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  Moby-Dick

  by Herman Melville

  From Library JournalIn a sense, this work is the piece de resistance of the textual revolution in American scholarship of the past generation. The first half is the final MLA "Approved Text" of the classic novel, prepared under the auspices of the Center for Editions of American Authors. The second half consists of an Historical Note detailing background, genetic composition, publication,... (more)
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  Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down

  by Ishmael Reed

  "Folks. This here is the story of the Loop Garoo Kid. A cowboy so bad he made a working posse of spells phone in sick. A bullwhacker so unfeeling he left the print of winged mice on hides of crawling women. A desperado so onery he made the Pope cry and the most powerful of cattlemen shed his head to the Executioner's swine." And so begins the HooDoo Western by Ishmael Reed, author of MUMBO JUMBO and one of... (more)
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  Japanese by Spring

  by Ishmael Reed

  Chappie: Puttbutt, an African-American professor at the overwhelmingly white Jack London University, suddenly finds himself the academic dean of the school and, drunk with power, sets out to even old scores. Reprint.
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  The Terrible Twos

  by Ishmael Reed

  The Terrible Twos is a wickedly funny, sharp-edged fictional assault on all those sulky, spoiled naysayers needing instant gratification--Americans. Ishmael Reed's sixth novel depicts a zany, bizarre, and all-too-believable future where mankind's fate depends upon a jolly old gent named St. Nicholas and a Risto-rasta dwarf named Black Peter, who together wreak mischievous havoc on Wall Street and in the Oval... (more)
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  The Last Days of Louisiana Red

  by Ishmael Reed

  When Papa LaBas (private eye, noonday HooDoo, and hero of Reed's MUMBO JUMBO) comes to Berkeley, California, to investigate the mysterious death of Ed Yellings, owner of the Solid Gumbo Works, he finds himself fighting the rising tide of violence propogated by Louisiana Red and those militant opportunists, the Moochers. A HooDoo detective story and a comprehensive satire on the explosive politics of the... (more)
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  Shrovetide in old New Orleans

  by Ishmael Reed

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  Dark Sons (Coretta Scott King Author Honor Books)

  by Nikki Grimes

  Sam can't believe it when his father leaves the family to marry another woman--and a white woman, at that. The betrayal cuts deep--Sam had been so close to his dad, he idolized him. Now who can he turn to, who can he trust? Even God seems to have ditched him. Ishmael is his father's first son, the heir, his favorite. But when his father is visited by mysterious strangers who claim that Abraham's wife, Sarah,... (more)
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  Hagar : A Novel

  by Lois T. Henderson

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  Abraham, the Dreamer: An Erotic and Sacred Love Story

  by Rolf Gompertz

  Abraham and Sarah set off to serve a new God in a new land, with an unspeakable family secret in their heart and a marriage in serious trouble. Childless, Sarah offers Hagar, her slave, to Abraham. Hagar not only gives Abraham a son, Ishmael, but also offers him a passionate, fulfilling love that he had never known with Sarah. When Sarah, unexpectedly, gives birth to Isaac, she drives Hagar and Ishmael away,... (more)
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  Hagar: God's Beloved Stranger

  by Hester Thomsen

  "My eyes are fountains of tears. My feet sink in quicksand." In Pharaoh's harem Hagar had little status and few friends--other than Baufra, the gardener. Little she knew that her future was bound up with a wealthy merchant from a distant land, who worshiped a strange god that he could not see. When famine brought Abram to the Two-Lands, Pharaoh took his beautiful sister, Sarai, as his intended... (more)
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  Terrible Threes

  by Ishmael Reed

  In The Terrible Threes, Ishmael Reed proves that he is one of the most innovative voices in contemporary literature. This adventure into the world of offbeat humor and on-target social criticism is a vision of America in the not-too-distant future, a portrait of a fairy-tale gone awry. This novel begins where The Terrible Twos left off, in the late 1990s, three years after President and former fashion model Dean... (more)