Zora Neale Hurston

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1) Dust tracks on a road: an autobiography

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A first-hand account of her life by novelist and anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston, which focuses on her childhood, family, education, religion, and relationships.

2) Magnolia Flower

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Hurston, Zora Neale

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Born to parents who fled slavery and the Trail of Tears, Magnolia Flower is a girl with a vibrant spirit. Not to be deterred by rigid ways of the world, she longs to connect with others, who too long for freedom. She finds this in a young man of letters who her father disapproves of. In her quest to be free, Magnolia must make a choice and set off on a journey that will prove just how brave one can be when leading with one's heart.

3) Tell my horse: voodoo and life in Haiti and Jamaica

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Hurston, Zora Neale

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The author recounts her experiences as an initiate into the voodoo practices of Haiti and Jamaica in the 1930s.

4) I love myself when I am laughing ... and then again when I am looking mean and impressive: a Zora Neale Hurston reader

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Hurston, Zora Neale

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Anthology of essays, folklore and fiction by a leading figure in the Harlem Renaissance.

5) Moses, man of the mountain

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Hurston, Zora Neale

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"Traces Moses' life from the day he is launched into the Nile River in a reed basket, to his development as a great magician, to his transformation into the heroic rebel leader, the Great Emancipator."--P. [4] of cover.

6) Every tongue got to confess: Negro folktales from the Gulf states

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Hurston, Zora Neale

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African-American folklore was Zora Neale Hurston's first love. Collected in the late 1920's Every Tongue Got to Confess, from the celebrated author of Their Eyes Were Watching God, is published here for the first time, beautifully performed by Ruby Dee and Ossie Davis.

Hilarious, bittersweet, and often saucy, these folk-tales provide a verdant slice of African-American life in the rural South at the turn of the twentieth century. They capture

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7) The sanctified church

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Hurston, Zora Neale

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The Sanctified Church is a collection of Hurston's ground-breaking essays on Afro-American folklore, legend, popular mythology, and, in particular, the unique spiritual character of the Soouthern Black Christian Church. Along with preserving the customs, music, speech, and humor of rural Black America, The Sanctified Church introduces us to such extraordinary figures as Mother Catherine, matriarchal founder of a highly personal Voodoo Christian sect;...

8) Folklore, memoirs, and other writings

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Hurston, Zora Neale

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Library of America

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When she died in poverty and obscurity in 1960, all of Zora Neale Hurston's books were out of print. Today her groundbreaking works, suffused with the culture and traditions of African-Americans and the poetry of black speech, have won her recognition as one of the most significant African-American writers. This volume, with its companion, Novels & Stories, brings together for the first time all of Hurston's best writings in one authoritative set....

9) Tell my horse

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Hurston, Zora Neale

10) Go gator and muddy the water: writings

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Hurston, Zora Neale

11) Roy makes a car

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Lyons, Mary E

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Roy Tyle, the best mechanic in the state of Florida, can clean spark plugs by just looking at them, and he takes a two-dollar bet that he can make an accident-proof car.