Plum bun

For Angela Murray, the eldest of the Murray sisters, the only thing standing between a happy life and successful career is her color. Masked behind fairer skin and more European features, her racial identity can be forsaken so long as she leaves Philadelphia—and her sister—behind. Fleeing to New ...

Home to harlem

Disgruntled by the treatment of Black soldiers in the military, Jake Brown is determined to find a place that he can call home and feel at ease with himself. Making his way to New York, he sets out into the electric unpredictable night, emerging into Harlem a common Black man content in his lower...

Kari the elephant

Kari the Elephant (1922) is a children’s book by Dhan Gopal Mukerji. Published the year Mukerji moved from San Francisco to New York City, Kari the Elephant is the debut children’s book from the first Indian writer to gain a popular audience in the United States. Although less popular than his no...

The innocence of father brown (large print edition)

LARGE PRINT EDITION. Originally published in 1911, The Innocence of Father Brown is the first of five official collections of short stories focused on the crime-solving Roman Catholic. He is an endearing character often compared to another famous detective, Sherlock Holmes.Father Brown is a dev...

Black no more (large print edition)

Babes in toyland

Thus spoke zarathustra

Descending from mountaintops, the priest Zarathustra announces “God is dead” to the people. Though met with immediate scorn and mockery, he continues on, spending the rest of his days describing the means by which God’s successor—the “Superman”—can be found within. Thus Spoke Zarathustra is Fried...

Florante and laura

In the Kingdom of Albania, the noble and brave Duke Florante is tied to a tree. Close to death and losing hope, he begins to recount the events that have led to his current predicament: the death of his father, the suffering of his people, and perhaps even, the loss of the woman he loved.

Pictures of the floating world

<p><b>Published seven years after her debut collection <i>A Dome of Many-Coloured Glasses</i>, <i>Pictures of the Floating World</i> (1919), is another dazzling volume of poetry from the Pulitzer Prize winning poet, Amy Lowell.</b><p> Divided into t...

Gloriana

Gloriana; or, The Revolution of 1900 (1890) is a novel by Lady Florence Dixie. A member of the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies, Dixie believed in the emancipation of women through radical cultural and political change. Gloriana; or, The Revolution of 1900, a feminist utopian novel, i...

Clouds of witness

Jacob's room (large print edition)

LARGE PRINT EDITION. Virginia Woolf’s third novel, Jacob’s Room (1922), is a penetrating look at one man’s life from childhood until his untimely death in the first World War. On the surface, this could be considered an anti-war novel, yet it is a wildly inventive experimental work that dispels ...

Coyote stories

“We who lived the days of tribal life before our destruction began remember with gratefulness our storytellers and the delight and joy and richness which they imparted to our lives. We never tired of their tales, though told countless times. They will, forsooth, never grow old, for they have with...

The walls of jericho

Published to critical acclaim in 1928, The Walls of Jericho is the debut novel of one of the most important voices of the Harlem Renaissance, Rudolph Fisher.Taking on a friend’s challenge to “write [a] novel treating both the upper and lower classes of black Harlem equally,” The Walls of Jericho ...

Poirot investigates (large print edition)

LARGE PRINT EDITION. Here is a sparkling collection of mystery gems, polished puzzlers from the pen of Agatha Christie starring the vain, eccentric and utterly brilliant Hercule Poirot. Hercule Poirot grapples with a chain of mysteries that challenge his ingenuity and display the author’s wide-...

These old shades

On a previously uneventful night in Paris, Justin Alastai–the infamous and dastardly Duke of Avon–is delivered a stroke of serendipity in the form of a disheveled denarian. Taking in the lost soul as a page, the Duke is given the opportunity for revenge against the Comte de Saint-Vire and inadver...