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A General History of the Pirates: The Classic Account of the Most Murderous and Felonious Exploits from the Golden Age of Piracy by Charles Johnson
Category: History
There is a fascination surrounding the subject of pirates and pirate-lore that centers around the romanticized impression of lawless, brutal ruffians pillaging ships, hunting for gold and treasure, and traveling in immense ships waving the skull-and-bones flag. Some might be surprised that this view is ...Show more
All Your Racial Problems Will Soon End: The Cartoons of Charles Johnson by Charles Johnson
Category: Biography
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 Charles Johnson found fame as a novelist and won the National B ...Show more
Dreamer by Charles Johnson
Category: Fiction
A fearless work of historical fiction that digs deep into the life of one of history's best-known figures of the Civil Rights Movement Martin Luther King Jr is a political visionary, human rights activist, preacher, scholar and martyr. Chaym Smith is his dark mirror, a violent, cynical criminal with a m ...Show more
Middle Passage by Charles Johnson
Category: Fiction | Series: Picador Collection
CELEBRATING 50 YEARS OF PICADOR BOOKS Winner of the National Book Award 1990 The Apocalypse would definitely put a crimp in my career plans. Rutherford Calhoun, a puckish rogue and newly freed slave, spends his days loitering around the docks of New Orleans, dodging debt collectors, gangsters, and Isado ...Show more
Pirates : A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the Most Notorious Pirates by David Charles; Cordingly Johnson
Category: History
Captain Charles Johnson's General History of Pirates was one of the best-selling books of 1724, when it was first published. It provides a sweeping account of what has come to be called the Golden Age of Piracy. It went through four editions in two years, and without doubt owed a substantial part of its ...Show more
The Eightfold Path by Charles Johnson; Steven Barnes; Bryan Christopher Moss (Illustrator)
Category: Western
From award-winning authors Charles Johnson and Steven Barnes comes a graphic novel anthology of interconnected Afrofuturistic parables inspired by the teachings of Buddha--now in paperback Eight strangers--looking for enlightenment from an ancient spiritual teacher--are trapped in a cave high in the mo ...Show more
The Eightfold Path by Charles Johnson; Steven Barnes; Bryan Moss (Illustrator)
Category: Graphic Novels
From award-winning authors Charles Johnson and Steven Barnes comes a graphic novel anthology of interconnected Afrofuturistic parables inspired by the teachings of BuddhaEight strangers looking for enlightenment from an ancient spiritual teacher are trapped in a cave high in the mountains on their way t ...Show more
The History and Lives of Notorious Pirates and Their Crews by Captain Charles Johnson
Category: History
There is a fascination surrounding the subject of pirates and pirate lore that centers around the romanticized impression of lawless, brutal ruffians pillaging ships, hunting for gold and treasure, and traveling in massive ships waving the skull-and-bones flag. The golden age of piracy produced many gra ...Show more
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