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A Mercy by Toni Morrison
$37.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
A powerful tragedy distilled into a jewel of a masterpiece by the Nobel Prize-winning author of Beloved and, almost like a prelude to that story, set two centuries earlier. In the 1680s the slave trade was still in its infancy. In the Americas, virulent religious and class divisions, prejudice and oppre ...Show more
A Mercy by Toni Morrison
$27.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
On the day that Jacob, an Anglo-Dutch trader and adventurer, agrees to accept a slave in lieu of payment of a debt from a plantation owner, little Florens' life changes. With her intelligence and passion for wearing the cast-off shoes of her mistress, Florens has never blended into the background and no ...Show more
Beloved by Toni Morrison
$25.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Terrible, unspeakable things happened to Sethe at Sweet Home, the farm where she lived as a slave for so many years until she escaped to Ohio. Her new life is full of hope but eighteen years later she is still not free. Sethe's new home is not only haunted by the memories of her past but also by the gho ...Show more
Burn This Book: Notes on Literature and Engagement by Toni Morrison
$20.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
As Americans we often take our freedom of speech for granted. When we talk about censorship we talk about China, the former Soviet Union. But the recent presidential election has shined a spotlight on profound acts of censorship in our own backyard. Both provocative and timely, "Burn this Book" includes ...Show more
God Help the Child by Toni Morrison
$40.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Series: I | Reading Level: very good
"The new novel from the author of BelovedThe past has a hold like no other...Sweetness wants to love her child, Bride, but she struggles to love her as a mother should. Bride, now glamorous, grown up, ebony-black and panther-like, wants to love her man, Booker, but she finds herself betrayed by a moment ...Show more
Home by Toni Morrison
$35.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
An angry and self-loathing veteran of the Korean War, Frank Money finds himself back in racist America after enduring trauma on the front lines that left him with more than just physical scars. His Home and himself in it may no longer be as he remembers it, but Frank is shocked out of his crippling apat ...Show more
Home by Toni Morrison
$25.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
The powerful new novel from Nobel Prize-winner Toni Morrison, author of Beloved, that excavates the pain of a soldier's homecoming in 1950s America. It begins with a letter from a woman Frank has never met. A pleading letter. A letter that closed his throat. 'Come fast. She be dead if you tarry.' And t ...Show more
Love by Toni Morrison
$27.00 NZD
Category: No Category | Reading Level: Adult
May, Christine, Heed, Junior, Vida - even L - all women obsessed by Bill Cosey. More than the wealthy owner of the famous Cosey Hotel and Resort, he shapes their yearnings for father, husband, lover, guardian, friend, yearnings that dominate the lives of these women long after his death. Yet, while he i ...Show more
Mouth Full of Blood: Essays, Speeches, Meditations by Toni Morrison
$40.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
A vital new non-fiction collection from one of the most celebrated and revered writers of our time.‘Word-work is sublime, she thinks, because it is generative; it makes meaning that secures our difference, our human difference—the way in which we are like no other life. We die. That may be the meaning o ...Show more
Please, Louise by Toni Morrison
$18.00 NZD
Category: Picture books
A library card unlocks a new life for a young girl in this picture book about the power of imagination, from Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison. On one gray afternoon, Louise makes a trip to the library. With the help of a new library card and through the transformative power of books, what starte ...Show more
Race: Vintage Minis by Toni Morrison
$10.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Series: Vintage Minis Ser.
Is who we are really only skin deep? In this searing, remonstrative book, Toni Morrison unravels race through the stories of those debased and dehumanised because of it. A young black girl longing for the blue eyes of white baby dolls spirals into inferiority and confusion. A friendship falls apart over ...Show more
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
$28.99 NZD
Category: Fiction and NZ Fiction
Song of Soloman is a work of outstanding beauty and power, whose story covers the years from the 1930's to the 1960's in America. At its centre is Macon Dead Jr, the son of a wealthy black property owner, who has been brought up to revere the white world. Macon learns about the tyranny of white society ...Show more