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1) Friday black
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"An excitement and a wonder: strange, crazed, urgent and funny...The wildly talented Adjei-Brenyah has made these edgy tales immensely charming, via his resolute, heartful, immensely likeable narrators, capable of seeing the world as blessed and cursed at once." -- George Saunders "This book is dark and captivating and essential...A call to arms and a condemnation. Adjei-Brenyah offers powerful prose as parable. The writing in this outstanding collection...
2) Black Buck
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"Darren lives in a Bed-Stuy brownstone with his mother, content working at Starbucks in the lobby of a Midtown office building, hanging out with his girlfriend, Soraya, and eating his mother's home-cooked meals. A chance encounter with Rhett Daniels, CEO of Sumwun, NYC's hottest tech startup, results in an exclusive invitation for Darren to join an elite sales team on the thirty-sixth floor. As the only Black person in the company, Darren reimagines...
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"From the PEN/Faulkner finalist and critically acclaimed author of Hold it 'Til it Hurts comes a dark and socially provocative southern-fried comedy about four liberal UC Berkeley students who stage a mock lynching during a Civil War reenactment--a fierce, funny, tragic work from a bold new writer"--
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2021
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Published to critical acclaim in 1928, The Walls of Jericho is the debut novel of one of the most important voices of the Harlem Renaissance, Rudolph Fisher.
Taking on a friend's challenge to "write [a] novel treating both the upper and lower classes of black Harlem equally," The Walls of Jericho treats readers to a tale of two Harlems. One occupied by the "dickties," well-to-do light skinned or white passing Black folk, and the other filled with...
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Ishmael Reed's parody of slave narrativesthe classical literature of the African American traditionwhich redefined the neo-slave genre and launched a lucrative academic industry Some parodies are as necessary as the books they answer. Such is the case with Flight to Canada, Ishmael Reed's scathing, offbeat response to conventional anti-slavery novels such as Uncle Tom's Cabin. Though Flight to Canada has been classified by some as a post race"...
6) Black Empire
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What would happen if Marcus Garvey had achieved his dreams by force? Satirizing of one of the most influential figures of twentieth century Black America, George S. Schuyler's Black Empire is a remarkable look into the complicated politics of race and class.
After witnessing a murder in Harlem, the promising young Black journalist, Carl Slater, is kidnapped by the incredibly charismatic but deranged Dr. Belsidus. Having secretly formed a Black Internationale,...
7) The Duppy
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Being dead is most definitely an impediment to writing a book, under ordinary circumstances. But the narrator of this novel, Taddeus Augustus Baps, has turned into a duppy-a ghost renowned in Caribbean folklore-and he has a story to tell. At first, he thinks that his new status as a spirit will provide some mischievous fun, but he's in for disappointment. He gets whisked off to heaven-via minibus-where he meets not only God but some other interesting...
8) Uppity
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WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU DEFY WHAT OTHERS THINK ABOUT YOU AND REALLY BECOME A FORCE TO BE RECKONED WITH? Fighting for respect is what Kenya Blades does every day as the Greensboro Sun Times' talented multimedia reporter. Her fighting spirit is the reason why she's one of the best reporters in the city.
But when that same fight triggers a brawl at a media gala, Kenya is transferred to a sister paper that is trying to solve a diversity problem and close...
9) Jesus Boy
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Sixteen-year-old Elwyn Parker is a member of the austere community of Christian believers at the Church of Our Blessed Redeemer Who Walked Upon the Waters, a devout and sincere piano prodigy who learns too late that the saintly girl he has had a crush on all his life is inexplicably pregnant and soon to be wed. Then the beautiful forty-two-year-old widow, Sister Morrisohn, in the midst of the confused emotions of her grieving, ends up in Elwyn's arms.
Despite...
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Alcoholic blood on the cross is an abomination! The renowned teacher is advised not to spend his meagre pension on his coffin; Speaker of Parliament will take care of it. When the paedophile stands up to address the House, he is reminded to stop sleeping with babies. But the politician is torn between the devil and the deep sea whether he is responsible for the predicament of the people or not. The Speaker of Parliament does not want to have anything...
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El retrato de una comunidad caracterizada por la violencia y la brutalidad.
Daniel vuela su cometa en la barriada limeña donde vive. Unos niños mayores se la piden y él la presta. No consiguen volarla; le dicen que es una mierda. Cuando Daniel se la pide de vuelta, ellos le obligan a que la rompa ahí mismo y le dan un puñetazo. Los niños muertos es una novela de iniciación a la crueldad. Sin concesiones, con una precisa escritura de alta velocidad,...
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IL: UG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 9
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Mark Twain's darkly comic short classic set in the antebellum South stands as a literary condemnation of slavery and racial inequality. Each enriched classic edition includes: A concise introduction that gives readers important background information. A chronology of the author's life and work. A timeline of significant events that provides the book's historical context. An outline of key themes and plot points to help readers form their own interpretations....
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Dos novelas cortas, un tema: sociedades en crisis.
Ambientadas en diferentes épocas y espacios, del siglo XIX a la década de 1980, de lo rural a lo urbano, las nouvelles La pasión de Enrique Lynch y Necrofucker plantean una visión humana común y exponen sociedades en crisis donde impera la maldad y las relaciones se articulan a través de la violencia. Con una mirada tan desesperanzadora como la de Céline o McCarthy, Richard Parra plantea...
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America is downtown earth and will not be ignored. Yet the question lingers: the last best hope of earth or the land that Satan blessed? 3 American Cranks takes you on a satirical roller coaster tour of the best and worst of the Land of the Free and the Homeless and, when that breathless ride comes to a sudden stop and you wobble away, you will be primed to give forth an opinion of your own on the matter, if you are not too dizzy.
Three eccentric...
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