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BORN BRIGHT: A YOUNG GIRL'S JOURNEY FROM NOTHING TO SOMETHING IN AMERICA
*Green River College's 2018-2019 One Book Selection* Standing on the stage, I felt exposed and like an intruder. In these professional settings, my personal experiences with hunger, poverty, and episodic homelessness, often go undetected. I had worked hard to learn...
$27.99
WE ARE CHARLESTON: TRAGEDY AND TRIUMPH AT MOTHER EMANUEL
We Are Charleston not only recounts the events of that terrible day but also offers a history lesson that reveals a deeper look at the suffering, triumph, and even the ongoing rage of the people who formed Mother Emanuel A.M.E....
$24.99
MOPPIN' FLOORS TO CEO: FROM HOPELESSNESS AND FAILURE TO HAPPINESS AND SUCCESS
As a young man in Moppin' Floors to CEO: From Hopelessness and Failure to Happiness and Success, Dennis C. Miller faces overwhelming obstacles: an emotionally abusive father, physically abusive Catholic school teachers, bottom-of-the-class grades all the way through high school,...
$20.99
UNASHAMED
If you live for people's acceptance, you'll die from their rejection.Two-time Grammy winning rap artist, Lecrae, learned this lesson through more than his share of adversity—childhood abuse, drugs and alcoholism, a stint in rehab, an abortion, and an unsuccessful suicide attempt.Along...
$24.99
ON MICHAEL JACKSON
In On Michael Jackson—an at once passionate, incisive, and bracing work of cultural analysis—Pulitzer Prize–winning critic for The New York Times Margo Jefferson brilliantly unravels the complexities of one of the most enigmatic figures of our time.Who is Michael Jackson and what does...
$14.81
SING TO ME: MY STORY OF MAKING MUSIC, FINDING MAGIC, AND SEARCHING FOR WHO'S NEXT
In this long-awaited memoir, illustrated with over 100 never-before-seen photos from his personal collection, the groundbreaking record producer chronicles his struggles, his success, and the celebrated artists that made him a legend. Over the last twenty-five years, legendary music producer...
$18.99
THE EMPEROR OF SOUND
The long-anticipated inside look at the extraordinary career of the man who brought Sexy Back, the legendary producer in the pantheon of music greats as influential and groundbreaking as Motown’s Berry Gordy and a memoir of the creative process. Hailed...
$26.99
EVERY DAY I FIGHT
“When you die, it does not mean that you lose to cancer. You beat cancer by how you live, why you live, and the manner in which you live.” – Stuart ScottThe fearless, intimate, and inspiring story behind ESPN anchor...
$17.00
I FEEL LIKE GOING ON: LIFE, GAME, AND GLORY
In this New York Times bestselling memoir, Ray Lewis—legendary Baltimore Ravens linebacker and one of the greatest defensive players of his generation—holds nothing back on the state of football as well as his troubled childhood, his rise to athletic greatness, the storm...
$17.00
MY JOURNEY WITH MAYA
When Maya Angelou and Tavis Smiley met in 1986, he was twenty-one and she was fifty-eight. For the next twenty-eight years, they shared an unlikely, special bond. Angelou was a teacher and a maternal figure to Smiley, and they talked...
$30.00
$24.00
THE WORK: MY SEARCH FOR A LIFE THAT MATTERS
The acclaimed author of The Other Wes Moore continues his inspirational quest for a meaningful life and shares the powerful lessons—about self-discovery, service, and risk-taking—that led him to a new definition of success for our times. The Work is the story of how one...
$25.00
COSBY: HIS LIFE AND TIMES
The first major biography of an American icon, comedian Bill Cosby. Based on extensive research and in-depth interviews with Cosby and more than sixty of his closest friends and associates, it is a frank, fun and fascinating account of his...
$29.99
THE COURAGE TO HOPE: HOW I STOOD UP TO THE POLITICS OF FEAR
In this “inspiring memoir about the real power of courage and hope” (Kirkus Reviews), lifelong activist Shirley Sherrod explains why she was fired from the USDA under false charges and how she stood up against the politics of fear.Sherrod was...
$16.99
I AM TROY DAVIS
ON SEPTEMBER 21, 2011, Troy Anthony Davis was put to death by the State of Georgia. Davis’s execution was protested by hundreds of thousands across the globe. How did one man capture the world’s imagination and become the iconic face...
$18.00
EXTRAORDINARY, ORDINARY PEOPLE: A MEMOIR OF FAMILY
This is the story of Condoleezza Rice that has never been told, not that of an ultra-accomplished world leader, but of a little girl--and a young woman--trying to find her place in a sometimes hostile world, of two exceptional parents,...
$18.00
INCOGNEGRO: A MEMOIR OF EXILE & APARTHEID
In 1995, a South African journalist informed Frank Wilderson, one of only two American members of the African National Congress (ANC), that President Nelson Mandela considered him "a threat to national security." Wilderson was asked to comment. Incognegro is that "comment." It...
$26.95
THE BLACK GIRL NEXT DOOR: A MEMOIR
A powerful, beautifully written memoir about coming of age as a black girl in an exclusive white suburb in "integrated," post-Civil Rights California in the 1970s and 1980s.At six years of age, after winning a foot race against a white...
$19.99
THE STORY OF MY LIFE AND WORK
Booker T. Washington, born in 1865 in Virginia to an enslaved mother and a white father, tells the story of his experiences after the abolition of slavery and his struggle to succeed in life with a newly-found freedom. This autobiographical...
$19.99
MATTHEW A. HENSON'S HISTORIC ARCTIC JOURNEY: THE CLASSIC ACCOUNT OF ONE OF THE WORLD'S GREATEST BLACK EXPLORERS
This 100th anniversary edition is enhanced with material from The Explorers Club’s archives, including photographs of Henson ephemera. It also contains a list of Henson’s honors and a bibliography of celebratory accounts of his achievements. Product details Publisher : Lyons Press;...
$19.38
SWEET SUMMER
"Potent . . . Unforgettable."--Bharati MukherjeeThe New York Times Book Review"A REMARKABLE ACHIEVEMENT . . . . While Sweet Summer is infused with experiences unique to African-American culture, it speaks to the universals of human experience."--The Philadelphia InquirerWritten with the...
$16.00