Any book on this list can be purchased and donated to the Mandarino Library Frederick Douglass Collection in memory or in honor of someone you know.  All of the books are award winning selections.  Contact Cora Russell at 724-938-4093 or russell@cup.edu if you would like to donate and help us make our collection grow.

The Frederick Douglass Book Prize
Sugar masters: planters & slaves in Louisiana’s cane world, 1820-1860 / Richard Follett. $54.95. 0-8071-3038-9 2006 FINALIST

Laurent Dubois
A Colony of Citizens: Revolution and Slave Emancipation
in the French Caribbean, 1787-1804 (University of North Carolina Press)  $59.95 2005 First Prize. 0-8078-2874-2

Price of liberty: African Americans and the making of Liberia / Claude Clegg III.  $59.95. 2005 Finalist 0-8078-2845-9

Ouidah: the social history of a West African slaving port, 1727-1892 / Robin Law.  $29.95. 2005 Finalist 0-8214-1572-7

Seymour Drescher
The Mighty Experiment: Free Labor versus Slavery in British Emancipation (Oxford)  $27.50. 2003 First Prize. 0-19-517629-4

Second Prize: James F. Brooks
Captives and Cousins: Slavery, Kinship, and Community in the Southwest Borderlands  (University of North Carolina Press)  $59.95 . 2003 Second prize. 0-8078-2714-2

Melville J. Herskovits Award

2004: Allen F. Roberts and Mary Nooter Roberts, a SAINT in the CITY: Sufi Art in Urban Senegal (University of California Los Angeles)  $45.00. 2004 Award. 0-930741-93-5

2005: Adam Ashforth, Witchcraft, Violence, and Democracy in South Africa, (University of Chicago Press)  $62.50 0226029743

2005: Jan Vansina, How Societies Are Born: Governance in West Central Africa Before 1600, (University of Virginia Press)  $24.50 0813922801

2006: J. Lorand Malory, Black Atlantic religion: tradition, transnationalism, and matriarchy in the Afro-Brazilian Candomble.  $60.00 0691059446

Conover-Porter Award

Teferra, Damtew and Philip G. Altbach. African Higher Education: An International Reference Book. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2005. 2nd ed.  $89.95. 0253341868

The Anisfield-Wolf Book Award
2005
Dew breaker / Edwidge Danticat $22.00 1400041147

M A C N O L I A / A. Van Jordan $23.95 0393059073

Unforgivable blackness: the rise and fall of Jack Johnson / Geoffrey C. Ward $26.95 0375415327

BLACK CAUCUS LITERATURE AWARDS

2006 Fiction award: Third Girl From the Left, Martha Southgate (Houghton Mifflin)  $12.95 0618470239

2006 Honor Book: Snake Walkers, J. Everett Prewitt (Northland)  $24.95 0976192705

I Got Somebody In Staunton, William Henry Lewis (Amistad)  $22.95 0060536659

2006 Nonfiction award: Fighting for America: Black Soldiers-The Unsung Heroes of World War II, Christopher Paul Moore (One World)  $27.95 034545961X

2006 Honor Book: Self-Taught: African American Education in Slavery and Freedom, Heather Andrea Williams (University of North Carolina Press)  $29.95 080782920X

2006 First Novelist Award: Freshwater Road, Denise Nicholas (Agate)  $14.00 1932841105

2005 Fiction award: Leaving Cecil Street, Diane McKinney-Whetstone (William Morrow) $24.95 0060722894

2005 Fiction honor book Award: Robbing Peter, Kia DuPree (Prism Pages  $13.99 0975867504

Some People, Some Other Place, J. California Cooper (Doubleday)  $24.95 0385496834

The Blackbird Papers, Ian Smith (Doubleday)  $24.95 0767920449

2005 Nonfiction award: Wrestling With the Muse: Dudley Randall and the Broadside Press, Melba Joyce Boyd (Columbia University Press)  $33.00 0231130260

2005 Honor book award:
Black Titan: A.G. Gaston and the Making of a Black American Millionaire, Carol Jenkins and Elizabeth Gardner (One World)  $24.95 0345453476

2005 First Novelist award: The Darkest Child, Delores Phillips (Soho)  $14.00 1569473455

2005 Outstanding contribution to publication: Speak, So You Can Speak Again: The Life of Zora Neal Hurston, Lucy Anne Hurston (Doubleday) $24.95 0385493754

2004 Fiction Award: Hottentot Venus, Barbara Chase-Riboud (Doubleday)  $24.00 1400032083

2004 Honor book award: Loving Donovan, Bernice McFadden (Dutton)  $23.95 052594706X

Joshua's Bible, Shelly Leanna (Warner Books)  $13.95 0446693987

2004 Nonfiction award book: In Black and White: the Life of Sammy Davis, Jr. Wil Haygood (Knopf)  $19.95 037540354X

2004 honor book: Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision, Barbara Ransby (UNC Press) $39.95 0807856169

2004 Outstanding contribution to publication: Colored Pictures: Race and Visual Representations, Michael D. Harris (UNC Press  $29.95 0807856967


Coretta Scott King Book Award

2006 Author Award -Julius Lester
Day of Tears: A Novel in Dialogue  $15.99 0786804904

New Talent Award - Author Jaime Adoff
Jimi & Me  $15.99 0786852143

Honor Book Award - Nikki Grimes
Dark Sons  $15.99 0786818883

2005 Honor Book
Fortune’s Bones: The Manumission Requiem
By Marilyn Nelson  $16.95 1932425128

Children's Africana Book Awards

2006 Best Book for Young Children:
Tamara Bower, How the Amazon Queen Fought the Prince of Egypt  $16.95 0689844344

Best Book for Older Readers:
Meja Mwangi, The Mzungu Boy  $6.95 0888996535

Honor Book for Older Readers:
Liz Sonneborn, The Ancient Kushites  $30.50 0531168476

Honor Book for Older Readers:
David C. Conrad, Empires of Medieval West Africa: Ghana, Mali, and Songhay  $35.00 0816055629

Honor Book for Older Readers:
Julius Lester, The Old African  $19.95 0803725647

Best Book for Young Children:
Here Comes Our Bride! written by Ifeoma Onyefulu $15.99 184507047X

Best Book for Older Readers:
Chanda's Secrets written by Allan Stratton  $17.83 155037835X

The Honor Books are:

Circle Unbroken: the Story of a Basket and its People written by Margot Theis Raven & E. B. Lewis (illus.)  $16.00 0374312893

The Heaven Shop written by Deborah Ellis  $18.94 1550419080

Talking Drums written by Veronique Tadjo  $15.95 1582348138

Carter G. Woodson Award

Let Them Play by Margot Theis Raven (2006)  $16.95 1585362603

Cesar Chavez: A Voice for Farmworkers by Barbara Cruz (2006)  $31.93 076602489X

No Easy Answers: Baynard Rustin and the Civil Rights Movement by Calvin Craig Miller (2006)  $27.95 1931798435

Thorpe's Bright Path by Joseph Bruchach (2005)  $17.95 158430166X

Civil Rights Act of 1964 Edited by Rober H. Mayer (2005)  $29.95 0737723041

The Koret International Jewish Book Award Winners 2005-2006

Finalist: RAVELSTEIN
By Saul Bellow  $24.95 067084134X

IN THE IMAGE By Dara Horn 
$24.95 0393051064

THE PUTTERMESSER PAPERS By Cynthia Ozick  $23.00 022405998X

THE WEDDING JESTER By Steve Stern  $14.00 155597290X


Jewish Life & Living Winner
DIGNITY BEYOND DEATH By Rochel Berman  $24.95 9657108667

Finalists:
THE JGIRLS’ GUIDE By Penina Adelman, Ali Feldman, and Shulamit Reinharz 
$14.99 1580232159

HISTORY ON TRIAL By Deborah Lipstadt  $25.95 0060593768

SEX, GOD, CHRISTMAS & JEWS By Gil Mann  $14.95. 0965170934

Jewish Fiction Winner
Her body knows by David Grossman  $25.00 0374175578

Finalists:
THE SEVENTH BEGGAR By Pearl Abraham  $25.95 1594481555

A CHANGED MAN By Francine Prose  $24.95 0060196742

Jewish Thought Winner
Betraying Spinoza by Rebecca Goldstein  $19.95 0805242090

Finalists:
CAVIAR AND ASHES By Marci Shore. $40.00 0300110928

PURITY, SACRIFICE, AND THE TEMPLE By Jonathan Klawans  $74.00 0195162633

THE PERSONHOOD OF GOD By Yochanan Muffs  $24.99 1580232655

Childrens’ Literature Winner
BEFORE YOU WERE BORN by Howard Schwartz 1596430281

Finalists:
SHLEMIEL CROOKS By Anna Olswanger
Illustrated by Paula Goodman Koz . $15.95 158838165X

BUTTERFLIES UNDER OUR HATS By Sandy Eisenberg Sasso  $16.95 1557254745

The Pura Belpré Award

For illustration (2006):
Raul Colón. Doña Flor: A Tall Tale About a Giant Woman with a Great Big Heart. Written by Pat Mora.  0375923373

Honor Book for Illustration:
Selected and illustrated by Lulu Delacre. Arrorró, Mi Niño: Latino Lullabies and Gentle Games  $16.99 1584301597

FREDERICK DOUGLASS MATERIALS
Frederick Douglass and the Atlantic World Fionnguala Sweeney $65.00. 1846310784

Frederick Douglass
Booker T. Washington $28.00.  1410207587

The Radical and the Republican: Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, and the Triumph of Antislavery
James Oakes $26.95.  0393061949

Frederick Douglass: Young Defender of Human Rights
Elisabeth P. Myers, $15.95,  1882859588

Frederick Douglass: Writer, Speaker, and Opponent of Slavery
Suzanne Slade, $23.93.  1404831029

Frederick Douglass: Voice for Freedom
Kremena Spengler, Larry E. Hudson . $22.60.  0736854347

Frederick Douglass
Pebble Books, Gail Saunders-Smith (Editor) . $5.95.  0736893709

Frederick Douglass
Margo McLoone . $6.95.  1560655178

Douglass and Melville: Anchored Together in Neighborly Style
Robert K. Wallace . $19.95.  0932027911

Frederick Douglass: Slave, Writer, Abolitionist
Brenda Haugen . $30.60.  0756508185

Frederick Douglass's Curious Audiences: Ethos in the Age of the Consumable Subject
Terry Baxter . $85.00.  041597075X

Let's Meet Frederick Douglass
Lisa Trumbauer . $14.9.5.  079107319X

Frederick Douglass
Jack McKivigan (Editor) . $34.95.  0737715227

Caught in the Rebel Camp: Frederick Douglass
Dave Jackson,. $6.99.  0764222368