Biographies/Autobiographies
Biographies/Autobiographies
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...
$14.95
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...
$42.00
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...
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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...
$27.99
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. ...
$16.00
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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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...
$19.99
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...
$26.99
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...
$26.99
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...
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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...
$17.00
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...
$17.00
THE TRUTHS WE HOLD: AN AMERICAN JOURNEY
A New York Times bestseller From one of America's most inspiring political leaders, a book about the core truths that unite us, and the long struggle to discern what those truths are and how best to act upon them, in her...
$30.00
THE YELLOW HOUSE: A MEMOIR
In 1961, Sarah M. Broom's mother Ivory Mae bought a shotgun house in the then-promising neighborhood of New Orleans East and built her world inside of it. It was the height of the Space Race and the neighborhood was home...
$26.00
I'M TELLING THE TRUTH, BUT I'M LYING: ESSAYS
In I’m Telling the Truth, but I’m Lying Bassey Ikpi explores her life—as a Nigerian-American immigrant, a black woman, a slam poet, a mother, a daughter, an artist—through the lens of her mental health and diagnosis of bipolar II and anxiety. Her...
$15.99
BORN A CRIME: STORIES FROM A SOUTH AFRICAN CHILDHOOD (PB)
Trevor Noah's unlikely path from apartheid South Africa to the desk of The Daily Show began with a criminal act: his birth. Trevor was born to a white Swiss father and a black Xhosa mother at a time when such a union...
$18.00
WOW, NO THANK YOU.: ESSAYS
Irby is forty, and increasingly uncomfortable in her own skin despite what Inspirational Instagram Infographics have promised her. She has left her job as a receptionist at a veterinary clinic, has published successful books and has been friendzoned by Hollywood,...
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MAKE CHANGE: HOW TO FIGHT INJUSTICE, DISMANTLE SYSTEMIC OPPRESSION, AND OWN OUR FUTURE
Activist and journalist Shaun King reflects on the events that made him one of the most prominent social justice leaders of our time and lays out a clear action plan for you to join the fight. As a leader of...
$26.00
A TASTE OF POWER: A BLACK WOMAN'S STORY
Elaine Brown assumed her role as the first and only female leader of the Black Panther Party with these words: "I have all the guns and all the money. I can withstand challenge from without and from within. Am I...
$17.95
HUNGER: A MEMOIR OF (MY) BODY (PAPERBACK)
From the New York Times bestselling author of Bad Feminist a searingly honest memoir of food, weight, self-image, and learning how to feed your hunger while taking care of yourself. "I ate and ate and ate in the hopes that if I made myself...
$16.99
ZAMI: A NEW SPELLING OF MY NAME: A BIOMYTHOGRAPHY
"ZAMI is a fast-moving chronicle. From the author's vivid childhood memories in Harlem to her coming of age in the late 1950s, the nature of Audre Lorde's work is cyclical. It especially relates the linkage of women who have shaped...
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I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS (MASS MARKET)
Here is a book as joyous and painful, as mysterious and memorable, as childhood itself. "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" captures the longing of lonely children, the brute insult of bigotry, and the wonder of words that can...
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