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Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison 0000000368636040 Winner of the 1993 Nobel Prize in Literature Celebrated American novelist Toni Morrison, born Chloe Ardelia Wofford, won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993. A profes...
Toni Morrison Box Set: The Bluest Eye, Song of Solomon, Beloved
Toni Morrison Box Set: The Bluest Eye, Song of Solomon, Beloved Toni Morrison 9780593082164 Fiction Vintage Penguin Random House A box set of Toni Morrison’s principal works, featuring The Bluest Eye ...
Toni Morrison and Slade Morrison
Toni Morrison and Slade Morrison MULTIPLE Toni Morrison, a Nobel laureate, and her son Slade Morrison co-authored several children's books, blending their unique storytelling with important societal ...
Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison Shasta Clinch 9781637393185 Nonfiction Focus Readers Focus Readers This fascinating book introduces readers to the life and legacy of Toni Morrison, a Black novelist whose artistic and c...
Language as Liberation: Reflections on the American Canon
Language as Liberation: Reflections on the American Canon Toni Morrison 9780593802748 Nonfiction Knopf Publishing Group Penguin Random House Nobel Prize and Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Belove...
What Moves At The Margin: Selected Nonfiction
What Moves At The Margin: Selected Nonfiction Toni Morrison 9781604730173 Nonfiction University Press of Mississippi University Press of Mississippi What Moves at the Margin collects three decades of ...
Playing In The Dark: Whiteness And The Literary Imagination
Playing In The Dark: Whiteness And The Literary Imagination Toni Morrison 9780679745426 Nonfiction Vintage Penguin Random House The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Beloved and Jazz now gives us a lea...
Desdemona
Desdemona Toni Morrison 9781350270275 Fiction Methuen Drama Bloomsbury Press The story of Desdemona from Shakespeare’s Othello is re-imagined by Nobel Prize laureate Toni Morrison, Malian singer and s...
The Measure of Our Lives: A Gathering of Wisdom
The Measure of Our Lives: A Gathering of Wisdom Toni Morrison 9780525659297 Nonfiction Knopf Publishing Group Penguin Random House At once the ideal introduction to Toni Morrison and a lovely and movi...
The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations
The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations Toni Morrison 9780525562795 Nonfiction Knopf Penguin Random House The most celebrated and revered writer of our time now gives us ...
The Origin of Others
The Origin of Others Toni Morrison 9780674976450 Nonfiction Harvard University Press Harvard University Press America’s foremost novelist reflects on the themes that preoccupy her work and increasingl...
The Bluest Eye
The Bluest Eye Toni Morrison 9780375411557 Fiction Knopf Publishing Group Penguin Random House National Bestseller • A Parade Best Book of All Time • From acclaimed Nobel Prize winner Toni Morrison co...
Paradise
Paradise Toni Morrison 9780804169882 Fiction Vintage Books Penguin Random House “They shoot the white girl first. With the rest they can take their time.” So begins Toni Morrison’s Paradise, which op...
A Toni Morrison Treasury
A Toni Morrison Treasury Toni Morrison and Slade Morrison 9781665915540 Fiction Paula Wiseman Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. Recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, Nobel Prize, and Pulitzer Pri...
Recitatif
Recitatif Toni Morrison 9780593315033 Fiction Knopf Penguin Random House NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER• A beautiful, arresting story about race and the relationships that shape us through life by the le...
Goodness and the Literary Imagination: Harvard’s 95th Ingersoll Lecture with Essays on Morrison’s Moral and Religious Vision
Goodness and the Literary Imagination: Harvard’s 95th Ingersoll Lecture with Essays on Morrison’s Moral and Religious Vision Toni Morrison 9780813943626 Nonfiction University of Virginia Press Univers...
Tar Baby
Tar Baby Toni Morrison 9781400033447 Fiction Vintage Books Penguin Random House Ravishingly beautiful and emotionally incendiary, Tar Baby is Toni Morrison’s reinvention of the love story. Jadine Chil...
Song of Solomon
Song of Solomon Toni Morrison 9781400033423 Fiction Vintage Books Penguin Random House Milkman Dead was born shortly after a neighborhood eccentric hurled himself off a rooftop in a vain attempt at fl...
Remember: The Journey to School Integration
Remember: The Journey to School Integration Toni Morrison 9780618397402 Nonfiction Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Toni Morrison has collected a treasure chest of archival photogr...
Toni Morrison: Conversations (Literary Conversations Series)
Toni Morrison: Conversations (Literary Conversations Series) Carolyn C. Denard 9781604730180 Nonfiction University Press of Mississippi University Press of Mississippi As a chronicler of the African A...
Home
Home Toni Morrison 9780307740915 Fiction Knopf Penguin Random House America’s most celebrated novelist, Nobel Prize-winner Toni Morrison extends her profound take on our history with this twentieth-ce...
Burn This Book: Notes on Literature and Engagement
Burn This Book: Notes on Literature and Engagement Toni Morrison 9780061774010 Nonfiction Harper Paperbacks HarperCollins Published in conjunction with the PEN American Center, Burn This Book is a pow...
The Bluest Eye (paperback)
The Bluest Eye (paperback) Toni Morrison 9780307278449 Fiction Vintage Books Penguin Random House Pecola Breedlove, a young black girl, prays every day for beauty. Mocked by other children for the dar...
Beloved
Beloved Toni Morrison 9781400033416 Fiction Vintage Books Penguin Random House Staring unflinchingly into the abyss of slavery, this spellbinding novel transforms history into a story as powerful as E...
Sula
Sula Toni Morrison 9781400033430 Fiction Vintage Books Penguin Random House Two girls who grow up to become women. Two friends who become something worse than enemies. In this brilliantly imagined nov...
The Dancing Mind: Speech Upon Acceptance of the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished C Ontribution to American Letters
The Dancing Mind: Speech Upon Acceptance of the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished C Ontribution to American Letters Toni Morrison 9780375400322 Nonfiction Knopf Publishing Group Penguin...
Toni Morrison’s Spiritual Vision: Faith, Folktales, and Feminism in Her Life and Literature
Toni Morrison’s Spiritual Vision: Faith, Folktales, and Feminism in Her Life and Literature Nadra Nittle 9781506471518 Nonfiction Fortress Press 1517 Media When Toni Morrison died in August 2019, she ...
God Help the Child: A Novel
God Help the Child: A Novel Toni Morrison 9780307594174 Fiction Knopf Penguin Random House Spare and unsparing, God Help the Child is a searing tale about the way childhood trauma shapes and misshapes...
A Mercy
A Mercy Toni Morrison 9780307276766 Fiction Vintage Penguin Random House A powerful tragedy distilled into a small masterpiece by the Nobel Prize-winning author of Beloved and, almost like a prelude t...
Jazz
Jazz Toni Morrison 9781400076215 Fiction Vintage Books Penguin Random House In the winter of 1926, when everybody everywhere sees nothing but good things ahead, Joe Trace, middle-aged door-to-door sal...
Love
Love Toni Morrison 9780375409448 Fiction Knopf Penguin Random House May, Christine, Heed, Junior, Vida–even L: all women obsessed with Bill Cosey. The wealthy owner of the famous Cosey’s Hotel and Res...
The Big Box
The Big Box Toni Morrison 9780786804160 Fiction Jump At The Sun Jump At The Sun To make this group of kids abide by the rules, the grown-ups create a world inside a box … with toys, games, treats, and...
Toni Morrison’s Spiritual Vision: Faith, Folktales, and Feminism in Her Life and Literature
Toni Morrison’s Spiritual Vision: Faith, Folktales, and Feminism in Her Life and Literature Robert Fleming Book Review When literary icon Toni Morrison died in August, 2019, world literature lost a r...
James Baldwin and Toni Morrison
James Baldwin and Toni Morrison MULTIPLE James Baldwin and Toni Morrison are influential authors known for their profound works on racial and social issues. Both have significantly contributed to Ame...
The Book of Mean People (20th Anniversary Edition)
The Book of Mean People (20th Anniversary Edition) Toni Morrison and Slade Morrison 9780316349673 Fiction Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Hachette Book Group A new edition for a new world of one...
Toni Morrison: Writing the Moral Imagination
Toni Morrison: Writing the Moral Imagination Valerie Smith 9781405160339 Nonfiction Wiley-Blackwell Wiley This compelling study explores the inextricable links between the Nobel laureate's aesthet...
Toni Morrison’s Beloved: A Casebook
Toni Morrison’s Beloved: A Casebook Nellie Y. McKay 9780195107975 Nonfiction Oxford University Press, USA Oxford University Press With the continued expansion of the literary canon, multicultural work...
Please, Louise
Please, Louise Toni Morrison and Slade Morrison 9781416983392 Fiction Paula Wiseman Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. A library card unlocks a new life for a young girl in this picture book about the power...
Toni Morrison (Contemporary Biographies)
Toni Morrison (Contemporary Biographies) Diane Patrick 9780817239879 Nonfiction Heinemann Library Heinemann Library Discusses the personal life and literary achievements of the woman who, in 1993, bec...
The Ant or the Grasshopper? (Who’s Got Game?)
The Ant or the Grasshopper? (Who’s Got Game?) Toni Morrison and Slade Morrison 9781476792699 Fiction Scribner Book Company Simon & Schuster, Inc. "How can you say I never worked a day? ART is WORK. It...
Peeny Butter Fudge
Peeny Butter Fudge Toni Morrison and Slade Morrison 9781416983323 Fiction Paula Wiseman Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. Snuggle, snuggle. Time to rest. Nana joins us in her nest. There is no one like Na...
And She Was Loved: Toni Morrison’s Life in Stories
And She Was Loved: Toni Morrison’s Life in Stories Andrea Davis Pinkney 9780316182362 Fiction Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Hachette Book Group Stunning poetry and illustrations introduce a ne...
On Her Wings: The Story of Toni Morrison
On Her Wings: The Story of Toni Morrison Jerdine Nolen 9781534478527 Nonfiction Paula Wiseman Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. Discover the early life and legacy of groundbreaking American writer Toni Mor...
The Lion or the Mouse? (Who’s Got Game?)
The Lion or the Mouse? (Who’s Got Game?) Toni Morrison and Slade Morrison 9781476792682 Fiction Scribner Book Company Simon & Schuster, Inc. In this charmingly subversive reinterpretation of a classic...
Poppy or the Snake? (Who’s Got Game?)
Poppy or the Snake? (Who’s Got Game?) Toni Morrison and Slade Morrison 9781476792705 Fiction Scribner Book Company Simon & Schuster, Inc. In this clever riff on Aesop, Poppy feels guilty when he accid...
The Tortoise or the Hare
The Tortoise or the Hare Toni Morrison and Slade Morrison 9781416983347 Fiction Paula Wiseman Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. Everyone knows that in the story of the Tortoise and the Hare the slow and st...
Little Cloud and Lady Wind
Little Cloud and Lady Wind Toni Morrison and Slade Morrison 9781416985235 Fiction Paula Wiseman Books Simon & Schuster, Inc. Little Cloud likes her own place in the sky, away from the other clouds. Th...
Critical Responses About the Black Family in Toni Morrison’s God Help the Child: Conflicts in Comradeship
Critical Responses About the Black Family in Toni Morrison’s God Help the Child: Conflicts in Comradeship Rhone Fraser and Natalie King-Pedroso 9781793604002 Nonfiction Lexington Books Lexington ...
The Seer: Toni Morrison Among the Ruins
The Seer: Toni Morrison Among the Ruins Farah Jasmine Griffin 9780593491102 Nonfiction Penguin Press Penguin Random House From an acclaimed scholar and longtime friend of Toni Morrison, an intimate an...
Miss Chloe: A Literary Friendship with Toni Morrison
Miss Chloe: A Literary Friendship with Toni Morrison Robert Fleming Book Review There is so much commercial tripe out there on our bookshelves, but this book is very worthy: Miss Chloe: A Memoir Of A...
Miss Chloe (paperback): A Memoir of a Literary Friendship with Toni Morrison
Miss Chloe (paperback): A Memoir of a Literary Friendship with Toni Morrison A.J. Verdelle 9780063031678 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins “If you let a black girl loose in a library, you may not recog...
Miss Chloe: A Literary Friendship with Toni Morrison
Miss Chloe: A Literary Friendship with Toni Morrison A.J. Verdelle 9780063031661 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins The award-winning author of The Good Negress shares invaluable insights on the precari...
Ellie Awards 2007 - Toni Morrison
Ellie Awards 2007 - Toni Morrison Ellie Awards 2007 - Toni Morrison THIS EVENT HAS TAKEN PLACE AND IS RECORDED HERE AS AN HISTORICAL ARCHIVE. TONI MORRISON Nobel Prize-...
Conversations With Toni Morrison (Literary Conversations)
Conversations With Toni Morrison (Literary Conversations) Danille K. Taylor-Guthrie 9780878056927 Fiction University Press of Mississippi University Press of Mississippi This is a collection of interv...
Black Configurations: The Ethos of "Tradition" from Sterling Brown to Toni Morrison, Volume I
Black Configurations: The Ethos of "Tradition" from Sterling Brown to Toni Morrison, Volume I Kimberly W. Benston 9781785278679 Nonfiction Anthem Press Anthem Press Black Configurations is the first v...
James Baldwin: Collected Essays (Loa #98): Notes of a Native Son / Nobody Knows My Name / The Fire Next Time / No Name in the Street / The Devil Finds
James Baldwin: Collected Essays (Loa #98): Notes of a Native Son / Nobody Knows My Name / The Fire Next Time / No Name in the Street / The Devil Finds James Baldwin and Toni Morrison 9781883011529 Non...
A Crown of Stories: The Life and Language of Beloved Writer Toni Morrison
A Crown of Stories: The Life and Language of Beloved Writer Toni Morrison Carole Boston Weatherford 9780062911032 Nonfiction Quill Tree Books HarperCollins
Story/Time: The Life Of An Idea (The Toni Morrison Lecture Series)
Story/Time: The Life Of An Idea (The Toni Morrison Lecture Series) Bill T. Jones 9780691162706 Nonfiction Princeton University Press Princeton University Press In this ceaselessly questioning book...
Approaches to Teaching the Novels of Toni Morrison
Approaches to Teaching the Novels of Toni Morrison Nellie Y. McKay 9780873527422 Nonfiction The Modern Language Association of America The Modern Language Association of America Approaches to Teaching...
Toni at Random: The Iconic Writer’s Legendary Editorship
Toni at Random: The Iconic Writer’s Legendary Editorship Dana A. Williams 9780063011977 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins An insightful exploration that unveils the lesser-known dimensions of this lege...
On Morrison
On Morrison Namwali Serpell 9780593732915 Nonfiction Hogarth Press Penguin Random House An Illuminating, Electrifying Exploration of the Work of Toni Morrison by an Award-Winning Novelist and Harvard ...
Small-Girl Toni and the Quest for Gold
Small-Girl Toni and the Quest for Gold Giselle Liza Anatol 9780593404867 Fiction Viking Books for Young Readers Penguin Random House A tall tale inspired by the life and works of Nobel Prize-winning a...
The Black Book (Anniversary)
The Black Book (Anniversary) Middleton A. Harris with the Assistance of Ernest Smith, Morris Levitt, and Roger Furman 9781400068487 Nonfiction Random House Penguin Random House A new edition of the cl...
The Origin of Others
The Origin of Others Tony Lindsay Book Review The title of Toni Morrison’s new book, The Source of Self-Regard, propels one to ponder, and the extended thought is due to the dual functions of t...
Home
Home Connie Bradley Book Review I just recently completed Toni Morrison’s latest book Home, a novel I have been looking forward to reading because its advance notices promoted it as being set i...
Zora Neale Hurston
Zora Neale Hurston 0000000109083197 “One of the greatest writers of our time.”—Toni Morrison Zora Neale Hurston is considered one of the titans of twentieth-century African American ...
Ronda Racha Penrice
Ronda Racha Penrice NONE Ronda Racha Penrice, an expert in African American history and culture, studied at Columbia University and NYU, focusing on African American literature. She contributed to Th...
Ladee Hubbard
Ladee Hubbard 0000000496785892 Ladee Hubbard, born in Massachusetts and raised in Florida and the U.S. Virgin Islands, is a Princeton-educated author, mentor to Toni Morrison, and professor at Tulane...
Katherine Dempsey
Katherine Dempsey NONE Go On Girl! Book Club, Unpublished Writer Award 2021 Winner Atlanta-born author Katherine Dempsey aims to illuminate Southern Gothic themes and Black mysticism in her writing. A...
Testimony: Young African-Americans on Self-Discovery and Black Identity
Testimony: Young African-Americans on Self-Discovery and Black Identity Natasha Anastasia Tarpley 9780807009291 Nonfiction Beacon Press Beacon Press What exactly is goodness? Where is it found in the ...
The Origin of Others
The Origin of Others Tony Lindsay Book Review Toni Morrison’s, The Origin of Others causes the reader to think about identity: what group does one belong to, who are those like self, and who ar...
Gather Me: A Memoir in Praise of the Books That Saved Me
Gather Me: A Memoir in Praise of the Books That Saved Me Glory Edim 9780525619796 Nonfiction Ballantine Books Penguin Random House An inspiring memoir of family, community, and resilience, and an ode ...
Raisins in Milk
Raisins in Milk David Covin 9780984435074 Fiction Blue Nile Press Blue Nile Press Listen to an Interview of David Covin Interviewed by Capital Public Radio, August 2, 2018 Your browser does...
My Soul Looks Back: A Memoir
My Soul Looks Back: A Memoir Jessica B. Harris 9781501125928 Nonfiction Scribner Book Company Simon & Schuster, Inc. In this captivating new memoir, award-winning writer Jessica B. Harris recalls her ...
Raisins in Milk
Raisins in Milk Brenda M. Greene Book Review Raisins in Milk by David Covin is a coming of age story focused on a young girl, Ruth-Ann Weathering, who is subjected to the staunch racism and stark rea...
Blue Nile Press Presents: Raisins in Milk by David Covin
Blue Nile Press Presents: Raisins in Milk by David Covin Troy Johnson Article In 1977, when Toni Morrison was an editor for Random House, she read an early version of Raisins in Milk. In a letter she...
The Norton Anthology of African American Literature
The Norton Anthology of African American Literature Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Nellie Y. McKay 9780393040012 Nonfiction W. W. Norton & Company W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.
On Witness and Respair: Essays
On Witness and Respair: Essays Jesmyn Ward 9781668064269 Nonfiction Scribner Book Company Simon & Schuster, Inc. The collected creative nonfiction of a singular American writer, Jesmyn Ward, inclu...
Historically Black Colleges & Universities’ Guide to Excellence
Historically Black Colleges & Universities’ Guide to Excellence William R. Harvey 9780062863287 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins An insider account on how HBCU graduates find success in the world as p...
You Don’t Know Us Negroes and Other Essays (paperback)
You Don’t Know Us Negroes and Other Essays (paperback) Zora Neale Hurston, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., M. Genevieve West 9780063043862 Fiction Amistad HarperCollins Introduction by New York Times bestsell...
You Don’t Know Us Negroes And Other Essays
You Don’t Know Us Negroes And Other Essays Zora Neale Hurston, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., M. Genevieve West 9780063043855 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins Introduction by New York Times bestselling autho...
On Girlhood: 15 Stories from the Well-Read Black Girl Library
On Girlhood: 15 Stories from the Well-Read Black Girl Library Glory Edim 9781631497698 Fiction Liveright Publishing Corporation W. W. Norton & Company Proudly introducing the Well-Read Black Girl Libr...
Palmares
Palmares Gayl Jones 9780807033494 Fiction Beacon Press Beacon Press The epic rendering of a Black woman’s journey through slavery and liberation, set in 17th-century colonial Brazil; the return of a m...
Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America
Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America Michael Eric Dyson 9781250776679 Nonfiction St. Martin’s Griffin Macmillan Publishers “Elegantly written, Tears We Cannot Stop is powerful in several ar...
The Gilded Ones
The Gilded Ones Namina Forna 9781984848697 Fiction Delacorte Press Penguin Random House “Namina Forna could be the Toni Morrison Of YA Fantasy.” —Refinery 29 The start of a bold and immersive West ...
Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick
Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick Zora Neale Hurston and M. Genevieve West 9780062915795 Fiction Amistad HarperCollins From “one of the greatest writers of our time” (as described by Toni M...
Book of Letters
Book of Letters Mary J. Taylor 9780999830901 Nonfiction Sojourner Truth Press Sojourner Truth Press Book Of Letters is a literary archive of historical, sociological, psychological, and cultural data ...
AALBC Online Book Club’s Summer Reading List
AALBC Online Book Club’s Summer Reading List Troy Johnson Article AALBC’s Online Book Club’s Summer Reading List Participating in AALBC’s Online Book Club is easy. Discussions are held on the...
The Romare Bearden Reader
The Romare Bearden Reader Robert G. O’Meally 9781478000587 Nonfiction Duke University Press Books Duke University Press Books The Romare Bearden Reader brings together a collection of new essays and c...
Author: The Portraits of Beowulf Sheehan
Author: The Portraits of Beowulf Sheehan Beowulf Sheehan 9780316515153 Nonfiction Black Dog & Leventhal Hachette Book Group A beautiful and moving collection of photographs by Beowulf Sheehan, whose w...
The Art of Death: Writing the Final Story
The Art of Death: Writing the Final Story Edwidge Danticat 9781555977771 Nonfiction Graywolf Press Graywolf Press A moving reflection on a subject that touches us all, by the bestselling author of Cla...
The Good Negress: A Novel
The Good Negress: A Novel A.J. Verdelle 9781616205270 Fiction Algonquin Books Workman Publishing Co., Inc. “Truly extraordinary.” —Toni Morrison “Haunting … To read The Good Negress is to fall unde...
The Collected Poems Of Lucille Clifton 1965-2010
The Collected Poems Of Lucille Clifton 1965-2010 Lucille Clifton 9781934414903 Poetry BOA Editions BOA Editions Winner of the 2013 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Poetry"The Collected Poems of Lucille...
Mule & Pear
Mule & Pear Rachel Eliza Griffiths 9781936970018 Poetry New Issues Poetry & Prose New Issues Poetry & Prose These poems speak to us with voices borrowed from the pages of novels of Alice Walker, Jean ...
If I Could Write This in Fire
If I Could Write This in Fire Michelle Cliff 9780816654741 Nonfiction University of Minnesota Press University of Minnesota Press “Full of razors, blossoms, and clarity. The beauty and authority of Cl...
Case for Black Reparations
Case for Black Reparations Boris I. Bittker 9780807009819 Nonfiction Beacon Press Beacon Press The groundbreaking first book on black reparations, essential reading for the twenty-first century Ori...
Journey to Beloved
Journey to Beloved Oprah Winfrey 9780786864584 Nonfiction Hyperion Hachette Book Group Of all the events in Oprah Winfrey’s life, none has affected her powerfully as playing the part of Sethe, the for...
Claude Brown
Claude Brown 0000000116506653 Claude Brown, born 1937, was a former juvenile delinquent who turned his life around after being shot during a burglary at age 13. He attended Howard University, where h...
Henry Dumas
Henry Dumas 0000000110288296 Henry Dumas (1934-1968) was a celebrated writer and poet who greatly influenced American literature despite his premature death. Born in Arkansas, Dumas later moved to Ne...
Leon Forrest
Leon Forrest 0000000078313585 Leon Richard Forrest, born in Chicago, was a novelist, journalist, and former Public Information Officer for the US Army. He taught at Northwestern University for over 2...