J. California Cooper writes with a transparent clarity and such exuberant energy that her characters leap off the page, bursting with stories they've got to tell--stories of simple people, stories of families and fate, of love and marriage, of death and the triumph of the human spirit.

Some Soul to Keep

Literature & Fiction

J. California Cooper

Contemporary

St Martins Pr

The extraordinary debut short story collection from the award-winning author of Family and Life is Short But Wide.

Piece of Mine

Short Stories & Anthologies

WOMEN\'S PRESS LTD,THE

From a favorite African-American author comes a classic, beautifully repackaged for a new audience. Cooper is a true storyteller whose tales trace the energies of life itself.

Homemade Love

Women"s Press, Limited, The

Family

From beyond the grave, Clora narrates the story of her family as she watches her children emerge from slavery during the Civil War.

Perfection Learning

Bt Bound

Unabridged audiobook. Narrated by Various Narrators. 5 Cassettes. 6.75 hours. Critics have compared J. California Cooper's work to that of Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston - but she has a witty style of her own. Each of her short stories is a gem of downhome wisdom, polished with a bit of gossip, some heartbreak, and lots of humor.

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

RECORDED BOOKS^

Cover design by Sarah Levin. Foreword by Alice Walker. Her first book, 12 short stories.

A Piece of Mine

United States

Wild Trees Press

The activity book contains an abridged version of the original A Good Knight's Story, games, puzzles and The Blue Knight's Child Safety Quiz that will give you some insight into your child's understanding and gauge what is going on within their circle of friends. The 52 page book contains stories and activities in English and Spanish, which is perfect for youth in ESOL classes. The Good knight DVD anthology has a complete menu containing a media section showing documentaries of the program in progress over the past ten years as featured on 48hrs, America's Most Wanted, Hispanics Today, Fox News, etc. Its main features are the award winning "The Good Knight's ABC's of Deception," a half live-action/half animation interactive film in English or Spanish and "Meghan's Song" the music video. Along with their abduction prevention aspect, these materials can be used for character development by having youth teach others how to stay safe from predators by showing the DVD as a volunteer youth mentor at school, church, scout meetings, community events or just to family, friends and neighbors.www.goodknight.org

Quest of the Good Knight, with Bilingual DVD (Good Knight, Volume 5)

Edward J Jagen

Dennis McCarthy

L. Jagen

Diane Blank

Bonnie Branner

Eric Hooper

Angel Knight Productions

Wild Stars Seeking Midnight Suns

The folk flavor of her storytelling has earned her  constant comparison to Langston Hughes and Zora  Neale Hurston, but through four collections of  short stories and two novels, J. California Cooper  has proven that hers is a wholly original talent  --one that embraces readers in an ever-widening  circle from one book to the next. With In  Search Of Satisfaction, Cooper  gracefully portrays men and women, some good and others  wickedly twisted, caught in their individual  thickets of want and need. On a once-grand plantation  in Yoville, "a legal town-ship founded by the  very rich for their own personal use," a  freed slave named Josephus fathers two daughters,  Ruth and Yinyang, by two different women. His  desire, to give Yinyang and himself money and  opportunities, oozes through the family like an elixir,  melding with the equally strong yearnings of  Yoville's other residents, whose tastes don't  complement their neighbors'. What Josephus buries in his  life affects generations to come. J. California  Cooper's unfettered view of sin, forgiveness, and  redemption gives In Search Of  Satisfaction a singular richness that belies its  universal themes.

In Search of Satisfaction

Gardners Books

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