African American
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-10-20 | Author:Edwidge Danticat

MALOULOU BY MARIE LILY CERAT Martissant Stay up long enough between midnight and three a.m. any day and you will hear Maloulou. But be careful to never run into her. ...
( Category: International Mystery & Crime March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-11-08 | Author:Patterson, Teresa D. [Patterson, Teresa D.]

Trevor skillfully drove through the traffic on Interstate 275. He got off on the downtown exit, which led directly to the pier. All was quiet. Couples walked slowly along holding ...
( Category: African American March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2009-04-22 | Author:Whitehead, Colson [Whitehead, Colson]

TARGET PRACTICE BEHIND THE PARK was on a Wednesday I can't remember what happened the next day. Something bad probably happened to someone. On Monday we were back at the ...
( Category: African American March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2011-03-01 | Author:Mat Johnson

I didn’t expect to stay the whole night in this Augustus’s hole, huddled for warmth inches away from the site of my labor. I expected Garth to appear in a ...
( Category: Satire March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2007-05-21 | Author:Alex Haley

CHAPTER 71 It was about the noon hour on a sultry day late in August when Aunt Sukey came waddling as fast as she could out to the fiddler among ...
( Category: Revolution & Founding March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2013-06-02 | Author:James Baldwin

NO ONE SEEMS to know where the Nation of Islam gets its money. A vast amount, of course, is contributed by Negroes, but there are rumors to the effect that ...
( Category: Minority Studies March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2001-01-01 | Author:E. Lynn Harris

Don’t It Make My Gray Eyes Blue I guess I shouldn’t be surprised by the way Yancey treated me. After all, I had left her at the altar and beat ...
( Category: Romance March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-06-28 | Author:Zane

Lydia WHEN I left Milena’s, I was floating too much to head home and deal with Glenn’s boring ass. He thought that I’d be at work until that night anyway, ...
( Category: Urban March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2011-02-08 | Author:Teju Cole

TEN I was running across Lagos with my sister. We were doing a marathon, and having to push vagrants and street dogs out of our way. But I have no ...
( Category: Cultural Heritage March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-03-13 | Author:Bernice L. McFadden

Chapter Nineteen When Charlotte Custer knocked on the front door in the fall of 1929, Hemmingway despised her immediately. “Afternoon, ma’am.” It was the parasol Charlotte held over her head. ...
( Category: Ghosts March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-07-05 | Author:Sapphire

BOOK THREE ASCENSION . . . making me dance Inside Your love is king —SADE ADU ONE Whenever I see anyone hauling one of those oversize cheap suitcases on the ...
( Category: Coming of Age March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf | | | Author:Maya Angelou

The next morning my interior decorating met with stony disapproval. The old sofa was wrong for a man in my husband's position and the secondhand-store bedroom set definitely had to ...
( Category: African American Poetry March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-04-21 | Author:Maya Angelou

CHAPTER 21 I took a job as swing-shift waitress in a day-and-night restaurant called the Chicken Shack. The record player blared the latest hits incessantly and the late-night clientele spent ...
( Category: Women March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 1942-01-01 | Author:Zora Neale Hurston; Maya Angelou

In New Orleans, I delved into Hoodoo, or sympathetic magic. I studied with the Frizzly Rooster, and all of the other noted “doctors.” I learned the routines for making and ...
( Category: African American March 25,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-01-10 | Author:Winter, Nikki [Winter, Nikki]

Chapter Seven Something had shifted. What exactly that was, Sansone didn’t know. But he had no shame in taking advantage of it. With Nyssa’s hand enveloped in his own and ...
( Category: African American March 25,2014 )