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First published in 1930, "Not Without Laughter" is the debut novel by Langston Hughes and a deeply personal, semi-autobiographical tale of an African-American family in rural Kansas. Langston Hughes, born in 1902 in Joplin, Missouri, spent much of his youth in Lawrence, Kansas and it is here that he set his first novel. "Not Without Laughter" tells the story of young Sandy Rogers as he grows from a boy to a young man and focuses on his "awakening...

"JJ Ferguson has returned home to Pinewood, North Carolina, to build his dream house and to pursue his high school sweetheart, Ava. But as he reenters his former world, where factories are in decline and the legacy of Jim Crow is still felt, he's startled to find that the people he once knew and loved have changed just as much as he has. Ava is now married and desperate for a baby, though she can't seem to carry one to term. Her husband, Henry, has...

One of the most popular programs in the history of television. Happily married couple Cliff and Claire Huxtable have aspirations of raising their five children in an uplifting, positive environment. Features all 25 episodes from Season Five.

Policeman Carl Winslow has enough to deal with on the job. But when he gets home, he still has to handle kids, a wife, Mom, a sister-in-law, and Urkel, the nerd next door, who doesn't understand that he doesn't actually live with the Winslows.

Meet James Samuel Vincent -- an affluent Manhattan attorney who shirks his modest Irish American background but hews to his father's philandering ways. James muddles through a topsy-turvy relationship with his son, Rufus, which is further complicated when Rufus marries Claudia Christie. Claudia's mother -- Agnes Miller Christie -- is a beautiful African American woman who survives a chance encounter on a Georgia road that propels her into a new life...

Get your geek on with Steve Urkel, the ultimate nerd and annoying neighbor of Carl and Harriette Winslow and their multigenerational Chicago clan. Urkel's irrepressible spirit, not-so-smooth moves, and undying love for Laura Winslow cause the family constant aggravation and occasional delight.

Get your geek on with Steve Urkel, the ultimate nerd and annoying neighbor of Carl and Harriette Winslow and their multigenerational Chicago clan. Urkel's irrepressible spirit, not-so-smooth moves, and undying love for Laura Winslow cause the family constant aggravation and occasional delight. And whether he's burning down the café where he works, sharking the local pool hall, or proving the existence of Santa, the Urkman's got what it takes to turn...

The final season ups the ante with a multicharacter tour-de-farce, while completing Laura and Eddie Winslow's journeys to maturity. Its wedding bells as Laura accept, but with dueling proposals from Steve and his clone, Stefan, the question is, for whom? Meanwhile, Myrtle makes her final play for Eddie, Steve's cousin Original Gangsta Dawg wreaks havoc, and Halloween signals the return of evil dummy Stevil , now joined by Carlsbad a disturbing, diminutive...

Following her National Book Award-nominated debut novel, A Kind of Freedom, Margaret Wilkerson Sexton returns with this equally elegant and historically inspired story of survivors and healers, of black women and their black sons, set in the American South. In 1925, Josephine is the proud owner of a thriving farm. As a child, she channeled otherworldly power to free herself from slavery. Now, her new neighbor, a white woman named Charlotte, seeks...

"A young Black girl and her aunt celebrate the wonder and magic of their family's legacy through storytelling."--