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Sweet Thunder
The Life and Times of Sugar Ray Robinson
Written by Wil Haygood
Format: Hardcover, 480 pages
On Sale: October 13, 2009
Price: $27.95
From the author of the critically acclaimed In Black and White: The Life of Sammy Davis, Jr., comes another illuminating socio-historical narrative of the twentieth century, this one spun around one of the most iconic figures of the fight game, Sugar Ray Robinson.
Continuing to set himself apart as one of our... Read more >
The Life and Times of Sugar Ray Robinson
Written by Wil Haygood
Format: Hardcover, 480 pages
On Sale: October 13, 2009
Price: $27.95
From the author of the critically acclaimed In Black and White: The Life of Sammy Davis, Jr., comes another illuminating socio-historical narrative of the twentieth century, this one spun around one of the most iconic figures of the fight game, Sugar Ray Robinson.
Continuing to set himself apart as one of our... Read more >
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Sweet Thunder
Written by Wil Haygood
Format: eBook, 480 pages
On Sale: October 13, 2009
Price: $27.95
From the author of the critically acclaimed In Black and White: The Life of Sammy Davis, Jr., comes another illuminating socio-historical narrative of the twentieth century, this one spun around one of the most iconic figures of the fight game, Sugar Ray Robinson.
Continuing to set himself apart as one of our... Read more >
Written by Wil Haygood
Format: eBook, 480 pages
On Sale: October 13, 2009
Price: $27.95
From the author of the critically acclaimed In Black and White: The Life of Sammy Davis, Jr., comes another illuminating socio-historical narrative of the twentieth century, this one spun around one of the most iconic figures of the fight game, Sugar Ray Robinson.
Continuing to set himself apart as one of our... Read more >
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A Horn for Louis
Written by Eric A. Kimmel
Format: eBook
On Sale: September 9, 2009
Price: $3.99
Seven-year-old Louis Armstrong was too poor to buy a real horn. He didn’t even go to school. To help his mother pay the rent, Louis had a job. Every day he rode a junk wagon through the streets of New Orleans, playing his tin horn and collecting stuff people didn’t want... Read more >
Written by Eric A. Kimmel
Format: eBook
On Sale: September 9, 2009
Price: $3.99
Seven-year-old Louis Armstrong was too poor to buy a real horn. He didn’t even go to school. To help his mother pay the rent, Louis had a job. Every day he rode a junk wagon through the streets of New Orleans, playing his tin horn and collecting stuff people didn’t want... Read more >
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A Mighty Long Way
My Journey to Justice at Little Rock Central High School
Written by Carlotta Walls Lanier and Lisa Frazier Page
Foreword by Bill Clinton
Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
On Sale: August 25, 2009
Price: $26.00
When fourteen-year-old Carlotta Walls walked up the stairs of Little Rock Central High School on September 25, 1957, she and eight other black students only wanted to make it to class. But the journey of the “Little Rock Nine,” as they came to be known, would lead the nation on an... Read more >
My Journey to Justice at Little Rock Central High School
Written by Carlotta Walls Lanier and Lisa Frazier Page
Foreword by Bill Clinton
Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
On Sale: August 25, 2009
Price: $26.00
When fourteen-year-old Carlotta Walls walked up the stairs of Little Rock Central High School on September 25, 1957, she and eight other black students only wanted to make it to class. But the journey of the “Little Rock Nine,” as they came to be known, would lead the nation on an... Read more >
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A Mighty Long Way
My Journey to Justice at Little Rock Central High School
Written by Carlotta Walls Lanier and Lisa Frazier Page
Foreword by Bill Clinton
Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: August 25, 2009
Price: $26.00
When fourteen-year-old Carlotta Walls walked up the stairs of Little Rock Central High School on September 25, 1957, she and eight other black students only wanted to make it to class. But the journey of the “Little Rock Nine,” as they came to be known, would lead the nation on an... Read more >
My Journey to Justice at Little Rock Central High School
Written by Carlotta Walls Lanier and Lisa Frazier Page
Foreword by Bill Clinton
Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: August 25, 2009
Price: $26.00
When fourteen-year-old Carlotta Walls walked up the stairs of Little Rock Central High School on September 25, 1957, she and eight other black students only wanted to make it to class. But the journey of the “Little Rock Nine,” as they came to be known, would lead the nation on an... Read more >
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My Face Is Black Is True
Callie House and the Struggle for Ex-Slave Reparations
Written by Mary Frances Berry
Format: eBook
On Sale: July 16, 2009
Price: $14.95
“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... Read more >
Callie House and the Struggle for Ex-Slave Reparations
Written by Mary Frances Berry
Format: eBook
On Sale: July 16, 2009
Price: $14.95
“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... Read more >
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Toussaint Louverture
Written by Madison Smartt Bell
Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: June 10, 2009
Price: $14.95
In 1791, Saint Domingue was both the richest and cruelest colony in the Western Hemisphere; more than a third of African slaves died within a few years of their arrival there. Thirteen years later, Haitian rebels declared independence from France after the first--and only--successful slave revolution in history. Much of the... Read more >
Written by Madison Smartt Bell
Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: June 10, 2009
Price: $14.95
In 1791, Saint Domingue was both the richest and cruelest colony in the Western Hemisphere; more than a third of African slaves died within a few years of their arrival there. Thirteen years later, Haitian rebels declared independence from France after the first--and only--successful slave revolution in history. Much of the... Read more >
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Hard Driving
The Wendell Scott Story
Written by Brian Donovan
Format: Trade Paperback, 328 pages
On Sale: May 12, 2009
Price: $16.99
Hard Driving is the dramatic story of one man’s dogged determination to live the life he loved, and to compete, despite daunting obstacles, at the highest level of his sport.
Wendell Scott figured he was signing up for trouble when he became nascar’s version of Jackie Robinson in the segregated 1950s. Some... Read more >
The Wendell Scott Story
Written by Brian Donovan
Format: Trade Paperback, 328 pages
On Sale: May 12, 2009
Price: $16.99
Hard Driving is the dramatic story of one man’s dogged determination to live the life he loved, and to compete, despite daunting obstacles, at the highest level of his sport.
Wendell Scott figured he was signing up for trouble when he became nascar’s version of Jackie Robinson in the segregated 1950s. Some... Read more >
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Gather Together in My Name
Written by Maya Angelou
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: April 21, 2009
Price: $15.00
Gather Together in My Name continues Maya Angelou’s personal story, begun so unforgettably in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. The time is the end of World War II and there is a sense of optimism everywhere. Maya Angelou, still in her teens, has given birth to a son. But... Read more >
Written by Maya Angelou
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: April 21, 2009
Price: $15.00
Gather Together in My Name continues Maya Angelou’s personal story, begun so unforgettably in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. The time is the end of World War II and there is a sense of optimism everywhere. Maya Angelou, still in her teens, has given birth to a son. But... Read more >
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Gather Together in My Name
Written by Maya Angelou
Format: eBook
On Sale: April 21, 2009
Price: $15.00
In this incredible second book in a series of autobiographies, the poet, still in her teens, gives birth to a son, tries to keep a job, falls in love, dances, falls out of love, chases after her kidnapped baby, and goes to work in a house of prostitution thinking she is... Read more >
Written by Maya Angelou
Format: eBook
On Sale: April 21, 2009
Price: $15.00
In this incredible second book in a series of autobiographies, the poet, still in her teens, gives birth to a son, tries to keep a job, falls in love, dances, falls out of love, chases after her kidnapped baby, and goes to work in a house of prostitution thinking she is... Read more >
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The Heart of a Woman
Written by Maya Angelou
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: April 21, 2009
Price: $15.00
In The Heart of a Woman, Maya Angelou leaves California with her son, Guy, to move to New York. There she enters the society and world of black artists and writers, reads her work at the Harlem Writers Guild, and begins to take part in the struggle of black Americans for... Read more >
Written by Maya Angelou
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: April 21, 2009
Price: $15.00
In The Heart of a Woman, Maya Angelou leaves California with her son, Guy, to move to New York. There she enters the society and world of black artists and writers, reads her work at the Harlem Writers Guild, and begins to take part in the struggle of black Americans for... Read more >
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The Heart of a Woman
Written by Dr. Maya Angelou
Format: eBook
On Sale: April 21, 2009
Price: $15.00
Maya Angelou has fascinated, moved, and inspired countless readers with the first three volumes of her autobiography, one of the most remarkable personal narratives of our age. Now, in her fourth volume, The Heart of a Woman, her turbulent life breaks wide open with joy as the singer-dancer enters the razzle-dazzle of fabulous New York City. There, at... Read more >
Written by Dr. Maya Angelou
Format: eBook
On Sale: April 21, 2009
Price: $15.00
Maya Angelou has fascinated, moved, and inspired countless readers with the first three volumes of her autobiography, one of the most remarkable personal narratives of our age. Now, in her fourth volume, The Heart of a Woman, her turbulent life breaks wide open with joy as the singer-dancer enters the razzle-dazzle of fabulous New York City. There, at... Read more >
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Written by Maya Angelou
Format: eBook
On Sale: April 21, 2009
Price: $17.00
Superbly told, with the poet's gift for language and observation, Angelou's autobiography of her childhood in Arkansas - a world of which most Americans are ignorant.
From the Hardcover edition. Read more >
Written by Maya Angelou
Format: eBook
On Sale: April 21, 2009
Price: $17.00
Superbly told, with the poet's gift for language and observation, Angelou's autobiography of her childhood in Arkansas - a world of which most Americans are ignorant.
From the Hardcover edition. Read more >
Also available as an
abridged audio CD,
abridged audiobook download,
hardcover,
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Written by Maya Angelou
Format: Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: April 21, 2009
Price: $6.99
Sent by their mother to live with their devout, self-sufficient grandmother in a small Southern town, Maya and her brother, Bailey, endure the ache of abandonment and the prejudice of the local “powhitetrash.” At eight years old and back at her mother’s side in St. Louis, Maya is attacked by a... Read more >
Written by Maya Angelou
Format: Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: April 21, 2009
Price: $6.99
Sent by their mother to live with their devout, self-sufficient grandmother in a small Southern town, Maya and her brother, Bailey, endure the ache of abandonment and the prejudice of the local “powhitetrash.” At eight years old and back at her mother’s side in St. Louis, Maya is attacked by a... Read more >
Also available as an
abridged audio CD,
abridged audiobook download,
eBook,
hardcover,
trade paperback and a
trade paperback.
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Written by Maya Angelou
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: April 21, 2009
Price: $17.00
Here is a book as joyous and painful, and as mysterious and memorable, as childhood itself. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings captures the longing of lonely children, the brute insult of bigotry, and the wonder of words that can make the world right. Maya Angelou’s first memoir, published in... Read more >
Written by Maya Angelou
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: April 21, 2009
Price: $17.00
Here is a book as joyous and painful, and as mysterious and memorable, as childhood itself. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings captures the longing of lonely children, the brute insult of bigotry, and the wonder of words that can make the world right. Maya Angelou’s first memoir, published in... Read more >
Also available as an
abridged audio CD,
abridged audiobook download,
eBook,
hardcover,
paperback and a
trade paperback.
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Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas
Written by Maya Angelou
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: April 21, 2009
Price: $15.00
In this third self-contained volume of her autobiography, which began with I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou moves into the adult world. Maya struggles to support herself and her son through a series of odd jobs and weathers a failed marriage to a white man before landing a... Read more >
Written by Maya Angelou
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: April 21, 2009
Price: $15.00
In this third self-contained volume of her autobiography, which began with I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou moves into the adult world. Maya struggles to support herself and her son through a series of odd jobs and weathers a failed marriage to a white man before landing a... Read more >
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Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas
Written by Maya Angelou
Format: eBook
On Sale: April 21, 2009
Price: $15.00
In this third self-contained volume of her autobiography, which began with I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou moves into the adult world, and the white world as well, as she marries, enters show business, and tours Europe and Africa in Porgy and Bess.
As the book opens, Maya, in... Read more >
Written by Maya Angelou
Format: eBook
On Sale: April 21, 2009
Price: $15.00
In this third self-contained volume of her autobiography, which began with I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou moves into the adult world, and the white world as well, as she marries, enters show business, and tours Europe and Africa in Porgy and Bess.
As the book opens, Maya, in... Read more >
Also available as a
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Black Titan
A.G. Gaston and the Making of a Black American Millionaire
Written by Carol Jenkins and Elizabeth Gardner Hines
Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: April 2, 2009
Price: $14.95
The grandson of slaves, born into poverty in 1892 in the Deep South, A. G. Gaston died more than a century later with a fortune worth well over $130 million and a business empire spanning communications, real estate, and insurance. Gaston was, by any measure, a heroic figure whose wealth and... Read more >
A.G. Gaston and the Making of a Black American Millionaire
Written by Carol Jenkins and Elizabeth Gardner Hines
Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: April 2, 2009
Price: $14.95
The grandson of slaves, born into poverty in 1892 in the Deep South, A. G. Gaston died more than a century later with a fortune worth well over $130 million and a business empire spanning communications, real estate, and insurance. Gaston was, by any measure, a heroic figure whose wealth and... Read more >
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Freedom in the Family
A Mother-Daughter Memoir of the Fight for Civil Rights
Written by Tananarive Due and Patricia Stephens Due
Format: eBook, 416 pages
On Sale: April 2, 2009
Price: $23.00
Patricia Stephens Due fought for justice during the height of the Civil Rights era. Her daughter, Tananarive, grew up deeply enmeshed in the values of a family committed to making right whatever they saw as wrong. Together, in alternating chapters, they have written a paean to the movement—its hardships, its nameless... Read more >
A Mother-Daughter Memoir of the Fight for Civil Rights
Written by Tananarive Due and Patricia Stephens Due
Format: eBook, 416 pages
On Sale: April 2, 2009
Price: $23.00
Patricia Stephens Due fought for justice during the height of the Civil Rights era. Her daughter, Tananarive, grew up deeply enmeshed in the values of a family committed to making right whatever they saw as wrong. Together, in alternating chapters, they have written a paean to the movement—its hardships, its nameless... Read more >
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W.C. Handy
The Life and Times of the Man Who Made the Blues
Written by David Roberston
Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
On Sale: March 17, 2009
Price: $27.95
Before there was Elvis, there was W.C. Handy, “the man who made the blues.” Here is the first major biography in decades of the man who gave us such iconic songs as “St. Louis Blues,” “The Memphis Blues,” and “Beale Street Blues,” and who was responsible, more than any other musician... Read more >
The Life and Times of the Man Who Made the Blues
Written by David Roberston
Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
On Sale: March 17, 2009
Price: $27.95
Before there was Elvis, there was W.C. Handy, “the man who made the blues.” Here is the first major biography in decades of the man who gave us such iconic songs as “St. Louis Blues,” “The Memphis Blues,” and “Beale Street Blues,” and who was responsible, more than any other musician... Read more >
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Native Sons
Written by James Baldwin and Sol Stein
Format: eBook, 240 pages
On Sale: March 12, 2009
Price: $13.95
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... Read more >
Written by James Baldwin and Sol Stein
Format: eBook, 240 pages
On Sale: March 12, 2009
Price: $13.95
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... Read more >
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Standing Tall
A Memoir of Tragedy and Triumph
Written by C. Vivian Stringer and Laura Tucker
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: March 3, 2009
Price: $14.95
“Lots of people have dreams, but C. Vivian Stringer is the dream—a coalminer’s daughter who believed when her Poppa told her there was no obstacle she could not surmount. And she lives that dream, teaching others to rise up to meet challenges, turning underdogs into champions again and again—on and off... Read more >
A Memoir of Tragedy and Triumph
Written by C. Vivian Stringer and Laura Tucker
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: March 3, 2009
Price: $14.95
“Lots of people have dreams, but C. Vivian Stringer is the dream—a coalminer’s daughter who believed when her Poppa told her there was no obstacle she could not surmount. And she lives that dream, teaching others to rise up to meet challenges, turning underdogs into champions again and again—on and off... Read more >
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Bound for the Promised Land
Harriet Tubman: Portrait of an American Hero
Written by Kate Clifford Larson
Format: eBook, 432 pages
On Sale: February 19, 2009
Price: $14.95
Harriet Tubman is one of the giants of American history—a fearless visionary who led scores of her fellow slaves to freedom and battled courageously behind enemy lines during the Civil War. And yet in the nine decades since her death, next to nothing has been written about this extraordinary woman aside... Read more >
Harriet Tubman: Portrait of an American Hero
Written by Kate Clifford Larson
Format: eBook, 432 pages
On Sale: February 19, 2009
Price: $14.95
Harriet Tubman is one of the giants of American history—a fearless visionary who led scores of her fellow slaves to freedom and battled courageously behind enemy lines during the Civil War. And yet in the nine decades since her death, next to nothing has been written about this extraordinary woman aside... Read more >
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Growing Up X
Written by Ilyasah Shabazz
Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: January 16, 2009
Price: $14.95
“Ilyasah Shabazz has written a compelling and lyrical coming-of-age story as well as a candid and heart-warming tribute to her parents. Growing Up X is destined to become a classic.”
–SPIKE LEE
February 21, 1965: Malcolm X is assassinated in Harlem’s Audubon Ballroom. June 23, 1997: After surviving for a remarkable twenty-two days... Read more >
Written by Ilyasah Shabazz
Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: January 16, 2009
Price: $14.95
“Ilyasah Shabazz has written a compelling and lyrical coming-of-age story as well as a candid and heart-warming tribute to her parents. Growing Up X is destined to become a classic.”
–SPIKE LEE
February 21, 1965: Malcolm X is assassinated in Harlem’s Audubon Ballroom. June 23, 1997: After surviving for a remarkable twenty-two days... Read more >
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trade paperback.
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Migrations of the Heart
An Autobiography
Written by Marita Golden
Format: eBook, 240 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2008
Price: $13.95
Distinguished author and television executive Marita Golden writes movingly about her life -- first as a black activist in the sixties in her hometown Washington, D.C., then as a journalism student in New York. In those turbulent years, she gained a profound understanding of what it means to be black in... Read more >
An Autobiography
Written by Marita Golden
Format: eBook, 240 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2008
Price: $13.95
Distinguished author and television executive Marita Golden writes movingly about her life -- first as a black activist in the sixties in her hometown Washington, D.C., then as a journalism student in New York. In those turbulent years, she gained a profound understanding of what it means to be black in... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
