American category: 24906 books
The Preacher King
Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Word that Moved America
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 1997
Today it seems extraordinary that a nation the size of the United States could have been so profoundly affected by the minister of a little Baptist church in Montgomery, Alabama. But at a turning point in American history, Martin Luther King, Jr., had an incalculable effect on the fabric of daily...
by Tayari Jones
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
**A NEW YORK TIMES AND WASHINGTON POST NOTABLE BOOK
A 2018 BEST OF THE YEAR SELECTION OF NPR * TIME * BUSTLE * O, THE OPRAH MAGAZINE * THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS * AMAZON.COM
OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB 2018 SELECTION
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2018 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION**
**“A...
The Awakening
Book One of the Chronicles of the Nubian Underworld
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2013
An erotically charged journey inside Atlanta's African-American Fetish/BDSM community. The first in the series revolves around an African-American dominant couple, Ramesses and Neferterri, and their submissives, told in a conversational style.
An erotically charged journey inside Atlanta’s...
Still Wild
Short Fiction of the American West 1950 to the Pre
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
The Real Western Canon
Larry McMurtry, the preeminent chronicler of the American West, celebrates the best of contemporary Western short fiction, introducing a stellar collection of twenty stories that represent, in various ways, the coming-of-age of the legendary American frontier.
Featuring...
by W. E. B. Du Bois
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
The Souls of Black Folk is a classic work of American literature by W.E.B. Du Bois. It is a seminal work in the history of sociology, and a cornerstone of African-American literary history.The book, published in 1903, contains several essays on race, some of which had been previously published in Atlantic...
Trying to Find Chinatown
The Selected Plays of David Henry Hwang
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 1999
David Henry Hwang has the potential to become the first important dramatist of American public life since Arthur Miller, and maybe the best of them all. -Detroit News
David Henry Hwang has created an extraordinary body of work over the last twenty years: the Tony Award-winning play, M. Butterfly;...
by C D Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2009
Wendell Fertig is a true WW2 American hero who deserved the Medal of Honor. Please look him up on Wikipedia.
The Pacific, World War 2 novel is historical fiction, loosely based upon American guerrillas who refused to surrender, when the Philippines fell in 1942.
Pearl Harbor, December...
American Histories
Stories
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018
“A powerful assemblage of short stories exploring late-in-life angst through personal myth, cultural memory, and riffs on an empire scorched by its own hubris” (O, The Oprah Magazine) from award-winning author John Edgar Wideman—his first collection in more than a decade.
“Race and...
The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks
(American Poets Project #19)
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2005
"If you wanted a poem," wrote Gwendolyn Brooks, "you only had to look out of a window. There was material always, walking or running, fighting or screaming or singing." From the life of Chicago's South Side she made a forceful and passionate poetry that fused Modernist aesthetics...
African-American Poetry
An Anthology, 1773-1927
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
In the 19th century, abolitionist and African-American periodicals printed thousands of poems by black men and women on such topics as bondage and freedom, hatred and discrimination, racial identity and racial solidarity, along with dialect verse that mythologized the Southern past. Early in the 20th...
The Best American Poetry 2010
Series Editor David Lehman
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2010
AMY GERSTLER’S COMMITMENT TO INNOVATIVE POETRY that conveys meaning, feeling, wit, and humor informs the cross section of poems in the 2010 edition of The Best American Poetry. The works collected here represent the wealth, the breadth, and the tremendous energy of poetry in the United States today....
LEATHERSTOCKING TALES – Complete Series: The Deerslayer, The Last of the Mohicans, The Pathfinder, The Pioneers & The Prairie (Illustrated)
Historical Novels - The Life of Native Americans and European Settlers during the Colonization Period
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2016
This carefully crafted ebook: "LEATHERSTOCKING TALES – Complete Series: The Deerslayer, The Last of the Mohicans, The Pathfinder, The Pioneers & The Prairie (Illustrated)” is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. The Leatherstocking Tales is a series...
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2012
The publisher is proud to present this new edition of an old American favorite, authentically and unforgettably illustrated by a distinguished American artist.
Artist-illustrator Herbert Meyer's illustrations give new life to Longfellow's epic poem. Besides being warmly evocative, they are...
WYNADOTTÉ (Historical Novel)
The Hutted Knoll - Historical Novel Set during the American Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2016
This carefully crafted ebook: “WYNADOTTÉ (Historical Novel)” is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Wyandotté is a historical novel set during the American Revolution and tells the story of a derelict Indian "Saucy Nick", also called Wyandotté...