Zora and Langston: A Story of Friendship and Betrayal
By: Yuval Taylor
3.76
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Zora Neale Hurston (Their Eyes Were Watching God) and Langston Hughes (“The Negro Speaks of Rivers,…
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By: Zora Neale Hurston
4.11
Format: 324 pages, Paperback
Dust Tracks on a Road is the bold, poignant, and funny autobiography of novelist, folklorist, and a… read more
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"Mystery is the essence of divinity"-Zora Neale Hurston, Dust Tracks on a Road
"Lack of power and opportunity passes off too often for virtue."-Zora Neale Hurston, Dust Tracks on a Road
"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you."-Zora Neale Hurston, Dust Tracks on a Road
"Grown people know that they do not always know the way of things, and even if they think they know, they do not know where and how they got the proof."-Zora Neale Hurston, Dust Tracks on a Road
2. Jonah's Gourd Vine
By: Zora Neale Hurston
3.99
Format: 229 pages, Paperback
The first novel by the noted black novelist, folklorist, and anthropologist. Originally published i… read more
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"...Whuss de news?" "Oh de white folks is still in de lead."-Zora Neale Hurston, Jonah's Gourd Vine
"Ah wouldn't give uh bitch uh bone if she treed uh terrapin."-Zora Neale Hurston, Jonah's Gourd Vine
"She is full uh pepper," John laughed to himself, "but ah laks dat. Anything 'thout no seasonin' in it ain't no good."-Zora Neale Hurston, Jonah's Gourd Vine
"World gone money mad. The pinch of war gone, people must spend. Buy and forget. Spend and solace. Silks for sorrows. Jewels to bring back joy."-Zora Neale Hurston, Jonah's Gourd Vine
3. Their Eyes Were Watching God
By: Zora Neale Hurston
4.43
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
When Janie, at sixteen, is caught kissing shiftless Johnny Taylor, her grandmother swiftly marries … read more
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4. Notes of a Native Son
By: James Baldwin
4.08
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
A new edition published on the twenty-fifth anniversary of Baldwin's death, including a new introdu… read more
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5. Vengeance Road (Vengeance Road, #1)
By: Erin Bowman
3.30
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Revenge is worth its weight in gold. When her father is murdered for a journal revealing the locati… read more
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6. The Street
By: Ann Petry
3.80
Format: None pages, Paperback
The Streettells the poignant, often heartbreaking story of Lutie Johnson, a young black woman, and … read more
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7. Mules and Men
By: Zora Neale Hurston
4.12
Format: 206 pages,
Mules and Menis a treasury of black America's folklore as collected by a famous storyteller and ant… read more
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8. The Big Sea
By: Langston Hughes , Arnold Rampersad
4.19
Format: 340 pages, Paperback
Introduction by Arnold Rampersad. Langston Hughes, born in 1902, came of age early in the 1920s. In… read more
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9. Unbought And Unbossed
By: Shirley Chisholm
3.00
Format: 112 pages, Hardcover
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3.62
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (1868-1963) is the greatest of African American intellectuals--a s… read more
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11. King: A Life
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4.67
Format: 688 pages, Hardcover
The first full biography in decades, King mixes revelatory and exhaustive new research with brisk a… read more
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3.64
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
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3.81
Format: 271 pages, Kindle Edition
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14. The Garden Within: Where the War with Your Emotions Ends and Your Most Powerful Life Begins
By: Anita Phillips
4.37
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER | WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER Too often we’ve been taught to view our … read more
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15. You Dreamed of Empires
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4.19
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19. Zora and Langston: A Story of Friendship and Betrayal
By: Yuval Taylor
3.76
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
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20. Our Gen
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