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“henri lopes”

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  • The Laughing Cry

    An African Cock and Bull Story

    by Henri Lopes ...
    Translated by Gerald Moore ...
    This novel,a classic of African literature, still speaks to us today. We look back at Africa’s grotesques like Idi Amin of Uganda, Bokassa of the Central African Empire or Zaire’s Mobutu, but now we must also look around us at comic opera heads of state posturing extravagantly on our domestic stages. We need this cleansing laughter.“Is the funny bone a literary erogenous zone? Anyone who thinks so ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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  • Some People, Some Other Place

    by J. California Cooper ...
    For generations Eula Too’s family has been making a journey North, year after year, step by painful step; and she’s determined to be the one to make it all the way to Chicago. In and out of school, taking care of her fourteen brothers and sisters, she can see no way out. But when a new family burden threatens to overwhelm her, she at last leaves for the city, only to find that her life gets even ... Read more

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  • The Gift of Fire and On the Head of a Pin

    by Walter Mosley ...
    Series series From Crosstown to Oblivion
    Two speculative tales in one volume of everyday people exposed to life-altering truths from the New York Times –bestselling author.The Gift of FireIn ancient mythology, the Titan Prometheus was punished by the gods for bringing man the gift of fire—an event that set humankind on its course of knowledge. As punishment for making man as powerful as gods, Prometheus was bound to a rock; every day ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Price of Sin

    by Samuel L. Hair ...
    Eureen, Tracey, Deja, and Jasmine are all looking for relationships that are based on strong moral values—despite their own less than moral lifestyles.Faithfully married but severely sexually frustrated, Eureen would do anything to catch her husband's eye again and reignite bedroom flames. She can't remember the last time they had sex, but when her husband suddenly passes away, she quickly finds a ... Read more

    $11.79 USD

  • The Young and the Ruthless

    Back in the Bubbles

    by Victoria Rowell ...
    New York Times bestselling author and beloved actress Victoria Rowell delivers another hilarious novel and shocking send-up of the soap opera world, featuring Calysta Jeffries, the unstoppable diva of daytime drama.As we learned from Victoria Rowell’s smash hit Secrets of a Soap Opera Diva, no one gets in the way of leading lady Calysta Jeffries. Now, after a brief stint in drug rehab, Calysta is ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • Spiral

    by Denise Turney ...
    HAUNTING SUSPENSE NOVELTHAT WILL GRIP YOU FROM THE STARTThrilling murder mystery with a cliffhanger ending!A page turning thriller murder mystery written in the vein of The Lovely Bones, The Changeling and Ghosts, Spiral is a suspenseful murder mystery powered by the unsolved death of a girl who turns up missing in Memphis, Tennessee's Shelby County at the height of the Second World War.SPIRAL ... Read more

    $3.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Portable Nineteenth-Century African American Women Writers

    Edited by Hollis Robbins, Henry Louis Gates Jr. ...
    A landmark collection documenting the social, political, and artistic lives of African American women throughout the tumultuous nineteenth century. Named one of NPR's Best Books of 2017.The Portable Nineteenth-Century African American Women Writers is the most comprehensive anthology of its kind: an extraordinary range of voices offering the expressions of African American women in print before, ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Pen Pal Volume One

    Asaria's Story #2

    by Rayven Skyy ...
    Series Book 2 - Asaria's Story
    Asaria Mason is a self-absorbed, manipulative girl and also the daughter of Claud “Big C” Mason, one of the most prominent figures in the Hampton Roads area of Virginia. When Big C is taken out of the game, Asaria takes over the family business, as the competition attempts to shut her down—to no avail. A drug deal gone bad, lands Asaria in prison facing a lot of time. She has to find a way out of ... Read more

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  • A History of the African-American People (Proposed) by Strom Thurmond

    A Novel

    by Strom Thurmond ...
    "A truly funny sendup of the corrupt politics of academe, the publishing industry and politics, as well as a subtle but biting critique of racial ideology." — Publishers WeeklyThis "hilarious high-concept satire" ( Publishers Weekly), by the PEN/Faulkner finalist and acclaimed author of Telephone and Erasure, is a fictitious and satirical chronicle of South Carolina Senator Strom Thurmond's desire ... Read more

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  • Annotations

    by John Keene ...
    "Genius—brilliant, polished and of considerable depth." —Ishmael ReedAn experimental first novel of poem-like compression, Annotations has a great deal to say about growing up Black in St. Louis. Reminiscent of Jean Toomer’s Cane, the book is in part a meditation on African-American autobiography. Keene explores questions of identity from many angles—from race to social class to sexuality (gay and ... Read more

    $10.09 USD

  • Because Chivalry is not Dead

    by Taretha Jones ...
    Tabitha Jenkins' life is left in shambles after her marriage to her abusive husband, Dr. Xavier Carrington, fails. Homeless, jobless and almost penniless, will she be able to trust in God to turn her situation around—and will she have the faith to let go of the demons of her past, and learn to love again.From the day he'd met her a year ago, Dave Heaton had known there was something special about ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Heart of Happy Hollow : A Collection of Stories

    by Laurence Dunbar, Paul ...
    Books for All Kinds of Readers. ReadHowYouWant offers the widest selection of on-demand, accessible format editions on the market today. Our 7 different sizes of EasyRead™ are optimized by increasing the font size and spacing between the words and the letters. We partner with leading publishers around the globe. Our goal is to have accessible editions simultaneously released with publishers' new ... Read more

    $4.99 USD