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The Snowy Day
The Snowy Day

by Ezra Jack Keats, Marilyn Sanabria

Una manana de invierno Peter se desperto y miro por la ventana.

1962 66 ed.
Giovanni's Room
Giovanni's Room

by James Baldwin

I stand at the window of this great house in the south of France as night falls, the night which is leading me to the mo...

1956 65 ed.
Black Boy
Black Boy

by Richard Wright

One winter morning in the long-ago, four-year-old days of my life I found myself standing before a fireplace, warming my...

1945 64 ed.
Along Came a Spider
Along Came a Spider

by James Patterson

EARLY ON THE MORNING of December 21, 1992, I was the picture of contentment on the sun porch of our house on 5th Street ...

1993 65 ed.
The Bluest Eye
The Bluest Eye

by Toni Morrison

Here is the House.

1970 63 ed.
Roots
Roots

by Alex Haley

Early in the spring of 1750, in the village of Juffure, four days upriver from the coast of The Gambia, West Africa, a m...

1861 63 ed.
Invisible Man
Invisible Man

by Ralph Ellison

It goes a long way back, some twenty years.

1952 59 ed.
Cry, the Beloved Country
Cry, the Beloved Country

by Alan Paton

IT IS SOME eleven years since the first Author's Note was written.

1940 58 ed.
Tropic of Capricorn
Tropic of Capricorn

by Henry Miller

Once you have given up the ghost, everything follows with dead certainty, even in the midst of chaos.

1939 69 ed.
Americanah
Americanah

by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

1969 56 ed.
Jack & Jill
Jack & Jill

by James Patterson

SAM HARRISON swung his agile body out of the silver blue Ford Aerostar, which he had parked on Q Street in the Georgetow...

1714 56 ed.
Sula
Sula

by Toni Morrison

In that place, where they tore the nightshade and blackberry patches from their roots to make room for the Medallion Cit...

1973 55 ed.
The Big Bad Wolf
The Big Bad Wolf

by James Patterson

THE PHIPPS PLAZA shopping mall in Atlanta was a showy montage of pink-granite floors, sweeping bronze-trimmed staircases...

2001 56 ed.
Dreams from My Father
Dreams from My Father

by Barack Obama

A few months after my twenty-first birthday, a stranger called to give me the news.

1995 54 ed.
The fire next time
The fire next time

by James Baldwin

I HAVE BEGUN this letter five times and torn it up five times.

1962 53 ed.
Roses Are Red
Roses Are Red

by James Patterson

BRIANNE PARKER didn't look like a bank robber or a murderer - her pleasantly plump baby face fooled everyone.

1752 54 ed.
Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters
Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters

by John Steptoe, Joe Steptoe

A LONG TIME AGO, in a certain place in Africa, a small village lay across a river and half a day's journey from a city w...

1985 17 ed.
Peau Noire, Masques Blancs
Peau Noire, Masques Blancs

by Frantz Fanon, Richard Philcox

I ascribe a basic importance to the phenomenon of language.

1952 52 ed.