Toni Morrison
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A PARADE BEST BOOK OF ALL TIME • From the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner—a powerful examination of our obsession with beauty and conformity that asks questions about race, class, and gender with characteristic subtly and grace.
In Morrison’s acclaimed first novel, Pecola Breedlove—an 11-year-old Black girl in an America whose love for its blond, blue-eyed children...
In Morrison’s acclaimed first novel, Pecola Breedlove—an 11-year-old Black girl in an America whose love for its blond, blue-eyed children...
2) Beloved
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Series
Publisher
Vintage International
Pub. Date
c2004.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 15
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xix, 321 pages ; 21 cm
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English
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Banned Books throughout American History
Celebrate Black History Month: Adult
From Page to Screen: Part 1
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Celebrate Black History Month: Adult
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-- People) Sethe was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free. Sethe has too many memories of Sweet Home, the beautiful farm where so many hideous things happened. And Sethe’s new home is haunted by the ghost of her baby, who died nameless and whose tombstone is engraved with a single word: Beloved. “A masterwork.... Wonderful.... I can’t imagine American literature without it.” —John Leonard,...
3) Home
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English
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The story of a Korean war veteran on a quest to save his younger sister-- Frank is an angry, broken veteran of the Korean War who, after traumatic experiences on the front lines, finds himself back in racist America with more than just physical scars. He is shocked out of his apathy by the need to rescue his medically abused younger sister and taker her back to the small Georgia town them come from and that he's hated all his life.
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NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • A beautiful, arresting story about race and the relationships that shape us through life by the legendary Nobel Prize winner—for the first time in a beautifully produced stand-alone edition, with an introduction by Zadie Smith
“A puzzle of a story, then—a game.... When [Morrison] called Recitatif an ‘experiment’ she meant it. The subject...
“A puzzle of a story, then—a game.... When [Morrison] called Recitatif an ‘experiment’ she meant it. The subject...
5) A mercy
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English
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In exchange for a bad debt, an Anglo-Dutch trader takes on Florens, a young slave girl, who feels abandoned by her slave mother and who searches for love--first from an older servant woman at her master's new home, and then from a handsome free blacksmith.
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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2019
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English
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A Vintage Shorts selection.
In her elegant yet piercing style, one of our most celebrated and revered writers, Toni Morrison, interrogates the writer’s task and responsibility in two illuminating and essential pieces. Initially delivered as parts of lecture series and collected in The Source of Self-Regard, these pieces exhibit the depth with which Morrison probes the capacity and power of literature.
An ebook short.
In her elegant yet piercing style, one of our most celebrated and revered writers, Toni Morrison, interrogates the writer’s task and responsibility in two illuminating and essential pieces. Initially delivered as parts of lecture series and collected in The Source of Self-Regard, these pieces exhibit the depth with which Morrison probes the capacity and power of literature.
An ebook short.
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Milkman Dead was born shortly after a neighborhood eccentric hurled himself off a rooftop in a vain attempt at flight. For the rest of his life he, too, will be trying to fly. With this brilliantly imagined novel, Toni Morrison transfigures the coming-of-age story as audaciously as Saul Bellow or Gabriel García Márquez. As she follows Milkman from his rustbelt city to the place of his family's origins, Morrison introduces an entire cast of strivers...
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English
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Grammy Award Nominee for Best Spoken Word Album!
Generation after generation, classic fables, folklore, and myth remain popular because they quicken the imagination of listeners of all ages.
We, the creators of Who's Got Game?, were inspired by the wonder of Aesop's fables — their vitality, their endless demand for new interpretations. In our versions the original stories are opened up and their moralistic endings...
Generation after generation, classic fables, folklore, and myth remain popular because they quicken the imagination of listeners of all ages.
We, the creators of Who's Got Game?, were inspired by the wonder of Aesop's fables — their vitality, their endless demand for new interpretations. In our versions the original stories are opened up and their moralistic endings...
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Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2015.
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178 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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Spare and unsparing, God Help the Child--the first novel by Toni Morrison to be set in our current moment--weaves a tale about the way the sufferings of childhood can shape, and misshape, the life of the adult. At the center: a young woman who calls herself Bride, whose stunning blue-black skin is only one element of her beauty, her boldness and confidence, her success in life, but which caused her light-skinned mother to deny her even the simplest...
10) Sula
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Vintage International
Pub. Date
2004.
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xvii, 174 pages ; 21 cm
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English
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-- Sula is a work that overflows with life.
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English
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TONI MORRISON: THE PIECES I AM offers an artful and intimate meditation on the life and works of the acclaimed novelist. From her childhood in the steel town of Lorain, Ohio to '70s-era book tours with Muhammad Ali, from the front lines with Angela Davis to her own riverfront writing room, Toni Morrison leads an assembly of her peers, critics and colleagues on an exploration of race, America, history and the human condition as seen through the prism...
14) Sehr blaue Augen
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Deutsch
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Toni Morrisons richtungsweisendes Debüt erzählt von Pecola Breedlove, einem kleinen Mädchen, das sich nach nichts so sehr sehnt wie nach blondem Haar und blauen Augen. Sie will schön sein wie Kinderstar Shirley Temple. Dieser Traum ist ihr einziger Ausweg aus der gewaltvollen Welt, in der sie aufwächst. Doch in diesem Herbst 1941 in der Kleinstadt Lorain in Ohio wird Pecolas Wunsch nicht in Erfüllung gehen, ihr Leben wird sich auf andere, auf...
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English
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Who IS the foreigner? Am I the foreigner in my own home? Who decides? Such were the questions posed by renowned author Toni Morrison at her 2006 guest-curated exhibit at the Louvre, "The Foreigner's Home". There she invited several renowned artists whose work also dealt with the experience of cultural and social displacement to join her in a public discussion that Morrison herself had been pursuing through her own research and writing.
This film...
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Scribner
Pub. Date
[2014]
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1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations ; 28 cm.
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English
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A version of Aesop's Fables finds two friends, a grasshopper and an ant, who each spend their time differently preparing for winter in a tale of friendship, betrayal, and survival.
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Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2023]
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287 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm
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English
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A collection of eight children's books by Toni Morrison, which includes retellings of some of Aesop's fables as well as stories of friendship and imagination.
18) Love: a novel
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Vintage International
Pub. Date
2005.
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xi, 201 pages ; 25 cm
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English
19) Jazz
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Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
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-- “As rich in themes and poetic images as her Pulitzer Prize–winning -- People
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Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2020
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English
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An immensely persuasive work of literary criticism that opens a new chapter in the American dialogue on race—and promises to change the way we read American literature—from the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner
Morrison shows how much the themes of freedom and individualism, manhood and innocence, depended on the existence of a black population that was manifestly unfree—and that came to serve white authors...
Morrison shows how much the themes of freedom and individualism, manhood and innocence, depended on the existence of a black population that was manifestly unfree—and that came to serve white authors...