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  • Dirty Bird Blues

    A quietly influential force in African American literature and art, Clarence Major makes his Penguin Classics debut with the twenty-fifth-anniversary edition of Dirty Bird BluesThe PRH Audio book of Dirty Bird Blues by Clarence Major won a 2022 EARPHONE AWARD. Narrated by Dion Graham.A Penguin ClassicSet in post-World War II Chicago and Omaha, the novel features Manfred Banks, a young, harmonica ... Read more

    Was $9.99 USD Now $6.99 USD

  • American Fun

    Four Centuries of Joyous Revolt

    by John Beckman ...
    Here is an animated and wonderfully engaging work of cultural history that lays out America’s unruly past by describing the ways in which cutting loose has always been, and still is, an essential part of what it means to be an American.From the time the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock, Americans have defied their stodgy rules and hierarchies with pranks, dances, stunts, and wild parties, shaping ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

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    Dirty Bird Blues

    Narrated by Dion Graham ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 24 min

    A quietly influential force in African American literature and art, Clarence Major makes his Penguin Classics debut with the twenty-fifth-anniversary edition of Dirty Bird BluesThe PRH Audio book of Dirty Bird Blues by Clarence Major won a 2022 EARPHONE AWARD. Narrated by Dion Graham.A Penguin ClassicSet in post-World War II Chicago and Omaha, the novel features Manfred Banks, a young, harmonica ... Read more

    $22.50 USD

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  • The Trees

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    Shortlisted for the 2022 Booker PrizeWinner of the 2022 Anisfield-Wolf Book AwardFinalist for the 2022 PEN/Jean Stein Book AwardFinalist for the 2023 Dublin Literary AwardLonglisted for the 2022 PEN/Faulkner Award for FictionAn uncanny literary thriller addressing the painful legacy of lynching in the US, by the author of TelephonePercival Everett’s The Trees is a page-turner that opens with a s.. ... Read more

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  • Anywhere You Run

    A Novel

    As Seen on The TODAY Show!Called One of the Best Crime Novels of the Yearby New York Times * NPR * New York Post * Washington Post * Buzzfeed * South Florida Sun-Sentinel * Library Journal * CrimeReadsFrom the award-winning author of All Her Little Secrets comes yet another gripping, suspenseful novel where, after the murder of a white man in Jim Crow Mississippi, two Black siste... ... Read more

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  • The Mighty Miss Malone

    In the Newbery Medal and Coretta Scott King Award–winning Bud, Not Buddy, Bud met a girl named Deza Malone in a Hooverville. This is her story.“We are a family on a journey to a place called wonderful" is the motto of Deza Malone's family. Deza is the smartest girl in her class in Gary, Indiana, singled out by teachers for a special path in life. But the Great Depression has hit Gary hard, and ... Read more

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  • A Red Death

    An Easy Rawlins Novel

    by Walter Mosley ...
    Series series Easy Rawlins Mystery
    A “fascinating and vividly rendered” (The Wall Street Journal) mystery featuring one of crime fiction’s greatest protagonists—private investigator Easy Rawlins—as he agrees to a dangerous surveillance job.It’s 1953 in Red-baiting, blacklisting Los Angeles—a moral tar pit ready to swallow Easy Rawlins. Easy is out of the hurting business and into the housing (and favor) business when a racist IRS ... Read more

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  • White Butterfly

    An Easy Rawlins Novel

    by Walter Mosley ...
    Series series Easy Rawlins Mystery
    From the acclaimed bestselling author of the Easy Rawlins series, deemed “one of America’s best mystery writers” (The New York Times Book Review), comes a tale about a murdered man who does not want to go to heaven or hell—he’d rather have his old life in Harlem.The police don't show up on Easy's doorstep until the third girl dies. It's Los Angeles, 1956 and it takes more than a murdered black ... Read more

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  • Six Easy Pieces

    Easy Rawlins Stories

    by Walter Mosley ...
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    A “taut collection” (USA TODAY) of seven short stories featuring Easy Rawlins from New York Times bestselling and award-winning mystery writer Walter Mosley.In the “delectably hard-boiled” (Entertainment Weekly) Six Easy Pieces, beloved Ezekiel Rawlins now has a steady job as senior head custodian of Sojourner Truth High School, a nice house with a garden, a loving woman, and children. He counts ... Read more

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  • Broken

    Wild Kings MC: 2nd Generation, #2

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    VenomI had the love of my life ripped from me before we could really begin our lives together. After getting my head out of my ass, I am now the President of a brand-new chapter of the Wild Kings MC. I'm not looking for an ol' lady or a woman to spend more than a few hours in my bed. Meeting Vanessa changes that. I can't shake her from my thoughts for some reason. Even when I try to push away in ... Read more

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  • Gathering of Waters

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    Following her best-selling, award-winning novel Glorious , McFadden produces a fantastical historical novel featuring the spirit of Emmett Till.—One of *Essence'*s "Best Books of the Decade"—A New York Times Notable Book of 2012— Gathering of Waters was a finalist for a Phillis Wheatley Fiction Book Award."McFadden works a kind of miracle—not only do [her characters] retain their appealing ... Read more

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