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Shivaji: The Great Maratha by Ranjit Desai
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsShrimanyogi is a biographical work on the life and the achievements of the great Maratha king, Chatrapathi Shivaji. Shivaji has been a legendary figure in the Indian history.Shivaji was one of the major influences on the revival of nationalism and Hindu culture during a period when centuries of rule by Muslim invaders had induced a condition of apathy and indifference in the people... -
![Memoirs of a Geisha by Michael Dean, Arthur Golden]()
Memoirs of a Geisha by Michael Dean, Arthur Golden
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsContemporary / American English Memoirs of a Geisha is one of the great stories of our time. We follow Sayuri's life: her early years in a small fishing village and as a geisha in Gion. And throughout her struggle, we know of her secret love for the only man who ever showed her any kindness -- a man who seems to be out of her reach... -
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![In Search of Satisfaction by J. California Cooper]()
In Search of Satisfaction by J. California Cooper
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe folk flavor of her storytelling has earned her constant comparison to Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston, but through four collections of short stories and two novels, J. California Cooper has proven that hers is a wholly original talent --one that embraces readers in an ever-widening circle from one book to the next... -
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![The Weary Blues by Langston Hughes]()
The Weary Blues by Langston Hughes
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsLangston Hughes's first book of poetry, including the following classic, poignant and moving Proem, The Weary Blues, Jazzonia, Negro Dancers, The Cat And The Saxophone (2 A.M...Categorized as:
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![Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird by Harold Bloom]()
Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird by Harold Bloom
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsPublished in 1960 and awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1961, To Kill a Mockingbird is required reading for many middle and high school students. The coming-of-age tale of its young narrator, Jean Louise "Scout" Finch, of Maycomb, Alabama, is interwoven with explorations of the issues of prejudice, innocence, compassion, and hypocrisy...Categorized as:
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![His Love Is More Than Enough : Kalypso and Bellatrix by Mel Dau]()
His Love Is More Than Enough : Kalypso and Bellatrix by Mel Dau
Rated: 4.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA father’s love is an amazing thing but is it enough to love what others deemed flawed? For Kalypso (Kal) Jenkins, life has taken many turns but as his, Mama Jillie says, “It’s all a part of his life Story”. When his life story determines he will be a single father to his autistic son, Kalypso Junior (KJ), he makes the decision to be the best father he can be to KJ... -
![His Love Is More Than Enough : Harlem and Constance by Mel Dau]()
His Love Is More Than Enough : Harlem and Constance by Mel Dau
Rated: 4.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHarlem Samuel LaCroix is a self-made man who moves how he pleases. He’s a street dude but doesn’t do street dude things but the one night he is forced to show his hand is the night that changes his life. “She’s a diamond in the rough like a baby in the trash”, becomes a literal statement when his discovers an abandoned baby in the trash of his trap house... -
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Magnus by Tina Martin
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsMagnus St. Claire is one of the most handsome men I’ve seen. He’s handsome, but a complicated mess. Rich, but the billions don’t mean a thing. He’s broken, but he hides it well. In need, but not for anything money can buy. He makes me an offer – one I refuse to his chagrin. He’s never been one to take no for an answer, and he definitely won’t in my case. He wants to leave behind a legacy. A child... -
![Born a Colored Girl by Michael Edwin Q.]()
Born a Colored Girl by Michael Edwin Q.
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFrom the author of Pappy Moses' Peanut Plantation and A Slave's Song - Two slaves, a mother and daughter, separated during the Civil War never to see each other again. From her mother's diary, Etta Jean will learn to love the mother she never knew. And from the same diary, a mother will finally give of herself... -
![The Complete Works of Louisa May Alcott (Illustrated): Novels, Short Stories, Plays & Poems: Little Women, Good Wives, Little Men, Jo's Boys, A Modern ... and Jill, Behind a Mask, The Abbot's Ghost… by Louisa May Alcott]()
The Complete Works of Louisa May Alcott (Illustrated): Novels, Short Stories, Plays & Poems: Little Women, Good Wives, Little Men, Jo's Boys, A Modern ... and Jill, Behind a Mask, The Abbot's Ghost… by Louisa May Alcott
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThis carefully crafted ebook: "The Complete Works of Louisa May Alcott (Illustrated)” is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents...Categorized as:
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Major by Tina Martin
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMajor St. Claire had his eyes set on Selah Winston almost immediately. Since meeting her at his brother’s wedding, he felt the sparks that jumpstarted his dormant heart. The connection was instant and undeniable. Whenever he’s near Selah, he feels a sense of home and security... -
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Regal by Tina Martin
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHis eyes would always follow her signature strut with her tall heels and fitted dresses. He always had something witty to say with her because he just HAD to say something. But the small talk was no longer cutting it. He wanted to know the real Felicity James. Regal St. Claire isn’t single because someone broke his heart. He never desired marriage because he didn’t think it fit him... -
![His Love Is More Than Enough : Adonis & Femi by Mel Dau]()
His Love Is More Than Enough : Adonis & Femi by Mel Dau
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHe loves me but is it enough?Femi Wilson life hasn't been Crystal Stairs but she is still determined to make it to the top. Through hard work and perseverance she has accomplished a major goal, being accepted into her college of choice on a full athletic scholarship. A night that was supposed to be a celebration turns into one of the most detrimental nights of her life... -
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![The Unabridged Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe]()
The Unabridged Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsUnder-appreciated in his own time, Poe's unique genius for exploring the darker corridors of the human imagination raised nightmares to the level of art. This collection includes poetry and prose, including "The Conqueror Worm", "The Fall of the House of Usher", "The Murders in the Rue Morgue", and "The Pit and the Pendulum". 1,186 pp...Categorized as:
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![Official Girl by Charmanie Saquea]()
Official Girl by Charmanie Saquea
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsReneice “Neicey” Peake is a hardworking 18 year old that goes to school and works a 9 to 5. Losing her mother at a young age and never knowing who her father was forced her to be raised by her older brother, Ramone. Ramone did the best he could to keep his sister on the straight and narrow but, when he gets locked up, he leaves his sister to fend for herself... -
![The Color Purple Collection: The Color Purple, The Temple of My Familiar, and Possessing the Secret of Joy by Alice Walker]()
The Color Purple Collection: The Color Purple, The Temple of My Familiar, and Possessing the Secret of Joy by Alice Walker
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThree powerful novels by Alice Walker, beginning with her masterpiece The Color Purple, and following characters as they are drawn into critical confrontations with history The Color Purple is Walker’s stunning, Pulitzer Prize–winning novel of courage in the face of oppression. Celie grows up in rural Georgia, navigating a childhood of ceaseless abuse... -
![Early Novels & Stories: Go Tell It on the Mountain / Giovanni’s Room / Another Country / Going to Meet the Man by James Baldwin]()
Early Novels & Stories: Go Tell It on the Mountain / Giovanni’s Room / Another Country / Going to Meet the Man by James Baldwin
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratings“The civil rights struggle,” said The New York Times Book Review, “found eloquent expression in [Baldwin’s] novels. His historical importance is indisputable.” Here, in a Library of America volume edited by Nobel laureate Toni Morrison, is the fiction that established James Baldwin’s reputation as a writer who fused unblinking realism and rare verbal eloquence... -
![God Ain't Through Yet by Mary Monroe]()
God Ain't Through Yet by Mary Monroe
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsEven though her life has its ups and downs, Annette Goode Davis feels lucky. Most of all, she's grateful that her husband, Pee Wee, took her back after he discovered she was having an affair. The trouble is, Annette isn't sure his heart is really in it. Her best friend Rhoda is quick to point out that Annette got herself into this mess, so she has to be patient with Pee Wee... -
![Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley]()
Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA picture book edition of the classic, Ozymandias, was composed in 1817 by P.B. Shelley."I met a traveler..."With these words the English poet Percy Shelley transported his readers to ancient Egypt. Ozymandias is the great pharoah Ramses II, whose statue Shelley imagined lying broken in the deset and whose name he chose as the title for his poem...Categorized as:
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![Little Girl Lost: The Return of Johnnie Wise by Keith Lee Johnson]()
Little Girl Lost: The Return of Johnnie Wise by Keith Lee Johnson
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWith the smell of burning wood and bricks lingering in the cool morning breeze, Johnnie Wise left New Orleans while her home was still smoldering. She had just been acquitted of murdering Sharon Trudeau, one of her former stocker brokers who had stolen a substantial amount of her nestegg. Broke with nothing but the clothes on her back and the shoes on her feet, Johnnie heads to East St... -
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Homecoming by Beverly Jenkins
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA historical holiday story of homecoming and second-chance romance by NAACP Image Award Nominee, Beverly Jenkins. In 1883, Lydia Cooper is happily traveling back home to celebrate the simple joys of the holidays when an unexpected complication appears in the all-too-distracting form of Gray Dane, the man she loved as a girl; the man she left behind... -
![Tame the Savage Heart by Michael Edwin Q.]()
Tame the Savage Heart by Michael Edwin Q.
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFrom the best selling author of BUT HAVE NOT LOVE and BORN A COLORED GIRL comes a love story like no other. She was a young slave girl. He was an African warrior purchased at a slave auction with the intent he would father a new breed of stronger slave. Despite all odds, a language barrier and the disapproval of her family and friends, the two fight for a life together... -
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Ramsey by Tina Martin
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsRamsey St. Claire juggles his new role as husband to Gianna while at the same time running a million-dollar empire – St. Claire Architects. While work is important, everyone who knows Ramsey knows Gianna is his number one priority. She’s his second chance at happiness, a chance he wasn’t expecting but one he’s grateful for. He loves her. More than life. More than anything... -
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![Romulus by Tina Martin]()
Romulus by Tina Martin
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsRomulus St. Claire operates under the guise that he’ll never marry. In the back of his mind, he knows it’s a lie. He would marry if the woman was special enough – someone like his best friend, Siderra Monroe. He’s in no hurry to make her his. He’s still in limbo with his feelings and he doesn’t believe he’s ready for a woman like her, even though he has a feeling she’s in love with him... -
![Take it Off by AshleyNicole, Erin B.]()
Take it Off by AshleyNicole, Erin B.
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThyri and Mar have been sampling each other's goodies for a long time. Distance and time have made it easy to keep it from being more. Now, they’re in the same zip code, and things are changing— much to Thyri's chagrin.She's kept him at bay for all these years, but it’s not so easy when she’s in his bed every night... -
![Tell Me: The Prelude by Tina Martin]()
Tell Me: The Prelude by Tina Martin
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsI never wanted to fall in love. At thirty-eight years of age, I haven’t taken the plunge, nor do I plan to. I’ve seen the damage love can do. It pretends to care, but then it tears a person down. It’s manipulative. Damaging. It lies. It hurts. It makes one weak. I know that all too well after seeing what it did to my dear mother... -
![Some Soul to Keep by J. California Cooper]()
Some Soul to Keep by J. California Cooper
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsExuberant and heart-warming, J. California Cooper is the embodiment of the simple folk tradition in black writing associated most often with Zora Neale Hurston and Langston Hughes. The author of seventeen plays and two novels, it is her stories of black family life in rural and small town America that have achieved the most acclaim and the broadest audience... -
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Royal by Tina Martin
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsRoyal St. Claire was drawn to Gemma Jacobsen from the start. It was an instant connection that he’d never had with another woman. When she was on her sickbed, he stayed by her side, helped to nurse her back to health and the two became the best of friends. Then that friendship grew into something deeper. Something Royal, the picky bachelor, couldn’t deny. Something he didn’t want to deny... -
![Дядо Йоцо гледа by Ivan Vazov, Иван Вазов]()
Дядо Йоцо гледа by Ivan Vazov, Иван Вазов
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsАпостолът в премеждиеЕдна българкаДядо Йоцо гледаИде ли?Павле...Categorized as:
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![Dieu et nous seuls pouvons by Michel Folco]()
Dieu et nous seuls pouvons by Michel Folco
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsPour échapper à la galère, Justinien Pibrac devient bourreau officiel du seigneur de Bellerocaille. Le jour de sa première exécution, après quelques maladresses rocambolesques, il parvient finalement à briser les os du condamné. Ainsi début la saga trépidante des Pibrac, qui deviendront de génération en génération les plus grands bourreaux de tous les temps...Categorized as:
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![Complete Prose Fiction by Alexander Pushkin]()
Complete Prose Fiction by Alexander Pushkin
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsPushkin’s prose tales are the foundation stones on which the great novels of Turgenev, Tolstoy, and Dostoevsky were built, but they are also brilliant and fascinating in their own right. In both prose and verse, Pushkin was one of the world’s great storytellers: direct and dramatic, clear-sighted, vivid, and passionate...Categorized as:
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![Beginners by Raymond Carver]()
Beginners by Raymond Carver
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsHere is the original manuscript of Raymond Carver’s seminal 1981 collection, What We Talk About When We Talk About Love. Carver is one of the most celebrated short-story writers in American literature—his style is both instantly recognizable and hugely influential—and the pieces in What We Talk About . .Categorized as:
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![The Pursuer by Julio Cortázar]()
The Pursuer by Julio Cortázar
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA short story by Julio Cortázar... -
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![Rimas/ Rhymes by Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer]()
Rimas/ Rhymes by Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThis is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process... -
![Erotique Noire/Black Erotica by Roseann P. Bell]()
Erotique Noire/Black Erotica by Roseann P. Bell
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA collective work of art whose time has come. Of lasting value for all lovers of literature and the erotic, this is a glorious, groundbreaking celebration of black sensuality, including works by Alice Walker, Ntozake Shange, and many more... -
![Daughters of the Dust A Novel by Julie Dash]()
Daughters of the Dust A Novel by Julie Dash
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsInspired by her Sundance Festival award-winning film "Daughters of the Dust," Julie Dash has put her cinematic vision on the page, penning a rich, magical new novel which extends her story of a family of complex, independent African-American women... -
![Kisses Don't Lie by Tamika Newhouse]()
Kisses Don't Lie by Tamika Newhouse
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTheres Dean her first love and then theres Keith Mr. Right Now. Kyla struggles with her desires and her past when she makes a rare trip back home to Fort Worth. After leaving ten years ago Kyla comes to terms with the one who got away; Dean and their short lived romance comes into full swing... -
![Marrying Mr. Right by Sabrina Sims McAfee]()
Marrying Mr. Right by Sabrina Sims McAfee
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFall in love with the Brides of Hilton Head Island, Sabrina Sims McAfee’s, International Bestselling contemporary romance series. MARRYING MR. RIGHT is an emotional, sexy love story with light suspense. When the alpha men in this series falls in love it’s always and forever. And their dashing brides couldn’t be happier. Book Description: Taylor Spelling is in big trouble... -
![The Color of Hope by Kim Cash Tate]()
The Color of Hope by Kim Cash Tate
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHope shines brightest when all seems lost. Stephanie London led a life of comfort and ease in St. Louis before feeling inexplicably drawn back to her father’s roots in the tiny Southern town of Hope Springs. Charlotte Willoughby has lived there all her life and longs to make a new life somewhere else. Stephanie doesn’t know exactly what she’s doing there—or how to occupy her time...Categorized as:
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![The Complete Works of Thomas Hardy (Illustrated) by Thomas Hardy, Prometheus Classics]()
The Complete Works of Thomas Hardy (Illustrated) by Thomas Hardy, Prometheus Classics
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThis collection gathers together the works by Thomas Hardy in a single, convenient, high quality, and extremely low priced Kindle volume! This book contains now several HTML tables of contents that will make reading a real pleasure! Novels Desperate Remedies [1871] Under the Greenwood Tree [1872] A Pair of Blue Eyes [1873] Far from the Madding Crowd [1874] The Hand of Ethelberta [1876] The... -
![Collected Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald by F. Scott Fitzgerald]()
Collected Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsKnown today primarily as the author of The Great Gatsby , F. Scott Fitzgerald was famous in the 1920s and 1930s as a short-story writer. The nineteen stories in this volume were so popular that hardcover collections— Flappers and Philosophers and Tales of the Jazz Ag e—came out almost immediately after the stories had appeared in magazines... -
![Cuckold by Kiran Nagarkar]()
Cuckold by Kiran Nagarkar
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe time is early 16th century. The Rajput kingdom of Mewar is at the height of its power. It is locked in war with the Sultanates of Delhi, Gujarat and Malwa. But there is another deadly battle being waged within Mewar itself. who will inherit the throne after the death of the Maharana? The course of history, not just of Mewar but of the whole of India, is about to be changed forever... -
![Leaves of Grass: The First (1855) Edition by Walt Whitman, Malcolm Cowley]()
Leaves of Grass: The First (1855) Edition by Walt Whitman, Malcolm Cowley
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAs Malcolm Cowley says in his introduction, the first edition of Leaves of Grass 'might be called the buried masterpiece of American writing', for it exhibits 'Whitman at his best, Whitman at his freshest in vision and boldest in language, Whitman transformed by a new experience...Categorized as:
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![Nine Guardians by Rosario Castellanos]()
Nine Guardians by Rosario Castellanos
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe seven-year-old narrator shares her observances of her parents, a wealthy landowner and his wife, and a nurturing Indian servant who has cared for the girl and her brother since birth...Categorized as:
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![The Works of William Wordsworth by William Wordsworth]()
The Works of William Wordsworth by William Wordsworth
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWilliam Wordsworth (1771-1850) is the foremost of the English Romantic poets. He was much influenced by the events of the French Revolution in his youth, and he deliberately broke away from the artificial diction of the Augustan and neo-classical tradition of the eighteenth century... -
![Lord Byron: The Major Works by Lord Byron]()
Lord Byron: The Major Works by Lord Byron
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsByron is regarded today as the ultimate Romantic, whose name has entered the language to describe a man of brooding passion. Although his private life shocked his contemporaries his poetry was immensely popular and influential, especially in Europe... -
![The World Doesn't End by Charles Simic]()
The World Doesn't End by Charles Simic
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsWinner of the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry “One of the truly imaginative writers of our time.” — Los Angles Times Book Review You never know what Charles Simic is up to until you reach the end of the line or the bottom of the paragraph. Waiting for you might be a kiss. Or a bludgeon. A smile at the absurdities of society, or a wistful, grim memory of World War II. He puns, pulls pranks... -
![The Norton Anthology of American Literature by Robert S. Levine, Wayne Franklin]()
The Norton Anthology of American Literature by Robert S. Levine, Wayne Franklin
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe Norton Anthology of American Literature, Shorter Eighth Edition, features a diverse and balanced variety of works and thorough but judicious editorial apparatus throughout. The new edition, which also newly includes much-requested authors and selections and 130 in-text images, remains an unmatched value for students...Categorized as:
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![The Tales of the Late Ivan Petrovich Belkin by Alexander Pushkin]()
The Tales of the Late Ivan Petrovich Belkin by Alexander Pushkin
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsAlexander Pushkin was Russia's first true literary genius. Best known for his poetry, he also wrote sparkling prose that revealed his national culture with elegance and understated humour. Here, his gift for portraying the Russian people is fully revealed...Categorized as:
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