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"The haunting coming-of-age story that has become a major American classic, now in an Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics hardcover edition. Originally published in 1953, Go Tell It on the Mountain was James Baldwi...
From visionary filmmaker Spike Lee comes the incredible true story of an American hero. It's the early 1970s, and Ron Stallworth (John David Washington) is the first African-American detective to serve in the Colorado Sp...
From visionary filmmaker Spike Lee comes the incredible true story of an American hero. It's the early 1970s, and Ron Stallworth (John David Washington) is the first African-American detective to serve in the Colorado Sp...
The Granger brothers left behind their family's Virginia estate--and the bad memories it holds--years ago, but their dying grandfather's request brings them home: to a failing business, a legacy of secrets and a deathbed...
Easy is out of the investigation business and as far away from crime as a black man can be in 1960s Los Angeles. But when a friend asks him to check on her son who has joined a gang, Easy quickly finds himself caught in ...
When Zella Grisham is accused of both shooting her boyfriend and stealing more than six million dollars from the Rutgers Assurance Corporation, Leonid McGill investigates, while his own family life begins to unravel arou...
Set in a small Mississippi town in the late 1950s, Mother of Pearl tells the story of twenty-eight-year-old Even Grade, a black man who grew up an orphan, and Valuable Korner, a fifteen-year-old white girl who is the dau...
When the men in their lives prove less than reliable, Savannah, Bernadine, Gloria, and Robin find new strength through a rare and enlightening friendship as they struggle to regain stability and an identity they don't ha...
"Bestselling author Walter Mosley has proven himself a master of narrative tension, both with his extraordinary fiction and gripping writing for television. The Awkward Black Man collects seventeen of Mosley's most accom...
Two men are on the run. Freed slave Honey Boutrille has saved a prostitute's life by shooting her white would-be killer. In California, "Twice" Emmerson is on a bloody crime spree. Two men - a writer and a carnival showm...
Want to meet Luther, President Obama's anger translator, or hang by the punch bowl with Bar Mitzvah sensations Dr. Dreidel and Gefilte Fresh? Whether it's satirizing the President, spoofing Nazis, or ordering up some sou...
Tish and Fonny have pledged to get married, but Fonny is falsely accused of a terrible crime and imprisoned. Their families set out to clear his name, and as they face an uncerain future, the young lovers experience a ka...
After being approached by a shell-shocked Vietnam War veteran who claims to have gotten into a fight protecting a white woman from a black man, Easy embarks on an investigation that takes him from mountaintops to the des...
At a fifteen year reunion over the Christmas holidays, a group of college friends soon discover how simple it is for old rivalries and romances to resurface.
The year is 1948, the town is Los Angeles. Easy Rawlins, a black war veteran, has just been fired from his job at a defense factory plant. Drinking in his friend's bar, he's wondering how he'll manage to make ends meet, ...
When a young local golfer returns broken from war, a fateful visit from a mysterious stranger turns his life around.