Biographies/Autobiographies
Biographies/Autobiographies
Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Boy (Available May 4, 2021)
Adapted from Emmanuel Acho's New York Times bestseller Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man, comes an essential young readers edition aimed at opening a dialogue about systemic racism with our youngest generation.Young people have the power to affect sweeping change, and the key...
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Barack and Joe: The Making of an Extraordinary Partnership
The extraordinary partnership of Barack Obama and Joe Biden is unique in American history. The two men, their characters and styles sharply contrasting, formed a dynamic working relationship that evolved into a profound friendship. Their affinity was not predestined. Obama...
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Fire Shut Up in My Bones
A New York Times Notable Book | Lambda Literary Award Winner | Long-listed for the PEN Open Book Award“Charles Blow is the James Baldwin of our age.” — Washington Blade“[An] exquisite memoir . . . Delicately wrought and arresting.” — New York TimesUniversally praised...
$15.99
Breaking Out
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Publisher : Seaburn Books (January 15, 2013)
Language : English
Paperback : 272 pages
ISBN-10 : 1592323820
ISBN-13 : 978-1592323821
$18.00
Dark Clouds and Silver Linings
How do you cope with a chronic disease that may kill you before you’re time? You’re in the hospital with minutes to hours to live... Your heart is in such terrible condition there is no medicine, machine, or procedure that...
$24.95
Bishop Everett's Journey
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Publisher : Seaburn (December 9, 2011)
Language : English
Paperback : 122 pages
ISBN-10 : 1592323316
ISBN-13 : 978-1592323319
$15.00
Chasing Dreams To China Successor
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Publisher : Seaburn (December 5, 2013)
Language : English
Paperback : 524 pages
ISBN-10 : 1592324150
ISBN-13 : 978-1592324156
$24.95
IN THE STUDIO WITH MICHAEL JACKSON
No one was closer to Michael Jackson at the height of his creative powers than Bruce Swedien, the five-time Grammy winner who, with Jackson and producer Quincy Jones, formed the trio responsible for the sound of Jackson's records - records...
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MICHAEL JACKSON: THE ONE AND ONLY: A TRIBUTE TO AN AMERICAN ICON
From his youth as a prodigious talent in a gifted musical family driven by a visionary father, it was apparent that Michael Jackson was destined for fame and stardom. But his emergence from the Jackson Five in the 1970s and...
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KANYE WEST: A BIOGRAPHY
Kanye West is an articulate, astoundingly insightful, pop culture prophet who can go from charging a president with racism one minute to criticizing blacks for not capitalizing on opportunities they have had in the next. Yet, West puts his considerable...
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BEYONCE KNOWLES: A BIOGRAPHY
Although Beyonce Knowles is not yet 30, the sensual superstar has already succeeded on many levels: as a dancer, singer, composer, model, music producer, video director and actress. This biography tells the story of a young, talented woman's meteoric rise...
$35.00
SOLD OUT: SWEAT THE TECHNIQUE: REVELATIONS ON CREATIVITY FROM THE LYRICAL GENIUS
Autographed Bookplate Edition NOW SOLD OUT as of 10:21 am 10/18/20The musician and Hip Hop legend--hailed as "the greatest MC of all time" and compared to Thelonious Monk--reimagines the writing handbook in this memoir and guide that incorporates the soulful...
$24.99
I AM THESE TRUTHS: A MEMOIR OF IDENTITY, JUSTICE, AND LIVING BETWEEN WORLDS
The Emmy Award winning legal journalist and co-host of The View Sunny Hostin chronicles her journey from growing up in a South Bronx housing project to becoming an assistant U.S. attorney and journalist in this powerful memoir that offers an intimate and...
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WRITING MY WRONGS: LIFE, DEATH, AND REDEMPTION IN AN AMERICAN PRISON (PB)
New York Times bestseller - Member of Oprah's SuperSoul 100 - one of World Economic Forum's "Most Recommended Books of 2016" Now in paperback, the harrowing, * inspiring**, and unforgettable+ memoir of redemption and second chances amidst America's mass incarceration epidemic. ...
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BEVELATIONS: LESSONS FROM A MUTHA, AUNTIE, BESTIE
Bevy Smith is the host of SiriusXM's Bevelations on Radio Andy and a former cohost of Bravo's Fashion Queens and the entertainment news show Page Six TV. She is a beloved motivational speaker, brand ambassador, pop culture aficionado, television personality, and businesswoman. Quintessential Harlem girl and...
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THE OSIRIS PAPERS: REFLECTIONS ON THE LIFE AND WRITINGS OF DR. FRANCES CRESS WELSING
The Osiris Papers: Reflections on the Life and Writings of Dr. Frances Cress Welsing is intended to be the first of many treatises written to examine the life, theories, and contributions of Dr. Frances Cress Welsing. Some of these writings will...
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LOOKING FOR LORRAINE: THE RADIANT AND RADICAL LIFE OF LORRAINE HANSBERRY
Winner of the 2019 PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography Winner of the Shilts-Grahn Triangle Award for Lesbian Nonfiction A New York Times Notable Book of 2018 A revealing portrait of one of the most gifted and charismatic, yet least understood, Black...
$26.95
THIS WILL BE MY UNDOING: LIVING AT THE INTERSECTION OF BLACK, FEMALE, AND FEMINIST IN (WHITE) AMERICA
"A writer to be reckoned with."-Roxane Gay Named one of the Most Anticipated Books of 2018 by Esquire, Elle, Vogue, Nylon, The Millions, Refinery29, the Huffington Post, Book Riot, Bitch Media, Electric Literature, The Rumpus, Vol 1. Brooklyn, and Paperback Paris From one of...
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AFENI SHAKUR: EVOLUTION OF A REVOLUTIONARY
Before becoming one of the most well-known members of the Black Power movement, Alice Faye Williams was not unlike any other poor, African American girl growing up in the impoverished South. But when her family moved to New York during...
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DREAMS FROM MY FATHER: A STORY OF RACE AND INHERITANCE
Obama, the son of a white American mother and a black African father, writes an elegant and compelling biography that powerfully articulates America's racial battleground and tells of his search for his place in black America. photos. High school &...
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IDA B. WELLS AND THE CAMPAIGN AGAINST LYNCHING
Heralded as a landmark achievement upon publication, Ida: A Sword Among Lions is a sweeping narrative about a country and a crusader embroiled in the struggle against lynching a practice that imperiled not only the lives of black men and women, but...
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THE SUN DOES SHINE: HOW I FOUND LIFE AND FREEDOM ON DEATH ROW (OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB)
Oprah's Book Club Summer 2018 SelectionThe Instant New York Times BestsellerA powerful, revealing story of hope, love, justice, and the power of reading by a man who spent thirty years on death row for a crime he didn't commit."An amazing and heartwarming...
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MY VANISHING COUNTRY: A MEMOIR
What J. D. Vance did for Appalachia with Hillbilly Elegy, CNN analyst and one of the youngest state representatives in South Carolina history Bakari Sellers does for the rural South, in this important book that illuminates the lives of America's forgotten black...
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REDEFINING REALNESS: MY PATH TO WOMANHOOD, IDENTITY, LOVE & SO MUCH MORE
In this "New York Times" bestseller--the first transgender memoir written by an African American--an extraordinary young woman recounts her coming-of-age. "Undercurrents of strong emotion swirl throughout this well-written book...An enlightening, much-needed perspective on transgender identity" ("Kirkus Reviews"). In 2011, "Marie...
$15.00
REVOLUTIONARY SUICIDE: PENGUIN CLASSICS DELUXE EDITION
The searing, visionary memoir of founding Black Panther Huey P. Newton, in a dazzling graphic package Eloquently tracing the birth of a revolutionary, Huey P. Newtonas famous and oft-quoted autobiography is as much a manifesto as a portrait of the...
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THE BEAUTIFUL STRUGGLE: A FATHER, TWO SONS, AND AN UNLIKELY ROAD TO MANHOOD
With a remarkable ability to reimagine both the lost world of his father's generation and the terrors and wonders of his own youth, Coates offers readers a small and beautiful epic about boys trying to become men in black America...
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