9780743476973 | Reprint edition (Washington Square Pr, March 29, 2005), cover price $21.99 | About this edition: A collection of essays on being a black woman in contemporary America features contributions by such writers as Nikki Giovanni, Paule Marshall, and Alice Walker, in an anthology that addresses such topics as urban living, the myth of the black female matriarchy, and black pride.

9780971921801 | Abridged edition (Symphony Space, March 1, 2004), cover price $28.00

9780679442615 | Pantheon Books, October 1, 1999, cover price $27.50 | About this edition: Presents a fictionalized account of one family's nightmare as they learn their child is a victim of Atlanta serial killer Wayne Williams

9780704346550 | Womens Pr Ltd, October 1, 2001, cover price $7.99 | About this edition: In the early 1980s more than forty black children were murdered in Atlanta, their bodies found strangled, beaten and sexually assaulted.

9780679774082 | Vintage Books, October 1, 2000, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: Presents a fictionalized account of one family's nightmare as they learn their child is a victim of Atlanta serial killer Wayne Williams.

9780679442509 | 1 edition (Pantheon Books, November 1, 1996), cover price $23.00 | About this edition: Collects writings by the late African American author

9780679774075 | Vintage Books, January 26, 1999, cover price $19.00 | About this edition: Collects writings by the late African American author

9780679740766 | Reissue edition (Vintage Books, July 1, 1992), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: As she sits in an infirmary and is questioned by a faith healer, Velma Henry probes her reasons for attempting to commit suicide, and the healing that takes place affects the lives of her town's Black inhabitants

9780679738985 | Reissue edition (Vintage Books, July 1, 1992), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Fifteen short stories record the author's ideas about the challenge and complexity of contemporary life

9780886823511 | Creative Co, June 1, 1990, cover price $21.35 | About this edition: A story about Squeaky, the fastest thing on two feet, and her brother Raymond.

9780807234754 | Listening Library, June 1, 1988, cover price $18.00

9780394711768 | Vintage Books, September 1, 1982, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Ten stories of the Black experience tell of a timid community worker, a troubled political organizer, passengers on a refugee ship, and others

9780943810041 | Southern Exposure Pr, June 1, 1975, cover price $2.50

9780385065986 | Doubleday, June 1, 1971, cover price $2.50