Cultural Literature
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
MIRROR TO AMERICA: THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF JOHN HOPE FRANKLIN
John Hope Franklin lived through America's most defining twentieth-century transformation, the dismantling of legally protected racial segregation. A renowned scholar, he has explored that transformation in its myriad aspects, notably in his 3.5-million-copy bestseller, From Slavery to Freedom. Born in 1915,...
$29.00
AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MISS JANE PITTMAN
Miss Jane Pittman. She is one of the most unforgettable heroines in American fiction, a woman whose life has come to symbolize the struggle for freedom, dignity, and justice. Ernest J. Gaines’s now-classic novel—written as an autobiography—spans one hundred years...
$17.00
F*CK YOUR DIET: AND OTHER THINGS MY THIGHS TELL ME
*A Goodreads Choice Awards Finalist*Named Best Comedy Book by the African American Literary Awards ShowFans of Issa Rae and Phoebe Robinson will love this collection of laugh-out-loud funny and insightful essays that explore race, feminism, pop culture, and how society...
$26.99
BROTHER, I'M DYING
From the age of four, award-winning writer Edwidge Danticat came to think of her uncle Joseph as her “second father,” when she was placed in his care after her parents left Haiti for America. And so she was both elated...
$16.00
CUZ: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF MICHAEL A. (COMING SOON)
So tender yet courageous is this fierce family memoir that it makes mass incarceration nothing less than a new American tragedy. In a shattering work that shifts between a woman’s private anguish over the loss of her beloved baby cousin...
$24.95
CUZ: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF MICHAEL A. (COMING SOON)
So tender yet courageous is this fierce family memoir that it makes mass incarceration nothing less than a new American tragedy. In a shattering work that shifts between a woman’s private anguish over the loss of her beloved baby cousin...
$24.95
I CAN'T MAKE THIS UP: LIFE LESSONS (HC)
New York Times bestselling author, superstar comedian, and Hollywood box office star Kevin Hart turns his immense talent to the written word by writing some words. Some of those words include: the, a, for, above, and even even. Put them together and you have a “hilarious...
$33.90