with the story of a dog's life―from the dog's perspective―on t… read more
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18. A Game-Changing Christmas (In the Heart of a Valentine #4)
By: Stephanie Nicole Norris
4.42
Format: 136 pages, Kindle Edition
Two prominent families. A six-year rivalry. A common enemy. In this season of giving, love is in t… read more
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- adult
- fiction
- audiobook
19. Swing State
By: Rebecca Gilman
3.50
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
First performed at Chicago's Goodman Theatre in 2022. Recently widowed, Peg tends to the 40 acres o… read more
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- short stories
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20. Taking the Arrow Out of the Heart
By: Alice Walker
3.93
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Presented in both English and Spanish, Alice Walker shares a timely collection of nearly seventy wo… read more
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- african american
- adult
- audiobook
"Hope is a woman who has lost her fear."-Alice Walker, Taking the Arrow Out of the Heart
"Repelled by cruelty let us ban it from our hearts."-Alice Walker, Taking the Arrow Out of the Heart
"And when they spy on us let them discover us loving"-Alice Walker, Taking the Arrow Out of the Heart
"Be what they do not want: Be thoughtful. Be skilled at loving. Be of good heart. Be of the world tribe."-Alice Walker, Taking the Arrow Out of the Heart
21. On Girlhood: 15 Stories from the Well-Read Black Girl Library
By: Glory Edim
4.25
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
“When you look over your own library, who do you see?” Since founding the beloved Well-Read Bl… read more
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- race
- adult
- short stories
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