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  Giovanni's Room

  by James Baldwin

  Set in the 1950s Paris of American expatriates, liaisons, and violence, a young man finds himself caught between desire and conventional morality. With a sharp, probing imagination, James Baldwin's now-classic narrative delves into the mystery of loving and creates a moving, highly controversial story of death and passion that reveals the unspoken complexities of the human heart.
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  Go Tell It on the Mountain

  by James Baldwin

  James Baldwin's portrayal of black people in Harlem caught up in a dramatic struggle, and of a society confronting inevitable change.
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  Notes of a Native Son

  by James Baldwin

  Originally published in 1955, James Baldwin's first nonfiction book has become a classic. These searing essays on life in Harlem, the protest novel, movies, and Americans abroad remain as powerful today as when they were written. "He named for me the things you feel but couldn't utter. . . . Jimmy's essays articulated for the first time to white America what it meant to be American and a black American at the... (more)
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  Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone

  by James Baldwin

  At the height of his theatrical career, the actor Leo Proudhammer is nearly felled by a heart attack. As he hovers between life and death, Baldwin shows the choices that have made him enviably famous and terrifyingly vulnerable. For between Leo's childhood on the streets of Harlem and his arrival into the intoxicating world of the theater lies a wilderness of desire and loss, shame and rage. An adored... (more)
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  The Unusual Suspect

  My Calling to the New Hardcore Movement of Faith

  by Stephen Baldwin

  Stephen Baldwin explains why he compares his new life of faith to jumping out of an airplane without a parachute, and calls on you to take the plunge. When Stephen Baldwin was riding the wave of fame from his most successful movie, The Usual Suspects, he thought he was in his glory. Hot in Hollywood--whatever Stephen wanted, Stephen got. Years later, happily married and living his life far from Hollywood,... (more)
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  The Bay Lady

  by Marlene 'Brandy' Baldwin

  The fact of the matter was, the past two years, I never solicited girls; they solicited me…Raised in Boise, Idaho, she was one of San Francisco’s best-known brothel keepers. Now inside a convent, veteran Madam Marlene ‘Brandy’ Baldwin transforms her life with the help of the Sisters of the Good Shepherd and shares her story to the world in The Bay Lady.In this stirring autobiography, Baldwin... (more)
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  The Fire Next Time

  by James Baldwin

  A national bestseller when it first appeared in 1963, The Fire Next Time galvanized the nation and gave passionate voice to the emerging civil rights movement. At once a powerful evocation of James Baldwin's early life in Harlem and a disturbing examination of the consequences of racial injustice, the book is an intensely personal and provocative document. It consists of two "letters," written on the occasion of... (more)
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  Going to Meet the Man

  Stories

  by James Baldwin

  "There's no way not to suffer. But you try all kinds of ways to keep from drowning in it." The men and women in these eight short fictions grasp this truth on an elemental level, and their stories, as told by James Baldwin, detail the ingenious and often desperate ways in which they try to keep their head above water. It may be the heroin that a down-and-out jazz pianist uses to face the terror of pouring his life... (more)
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  Just Above My Head

  by James Baldwin

  The stark grief of a brother mourning a brother opens this novel with a stunning, unforgettable experience.  Here, in a monumental saga of love and rage, Baldwin goes back to Harlem, to the church of his groundbreaking novel Go Tell It on the Mountain , to the homosexual passion of Giovanni's Room , and to the political fire that enflames his nonfiction work.  Here, too, the story of gospel singer Arthur Hall... (more)
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  Nobody Knows My Name

  More Notes of a Native Son, Essays

  by James Baldwin

  Told with Baldwin's characteristically unflinching honesty, this collection of illuminating, deeply felt essays examines topics ranging from race relations in the United States to the role of the writer in society, and offers personal accounts of Richard Wright, Norman Mailer and other writers.
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  The American Short Story -- A Treasury of the Memorable and Familiar

  by Thomas K. (Edited by) Parkes

  A collection of short stories by American authors from Wahington Irving to Saul Bellow.
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  Blues for Mister Charlie: A Play

  by James Baldwin

  From the murder that marks its opening scene to the scathing dialogue that transforms racism in America from an abstraction to a palpable emotion that grips the heart, this award-winning play touches us all with its rare humanity and with its piercing vision of our nation, our times, and ourselves.
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  Tell Me How Long the Trains Been Gone

  by James Baldwin

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  Sonny's Blues

  by James Baldwin, George Kirby

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  If Beale Street Could Talk

  by James Baldwin