Skip to main content

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...
  • A General History of the Pirates

    During the Golden Age of Piracy, a writer calling himself "Captain" Charles Johnson introduced London readers to the denizens of a savage world just beyond their shores. These pirates took up residence in readers' imaginations, where they've been a mainstay of popular culture ever since.Pirate history especially resonates for American readers, as what would become the wild frontier of the American ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • PLC Programming Using RSLogix 500 & Industrial Applications

    Learn ladder logic step by step with real-world applications

    In this book I provide the foundation you will need to begin writing your first ladder logic program using RSLogix 500. I also provide advanced and practical hands-on training you need to program Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC) with confidence.It is simply not enough to have a PLC user guide/manual, or refer to the help content in order become a skilled PLC programmer. This book is a great ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Oxherding Tale

    A Novel

    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, race and history.One night in the antebellum South, a slave owner and his African American butler stay up to all hours until, too drunk to face their ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Dr. King's Refrigerator

    And Other Bedtime Stories

    From National Book Award–winning author Charles Johnson comes a sly, witty, and insightful collection of short stories exploring issues of race and identity.In “Sweet Dreams,” a Kafkaesque tale is set in a world where dreams are taxed—a reality that leads to a man and his dreamlife being audited. In “Cultural Relativity,” a young woman falls in love with the son of the president of an African ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Soulcatcher

    And Other Stories

    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 with a conflicted and contradictory history. Now, famed novelist Charles Johnson, whose Middle Passage won the National Book Award, presents a dozen tales ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Middle Passage

    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 with a new introduction from Stanley Crouch.Rutherford Calhoun, a newly freed slave and irrepressible rogue, is lost in the underworld of 1830s New Orleans. ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Introducing BlackChain: How the African-Indigenous diaspora can leverage blockchain to build sustainable, sovereign wealth across generations

    Introducing BlackChain is both a blueprint and a manifesto for economic sovereignty across the African and Indigenous diasporas. At its heart, it reimagines blockchain not as a speculative tool but as a set of value rails, infrastructure that channels money into communities, keeps it circulating locally, and reinvests it transparently for the benefit of all. Just as traditional railways once ... Read more

    $19.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • MURDER AND MONEY

    I live in the middle of a well-populated low and middle-class city. I'm goal-oriented and self-sufficient. I keep to myself to fully concentrate on my tasks and dedicated efforts to being an esteemed and professional book author. My hobbies are limited due to my love and passion for book writing and becoming a professional writer. ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Middle Passage

    A Graphic Novel Adaptation

    A powerful graphic novel adaptation of the Charles R. Johnson’s National Book Award–winning American classic Middle Passage, which deftly weaves intensely researched history of the American slave trade and speculative fiction with the traditions of classic adventure talesA riveting and raw parable of the Black experience in America, this graphic novel adaptation of Charles R. Johnson’s National ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

    PRE-ORDER

  • Night Hawks

    Stories

    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 incredible range and resonant voice.Charles Johnson’s Night Hawks presents an eclectic, masterful collection of stories tied together by Buddhist themes and ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Being and Race

    Black Writing Since 1970

    For the first time in ebook, renowned scholar Charles Johnson’s exploration of contemporary black literature and the meaning of the black experience as expressed through the writers Richard Wright, Jean Toomer, David Bradley, and others.Charles Johnson approaches contemporary black literature through the lens of phenomenology. Drawing on such philosophers as Heidegger, Husserl, Satre, and Dufrenne ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Way of the Writer

    Reflections on the Art and Craft of Storytelling

    From Charles Johnson—a National Book Award winner, Professor Emeritus at University of Washington, and one of America’s preeminent scholars on literature and race—comes an instructive, inspiring guide to the craft and art of writing.An award-winning novelist, philosopher, essayist, screenwriter, professor, and cartoonist, Charles Johnson has devoted his life to creative pursuit. His 1990 National ... Read more

    $13.99 USD