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| A Slave in the White House: Paul Jennings and the Madisons
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Elizabeth Dowling Taylor. Foreword by Annette Gordon-Reed.
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| Publisher: Palgrave. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780230108936. Daedalus Item Code: 31998 |
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| Paul Jennings was born into slavery on the plantation of James and Dolley Madison in Virginia, and became part of the Madison household staff at the White House. After he was finally emancipated by ... (Read More)
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| Sonata Mulattica: A Life in Five Movements and a Short Play
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Rita Dove.
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| Publisher: Norton. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780393070088. Daedalus Item Code: 21042 |
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| In a book-length lyric narrative inspired by history and imagination, Pulitzer Prize winner and former U.S. Poet Laureate Rita Dove re-creates the life of a 19th-century virtuoso violinist. The son ... (Read More)
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| Song Yet Sung
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James McBride.
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| Publisher: Riverhead. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9781594483509. Daedalus Item Code: 99054 |
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| "James McBride's famous memoir, The Color of Water, was a personal examination of the author's upbringing in a large, biracial family.... His first novel, Miracle at St. Anna [the basis ... (Read More)
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| Strength in What Remains
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Tracy Kidder.
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| Publisher: Random House. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780812977615. Daedalus Item Code: 31295 |
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| The Pulitzer Prize– and National Book Award–winning author of The Soul of a New Machine and Mountains Beyond Mountains, Tracy Kidder here gives us the remarkable story of Deo, an ethnic ... (Read More)
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| Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush
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Virginia Hamilton.
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| Publisher: Philomel. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780399208942. Daedalus Item Code: 23255 |
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| (Newbery Honor Book, Coretta Scott King Award) "The first time Theresa saw Brother was the way she would think of him ever after. Tree fell head over heels for him. It was love at first sight ... (Read More)
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| Take One Candle Light a Room
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Susan Straight.
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| Publisher: Pantheon. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780307379146. Daedalus Item Code: 23533 |
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| The author of A Million Nightingales and the National Book Award finalist Highwire Moon offers this luminous novel about the forces that tear families apart and the ties that bind them ... (Read More)
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| Their Eyes Were Watching God
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Zora Neale Hurston.
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| Publisher: Harper Perennial. Format: paperback.
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| ISBN: 9780061120060. Daedalus Item Code: 29260 |
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| "There is no book more important to me than this one," avowed Alice Walker of this 1937 novel. Zora Neale Hurston's masterpiece is an enduring Southern love story sparkling with wit, beauty, and ... (Read More)
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| Thumbelina of Toulaba
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Daniel Picouly. Olivier Tallec, illus.
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| Publisher: Enchanted Lion. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9781592700691. Daedalus Item Code: 03308 |
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| This enchanting retelling of the Thumbelina story sets the tiny girl in a tropical land called Toulaba, "at the far end of far away," filled with exotic flowers and creatures. It also has Thumbelina ... (Read More)
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| Tools of Her Ministry: The Art of Sister Gertrude Morgan
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William A. Fagaly.
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| Publisher: American Folk Art Museum/Rizzoli. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780847826230. Daedalus Item Code: 30105 |
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| Sister Gertrude Morgan (1900–1980) was a self-taught African-American artist, evangelist, musician, and poet, and she used her diverse talents as a vehicle for and extension of her profound religious ... (Read More)
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| The Twelve Tribes of Hattie
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Ayana Mathis.
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| Publisher: Knopf. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780385350280. Daedalus Item Code: 38514 |
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| (Oprah's Book Club 2.0 Selection for December 2012, with starred reviews from Publishers Weekly, Booklist, and Kirkus Reviews) In her extraordinary debut novel Ayana ... (Read More)
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| W.E.B. Du Bois: A Biography
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David Levering Lewis.
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| Publisher: Henry Holt. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780805087697. Daedalus Item Code: 10438 |
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| William Edward Burghardt Du Bois—the premier architect of the civil rights movement in America—was a towering and controversial personality, a fiercely proud individual blessed with the language of ... (Read More)
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| W.C. Handy: The Life and Times of the Man Who Made the Blues
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David Robertson.
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| Publisher: Knopf. Format: hardcover.
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| ISBN: 9780307266095. Daedalus Item Code: 31063 |
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| "At the turn of the 20th century, W.C. Handy (1873–1958) propelled the blues from regional obscurity, changing it into a vital tradition that fostered much of American popular music that followed. A ... (Read More)
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