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Hardcover:

9780374191375 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, March 10, 2015, cover price $26.00

Paperback:

9781250094650 | Picador USA, June 7, 2016, cover price $16.00

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Product Description: An “arresting . . . bracing and affecting volume” (Booklist) that “brims with curiosity and cosmopolitanism” (Publishers Weekly), Color Me English was hailed in the Guardian as one of the best books of 2011 by Blake Morrison...read more

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9781595586506 | New Pr, August 9, 2011, cover price $25.95 | About this edition: Born in St.

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9781595588357 | New Pr, January 1, 2013, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: An “arresting .

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Product Description: From one of our most admired fiction writers: the searing story of breakdown and recovery in the life of one man and of a society moving from one idea of itself to another. Keith—born in England in the early 1960s to immigrant West Indian parents but primarily raised by his white stepmother—is a social worker heading a Race Equality unit in London whose life has come undone...read more

Hardcover:

9780307272560 | 1 edition (Alfred a Knopf Inc, September 1, 2009), cover price $25.95

Paperback:

9780307473837 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, November 2, 2010), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: From one of our most admired fiction writers: the searing story of breakdown and recovery in the life of one man and of a society moving from one idea of itself to another.

Miscellaneous:

9780307273277 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, September 1, 2009, cover price $25.95

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The life stories of three black men of different times and backgrounds reveals the place and role of the foreigner in English society.

Hardcover:

9781400043972 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, October 23, 2007, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: The life stories of three black men of different times and backgrounds reveals the place and role of the foreigner in English society.

Paperback:

9781400079841 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, November 11, 2008), cover price $15.95

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Tells the stories of Francis Barber; Randolph Turpin; and David Oluwale. This book explores belonging, identity, and race.

Hardcover:

9780436205972 | Vintage Uk, September 13, 2007, cover price $30.65 | About this edition: Tells the stories of Francis Barber; Randolph Turpin; and David Oluwale.

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Product Description: LA NATURALEZA DE LA SANGRE

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9788420643762 | Alianza Editorial Sa, June 30, 2007, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: LA NATURALEZA DE LA SANGRE

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In Africa, a man recounts his days within the grinding machinery of the slave trade. Though spared manacles and a hellish ocean crossing by assisting in the degrading business, he is forced finally to confront an inescapable, vicious paradox - in the eyes of both his masters and his own people, he is a pariah.

Hardcover:

9780670826209 | Viking Pr, August 1, 1989, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Three characters--a black man caught up in the African slave trade, a young American trapped in a Southern jail, and a Polish refugee from the war-time ghetto--become united in their brutal dehumanization

Paperback:

9780099498254 | New edition (Gardners Books, September 7, 2006), cover price $13.40 | About this edition: In Africa, a man recounts his days within the grinding machinery of the slave trade.

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A fictional re-creation chronicles the life and times of Bert Williams, the first black entertainer in the United States to achieve success and a man who dons blackface to become a headliner in the Ziegfeld Follies, in a historical novel about the tragedies of race and identity, the perils of self-invention, and the toll of his success on his personal life. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.

Hardcover:

9781400043965 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, September 20, 2005, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: A fictional re-creation of the life and times of Bert Williams, the first black entertainer in the United States to achieve success, a man who dons blackface to become a headliner in the Ziegfeld Follies.
9780436205835 | Vintage Uk, September 1, 2005, cover price $21.40

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9781400079834 | Vintage Books, October 10, 2006, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Bert Williams struggled for years on the stage before he made the radical decision to don blackface makeup and play the 'coon.

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Product Description: Cruzar el río es la historia de dos hombres, Nash y Travis, y una mujer, Martha, en distintas épocas y continentes, marcados por un origen y un destino común, los que forjaron los doscientos cincuenta años de la diáspora africana...read more

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9788420645605 | Italian edition edition (Alianza Editorial Sa, January 1, 2004), cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Cruzar el río es la historia de dos hombres, Nash y Travis, y una mujer, Martha, en distintas épocas y continentes, marcados por un origen y un destino común, los que forjaron los doscientos cincuenta años de la diáspora africana.

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Moving into a new bungalow on an English village housing estate, retired teacher Dorothy meets night watchman Solomon, an illegal immigrant, in a tale that recounts their experiences as solitary outsiders in a hostile world. Reprint. 12,500 first printing.

Hardcover:

9781400041091 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, October 1, 2003, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: Moving into a new bungalow in an English village, retired teacher Dorothy meets night watchman Solomon, an illegal immigrant, in a tale that recounts their experiences as solitary outsiders in a hostile world.
9780436205644 | Vintage Uk, March 20, 2003, cover price $26.75 | About this edition: Dorothy has taken early retirement and walked away from a bad marriage, an affair gone sour and a dangerous obsession.

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9781400034505 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, March 8, 2005), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Moving into a new bungalow on an English village housing estate, retired teacher Dorothy meets night watchman Solomon, an illegal immigrant, in a tale that recounts their experiences as solitary outsiders in a hostile world.

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The award-winning author of The Atlantic Sound provides a profound and thought-provoking collection of essays that explore the continually evolving concepts of home, identity, and belonging in an increasingly global society. Original. 15,000 first printing.

Paperback:

9780375714030 | Vintage Books, May 1, 2002, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: The award-winning author of The Atlantic Sound provides a profound and thought-provoking collection of essays that explore the continually evolving concepts of home, identity, and belonging in an increasingly global society.

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A thoughtful analysis of the lasting legacy of slavery journeys from Liverpool, England, to Accra, Ghana, and Charleston, South Carolina, to explore the major route of the trans-Atlantic slave trade from the perspective of both historical figures and the author's own personal observations. Reprint. 12,500 first printing. (view table of contents)

Hardcover:

9780375401107 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, October 1, 2000, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: A thoughtful analysis of the lasting legacy of slavery journeys from Liverpool, England, to Accra, Ghana, and Charleston, South Carolina, to explore the major route of the trans-Atlantic slave trade from the perspective of both historical figures and the author's own personal observations.

Paperback:

9780375701030 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, October 1, 2001), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: An analysis of the lasting legacy of slavery explores the major route of the trans-Atlantic slave trade from the perspective of both historical figures and the author's own personal observations.

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Product Description: Explores the feelings of uncertainty that defined the period of time between the abolition of slavery and the emancipation of the slaves. It is the story of Emily Cartwright, an Englishwoman sent to visit her father's plantation in the West Indies, and of Cambridge, a plantation slave...read more

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9780679405320 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, February 1, 1992, cover price $19.00 | About this edition: The life of Cambridge, an educated slave in the British West Indies, is intertwined with that of Emily Cartwright, an English heiress visiting her father's sugar estate, in a dramatic portrayal of the moral hypocrisy of the plantation system

Paperback:

9780571204076 | Faber & Faber Ltd, March 1, 2001, cover price $6.99 | About this edition: Explores the feelings of uncertainty that defined the period of time between the abolition of slavery and the emancipation of the slaves.

Product Description: Spans 250 years of the diaspora. It tracks two brothers and a sister on their separate journeys through different epochs and continents: one as a missionary to Liberia in the 1830s, one a pioneer on a wagon trail to the American West, and one a GI posted to a Yorkshire village in World War II...read more

Hardcover:

9780679405337 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, January 1, 1994, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: Follows the lives of three African siblings, beginning with their imprisonment on an English slave ship in 1753 and continuing through the struggles of their descendants

Paperback:

9780571204021 | Faber & Faber Ltd, March 1, 2001, cover price $6.99 | About this edition: Spans 250 years of the diaspora.
9780679757948 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, January 1, 1995), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Follows the lives of three African siblings, beginning with their imprisonment on an English slave ship in 1753 and continuing through the struggles of their descendants.

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A group of white men journeys up the Congo River to invade the jungles of the Belgian Congo in an effort to rob the natives of their ivory

Paperback:

9780072435139 | McGraw-Hill College, June 1, 2000, cover price $15.65
9780375753770 | Reprint edition (Modern Library, August 1, 1999), cover price $11.00 | About this edition: A group of white men journeys up the Congo River to invade the jungles of the Belgian Congo in an effort to rob the natives of their ivory

Miscellaneous:

9780679641247, titled "Heart of Darkness and Selections from the Congo Diary" | Modern Library, October 31, 2000, cover price $9.00

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The author shares his impressions of Morocco, Gibraltar, Spain, Paris, Amsterdam, Germany, and Moscow and discusses the nature of Black identity

Hardcover:

9780374149352 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, August 1, 1987, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: The author shares his impressions of Morocco, Gibraltar, Spain, Paris, Amsterdam, Germany, and Moscow and discusses the nature of Black identity

Paperback:

9780375707049 | Vintage Books, May 2, 2000, cover price $15.00
9780571198030 | Reprint edition (Faber & Faber, February 1, 1993), cover price $10.95

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A collection of sixty-five essays and articles chronicles the evolution of the sport of tennis during the twentieth century, featuring writings by John McPhee, Martin Amis, Martina Navratilova, James Thurber, David Higdon, and other notable authors. Original. 17,500 first printing. (view table of contents)
By Caryl Phillips (editor)

Paperback:

9780375706462 | Vintage Books, June 1, 1999, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: A collection of sixty-five essays and articles chronicles the evolution of the sport of tennis during the twentieth-century, featuring writings by John McPhee, Martin Amis, Martina Navratilova, James Thurber, and David Higdon

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An anthology of writings by British writers born outside of Britain demonstrates how English literature has been shaped and influenced by outsiders for more than two hundred years, in a collection that encompasses works by Kipling, Naipaul, Ishiguro, Conrad, Rushdie, Desai, and Orwell. Original. 17,500 first printing. (view table of contents)

Paperback:

9780679781547 | Vintage Books, December 29, 1998, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: An anthology of writings by British writers born outside of Britain--including Kipling, Naipaul, Conrad, and Ishiguro--demonstrates how English literature has been shaped and influenced by outsiders for more than two hundred years

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The lives of a German-Jewish girl caught up in the Holocaust, her uncle battling for Israeli statehood, Othello, and others across the centuries are connected by spirit, blood, and situation. Reprint. 15,000 first printing. NYT.

Hardcover:

9780679454700 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, May 1, 1997, cover price $23.00 | About this edition: The lives of a German-Jewish girl caught up in the Holocaust, her uncle fighting for Israeli statehood, Othello, and others across the centuries are connected by spirit, blood, and situation

Paperback:

9780679776758 | Vintage Books, May 1, 1998, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: The lives of a German-Jewish girl caught up in the Holocaust, her uncle fighting for Israeli statehood, Othello, and others across the centuries are connected by spirit, blood, and situation

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Paperback:

9780679763765 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, October 31, 1995), cover price $15.00
9780140118063 | Penguin USA, October 1, 1990, cover price $7.95

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Product Description: From the British-West Indian novelist who is rapidly emerging as the bard of the African diaspora comes a haunting work about “the final passage”—the exodus of black West Indians from their impoverished islands to the uncertain opportunities of England...read more

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9780679759317 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, November 1, 1995), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: From the British-West Indian novelist who is rapidly emerging as the bard of the African diaspora comes a haunting work about “the final passage”—the exodus of black West Indians from their impoverished islands to the uncertain opportunities of England.
9780140127966 | Penguin USA, January 1, 1990, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: Trouble with her mother and her new husband convinces nineteen-year-old Leila to emigrate from her Caribbean island to England

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Following a twenty-year sojourn to England, Bertram Francis returns to his native St. Kitts, a tiny West Indies island celebrating its liberation from British rule, and encounters resentment from his family and friends

Hardcover:

9780374269760 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, May 1, 1986, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Following a twenty-year sojourn to England, Bertram Francis returns to his native St.

Paperback:

9780679759300 | Reissue edition (Vintage Books, January 15, 1995), cover price $15.00
9780020150800 | Reprint edition (Collier Books, April 1, 1988), cover price $6.95 | About this edition: Following a twenty-year sojourn to England, Bertram Francis returns to his native St.

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Enduring the peculiarities and brutalities of plantation life in the nineteenth-century West Indies, the morally blind Englishwoman Emily Cartwright finds her life touched by the experiences of Cambridge, a devoutly Christian slave. Reprint.

Paperback:

9780679736899 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, February 1, 1993), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: The life of Cambridge, an educated slave in the British West Indies, is intertwined with that of Emily Cartwright, an English heiress visiting her father's sugar estate, in a portrayal of the moral hypocrisy of the plantation system

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Product Description: Book by Phillips, Caryl

Paperback:

9780571145836 | Faber & Faber, February 1, 1987, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: Book by Phillips, Caryl

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