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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

by Mark Twain

Few books capture both the simplicity and complexities of American life quite like these enduring "boyhood" classics by Mark Twain. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Take a lighthearted, nostalgic trip to a simpler time, seen through the eyes of a special boy named Tom Sawyer. It is a summertime world of hooky and adventure, pranks and punishment, villains and young love. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn ... (more)

Passion and Purity,: Learning to Bring Your Love Life Under Christs Control

Passion and Purity,: Learning to Bring Your Love Life Under Christs Control

by Elisabeth Elliot

Very few books on dating have stood the test of time like Passion and Purity. Its much-needed message remains strong and hopeful in an age when doing whatever "feels right" is common practice. Using her own life as an example, Elisabeth Elliot guides singles of both genders and of any age on how to put their love lives under the authority of Jesus Christ. Passion and Purity covers dating issues such as: €how to... (more)

One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd: A Novel

One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd: A Novel

by Jim Fergus

One Thousand White Women is the story of May Dodd and a colorful assembly of pioneer women who, under the auspices of the U.S. government, travel to the western prairies in 1875 to intermarry among the Cheyenne Indians. The covert and controversial "Brides for Indians" program, launched by the administration of Ulysses S. Grant, is intended to help assimilate the Indians into the white man's world. Toward that... (more)

Flesh and the Devil

by Kola Boof

By turns...erotic...melodramatic...violent...and (sniff) "LITERARY"...Kola Boof's 1995 Arabic novel finally arrives in the hands of the people she wrote it for...the Black Americans...thanks to Egyptian poet/activist Said Musa's winning translation. Billed by the publisher as: "essentially the story of the Black Americans"...the novel unfolds like an tempestuous, languid snake dance, both in Africa and the... (more)

Flyy Girl

by Omar Tyree

The bestselling urban classic novel about a young woman coming of age in the late 1980s. Tracy Ellison, a young knockout with tall hair and attitude, is living life as fast as she can. Motivated by the material world, she and her friends love and leave the young men who will do anything to get next to them. It's only when the world of gratuitous sex threatens heartbreak that Tracy begins to examine her life,... (more)

Island Songs

by Alex Wheatle

beautiful evocation of twentieth-century Jamaica, its history and traditions, and equivocal status as an overlooked outpost of the dwindling British Empire, Island Songs is an epic of love, diaspora, and sorely tested family loyalties. Many stories are told, but many more secrets are never revealed. 'She wondered what kind of world she had brought her two daughters into -- the tedious cycle of rural Jamaican... (more)

The Blackman's Guide to Understanding the Blackwoman

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