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Marcus Rediker f The Slave Ship: A Human History “This beautifully written and exhaustively researched book gives us unforgettable portraits of the captives, captains, and crewmen who came together in that particular kind of hell known as the slave ship.”—Robert Harms, Yale University. “Truly a magnificent and disturbing book—disturbing not only because it details the violence and barbarism of the free market in human beings, but it reminds us that all actors in this drama are human, including the ship’s crew.”—Robin D. G. Kelley, University of Southern California. 16-page b/w insert; 8 maps. Penguin • 448 pp. • 978-0-14-311425-3 • $16.00 George Washington Book Prize; OAH Merle Curti Award; James A. Rawley Prize; a Library Journal Best Book of the Year

Bernardine Evaristo f BLONDE ROOTS A provocative novel by “one of Britain’s most innovative authors” (New Nation) that upends the history of the trans- atlantic slave trade, reversing and reexamining notions of savagery and civilization, as it follows a young woman’s journey to freedom. “A riotous, bitter course in the arbitrary nature of our cultural values. What could we possibly learn from a new satire of slavery? Plenty.”—Washington Post Book World. “Evaristo tethers her imagination to slavery’s brute realities.”—Wall Street Journal. Riverhead • 256 pp. • 978-1-59448-863-4 • $24.95 Riverhead • 288 pp. • 978-1-59448-434-6 • $15.00 Paperback available January 2010 An Orange Prize nominee and Youth Panel winner

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R. Dwayne Betts f A QUESTION OF FREEDOM A Memoir of Survival, Learning, and Coming of Age in Prison Incarcerated at sixteen for a carjacking, the author reflects upon his 8-year term in Virginia’s worst prisons, seeking to understand how his past led to his crime. “Dwayne Betts was incarcerated…in an unforgiving place—a place in which he also discovered the incredible power of books and reading. He’s written his own life-changing book, which may well prevent other young men from mak- ing that detour to prison. A searing and ultimately uplifting story.”—Hill Harper, author of Letters to a Young Brother. Avery • 272 pp. • 978-1-58333-348-8 • $23.00

Ira Berlin f THE MAKING OF AFRICAN AMERICA The Four Great Migrations A leading historian offers a sweeping account of the African American experience over four centuries by focus- ing on the four different migrations: the forced Middle Passage to slavery, the relocation of one million slaves to the interior of the antebellum South, the movement of six million former slaves from the rural South to industrial cities in the North, and since the 1960s, the arrival of black immigrants from Africa, South America, Europe and the Caribbean. Viking • 320 pp. • 978-0-670-02137-6 • $27.95 Available January 2010

Sudhir Venkatesh Gang Leader for a Day A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets The story of a bold sociology graduate student who befriended a gang leader in Chicago and for seven years was able to observe the fascinating, complicated, and often dangerous everyday life of the gang from the inside. “Abso- lutely incredible....Venkatesh’s memoir of his years observ- ing life in Chicago’s inner city is a book unlike any other I have read.”—Steven D. Levitt, co-author of Freakonomics. Penguin • 320 pp. • 978-0-14-311493-2 • $16.00 A School Library Journal Best Adult Book for Teens selection

Harriet E. Wilson f Our Nig or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black 150th Anniversary Edition Edited with an Expanded Introduction and Notes by P. Gabrielle Foreman and Reginald H. Pitts This autobiographical narrative of the antebellum North is the first book by an African American writer published in America (1859)— who was also a pioneering entrepreneur of black women’s hair care. “The landmark research and skillful criticism done by Foreman and Pitts should shape discussion of Our Nig for years to come.”— African American Review. Replaces 978-0-14-243777-3. Penguin Classics • 176 pp. • 978-0-14-310576-3 • $13.00

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Leon Dash Frederick Douglass African- ROSA LEE MY BONDAGE AND MY FREEDOM A Mother and Her Family Edited with an Introduction american LIVES in Urban America and Notes by John David Smith The account of Rosa Lee Cunningham’s The eloquent ex-slave’s second autobiogra- bleak early life in the Jim Crow South, from phy—written ten years after his emancipa- resorting to prostitution to feed her eight tion and during his celebrated career as a R. Dwayne Betts children in the slums of Washington, D.C., to speaker and editor—catapulted Douglass f A QUESTION OF FREEDOM her death from AIDS. Based on a series of into the international spotlight as the fore- A Memoir of Survival, Learning, Pulitzer Prize–winning articles, this book most spokesman for American blacks. and Coming of Age in Prison defies simplistic conservative and liberal See page 3 Penguin Classics • 432 pp. • 978-0-14-043918-2 • $12.00 arguments about why the black underclass NARRATIVE OF THE LIFE OF FREDERICK persists and puts a human face on their Douglas G. Brinkley DOUGLASS, AN AMERICAN SLAVE, struggle to survive despite both disastrous ROSA PARKS Written by Himself personal choices and almost insurmount- A Penguin Lives Biography Edited with an Introduction Viking • 256 pp. • 978-0-670-89160-3 • $19.95 able circumstances. by Houston A. Baker, Jr. Plume • 288 pp. • 978-0-452-27896-7 • $15.00 Reprinting the 1845 edition, this volume Vincent Carretta includes a selective bibliography of recent EQUIANO, THE AFRICAN Drs. Sampson Davis, George Jenkins, literary, biographical, and cultural criticism, and Rameck Hunt with Lisa Frazier Page Biography of a Self-Made Man and a note on the text. The Pact A portrait of the former slave whose 1789 Penguin Classics • 160 pp. • 978-0-14-039012-4 • $11.00 Three Young Men Make a Promise autobiography became a popular polemic and Fulfill a Dream Introduction by Peter J. Gomes against the slave trade. “An intriguing piece Afterword by Gregory Stephens “Starkly honest, it is a dramatic firsthand of detective work.”—The Washington Post. Signet Classics • 160 pp. • 978-0-451-52994-7 • $4.95 narrative detailing how each doctor man- Penguin • 464 pp. • 978-0-14-303842-9 • $16.00 • Free Teacher’s Guide available at aged to rise above the ills of city life—vio- us.penguingroup.com/tguides lence, drugs and poverty—to achieve what Veronica Chambers once seemed like a far-fetched dream.”— W. E. B. Du Bois MAMA’S GIRL The Newark Star-Ledger. “Probably the most THE SOULS OF BLACK FOLK “Chambers describes her traumatic youth important book for American families that Introduction and Notes by Donald B. Gibson during the 70s and 80s in Brooklyn, Los has been written since the protest era.”— Du Bois’s 1903 collection of essays is a Angeles, and other locales. An unforgetta- Chicago Sun-Times. thoughful exploration of the moral and ble testament to the resiliency of the human Riverhead • 272 pp. • 978-1-57322-989-0 • $14.00 intellectual issues surrounding the percep- spirit and the depth of love.”—Booklist. Books for a Better Life Award tion of blacks within American society. Riverhead • 208 pp. • 978-1-57322-599-1 • $15.00 Also available: The Bond 978-1-59448-330-1 Penguin Classics • 288 pp. • 978-0-14-018998-8 • $12.00

June Cross George Dawson and Richard Glaubman Introduction by Randall Kenan Signet Classics • 256 pp. • 978-0-451-52603-8 • $5.95 SECRET DAUGHTER Life Is So Good A Mixed-Race Daughter One man’s extraordinary journey through and the Mother Who Gave Her Away the 20th century and how he learned to read Olaudah Equiano “A soul-searching coming-of-age story that at age 98. “A remarkable autobiography.”— THE INTERESTING NARRATIVE plumbs the depths of America’s most intract- The Christian Science Monitor. And Other Writings able problem—the ugly reality of racism.”— Penguin • 272 pp. • 978-0-14-100168-5 • $15.00 Revised, Expanded, Edited, with Notes Charlayne Hunter-Gault, author of In My Place. and an Introduction by Vincent Carretta Penguin • 320 pp. • 978-0-14-311211-2 • $15.00 Penguin Classics • 432 pp. • 978-0-14-243716-2 • $12.00

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Marshall Frady Harriet Jacobs, writing as Linda Brent Martin Luther King, Jr. INCIDENTS IN THE LIFE OF A SLAVE GIRL A Penguin Lives Biography Hill Harper Edited with an Introduction “Frady does a wonderful job here, packing and Notes by Nell Irvin Painter this small, highly readable book with detail f THE CONVERSATION Also includes A True Tale of Slavery, her and firm analysis...ideal for undergraduates.” How Black Men and Women brother John S. Jacobs’s brief memoir. “One —Gerald Early, Washington University. “An Can Build Trusting Relationships of the major autobiographies of the Afro- excellent introduction to that man who was The celebrity author of Letters to a Young American tradition.”—Henry Louis Gates, Jr. King.”—Los Angeles Times. Brother and Letters to a Young Sister tackles the Penguin Classics • 320 pp. • 978-0-14-043795-9 • $12.00 Penguin • 224 pp. • 978-0-14-303648-7 • $13.00 urgent challenges of the black community. Gotham • 192 pp. • 978-1-592-40475-9 • $22.50 Afterword by Myrlie Evers-Williams Signet Classics • 256 pp. • 978-0-451-52752-3 • $5.95 Henry Louis Gates, Jr., editor Letters to a Young Sister • Free Teacher’s Guide at us.penguingroup.com/tguides f THE CLASSIC SLAVE NARRATIVES DeFINE Your Destiny Introduction by the editor Foreword by Gabrielle Union LeBron James and Buzz Bissinger f Four influentional and vivid stories of slav- Hill, actor and star of CSI: NY, shares his pow- SHOOTING STARS ery available in one volume. Includes The erful wisdom for young women everywhere, The Shooting Stars were a bunch of kids— Life of Olaudah Equiano, The History of Mary drawing on the courageous advice of the basketball superstar LeBron James and his Prince, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Doug- female role models who transformed his best friends—from inner-city Akron, Ohio. lass, and Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. life. Includes contributions from Angela Bas- United by their love of the game and their Signet Classics • 688 pp. • 978-0-451-52824-7 • $7.95 set, Michelle Obama, Tatyana Ali, and Eve. yearning for companionship, they quickly Gotham • 192 pp. • 978-1-592-40351-6 • $22.50 forged a bond that would carry them An NAACP Image Award finalist through thick and thin, and to a national Nelson George championship in their senior year of high f CITY KID Letters to a Young Brother school. “A nuanced coming-of-age drama A Writer’s Memoir of MANifest Your Destiny about American culture and race, about orga- Ghetto Life and Post-Soul Success A unique compilation of letters offering nized sports as redeemer and exploiter, and The writer and filmmaker tells of growing up inspirational advice, wisdom, guidance, and about the blessing and curse of celebrity.”— a comics-devouring nerd in the crime-rid- heartfelt insight to help young minority Steve Lopez, author of The Soloist. den projects of Brooklyn, illustrating how men chart their own path to success. Based Penguin Press • 352 pp. • 978-1-59420-232-2 • $26.95 bad memories can be transformed into on the author’s motivational speaking at affirming books and cinema. “Perhaps one of inner-city schools across the country, the James Weldon Johnson the seven greatest books ever written. It has letters deal with the tough issues that face ALONG THIS WAY the realness of the Autobiography of Malcolm young people today. Introduction by Sondra Kathryn Wilson X, the warmth of The Color Purple, and the Gotham • 192 pp. • 978-1-592-40249-6 • $13.00 The autobiography of the celebrated writer page count of Tuesdays with Morrie. It’s a An ALA Best Nonfiction Book for Young Adults and civil rights activist, originally published nominee; a New York Public Library’s Books for must read.”—Chris Rock. 8-page b/w insert. just four years before his death in 1938. Viking • 272 pp. • 978-0-670-02036-2 • $25.95 the Teen Age; NAACP Image Awards for Best Debut Author and Best Book for Youth/Teens Penguin Classics • 432 pp. • 978-0-14-310517-6 • $16.00 Plume • 288 pp. • 978-0-452-29604-6 • $14.00 Paperback available April 2010 THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF Also available: Post-Soul Nation 978-0-14-303515-2, The AN EX-COLORED MAN Death of Rhythm and Blues 978-0-14-200408-1 Introduction by William L. Andrews See also: Hip-Hop America, page 16 Lorraine Hansberry TO BE YOUNG, GIFTED, AND BLACK Penguin Classics • 192 pp. • 978-0-14-018402-0 • $11.00 See also: God’s Trombones, Complete Poems and Lift John Howard Griffin Lorraine Hansberry in Her Own Words Every Voice and Sing, page 12 BLACK LIKE ME Adapted by Robert Nemiroff Afterword by Robert Bonazzi Introduction by James Baldwin Elizabeth Keckley BEHIND THE SCENES A “social document of the first order” (San An extraordinary, informal autobiography or, Thirty Years a Slave, Francisco Chronicle) recounting the experi- woven from letters, diaries, previously unpub- and Four Years in the White House ences of the author, a Southern white jour- lished writings, and scenes from her plays. Introduction and Notes by William L. Andrews nalist, who impersonated an unemployed Signet • 304 pp. • 978-0-451-15952-6 • $7.99 See also: A Raisin in the Sun, page 11 The former slave and longtime confidante to black man in the Deep South of the 1950s. 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Jamaica Kincaid Caille Millner Patricia Raybon The Autobiography of My Mother The Golden Road My First White Friend “Fierce, incantatory...powerful and disturb- Notes on My Gentrification Confessions on Race, Love, and Forgiveness ing.”—The New York Times. A young writer’s search for authenticity “An African-American woman documents Plume • 240 pp. • 978-0-452-27466-2 • $14.00 among various communities of identity— her passage from racial hatred to personal black, Latino, techno-utopian, Ivy League, salvation, and delivers an eloquent message Elliot Liebow activist. “A sharp-minded, elegantly written of hope.”—Kirkus Reviews. TELL THEM WHO I AM memoir.”—San Francisco Chronicle. Penguin • 256 pp. • 978-0-14-024436-6 • $15.00 The Lives of Homeless Women Penguin • 256 pp. • 978-0-14-311297-6 • $14.00 Christopher Award for Nonfiction “Succeeds in demolishing the anonymity of A San Francisco Chronicle Notable Book the homeless. Liebow’s probing and morally Martha A. 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This biography of a The true story of Los Angeles Times journalist My Authentic Negro Experience secret interracial marriage also tells more Steve Lopez’s discovery of Nathaniel Ayers, The first black woman to write forThe Wash- about the social experience of big city life… a Julliard trained musician who now lives on ington Post’s Sunday magazine recounts her than a shelf full of urban histories.”—Thomas the streets of L.A. “An intimate portrait of four years at the paper—along with her Bender, author of The Unfinished City. mental illness, of atrocious social neglect, and odyssey from a middle-class childhood to Penguin Press • 368 pp. • 978-1-59420-200-1 • $27.95 the struggle to resurrect a fallen prodigy.” near poverty, divorce and single mother- —Mark Bowden, author of Black Hawk Down. 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Rebecca Walker BLACK, WHITE, AND JEWISH Autobiography of a Shifting Self President barack OBAMA “A beautifully written meditation on the creation of a woman’s sense of self. It is Olivia M. Cloud The New York Times about being black, white, and Jewish, born f THE GREATEST GIFT I COULD OFFER f OBAMA: The Historic Journey in the throes of the political sixties, coming Barack Obama on Parenting and Family Introduction by Bill Keller, executive editor of age in the conflicted and complex eight- Focuses on comments and quotes from Pres- Through twelve chapters, editors and report- ies and nineties.”—Jane Lazarre, author of ident Obama concerning his views on a wide ers of the Times elaborate upon Obama’s his- Beyond the Whiteness of Whiteness: Memoir range of family issues. Each of his quotes is toric presidential journey. Contributors of a White Mother of Black Sons. “Walker is a set in a context of insightful background on include managing editor Jill Abramson, who fine writer, with a finely tuned sense of the Obama’s family experience—a child of di-­ provides the biographical text and Bill Keller, intricacies of the American race labyrinth.”— vorce, raised by a single mother, woven into a executive editor, along with essays by colum- San Francisco Chronicle. blended family, reared by his grandparents, nists Paul Krugman and Thomas Friedman Riverhead • 336 pp. • 978-1-57322-907-4 • $15.00 then embracing his multi-racial roots and rel- and profiles of important figures in Obama’s YALSA Alex Award; a New York Public Library atives, and the choices he has made in start- life and the campaign—Valerie Jarrett, Hil- Book for the Teen Age selection ing his own family. Includes b/w photos. lary Clinton, John McCain, his parents and See also: One Big Happy Family, page 18 Berkley • 112 pp. • 978-0-425-23140-0 • $14.00 grandparents, and his wife, Michelle. In addi- tion, Obama’s own writing, from his memoirs Booker T. Washington Roberta Edwards and speeches across the country, will also be UP FROM SLAVERY f BARACK OBAMA included, along with his iconic and ground- An Autobiography United States President breaking Inauguration Day speech. Introduction by Louis R. Harlan Updated and Expanded Riverhead • 240 pp. • 978-1-59448-893-1 • $40.00 Vividly recounting Washington’s life—his Illustrated by Ken Call childhood as a slave, his struggle for educa- Grosset & Dunlap • 64 pp. • 978-044845234-0 • $4.99 Barack Obama tion, his founding and presidency of the f THE INAUGURAL ADDRESS 2009 Tuskegee Institute, his meetings with the Hendrik Hertzberg A keepsake edition commemorating the inau- country’s leaders—Up from Slavery reveals f ¡OBÁMANOS! guration of our 44th president with words of the conviction he held that the black man’s The Birth of a New Political Era the two great thinkers and writers who have salvation lay in education, industriousness, The celebrated political analyst for The New helped shape Obama politically, philosoph- and self-reliance. Yorker recounts the recent epochal election, ically, and personally: Abraham Lincoln and Penguin Classics • 400 pp. • 978-0-14-039051-3 • $11.00 showing how the rise of the junior senator Ralph Waldo Emerson. Also includes Lin- Introduction by Ishmael Reed from Illinois forever altered the political coln’s 1861 Inaugural Address, his second Signet Classics • 256 pp. • 978-0-451-52754-7 • $4.95 landscape. Address in 1865, his Gettysburg Address from • Teacher’s Guide available at us.penguingroup.com/ Penguin Press • 288 pp. • 978-1-59420-236-0 • $25.95 1863 and Emerson’s 1841 “Self-Reliance.” tguides Available October 2009 Penguin • 112 pp. • 978-0-14-311642-4 • $12.00

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Eric Jerome Dickey Cornelius Eady f RESURRECTING MIDNIGHT Hardheaded Weather Charles W. Chesnutt Set amidst the exotic and vibrant streets of New and Selected Poems Miami and Buenos Aires, Resurrecting Mid- “[Eady] knows how to strike to the center of night is an action-filled thriller. “[Dickey is] a poem, fire a song and link the sparks Charles W. Chesnutt together into an effective whole, stopping THE PORTABLE CHARLES W. CHESNUTT one of the few kings of African American African American Classics Series fiction.”—The New York Times. exactly at the point where the jagged edge Henry Louis Gates, Jr., series editor Dutton • 480 pp. • 978-0-525-95057-8 • $26.95 whets the reader’s appetite for more.”—The Washington Post Book World. Edited with an Introduction Sister, Sister by William L. Andrews Sassy, comical, and true-to-life, this book Putnam • 224 pp. • 978-0-399-15511-6 • $14.00 A NAACP Image Award finalist Includes 12 short stories, 3 essays, and the tells the tale of three young African-Ameri- novel The Morrow of Tradition. can women and how their lives are coming Brutal Imagination Penguin Classics • 608 pp. • 978-0-14-310534-3 • $18.00 together, and apart, in Los Angeles. “A stirring, magical song cycle of black men NAL • 256 PP. • 978-0-451-20101-0 • $14.00 and families in America...timeless and shock- Conjure TALES Signet • 368 pp. • 978-0-451-18802-1 • $7.99 ing in its honesty, and utterly unforgettable.” And Stories of the Color Line • For a full list of Eric J. Dickey titles, —Essence. Edited with an Introduction please visit www.penguingroup.com by William Andrews Putnam • 96 pp. • 978-0-399-14720-3 • $14.00 O. B. Hardison Poetry Prize; Contains all the stories in Chesnutt’s two Paul Laurence Dunbar a National Book Award nominee published volumes, The Conjure Woman and The Sport of the Gods The Wife of His Youth, along with two uncol- Introduction by William L. Andrews Bernardine Evaristo lected works, “Dave’s Neckliss” and “Baxter’s The author tells the story of a displaced fam- f BLONDE ROOTS Procustes.” ily’s struggle to survive and prosper in early See page 2 Penguin Classics • 304 pp. • 978-0-14-118502-6 • $14.00 Harlem. “I should feel that he had made the THE HOUSE BEHIND THE CEDARS strongest claim for the negro in English lit- Albert French Edited with an Introduction erature that the negro has yet made. He has BILLY by Donald Gibson at least produced something that, however “May be the best first novel by a black author Two young African Americans decide to pass we may critically disagree about it, we can- since Morrison’s The Bluest Eye in 1969.... for white in order to claim their share of the not well refuse to enjoy.”—William Dean Evokes the lyricism of Jean Toomer’s 1923 American dream. Howells, author of The Rise of Silas Lapham. Harlem Renaissance classic Cane.”—Time. Penguin Classics • 224 pp. • 978-0-14-018685-7 • $14.00 Signet Classics • 176 pp. • 978-0-451-52755-4 • $6.95 Penguin • 224 pp. • 978-0-14-017908-8 • $15.00 THE MARROW OF TRADITION Selected Poems Edited with an Introduction Edited with an Introduction Lorraine Hansberry by Eric J. Sundquist by Herbert Woodward Martin A RAISIN IN THE SUN Based on an account of the Wilmington, “The first American Negro poet of real literary The Unfilmed Original Screenplay North Carolina race riot of 1898. “Chesnutt distinction.”—James Weldon Johnson, author Edited by Robert Nemiroff was tremendously explicit in representing of The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man. Introduction by Margaret B. Wilkerson the violence and his own anger. Today it Penguin Classics • 272 pp. • 978-0-14-243782-7 • $16.00 Commentary by Spike Lee reads as one of the more enduring novels of Hansberry’s screen adaptation of her play— the era.”—Richard Yarborough, UCLA. not the script that Columbia Pictures even- Penguin Classics • 400 pp. • 978-0-14-018686-4 • $15.00 BACK IN PRINT TITLES tually filmed, but the complete, uncut ver- sion, with at least 40 percent totally new Stories, Novels and Essays Hundreds of titles are now back in print Library of America • 939 pp. • 978-196108206-8 • $35.00 in Penguin’s Print on Demand program. material that does not appear in the play. For information on available titles contact Plume • 256 pp. • 978-0-452-26776-3 • $15.00 your Penguin college rep directly at: Signet • 256 pp. • 978-0-451-18388-0 • $7.99 • Free Teacher’s Guide available at www.penguin.com/academic us.penguingroup.com/tguides

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Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Marlon James Nella Larsen f IOLA LEROY f THE BOOK OF NIGHT WOMEN Passing Introduction by Hollis Robbins “Beautifully written....In the spirit of Toni Edited with an Introduction Henry Louis Gates, Jr., general editor Morrison and Alice Walker but in a style all and Notes by Thadious M. Davis The young daughter of a wealthy Missis- his own, James has conducted an experi- First published in 1929, this novel by the sippi planter travels North to attend school, ment in how to write the unspeakable.... Harlem Renaissance’s premier woman writer only to find she has Negro blood, and is James’s narrative, related in a hard-edged is a candid exploration of destabilization of promptly sold into slavery in the South. but lilting dialect, takes us back to the cruel racial and sexual boundaries. Penguin Classics • 240 pp. • 978-0-14-310604-3 • $15.00 world of a Jamaican sugar plantation at the Penguin Classics • 160 pp. • 978-0-14-243727-8 • $11.00 Available February 2010 turn of the 19th century.”—The New York Quicksand Times Book Review. Edited with an Introduction Joel Chandler Harris Riverhead • 464 pp. • 978-1-59448-857-3 • $26.95 and Notes by Thadious M. Davis Riverhead • 448 pp. • 978-1-59448-436-0 • $16.00 Nights with Uncle Remus “On the whole, the best piece of fiction that Paperback available February 2010 Edited with an Introduction A New York Times Editor’s Choice Negro America has produced since the hey- by Bruce Bickley and John Bickley day of Chesnutt.”—W. E. B. Du Bois. Seventy-one of the most popular Uncle Penguin Classics • 192 pp. • 978-0-14-118127-1 • $11.00 Remus and Brer Rabbit stories, which have James Weldon Johnson f influenced writers from Mark Twain to Toni GOD’S TROMBONES Seven Negro Sermons in Verse Mary Mackey Morrison, that feature African American f African American Classics Series THE WIDOW’S WAR trickster tales, etiological myths, Sea Island After the pregnant Carolyn Vinton’s aboli- legends, and ghost stories. Henry Louis Gates, Jr., general editor New Foreword by Maya Angelou tionist doctor fiancé disappears, she chooses Penguin Classics • 384 pp. • 978-0-14-243766-7 • $14.00 to continue his legacy and teams up with Also available: Uncle Remus: His Songs and Sayings Illustrated by Aaron Douglas free blacks, fugitive slaves, and white aboli- 978-0-14-039014-8 Reimagines inspirational sermons of African tionists to end slavery in 1853 Kansas. American preachers as poetry, reverberating Berkley • 368 pp. • 978-0-425-22791-6 • $15.00 Terrance Hayes with the musicality and eloquence of the f LIGHTHEAD spirituals. Includes “Listen Lord—A Prayer,” This new collection in which the political “The Creation,” “The Prodigal Son,” “Go Down Paule Marshall and the personal converge in innovative Death—A Funeral Sermon,” “Noah Built the PRAISESONG FOR THE WIDOW and beautiful ways features cultural icons Ark,” “The Crucifixion,” “Let My People Go,” and “A work of exceptional wisdom, maturity, and such as Fela Kuti and Harriet Tubman. “The Judgment Day.” generosity.”—The Washington Post Book World. Penguin • 96 pp. • 978-0-14-311696-7 • $18.00 Penguin Classics • 80 pp. • 978-0-14-310541-1 • $14.00 “Both convincing and eerily dreamlike.”—The Available April 2010 New York Times Book Review. Complete Poems Plume • 256 pp. • 978-0-452-26711-4 • $15.00 WIND IN A BOX Edited with an Introduction Penguin Poets by Sondra Kathryn Wilson James McBride Explores how traditions can be simultane- Includes all of Johnson’s published poems— f SONG YET SUNG ously upended and embraced: The struggle Fifty Years and Other Poems (1917), God’s “Illuminates...a deeply troubling, vastly com- for freedom (the wind) within containment Trombones (1927), Saint Peter Relates an Inci- plicated moment in American history, and (the box) is the unifying motif as Hayes dent of the Resurrection Day (1935)—along asks us to bear witness to both the oppressed explores how identity is shaped by race, with several previously unpublished ones. and the oppressor in ourselves.”—O, The heritage, and spirituality. Penguin Classics • 240 pp. • 978-0-14-118545-3 • $16.00 Penguin • 112 pp. • 978-0-14-303686-9 • $18.00 Oprah Magazine. “Escaped slaves, free blacks, A Hurston-Wright Legacy Award nominee Lift Every Voice and Sing slave-catchers and plantation owners weave Selected Poems a tangled web of intrigue and adventure in... Hip Logic Penguin Classics • 112 pp. • 978-0-14-118387-9 • $11.00 National Poetry Series McBride’s intricately constructed and impres- Full of tributes to the likes of Paul Robeson, sive second novel, set in pre-Civil War Go to us.penguingroup.com/newsletters to Big Bird, Balthus, and Mr. T that capture the Maryland.”—Publishers Weekly (starred). sign up for the Penguin Classics Newsletter, nuances of contemporary male African Riverhead • 384 pp. • 978-1-59448-350-9 • $15.00 to get all the latest information on new A NAACP Image Award finalist; Dayton American identity. books for your courses. 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James McBride Sue Monk Kidd Gloria Naylor Miracle at St. Anna THE SECRET LIFE OF BEES LINDEN HILLS “An impressive foray into fiction with a multi- Set in South Carolina in 1964, Sue Monk Within the framework of a modern-day shaded WWII tale.”—Entertainment Weekly. Kidd tells the story of Lily Owens, whose life Dante’s Inferno, Naylor paints a bleak and Riverhead • 304 pp. • 978-1-57322-971-5 • $15.00 has been shaped around the blurred mem- bitter picture of blacks who struggle to suc- A New York Public Library Books for the Teen ory of the afternoon her mother was killed. ceed at the cost of their souls. Age Selection When Lily’s “stand-in mother,” Rosaleen, Penguin • 320 pp. • 978-0-14-008829-8 • $15.00 See also: The Color of Water, page 6 insults three of the town’s fiercest racists, THE WOMEN OF BREWSTER PLACE Lily decides they should both escape to Bernice L. McFadden A Novel in Seven Stories Tiburon, South Carolina—a town that holds Penguin • 208 pp. • 978-0-14-006690-6 • $14.00 Sugar the secret to her mother’s past. “Sue Monk National Book Award “One of the most compelling and thought- Kidd is a direct literary descendant of Car- • Teacher’s Guide available at provoking novels I’ve read in years.”—Terry son McCullers.”—The Baltimore Sun. us.penguingroup.com/tguides McMillan, author of Waiting to Exhale. Penguin • 336 pp. • 978-0-14-311455-0 • $15.00 Plume • 240 pp. • 978-0-452-28220-9 • $14.00 ZZ Packer Black Caucus ALA Literary Award; Gold Pen/ Drinking Coffee Elsewhere Black Writers Alliance Award Toni Morrison “This is the old-time religion of storytelling, Also available: This Bitter Earth 978-0-452-28381-7 Paradise “The violence men inflict on women and the although Packer’s prose supplies plenty of the edge and energy we expect from con- Terry McMillan painful irony of an ‘all-black town’ whose cit- temporary fiction.”—The New York Times THE INTERRUPTION OF EVERYTHING izens themselves become oppressors are Book Review. “A frank, no-holds-barred humorous look at the central themes of Morrison’s rich, sym- phonic seventh novel.”—Kirkus Reviews. Riverhead • 272 pp. • 978-1-57322-378-2 • $15.00 African-American midlife.”—Seattle Times. PEN/Faulkner Award finalist; an ALA Notable NAL • 400 pp. • 978-0-451-22118-6 • $15.00 “Paradise is the most original book that Mor- Book; an Alex Award Winner; a Hurston/ Signet • 448 pp. • 978-0-451-20970-2 • $9.99 rison has written.”—The New Yorker. Wright Legacy Award nominee; an Atlanta Plume • 336 pp. • 978-0-452-28039-7 • $15.00 Choice Award nominee; A New York Times Waiting to Exhale Notable Book; A San Francisco Chronicle Best “[McMillan’s] characters’ voices are honest Book of the Year and true as though she’s wiretapped the Walter Mosley deepest feeling of the heart.”—The New York f THE LONG FALL Gary M. Pomerantz Times Book Review. The First Leonid McGill Mystery An ex-boxer and hard drinking P.I. is looking Where Peachtree NAL • 448 pp. • 978-0-451-21745-5 • $15.00 Meets Sweet Auburn • For a full list of Terry McMillan titles, please visit to clean up his act. “An astounding perfor- www.penguin.com mance by a master.”—Junot Díaz, author of A Saga of Race and Family The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. “One of “A fascinating tale of two cities told through Dinaw Mengestu [Mosley’s] finest novels to date…a new and the rise of two of Atlanta’s most illustrious The Beautiful Things vividly real detective.”—The Boston Globe. “A political families.”—David Levering Lewis, That Heaven Bears writer whose work transcends category and author of When Harlem Was in Vogue. “I was profoundly moved by this tale of an qualifies as serious literature.”—Time. Penguin • 688 pp. • 978-0-14-026509-5 • $18.00 Ethiopian immigrant’s search for accep- Riverhead • 320 pp. • 978-1-59448-858-0 • $25.95 tance, peace, and identity.”—Khaled Hos- NAL • 336 pp. • 978-0-451-23025-6 • $14.00 Ishmael Reed seini, author of The Kite Runner. “This is a Paperback available February 2010 JAPANESE BY SPRING great African novel, a great Washington • Podcast available at www.penguin.com “One of the funniest satires of university novel and a great American novel.”—The f KNOWN TO EVIL politics I’ve ever read. Reed is funnier than New York Times Book Review. A Leonid McGill Mystery Norman Mailer or Gore Vidal.”—Leslie Mar- Riverhead • 240 pp. • 978-1-59448-285-4 • $14.00 A fast-paced book that drags us deeper into mon Silko, author of Ceremony. Guardian First Book Award; a New York Times the McGill’s life and even deeper into a gritty Penguin • 240 pp. • 978-0-14-025585-0 • $11.95 Notable Book; Los Angeles Times Art contemporary Manhattan. Seidenbaum Award; a National Book Foundation’s “5 Under 35” recipient; a New Riverhead • 320 pp. • 978-1-59448-752-1 • $25.95 York Public Library’s Young Lions Fiction Available March 2010 Award finalist; a NAACP Image Awards finalist; Dylan Thomas Prize shortlist

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