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Summary: Reprint of a 1946 novel, based upon the true story of Lutie Johnson, a young African-American woman who struggled to live and raise her son ...
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Summary: The novels' greatest appeal and achievement, however, is not sociological, but psychological. As noted in the editor's comprehensive introduction, Larsen takes the theme of ...
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Summary: Fifteen interrelated stories explore different aspects of love, including a dying father's determination to help start a family business--a beauty salon--and the relationship of ...
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Summary: While playing in a crucial basketball game on the very court where his best friend was murdered, Mackey tries to come to terms with ...
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Summary: Eric "Hustle" Samson, a smart and street-wise seventeen-year-old dropout from Harlem, aspires to rap stardom, a dream he naively believes ...
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Summary: Quadriplegic detective Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs find themselves on a cat-and-mouse chase through the streets of uptown Manhattan as they try to outguess ...