Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks On Sale: October 9, 2007 Price: $19.95 ISBN: 978-0-8129-7485-0 (0-8129-7485-9)
Throughout Maya Angelou’s life, from her childhood in Stamps, Arkansas, to her world travels as a bestselling writer, good food has played a central role. Preparing and enjoying homemade meals provides a sense of purpose and calm, accomplishment and connection. Now in Hallelujah! The Welcome Table, Angelou shares memories pithy and...
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Format: Hardcover, 224 pages Publisher: Random House Reference On Sale: May 9, 2006 Price: $14.95 ISBN: 978-0-375-42607-0 (0-375-42607-8)
This treasury of quotes and passages on leading a centered, purposeful, and spiritual life offers the advice and observations of leaders from all walks of life. Included are Ghandi, Lao-Tzu, Maya Angelou, Martin Luther King, Jr., Mother Teresa, and hundreds of other unique and inspiring voices on subjects like compassion, kindness...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages Publisher: Broadway On Sale: August 9, 2005 Price: $19.00 ISBN: 978-0-7679-1568-7 (0-7679-1568-2)
“Maurice Ashley is not only a chess grandmaster, but he is a grandmaster at story-telling. He knows how to get to get kids hooked on the strategies and complexities of chess. In an age where kids too often play video games that are like junk food for the brain, Maurice is...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages Publisher: One World/Ballantine On Sale: July 26, 2005 Price: $13.95 ISBN: 978-0-345-46936-6 (0-345-46936-4)
James Baldwin was beginning to be recognized as the most brilliant black writer of his generation when his first book of essays, Notes of a Native Son,established his reputation in 1955. No one was more pleased by the book’s reception than Baldwin’s high school friend Sol Stein. A rising New...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 544 pages Publisher: Ballantine Books On Sale: December 29, 1998 Price: $17.95 ISBN: 978-0-345-43105-9 (0-345-43105-7)
WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year
Winner of The Southern Book Award for Best Nonfiction
Slaves in the Family is the story of one man's exploration of his family's slave-owning past and his search for descendants of the people his ancestors kept as slaves.
Format: Hardcover, 224 pages Publisher: National Geographic On Sale: October 31, 2006 Price: $35.00 ISBN: 978-1-4262-0006-9 (1-4262-0006-4)
From its Introduction by the revered and distinguished John Hope Franklin to the bibliography and extensive index that complete it, Legacy represents a major new contribution to African-American history. The Black experience and its impact on our nation's culture and character come alive in twelve chapters that sweep from ancient Africa...
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Format: Hardcover Publisher: Pantheon On Sale: November 3, 1998 Price: $45.00 ISBN: 978-0-679-44257-8 (0-679-44257-X)
For more than 10 years, Robert Bergman traveled by car with two friends, for months at a time, throughout the Rust Belt (Chicago, Detroit, Pittsburgh, Gary) and the East Coast, taking color pictures of everyday people who moved him profoundly. A Kind of Rapture brings together the first selection from Bergman’s...
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Format: Hardcover, 224 pages Publisher: Broadway On Sale: February 3, 2009 Price: $23.95 ISBN: 978-0-7679-2414-6 (0-7679-2414-2)
When novelist Bertice Berry set out to write a history of her family, she initially believed she’d uncover a story of slavery and black pain, but the deeper she dug, the more surprises she found. There was heartache, yes, but also something unexpected: hope. Peeling away the layers, Berry came to...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages Publisher: Vintage On Sale: October 10, 2006 Price: $14.95 ISBN: 978-0-307-27705-3 (0-307-27705-4)
“My face is black is true but its not my fault but I love my name and my honest in dealing with my fellow man.” ~Callie House (1899)
In her groundbreaking new book, My Face Is Black Is True, historian Mary Frances Berry resurrects the forgotten life of Callie House (1861–1928), ex-slave, widowed...
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Format: Hardcover, 368 pages Publisher: Pantheon On Sale: April 19, 2005 Price: $25.00 ISBN: 978-0-375-40610-2 (0-375-40610-7)
From Julia Blackburn, an author whose ability to conjure lives from other times and places is so vivid that one suspects she sees ghosts, here is a portrait of a woman whose voice continues to haunt anyone who hears it.
Billie Holiday’s life is inseparable from an account of her troubles, her...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 432 pages Publisher: One World/Ballantine On Sale: January 31, 2006 Price: $15.95 ISBN: 978-0-345-45419-5 (0-345-45419-7)
In Bright Boulevards, Bold Dreams, Donald Bogle tells–for the first time–the story of a place both mythic and real: Black Hollywood. Spanning sixty years, this history uncovers the audacious manner in which many blacks made a place for themselves in an industry that originally had no place for them.
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages Publisher: Three Rivers Press On Sale: September 28, 2004 Price: $13.95 ISBN: 978-1-4000-5380-3 (1-4000-5380-3)
"...the first bona fide biography of the bad-boy rapper....Bozza links the melding of black and white cultures so evident throughout rock history to the intricate confluence of race in Eminem...." —Library Journal
On assignment for his first cover story for Rolling Stone magazine, the very first national cover story on Eminem, Anthony...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages Publisher: North Atlantic Books On Sale: May 15, 2007 Price: $15.95 ISBN: 978-1-55643-573-7 (1-55643-573-8)
Blacks have been vanishing from college campuses in the United States and reappearing in prisons, videos, and movies. Cecil Brown tackles this unwitting "disappearing act" head-on, paying special attention to the situation at UC Berkeley and the University of California system generally. Brown contends that educators have ignored the importance of...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks On Sale: January 13, 2009 Price: $17.00 ISBN: 978-0-8129-7713-4 (0-8129-7713-0)
Condoleezza Rice, one of the most powerful and controversial women in the world, has until now remained a mystery behind an elegant, cool veneer. New York Times reporter Elisabeth Bumiller peels back the layers and presents a revelatory portrait of the first black female secretary of state and President George W...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 512 pages Publisher: Three Rivers Press On Sale: March 27, 2007 Price: $14.95 ISBN: 978-0-307-34188-4 (0-307-34188-7)
The brutal lynching of two young black men in Marion, Indiana, on August 7, 1930, cast a shadow over the town that still lingers; but is only one event in the long and complicated history of race relations in Marion, a history much ignored and considered by many to be best...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 512 pages Publisher: Harlem Moon On Sale: January 10, 2006 Price: $15.95 ISBN: 978-0-7679-1955-5 (0-7679-1955-6)
Includes Washington’s classic memoir Up from Slavery
On the ninetieth anniversary of Booker T. Washington’s death comes a passionate, provocative dialogue on his complicated legacy, including the complete text of his classic autobiography, Up from Slavery.
Booker T. Washington was born a slave in 1858, yet roughly forty years later he had established...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 440 pages Publisher: Zoland Books On Sale: June 13, 2006 Price: $16.95 ISBN: 978-1-58195-217-9 (1-58195-217-1)
This unique and compelling novel deserves a place of prominence in American literature. Completed in 1963, read and widely admired in manuscript by a network of expatriate American artists strung across Europe, it was never published during Vincent Carter’s lifetime. In 2003, Steerforth Press published the text in its entirety, knowing...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages Publisher: Delta On Sale: January 12, 1999 Price: $15.00 ISBN: 978-0-385-33379-5 (0-385-33379-X)
Originally published in 1968, Soul on Ice shocked, outraged, and ultimately challenged the way America saw the Civil Rights movement and the Black experience. Today this book remains a testament to Eldridge Cleaver's intelligence, insightfulness, and place in American history. Written while the former Black Panther Minister of Information was in...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages Publisher: Spiegel & Grau On Sale: January 6, 2009 Price: $14.00 ISBN: 978-0-385-52746-0 (0-385-52746-2)
An exceptional father-son story about the reality that tests us, the myths that sustain us, and the love that saves us.
Paul Coates was an enigmatic god to his sons: a Vietnam vet who rolled with the Black Panthers, an old-school disciplinarian and new-age believer in free love, an autodidact who launched...
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Format: Hardcover, 576 pages Publisher: Pantheon On Sale: August 24, 2004 Price: $28.50 ISBN: 978-0-375-42148-8 (0-375-42148-3)
Queen is the landmark biography of the brief, intensely lived life and soulful music of the great Dinah Washington.
A gospel star at fifteen, she was discovered by jazz great Lionel Hampton at eighteen, and for the rest of her life was on the road, playing clubs, or singing in the studio—making...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages Publisher: Anchor On Sale: September 18, 2001 Price: $13.95 ISBN: 978-0-385-72028-1 (0-385-72028-9)
A profoundly courageous and insightful memoir, An American Storydocuments the events that have shaped journalist Debra Dickerson's conscience.
The daughter of former sharecroppers, Dickerson never imagined she would emerge from her squalid St. Louis neighborhood to become an acclaimed journalist with a Harvard Law degree. A constant reader and a straight-A...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages Publisher: Broadway On Sale: May 15, 2001 Price: $15.00 ISBN: 978-0-7679-0574-9 (0-7679-0574-1)
This important new book, based on the mentoring program created by The 100 Black Men of America, provides readers with advice about how mentoring a child can lead to many positive changes in a young person’s life. With more than 10,000 members in eighty-two chapters in the U.S., the Virgin Islands...
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Format: Hardcover, 208 pages Publisher: Rizzoli On Sale: February 6, 2007 Price: $50.00 ISBN: 978-0-8478-2941-5 (0-8478-2941-3)
The Black Panther Party for Self Defense, formed in the aftermath of the assassination of Malcolm X in 1965, remains one of the most controversial movements of the 20th-century. Founded by the charismatic Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale, the party sounded a defiant cry for an end to the institutionalized...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages Publisher: Rizzoli On Sale: February 6, 2007 Price: $35.00 ISBN: 978-0-8478-2944-6 (0-8478-2944-8)
The Black Panther Party for Self Defense, formed in the aftermath of the assassination of Malcolm X in 1965, remains one of the most controversial movements of the 20th-century. Founded by the charismatic Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale, the party sounded a defiant cry for an end to the institutionalized...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 576 pages Publisher: Anchor On Sale: July 17, 1984 Price: $25.00 ISBN: 978-0-385-17125-0 (0-385-17125-0)
This volume provides each writer's reflection on her work, an evaluation of that writer by two perceptive critics and detailed biographical and bibliographical data. Included are Maya Angelou, Toni Cade Bambara, Nikki Giovanni, Toni Morrison, Alice Walker and ten other outstanding writers.
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