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Gayl Jones
An epic tale of love and liberation set in seventeenth-century colonial Brazil. This acclaimed novel is the first book in over 20 years from a major voice in American literature.
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A wide-ranging collection, including two novellas and ten stories, from the acclaimed author of Palmares and Corregidora.
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An intense, searing novel exploring the damage of racial and sexual violence.
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A humorous yet moving novel of redemption, featuring an original protagonist with an eccentric past and her own brand of wisdom.
A powerful, influential novel, praised by writers including Toni Morrison, James Baldwin and Maya Angelou. Long out of print, this lost classic is republished for a new generation.
A dazzling collection of short fiction from Pulitzer and National Book Award Finalist, Gayl Jones
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"The acclaimed author's first collection of stories. "Gayl Jones's work represents a watershed in American literature. From a literary standpoint, her form is impeccable . . . and as a…
A wide-ranging collection, including two novellas and ten stories exploring complex identities, from the acclaimed author of Corregidora, The Healing, and Palmares
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As a poet, playwright, novelist, short-story writer, and critic, Gayl Jones has always resisted labels in her quest to find a liberating voice for black women and herself. With a…
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Casey Clabough
African American author Gayl Jones has a lived a life dedicated to a style of writing both definitive of and stemming directly from her identification with the collective African American…
This exquisite book-length poem based closely on history and set in colonial Brazil, recounts the destruction of Palmares, the last of seven fugitive slave enclaves beset by the Portuguese. Amid…
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An exciting new novel from a major voice in American literature
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This mesmerising historical novel, set in the slave settlements of colonial Brazil, marks the long-awaited return of Gayl Jones, ‘the best American novelist whose name you may not know’ (Atlantic).
Bury those easy-to-read Black romance books. Mosquito is where African-American literature is heading as we approach the twenty-first century.–E. Ethelbert Miller, Emerge
An exciting new novel from a major voice in American literature - exploring artists in exile, dangerous relationships and the demands of creativity.
The epic rendering of a Black woman’s journey through slavery and liberation, set in 17th-century colonial Brazil –
From the acclaimed author of Corregidora, this volume contains poems in the voices of the lovers Almeyda and Anninho, two fugitive slaves in 17th-century Brazil; a continuation of the unforgettable…
Set in a south Texas border town, Mosquito is the story of an African-American truck driver’s accidental yet growing involvement in the new underground railroad, a sanctuary movement for Mexican…
An epic tale of love and liberation set in seventeenth-century colonial Brazil and the first book in over 20 years from a major voice in American literature.
Palmares is the long-awaited book from ‘the best American novelist whose name you may not know’ (Atlantic). A sweeping, magnificent historical epic, set in 17th-century Brazil, that has its basis…
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Here is Gayl Jones’s classic novel, the tale of blues singer Ursa, consumed by her hatred of the nineteenth-century slave master who fathered both her grandmother and mother.
A wide-ranging collection, including two novellas and ten stories exploring complex identities, from the acclaimed author of Corregidora, The Healing, and Palmares.
"Set primarily on the island of Ibiza, the story is narrated by the writer Amanda Wordlaw, whose closest friend, a gifted sculptor named Catherine Shuger, is repeatedly institutionalized for trying…
Gayle Jones Carter
A biography with pictures about the career and life of Daryl E. Johnson, who attended Maggie L. Walker High School, Morgan State University and was drafted by the Boston Patriots…
Pamela B. June
Explores the symbol of the wounded and scarred female body in selected postmodern, multiethnic American women’s novels. This book emphasizes the different and nuanced forms of oppression each woman faces.
Dwight D Jones
A Black Journey in Tech (From Humble Beginnings)
My objective is to encourage anyone one, but more specifically the next generation of technologist particularly Black people by sharing my story.
Ao Already Knows That All Men Are Digusting…So Why Does She Keep Thinking About One of Them?!
Boyd Sam
Two Couples. One Summer.
Bound By Magic, And A Deadly Secret
Find your people. Find yourself.
A deadly mystery with a turbulent descent.
