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Blues and Trouble
Twelve Stories
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CA$24.95
ISBN: 9781496841926
Pub Date: September 2022
Imprint: University Press of Mississippi
Now back in print, the debut story collection from a celebrated American writer
Spook Who Sat by the Door
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CA$25.95
ISBN: 9780814349571
Pub Date: June 2022
A classic in the black literary tradition, The Spook Who Sat by the Door is both a comment on the civil rights problems in the United States in the late 1960s and a serious attempt to focus...
The Talking Drum
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CA$22.95
ISBN: 9781771337410
Pub Date: May 2020
Imprint: Inanna Publications and Education Inc.
Winner, 2020 National Association of Black Journalists Outstanding Literary Award; Overall Winner, 2020 Shelf Unbound Best Indie Book Award; Winner, 2021 IPPY Gold Medal for Urban Fiction; Finalist for the Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards
Featured on Ms. Magazine's June 2020 Reads for the Rest of Us and Bustle's 23 Debut Books That Are Too Good To Ignore.
It is 1971. The fictional city of Bellport, Massachusetts, is in decline with an urban redevelopment project on the horizon expected to transform this dying factory town into a thriving economic center. This planned transformation has a profound effect on the residents who live in Bellport as their own personal transformations take place. Sydney Stallworth steps away from her fellowship and law studies at an elite university to support husband Malachi's dream of opening a business in the heart of the black community of his hometown, Bellport.
For Omar Bassari, an immigrant...
Taximan
Stories and Anecdotes from the Back Seat
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CA$16.95
ISBN: 9781988130897
Pub Date: September 2018
Imprint: Linda Leith Publishing
In the taxi rides you're about to take, you'll be in the company of some classic drivers and of a perspicacious and sharp-eyed passenger, the writer and broadcaster Stanley Péan.
Spook Who Sat by the Door
Price:
CA$28.95
ISBN: 9780814322468
Pub Date: May 1989
Continuously available in print since 1968, this novel has become embedded in progressive anti-racist culture with wide circulation of the book and hotly debated film. A literary classic, ...
Blues and Trouble
Twelve Stories
CA$24.95
ISBN: 9781496841926
Pub Date: September 2022
Imprint: University Press of Mississippi
Spook Who Sat by the Door
CA$25.95
ISBN: 9780814349571
Pub Date: June 2022
The Talking Drum
CA$22.95
ISBN: 9781771337410
Pub Date: May 2020
Imprint: Inanna Publications and Education Inc.
Winner, 2020 National Association of Black Journalists Outstanding Literary Award; Overall Winner, 2020 Shelf Unbound Best Indie Book Award; Winner, 2021 IPPY Gold Medal for Urban Fiction; Finalist for the Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards
Featured on Ms. Magazine's June 2020 Reads for the Rest of Us and Bustle's 23 Debut Books That Are Too Good To Ignore.
It is 1971. The fictional city of Bellport, Massachusetts, is in decline with an urban redevelopment project on the horizon expected to transform this dying factory town into a thriving economic center. This planned transformation has a profound effect on the residents who live in Bellport as their own personal transformations take place. Sydney Stallworth steps away from her fellowship and law studies at an elite university to support husband Malachi's dream of opening a business in the heart of the black community of his hometown, Bellport.
For Omar Bassari, an immigrant...
Taximan
Stories and Anecdotes from the Back Seat
CA$16.95
ISBN: 9781988130897
Pub Date: September 2018
Imprint: Linda Leith Publishing
Spook Who Sat by the Door
CA$28.95
ISBN: 9780814322468
Pub Date: May 1989