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A Scattered People
Written by Gerald McFarland
Format: eBook
On Sale: June 5, 2013
Price: $13.99
The movement of millions of ordinary people westward across the American continent was one of the great folk migrations of all time, stretching over two centuries and thousands of hard-traveled miles. Using a canvas as broad as the country itself, Gerald McFarland turns this journey into a resonant personal experience by... Read more >
Written by Gerald McFarland
Format: eBook
On Sale: June 5, 2013
Price: $13.99
The movement of millions of ordinary people westward across the American continent was one of the great folk migrations of all time, stretching over two centuries and thousands of hard-traveled miles. Using a canvas as broad as the country itself, Gerald McFarland turns this journey into a resonant personal experience by... Read more >
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Uncle Tom or New Negro?
African Americans Reflect on Booker T. Washington and UP FROM SLAVERY 100 Years Later
Written by Rebecca Carroll
Format: eBook, 512 pages
On Sale: April 3, 2013
Price: $11.99
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 the Tuskegee Institute. Befriended by a... Read more >
African Americans Reflect on Booker T. Washington and UP FROM SLAVERY 100 Years Later
Written by Rebecca Carroll
Format: eBook, 512 pages
On Sale: April 3, 2013
Price: $11.99
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 the Tuskegee Institute. Befriended by a... Read more >
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Mom & Me & Mom
Written by Maya Angelou
Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
On Sale: April 2, 2013
Price: $22.00
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
The story of Maya Angelou’s extraordinary life has been chronicled in her multiple bestselling autobiographies. But now, at last, the legendary author shares the deepest personal story of her life: her relationship with her mother.
For the first time, Angelou reveals the triumphs and struggles of being... Read more >
Written by Maya Angelou
Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
On Sale: April 2, 2013
Price: $22.00
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
The story of Maya Angelou’s extraordinary life has been chronicled in her multiple bestselling autobiographies. But now, at last, the legendary author shares the deepest personal story of her life: her relationship with her mother.
For the first time, Angelou reveals the triumphs and struggles of being... Read more >
Also available as an
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Mom & Me & Mom
Written by Maya Angelou
Format: eBook, 224 pages
On Sale: April 2, 2013
Price: $10.99
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
The story of Maya Angelou’s extraordinary life has been chronicled in her multiple bestselling autobiographies. But now, at last, the legendary author shares the deepest personal story of her life: her relationship with her mother.
For the first time, Angelou reveals the triumphs and struggles of being... Read more >
Written by Maya Angelou
Format: eBook, 224 pages
On Sale: April 2, 2013
Price: $10.99
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
The story of Maya Angelou’s extraordinary life has been chronicled in her multiple bestselling autobiographies. But now, at last, the legendary author shares the deepest personal story of her life: her relationship with her mother.
For the first time, Angelou reveals the triumphs and struggles of being... Read more >
Also available as an
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unabridged audiobook download,
hardcover and in
large print trade paperback.
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Mom & Me & Mom
Written by Maya Angelou
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: April 2, 2013
Price: $22.00
The story of Maya Angelou’s extraordinary life has been chronicled in her multiple bestselling autobiographies. But now, at last, the legendary author shares the deepest personal story of her life: her relationship with her mother.
For the first time, Angelou reveals the triumphs and struggles of being the daughter of Vivian Baxter... Read more >
Written by Maya Angelou
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: April 2, 2013
Price: $22.00
The story of Maya Angelou’s extraordinary life has been chronicled in her multiple bestselling autobiographies. But now, at last, the legendary author shares the deepest personal story of her life: her relationship with her mother.
For the first time, Angelou reveals the triumphs and struggles of being the daughter of Vivian Baxter... Read more >
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Mom & Me & Mom
Written by Maya Angelou
Read by Maya Angelou
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: April 2, 2013
Price: $30.00
The story of Maya Angelou’s extraordinary life has been chronicled in her multiple bestselling autobiographies. But now, at last, the legendary author shares the deepest personal story of her life: her relationship with her mother.
For the first time, Angelou reveals the triumphs and struggles of being the daughter of Vivian Baxter... Read more >
Written by Maya Angelou
Read by Maya Angelou
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: April 2, 2013
Price: $30.00
The story of Maya Angelou’s extraordinary life has been chronicled in her multiple bestselling autobiographies. But now, at last, the legendary author shares the deepest personal story of her life: her relationship with her mother.
For the first time, Angelou reveals the triumphs and struggles of being the daughter of Vivian Baxter... Read more >
Also available as an
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Mom & Me & Mom
Written by Maya Angelou
Read by Maya Angelou
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: April 2, 2013
Price: $15.00
The story of Maya Angelou’s extraordinary life has been chronicled in her multiple bestselling autobiographies. But now, at last, the legendary author shares the deepest personal story of her life: her relationship with her mother.
For the first time, Angelou reveals the triumphs and struggles of being the daughter of Vivian Baxter... Read more >
Written by Maya Angelou
Read by Maya Angelou
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: April 2, 2013
Price: $15.00
The story of Maya Angelou’s extraordinary life has been chronicled in her multiple bestselling autobiographies. But now, at last, the legendary author shares the deepest personal story of her life: her relationship with her mother.
For the first time, Angelou reveals the triumphs and struggles of being the daughter of Vivian Baxter... Read more >
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King Peggy
An American Secretary, Her Royal Destiny, and the Inspiring Story of How She Changed an African Village
Written by Peggielene Bartels and Eleanor Herman
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: February 12, 2013
Price: $15.00
An American Secretary, Her Royal Destiny, and the Inspiring Story of How She Changed an African Village
Written by Peggielene Bartels and Eleanor Herman
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: February 12, 2013
Price: $15.00
The charming real-life fairy tale of an American secretary who discovers she has been chosen king of an impoverished fishing village on the west coast of Africa.
King Peggy chronicles the astonishing journey of American secretary, Peggielene Bartels, who suddenly finds herself king to a town of 7,000 people on Ghana's central...
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The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks
Written by Jeanne Theoharis
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
On Sale: January 29, 2013
Price: $27.95
Written by Jeanne Theoharis
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
On Sale: January 29, 2013
Price: $27.95
The definitive political biography of Rosa Parks examines her six decades of activism, challenging perceptions of her as an accidental actor in the civil rights movement
Presenting a corrective to the popular notion of Rosa Parks as the quiet seamstress who, with a single act, birthed the modern civil rights movement, Theoharis...
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The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks
Written by Jeanne Theoharis
Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: January 29, 2013
Price: $27.95
Written by Jeanne Theoharis
Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: January 29, 2013
Price: $27.95
The definitive political biography of Rosa Parks examines her six decades of activism, challenging perceptions of her as an accidental actor in the civil rights movement
Presenting a corrective to the popular notion of Rosa Parks as the quiet seamstress who, with a single act, birthed the modern civil rights movement, Theoharis...
Read more >
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Sugar in the Blood
A Family's Story of Slavery and Empire
Written by Andrea Stuart
Format: Hardcover, 384 pages
On Sale: January 22, 2013
Price: $27.95
In the late 1630s, lured by the promise of the New World, Andrea Stuart’s earliest known maternal ancestor, George Ashby, set sail from England to settle in Barbados. He fell into the life of a sugar plantation owner by mere chance, but by the time he harvested his first crop, a... Read more >
A Family's Story of Slavery and Empire
Written by Andrea Stuart
Format: Hardcover, 384 pages
On Sale: January 22, 2013
Price: $27.95
In the late 1630s, lured by the promise of the New World, Andrea Stuart’s earliest known maternal ancestor, George Ashby, set sail from England to settle in Barbados. He fell into the life of a sugar plantation owner by mere chance, but by the time he harvested his first crop, a... Read more >
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Sugar in the Blood
A Family's Story of Slavery and Empire
Written by Andrea Stuart
Format: eBook, 384 pages
On Sale: January 22, 2013
Price: $13.99
In the late 1630s, lured by the promise of the New World, Andrea Stuart’s earliest known maternal ancestor, George Ashby, set sail from England to settle in Barbados. He fell into the life of a sugar plantation owner by mere chance, but by the time he harvested his first crop, a... Read more >
A Family's Story of Slavery and Empire
Written by Andrea Stuart
Format: eBook, 384 pages
On Sale: January 22, 2013
Price: $13.99
In the late 1630s, lured by the promise of the New World, Andrea Stuart’s earliest known maternal ancestor, George Ashby, set sail from England to settle in Barbados. He fell into the life of a sugar plantation owner by mere chance, but by the time he harvested his first crop, a... Read more >
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Back in the Day
My Life and Times with Tupac Shakur
Written by Darrin Keith Bastfield
Format: eBook, 208 pages
On Sale: January 16, 2013
Price: $11.99
A star during his lifetime, a legend after a bullet killed him at the age of twenty-five, Tupac Shakur was the most influential rap musician of his day–and the most misunderstood. Far from being the insolent “gangsta” that the press put forth, Tupac was a committed and fearless visionary determined to... Read more >
My Life and Times with Tupac Shakur
Written by Darrin Keith Bastfield
Format: eBook, 208 pages
On Sale: January 16, 2013
Price: $11.99
A star during his lifetime, a legend after a bullet killed him at the age of twenty-five, Tupac Shakur was the most influential rap musician of his day–and the most misunderstood. Far from being the insolent “gangsta” that the press put forth, Tupac was a committed and fearless visionary determined to... Read more >
Bloods
Black Veterans of the Vietnam War: An Oral History
Written by Wallace Terry
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: January 16, 2013
Price: $7.99
"Simply the most powerful and moving book that has emerged on this topic." UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL
The national bestseller that tells the truth of about Vietnam from the black soldiers' perspective. An oral history unlike any other, BLOODS features twenty black men who tell the story of how members of their race... Read more >
Black Veterans of the Vietnam War: An Oral History
Written by Wallace Terry
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: January 16, 2013
Price: $7.99
"Simply the most powerful and moving book that has emerged on this topic." UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL
The national bestseller that tells the truth of about Vietnam from the black soldiers' perspective. An oral history unlike any other, BLOODS features twenty black men who tell the story of how members of their race... Read more >
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What Becomes of the Brokenhearted
A Memoir
Written by E. Lynn Harris
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: November 28, 2012
Price: $9.99
For almost a decade, beloved storyteller E. Lynn Harris has welcomed you into his family with his passionate, warm and trail-blazing novels. Now, he invites you into the most intimate world ever--his own.
Since his first book Invisible Life was published in the early 1990s, New York Times bestselling author E. Lynn... Read more >
A Memoir
Written by E. Lynn Harris
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: November 28, 2012
Price: $9.99
For almost a decade, beloved storyteller E. Lynn Harris has welcomed you into his family with his passionate, warm and trail-blazing novels. Now, he invites you into the most intimate world ever--his own.
Since his first book Invisible Life was published in the early 1990s, New York Times bestselling author E. Lynn... Read more >
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My Song
A Memoir of Art, Race, and Defiance
Written by Harry Belafonte and Michael Shnayerson
Format: Trade Paperback, 480 pages
On Sale: November 13, 2012
Price: $16.00
A Memoir of Art, Race, and Defiance
Written by Harry Belafonte and Michael Shnayerson
Format: Trade Paperback, 480 pages
On Sale: November 13, 2012
Price: $16.00
An eloquently told personal account of an era of enormous cultural and political change, which reveals Harry Belafonte as not only one of America’s greatest entertainers, but also one of our most profoundly influential activists.
Harry Belafonte spent his childhood in both Harlem and Jamaica, where the toughness of the city and...
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What a Wonderful World
The Magic of Louis Armstrong's Later Years
Written by Ricky Riccardi
Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
On Sale: June 5, 2012
Price: $16.95
The Magic of Louis Armstrong's Later Years
Written by Ricky Riccardi
Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
On Sale: June 5, 2012
Price: $16.95
Much has been written about Louis Armstrong, but the majority of it focuses on the early and middle stages of his career. In this prodigiously researched and richly detailed book, jazz scholar and musician Ricky Riccardi reveals for the first time the genius and remarkable achievements of the last 25 years...
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Anything We Love Can Be Saved
Written by Alice Walker
Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: April 4, 2012
Price: $11.99
In Anything We Love Can Be Saved, Alice Walker writes about her life as an activist, in a book rich in the belief that the world is saveable, if only we will act. Speaking from her heart on a wide range of topics--religion and the spirit, feminism and race, families and... Read more >
Written by Alice Walker
Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: April 4, 2012
Price: $11.99
In Anything We Love Can Be Saved, Alice Walker writes about her life as an activist, in a book rich in the belief that the world is saveable, if only we will act. Speaking from her heart on a wide range of topics--religion and the spirit, feminism and race, families and... Read more >
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trade paperback.
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Ice
A Memoir of Gangster Life and Redemption-from South Central to Hollywood
Written by Ice-T and Douglas Century
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: January 24, 2012
Price: $16.00
A Memoir of Gangster Life and Redemption-from South Central to Hollywood
Written by Ice-T and Douglas Century
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: January 24, 2012
Price: $16.00
He’s a hip-hop icon credited with single-handedly creating gangsta rap. Television viewers know him as Detective Odafin “Fin” Tutuola on the top-rated drama Law & Order: SVU. But where the hype and the headlines end, the real story of Ice-T—the one few of his millions of fans have ever heard—truly begins...
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Death of Innocence
The Story of the Hate Crime that Changed America
Written by Mamie Till-Mobley and Christopher Benson
Foreword by Rev. Jesse Jackson
Format: eBook
On Sale: December 7, 2011
Price: $9.99
There are many heroes of the civil rights movement—men and women we can look to for inspiration. Each has a unique story, a path that led to a role as leader or activist. Death of Innocence is the heartbreaking and ultimately inspiring story of one such hero: Mamie Till-Mobley, the mother... Read more >
The Story of the Hate Crime that Changed America
Written by Mamie Till-Mobley and Christopher Benson
Foreword by Rev. Jesse Jackson
Format: eBook
On Sale: December 7, 2011
Price: $9.99
There are many heroes of the civil rights movement—men and women we can look to for inspiration. Each has a unique story, a path that led to a role as leader or activist. Death of Innocence is the heartbreaking and ultimately inspiring story of one such hero: Mamie Till-Mobley, the mother... Read more >
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Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now
Written by Maya Angelou
Format: eBook, 144 pages
On Sale: November 23, 2011
Price: $6.99
Wisdom from a remarkable woman of many talents--a writer who captured America's heart on Inauguration Day.
From the Hardcover edition. Read more >
Written by Maya Angelou
Format: eBook, 144 pages
On Sale: November 23, 2011
Price: $6.99
Wisdom from a remarkable woman of many talents--a writer who captured America's heart on Inauguration Day.
From the Hardcover edition. Read more >
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Life Upon These Shores
Looking at African American History, 1513-2008
Written by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Format: Hardcover, 512 pages
On Sale: November 22, 2011
Price: $50.00
Henry Louis Gates, Jr., gives us a sumptuously illustrated landmark book tracing African American history from the arrival of the conquistadors to the election of Barack Obama.
Informed by the latest, sometimes provocative scholarship and including more than seven hundred images—ancient maps, fine art, documents, photographs, cartoons, posters—Life Upon These... Read more >
Looking at African American History, 1513-2008
Written by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Format: Hardcover, 512 pages
On Sale: November 22, 2011
Price: $50.00
Henry Louis Gates, Jr., gives us a sumptuously illustrated landmark book tracing African American history from the arrival of the conquistadors to the election of Barack Obama.
Informed by the latest, sometimes provocative scholarship and including more than seven hundred images—ancient maps, fine art, documents, photographs, cartoons, posters—Life Upon These... Read more >
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My Song
A Memoir
Written by Harry Belafonte and Michael Shnayerson
Format: Trade Paperback, 848 pages
On Sale: October 25, 2011
Price: $31.00
Harry Belafonte is not just one of the greatest entertainers of our time; he has led one of the great American lives of the last century. Now, this extraordinary icon tells us the story of that life, giving us its full breadth, letting us share in the struggles, the tragedies, and... Read more >
A Memoir
Written by Harry Belafonte and Michael Shnayerson
Format: Trade Paperback, 848 pages
On Sale: October 25, 2011
Price: $31.00
Harry Belafonte is not just one of the greatest entertainers of our time; he has led one of the great American lives of the last century. Now, this extraordinary icon tells us the story of that life, giving us its full breadth, letting us share in the struggles, the tragedies, and... Read more >
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Extraordinary, Ordinary People
A Memoir of Family
Written by Condoleezza Rice
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: October 11, 2011
Price: $15.00
A Memoir of Family
Written by Condoleezza Rice
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: October 11, 2011
Price: $15.00
Condoleezza Rice has excelled as a diplomat, political scientist, and concert pianist. Her achievements run the gamut from helping to oversee the collapse of communism in Europe and the decline of the Soviet Union, to working to protect the country in the aftermath of 9-11, to becoming only the second woman...
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My Song
A Memoir
Written by Harry Belafonte and Michael Shnayerson
Format: eBook, 480 pages
On Sale: October 11, 2011
Price: $11.99
Harry Belafonte is not just one of the greatest entertainers of our time; he has led one of the great American lives of the last century. Now, this extraordinary icon tells us the story of that life, giving us its full breadth, letting us share in the struggles, the tragedies, and... Read more >
A Memoir
Written by Harry Belafonte and Michael Shnayerson
Format: eBook, 480 pages
On Sale: October 11, 2011
Price: $11.99
Harry Belafonte is not just one of the greatest entertainers of our time; he has led one of the great American lives of the last century. Now, this extraordinary icon tells us the story of that life, giving us its full breadth, letting us share in the struggles, the tragedies, and... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audio CD,
unabridged audiobook download,
hardcover,
trade paperback and in
large print trade paperback.
