The Black Book
Edited by Middleton A. Harris, Ernest Smith, Morris Levitt, and Roger Furman
Foreword by Toni Morrison

A labor of love and a vital link to the richness and diversity of African American history and culture, The Black Book honors the past, reminding us where our nation has been, and gives flight to our hopes for what is yet to come. Beautifully and faithfully presented, and featuring a new Foreword and original poem by Toni Morrison, The Black Book remains a timeless landmark work.

I Am the New Black
by Tracy Morgan and Anthony Bozza

With brutal honesty and his trademark take-no-prisoners humor, Tracy tells the story of his rise to fame, with all its highs and its many lows--from the very public battles with alcohol and diabetes that threatened both his career and his life to the private and poignant end of his twenty-year marriage. In his singularly warped and brilliant way he muses on family, love, sex, race, politics, ambition, and what it takes to bring the funny.

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A Journal for Jordan
by Dana Canedy

In 2005, First Sergeant Charles Monroe King began to write what would become a two-hundred-page journal for his son in case he did not make it home from the war in Iraq. He was killed by a roadside bomb on October 14, 2006. His son, Jordan, was seven months old. A Journal for Jordan is a mother's letter to her son about the father he lost before he could even speak--including a fiercely honest account of her search for answers about Charles's death. It is also a father's advice and prayers for the son he will never know. Finally, this is the story of Dana and Charles together--two seemingly mismatched souls who loved each other deeply and lost each other too soon.

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Ocho Cinco
by Chad Ochocinco and Jason Cole

NFL superstar Chad Ochocinco is one of the most feared weapons in football, having amassed six consecutive 1,000-yard receiving seasons and made it to five straight Pro Bowls. And he does things his way--always big, always fun, always outrageous. Ocho Cinco gives fans a rare inside look at pro football, presented by a singular athlete who's not afraid to speak his mind: What I do may be funny, but nothing I do is a joke.

Only in New York
by Donald Albrecht and Thomas Mellins

In the aftermath of World War II, New York emerged as a world-class city and the de facto national financial capital, becoming a magnet for moguls and strivers. At the same time the city remained a collection of small towns made up of people going about their daily rounds. Only in New York presents an honest portrait of the city through photographs from the Look magazine archive. The many topics covered include Jackie Robinson as a member of the Brooklyn Dodgers, the streets of Harlem during the so-called Harlem Renaissance, and Katherine Dunham's unique musical performances.

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Resilience
by Alonzo Mourning and Dan Wetzel

By sharing his experiences of the chasms and peaks of illness and recovery, Mourning delivers a message of faith and fire, trust and triumph. Resilience is a story of both meaningful everyday lessons and the things, great and small, that truly matter in life.

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Sweet Land of Liberty
by Thomas J. Sugrue

Sweet Land of Liberty is Thomas J. Sugrue's epic account of the abiding quest for racial equality in states from Illinois to New York, and of how the intense northern struggle differed from and was inspired by the fight down South. Sugrue's panoramic view sweeps from the 1920s to the present--more than eighty of the most decisive years in American history.

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Sweet Thunder
by Wil Haygood

Born Walker Smith, Jr., Sugar Ray Robinson had a Midwestern childhood marked by the seething racial tensions and explosive race riots of the twenties and thirties. After his mother moved the family to the relative safety of Harlem, he came of age in the vibrant post-Renaissance years. Encouraged to box by his mother, who wanted him off the streets, he soon became a rising star. Beyond the celebrity, though, Robinson emerged as a powerful, often controversial black symbol in a rapidly changing America. From Robinson's gruesome six-bout war with Jake "Raging Bull" LaMotta and his lethal meeting with Jimmy Doyle to his Harlem nightclub years and thwarted show-biz dreams, Wil Haygood brings the champion's story, in the ring and out, powerfully to life against a vividly painted backdrop of the world he captivated.

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