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January 1993

  • A Lesson Before Dyingby Ernest J. Gaines
    4.38 avg ratings, 8 reviewspublished January 1, 1993

    An Oprah Book Club selection Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize In a small Cajun community in the late 1940s, a young black man named Jefferson witnesses a liquor store shootout in which three men are killed. The only survi...

  • Flyy Girl (Flyy Girl, #1)by Omar Tyree
    3.93 avg ratings, 49 reviewspublished January 1, 1993

    The bestselling urban classic novel about a young woman coming of age in the late 1980s. Tracy Ellison, a young knockout with tall hair and attitude, is living life as fast as she can. Motivated by the material world, she and her friends love and leave the young men who will do a...