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Four Great Americans; Washington, Franklin, Webster, Lincoln
ReadHowYouWant 2008; US$ 4.99Books for All Kinds of Readers Read HowYouWant offers the widest selection of on-demand, accessible format editions on the market today. Our 7 different sizes of EasyRead are optimized by increasing the font size and spacing between the words and the letters. We partner with leading publishers around the globe. Our goal is to have accessible editions... more...
Just Above My Head
Penguin Books Ltd 1994; Not AvailableJames Baldwin first wrote about homosexuality in his famous early novel, Giovanni?s Room . Here he brings homosexuality and race together in the story of the great gospel singer Arthur Montana. Arthur was found dead in the basement of a London pub at the age of thirty-nine, yet he lies on in this memoir. Written by Hall, his brother and manager,... more...
If Beale Street Could Talk
Penguin Books Ltd 1994; Not AvailableWe are in Harlem, the black soul of New York City, in the era of Aretha Franklin and Ray Charles. The narrator of Baldwin?s novel is Tish nineteen, and pregnant. Her lover Fonny, father of her child, is in jail accused of rape. Flashbacks from their love affair are woven into the compelling struggle of two families to win justice for Fonny. To this... more...
The Fire Next Time
Penguin Books Ltd 1990; Not AvailableSince it was first published, this famous study of the Black Problem in America has become a classic. Powerful, haunting and prophetic, it sounds a clarion warning to the world. more...
Nobody Knows My Name
Penguin Books Ltd 1991; Not AvailableBaldwin's early essays have been described as 'an unequalled meditation on what it means to be black in America' . This rich and stimulating collection contains 'Fifth Avenue, Uptown: a Letter from Harlem', polemical pieces on the tragedies inflicted by racial segregation and a poignant account of his first journey to 'the Old Country' , the southern... more...
Peptide Solvation and H-bonds
Elsevier Science 2006; US$ 166.00Volume 72 addresses the role of peptide backbone solvation in the energetics of protein folding. Particular attention is focused on modeling and computation. This volume will be of particular interest to biophysicists and structural biologists. *Challenges the longstanding and basic assumptions of structural biology *Discusses how to solve the problem... more...
Native Sons
Random House Publishing Group 2009; US$ 13.95James Baldwin was beginning to be recognized as the most brilliant black writer of his generation when his first book of essays, Notes of a Native Son , established his reputation in 1955. No one was more pleased by the book?s reception than Baldwin?s high school friend Sol Stein. A rising New York editor, novelist, and playwright, Stein had suggested... more...
The Cross of Redemption
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2010; US$ 16.00The Cross of Redemption is a revelation by an American literary master: a gathering of essays, articles, polemics, reviews, and interviews that have never before appeared in book form. James Baldwin was one of the most brilliant and provocative literary figures of the past century, renowned for his fierce engagement with issues haunting our common... more...
Giovanni's Room
Penguin Books Ltd 2001; Not AvailableConsidered an 'audacious' second novel, GIOVANNI'S ROOM is set in the 1950s Paris of American expatriates, liaisons, and violence. This now-classic story of a fated love triangle explores, with uncompromising clarity, the conflicts between desire, conventional morality and sexual identity. more...
Another Country
Penguin Books Ltd 2001; Not AvailablePublished in 1962, this is an emotionally intense novel of love, hatred, race and liberal America in the 1960s. Set in Greenwhich Village, Harlem and France, ANOTHER COUNTRY tells the story of the suicide of jazz-musician Rufus Scott and the friends who search for an understanding of his life and death, discovering uncomfortable truths about themselves... more...









