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1	Beloved more books like this by Toni Morrison It is the mid-1800s. At Sweet Home in Kentucky, an era is ending as slavery comes under attack from the abolitionists. The worlds of Halle and Paul D. are to be destroyed in a cataclysm of torment and agony. The world of Sethe, however, is to turn from one of love to one of violence and death - the death of Sethe's baby daughter Beloved, whose ... see all copies from £1.56! new only from £3.19! \| signed copies \| first editions
2	A Mercy more books like this by Toni Morrison Nobel Prize-winning author Morrison's latest masterpiece centers on a powerful tragedy involving a mother and daughter, and reveals how acts of mercy have unforeseen consequences. see all copies from £13.01! new only from £13.01! \| signed copies \| first editions
3	Bluest Eye more books like this by Toni Morrison The chronicle of the tragic lives of a poor black family in 1940s America. Every night Pecola, unlovely and unloved, prays for blue eyes like those of her white schoolfellows. She becomes the focus of the mingled love and hatred engendered by her family's frailty and the world's cruelty. see all copies from £1.38! new only from £5.51! \| signed copies \| first editions
4	Song of Solomon more books like this by Toni Morrison This is the story of Macon "Milkman" Dead, heir to the richest black family in a Midwestern town, as he makes a voyage of rediscovery, travelling southwards geographically and inwards spiritually. Through the enlightenment of one man, the novel recapitulates the history of slavery and liberation. see all copies from £1.38! new only from £5.62! \| signed copies \| first editions
5	Sula more books like this by Toni Morrison A novel set in a small town in Ohio, focusing on two girls, Nell and Sula, both black, both poor, who share their dreams until Sula escapes to live a vagrant city life for ten years. When she returns, the bond of their friendship is broken. see all copies from £1.38! new only from £6.24! \| signed copies \| first editions
6	Paradise more books like this by Toni Morrison The theme of this novel is the anatomy of an internecine war, cultural, religious and racial. It is waged between a community of nuns and the strays and misfits who arrive at their convent for safe haven, and those who dwell in the surrounding black township in Oklahoma. see all copies from £1.38! new only from £2.04! \| signed copies \| first editions
7	Jazz more books like this by Toni Morrison Joe Trace, door-to-door salesman, erstwhile devoted husband, shoots to death his lover of three months, 18 year old Dorcas. At the funeral, his determined, hardworking wife Violet tries to disfigure the corpse with a knife. Captures the complex humanity of black urban life. see all copies from £1.38! new only from £4.13! \| signed copies \| first editions
8	Tar Baby more books like this by Toni Morrison Into a white millionaire's Caribbean mansion comes: Jadine, a graduate of the Sorbonne, art historian - an American black now living in Paris and Rome and Son, a criminal on the run, uneducated, violent, contemptuous - an American black from small-town Florida. He is a threat to her freedom she is a threat to his identity. see all copies from £1.38! new only from £6.07! \| signed copies \| first editions
9	Love more books like this by Toni Morrison (Read by) Toni Morrison's eighth novel centers on the Cosey family. Bill Cosey rose from poverty to become the millionaire owner of a prosperous resort. His son, Billy Boy, and Billy's daughter, Christine, have opposing views about the place. As years go by, Cosey's wealthy widow, Heed, struggles to keep the upper hand, and Billy's widow, May, becomes ... see all copies from £1.38! new only from £5.54! \| signed copies \| first editions
10	Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination more books like this by Toni Morrison Morrison ponders the effect that living in a historically racialized society has had on American writing in the 19th and 20th centuries. She argues that race has become a metaphor, a way of referring to forces, events and forms of social decay, economic division and human panic. Her point is that the central characteristics of American literature ... see all copies from £5.54! new only from £8.43! \| signed copies \| first editions
11 view cover	Remember: The Journey to School Integration more books like this by Toni Morrison The Pulitzer Prize winner presents a treasure chest of archival photographs that depict the historical events surrounding school desegregation. see all copies from £6.24! new only from £10.21! \| signed copies \| first editions
12 view cover	Big Box more books like this by Toni Morrison, Slade Morrison, Giselle Potter (Illustrator) Here's what happens when parents, teachers, and other adults try to determine the boundaries of personal freedom for a group of youngsters, "who just can't handle their freedom." To make youngsters abide by their rules, the grown-ups create a world inside a box. A world with toys and games, and treats and gifts, and all kinds of stuff they think ... see all copies from £9.62! new only from £44.29! \| first editions
13 view cover	Beloved-Gift Edition more books like this by Toni Morrison Sethe, an escaped slave, kills her own daughter Beloved with a handsaw to prevent her from being claimed as a slave in this stunningly rendered story. Beloved returns to her mother as a ghost 20 years later. see all copies from £5.54! new only from £6.66! \| first editions
14 view cover	What Moves at the Margin: Selected Nonfiction more books like this by Toni Morrison, Carolyn C Denard (Editor) Collecting three decades of Morrison's writings about her work, life, literature, and American society, this collection provides a unique glimpse into her viewpoint as an observer of the world, the arts, and the changing landscape of American culture. see all copies from £15.23! new only from £16.63! \| first editions
15 view cover	Book of Mean People more books like this by Toni Morrison, Slade Morrison, Pascal Lemaitre (Illustrator) Noble prize-winning author Toni Morrison collaborates with her son, Slade, to present this reassuring look at mean people and angry feelings. Color illustrations accompany the text. see all copies from £5.54! new only from £6.76! \| first editions
16 view cover	Deep Sightings & Rescue Missions: Fiction, Essays, and Conversations more books like this by Toni Cade Bambara, Toni Morrison (Editor) Six stories, unpublished at Bambara's untimely death, plus six essays, all of which examine the role of the writer as activist and demonstrate her concern for the lives of the most powerless black Americans. see all copies from £5.54! new only from £7.56! \| first editions
17 view cover	Who's Got Game?: The Ant or the Grasshopper?, the Lion or the Mouse?, Poppy or the Snake? more books like this by Toni Morrison (Read by), Slade Morrison Created by Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison and her son Slade, this is a modern-day interpretation of an Aesop's fable. When Poppy accidentally runs over a snake with his truck, he is coerced by the clever snake into taking him home, but nothing Poppy does seems to satisfy the snake's needs. However, when the snake tries to take advantage ... see all copies from £4.77! new only from £4.77!
18 view cover	Conversations with Toni Morrison more books like this by Danille K Taylor-Guthrie (Editor), Toni Morrison Collections of interviews with notable modern writers see all copies from £7.00! new only from £14.53! \| first editions
19 view cover	A Kind of Rapture more books like this by Robert Bergman (Photographer), Meyer Schapiro (Afterword by), Toni Morrison (Introduction by) Traveling by car along the East Coast and through several Midwestern states, photographer Robert Bergman has transformed images of ordinary people into powerful works of art in these 51 color photographs. see all copies from £11.53! new only from £23.76! \| first editions
20 view cover	Birth of a nation'hood : gaze, script and spectacle in the O.J. Simpson case more books like this by Toni Morrison, Claudia Brodsky Lacour A collection of 13 essays by academics - black and white, male and female - which explore the historical, political, cultural, psychological, racial and linguistic aspects of the O.J. Simpson case. see all copies from £2.04! new only from £10.60! \| signed copies \| first editions
21 view cover	The Ant or the Grasshopper? more books like this by Toni Morrison, Slade Morrison, Pascal Lemaitre (Illustrator) An ant named Kid A works hard to prepare for winter while his friend, a grasshopper named Foxy G, makes his tasks easier by performing inspiring music for him. When winter comes, will Kid A remember Foxy G's kindness? This updated version of Aesop's "The Ant and the Grasshopper," presents the fable in a colorful comic book-style format. see all copies from £5.86! new only from £11.06! \| signed copies \| first editions
22 view cover	Race-ing justice, en-gendering power : essays on Anita Hill, Clarence Thomas, and the construction of social reality more books like this by Toni Morrison In October 1991, one of the most controversial cases in recent years unfolded in the US Supreme Court - the Clarence Thomas/Anita Hill hearings, a disturbing series of hearings which were broadcast on television and radio throughout the world. The case focused on language, on the legal problems in establishing the truth and on the justice system ... see all copies from £3.07! new only from £5.54! \| first editions
23	Beloved; a Novel by Toni Morrison First published in 1987, a novel set in the mid-19th century, when moves to abolish slavery are at their height and one man's world of love turns to violence when his daughter, Beloved, dies at the hands of her mother. From the author of EN-GENDERING and NOBEL SPEECH. see all copies from £5.78! new only from £25.95! \| first editions
24 view cover	Paradise more books like this by David M. Gracer, Toni Morrison Toni Morrison writes about a group of African Americans who found a community in Oklahoma called Ruby. When the outside world threatens the peace of the community, five women whose lives are particularly troubled take refuge in an abandoned convent, which alienates the men of the town. In this novel, which pits men against women and presents women ... see all copies from £4.13! new only from £4.13!
25 view cover	Beloved: Great Books Edition more books like this by Toni Morrison Sethe, an escaped slave, kills her own daughter Beloved with a handsaw to prevent her from being claimed as a slave in this stunningly rendered story. Beloved returns to her mother as a ghost 20 years later. see all copies from £5.54! new only from £21.19! \| first editions

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