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Soulcatcher: And Other Stories

Product Description: Twelve stories about the African experience of slavery in America, by the National Book Award-winning novelist.Nothing has had as profound an effect on American life as slavery. For blacks and whites alike, the experience has left us with a conflicted and contradictory history...read more

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9780156011129 | Reprint edition (Mariner Books, March 1, 2001), cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Short stories reflect on the African experience of slavery in America and slavery's profound impact on American life, from the colonial period to Emancipation.

Prebinding:

9781435295438 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, June 5, 2008), cover price $21.00 | About this edition: Twelve stories about the African experience of slavery in America, by the National Book Award-winning novelist.

Dr. King's Refrigerator: And Other Bedtime Stories

A new collection of short works by the National Book Award-winning author of Middle Passage features themes of identity and race and includes the O. Henry Prize-winning 'Kwoon,' in which a Chicago martial arts teacher undertakes a spiritual journey, and 'Sweet Dreams,' in which a man from a dream-taxing world undergoes an audit. 15,000 first printing.

By Charles Richard Johnson

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Hardcover:

9780743264532 | Scribner, February 1, 2005, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: A collection of short works features themes of identity and race and includes 'Kwoon,' in which a Chicago martial arts teacher undertakes a spiritual journey, and 'Sweet Dreams,' in which a man from a dream-taxing world undergoes an audit.

Oxherding Tale: with and introduction by the author

A re-release of a tale by the Academy Award in Literature-winning writer finds unexpected consequences taking place when an antebellum Southern slave owner and his African-American butler stay up late and get drunk to the point that they switch places in each other's beds. By the author of Middle Passage. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.

By Charles Richard Johnson

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9780743264495 | Reprint edition (Scribner, February 1, 2005), cover price $14.99 | About this edition: A re-release of a tale by the Academy Award in Literature-winning writer finds unexpected consequences taking place when an antebellum Southern slave owner and his African-American butler stay up late and get drunk to the point that they switch places in each other's beds.

Passing The Three Gates: Interviews With Charles Johnson

By Charles Richard Johnson and Jim McWilliams (editor)

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Hardcover:

9780295984384 | Univ of Washington Pr, November 30, 2004, cover price $50.00

Paperback:

9780295984391 | Univ of Washington Pr, November 30, 2004, cover price $25.00

King: The Photobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.

Photographs and text portray the life of civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. and the American civil rights movement.

By Bob Adelman and Charles Richard Johnson

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Hardcover:

9780670892167 | Viking Pr, November 1, 2000, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: A photographic survey of Martin Luther King, Jr.

Paperback:

9780810991828 | Harry N Abrams Inc, November 30, 2004, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Photographs and text portray the life of civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr.

Turning the Wheel: Essays on Buddhism and Writing

Inspirational and thematically linked essays explore W.E.B. DuBois's 1926 question to African Americans about what they really wanted if race was not an issue, in a collection that introduces basic Buddhist practices and how they can be guides for the promotion of civil rights. 25,000 first printing.

By Charles Richard Johnson

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9780743243247 | Scribner, May 1, 2003, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: Inspirational and thematically linked essays explore W.

Faith and the Good Thing

Readers follow Faith Cross's journey from her mother's Baptist funeral, to a life of prostitution, and later to a loveless marriage in Chicago, as she searches for what her mother called 'the Good Thing,' in a new edition of Johnson's acclaimed first novel, first published in 1974.

By Charles Richard Johnson

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Hardcover:

9780743212502 | Scribner, January 1, 2001, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: Readers follow Faith Cross's journey from her mother's Baptist funeral, to a life of prostitution, and later to a loveless marriage in Chicago, as she searches for what her mother called 'the Good Thing,' in a new edition of Johnson's acclaimed first novel, first published in 1974.

Paperback:

9780743212540 | Free Pr, January 10, 2001, cover price $15.99

9780452266902 | Reprint edition (Plume, October 1, 1991), cover price $8.95

Africans in America: America's Journey Through Slavery

A fascinating chronicle of slavery's history in the United States from Jamestown to the Civil War's beginning, told from the viewpoint of Africans, explores the complex relationship between blacks and whites that evolved and that still affects American society. Reprint. 60,000 first printing.

By Charles Richard Johnson, Patricia Smith and Wgbh Series Research Team (corporate author)

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Hardcover:

9780151003396 | 1 edition (Houghton Mifflin, October 1, 1998), cover price $30.00 | About this edition: Chronicles the lives of Africans as slaves in America through the eve of the Civil War

Paperback:

9780156008549 | Mariner Books, November 11, 1999, cover price $38.95 | About this edition: Chronicles the lives of Africans as slaves in America through the eve of the Civil War

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9781559275385 | Macmillan Audio, February 1, 1999, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Chronicles the lives of Africans as slaves in America through the eve of the Civil War.

I Call Myself an Artist: Writings by and About Charles Johnson

Product Description: Charles Johnson is one of the most talented artists currently working in America. All of his novels have been widely praised and read. Middle Passage won the National Book Award and established Johnson in the tradition of Ralph Ellison, one of his idols...read more

By Rudolph P. Byrd (editor) and Charles Richard Johnson (editor)

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Hardcover:

9780253335418 | Indiana Univ Pr, April 1, 1999, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Charles Johnson is one of the most talented artists currently working in America.

Dreamer

A fictional exploration of the life of Dr. Martin Luther King, jr., follows Matthew Bishop, a devoted follower of the civil rights leader, as he trains Chaym Smith, whose startling resemblance to King earns him the job of official stand-in

By Charles Richard Johnson

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9780684854434 | Scribner, February 1, 1999, cover price $15.99 | About this edition: A fictional exploration of the life of Dr.

9780060972141, titled "Who Wrote the Bible?" | Reprint edition (Harpercollins), cover price $13.50 | also contains Who Wrote the Bible?

Middle Passage

In 1830, seeking to escape an unwanted marriage, Rutherford Calhoun, a newly freed slave, becomes a stowaway aboard 'The Republic,' unaware that the ship is a slave clipper bound for West Africa

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Hardcover:

9780689119682 | Atheneum, June 1, 1990, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: In 1830, seeking to escape an unwanted marriage, Rutherford Calhoun, a newly freed slave, becomes a stowaway aboard 'The Republic,' unaware that the ship is a slave clipper bound for West Africa

Paperback:

9780684855882 | Scribner, July 1, 1998, cover price $15.00

9780452266384 | Reprint edition (Plume, July 1, 1991), cover price $11.95 | About this edition: A stowaway aboard the slave ship 'Republic' during its journey from the Americas to West Africa in 1830, freed slave Rutherford Calhoun is intent on escaping his debts and an unwanted marriage

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9780453007566 | Highbridge Co, June 1, 1991, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: A twenty-fifth anniversary edition of Charles JohnsonÃ¢Â€Â™s National Book Award-winning masterpieceÃ¢Â€Â”"a novel in the tradition of Billy Budd and Moby-DickÃ¢Â€Â¦heroic in proportionÃ¢Â€Â¦fiction that hooks the mind" (The New York Times Book Review)Ã¢Â€Â”now with a new introduction from Stanley Crouch.

Reinforced:

9780606300001 | Demco Media, August 30, 2004, cover price $21.25

Prebinding:

9781417636266 | Turtleback Books, July 1, 1998, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY.

Dreamer: A Novel

This first work of fiction to explore the life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., follows Matthew Bishop, a devoted follower of the civil rights leader, as he trains Chaym Smith, whose startling resemblance to King earns him the job of official stand-in. 125,000 first printing. Tour.

By Charles Richard Johnson

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Hardcover:

9780684812243 | Scribner, April 1, 1998, cover price $23.00 | About this edition: A fictional exploration of the life of Dr.

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9780671582401 | Abridged edition (Simon & Schuster, April 1, 1998), cover price $25.00 | About this edition: A fictional exploration of the life of Dr.

Oxherding Tale

Product Description: Ã¢Â€ÂœMemorable . . . a daring, extravagant novel.Ã¢Â€Â Ã¢Â€Â“ The New Yorker Ã‚Â By the National Book Award-winning author of Middle Passage Ã‚Â One night in the antebellum South, a slaveowner and his African-American butler stay up to all hours drinking Madeira and playing cards...read more

By Charles Richard Johnson

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Hardcover:

9780253166074 | Indiana Univ Pr, August 1, 1982, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Son of a slave and a white woman, Andrew Hawkins tries to find freedom as well as a true understanding of his spiritual identity

Paperback:

9780452275034 | Reprint edition (Plume, September 1, 1995), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Ã¢Â€ÂœMemorable .

The Sorcerer's Apprentice: Tales and Conjurations

By Charles Richard Johnson

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Paperback:

9780452272378 | Reprint edition (Plume, December 1, 1994), cover price $11.95

In Search of a Voice

Product Description: Book by Johnson, Charles Richard

By Charles Richard Johnson

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Hardcover:

9780844407227 | Library of Congress, November 1, 1991, cover price $32.00 | About this edition: Book by Johnson, Charles Richard

Being and Race: Black Writing Since 1970

The author discusses how he became a successful writer and analyzes contemporary black writers, including Ishmael Reed, Ernest Gaines, Alice Walker, and Toni Morrison

By Charles Richard Johnson

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Hardcover:

9780253311658 | Indiana Univ Pr, February 1, 1988, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: The author discusses how he became a successful writer and analyzes contemporary black writers, including Ishmael Reed, Ernest Gaines, Alice Walker, and Toni Morrison

Paperback:

9780253205377 | Reprint edition (Indiana Univ Pr, January 1, 1990), cover price $12.95 | About this edition: The author discusses how he became a successful writer and analyzes contemporary black writers, including Ishmael Reed, Ernest Gaines, Alice Walker, and Toni Morrison

The Sorcerer's Apprentice

In these eight fables and allegorical tales, the author writes of the events of this world as influenced by spiritual or strongly cultural forces

By Charles Richard Johnson

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Hardcover:

9780689116537 | 1 edition (Atheneum, February 1, 1986), cover price $9.95 | About this edition: In these eight fables and allegorical tales, the author writes of the events of this world as influenced by spiritual or strongly cultural forces

Paperback:

9780140098655 | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, May 1, 1987), cover price $8.95 | About this edition: In these eight fables and allegorical tales, the author writes of the events of this world as influenced by spiritual or strongly cultural forces

Black Humor

Cartoons by a black college student exploit the Negro stereotypes

By Charles Richard Johnson

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Paperback:

9780874850369 | Johnson Pub Co Inc, June 1, 1970, cover price $3.95 | About this edition: Cartoons by a black college student exploit the Negro stereotypes

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