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A Hard Road to Glory: A History of the African American Athlete: Baseball (Book)

Jr Ashe Arthur R

ISBN:9781567430356

This passionate look at the sport is more than a baseball story. It is also a social history of the nation. Using the statistics of the past -- someknown and hidden...more details
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A Hard Road to Glory: A History of the African American Athlete: Track and Field (Book)

Jr Ashe Arthur R;Merlisa Lawrence

ISBN:9781567430394

African-American athletes have been excelling in track and field since the first modern Olympics. While this volume tells the story of such internationally known athletes as Carl Lewis...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:160

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Bad Boy: A Memoir (Book)

Walter Dean Myers

ISBN:9780060295233

Into a memoir that is gripping, funny, heartbreaking, and unforgettable, Walter Dean Myers richly weaves the details of his Harlem childhood in the 1940s and 1950s: a loving home life with his adopted parents...more details
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Black Pearls for Parents: Meditations, Affirmations, and Inspirations for African-American Parents (Book)

Eric V Copage

ISBN:9780688130985

Meditations, Affirmations, and Inspirations for African-American Parents

Eric. V Copage's "Black Pearls" became an instant best-seller and was the winner of the Blackboard African-American Bestsellers award for best non-fiction book of 1994. Now he has created a book of inspirational thoughts...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:400

USD $12.83

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Black Pearls: Daily Meditations, Affirmations, and Inspirations for African-Americans (Book)

Eric V Copage

ISBN:9780688122911

Eric V. Copage's Black Pearls is an extraordinary book of inspirational thoughts and practical advice for African-Americans. The 365 quotes that begin each day's entry range from African proverbs to wisdom from Oprah Winfrey...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:400

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Brown Skin: Dr. Susan Taylor's Prescription for Flawless Skin, Hair, and Nails (Book)

Susan C Taylor

ISBN:9780060088712

At last -- a book devoted to the concerns of people of color that will help you enhance and protect the health and beauty of your skin, hair...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:304

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Burn My Heart (Book)

Beverley Naidoo

ISBN:9780061432996

What does it mean to be loyal?

Mathew and Mugo share an uneasy friendship in Kenya in the 1950s. They can look past the difference in their skin color...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:240

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Career GPS: Women's Strategies for Navigating the New Corporate Landscape (Book)

Ella Bell

ISBN:9780061714382

The workplace is constantly in flux, and even now there are new opportunities open to women. But to take advantage of these possibilities...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:256

USD $34.23

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Conversations with God: Two Centuries of Prayers by African Americans (Book)

James Washington

ISBN:9780060926571

A unique and moving collection of prayers by African-Americans spanning two centuries that has sold more than 30,000 copies and been unanimously embraced as "a powerful testament of faith and hope" (Corettta Scott King)....more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:400

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Dope Sick (Book)

Walter Dean Myers

ISBN:9780061214790

A drug deal goes south and a cop has been shot. Lil J's on the run. And he's starting to get dope sick. He'd do anything to change the last twenty-four hours...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:186

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Forty Minutes of Hell: The Extraordinary Life of Nolan Richardson (Book)

Rus Bradburd

ISBN:9780061690464

An exploration of the racial politics of American sports, from the Jim Crow era to the present day, witnessed through the life of legendary African-American basketball coach and NCAA title winner Nolan Richardson

Born in El Paso's Segundo Barrio...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:317

USD $32.92

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Gloria Naylor: Critical Perspectives Past and Present (Book)

Gloria Naylor;Jr Appiah Kwame AnthonyGates Henry Louis

ISBN:9781567430301

In the history of the African-American literary tradition, perhaps no author has been immersed in the formal history of that tradition than Gloria Naylor. As an undergraduate student of Afro-American literature at Brooklyn College and a graduate student of Afro-American studies at Yale...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:336

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Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad (Book)

Ann Petry

ISBN:9780064461818

Born a slave, Harriet Tubman dreamed of freedom. And through hard work and her willingness to risk everything-including her life-she was able to make that dream come true.But after making her escape...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:256

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Having What Matters: The Black Woman's Guide to Creating the Life You Really Want (Book)

Monique Greenwood

ISBN:9780060507886

Now is the time to take your joy off layaway In this practical and informative guide, Monique Greenwood offers easy-to-follow, down-to-earth advice and anecdotes for creating the life you really want. From financial freedom to finding or enjoying a healthy relationship...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:256

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Honey, I Love (Book)

Eloise Greenfield;Jan Spivey Gilchrist

ISBN:9780060091248

To one young narrator, it's the simple things that mean the most, like sharing laughter with a friend, taking family rides in the country...more details
Format:Library Binding  Pages:32

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How They Got Over: African Americans and the Call of the Sea (Book)

Eloise Greenfield;Jan Spivey Gilchrist

ISBN:9780060289911

African Americans have been drawn to the sea for hundreds of years. In this collection of biographies, Eloise Greenfield examines how that...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:128

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In My Momma's Kitchen (Book)

Jerdine Nolen;Colin Bootman

ISBN:9780064437868

From Talking Pots Day, when the aunts all gather to make the biggest pot of soup in town, to gathering round Gran Lee's stove on a cold winter afternoon...more details
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It Ain't All for Nothin' (Book)

Walter Dean Myers

ISBN:9780064473118

Life in Harlem isn't easy, but Tippy and his grandmother are doing okay. Then Grandma Carrie gets sick, and Tippy goes to live with Lonnie...more details
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It's All Good Hair: The Guide to Styling and Grooming Black Children's Hair (Book)

Michele N-K Collison

ISBN:9780060934873

What are you going to do with your children's hair? Combing your daughter's hair is giving you a headache and now your son is asking you for cornrows. Relax. Finally...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:160

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Justin and the Best Biscuits in the World (Book)

Mildred Pitts Walter

ISBN:9780061958915

Ten-year-old Justin hates that his sisters and his mama are always fussing at him. They make him feel stupid because he can't clean his room or cook. But why should he? He'd rather be outside playing. After all...more details
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Langston Hughes: Critical Perspectives Past and Present (Book)

Langston Hughes;Jr Appiah Kwame AnthonyGates Henry Louis

ISBN:9781567430295

James Langston Hughes
(1902 -- 1967)


With a career that spanned the Harlem Renaissance of the twenties and Black Arts movement of the sixties...more details
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Lockdown (Book)

Walter Dean Myers

ISBN:9780061214813

When I first got to Progress, it freaked me out to be locked in a room and unable to get out. But after a while, when you got to thinking about it...more details
Format:Library Binding  Pages:247

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Love the One You're with: A B-Boy Blues Novel (Book)

James Earl Hardy

ISBN:9780060512392

Do men and monogamy mix? It's not a question Mitchell "Little Bit" Crawford gave much thought to until his beaufriend of almost two years...more details
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Marshalling Justice: The Early Civil Rights Letters of Thurgood Marshall (Book)

Michael G Long

ISBN:9780061985188

Collected here together for the first time are the selected letters of one of the most influential and important activists in the American civil rights movement—the brilliant legal mind and foot soldier for justice...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:412

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Monster (Book)

Walter Dean Myers;Christopher A Myers

ISBN:9780060280772

Sometimes I feel like I have walked into the middle of a movie. Maybe I can make my own movie. The film will be the story of my life. No, not my life...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:288

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More (Book)

Austin Clarke

ISBN:9780061772405

At the news of her son BJ's involvement in gang crime, Idora Morrison, a maid at the local university, collapses in her basement apartment. For four days and nights she retreats into a vortex of memory...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:300

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Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters: An African Tale (Book)

John Steptoe

ISBN:9780688040451

Mufaro was a happy man. Everyone agreed that his two daughters were very beautiful. Nyasha was kind and considerate as well as beautiful, but everyone -- except Mufaro -- knew that Manyara was selfish...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:32

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One Crazy Summer (Book)

Rita Williams-Garcia

ISBN:9780060760892

Eleven-year-old Delphine has it together. Even though her mother, Cecile, abandoned her and her younger sisters, Vonetta and Fern, seven years ago. Even though her father and Big Ma will send them from Brooklyn to Oakland...more details
Format:Library Binding  Pages:218

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Scorpions (Book)

Walter Dean Myers

ISBN:9780060243654

Bad Trouble

Lately everybody's messing with Jamal. His teachers, the kids at school, even his dad. And now that Jamal's brother Randy's in the slam...more details
Format:Library Binding  Pages:224

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Should America Pay?: Slavery and the Raging Debate on Reparations (Book)

Raymond A Winbush

ISBN:9780060083113

Growing interest in reparations for African Americans has prompted a range of responses, from lawsuits against major corporations and a march in Washington to an anti-reparations ad campaign. As a result...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:416

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Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush (Book)

Virginia Hamilton

ISBN:9780380651931

Why had he come to her, with his dark secrets from a long-ago past? What was the purpose of their strange, haunting journeys back into her own childhood? Was it to help Dab...more details
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The Minority Executives' Handbook: The Complete Guide to Career Success in Today's Culturally Diverse Workforce (Book)

Randolph W Cameron

ISBN:9781567430219

Since the hardcover publication of"The Minority Executives' Handbook" in 1989, corporate downsizing and other social and economic trends have brought on dramatic changes in the job market. Black...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:312

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The Warrior Method: A Parents' Guide to Rearing Healthy Black Boys (Book)

Raymond A Winbush

ISBN:9780380792757

According to the recent statistics from the U.S. Department of Justice, black males die at a rate fifteen times higher than that of white males because of homicidal violence. The Department estimates that 28 percent of black males will enter state or federal prisons during their lifetime. In response to these devastating statistics...more details
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The Way of the Bootstrapper: Nine Action Steps for Achieving Your Dreams (Book)

Floyd H Flake;Donna M Williams Donna MarieWilliams

ISBN:9780062515964

Former Democratic congressman and pastor of one of America's largest, most prosperous churches, Floyd Flake inspires us to pull ourselves up by the bootstraps...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:272

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This Is the Dream (Book)

Diane Z Shore

ISBN:9780060555214

"With courage they rallied and answered the call . . . dreaming of freedom and justice for all."

The United States of America was founded on the declaration that all men are created equal. But nearly two hundred years after that proclamation...more details
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Wench (Book)

Dolen Perkins Valdez

ISBN:9780061706547

An ambitious and startling debut novel that follows the lives of four women at a resort popular among slaveholders who bring their enslaved mistresses

wench 'wench "n." from Middle English ""wenchel...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:293

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Words with Wings: A Treasury of African-American Poetry and Art (Book)

Belinda Rochelle

ISBN:9780688164157

These are just some of the works of art you will find in this stunning collection that pairs twenty poems by distinglushed African-American poets with twenty works of art by acclaimed African-American artists...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:48

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Words: Rhyme N' Reason, Medicine & Weapons (Book)

Ne-Yo

ISBN:9780061875717

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Format:Hardcover  Pages:192

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Come to Win: Venus and Friends on Life Lessons Beyond the Playing Field (Book)

Venus Williams

ISBN:9780061718250

Inspired by bestsellers A Hand to Guide Me (Denzel Washington) and The Games Do Count (Brian Kilmaede), Venus Williams?s COME TO WIN is the book every manager...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:357

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Guardian (Book)

Julius Lester

ISBN:9780061558924

Ansel: a fourteen-year-old white boy living in the town of Davis in the Deep South in 1946. He spends his summers working in his father?s general store...more details
Format:Paperback / softback  Pages:160

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Jumped (Book)

Rita Williams-Garcia

ISBN:9780060760939

The lives of three girls - two African American and one of mixed race - are intertwined through the course of one day in an urban high school. When Leticia hears Dominique say that she?s going to jump (i.e. beat up) Trina after school for no apparent reason...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:169

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Lockdown (Book)

Walter Dean Myers

ISBN:9780061214820

Reese lands in Progress when he steals some prescription pads from a doctor?s office. Now, he?s surrounded by other kids who have messed up their lives and broken the law - some of them have even killed people...more details
Format:Paperback / softback  Pages:272

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Straight Talk, No Chaser: How to Find, Keep, and Understand a Man (Book)

Steve Harvey

ISBN:9780061728990

In the instant #1 bestseller Act Like A Lady, Think Like A Man, Harvey gave millions of women around the globe insight into how men really think about love...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:237

USD $28.24

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The Great Migration: Journey to the North (Book)

Eloise Greenfield

ISBN:9780061259210

"We were one family among the many thousands. Mama and Daddy leaving home, coming to the city, with their hopes and their courage, their dreams and their children...more details
Format:Hardcover  Pages:32

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