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Barack and Michelle: Portrait of an American Marriage

Barack and Michelle: Portrait of an American Marriage


Christopher Andersen



About the Author Christopher Andersen is the critically acclaimed author of twenty-eight books, which have been translated...
A Muslim in Victorian America: The Life of Alexander Russell Webb

A Muslim in Victorian America: The Life of Alexander Russell Webb




Review "In this timely and engaging book, Umar Abd-Allah brings to life an important, but little-known figure in Victoria...
Shall I Say A Kiss?

Shall I Say A Kiss?


Lennard Davis



Shall I Say A Kiss?...
Mandela: A Critical Life

Mandela: A Critical Life


Tom Lodge



From Publishers Weekly Nelson Mandela is perhaps the world's most revered living political figure for his role in transfo...
Voyage Through Time: Walks of Life to the Nobel Prize

Voyage Through Time: Walks of Life to the Nobel Prize


Ahmed H. Zewail



Review “Through Voyage shines an ability to combine an excellent sense of fun with dedication to work … The...
Bessie: Revised and expanded edition

Bessie: Revised and expanded edition


Chris Albertson



Review "The first estimable full-length biography not only of Bessie Smith but of any black musician.”—Whit...
Waking Nanabijou: Uncovering a Secret Past

Waking Nanabijou: Uncovering a Secret Past


Jim Poling Sr.



Review "...a wrenchingly honest memoir..." - Chronicle-Journal (Thunder Bay) Oct. 21, 2007 From the Inside Flap ...
Lydia Mendoza's Life in Music La Historia de Lydia Mendoza: Norteño Tejano Legacies (American Musicspheres)

Lydia Mendoza's Life in Music La Historia de Lydia Mendoza: Norteño Tejano Legacies (American Musicspheres)




Review "A valuable document...centers around women's issues and spirituality in the life of Lydia Mendoza, indisputably t...
Toni Morrison (Bloom's Modern Critical Views)

Toni Morrison (Bloom's Modern Critical Views)


Harold Bloom



Toni Morrison (Bloom's Modern Critical Views)...
Recollecting: Lives of Aboriginal Women of the Canadian Northwest and Borderlands (West Unbound)

Recollecting: Lives of Aboriginal Women of the Canadian Northwest and Borderlands (West Unbound)


Patricia Mccormack, Sarah Carter



From the Inside Flap Recollecting is a rich collection of essays that illuminate the lives of late eighteenth-century to ...
The Supremes: A Saga of Motown Dreams, Success, and Betrayal

The Supremes: A Saga of Motown Dreams, Success, and Betrayal


Mark Ribowsky



From Publishers Weekly Biographer of Phil Spector (He's a Rebel), among others, Ribowsky takes a dishy, insider look at B...
Child Of Many Rivers: Journeys To And From The Rio Grande

Child Of Many Rivers: Journeys To And From The Rio Grande




About the Author The only child of a Mexican mother and a German father whose paths crossed in a Juarez bullring, Lucy Fi...
Adventures With a Texas Humanist

Adventures With a Texas Humanist


James Ward Lee



Review " . . . gives the reader the sense of having had a wide-ranging conversation with a genial, erudite Texas raconteu...
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption

Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption


Laura Hillenbrand



Amazon.com Review : From Laura Hillenbrand, the bestselling author of , comes Unbroken, the inspiring true story of a man...
Michael Jordan: A Biography (Greenwood Biographies)

Michael Jordan: A Biography (Greenwood Biographies)


David L. Porter



Review "Porter traces basketball star Jordan's career, starting with his formative years and education, then detailing his ...
American Ethnic Writers, Revised ed (Great Events from History)

American Ethnic Writers, Revised ed (Great Events from History)


Gordon, Al Young, Gates, Grace Paley, Henry Loius, Lionel G. Garcia, Sr. Parks



From School Library Journal Grade 9 Up—The more than 700 memoirs, biographies, poems, plays, speeches, and works o...
Ira Aldridge: The African Roscius (Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora)

Ira Aldridge: The African Roscius (Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora)


Bernth Lindfors



Review This is a truly comprehensive coverage of the life and career of Ira Aldridge, a true pioneer who blazed a trail f...
The People Who Own Themselves: Aboriginal Ethnogenesis in a Canadian Family, 1660-1900

The People Who Own Themselves: Aboriginal Ethnogenesis in a Canadian Family, 1660-1900


Heather Devine



About the Author Heather Devine teaches in the Faculty of Communication and Culture at the University of Calgary and is a r...
My Dream of Stars: From Daughter of Iran to Space Pioneer

My Dream of Stars: From Daughter of Iran to Space Pioneer


Homer Hickam, Anousheh Ansari



From In this breezy memoir, Ansari documents how she became the first Muslim woman to travel into space. From a difficul...
Straw: Finding My Way

Straw: Finding My Way


Darryl Strawberry



From Publishers Weekly From the mid-1980s to the early 1990s, Strawberry was one of the most feared sluggers in baseball,...
Black Dog of Fate: An American Son Uncovers His Armenian Past

Black Dog of Fate: An American Son Uncovers His Armenian Past


Peter Balakian



Amazon.com Review The author of four volumes of verse, Peter Balakian writes with the precision of a poet and the lyric...
A Stolen Life : Searching for Richard Pierpoint

A Stolen Life : Searching for Richard Pierpoint


David Meyler, Peter Meyler



A Stolen Life : Searching for Richard Pierpoint...
The Farthest Home Is in an Empire of Fire: A Tejano Elegy

The Farthest Home Is in an Empire of Fire: A Tejano Elegy


John Phillip Santos



From Publishers Weekly Family history—and the lack thereof—sparks this vaporous meditation on time, memory,...
Asian American X: An Intersection of Twenty-First Century Asian American Voices

Asian American X: An Intersection of Twenty-First Century Asian American Voices


Arar Han, John Hsu



About the Author Arar Han is a recent graduate of Boston College. John Y. Hsu is a recent graduate of Harvard University....
I Love Yous Are for White People: A Memoir (P.S.)

I Love Yous Are for White People: A Memoir (P.S.)


Lac Su



Review Moving. . . . Anyone who wonders what obstacles an immigrant must overcome will be fascinated by this assimilation...
Embroideries

Embroideries


Marjane Satrapi



From Publishers Weekly This slight follow-up to Satrapi's acclaimed Persepolis books explores the lives of Iranian women ...
Talking Hawai'i's Story: Oral Histories of an Island People (Biography Monograph)

Talking Hawai'i's Story: Oral Histories of an Island People (Biography Monograph)




Talking Hawai'i's Story: Oral Histories of an Island People (Biography Monograph)...
Carol Moseley-Braun (African-American Leaders)

Carol Moseley-Braun (African-American Leaders)


Wayne D'Orio



Carol Moseley-Braun (African-American Leaders)...
The World Don't Owe Me Nothing: The Life and Times of Delta Bluesman Honeyboy Edwards

The World Don't Owe Me Nothing: The Life and Times of Delta Bluesman Honeyboy Edwards


David Honeyboy Edwards



From School Library Journal YAAThis biography is a blend of music, history, and masterful storytelling. Edwards does not ...
Is It Just Me?: Or is it nuts out there?

Is It Just Me?: Or is it nuts out there?


Whoopi Goldberg



About the Author Whoopi Goldberg is the premier comedic actress of our day. She has won a Tony, an Emmy, an Oscar, and a ...
Only the Strong Survive: The Odyssey of Allen Iverson

Only the Strong Survive: The Odyssey of Allen Iverson


Larry Platt



From Publishers Weekly Like his subject, Platt is at his best while running the court, his prose smooth and economical as...
Benjamin Hooks (African-American Leaders)

Benjamin Hooks (African-American Leaders)


Heather Lehr Wagner



Benjamin Hooks (African-American Leaders)...
African American Eras Library

African American Eras Library


Julia Furtaw, Meggin Condino



African American Eras Library...
Black Lies, White Lies: The Truth According to Tony Brown

Black Lies, White Lies: The Truth According to Tony Brown


Tony Brown



From Publishers Weekly Like a series of talk shows (the author hosts Tony Brown's Journal on PBS), this somewhat disjoint...
Dreaming Blackness: Black Nationalism and African American Public Opinion

Dreaming Blackness: Black Nationalism and African American Public Opinion


Melanye Price



Review "Price (Wesleyan Univ.) utilizes different research methods to illuminate the complex characteristics of black nat...
Decoded

Decoded




Amazon.com Review : Like its multi-hyphenate author, Jay-Z, Decoded is many things at once. At its core, Decoded is an el...
Rebecca's Revival: Creating Black Christianity in the Atlantic World

Rebecca's Revival: Creating Black Christianity in the Atlantic World


Jon F. Sensbach



From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. Sensbach, a professor of history at the University of Florida, offers a fascinatin...
My Bondage and My Freedom (Barnes & Noble Classics)

My Bondage and My Freedom (Barnes & Noble Classics)


Frederick Douglass



Review Professor John S. Wright My Bondage and My Freedom is Frederick Douglass's most accomplished rendering of his life...
The Noise of Infinite Longing: A Memoir of a Family--and an Island

The Noise of Infinite Longing: A Memoir of a Family--and an Island


Luisita Lopez Torregrosa



From Publishers Weekly Torregrosa's memoir, framed by and interspersed with events around her mother's funeral in 1994, o...
Butterfly McQueen Remembered

Butterfly McQueen Remembered


Stephen Bourne



Review An intimate portrait of McQueen's life and career. (Library Journal, 11/1/2007 ) Stephen Bourne's memoir of this g...
Mohawk Saint: Catherine Tekakwitha and the Jesuits

Mohawk Saint: Catherine Tekakwitha and the Jesuits


Allan Greer



Review "Greer masterfully constructs the inner world of a woman who has stood as a symbol of power and purity to French n...
A Life of Sir Francis Galton: From African Exploration to the Birth of Eugenics

A Life of Sir Francis Galton: From African Exploration to the Birth of Eugenics


Nicholas Wright Gillham



From Publishers Weekly This may well prove to be the definitive biography of the British explorer, a cousin and contempor...
Strength in What Remains

Strength in What Remains


Tracy Kidder



Amazon.com Review : Strength in What Remains is an unlikely story about an unreasonable man. Deo was a young medical stud...
Young Hunting: A Memoir

Young Hunting: A Memoir


Martin Hunter



Review "An entertaining and easy-to-read memoir that puts the lie to the common perception of post-war Toronto as a stuffy,...
Cornel West (African-American Leaders)

Cornel West (African-American Leaders)


Jack Morrison, John Morrison



Cornel West (African-American Leaders)...
The End of White World Supremacy: Black Internationalism and the Problem of the Color Line

The End of White World Supremacy: Black Internationalism and the Problem of the Color Line


Rod Bush



Review “Rod Bush has produced an outstanding and original work that will allow scholars to effectively refram...
Happy Birthday or Whatever: Track Suits, Kim Chee, and Other Family Disasters

Happy Birthday or Whatever: Track Suits, Kim Chee, and Other Family Disasters


Annie Choi



From Publishers Weekly Choi's volatile relationship with her domineering, chronically dissatisfied mother is at the hear...
A New Science: The Breakdown of Connections and the Birth of Sociology

A New Science: The Breakdown of Connections and the Birth of Sociology


Bruce Mazlish



Review "Although numerous able interpreters have attempted syntheses of the sociological tradition, Mazlish is the first ...