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  • The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man

    by James Weldon Johnson ...
    "I buried my past... but at what cost to my soul?" Our narrator is a man of dual heritage—gifted, light-skinned, and acutely observant. Born into a world defined by the "color line," he possesses the unique and dangerous ability to move between the Black and White worlds. From the smoking rooms of high-society New York to the gambling dens of the South, and from the birth of Ragtime to the ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobooks

    Also available as: Audiobooks

  • The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man

    by James Weldon Johnson ...
    A thoughtful and deeply moving novel about race, identity, and belonging in America. The story follows a talented man of mixed racial heritage as he struggles to navigate a society shaped by prejudice and social division. Through music, ambition, and personal reflection, he searches for acceptance, purpose, and identity. Emotionally powerful and socially important, the novel explores themes of ... Read more

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    70+ Anthology. African American literature. Novels and short stories. Poetry. Non-fiction. Essays

    Passing, The Goophered Grapevine, The Weary Blues, Up from Slavery, The Souls of Black Folk and others

    by Frederick Douglass, Nella Larsen, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Charles W. Chesnutt, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Jean Toomer, Phillis Wheatley, Frances E. W. Harper, James Weldon Johnson, Claude McKay, Countee Cullen, Harriet Ann Jacobs, Booker T. Washington, William Still, W. E. B. Du Bois ...
    Narrated by Mark Bowen, Shawna Wolf, Rick Walz, Jowanna Lewis, Peter Coates ...

    Unabridged

    50 hours 19 min

    African American literature is the body of literature produced in the United States by writers of African descent. It begins with the works of such late 18th-century writers as Phillis Wheatley. Before the high point of enslaved people narratives, African-American literature was dominated by autobiographical spiritual narratives. The genre known as slave narratives in the 19th century were ... Read more

    $25.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Lead Me Not

    A Romance of Aviation

    by James B. Johnson ...
    The year is 1978. Rudyard "Rudd" Kipling Six is a pilot and Vietnam war hero. Aloha Blaze is what her friends call "Your basic karate expert, sky-diving entrepreneur pilot, drop-dead gorgeous, four-point-zero student." Together, they begin a stormy, steamy love affair that flares red-hot and grows even hotter. But time and circumstance intervene. Aloha flirts with a star quarterback and a ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Corky Lee Book

    Google Honor of US Asian American Photographer with a Doodle |Life, Legacy, and Interesting Facts About Him|

    by James Johnson ...
    "Corky Lee: Life, Legacy, and Interesting Facts About Him" is an engaging and instructive book that honors the astounding accomplishments of one of the most significant photographers in American history. Born in Queens, New York, Corky Lee grew up with a love for photography and a desire to utilize his work to promote social justice and equality.Throughout his life, Corky Lee captured the ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Habu: A Science Fiction Novel

    by James B. Johnson ...
    Reubin Flood, the most wanted man in the history of the Federation of Planets, is one of the few remaining survivors of "Olde Earthe," as it's now called. He's also the most dangerous human alive, when he finds himself cornered on an agricultural planet named Snister. Following his wife's murder, Reubin vowed to destroy the company world government; but to do so, he has to find some way of ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Trekmaster: A Science Fiction Novel

    by James B. Johnson ...
    On the planet Bear Ridge, Thomas Jefferson Shepherd is King, fighting to bring his long-lost colony world to high-tech standards, and claim a place among the Federation of Planets. But Bear Ridge has a feudal society, and TJ must overcome political treachery, revolt, and assassination in his attempt to move his world forward. To rule, TJ had to survive the Trek: climbing and crossing two deadly ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The Alternate-Day Diet

    Turn on Your "Skinny Gene," Shed the Pounds, and Live a Longer and HealthierLife

    by James B. Johnson M.D., Donald R. Laub Sr. M.D. ...
    The original intermittent fasting plan: easy to follow, effective, and science-basedThe Alternate-Day Diet is based on scientific and clinical studies that show how restricting calories only every other day activates a gene called SIRT1?the ?skinny? gene?which results in reduced inflammation, improved insulin resistance, better cellular energy production, and releasing fat cells from around the ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man

    by James Johnson ...
    The first fictional memoir ever written by a black person, The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man influenced a generation of writers during the Harlem Renaissance and served as eloquent inspiration for Zora Neale Hurston, Ralph Ellison, and Richard Wright. In the 1920s and since, it has also given white readers a startling new perspective on their own culture, revealing to many the double ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Mindhopper

    by James B. Johnson ...
    Manuel is a small boy gifted with mental powers that just might be the next step in human evolution. And now, Special Security, the secret arm of the government of what had once been the United States of America, wants Manny and the secrets his brain contains.Yet Manny has allies of his own: his mother, Maria, a computer wizard able to crack top security codes. Silas Swallow, a billionaire ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man

    by James Weldon Johnson ...
    Originally published in 1912, this novel was one of the first to present a frank picture of being black in AmericaMasked in the tradition of the literary confession practiced by such writers as St. Augustine and Rousseau, this "autobiography" purports to be a candid account of its narrator's private views and feelings as well as an acknowledgement of the central secret of his life: that though he ... Read more

    Was $5.99 USD Now $4.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobooks

    Also available as: Audiobooks

  • Artificial intelligence and the future of warfare

    The USA, China, and strategic stability

    by James Johnson ...
    This volume offers an innovative and counter-intuitive study of how and why artificial intelligence-infused weapon systems will affect the strategic stability between nuclear-armed states. Johnson demystifies the hype surrounding artificial intelligence (AI) in the context of nuclear weapons and, more broadly, future warfare. The book highlights the potential, multifaceted intersections of this ... Read more

    $21.99 USD