Living by the Word: Essays
By: Alice Walker
4.16
Format: 224 pages, Kindle Edition
The The Color Purple meditates on planetary concerns as well as on feminist and political issues in…
Want to Read $ 2.99"Some periods of our growth are so confusing that we don’t even recognize that growth is what is happening. We may feel hostile or angry or weepy and hysterical, or we may feel depressed. It would never occur to us, unless we stumbled on a book or person who explained it to us, that we were in fact in the process of change, of actually becoming larger, spiritually, than we were before. Whenever we grow, we tend to feel it, as a young seed must feel the weight and inertia of the earth as it seeks to break out of its shell on its way to becoming a plant. Often the feeling is anything but pleasant. But what is most unpleasant is the not knowing what is happening . . . Those long periods when something inside ourselves seems to be waiting, holding its breath, unsure about what the next step should be, eventually become the periods we wait for, for it is in those periods that we realize that we are being prepared for the next phase of our life and that, in all probability, a new level of the personality is about to be revealed."-Alice Walker, Living by the Word: Essays
"Some periods of our growth are so confusing that we don’t even recognize that growth is what is happening. We may feel hostile or angry or weepy and hysterical, or we may feel depressed. It would never occur to us, unless we stumbled on a book or person who explained it to us, that we were in fact in the process of change, of actually becoming larger, spiritually, than we were before. Whenever we grow, we tend to feel it, as a young seed must feel the weight and inertia of the earth as it seeks to break out of its shell on its way to becoming a plant. Often the feeling is anything but pleasant. But what is most unpleasant is the not knowing what is happening . . . Those long periods when something inside ourselves seems to be waiting, holding its breath, unsure about what the next step should be, eventually become the periods we wait for, for it is in those periods that we realize that we are being prepared for the next phase of our life and that, in all probability, a new level of the personality is about to be revealed."-Alice Walker, Living by the Word: Essays
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1. The Whale Rider
By: Witi Ihimaera
3.84
Format: 152 pages, Paperback
Eight-year-old Kahu craves her great-grandfather's love and attention. But he's focused on his duti… read more
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"Even the good guys,' she said, 'can't win all the time."-Witi Ihimaera, The Whale Rider
"This is the last spear. It is the seed of Paikea and we must return it to the land."-Witi Ihimaera, The Whale Rider
"Man might carve his mark on the earth but unless he's vigilant, Nature will take it all back."-Witi Ihimaera, The Whale Rider
"Sometimes life has a habit of flooding over you and rushing you along in its overwhelming tide."-Witi Ihimaera, The Whale Rider
2. Last Night: Stories
By: James Salter
3.55
Format: 199 pages, Paperback
Last Nightis a spellbinding collection of stories about passion-by turns fiery and subdued, destruc… read more
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3. Live from New York: An Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live
By: James Andrew Miller , Tom Shales
3.77
Format: 52 pages,
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- nonfiction
4. The Golden Child
By: Penelope Fitzgerald
3.84
Format: 135 pages, Paperback
Penelope Fitzgerald's novel, The Golden Child, combines a deft comedy of manners with a classic mys… read more
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- literature
5. The Passion
By: Jeanette Winterson
2.43
Format: None pages, Paperback
Jeanette Winterson's novels have established her as one of the most important young writers in worl… read more
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6. Love
By: Toni Morrison
4.27
Format: 24 pages, Paperback
Nobel Prize laureate Toni Morrison's spellbinding new novel is a Faulknerian symphony of passion an… read more
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- literature
- african american
7. Assata: An Autobiography
By: Angela Y. Davis , Assata Shakur , Lennox S. Hinds
4.80
Format: None pages, Paperback
On May 2, 1973, Black Panther Assata Shakur (aka JoAnne Chesimard) lay in a hospital, close to deat… read more
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8. Phenomenal Woman: Four Poems Celebrating Women
By: Maya Angelou
4.00
Format: 199 pages,
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- feminism
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9. The Fire Next Time
By: James Baldwin
3.54
Format: None pages, Paperback
A national bestseller when it first appeared in 1963, The Fire Next Timegalvanized the nation and g… read more
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10. Jazz
By: Toni Morrison
4.51
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
In the winter of 1926, when everybody everywhere sees nothing but good things ahead, Joe Trace, mid… read more
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- literature
- african american
11. Nine Stories
By: J.D. Salinger
3.67
Format: 346 pages, Paperback
"A Perfect Day for Bananafish" (1948) "Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut" (1948) "Just Before the War wi… read more
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12. Interpreter of Maladies
By: Jhumpa Lahiri
4.17
Format: 198 pages, Hardcover
Librarian's note: An alternate cover edition can be found here Navigating between the Indian tra… read more
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"Sexy means loving someone you do not know."-Jhumpa Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies
"A woman who had fallen out of love with her life"-Jhumpa Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies
"You got cats at home?" "No cats. Only a husband."-Jhumpa Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies
"In those six weeks I regarded her arrival as I would the arrival of a coming month, or season - something inevitable, but meaningless at the same time."-Jhumpa Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies
13. The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love
By: bell hooks
3.90
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Everyone needs to love and be loved -- even men. But to know love, men must be able to look at the … read more
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14. All Art is Propaganda: Critical Essays
By: George Orwell , George Packer , Keith Gessen
3.97
Format: 434 pages, Hardcover
As a critic, George Orwell cast a wide net. Equally at home discussing Charles Dickens and Charlie … read more
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15. SCUM Manifesto
By: Valerie Solanas , Avital Ronell
2.00
Format: 161 pages, Hardcover
SCUM Manifestowas considered one of the most outrageous, violent and certifiably crazy tracts when … read more
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16. Neem een geit
By: Claudia de Breij
4.38
Format: 234 pages, Hardcover
Niemand vertelt je hoe te leven. Als je kinderen krijgt staan er boekhandels vol opvoedboeken tot j… read more
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17. Native Son
By: Richard Wright
3.46
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
Right from the start, Bigger Thomas had been headed for jail. It could have been for assault or pet… read more
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18. Are Prisons Obsolete?
By: Angela Y. Davis
4.15
Format: None pages,
With her characteristic brilliance, grace and radical audacity, Angela Y. Davis has put the case fo… read more
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19. Gather Together in My Name
By: Maya Angelou
3.15
Format: 252 pages, Paperback
This is a continuation of Maya Angelou's personal story, begun so unforgettably in her bestselling … read more
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20. Fledgling
By: Octavia E. Butler
4.12
Format: 314 pages, Paperback
Fledgling, Octavia Butler's new novel after a seven year break, is the story of an apparently young… read more
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21. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
By: Harriet Ann Jacobs
3.85
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
The true story of an individual's struggle for self-identity, self-preservation, and freedom, Incid… read more
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22. I Will Greet the Sun Again
By: Khashayar J. Khabushani
3.91
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A searing, heartbreaking debut about the powerful bonds that make and break an Iranian-American fam… read more
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23. Strike Me Down
By: Mindy Mejia
3.38
Format: 337 pages, Hardcover
From the critically acclaimed author of Leave No Trace, the “nail-biting page-turner that grabs you… read more
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24. Africa Is Not a Country: Notes on a Bright Continent
By: Dipo Faloyin
4.43
Format: 385 pages, Hardcover
Africa Is Not A Country is a bright portrait of modern Africa that pushes back against harmful ster… read more
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25. Above Ground
By: Clint Smith
4.56
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
A remarkable poetry collection with "inextinguishable generosity and abundant wisdom" (Monica Youn)… read more
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26. Dark Days
By: James Baldwin
4.40
Format: 50 pages, Paperback
'So the club rose, the blood came down, and his bitterness and his anguish and his guilt were compo… read more
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"A mob is not autonomous: it executes the real will of the people who rule the State."-James Baldwin, Dark Days
"No curtain under heaven is heavier than that curtain of guilt and lies behind which white Americans hide."-James Baldwin, Dark Days
"The question of color was but another detail, somewhere between being six feet tall and being six feet under."-James Baldwin, Dark Days
"But the Irish became white when they got here and began rising in the world, whereas I became black and began sinking."-James Baldwin, Dark Days
27. We hebben het over je gehad
By: Stéphanie Hoogenberk
3.36
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Liefde kan ingewikkeld zijn, maar vriendschap is nog een stuk lastiger. Wat doe je als je al tweeë… read more
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28. Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl
By: Andrea Lawlor
3.87
Format: 354 pages, Paperback
It’s 1993 and Paul Polydoris tends bar at the only gay club in a university town thrumming with pol… read more
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"Inside Paul something tight released: a rusted nut turned finally around its old bolt. White sheets were thrown off moldering couches with a fanfare of dust and sunlight."-Andrea Lawlor, Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl
"It was June, and like everyone else Paul made himself extremely busy going to queer art openings and queer punk shows and queer spoken word showcases and queer evenings of performance art. He was exh…"-Andrea Lawlor, Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl
29. The Invisible Husband of Frick Island
By: Colleen Oakley
3.72
Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition
“This is the hopeful book we all need right now. I loved it!”—Emily Giffin, #1 New York Times bests… read more
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"... she realized that was the thing about loneliness. It made you susceptible to doing a whole manner of things you might not otherwise do."-Colleen Oakley, The Invisible Husband of Frick Island
30. Victim
By: Andrew Boryga
3.92
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
There’s a fine line between bending the truth and telling bald-faced lies, and Javier Perez is will… read more
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31. Living by the Word: Essays
By: Alice Walker
4.16
Format: 224 pages, Kindle Edition
The The Color Purple meditates on planetary concerns as well as on feminist and political issues in… read more
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- memoir
- unfinished
- literature
- feminism
- politics
- black literature
- nonfiction
- essays
- african american
"Some periods of our growth are so confusing that we don’t even recognize that growth is what is happening. We may feel hostile or angry or weepy and hysterical, or we may feel depressed. It would nev…"-Alice Walker, Living by the Word: Essays
