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ISBN:  067942895X
Title:  The Complete Collected Poems of Maya Angelou
Author:  Maya Angelou
Publisher:  Random House, Incorporated
Date Published:  August 1994
Format:  Trade Cloth
Sales of Maya Angelou's Wouldn't Take Nothing For My Journey Now and I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings surged dramatically after her soul-stirring reading at President Clinton's inauguration. Now, for the first time, the complete collection of her published poems is offered--in a handsome hardcover edition.

ISBN:  0517596679
Title:  My Painted House, My Friendly Chicken, and Me
Author:  Maya Angelou, Courtney-Clarke (Illustrator)
Publisher:  Crown Pub
Date Published:  August 1994
Format:  Trade Cloth

ISBN:  0195091140
Title:  Black Misery
Author:  Langston Hughes, Arouni (Illustrator)
Publisher:  Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Date Published:  April 1994
Format:  Trade Cloth

ISBN:  0252017781
Title:  Their Eyes Were Watching God
Author:  Zora Neale Hurston, Jerry Pinkney (Illustrator)
Publisher:  U of Ill P
Date Published:  October 1991
Format:  Trade Cloth
Initially published in 1937, this novel about a proud, independent black woman has, since its reissue in trade paper in 1978, been the most widely readand highly acclaimed novel in the canon of African-American literature. With this richly illustrated new edition, the novel is finally accorded the treatment it deserves as a classic.

ISBN:  0451526031
Title:  The Souls of Black Folk
Author:  W.E.B. DuBois, Randall Kenan
Publisher:  NAL/Dutton
Date Published:  April 1995
Format:  Mass Market Paperbound

ISBN:  0395573807
Title:  The Street
Author:  Ann Petry
Publisher:  Houghton Mifflin Company
Date Published:  January 1992
Format:  Trade Paper

Kofi and His Magic
Author:  Maya Angelou, Margaret Courtney-Clark
Publisher:  Crown Publishing Group
Date Published:  September 1996
Format:  Trade Cloth

Beloved
Author:  Toni Morrison

ISBN:  0679433740
Title:  Paradise
Author:  Toni Morrison
Publisher:  Alfred A. Knopf Incorporated
Date Published:  December 1997
Format:  Trade Cloth
A group of black women in Oklahoma flee abuse at the hands of their men, moving into a former convent where they form a support group, an initiative which arouses the ire of the town's men. A look at a black community, with its tensions of tradition versus modernity, patriarchy versus matriarchy and fidelity versus promiscuity.

ISBN:  0374107319
Title:  The Autobiography of My Mother
Author:  Jamaica Kincaid
Publisher:  Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Incorporated
Date Published:  January 1996
Format:  Trade Cloth
The West Indian narrator vents her bitterness at the unhappy life fate dealt her--mother died in childbirth, father ignored her, stepmother tried to kill her, at school she had an abortion. Finally, she married a white doctor, but it was impossible for her to love him because he was a colonialist. She draws parallels with the despair of her country--Dominica--attributing it to the legacy of slavery. By the author of Lucy.