Rosa Guy

• Nov-1979
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• Jun-1981
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• Nov-1981
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• Mar-1983
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Harlem teenager Imamu Jones, repainting his mother's apartment, hoping to help her overcome her alcoholism, is troubled as he begins to suspect one of his friends may be guilty of a series of burglaries and other crimes....

• Jun-1983
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A powerful, award-winning novel about friendship.

Phyllisia Cathy—She is fourteen. Her problems seem overwhelming: New York, after life on her sunlit West Indies island, is cold, cruel and filthy. She is insulted daily and is beaten up...

• Jun-1983
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• May-1987
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Eighteen-year-old Imamu's newly-found contentment, with his job and the apartment he shares with his frail mother, is shattered when he is inadvertently drawn into the sinister events taking place in a wealthy household where he has been delivering g...

• Mar-1988
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• Jul-1988
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• Jan-1991
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"Rosa Guy''s tropical retelling of The Little Mermaid"" is the gorgeous, tragic love story of Desiree, a beautiful peasant girl who devotes herself to the handsome, aristocratic young man whose life she has saved. When his upper-class fami-ly feels t...

• Jan-1992
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After being spurned by her best friend and a group of light-skinned, upper-middle-class girls vacationing on Cape Cod, Sarah develops a loving friendship with the Caribbean-born Madame Arnaud and her son Jean Pierre....

• Aug-1992
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• Dec-1992
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In a series of letters to his parents and friends, twelve-year-old Carl relates his anger and confusion as well as his gradual change of heart about being sent to a small Southern town to live with his grandmother...

• Sep-1995
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Having found hard-won success, a brash, attractive black artist suffers a nervous breakdown and flees to the Haiti of the 1970s, where she incurs the wrath of the authorities and saves a helpless child. 10,000 first printing. Tour....

• May-2001
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"What happens to a dream deferred?" asked Langston Hughes. Bird at My Window answers that question with a psychological study of a black man whose aspirations are subverted by his environment. Wade Williams wakes up in a mental hospital and is tol...

• Sep-2005
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Ruby Cathy feels left without friends, without comfort and without love. Then she meets Daphne Duprey, who is "cool, calm, cultured, sophisticated and refined" - everything that Ruby is not. Together, Ruby and Daphne build a relationship that gives e...