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Four years after dropping out of Harlem society, David McKay returns home, devastated by the inexplicable suicide of his sister Lilian-and unnerved to learn that she had married in his absence, and that her husband is now claiming ownership of the family home. And as he becomes immersed in unraveling the mystery of Lilian's secretive behavior, traveling from the wealthy salons of Renaissance Harlem to the crowded... (more)

Bathwater Wine

by Wanda Coleman

Winner of the 1999 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize

The Salt Eaters (Vintage Contemporaries)

The Salt Eaters (Vintage Contemporaries)

by Toni Cade Bambara

Set in Claybourne, a small town somewhere in the South, THE SALT EATERS is the story of a community of black faith healers who, searching for the healing properties of salt, witness an event that will change their lives forever.

I Wish I Had a Red Dress

by Pearl Cleage

Bestselling author Pearl Cleage returns to the site of her Oprah pick novel, What Looks Like Crazy On an Ordinary Day , to affirm life's precious wonder once again. Since Joyce Mitchell was widowed five years ago, she's kept herself mercifully busy by running The Sewing Circus, an all-female group she founded to provide badly needed services to single mothers and other young women at risk. But some nights,... (more)

Sexual Healing: A Novel

by Jill Nelson

Jill Nelson, bestselling author of Volunteer Slavery and Straight, No Chaser , has written a steamy and uproarious debut novel that tells the story of Lydia and Acey, two childhood friends who've grown up to become successful midcareer professionals. But their career success is matched by their romantic and sexual frustrations. One night, dissecting their dissatisfactions over a bottle of wine, they concoct a... (more)

I Left My Back Door Open: A Novel

by April Sinclair

"I am not young, or thin, or white, or beautiful. I'm a slightly thick sista, but I know how to fix myself up. And I'm on the radio. My name is Daphne Dupree, and I play the blues." Author April Sinclair dazzled readers with her award-winning novel Coffee Will Make You Black and its sassy, life-affirming sequel, Ain't Gonna Be the Same Fool Twice. Now she weaves humor and truth into another emotionally rich... (more)

Black Macho and the Myth of the Superwoman (Verso Classsics, 26)

Black Macho and the Myth of the Superwoman (Verso Classsics, 26)

by Michele Wallace

Michle Wallace blasts the masculinist bias of 1960s Black politics, showing how women remained marginalised by the patriarchal culture of Black Power. She describes the ways in which traditional, male-identified myths of Black womanhood block the development of a separate female subjectivity. With the original publication of this book, she aroused protest from intellectual and political leaders touching off a... (more)

Mad at Miles: A Black Woman's Guide to TruthPearl Cleage

Mad at Miles: A Black Woman's Guide to Truth

by Pearl Cleage

The Best Kind of Loving: Black Woman's Guide to Finding Intimacy, A

The Best Kind of Loving: Black Woman's Guide to Finding Intimacy, A

by Gwendolyn Goldsby Grant

It has often been said that "if white America has a case of the sniffles, Black America catches walking pneumonia." When this credo is applied to relationships, common problems such as inadequate communication, commitment fears, financial struggles and infidelity carry an even greater weight. Yet, with hundreds of relationship books on the market, virtually none has explored the specific circumstances impacting... (more)

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Harlem Redux

by Persia Walker

Bathwater Wine

by Wanda Coleman

The Salt Eaters (Vintage Contemporaries)

by Toni Cade Bambara

I Wish I Had a Red Dress

by Pearl Cleage

Sexual Healing: A Novel

by Jill Nelson

I Left My Back Door Open: A Novel

by April Sinclair

Black Macho and the Myth of the Superwoman (Verso Classsics, 26)

by Michele Wallace

Mad at Miles: A Black Woman's Guide to Truth

by Pearl Cleage

The Best Kind of Loving: Black Woman's Guide to Finding Intimacy, A

by Gwendolyn Goldsby Grant