Product Description: Readers will be enlightened by this chronicle of common experiences from the author of Mad At Miles and Deals With The Devil.In The Brass Bed, a collection of autobiographical short stories, Cleage engages the reader in refreshing prose/poetry which reconciles gender consciousness with the collective African American experience...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

This collection of thirty essays on politics, relationships, and survival in the African-American community contains selections such as 'Assessing Arsenio,' about the effects of the popular television host. 75,000 first printing. $30,000 ad/promo.

Reflecting an African-American feminist point of view, a collection of essays and articles explores such topics as politics, culture, mass media, male-female relationships, rap music, Spike Lee, and emotional and physical survival. Reprint.

Product Description: Book annotation not available for this title.Title: Flyin' WestAuthor: Cleage, PearlPublisher: Dramatist's Play ServicePublication Date: 1995/01/01Number of Pages: 79Binding Type: PAPERBACKLibrary of Congress: 95180770

After more than a decade of living the high life, Ava Johnson returns home to the quiet northern Michigan community in which she grew up with a dark secret, but Ava cannot turn her back on friends and family who need her, nor help falling deeply in love.

Product Description: Book by Pearl Cleage

Product Description: “Pearl Cleage is a passionate, challenging playwright whose concerns for the species are unmistakable and profound. As a woman, as an African-American, her artistic objectivity and sensitivity to history combine with, but do not overshadow, her capacity to dig for truth and present it flat out as she sees it – with a finger snap or a shout and sometimes with a wink...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

A selfless woman who has lived in the shadow of her outrageous younger sister begins to feel left out and wants to treat herself to something, or someone, special. By the author of What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day. Reader's Guide available. Reprint.

Product Description: FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY.

Product Description: A New York Times Bestselling Author Catherine Sanderson seems to have it all: a fulfilling career helping immigrant women find jobs, a lovely home, and a beautiful, intelligent daughter on her way to Smith College. What Catherine doesn't have is a father for her child - and she's spent years dodging her daughter's questions about it...read more

Product Description: With the unique blend of truth and humor that made her first novel, What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day . . ., a huge bestseller, Pearl Cleage returns with an extraordinary novel that is rich in character, steeped in sisterhood, and bursting with unexpected love ...read more

Enjoying an unusually close relationship with her daughter, Phoebe, Catherine Sanderson has kept only one secret--the identity of Phoebe's father--until Phoebe embarks on her own search for her paternity, bringing her real father, B. J., an investigative reporter working on a story involving Catherine's newest client, back into their lives. Reader's Guide included. Reprint. 50,000 first printing.

Presents the poem written for Oprah Winfrey's historic Legends Weekend in May 2005 that expresses a collective thank-you to twenty-five legendary African American women, including Maya Angelou, Ruby Dee, Rosa Parks, and Alice Walker.

Product Description: Book by Cleage, Pearl

Presents the poem written for Oprah Winfrey's historic Legends Weekend in May 2005 that expresses a collective thank-you to twenty-five legendary African American women, including Maya Angelou, Ruby Dee, Rosa Parks, and Alice Walker.

Presents the poem written for Oprah Winfrey's historic Legends Weekend in May 2005 that expresses a collective thank-you to twenty-five legendary African American women, including Maya Angelou, Ruby Dee, Rosa Parks, and Alice Walker.

Married to Blue Hamilton, a former R&B singer who gave up his career to establish a safe urban oasis amid the violence and crime of Atlanta's West End, Regina Burns becomes worried when terrified women seeking refuge from abuse show up to seek Blue's protection from their lovers, followed by the disappearances of the worst offenders. Reader's Guide included. Reprint. 40,000 first printing.

Product Description: Book annotation not available for this title.Title: A Song For CorettaAuthor: Cleage, PearlPublisher: Dramatist's Play ServicePublication Date: 2008/05/30Number of Pages: 41Binding Type: PAPERBACKLibrary of Congress:

After thirty years in Europe building her reputation as one of her generation's finest actresses and redefining her role as an African-American diva, Josephine Evans is forced to return to the U.S., where she is forced to build a new life, and gets her chance when she takes on an unscrupulous land developer threatening to destroy her Atlanta community. 50,000 first printing.

The toast of Europe, Josephine Evans had spent thirty years abroad establishing her reputation as one of the finest actresses of her generation. In Amsterdam, she redefined who and what an African American diva could be, and her legions of loyal fans loved her for it. But when a war she didn't even understand suddenly makes her the target of angry anti-American protests, Josephine is forced to return to America to see if she can find a new definition of home. Camping out with her granddaughter in Atlanta's West End, Josephine tries to reclaim her old life even as she scrambles to shape her new one. An unexpected reunion with an old friend, Abbie Allen Browning, soon offers her a chance to set things right. Rallying with Abbie against an unscrupulous land developer who threatens to tear the community apart, Josephine finds herself playing the most important role of her life, as she shows her neighbors what courage really is and learns the real meaning of coming home.

After more than a decade of living the high life, Ava Johnson returns home to the quiet northern Michigan community in which she grew up with a dark secret, but Ava cannot turn her back on friends and family who need her

Joyce Mitchell is a young widow with a life filled with work, family, and friends, but as the all-girl group she founded runs into problems, she feels an increasing desire to treat herself to something, or someone, special.