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Jamaica Kincaid

Jamaica Kincaid 0000000081560368 Jamaica Kincaid, born as Elaine Potter Richardson in Antigua, is a renowned novelist and essayist. She migrated to the US at 17, worked as an au pair, and later atten...

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At The Bottom Of The River

by Jamaica Kincaid

At The Bottom Of The River Jamaica Kincaid 9780374527341 Fiction Farrar, Straus and Giroux Macmillan Publishers Jamaica Kincaid’s inspired, lyrical short storiesReading Jamaica Kincaid is to plunge, g...

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See Now Then: A Novel

by Jamaica Kincaid

See Now Then: A Novel Jamaica Kincaid 9780374180560 Fiction Farrar, Straus and Giroux Macmillan Publishers In See Now Then, the brilliant and evocative new novel from Jamaica Kincaid-her first in ten ...

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Mr. Potter: A Novel

by Jamaica Kincaid

Mr. Potter: A Novel Jamaica Kincaid 9780374528744 Fiction Farrar, Straus and Giroux Macmillan Publishers The story of an ordinary man, his century, and his home: "Kincaid’s most poetic and affecting n...

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Lucy: A Novel

by Jamaica Kincaid

Lucy: A Novel Jamaica Kincaid 9780374527358 Fiction Farrar, Straus and Giroux Macmillan Publishers The coming-of-age story of one of Jamaica Kincaid’s most admired creations—newly available in paperba...

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The Autobiography Of My Mother: A Novel

by Jamaica Kincaid

The Autobiography Of My Mother: A Novel Jamaica Kincaid 9780374531874 Fiction Farrar, Straus and Giroux Macmillan Publishers From the recipient of the 2010 Clifton Fadiman Medal, an unforgettable nove...

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My Brother

by Jamaica Kincaid

My Brother Jamaica Kincaid 9780374525620 Fiction Farrar, Straus and Giroux Macmillan Publishers Jamaica Kincaid’s brother Devon Drew died of AIDS on January 19, 1996, at the age of thirty-three. Kinca...

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A Small Place

by Jamaica Kincaid

A Small Place Jamaica Kincaid 9780374527075 Fiction Farrar, Straus and Giroux Macmillan Publishers A brilliant look at colonialism and its effects in Antigua—by the author of Annie John"If you go to A...

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Annie John: A Novel

by Jamaica Kincaid

Annie John: A Novel Jamaica Kincaid 9780374525101 Fiction Farrar, Straus and Giroux Macmillan Publishers Annie John is a haunting and provocative story of a young girl growing up on the island of Anti...

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God Made My Face: A Collective Portrait of James Baldwin

by Hilton Als

God Made My Face: A Collective Portrait of James Baldwin Hilton Als 9781954947092 Nonfiction Dancing Foxes Press/Brooklyn Museum Dancing Foxes Press Baldwin’s life and legacy as remembered by a panthe...

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Party: A Mystery

by Jamaica Kincaid

Party: A Mystery Jamaica Kincaid 9781617757167 Fiction Black Sheep Akashic Books Included in Publishers Weekly’s Spring 2019 Children’s Sneak PreviewsThree girls—Pam, Beth, and Sue—attend a party to c...

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Best African American Essays: 2009

by Gerald L. Early

Best African American Essays: 2009 Gerald L. Early 9780553385366 Fiction Bantam Penguin Random House This exciting collection introduces the first-ever annual anthology of writing by African Americans...

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Virgin Islands Literary Festival and Book Fair

Virgin Islands Literary Festival and Book Fair Caribbean Museum Center for the Arts St. Croix U.S. Virgin Islands The second annual Virgin Islands Literary Festival and Book Fair was held in April of ...

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On Girlhood: 15 Stories from the Well-Read Black Girl Library

by Glory Edim

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...

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The Matter of Black Lives: Writing from the New Yorker

by William Jelani Cobb and David Remnick

The Matter of Black Lives: Writing from the New Yorker William Jelani Cobb and David Remnick 9780063017597 Nonfiction Ecco Press HarperCollins A collection of The New Yorker’s groundbreaking writing o...

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Memory at Bay

by Évelyne Trouillot

Memory at Bay Évelyne Trouillot 9780813938097 Fiction University of Virginia Press University of Virginia Press Winner of the prestigious Prix Carbet—an award won by such distinguished authors as Mary...

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Close Kin and Distant Relatives: The Paradox of Respectability in Black Women’s Literature

by Susana M. Morris

Close Kin and Distant Relatives: The Paradox of Respectability in Black Women’s Literature Susana M. Morris 9780813935492 Nonfiction University of Virginia Press University of Virginia Press The “blac...

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The Warmest December

by Bernice L. McFadden

The Warmest December Bernice L. McFadden 9781617750359 Fiction Akashic Books Akashic Books “McFadden’s reissued second novel takes an unflinching look at the corrosive nature of alcoholism… This is no...

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The White Woman on the Green Bicycle: A Novel

by Monique Roffey

The White Woman on the Green Bicycle: A Novel Monique Roffey 9780143119517 Fiction Penguin Books Penguin Random House A beautifully written, unforgettable novel of a troubled marriage, set against t...

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Philosophy in the West Indian Novel

by Earl McKenzie

Philosophy in the West Indian Novel Earl McKenzie 9789766402150 Nonfiction University of the West Indies Press University of the West Indies Press Earl McKenzie’s pioneering philosophical study of the...

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Stories From Blue Latitudes: Caribbean Women Writers At Home And Abroad

by Elizabeth Nunez and Jennifer Sparrow

Stories From Blue Latitudes: Caribbean Women Writers At Home And Abroad Elizabeth Nunez and Jennifer Sparrow 9781580051392 Nonfiction Seal Press Seal Press Stories from Blue Latitudes gathers the majo...

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The Salt Roads

by Nalo Hopkinson

The Salt Roads Nalo Hopkinson 9780446533027 Fiction Warner Books Hachette Book Group - Hopkinson made her debut with "Brown Girl in the Ring (Aspect, 1998), receiving the John W. Campbell Award for Be...

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Loving This Man

by Althea Prince

Loving This Man Althea Prince 9781894663069 Fiction Insomniac Press Insomniac Press Like Jamaica Kincaid’s Lucy, Althea Prince’s new novel beautifully traces a woman’s struggle to negotiate the transi...

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African American Writers: Portraits and Visions

by Lynda Koolish

African American Writers: Portraits and Visions Lynda Koolish 9781578062584 Nonfiction University Press of Mississippi University Press of Mississippi Ai   Will Alexander   Robe...

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The Warmest December

by Bernice L. McFadden

The Warmest December Bernice L. McFadden 9780525945642 Fiction Dutton Books Penguin Random House "Vivid" hailed the New York Times Book Review of Sugar, Bernice L. McFadden’s bestselling debut novel. ...

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Mother Imagery in the Novels of Afro-Caribbean Women

by Simone A. James Alexander

Mother Imagery in the Novels of Afro-Caribbean Women Simone A. James Alexander 9780826213099 Nonfiction University of Missouri Press University of Missouri Focusing on specific texts by Jamaica Kincai...

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The Oxford Companion to African American Literature

by William L. Andrews, Frances Smith Foster, and Trudier Harris

The Oxford Companion to African American Literature William L. Andrews, Frances Smith Foster, and Trudier Harris 9780195065107 Nonfiction Oxford University Press Oxford University Press Here indeed ...

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Belly Song and Other Poems

by Etheridge Knight

Belly Song and Other Poems Etheridge Knight 9780910296885 Poetry Broadside Press Broadside Press Here indeed is the pantheon of African American writers—Phillis Wheatley and Sojourner Truth, Frederick...

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Sterling D. Plumpp

Sterling D. Plumpp 0000000081297870 “You can not ever get free as a result of legislationHellip;you always have to take freedom.” Sterling Dominic Plumpp, born 1940, is an esteemed poet, e...

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Armond White

Armond White 0000000031792179 Armond Allen White, born in 1953, is a renowned film and music critic. He served as the arts editor for The City Sun and later wrote for New York Press. He was the edito...

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