Books
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Words of Ages | Steffens, Lincoln,O'Sullivan, John L.,Bret Harte,Carl Sandburg,John Dos Passos,Sloan Wilson,Jonathan Edwards,William Bradford,Anne Moody,Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston,Elizabeth Cady Stanton,John Greenleaf Whittier,Taggard, Genevieve,John Woolman,Mark Twain,Ralph Waldo Emerson,Upton Sinclair,Dorothy Parker,Leon Uris,Denise Levertov,Henry David Thoreau,Washington Irving,Anne Bradstreet,Edith Wharton,Elie Wiesel,Annie Dillard,George Fitzhugh,Henry James,Robert Beverley,Jack Kerouac,Arthur Miller,Hamlin Garland,E. E. Cummings,Harriet Beecher Stowe,Abraham Cahan,Willa Cather,Meridel Le Sueur,Zora Neale Hurston,Tom Wolfe,Walt Whitman,Martin Luther King Jr.,John Hershey,Philip A. Roth,Rudyard Kipling,Stephen Crane,Tim O'Brien,John Steinbeck,Benjamin Franklin,John Jay,Frederick Douglass,John Smith,Langston Hughes,W. E. B. Du Bois,Harriet A. Jacobs,Bob Dylan,Louisa May Alcott,Nathaniel Hawthorne,John Adams,F. Scott Fitzgerald,Mary Crow Dog,Herman Melville,Close Up Foundation,William Tecumseh Sherman,Philip Morin Freneau,David Halberstam,E. B. White,Robert Olen Butler,Toni Morrison,Thomas Paine,Jose De Diego,Ralph Ellison,Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman,James D. Houston,Meriwether Lewis,Margaret Fuller,James Fenimore Cooper,Abigail Adams,Countee Cullen,Nat Love,Winthrop, John,Thomas Jefferson,Black Elk,Ernest Howard Crosby,Sandra Cisneros,Hart Crane,Rebecca Harding Davis,Martha Gellhorn,Olaudah Equiano,Clifford Odets,Malcolm X,Juan Nepomuceno Seguín,Francis E. Watkins Harper,Judy Brady,Booker T. Washington,Angelina Weld Grimké,William Clark | Explorers and early settlers -- The general history of Virginia, New England, and the Summer Isles / John Smith -- The history and present state of Virginia / Robert Beverley -- Of Plymouth Planta… | OL14876177W |
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Peeny butter fudge | Joe Cepeda,Slade Morrison,Toni Morrison | Children spend the day with their grandmother, who ignores their mother's carefully planned schedule in favor of activities that are much more fun. | OL15059447W |
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The tortoise or the hare | Joe Cepeda,Slade Morrison,Toni Morrison | Jamey Tortoise is smarter than anyone else and Jimi Hare is faster, but when a race is announced each consults a reporter about how to get what he really wants when and if he should win. | OL15059472W |
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Burn This Book | Paul Auster,Ed Park,Nadine Gordimer,Russell Banks,Salman Rushdie,John Updike,Francine Prose,Toni Morrison,David Grossman,Pico Iyer,Orhan Pamuk | Published in conjunction with the PEN American Center, Burn This Book is a powerful collection of essays that explore the meaning of censorship and the power of literature to inform the way we see th… | OL15191496W |
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Love | Toni Morrison | From the internationally acclaimed Nobel laureate comes a richly conceived novel that illuminates the full spectrum of desire. May, Christine, Heed, Junior, Vida -- even L: all women obsessed by B… | OL15843891W |
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The Dancing Mind | Toni Morrison | On the occasion of her acceptance of the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters on the sixth of November, 1996, Nobel laureate Toni Morrison speaks with bre… | OL50550W |
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Tar Baby | Toni Morrison | Ravishingly beautiful and emotionally incendiary, Tar Baby is Toni Morrison's reinvention of the love story. Jadine Childs is a black fashion model with a white patron, a white boyfriend, and a coat … | OL50557W |
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A Mercy | Toni Morrison,Jordi Fibla Feito | A powerful tragedy distilled into a jewel of a masterpiece by the Nobel Prize--winning author of Beloved and, almost like a prelude to that story, set two centuries earlier.In the 1680s the slave tra… | OL50560W |
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Paradise | Toni Morrison | "Rumors had been whispered for more than a year. Outrages that had been accumulating all along took shape as evidence. A mother was knocked down the stairs by her cold-eyed daughter. Four damaged inf… | OL50561W |
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Jazz | Toni Morrison | It is winter, barely three days into 1926, seven years after Armistice; we are in the scintillating City, around Lenox Avenue, "when all the wars are over and there will never be another one... At la… | OL50563W |