Cultural Literature
MY NAME IS TANI . . . AND I BELIEVE IN MIRACLES: THE AMAZING TRUE STORY OF ONE BOY'S JOURNEY FROM REFUGEE TO CHESS CHAMPION
A true story of sacrificing everything for family, living with nothing but hope, then sharing generously all they received to discover the greatest riches of all. Tani Adewumi didn’t know what Boko Haram was or why they had threatened his...
$26.99
LIVING IN COLOR: WHAT'S FUNNY ABOUT ME
In 1990, Tommy Davidson burst onto the scene in the Emmy Award-winning show In Living Color, a pioneering sketch comedy show, featuring a multi-racial cast of actors and dancers who spoke to an underrepresented new generation created by Hip Hop Nation. A...
$27.00
FROM FATHERLESS TO FATHERHOOD (HB)
Author and world renowned actor Omar Epps chronicles his journey from humble beginnings in Brooklyn, New York, to the bright lights of Hollywood. Having grown up without his biological father, then becoming a father himself, Epps shares his story of...
$27.99
9 RULES OF ENGAGEMENT: A MILITARY BRAT'S GUIDE TO LIFE AND SUCCESS
The Emmy award-winning news anchor of Outnumbered Overtime with Harris Faulkner and co-host of the talk show Outnumbered shares the lessons she learned growing up in a military family paying homage to the military ideals that shaped her and showing how everyone can benefit...
$27.99
CALLED TO RISE: A LIFE IN FAITHFUL SERVICE TO THE COMMUNITY THAT MADE ME
The Dallas police chief who inspired a nation with his response to the killing of five of his officers shares his personal story and his faith in America’s potential to unite communities through a dedication to transparency and trust.“The real...
$28.00
MICHELLE OBAMA: A LIFE (PB)
With disciplined reporting and a storyteller’s eye for revealing detail, Peter Slevin follows Michelle to the White House from her working-class childhood on Chicago’s largely segregated South Side. He illuminates her tribulations at Princeton University and Harvard Law School during...
$17.00
MY LIFE WITH EARTH, WIND & FIRE
One of the most famous and popular entertainers of the 20th century, Maurice White left an enduring legacy in his creation of Earth, Wind & Fire, this genre-transcending group who earned multiple Grammy Awards and most recently a Lifetime Achievement...
$27.99
BEFORE YOU JUDGE ME: THE TRIUMPH AND TRAGEDY OF MICHAEL JACKSON'S LAST DAYS
Michael Jackson's final months were like the rest of his short and legendary life: filled with deep lows and soaring highs, a constant hunt for privacy, and the pressure and fame that made him socially fragile and almost -- ultimately...
$27.00
ESLANDA: THE LARGE AND UNCONVENTIONAL LIFE OF MRS. PAUL ROBESON
Eslanda "Essie" Cardozo Goode Robeson lived a colorful and amazing life. Her career and commitments took her many places: colonial Africa in 1936, the front lines of the Spanish Civil War, the founding meeting of the United Nations, Nazi-occupied Berlin,...
$25.00
MOM & ME & MOM
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...
$22.00
BROTHER WEST: LIVING AND LOVING OUT LOUD, A MEMOIR
New York Times best-selling author Cornel West is one of America’s most provocative and admired public intellectuals. Whether in the classroom, the streets, the prisons, or the church, Dr. West’s penetrating brilliance has been a bright beacon shining through the darkness for decades....
$38.58
I WONDER AS I WANDER: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL JOURNEY
n I Wonder as I Wander, Langston Hughes vividly recalls the most dramatic and intimate moments of his life in the turbulent 1930s.His wanderlust leads him to Cuba, Haiti, Russia, Soviet Central Asia, Japan, Spain (during its Civil War), through dictatorships,...
$18.00
CHE GUEVARA SPEAKS: SELECTED SPEECHES AND WRITINGS
“A faithful reflection of Che as he was, or, better, as he developed”—from the preface by Joseph Hansen. In twenty speeches, interviews, and letters, Guevara dissects the workings of the imperialist system with scientific clarity, unflinching truthfulness, and biting humor....
$15.00
I BEAT THE ODDS: FROM HOMELESSNESS, TO THE BLIND SIDE, AND BEYOND (PB)
The football star made famous in the hit film (and book) The Blind Side reflects on how far he has come from the circumstances of his youth. Michael Oher shares his personal account of his story, in this inspirational New York Times bestseller. ...
$16.00
EVERY LITTLE STEP: MY STORY
A New York Times Bestseller In Every Little Step, Bobby Brown tells the full story of his life and sets the record straight, particularly about his relationship with Whitney Houston. Bobby Brown has been one of the most compelling American artists of the...
$26.99
I'M STILL STANDING: FROM CAPTIVE U.S. SOLDIER TO FREE CITIZEN -- MY JOURNEY HOME (PB)
SHOSHANA HOLDS NOTHING BACK in this harrowing account of an ordinary woman caught in extraordinary circumstances. She reveals decisions made by chain of command that may have led to her twenty-two-day imprisonment, describes the pain of post-traumatic stress disorder, and shares...
$19.99
NINE YEARS UNDER: COMING OF AGE IN AN INNER-CITY FUNERAL HOME
Sheri Booker was only fifteen when she started working at Wylie Funeral Home in West Baltimore. She had no idea her summer job would become nine years of immersion into a hidden world. Reeling from the death of her beloved...
$17.00
LIVING AND DYING IN BRICK CITY
A riveting personal exploration of the healthcare crisis facing inner-city communities, written by an emergency room physician who grew up in the very neighborhood he is now serving Sampson Davis is best known as one of three friends from inner-city Newark...
$28.22
NEVER IN MY WILDEST DREAMS: A BLACK WOMAN'S LIFE IN JOURNALISM
As the first black female television journalist in the western United States, Belva Davis overcame the obstacles of racism and sexism, and helped change the face and focus of television news. Now she is sharing the story of her extraordinary...
$15.95
LIFE IS SO GOOD
What makes a happy person, a happy life? In this remarkable book, George Dawson, a 101-year-old man who learned to read when he was 98, reflects on the philosophy he learned from his father—a belief that "life is so good"—as...
$23.00