Black Wings and Blind Angels
7 best books like Black Wings and Blind Angels (Sapphire): 84, Charing Cross Road, Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America, A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers, Art and Ardor, Influencer: Building Your Personal Brand in the Age of Social Media
| Author | Helene Hanff |
| ISBN | 0140143505 |
This charming classic, first published in 1970, brings together twenty years of correspondence between Helene Hanff, a freelance writer living in New York City, and a used-book dealer in London. Through the years, though never meeting and separated both geographically and culturally, they share...
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
| Author | Audre Lorde |
| ISBN | 0895941414 |
A collection of fifteen essays written between 1976 and 1984 gives clear voice to Audre Lorde's literary and philosophical personae. These essays explore and illuminate the roots of Lorde's intellectual development and her deep-seated and longstanding concerns about ways of increasing empowerment...
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
Alternate cover edition for 9780802135162
This is the story of Jeanette, adopted and brought up by her mother as one of God's elect. Zealous and passionate, she seems seems destined for life as a missionary, but then she falls for one of her converts.
At sixteen, Jeanette decides to...
Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America
| Author | Melissa V. Harris-Perry |
| ISBN | 0300165412 |
Jezebel's sexual lasciviousness, Mammy's devotion, and Sapphire's outspoken anger—these are among the most persistent stereotypes that black women encounter in contemporary American life. Hurtful and dishonest, such representations force African American women to navigate a virtual crooked...
A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers
| Author | Xiaolu Guo |
| ISBN | 0701180382 |
This is the semi-fictionalised diary of a 24 year old Chinese woman coming to London to learn English. It was published in 2007, five years after the author came to the UK on an educational scholarship awarded by The British Council. She knew little about her destination, and felt understandably lost...
| Author | Cynthia Ozick |
| ISBN | 0525481176 |
Recipient of the first Rea Award for the Short Story (in 1976; other winners Rea honorees include Lorrie Moore, John Updike, Alice Munro), an American Academy of Arts and Letters Mildred and Harold Strauss Living Award, and the PEN/Malamud award in 2008.
Upon publication of her 1983 The Shawl,...
Influencer: Building Your Personal Brand in the Age of Social Media
| Author | Brittany Hennessy |
| ISBN | 0806538856 |
"I highly advise anyone who has an interest in life online to get this book, sit down, and take notes because you're going to want to hear what Brittany has to say."
-Iskra Lawrence, Aerie Model and Instagram star (@iskra)
If you've ever scrolled through your Instagram feed and thought,...
