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Hardcover:
9780786860036 | Hyperion Books, June 1, 1994, cover price $21.45 | About this edition: A look at a Black man who attempts to live within convention chronicles the life of Darnell Tucker, a firefighter, who attempts to fulfill his wife, his family, and his attraction to the dark destructiveness of fire
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9781497679962 | Ingram Pub Services, October 21, 2014, cover price $21.99
9780385474344 | Reprint edition (Anchor Books, June 1, 1995), cover price $17.00 | About this edition: As his friends embrace California's street life, Darnell Tucker, a young black firefighter and handyman, tries to support his fledgling family and keep himself honest, even while he finds himself drawn to the forces of destruction.
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9781562829636, titled "I Been in Sorrow's Kitchen and Licked Out All the Pots" | Hyperion Books, June 1, 1992, cover price $19.45 | About this edition: Marietta Cook leaves South Carolina's Low Country to seek a new life in Charleston, only to become pregnant with twin boys whom she struggles to support as a domestic amid the turmoil of the civil rights movement
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9781497679986, titled "I Been in Sorrow's Kitchen and Licked Out All the Pots" | Reissue edition (Ingram Pub Services, October 21, 2014), cover price $20.99
9780385470124, titled "I Been in Sorrow's Kitchen and Licked Out All the Pots" | Reprint edition (Anchor Books, July 1, 1993), cover price $13.00
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9781435242357, titled "I Been in Sorrow's Kitchen and Licked Out All the Pots" | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, November 13, 2008), cover price $22.00 | About this edition: Marietta Cook leaves South Carolina's Low Country to seek a new life in Charleston, only to become pregnant with twin boys whom she struggles to support as a domestic amid the turmoil of the civil rights movement.
9780785717386, titled "I Been in Sorrow's Kitchen and Licked Out All the Pots" | Turtleback Books, October 1, 2001, cover price $24.60
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9781936365753 | McSweeneys Books, September 12, 2012, cover price $24.00
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9781938073816 | McSweeneys Books, December 31, 2013, cover price $15.00
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9781480419858 | Reprint edition (Open Road Media, August 6, 2013), cover price $17.99
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9780451532084 | Reprint edition (Signet Classic, May 1, 2012), cover price $3.95
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9780307477378, titled "Take One Candle, Light a Room: A Novel" | Anchor Books, March 13, 2012, cover price $16.95
Miscellaneous:
9780307379535 | Pantheon Books, October 12, 2010, cover price $25.95
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9780307379146, titled "Take One Candle Light a Room" | 1 edition (Pantheon Books, October 12, 2010), cover price $25.95 | About this edition: From the author of A Million Nightingales (“a writer of exceptional gifts and grace”—Joyce Carol Oates) comes a luminous new novel about the forces that tear families apart and the ties that bind them together.
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9780375837777 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, March 13, 2007, cover price $14.99 | About this edition: Sharron's father has disappeared, and she tries to cope with her feelings of loss through the love of a stuffed dog he gave her.
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9780440421450 | Reprint edition (Yearling Books, August 12, 2008), cover price $5.99 | About this edition: Sharron was five when her father gave her the Friskative Dog.
Library:
9780375937774 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, March 13, 2007, cover price $17.99 | About this edition: Sharron's father has disappeared, and she tries to cope with her feelings of loss through the love of a stuffed dog he gave her.
Prebinding:
9781439582954 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, April 9, 2009), cover price $14.99
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9780375423642 | Pantheon Books, March 21, 2006, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: When she is sold away from her family, Moinette begins to prepare herself for an escape to freedom, journeying through a world of brutality, sexual violence, loss, and struggle to find her way out of the bonds of slavery.
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9781400095599 | Reprint edition (Anchor Books, May 8, 2007), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: When she is sold away from her family, Moinette, the daughter of an African mother and an unknown white father, begins to prepare herself for an escape to freedom, journeying through a world of brutality, sexual violence, loss, and struggle to find her way out of the bonds of slavery to discover the true meaning of freedom, in a novel set in early nineteenth-century Louisiana.
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9781571310583 | Milkweed Editions, April 28, 2007, cover price $14.00
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9781597140379 | Heyday Books, October 15, 2006, cover price $18.95
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9780618056149 | Houghton Mifflin, August 8, 2001, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: Two generations of women struggle to maintain their dignity amidst the frequently brutal world of migrant farm labor.
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9780385722612 | Reprint edition (Anchor Books, October 1, 2002), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Two generations of women--Serafina, a Mexican-Indian girl who emigrates illegally to California, and her daughter, Elvia, separated from her mother when Serafina is deported--struggle to maintain their dignity amidst the frequently brutal world of migrant farm labor.
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9780786860869 | Hyperion Books, June 1, 1996, cover price $22.45 | About this edition: The Thompson clan tries to deal with the chaos after their family patriarch finds the burning bodies of two white women on his property and is then accidentally gunned down by police
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9780385486590 | Reprint edition (Anchor Books, August 1, 1997), cover price $18.00 | About this edition: The Thompson clan tries to deal with the chaos after their family patriarch finds the burning bodies of two white women on his property and is then acidentally gunned down by police
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9781562825263 | Hyperion, March 1, 1995, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: When Gaila's baby sister Delphine drops Bear E.
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9781562825270 | Hyperion, March 1, 1995, cover price $15.49 | About this edition: When Gaila's baby sister Delphine drops Bear E.
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9780915943593 | Reissue edition (Milkweed Editions, August 1, 1994), cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Describes the lives of the people of Rio Seco, including the wife of an old miner suffering from black lung disease, a schoolboy worried about his self-destructive older brother, and a Black art student working to pay his tuition
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