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10 best books like Early Novels & Stories: Go Tell It on the Mountain / Giovanni’s Room / Another Country / Going to Meet the Man (James Baldwin): De Kooning: An American Master, Signs Preceding the End of the World, Light in August, The Intuitionist, The Mis-Education of the Negro, Fortune Smiles, The Art of Seduction, Nothing If Not Critical: Selected Essays on Art and Artists, The Laws of Human Nature, The Anatomy of Peace: Resolving the Heart of Conflict

De Kooning: An American Master
AuthorMark Stevens
ISBN0375711163
Willem de Kooning is one of the most important artists of the twentieth century, a true “painter’s painter” whose protean work continues to inspire many artists. In the thirties and forties, along with Arshile Gorky and Jackson Pollock, he became a key figure in the revolutionary American movement...
Signs Preceding the End of the World
AuthorYuri Herrera
ISBN1908276428
Yuri Herrera explores the crossings and translations people make in their minds and language as they move from one country to another, especially when there’s no going back.

Traversing this lonely territory is Makina, a young woman who knows only too well how to survive in a violent, macho...
Light in August
AuthorWilliam Faulkner
ISBN0679732268
Light in August, a novel that contrasts stark tragedy with hopeful perseverance in the face of mortality, which features some of Faulkner’s most memorable characters: guileless, dauntless Lena Grove, in search of the father of her unborn child; Reverend Gail Hightower, a lonely outcast haunted...
The Intuitionist
AuthorColson Whitehead
ISBN0385493002
A New York Times Notable Book
A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year
Two warring factions in the Department of Elevator Inspectors in a bustling metropolis vie for dominance: the Empiricists, who go by the book and rigorously check every structural and mechanical detail, and the Intuitionists,...
The Mis-Education of the Negro
AuthorCarter G. Woodson
ISBN1564110419
The Mis-Education of the Negro is one of the most important books on education ever written. Carter G. Woodson shows us the weakness of Euro-centric based curriculums that fail to include African American history and culture. This system mis-educates the African American student, failing to prepare...
Fortune Smiles
AuthorAdam Johnson
ISBN0857522973
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for his acclaimed and bestselling novel The Orphan Master's Son, Adam Johnson is one of America's most provocative and powerful authors. In Fortune Smiles - his first book since Orphan Master - he continues to give voice to characters rarely heard from, while offering something...
The Art of Seduction
AuthorRobert Greene
ISBN1861977697
The season's most talked-about all-purpose personal strategy guide and philosophical compendium," said Newsweek of Robert Greene's bold, elegant, and ingenious manual of modern manipulation, The 48 Laws of Power. Now Greene has once again mined history and literature to distill the essence of...
Nothing If Not Critical: Selected Essays on Art and Artists
AuthorRobert Hughes
From Holbein to Hockney, from Norman Rockwell to Pablo Picasso, from sixteenth-century Rome to 1980s SoHo, Robert Hughes looks with love, loathing, warmth, wit and authority at a wide range of art and artists, good, bad, past and present.
   As art critic for Time magazine, internationally...
The Laws of Human Nature
AuthorRobert Greene
From the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of The 48 Laws of Power comes the definitive new book on decoding the behavior of the people around you

Robert Greene is a master guide for millions of readers, distilling ancient wisdom and philosophy into essential texts for seekers of power,...
The Anatomy of Peace: Resolving the Heart of Conflict
AuthorThe Arbinger Institute
ISBN1626564310
NEW EDITION, REVISED AND UPDATED

Like Leadership and Self-Deception, The Arbinger Institute's first book, The Anatomy of Peace has become a worldwide phenomenon—not because of a media blitz, movie tie-in, or celebrity endorsement, but because readers have enthusiastically recommended...
Why Are You Atheists So Angry? 99 Things That Piss Off the Godless
AuthorGreta Christina
Why are atheists angry?

Is it because they're selfish, joyless, lacking in meaning, and alienated from God?

Or is it because they have legitimate reasons to be angry -- and are ready to do something about it?

Armed with passionate outrage, absurdist humor, and calm intelligence,...
Black Is the New White
AuthorPaul Mooney
ISBN1416587950
OTHER COMEDIANS TELL JOKES. PAUL MOONEY TELLS THE TRUTH. For more than forty years, whether writing for Richard Pryor and Saturday Night Live or performing stand-up to sold-out crowds around the country, Paul Mooney has been provocative, incisive... and absolutely hilarious. His comedy has always...
The Rich and the Rest of Us: A Poverty Manifesto
AuthorTavis Smiley
ISBN1401940633
Record unemployment and rampant corporate avarice, empty houses but homeless families, dwindling opportunities in an increasingly paralyzed nation—these are the realities of 21st-century America, land of the free and home of the new middle class poor. Award-winning broadcaster Tavis Smiley...
Black Rednecks and White Liberals
AuthorThomas Sowell
ISBN1594030863
This book presents the kind of eye-opening insights into the history and culture of race for which Sowell has become famous. As late as the 1940s and 1950s, he argues, poor Southern rednecks were regarded by Northern employers and law enforcement officials as lazy, lawless, and sexually immoral. This...
The Negro Problem
AuthorBooker T. Washington
ISBN1406819727
This is a noteworthy assembly of essays written by a collection of important leaders & scholars about the condition of Black Americans. Written at an important historical crossroad in Black American history, a few generations after slavery but facing a new 20th Century while Blacks remained...
Makes Me Wanna Holler: A Young Black Man in America
AuthorNathan McCall
ISBN0679740708
Nathan McCall's Makes Me Wanna Holler tells the story of McCall's childhood in a predominantly black neighborhood, an area prone to gang-related activities. The book is set in the late-1900s during McCall's teenage years, when he and his friends were transitioning from naive youth to gangsters....
Moral Combat: Black Atheists, Gender Politics, and the Values Wars
AuthorSikivu Hutchinson
The word atheism elicits shock, dread, anger, and revulsion among most African Americans. They view atheism as "amoral," heresy, and race betrayal. Historically, the Black Church was a leading force in the fight for racial justice. Today, many black religious leaders have aligned themselves with...
Gerhard Richter: A Life in Painting
AuthorDietmar Elger
ISBN0226203239
Gerhard Richter is one of the most important and influential artists of the post-war era. For decades he has sought innovative ways to make painting more relevant, often through a multifaceted dialogue with photography. Today Richter is most widely recognized for the photo-paintings he made during...
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