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The Color of Magic

by Terry Pratchett

Published: 2000-03-01

Mass Market Paperback: 210 pages

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Terry Pratchett's profoundly irreverent novels are consistent number one bestsellers in England, where they have garnered him a revered position in the halls of parody next to Mark Twain, Kurt Vonnegut, Douglas Adams, and Carl Hiaasen.The Color of Magic is Terry Pratchett's maiden voyage t...

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The Color of Rain: How Two Families Found Faith, Hope, and Love in the Midst of Tragedy

by Michael Spehn, Gina Spehn

Published: 2011-09-27

Hardcover: 288 pages

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This real-life Brady Bunch story is about what it means to endure the unthinkable---and still open one's heart to what's next. When two childhood friends die of cancer six weeks apart, the shared experience of loss brings their grieving spouses together. After months of late-night phone calls, family...

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The Color of Tea

by Hannah Tunnicliffe

Published: 2012-06-05

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Macau: the bulbous nose of China, a peninsula and two islands strung together like a three-bead necklace. It was time to find a life for myself. To make something out of nothing. The end of hope and the beginning of it too. After moving with her husband to the tiny, bustling island of Maca...

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Color of the Sea

by John Hamamura

Published: 2007-11-06

Paperback: 336 pages

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Raised in Japan and Hawaii, Sam Hamada has been trained in the ways of the samurai. After graduation Sam strikes out for California and falls in love for the first time, with a beautiful young woman named Keiko. But then the Japanese attack Peal Harbor, igniting the war and making Sam, Kei...

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The Color of Water 10th Anniversary Edition

by James McBride

Published: 2006-02-07

Kindle Edition: 332 pages

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From the New York Times bestselling author of The Good Lord Bird, winner of the 2013 National Book Award for Fiction, Five-Carat Soul, and Kill 'Em and Leave, a James Brown biography.The incredible modern classic that Oprah.com calls one of the best memoirs of a generation and launched J...

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The Color of Water

by James McBride

Published: 2000

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The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother

by James McBride

Published: 1997

Paperback: 336 pages

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This "fascinating . . . superbly written" ("Boston Globe") national bestseller tells the story of James McBride and his mother--a rabbi's daughter, born in Poland and raised in the South, who fled to Harlem, married a black man, founded a church, and put 12 children through college....

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The Color Purple

by Alice Walker

Published: 1990-04-01

Mass Market Paperback: 304 pages

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Winner of the National Book Award as well as the Pulitzer Prize, "The Color Purple" established Alice Walker as a major voice in modern fiction. Her unforgettable portrait of Celie and her friends, family, and lovers is rich with passion, pain, inspiration, and an indomitable love of life. Beautifully...

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The Color Purple: A New Musical (Piano/Vocal)

by Brenda Russell, Allee Willis, Stephen Bray

Published: 2007-09-01

Paperback: 88 pages

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Our piano/vocal folio features 13 songs from the Oprah Winfrey-produced Broadway adaptation of the powerful Alice Walker novel. Includes: The Color Purple * Hell No! * Mysterious Ways * Push Da Button * Too Beautiful for Words * What About Love? * and more. The arrangements are standard piano/vocal format...

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Colors of the Mountain

by Da Chen

Published: 2001-01-16

Paperback: 320 pages

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Written in simple, evocative prose, "Colors of the Mountain" is a classic story of triumph over adversity, a memoir of a boyhood spent in China, and a welcome introduction to an amazing writer. "A defiantly happy book, big-hearted and sincere".--"Newsweek".