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By: Melinda Haynes
Price: $10.48
Publisher: Washington: 2000
Seller ID: 0047798
ISBN: 0671774670
Condition: Good
Capturing all the rueful irony and racial ambivalence of small-town Mississippi in the late 1950s, Melinda Haynes' celebrated novel is a wholly unforgettable exploration of family, identity, and redemption. "Mother of Pearl" revolves around twenty-eight-year-old Even Grade, a black man who grew up an orphan, and Valuable Korner, the fifteen-year-old white daughter of the town whore and an unknown father. Both are passionately determined to discover the precious things neither experienced as children: human connection, enduring commitment, and, above all, unconditional love. A startlingly accom... View more info
By: Melinda Haynes
Price: $5.50
Publisher: Pocket Star Books: 2001
Seller ID: 0002642
ISBN: 0743431030
Condition: Good
Capturing all the rueful irony and racial ambiavalence of small-town Mississippi in the late 1950's, Melinda Haynes' celebrated novel is a wholly unforgettable exploration of family, identity, and redemption. "Mother of Pearl" revolves around twenty-eight-year-old Even Grade, a black man who grew up an orphan, and Valuable Korner, the fifteen-year-old white daughter of the town whore and an unknown father. Both are passionately determined to discover the precious things neither experienced as children: human connection, enduring commitment, and, above all, unconditional love. A startlingly acc... View more info
By: Pearl Cleage
Price: $7.99
Publisher: Avon Books: 1997
Seller ID: 0078825
ISBN: 038097584X
Condition: Good
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By: Pearl Cleage
Price: $8.00
Publisher: Avon: 1998
Seller ID: 0049942
ISBN: 038079487X
Condition: Good
In a remarkable debut novel that sizzles with sensuality, crackles with life-affirming energy and moves the reader to laughter and tears, author Pearl Cleage creates a world rich in character, human drama, and deep, compassionate understanding. After a decade of luxe living in Atlanta, Ava Johnson has returned to tiny Idlewild, Michigan -- her fabulous career and power plans smashed to bits on one dark truth: Ava has tested positive for HIV. Bur rather than a sorrowful end, her homecoming is a new beginning. Because, in the ten-plus years since she left, all the problems of the big city have i... View more info
By: Rhonda Byrne
Price: $7.99
Publisher: Atria Books: 2006
Seller ID: 0087290
ISBN: 1582701709
Condition: Very good
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By: Robert Morgan
Price: $5.50
Publisher: Scribner: 1999
Seller ID: 0038233
ISBN: 074322535X
Condition: Fair
Julie Harmon works hard, "hard as a man" they say, so hard that at times she's not sure she can stop. People depend on her. She is just a teenager when her brother dies in her arms. The following year, she marries Hank and moves to Gap Creek. Julie and Hank discover that the modern world is complex, grinding ever on without pause or concern for their hard work. To survive, they must find out whether love can keep chaos and madness at bay. View more info
By: Robert Morgan
Price: $9.63
Publisher: Scribner: 2000
Seller ID: 0056210
ISBN: 0743203631
Condition: Good
The National Bestseller A "New York Times" Notable Book There is a most unusual woman living in Gap Creek. Julie Harmon works hard, "hard as a man" they say, so hard that at times she's not sure she can stop. People depend on her. She is just a teenager when her brother dies in her arms. The following year, she marries Hank and moves down into the valley. Julie and Hank discover that the modern world is complex, grinding ever on without pause or concern for their hard work. To survive, they must find out whether love can keep chaos and madness at bay. With Julie, Robert Morgan has b... View more info
By: Rohinton Mistry
Price: $11.50
Publisher: Emblem Editions: 1997
Seller ID: 0019703
ISBN: 0771060548
Condition: Good
"A Fine Balance," Rohinton Mistry's stunning internationally acclaimed bestseller, is set in mid-1970s India. It tells the story of four unlikely people whose lives come together during a time of political turmoil soon after the government declares a "State of Internal Emergency." Through days of bleakness and hope, their circumstances - and their fates - become inextricably linked in ways no one could have foreseen. Mistry's prose is alive with enduring images and a cast of unforgettable characters. Written with compassion, humour, and insight, "A Fine Balance" is a vivid, richly textured, an... View more info
By: Sheri Reynolds
Price: $8.50
Publisher: Berkley: 1997
Seller ID: 0033628
ISBN: 0425162443
Condition: Good
At the Church of Fire and Brimstone and Gods Almighty Baptizing Wind, Grandpa Herman makes the rules for everyone, and everyone obeys, or else. Try as she might, Ninah hasn't succeeded in resisting temptation her prayer partner, James and finds herself pregnant. She fears the wrath of Grandpa Herman, the congregation and of God Himself. But the events that follow show Ninah that Gods ways are more mysterious than even Grandpa Herman understands. View more info
By: Sidney Poitier
Price: $9.48
Publisher: Harper: 2000
Seller ID: 0047216
ISBN: 0061357901
Condition: Good
"I have no wish to play the pontificating fool, pretending that I've suddenly come up with the answers to all life's questions. Quite that contrary, I began this book as an exploration, an exercise in self-questing. In other words, I wanted to find out, as I looked back at a long and complicated life, with many twists and turns, how well I've done at measuring up to the values I myself have set." --Sidney PoitierIn this luminous memoir, a true American icon looks back on his celebrated life and career. His body of work is arguably the most morally significant in cinematic history, and th... View more info
By: Sue Miller
Price: $9.98
Publisher: Ballantine Books: 2000
Seller ID: 0034807
ISBN: 0345443284
Condition: Good
"Riveting . . . While I Was Gone"" celebrates] what is impulsive in human nature."-The New York Times "Miller weaves her themes of secrecy, betrayal, and forgiveness into a narrative that shines."-Time Jo Becker has every reason to be content. She has three dynamic daughters, a loving marriage, and a rewarding career. But she feels a sense of unease. Then an old housemate reappears, sending Jo back to a distant past when she lived in a communal house in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Drawn deeper into her memories of that fateful summer in 1968, Jo begins to obsess about the person s... View more info
By: Sue Monk Kidd
Price: $7.99
Publisher: Viking: 2014
Seller ID: 0110126
ISBN: 0670024783
Condition: Fair
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By: Toni Morrison
Price: $9.50
Publisher: Plume: 1994
Seller ID: 0046345
ISBN: 0452282195
Condition: Very good
By: Toni Morrison
Price: $7.99
Publisher: Alfred A Knopf: 1997
Seller ID: 0050103
ISBN: 067697113X
Condition: Good
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By: Toni Morrison
Price: $7.99
Publisher: Alred A Knopf: 1996
Seller ID: 0111135
ISBN: 0394497848
Condition: Good
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By: Toni Morrison
Price: $9.50
Publisher: Plume: 1982
Seller ID: 0033627
ISBN: 0452283868
Condition: Good
By: Toni Morrison
Price: $8.00
Publisher: Plume: 1987
Seller ID: 0013186
ISBN: 0452260116
Condition: Fair
By: Ursula Hegi
Price: $9.00
Publisher: Touchstone: 1997
Seller ID: 0006053
ISBN: 068484477X
Condition: Good
"Stones from the River" is a daring, dramatic and complex novel of life in Germany. It is set in Burgdorf, a small fictional German town, between 1915 and 1951. The protagonist is Trudi Montag, a Zwerg -- the German word for dwarf woman. As a dwarf she is set apart, the outsider whose physical "otherness" has a corollary in her refusal to be a part of Burgdorf's silent complicity during and after World War II. Trudi establishes her status and power, not through beauty, marriage, or motherhood, but rather as the town's librarian and relentless collector of stories. Through Trudi's unblinkin... View more info
By: Uwem Akpan
Price: $7.99
Publisher: Little Brown: 2008
Seller ID: 0134403
ISBN: 0316086363
Condition: Very good
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By: Uwem Akpan
Price: $8.50
Publisher: Little Brown: 2009
Seller ID: 0064615
ISBN: 0316086371
Condition: Good
Each story in this jubilantly acclaimed collection pays testament to the wisdom and resilience of children, even in the face of the most agonizing circumstances. A family living in a makeshift shanty in urban Kenya scurries to find gifts of any kind for the impending Christmas holiday. A Rwandan girl relates her family's struggles to maintain a facade of normalcy amid unspeakable acts. A young brother and sister cope with their uncle's attempt to sell them into slavery. Aboard a bus filled with refugees-a microcosm of today's Africa-a Muslim boy summons his faith to bear a treacherous rid... View more info
