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Cheer!
CHEER! is the Inspiration for the CW's Hot New Series, HELLCATS, Starring Alyson Michalka and Ashley Tisdale.Think cheerleading is just pom-poms, "gimme an 'R,'" and pleated skirts? Not anymore. Take an exhilarating trip through the rough-and-tumble world of competitive college cheerleading....College cheerleaders...
$23.18
Dr. King's Refrigerator
A sly, witty, and insightful collection of short stories from National Book Award-winning author, Charles Johnson.
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Publisher : Scribner (November 5, 2011)
Language : English
Paperback : 144 pages
ISBN-10 : 0743264541
ISBN-13 : 978-0743264549
$10.99
Ghosts of Africa
In German-occupied East Africa during World War I, British forces have arrived. In defiance of his orders, German military commander Paul von Lettow enlists soldiers, civilians, and African rebels to fight against the British, forming the first modern guerrilla uprising...
$14.95
James Baldwin: A Biography
James Baldwin was one of the great writers of the last century. In works that have become part of the American canon—Go Tell It on a Mountain, Giovanni’s Room, Another Country, The Fire Next Time, and The Evidence of Things Not Seen—he explored issues...
$17.95
Major Taylor
In the wake of the Tour de France’s fallen heroes, the story of one of history’s most legendary cyclists provides a much-needed antidote. In 1907 the world’s most popular athlete was not Cy Young or Ty Cobb. Rather, he was...
$16.99
Journey for the Ages
In an era when segregation thrived and Jim Crow reigned supreme, adventurer Matthew A. Henson defied racial stereotypes. During his teenage years, Henson sailed on vessels that journeyed across the globe, and it is those experiences that caught the attention...
$14.99
Nights in Tents
Nights in Tents is a memoir of the profoundly moving, and often hysterical, circumstances a fifty-one-year-old middle-class musician encountered when she abandoned a pleasantly predictable life on her pastoral, off-grid home nestled in the Cascade Mountains of Washington State to run...
$16.99
Incredible Survival Stories
Scale the world’s highest peaks, plunge to the depths of the ocean, wade through the dense jungles of the Amazon, and cross every terrain in between in Incredible Survival Stories. Featuring more than a dozen firsthand accounts from celebrated explorers and...
$17.99
Prevail
It was the war that changed everything, and yet it’s been mostly forgotten: in 1935, Italy invaded Ethiopia. It dominated newspaper headlines and newsreels. It inspired mass marches in Harlem, a play on Broadway, and independence movements in Africa. As...
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Children Are Diamonds
This is not the Africa of Isak Dinsen or Joy Adamson. This is the Africa of civil wars and tribal massacres, where the Lord’s Resistance Army drafts child-soldiers after forcing them to kill their parents and eat their hearts. The...
$14.95
Man Called Brown Condor (COMING SOON)
“[Robinson’s] lifelong triumph over adversity belongs to the greatest of American success stories.” —Peter Hannaford, Washington TimesIn this gripping, never-before-told tale, biographer Thomas E. Simmons brings to life the true story of John C. Robinson, who rose from fraught and humble...
$16.99
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The Dreamlife of Families: The Psychospiritual Connection
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Paperback : 288 pages
ISBN-10 : 9781620556320
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PUSH NEVAHDA AND THE VICIOUS CIRCLE: SCENES FROM A RANDOM LIFE
Williams' confessional is the space at which the sinner lets go of his wrongdoings to liberate himself ranting or releasing contents of one's actions or reactions in ways that free man from himself while setting him away from them. But, while...
$18.95
CITY KID: A WRITER'S MEMOIR OF GHETTO LIFE AND POST-SOUL SUCCESS
Traces the author's rise from a youth spent in Brooklyn's Brownsville housing project to a Grammy Award winner and two-time National Book Critics Circle Award finalist, in an account that describes his early family life, the pop culture that inspired...
$25.95
THE COMPLETE QUINCY JONES: MY JOURNEY & PASSIONS
Everything you love about American popular culture is Quincy Jones. As an artist and impresario Quincy Jones has been the creative catalyst for over 60 years of American cultural phenomena orchestrating the sounds of Frank Sinatra, setting the ambiance for...
$45.00
MAKE IT PLAIN: STANDING UP AND SPEAKING OUT
Black Americans have always relied on the oral tradition -- storytelling, preaching, and speechmaking -- to assert their rights and preserve and pass on their history and culture. In the pulpit, courtroom, or cotton field, they have understood the power...
$16.99
MICHELLE OBAMA: FIRST LADY OF HOPE
There is no one quite like her. Michelle Obama. This is the first book to tell the astonishing story of a woman whose intellect, verbal flair, and poise are certain to make her one of the most influential First Ladies...
$14.95
THE WRONG SIDE OF MURDER CREEK: A WHITE SOUTHERNER IN THE FREEDOM MOVEMENT
Even forty years after the civil rights movement, the transition from son and grandson of Klansmen to field secretary of SNCC seems quite a journey. In the early 1960s, when Bob Zellner’s professors and classmates at a small church school...
$24.95
THE TRIALS OF HENRY FLIPPER, FIRST BLACK GRADUATE OF WEST POINT(COMING SOON)
Born in 1856 in Thomasville, Georgia, Henry Ossian Flipper was nine at the end of the Civil War. His parents, part of a privileged upper class of slaves, were allowed to operate an independent business under the protection of their...
$50.00
MAYA ANGELOU: A GLORIOUS CELEBRATION
Beautifully designed and featuring over 150 sepia portraits, family photographs, and letters from the life of one of the world’s most beloved and admired artists, this moving biography will appeal to all fans of the poet laureate, phenomenal bestselling author,...
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