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1) Toni Morrison: Writing the Moral Imagination

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Wiley Blackwell Introductions to Literature

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This companion provides a comprehensive survey of the life, work and legacy of Benjamin Franklin-the oldest, most distinctive, and multifaceted of the founders. • Includes contributions from across a range of academic disciplines • Combines traditional and cutting-edge scholarship, from accomplished and emerging experts in the field • Pays special attention to the American Revolution, the Enlightenment, journalism, colonial American society,...

2) Finding Valerie: Naked & Unashamed

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Bell-Smith, Valerie

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Be empowered, restored, motivated... Author Valerie Bell-Smith is on a journey to self discovery. With a writing style that is both conversational and simplistic Valerie shares her story of faith, perseverance, love and appreciation of life. She is dedicated to inspiring others to live a life on purpose each and every day. Valerie desires to reach people who are broken and confused about where their life is leading them. Embracing yourself as God...

3) Sistahs: Stories of African American Women's Lives and of Finding Place in Christian Missions

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Smith, Valerie Carter

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This book is a testament of the resiliency of African American women who walk with Jesus. Sistahs is a compilation of their life stories. Sistahs is about the intersectionality of African American women with Jesus, the institutional church, and how a traditionally Southern Baptist women's mission’s organization catapulted them to higher heights and deeper depths in ministry. It loudly echoes the kindship of women on mission who dare to cooperate...

4) Juicy Drinks: Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Juices, Smoothies, Cocktails, and More

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Aikman-Smith, Valerie

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Forty recipes for delicious homemade juices and all kinds of juice-based drinks, from breakfast smoothies to cocktails and frozen desserts. With today's juicers and blenders, you can make all kinds of delicious drinks with just the flip of a switch. Juice Drinks features health-conscious recipes for fresh-pressed juices, vitamin-packed smoothies, and restorative wheatgrass elixirs. It also includes colorful cocktails like pomegranate cosmos, watermelon...

5) Not just race, not just gender: Black feminist readings

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Smith, Valerie, 1956-

Publication Date

1998

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xxiii, 166 p. ; 24 cm.

6) Self-discovery and authority in Afro-American narrative

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Smith, Valerie, 1956-

Publication Date

1987

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viii, 167 p. ; 22 cm.

7) African American writers

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c2001

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2 v. (xxxiv, 925 p.) : ill., ports. ; 29 cm.

8) Incidents in the life of a slave girl

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Jacobs, Harriet A. (Harriet Ann), 1813-1897

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Incidents In the Life of a Slave Girl , the autobiography of Harriet Jacobs, was initially written with the intention of illuminating white abolitionists to the appalling treatment of female slaves in the pre-Civil War South of the United States. The book was later rediscovered in the 1960's, and it was not until the 1980s that it was proved to be an extraordinary work of autobiographical memoir as opposed to fiction. In this astonishing book, Harriet...

9) New essays on Song of Solomon

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1995

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viii, 120 p. ; 23 cm.

10) 5000 artists return to Artists Space: 25 years

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c1998

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351 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.

11) Representing Blackness: issues in film and video

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c1997

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viii, 240 p. ; 24 cm.

12) African American writers

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c1991

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xxxii, 544 p. ; 29 cm.

13) Ralph Ellison's Invisible man: a casebook

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2004

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xiv, 352 p. ; 22 cm.

14) Arturo Herrera: works 1992-2024

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Herrera, Arturo, 1959-

Publication Date

[2025]

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343 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 31 cm

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"The first monograph on Venezuelan multimedia artist Arturo Herrera in nearly twenty years, this comprehensive book offers a deep look at his diverse body of work. The publication highlights the breadth of Herrera's practice, showcasing painting, mixed media works on paper, photography, collage, glass, felt sculpture, and architectural interventions. For over three decades, Herrera has investigated and contaminated the complex histories of abstraction....

15) Entering the picture: Judy Chicago, the Fresno Feminist Art Program, and the collective visions of women artists

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2012

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xvi, 345 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.

16) The Norton Anthology of African American literature

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[2014]

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2 volumes : illustrations, maps, music ; 24 cm.

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Collaborating on The Norton Anthology of African American Literature, editors Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Nellie Y. McKay have compiled what may be the definitive collection of its kind. Organized chronologically, the massive work gathers writings from six periods of black history: slavery and freedom; Reconstruction; the Harlem Renaissance; Realism, Naturalism and Modernism; the Black Arts Movement and the period since the 1970s. The work begins with...