Charles Johnson

• May-1987
• / General Fiction
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Interweaving the real and the surreal, Charles Johnson spins eight extra-ordinary tales of transformations and metamorphoses. An Illinois farmer teaches a young slave everything he knows - with fatal consequences. A young boy growing to manhood as a ...

• Jul-1990
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A twenty-fifth anniversary edition of Charles Johnson’s National Book Award-winning masterpiece -- "a novel in the tradition of Billy Budd and Moby-Dick…heroic in proportion…fiction that hooks the mind" (The New York Times Book Review) -- now w...

• Apr-1998
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From the National Book Award-winning author of Middle Passage, a fearless fictional portrait of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and his pivotal moment in American history.Set against the tensions of Civil Rights era America, Dreamer is a remarkable fictio...

• Jan-2001
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Faith Cross, a beautiful and purely innocent young black woman, is told by her dying mother to go and get herself "a good thing." Thus begins an extraordinary pilgrim's progress that takes Faith from the magic and mysticism of the rural South to the ...

• Mar-2001
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Short stories inspired by the history of slavery in America, by the National Book Award�"winning author of Middle Passage. Nothing has had as profound an effect on American life as slavery. For blacks and whites alike, the experience has left us wit...

• Feb-2005
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Charles Johnson's innovative and richly imagined collection is full of stories -- sly, witty, and insightful -- that bring the world into focus. Each is a vivid cultural and philosophical portrait that deftly explores issues of identity and race. "Kw...

• Feb-2005
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From National Book Award�"winning author, Charles Johnson, comes a wonderful mythic novel, part slave narrative, part comedy, part myth -- first published in 1982 this phenomenally imaginative work marries Johnson's knowledge of philosophy, religion...

• Mar-2012
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• Dec-2014
• / Historical
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Whether you believe that man evolved from the apes (Darwinism) or that man was created in God's own image (religion), man has questioned the whats and whys of his surroundings. Why does the sun rise and set? Why does it rain? Why do dinosaurs eat us?...

• May-2018
• / General Fiction
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From National Book Award winner Charles Johnson, “the celebrated novelist, short story writer, screenwriter, and essayist…comes a small treasure, one to be read and considered and reread” (The New York Times Book Review), showcasing his incredi...

• May-2018
• / General Fiction
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A masterful story collection -- thirteen years in the making -- from National Book Award winner Charles Johnson, showcasing the incredible range and resonant voice of this American treasure. This new collection of stories from National Book Award ...

• Jun-2020
• / Fantasy
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In this exciting new story from The Adventures of Emery Jones, Boy Science Wonder series, Gabby Sykes & Emery Jones begin their freshman year in high school as heroes, having just saved the world from killer alien robots... but as all too often ha...

• Jul-2020
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On the streets of Los Angeles, Beverly Hills, and Inglewood CA . . . ,and, in a world of chance, survival, hope, greed, and uncertain success,there are tasks that must be accomplished, and somebody has to be manenough to accept the responsibility of ...

• Apr-2022
• / Graphic Novel
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From bestselling and award-winning authors Steven Barnes and Dr. Charles Johnson comes The Eightfold Path, a graphic novel anthology of interconnected Afrofuturistic parables inspired by the teachings of Buddha, illustrated by Bryan Christopher Moss....

• Nov-2022
• / General Fiction
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Years before he wrote his National Book Award–winning novel Middle Passage, Charles Johnson created these sidesplitting and subversive gag comics about Black life in America, now collected for the first time in nearly half a century.Before...