Biographies/Autobiographies
Biographies/Autobiographies
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
United States of Grace: A Memoir of Homelessness, Addiction, Incarceration, and Hope
In 1991, when he was 13 years old, Lenny Duncan stepped out of his house in West Philadelphia, walked to the Greyhound station, and bought a ticket - the start of his great American adventure. Today Duncan, who inspired and...
$22.99
We Are Bridges: A Memoir
"In this evocative memoir, Cassandra Lane deftly uses the act of imagination to reclaim her ancestors’ story as a backdrop for telling her own. The tradition of Black women’s storytelling leaps forward within these pages—into fresh, daring, and excitingly new...
$17.95
Where Tomorrows Aren't Promised: A Memoir of Survival and Hope
From iconic NBA All-Star Carmelo Anthony comes a raw and inspirational memoir about growing up in the housing projects of Red Hook and Baltimore—a brutal world Where Tomorrows Aren’t Promised.For a long time, Carmelo Anthony’s world wasn’t any larger than the...
$28.00
Where You Are Is Not Who You Are: A Memoir
The first Black female CEO of a Fortune 500 company looks back at her life and her career at Xerox, sharing unique insights on American business and corporate life, the workers she has always valued, racial and economic justice, how...
$27.99
Year of Plagues: A Memoir of 2020
In this piercing and unforgettable memoir, the award-winning poet reflects on a year of turbulence, fear, and hope. For acclaimed British-Guyanese writer Fred D’Aguiar, 2020 was a year of personal and global crisis. The world around him was shattered by...
$26.99
Yoke: My Yoga of Self-Acceptance
Finding self-acceptance both on and off the mat.In Sanskrit, yoga means to “yoke.” To yoke mind and body, movement and breath, light and dark, the good and the bad. This larger idea of “yoke” is what Jessamyn Stanley calls the...
$15.95
You Got Anything Stronger?: Stories
Remember when we hit it off so well that we decided We’re Going to Need More Wine? Well, this time you and I are going to turn to our friend the bartender and ask, You Got Anything Stronger? I promise to continue to...
$27.99
I Take My Coffee Black: Reflections on Tupac, Musical Theater, Faith, and Being Black in America
$26.00
I Take My Coffee Black: Reflections on Tupac, Musical Theater, Faith, and Being Black in America
As a 6'2" dreadlocked black man, Tyler Merritt knows what it feels like to be stereotyped as threatening, which can have dangerous consequences. But he also knows that proximity to people who are different from ourselves can be a cure...
$26.00
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
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
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 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
From the Streets of Shaolin: The Wu-Tang Saga
This definitive biography of rap supergroup, Wu-Tang Clan, features decades of unpublished interviews and unparalleled access to members of the group and their associates. This is the definitive biography of rap supergroup and cultural icons, Wu-Tang Clan (WTC). Heralded as one...
$30.00
Feeding the Soul (Because It's My Business): Finding Our Way to Joy, Love, and Freedom
You are seen, you are loved, and you are heard! Before Tabitha Brown was one of the most popular personalities in the world, sharing her delicious vegan home cooking and compassionate wisdom with millions of followers across social media, she was an aspiring actress...
$27.99
Far Away from Close to Home: Essays
New & Noteworthy: The New York Times “Vivid and relatable. The writing is like Vanessa herself; funny, charming and brave.” ―Mindy Kaling Through a series of extraordinary, incisive, often-humorous essays, Emmy Award-winning actor Vanessa Baden Kelly examines what the idea of “home” means...
$17.00
Don't Let It Get You Down: Essays on Race, Gender, and the Body
A powerful and provocative collection of essays that offers poignant reflections on living between society’s most charged, politicized, and intractably polar spaces—between black and white, rich and poor, thin and fat.Savala Nolan knows what it means to live in the...
$26.00
Conquering the Pacific: An Unknown Mariner and the Final Great Voyage of the Age of Discovery
$28.00
Conquering the Pacific: An Unknown Mariner and the Final Great Voyage of the Age of Discovery
The story of an uncovered voyage as colorful and momentous as any on record for the Age of Discovery—and of the Black mariner whose stunning accomplishment has been until now lost to history It began with a secret mission, no expenses...
$28.00
Carry on: Reflections for a New Generation
A brilliant and empowering collection of final reflections and words of wisdom from venerable civil rights champion, the late Congressman John Lewis at the end of his remarkable life.Congressman John Lewis was a paragon of the Civil Rights Movement and...
$22.00
Cack-Handed: A Memoir
The British comedian of Nigerian heritage and co-executive producer and writer of the CBS hit series Bob Hearts Abishola chronicles her odyssey to get to America and break into Hollywood in this lively and humorous memoir. According to family superstition, Gina Yashere...
$26.99
Black Nerd Problems: Essays
The creators of the popular website Black Nerd Problems bring their witty and unflinching insight to this engaging collection of pop culture essays on everything from Mario Kart and The Wire to issues of representation and police brutality across media.When William Evans and Omar Holmon founded Black...
$27.00
The Blues: The Authentic Narrative of My Music and Culture
"A fresh new perspective that will be a true revolution to readers and will open new lines of discussion on . . . the importance of the city of New Orleans for generations to come." —Dr. Michael White, jazz clarinetist, composer, and Keller Endowed Chair at...
$30.00
On Juneteenth
Product details
Publisher : HMH Books for Young Readers; First edition (May 4, 2009)
Language : English
Paperback : 256 pages
ISBN-10 : 9780152063924
ISBN-13 : 9780152063924
$15.95
My Remarkable Journey: A Memoir
The remarkable woman at heart of the smash New York Times bestseller and Oscar-winning film Hidden Figures tells the full story of her life, including what it took to work at NASA, help land the first man on the moon, and live through a...
$25.99
Maverick: A Biography of Thomas Sowell
A biography of Thomas Sowell, one of America's most influential conservative thinkers. Thomas Sowell is one of the great social theorists of our age. In a career spanning more than a half century, he has written over thirty books,...
$30.00
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
Field Study
Winner of the 2020 James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets"Layered, complex, and infinitely compelling, Chet’la Sebree’s Field Study is a daring exploration of the self and our interactions with others―a meditation on desire, race, loss and survival." --Natasha Trethewey,...
$16.00
Eartha & Kitt: A Daughter's Love Story in Black and White
A luminous and inspiring portrait of a Black pioneer and artistic force—Eartha Kitt—and one of the most moving mother/daughter stories in Hollywood history.In this unique combination of memoir and cultural history, we come to know one of the greatest stars...
$26.95
Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir
FEATURED ON THE COVER OF TIME MAGAZINE AS A 2021 NEXT GENERATION LEADER“A once-in-a-generation voice.” – Vulture“One of our greatest living writers.” – ShondalandA full-throated and provocative memoir in letters from the New York Times-bestselling author, “a dazzling literary talent whose works...
$27.00
Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist's Memoir of the Jim Crow South
“A compelling and important history that this nation desperately needs to hear.” -Bryan Stevenson, New York Times bestselling author of Just Mercy and executive director of the Equal Justice InitiativeWinfred Rembert grew up in a family of Georgia field laborers and joined the Civil...
$30.00