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A lesson A Lesson Before Dying
Ernest J. Gaines
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Format: Paperback
Date Published: September 1997

From the author of A Gathering of Old Men and The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman comes a deep and compassionate novel. A young man who returns to 1940s Cajun country to teach visits a black youth on death row for a crime he didn't commit. Together they come to understand the heroism of resisting.
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 HeartThe Heart of a Woman
by Maya Angelou
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The fourth volume in Angelou's highly acclaimed autobiography breaks her turbulent life wide open with joy as the singer-dancer enters the razzle-dazzle of fabulous New York City. There, at the Harlem Writers Guild, her love for writing blazes anew.
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KwanzaaA Kwanzaa Keepsake: Celebrating the Holiday with New Traditions & Feasts

This festive cookbook captures the true spirit of the African-American holiday of Kwanzaa, providing more than 50 recipes in menus for each night of Kwanzaa, plus inspirational biographies of ancestors of the African-Atlantic world and special projects for each of the seven days. Illustrations.
Jessica B. Harris 
Pub. Price $22.00    AALBC Price: $15.40
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Trade
Format: Hardcover
Date Published: August 1995
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 GoldbergThe Whoopi
Whoopi Goldberg

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Publisher: William Morrow & Company, Incorporated
Format: Hardcover
Date Published: September 1997

Rock This!Rock This

Chris Rock

Pub. Price $19.95 AALBC Price: $13.96

ISBN#: 0786862890
Publisher: Hyperion
Format: Hardcover
Date Published: September 1997
Edition Number: 1

The ColorThe Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother
James McBride

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Publisher: Berkley Publishing Group
Format: Paperback
Date Published: February 1997

This "fascinating . . . superbly written" (Boston Globe) national bestseller tells the story of James McBride and his mother--a rabbi's daughter, born in Poland and raised in the South, who fled to Harlem, married a black man, founded a church, and put 12 children through college. Movie rights optioned by Midge Sanford and Sarah Pilsbury. Targeted print features.