Biography
The Girls in the Wild Fig Tree: How I Fought to Save Myself, My Sister, and Thousands of Girls Worldwide
The inspirational true story of one girl who changed the minds of her elders, reformed traditions from the inside, and is creating a better future for girls and women throughout Africa. Nice Leng`ete was raised in a Maasai village in...
$28.00
I Ain't Studdin' YA: My American Blues Story
Experience music history with this memoir by one of the last of the genuine old school Blues and R&B legends, the Grammy-winning dynamic showman Bobby Rush.This memoir charts the extraordinary rise to fame of living blues legend, Bobby Rush. Born...
$29.00
I Am a Girl from Africa
A “profound and soul-nourishing memoir” (Oprah Daily) from an African girl whose near-death experience sparked a lifelong dedication to humanitarian work that helps bring change across the world.When severe drought hit her village in Zimbabwe, Elizabeth Nyamayaro, then only eight,...
$28.00
I Have Always Been Me: A Memoir
A powerful memoir of independence, releasing the past, and living the dream by award-winning trans advocate Precious Brady-Davis. Precious Brady-Davis remembers the sense of being singular and grappling with “otherness.” Born into traumatic circumstances, Davis was brought up in the...
$24.95
I Take My Coffee Black: Reflections on Tupac, Musical Theater, Faith, and Being Black in America
As a six-foot-two-inch dreadlocked Black man, Tyler Merritt knows that getting too close to the wrong person can get him killed. But he also believes that getting close can be a cure for racism. Tyler Merritt's video "Before You Call...
$26.00
It's in the Action: Memories of a Nonviolent Warrior
A much-needed perspective. ― Library Journal Starred ReviewThe wisdom acquired during C. T. Vivian’s nine decades is generously shared in It’s in the Action, the civil rights legend’s memoir of his life and times in the movement. Born in Missouri in 1924, Vivian...
$25.95
Kobe: Life Lessons from a Legend
Sports legend Kobe Bryant’s guiding principlesKobe Bryant’s incredible, record-shattering basketball career reads like a road map for the pursuit of greatness. Though he came onto the NBA scene brimming with talent, it was his relentless work ethic, his tireless pursuit...
$19.99
Leaving Breezy Street: A Memoir
Told in an inimitable voice, Leaving Breezy Street is the stunning account of Brenda Myers-Powell’s brutal and beautiful life.“Careful—don’t think prostitution is just about money. It’s never just the money. It’s about slipping in at all the wrong places. Getting into dangerous...
$26.99
Letters to a Young Athlete
A legendary NBA player shares his remarkable story, infused with hard-earned wisdom about the journey to self-mastery from a life at the highest level of professional sports
$26.00
Mama Bear: One Black Mother's Fight for Her Child's Life and Her Own
In this moving memoir, Shirley Smith, wife of NBA Champion and All-Star J. R. Smith, tells the story of giving birth to one of the youngest premature babies to survive—using her experience to heighten awareness of the crisis of Black...
$27.99
The Marathon Don't Stop: The Life and Times of Nipsey Hussle
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThis “beautiful tribute to a legendary artist” (Quincy Jones) is the first in-depth biography of Nipsey Hussle, the hip-hop mogul, artist, and activist whose transformative legacy inspired a generation with his motivational lyrics and visionary business...
$27.00
Martin Luther King, Jr., on Leadership: Inspiration and Wisdom for Challenging Times (Revised)
Read the detailed and absorbing chronicle of Martin Luther King's leadership during the most tumultuous period in America's recent past—featuring a foreword by Dr. Bernice King. Hailed as America’s greatest civil rights advocate, Martin Luther King, Jr., inspired the people of...
$17.99
Miseducated: A Memoir
An inspiring memoir of one man’s transformation from a delinquent, drug-dealing dropout to an award-winning Harvard educator through literature and debate—all by the age of twenty-seven.Brandon P. Fleming grew up in an abusive home and was shuffled through school, his...
$28.00
My Time Will Come: A Memoir of Crime, Punishment, Hope, and Redemption
At fourteen Ian Manuel was sentenced to life without parole. My Time Will Come is a paean to the capacity of the human will to transcend adversity through determination and art. “Ian is magic. His story is difficult and heartbreaking, but he takes...
$25.95
Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen: The Emotional Lives of Black Women
Black women are beautiful, intelligent and capable —but mostly they embrace strong. Esteemed clinical psychologist, Dr. Inger Burnett-Zeigler, praises the strength of women, while exploring how trauma and adversity have led to deep emotional pain and shaped how they walk through...
$24.99
Notes on Grief
From the globally acclaimed, best-selling novelist and author of We Should All Be Feminists, a timely and deeply personal account of the loss of her father."Essential." —BooklistNotes on Grief is an exquisite work of meditation, remembrance, and hope, written in the wake of...
$16.00
Nothing Compares 2 U: An Oral History of Prince
The real Prince in the words of those who knew him best—from award-winning author Touré.Nothing Compares 2 U is an oral history built from years of interviews with dozens of people who were in Prince’s inner circle—from childhood friends to band...
$30.00
Oh Sis, You're Pregnant!: The Ultimate Guide to Black Pregnancy & Motherhood (Gift for New Moms)
What to Expect When Black, Pregnant, and Expecting “This book stands as the modern-day guide to birthing while Black.” ―Angelina Ruffin-Alexander, certified nurse midwife 2021 International Book Awards finalist in Health: Women’s Health #1 New Release in Pregnancy & Childbirth...
$18.95
Permission to Dream
In the spirit of The Last Lecture, The Secret, and The Alchemist, this small book presents BIG ideas for turning your “one day” into today, including the generational transfer of a dream and a powerful blueprint for a masterpiece life—from the author of the New...
$24.99
Please Don't Sit on My Bed in Your Outside Clothes: Essays
Turns out me looking like a bootleg Diana Ross on this book’s cover is not enough to entice folks to read this book. And it’s apparently insufficient to tell websites to put the following on their page: “Hilarious, smart, and...
$27.00