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Camwood at Crossroads
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Becoming Abigail
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Yoruba Proverbs, Yoruba Trickster Tales
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Britain, Leftist Nationalists and the Transfer of Power in Nigeria, 1945-1965
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Arrest the Music! Fela and His Rebel Art and Politics
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Exit Ghost
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The Dancing Girl Of Izu And Other Stories
Martha Cooley
The Archivist
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For Women and the Nation: Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti of Nigeria
Debra Dickerson
The End of Blackness
Sefi Atta
Everything Good Will Come
Lou Andreas-Salome
Looking Back: Memoirs: The intimate story of her friendships with Nietzsche, Rilke & Freud: Translated by Breon Mitchell
Cornel West
Democracy Matters: Winning the Fight Against Imperialism, Race Matters, The Future of the Race with Henry Louis Gates, Jr., The Cornel West Reader, Restoring Hope:Conversations on the Future of Black America, The Future of American Progressivism with Roberto Unger, Jews and Blacks: Let the healing begin with Micheal Lerner
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A Mouth Sweeter Than Salt: An African Memoir
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The Concubine
Flora Nwapa
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Purple Hibiscus
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Ezenwa-Ohaeto
A Biography of Chinua Achebe
Zora Neale Hurston
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A Different Mirror
Naguib Mahfouz
The Cairo Trilogy
Nadine Gordimer
Loot: And other Stories, The Pickup
J. M. Coetzee
Elizabeth Costello, Disgrace, Foe, Age of Iron, The Master of Petersburg
Mitch Albom
Tuesdays with Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson
P.C. Lloyd
Yoruba Land Law
Oyeronke Oyewumi
The Invention of Women: Making an African Sense of Western Gender Discources, African Women & Feminism: Reflecting on the Politics of Sisterhood. To Purchase: Links
Nnedi Okorafor-Mbachu
Zahrah the Windseeker
Olusegun Fayemi
Voices from Within: Duotone photographs of children from Africa south of the Sahara. To Purchase: Links
Ben Okri
The Famished Road
Camara Laye
A Dream of Africa
Buchi Emecheta
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Chinua Achebe
Girls At War And Other Stories, No Longer At Ease, Arrow of God, A Man of the People, Anthills of the Savannah, Hopes and Impediments, Things Fall Apart
Cyprian Ekwensi
Juju Rock, People of the City
Helon Habila
Waiting for an Angel
Desmond Tutu
No Future Without Forgiveness
African Film Festival: New York
Through African Eyes: Dialogues with the Directors
D. O. Fagunwa
The Forest of a Thousand Daemons: A Hunter's Saga, Ogboju Ode Ninu Igbo Irunmale: Revised Edition
Mojubaolu Olufunke-Okome
A Sapped Democracy: Structural Adjustment Program and the Political Transition in Nigeria (1983-1993)
Kunle Ajibade
Jailed for Life: A Reporter's Prison Notes
Moses Isegawa
Abyssinian Chronicles
Donatus Ibe Nwoga
West African Verse: An Anthology
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
The Trials Of Phillis Wheatley, Colored People, The Future of the Race with Cornel West
David G. Maillu
The Common Man
Mark Mathabane
Miriam's Song
Ferdinand Oyono
Boy!
Henry John Drewal and Margaret Thompson Drewal
Gelede: Art and Female Power among the Yoruba, Beads, Body and Soul with John Mason
Abdulrazak Gurnah
Paradise
Caryl Phillips
The European Tribe, The Atlantic Sound
James Baldwin
Giovanni's Room, A Rap On Race, Just Above My Head, The Devil Finds Work, Going To Meet The Man, Tell Me How Long The Train's Been Gone, The Fire Next Time, Notes of a Native Son, Go Tell It On The Mountain, No Name In The Street, If Beale Street Could Talk, Another Country, Artist On Fire
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V. S. Naipaul
Beyond Belief, Miguel Street, The Nightwatchman's Occurrence Book, The Enigma of Arrival, Half a Life, The Mimic Men, The Mystic Masseur, A Bend in the River
Simon Ottenberg
Boyhood Rituals In An African Society
Toni Cade Bambara
Those Bones Are Not My Child, The Black Woman
bell hooks
Ain't I A Woman: Black Women and Feminism, Wounds of Passion: A Writing Life, Salvation: Black People and Love, Sisters of the Yam: Black Women and Self-Recovery, Communion: The Female Search for Love
Irvin D. Yalom
The Schopenhauer Cure, When Nietzsche Wept, Love's Executioner, Lying on the Couch, Momma and the Meaning of Life, Every Day Gets a Little Closer: A Twice-Told Therapy
Annette Gordon-Reed
Thomas Jefferson And Sally Hemings
Nikki Giovanni
Quilting The Black-Eyed Pea, Racism 101, The Collected Poetry of Nikki giovanni
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In Search of our Mothers' Gardens, The Same River Twice: Honoring the Difficult, Possessing the Secret of Joy, By The Light of My Father's Smile
Cheryl Jarvis
Marriage Sabbatical
Carter G. Woodson
The Mis-Education of the Negro
Yoshiko Uchida
Desert Exile
Paul Theroux
Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town, My Other Life, The Pillars of Hercules: A Grand Tour of the Mediterranean, Picture Palace, Kowloon Tong, The Family Arsenal, Hotel Honolulu, My Secret History, The Stranger at the Palazzo d'Oro and Other Stories
Robert M. Pirsig
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, LILA: An Inquiry into Morals.
Harold Cruse
The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual, Rebellion or Revolution
Jamaica Kincaid
Annie John, A Small Place
Angela Y. Davis
If They Come In The Morning, Blues Legacies and Black Feminism
Randall Kennedy
Race, Crime and the Law
W.E. B. Du Bois
The Suppression of the African Slave Trade, The Souls of Black Folk, Dusk of Dawn Essays
Ralph Ellison
Invisible Man, Shadow and Act, Flying Home, Juneteenth
Keith B. Richburg
Out of America
John Edgar Wideman
Philadelphia Fire, Brothers and Keepers, The Cattle Killing, Fatheralong, My Soul Has Grown Deep: Classics of Early African-American Literature
Bruce Wright
Black Robes, White Justice
Camille Paglia
Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson
Paula Giddings
When and Where I Enter:The Impact of Black Women on Race and Sex in America, In Search of Sisterhood
Toni Morrison
Paradise, Songs of Solomon, Sula, Beloved, Jazz, The Bluest Eye, Tar Baby, Love
Gustave Flaubert
Madame Bovary
Fredrick Douglass
Life and Times of Fredrick Douglass
Aristotle
On Man In The Universe
Murasaki Shikibu
The Tale of Genji
Jonathan Kozol
Savage Inequalities
Stanley Crouch
Always in Pursuit: Fresh American Perspectives, 1995-1997
Clarence Shole Johnson
Cornel West and Philosophy
Mosley, Diawara, Taylor and Austin
Black Genius: African American Solutions to African American Problems
Richard Leakey
The Origin of Humankind
John T. Burrow
The Origin of the Universe
Paul Davies
The Last Three Minutes
Elizabeth Isichei
A History of Christianity in Africa
Ferdinand Tonnes
Karl Marx: His Life and Teachings
Charles Larson
Under African Skies
Shelby Steele
The Content of Our Character
Derrick Bell
Faces At The Bottom Of The Well
Miles Davis With Quincy Troupe
Miles: The Autobiography
Anna Deavere Smith
Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992
Gerald Early
Daughters: On Family and Fatherhood
Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot
I've Known Rivers: Lives of Loss and Liberation
Faith Berry
Langston Hughes: Before and Beyond Harlem
Linn Washington
Black Judges on Justice
Ellen Wright & Michel Fabre
Richard Wright Reader
David Lewis
W.E.B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race: 1868-1919, The Fight for Equality and The American Century, 1919-1963
Anthony Samson
Mandela: The Authorized Biography
Paul Laurence Dunbar
The Sport of the Gods
Sigmund Freud
The Interpretation of Dreams
John A. Williams
The Man Who Cried I Am
Paul Collins
Sixpence House: Lost In A Town Of Books
Guiseppe Pontiggia
The Invisible Player
Victor Hugo
Toilers of the Sea
Frank Kermode and Keith Walker
Andrew Marvell
Tom Hiney
On the Missionary Trail: A Journey through Polynesia, Asia, and Africa
Tomas Salamun
Feast Poems
Kevin Rushby
Eating the Flowers of Paradise: One Man's Journey Through Ethiopia and Yemen
Andre Aciman
False Papers: Essays on Exile and Memory
Kelly James
Dancing With the Witchdoctor: One Woman's Stories of Mystery and Adventure in Africa
Sokei-An
Zen Pivots: Lectures on Buddhism and Zen
Flor Fernandez Barrios
Blessed by Thunder
David Crow
In Search of the Medicine Buddha: A Himalayan Journey
Michela Wrong
Living on the Brink of Disaster in Mobutu's Congo: In the Footsteps of Mr. Kurtz
Nalo Hopkinson
Whispers from the Cotton Tree Root: Caribbean Fabulist Fiction
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Strength to Love, The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Tara Bennett-Goleman
Emotional Alchemy: How the Mind Can Heal the Heart
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
The Evolving Self
Octavio Paz
The Labyrinth of Solitude: Life and Thought in Mexico
Mary Brave Bird
Lakota Woman, Ohitika Woman
Roy Richard Grinker
In the Arms of Africa: The Life of Colin M. Turnbull
Harvard Sitkoff
The Struggle for Black Equality: 1954-1980
Edward Margolies
Native Sons: A Critical Study of Twentieth-Century Negro American Authors
Nina Simone with Stephen Cleary
I Put A Spell On You
Nicholas Lemann
The Promised Land
Paul Finkelman
His Soul Goes Marching On: Responses to John Brown and the Harpers Ferry Raid
David Hilliard and Lewis Cole
This Side of Glory: The Autobiography of David Hilliard and the Story of the Black Panther Party
J.L Chestnut, Jr. and Julia Cass
Black in Selma: The Uncommon Life of J.L. Chestnut, Jr.: Politics and Power in a Small American Town
Andrew Hacker
Two Nations: Black and White, Separate, Hostile, Unequal
Martin Gilbert
Churchill: A Life
Lotte Kohler and Hans Saner
Hannah Arendt and Karl Jaspers Correspondence: 1926-1969
Todd, Hayward, Weissbort
An Anthology: Twentieth Century Russian Poetry: Silver and Steel
Pascal Quignard
The Salon in Wurttemberg
Richard Appignanesi
Italia Perversa: Part One: Stalin's Orphans, Two: The Mosque, Three: Destroying America
Jean Piaget
Possibility and Necessity Vol. I & II
Inga Clendinnen
Aztecs
Paul Monette
Becoming A Man: Half A Life Story
Richardson and Taylor
Feminist Frontiers III
Adam B. Ulam
The Bolsheviks: The Intellectual, Personal and Political History of the Triumph of Communism in Russia
Ethan Bronner
Battle for Justice
Barry Callaghan
The Way The Angel Spreads Her Wings
Diane Wood Middlebrook
Anne Sexton: A Biography
Harold Fromm
Academic Capitalism & Literary Value
Jon Weiner
Professors, Politics, and Pop
Walker Percy
Signposts in a Strange Land
Robert Bly
Iron John
Phyllis Grosskurth
The Secret Ring: Freud's Inner Circle and the Politics of Psychoanalysis
Jaroslav Pelikan
The Idea of a University: A Reexamination
Serge Bramly
Leonardo: Discovering The Life Of Leonardo Da Vinci
Noel Annan
Our Age: English Intellectuals Between The World Wars: A Group Portrait
Judity Farr
The Passion of Emily Dickinson
Roland Oliver
The African Experience: Major Themes In African History From Earliest Times To The Present
Robert Graves
The Greek Myths
T.E. Lawrence
The Odyssey of Homer: Translated
David Dubal
An Evening With {Vladimir} Horowitz: A Personal Portrait
Francois Rabelais
Gargantua and Pantagruel: Translated by Burton Raffel
Anthony A. Barrett
Caligula: The Corruption of Power
Carlos Fuentes
The Years with Laura Diaz, Inez
Sapphire
Black Wings & Blind Angels
Mark V. Tushnet
Making Constitutional Law: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court, 1961-1991
Charles W. Eliot
The Apology, Phaedo, and Crito of Plato: Translated by Benjamin Jowett, The Golden Sayings of Epictetus: Translated by Hastings Crossley, The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius: Translated by George Long.
James Hynes
Publish of Perish: Three Tales of Tenure and Terror
Robert Alter
Tradition and Modernity in Kafka, Benjamin, and Scholem
Carolly Erickson
To the Scaffold: The Life of Marie Antoinette
Neil Bissoondath
On the Eve of Uncertain Tomorrows
A. S. Byatt
Possession
Thomas Colchie
A Hammock Beneath the Mangoes: Stories from Latin America
Leo Tolstoy
Anna Karenina
Milan Kundera
Immortality
Antonio Lobo Antunes
An Explanation of the Birds: Translated by Richard Zenith
James M. Saslow
The Poetry of Michealangelo: An Annotated Translation
Gowans & Gray
The Masterpieces of Carpaccio & Gorggione
Robert Browning
Poems and Plays
John Greenleaf Whittier
Poems
Oliver Wendell Holmes
The Early Poems of Oliver Wendell Holmes: With an introduction by Nathan Haskell Dole
William Makepeace Thackeray
The Works of Thackeray: Ballads and Tales, Vanity Fair
Farah Jasmine Griffin
Beloved Sisters and Loving Friends: Letters from Rebecca Primus of Royal Oak, Maryland, and Addie Brown of Harford, Connecticut, 1854-1868
Sibyl Wilbur
The Life of Mary Baker Eddy
Victor Pelevin
Buddha's Little Finger
Ronan Bennett
The Catastrophist
Jervey Tervalon
Dead Above Ground
Lois Griffith
Among Others
Susan Sontag
In America, Where The Stress Falls (Essays)
Eugene Robinson
Coal to Cream: A Black's Man Journey Beyond Color To An Affirmation Of Race
George Eliot
The Works of George Eliot
James Alan McPherson
Crabcakes: A Memoir
Robert Hughes
The Shock of the New, Barcelona, Culture of Complaint:The Fraying of America
Philippe Wamba
Kinship: A Family's Journey In African And America
Charles Johnson
Middle Passage
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
The Disuniting of America: Reflections on a Multicultural Society
Roman Frister
The Cap: The Price of a Life
Josephine Jacobsen
In the Crevice of Time
Galya Diment
Pniniad: Vladimir Nabokov and Marc Szeftel
Craig Joseph Danner
Himalayan Dhaba
Reginald McKnight
He Sleeps
Italo Svevo
Emilio's Carnival (Senilita): Translated by Beth Archer Brombert, Zeno's Conscience: A New Translation by William Weaver
Linda Pastan
Carnival Evening
Dylan Thomas
Collected Poems, The Poems of Dylan Thomas
Pablo Neruda
Passions and Impressions
Leon Forrest
Meteor in the Madhouse
Alberto Manguel
Into The Looking-Glass Wood: Essays on books, reading, and the world
Robert Penn Warren
All The King's Men
Robert Scholes
The Crafty Reader
Rachel Simmons
Odd Girl Out: The Hidden Culture of Aggression in Girls
Lan Samantha Chang
Hunger
Mark Doty
Still Life With Oysters And Lemon
Claire Messud
The Hunters
Will Ferguson
Hokkaido Highway Blues: Hitchhiking Japan
Salman Rushdie
The Ground Beneath Her Feet
Seamus Heaney
Preoccupations: Selected Prose 1968-1978
Carole Maso
Break Every Rule:Essays on Language, Longing, & Moments of Desire
Hazel Rowley
Richard Wright: The Life And Times
Robert Coles
A Robert Coles Omnibus
John Ashbery
Your Name Here (Poems)
Giertrud Schnackenberg
The Throne of Labdacus
Bayo Ogundijo
Yoruba Made Easy, Yoruba in Tables
Patrick Samway, S.J.
Walker Percy: A Life
Karen Wilkin
Ascending Peculiarity: Edward Gorey on Edward Gorey
Joseph Ajayi Fashagba
The First Illustrated Yoruba Dictionary: Two Parts: Yoruba-English: English-Yoruba
John Worthen
The Gang: Coleridge, the Hutchinsons & the Wordsworths in 1802
Patricia Duncker
Monsieur Shoushana's Lemon Trees
Lionel Casson
Libraries in the Ancient World
Richard Holmes
Sidetracks: Explorations of a Romantic Biographer
Mary Ann Caws
Picasso's Weeping Woman: The Life and Art of Dora Maar
Andrew Lambirth
WB Yeats: A Biography with Selected Poems
Nathaniel Tarn with Martin Prechtel
Scandals in the House of Birds: Shamans and Priests on Lake Atitlan
Adrienne Rich
Midnight Salvage
Muhammad Asad
The Road to Mecca
Ivan Klima
No Saints or Angels
Max Frankel
The Times of My Life and My Life with The Times
Cynthia Ozick
Quarrel & Quandary
Czeslaw Milosz
To Begin Where I Am
Paco Ignacio Taibo II
Just Passing Through
Vladimir Nabokov
Pnin
George Steiner
Grammars of Creation
Gao Xingjian
Soul Mountain
Virginia Woolf
A Room of One's Own
Nelson Mandela
Long Walk To Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela
Tsitsi Dangarembga
Nervous Conditions
Chikwenye Okonjo Ogunyemi
Africa Wo/Man Palava: The Nigerian Novel by Women
Anna Akhmatova
The Word That Causes Death's Defeat: Poems of Memory: Translated, with and introductory biography, critical essays, and commentary by Nancy K Anderson
Isidore Okpewho
Call Me By My Rightful Name
Pedro Rosa Mendes
Bay of Tigers: An African Odyssey
Mary McCarthy
The Company She Keeps
Magnus Mills
The Restraint of Beasts
Hanif Kureishi
Midnight All Day
Carl T. Rowan
Dream Makers, Dream Breakers: The World of Justice Thurgood Marshall
Rosario Ferre
A la sombra de tu nombre
Emily Bernard
Remember Me To Harlem: The Letters of Langston Hughes and Carl Van V echten, 1925-1964
Mark Kharitonou
Lines of Fate
Richard Powers
The Time of Our Singing
Carmen L. Oliveira
Rare and Commonplace Flowers: The Story of Elizabeth Bishop and Lota De Macedo Soares
James Campbell
Talking at the Gates: A Life of James Baldwin
Ernesto Mestre
The Lazarus Rumba
Dorothea Tanning
Between Lives: An Artist and Her Word
James Sallis
Chester Himes: A Life
Benilde Little
Acting Out
Curtis Cate
Friedrich Nietzsche
Aphra Behn
Oroonoko and other stories
Asne Seierstad
The Bookseller of Kabul
Charles Baxter, John Kulka, and Natalie Danford
Best New American Voices
Audre Lorde
Zami, Sister Outsider, Undersong
Sue Graham Mingus
Tonight At Noon
Colson Whitehead
The Intuitionist
Jose Manuel Prieto
Nocturnal Butterflies of the Russian Empire
Olympia Vernon
Eden
Christopher P. Baker
Mi Moto Fidel: Motorcycling Through Castro's Cuba
Stephen A. Sadow
King David's Harp: Autobiographical Essays by Jewish Latin American Writers
Dera Dickerson
The End of Blackness
Quincy Troupe
Transcircularities: New + Selected Poems
Gordon Parks
A Hungry Heart, Eyes With Winged Thoughts, No Excuses
Octavia E. Butler
Kindred
Robert Calderisi
The Trouble with Africa
Bob Avakian
From Ike to Mao and beyond: My Journed from Mainstream America to Revolutionary Communist: A Memoir by Bob Avakian
