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Penquin, 1999. Book. Trade Paperback. A critique of American food programs for the poor and how they effect hunger in America.Trade paperback, top of cover bent but otherwise FINE COPY, FIRST EDITION, REVIEW COPY with publisher slip laid in..
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SWEET CHARITY? Emergency Food and the End Of Entitlement
by Poppendieck, Janet
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THE ONLY BOY FOR ME
by McNeil, Gil
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Bloomsbury, 2002. First novel covering comtemporary life of a talented women with demands of complicated job and various family members. UNCORRECTED PROOF, plain paperback, upper right corner of cover is bent but 0/W Fine condition.. Book.
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Three Black Chicks Review Flicks
by Diva and Bams and Cass and R. Cooper and C. Henry and K. L. Ulbricht
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Amistad, HarperCollins, 2002. A book of exciting film reviews by three African American women who met on the internet and decided they had the knowledge and expertise to provide reviews for all kinds of films and that they would use a breezy writing style and some modern vernacular in their language. This is a large square paperback. The cover has a slight crease but this is FINE COPY.. First Edition. Illus. by Shubhani Sarkar. Book.
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Secondhand Smoke
by Olson, Karen E.
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Mysterious Press, 2006. Book. Trade Paperback. Second in Annie Seymour Series. Journalist, Annie, investigates a murder in her neighborhood. FIRST PRINTING, NEAR FINE, ADVANCE READING COPY..
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The Bishop and The Beggar Girl Of St. Germain
by Greely, Andrew M.
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Doherty, 2001. Book. Trade Paperback. The Mystery series of Priest/Dectective, Auxiliary Bishop Blackie Ryan, UNCORRECTED PROOF, FIRST PRINTING, some normal wear but VERY GOOD COPY..
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ON NEW GROUND: Contemporary Hispanic American Plays
by Osborn, M. Elizabeth ( Editor) and Alvarez, Lynn and Machado, Eduardo and Rivera, Jose and Jesuron, John and
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Theatre Communications, 1989. Collection of plays by Hispanic American playwrites, also includes Milcha Sanchez-Scott and Maria Irene Fornes. NEAR FINE COPY, SECOND PRINTING.. Trade Paperback. Book.
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All the Finest Girls
by Styron, Alexandra
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Little, Brown and Company, 2001. First novel dealing with a woman's struggles with marriage, child-rearing and her past. First Edition, UNCORRECTED PROOF, softcover, very good copy.. Book.
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Linden Hills
by Naylor, Gloria
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Ticknor & Fields, 1985. Naylor's second novel, a personal story of the Black southern middle classes and social forces that began to threaten them. FIRST EDITON, FINE COPY.. Book.
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Anointing of the Sick and the Elderly: A Pastoral Guide for Home and Church
by Roccapriore, Sister Marie
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Alba Books, 1980. Book. Manual for the administration and reception of the Sacrament of Anointing, also brief history of the Sacrament, illustrated with photos. Paperback, FINE COPY, INSCRIBED by Sister Marie on half title page..
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Life Lessons My Mother Taught Me
by Young, Andrea
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Penquin, 2000. The author writes of her upbringing in the South by her extraordinary mother who was also the wife of Andrew Young. Highlights Black Civil Rights era, focus on Black family values, home, family..FINE COPY, FIRST EDITION, ADVANCED READING COPY, glossy pictorial covers, trade paperback style.. Trade Paperback. Book.
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CHEET
by Davis, Anna
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Plume, 2003. First American debut of this British writer in a fast paced love story. UNCORRECTED PROOF with plain, tan covers although it states "advance reading copy", VERY GOOD + COPY.. Original Wraps. Book.
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WILSON'S GHOST: Reducing the Risk Of Conflict, Killing And Catastrophe In the 21st Century
by McNamara, Robert S. And Blight, James G.
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Public Affairs, 2001. President Woodrow Wilson's international political dilemmas during and after World War One particularly trying to avoid more wars. FIRST PRINTING, ADVANCE READING COPY, FINE COPY.. Trade Paperback. Book.
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DEEP BLUE HOME: An Intimate Ecology Of Our Wild Ocean
by Whitty, Julia
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Houghton, Mifflin, 2010. Book. Trade Paperback. Award winning writer and documentary filmmaker writes of her exploration of the ocean and the creatures dependant on it, also connections to climate control and fate of humans. VERY GOOD COPY, ADVANCE READING COPY, FIRST PRINTING..
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The Hampton Album
by Johnston, Frances B.
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Museum OF Modern Art, 1966. Forty four photographys by Johnston from an album of Hampton Institute with an introduction by Lincoln Kirstein. VERY GOOD COPY.. Trade Paperback. Book.
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KIDNAPPED And Who Killed the Red Fox
by Stevenson, Robert Louis and Hersey, Frank
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Ginn and Company, 1938. Book. Hardcover. Stevenson's classic along with Hersey's Red Fox, VERY GOOD COPY, cover shows wear and has bumping to edges, some pages show wear still very good, no markings in text..
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Lennon Revealed
by Kane, Larry
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Running Press, 2005. FIRST PRINTING, ADVANCE READING COPY, VERY GOOD COPY. Kane is a former reporter who traveled with the Beatles in 1964, here uses new interviews and in revelations on Lennon's life.. Book.
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Blue Taxis: Stories about Africa
by Eileen Drew
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Minneapolis, MN, USA: Milkweed Editions, 1993. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. R. W. Scholes. Trade Paperback in Very Good Condition. Foreword by Rosellen Brown. Designed and illustrated by R. W. Scholes. Clean and unmarked pictorial wrappers with light wear to front corners and fore edge of front cover, Soundly bound, square. Internals quite clean and free from any markings of creasing. Debut book by Eileen Drew, a Californian who was born in Morocco to a Foreign Service family and has lived in several African countries. Her stories draw power from her careful observations and the intelligence of her insights about a country she loves. She describes the savannahs, a pigmy village, the jungles beautifully and lyrically. She understands the complexities of two vastly different cultures and why there is so much enmity between them. There are nine short stories, that read like a novel, painting a distinctive portrait of Africa. 155 pages. 6 x 9 inches. Milkweed…
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Waiting for the Barbarians: A Novel
by COETZEE, J. M
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U.S.A: Penguin Books, 1982. Paperback. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Trade Paperback in Good+ Condition. By the Booker-Prizewinning author of "Disgrace" and Winner of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature. Cover is clean with light wear to edges and corners. Pages are clean with pencil-underlined text and a few notes in the margins in pencil. Tight glued binding. This novel is an allegory of the war between oppressor and oppressed, set in a foreign settlement of the Empire. The Magistrate is living through a crisis in conscience in an obscure place in a remote time, but his situation is that of all men living in unbearable complicity with regimes that ignore justice and decency. 156 pages. 5 x 7.75 inches. Penguin Books, New York, 1982.
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Beyond the Boundaries: African Literature and Literary Theory
by Schipper, Mineke
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London, England: Allison & Busby/W. H. Allen & Co, 1989. Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. First Printing, published simultaneously with Hardcover edition. Trade Paperback in Very Good Condition. Just of touch of wear to cover edges, otherwise clean, unmarked, tight and square binding, internals clean and free from any markings, no creases. The author makes a powerful case for African literature, as an object of scholarly research as well as a moral force in contemporary Africa (paraphrase from a statement of Biodun Jeyifo, Professor of English, Cornell University). For centuries it has been taken for granted that Western literature stands at the center of the world's culture.But this Eurocentric tradition, which has relegated the literature of people's beyond the bounds of the West to a lesser status, is increasingly being recognized as a narrow-minded and distorted perspective. Schipper explores beyond cultural boundaries, to help gain insight…
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A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You
by Bloom, Amy
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Vintage, 2000. Book. Second book of short stories by Bloom and a finalist for National Book Critics Circle Award. Stories, mostly of families and relationships. SIGNED by Bloom, FIRST PRINTING, VERY GOOD COPY of this Vintage Trade Paperback edition..
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