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The stunning national bestseller now features an illuminating discussion with Sister Souljah -- her secret thoughts on creating the story that has sold more than one million copies worldwide and introduced readers everywhere to the real ghetto experience. Here are answers to the questions fans everywhere have been asking; the meanings and inspirations behind such memorable characters as Winter, Midnight, and... (more)

Bloodline

by Sidney Sheldon

The daughter of one of the world's richest men inherits her father's company and faces a plot to destroy the company. 2 cassettes.

Waiting to Exhale

by Terry McMillan

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author comes the contemporary classic of women, triumph, revenge, and comradeship in a special new trade edition. McMillan's tale of four thirty-something women supporting each other through thick and thin-and through the frustrating search for a good man-has already sold millions. Now even more can experience this smash hit in a beautiful new trade edition.

Way Past Cool: A Novel

by Jess Mowry

Gordon, age thirteen, is the leader of the Friends, a gang of young black boys who struggle to hold a few blocks of bleak, ragged turf in Oakland--known to the homeboys as Oaktown--California. When a more powerful sixteen-year-old drug dealer tries to set the Friends against their neighboring rival gang, the Crew, the dealer's unwilling bodyguard emerges as the key player in a drama that illuminates America's... (more)

How Stella Got Her Groove Back

by Terry McMillan

Capable Stella Payne does everything from financial analysis to folding the laundry and looking after her 11-year-old son. She has little time for romance until she takes a holiday to Jamaica and meets an alluring man. She is then forced to confront all her hopes and fears about life and love.

Mule Bone: A Comedy of Negro Life in Three Acts

Mule Bone: A Comedy of Negro Life in Three Acts

by Zora Hurston, Langston Hughes

Mule Bone is the only collaboration between Zora Neale Hurston and Langston Hughes, two stars of the Harlem Renaissance, and it holds an unparalleled place in the annals of African-American theater. Set in Eatonville, Florida--Hurston's hometown and the inspiration for much of her fiction--this energetic and often farcical play centers on Jim and Dave, a two-man song-and-dance team, and Daisy, the woman who comes... (more)

Robert Langdon: Book 2

The Da Vinci Code

by Dan Brown

An ingenious code hidden in the works of Leonardo da Vinci. A desperate race through the cathedrals and castles of Europe. An astonishing truth concealed for centuries . . . unveiled at last. As millions of readers around the globe have already discovered, The Da Vinci Code is a reading experience unlike any other. Simultaneously lightning-paced, intelligent, and intricately layered with remarkable... (more)

Native Son / Black Boy

by Richard Wright, Richard Bucci

Right from the start, Bigger Thomas had been headed for jail. It could have been for assault or petty larceny; by chance, it was for murder and rape. Native Son tells the story of this young black man caught in a downward spiral after he kills a young white woman in a brief moment of panic. Set in Chicago in the 1930s, Wright's powerful novel is an unsparing reflection on the poverty and feelings of hopelessness... (more)

Jazz

by Celeste Bullock, Toni Morrison

Set in Harlem in the 1920s, this novel chronicles a bittersweet triangle involving a middle-aged door-to-door salesman, his mentally unstable wife, and his eighteen-year-old girlfriend. By the author of Beloved. Reprint. 150,000 first printing. K. PW.

A Lesson Before Dying

by Ernest J. Gaines

From the author of A Gathering of Old Men and The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman comes a deep and compassionate novel. A young man who returns to 1940s Cajun country to teach visits a black youth on death row for a crime he didn't commit. Together they come to understand the heroism of resisting.

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The Coldest Winter Ever

by Souljah

Bloodline

by Sidney Sheldon

Waiting to Exhale

by Terry McMillan

Way Past Cool: A Novel

by Jess Mowry

How Stella Got Her Groove Back

by Terry McMillan

Mule Bone: A Comedy of Negro Life in Three Acts

by Zora Hurston, Langston Hughes

The Da Vinci Code

by Dan Brown

Native Son / Black Boy

by Richard Wright, Richard Bucci

Jazz

by Celeste Bullock, Toni Morrison

A Lesson Before Dying

by Ernest J. Gaines