Biography & Autobiography
Biography & Autobiography
Diamond Doris: The True Story of the World's Most Notorious Jewel Thief
Soon to be a MajorMotion Picture In the ebullient spirit of Ocean’s 8, The Heist, and Thelma & Louise, a sensational and entertaining memoir of the world’s most notorious jewel thief—a woman who defied society’s prejudices and norms to carve her own...
$26.00
Miss Chloe: A Memoir of a Literary Friendship with Toni Morrison
“Passionate, personal, insightful, testy, and unique.” —Kirkus (starred review) "Verdelle offers us testimony in praise and consideration of life as a literary citizen and Black woman alongside the guiding light of Toni Morrison. This is a holy testimony, indeed, one...
$19.00
Miss Chloe: A Memoir of a Literary Friendship with Toni Morrison
“Passionate, personal, insightful, testy, and unique.” —Kirkus (starred review) "Verdelle offers us testimony in praise and consideration of life as a literary citizen and Black woman alongside the guiding light of Toni Morrison. This is a holy testimony, indeed, one that...
$28.00
The Span of a Small Forever: Poems
With echoes of Audre Lorde’s The Cancer Journals and Susan Sontag’s Illness as Metaphor, an extraordinary debut collection from a prize-winning poet that chronicles a Black woman’s journey through disability, the byzantine healthcare system, life-giving, taking, and sacrifice. With breathtaking...
$18.00
A Soldier's Wife: My Mother, the Marvelous Mrs. Marilyn A. Underwood
In this moving biography and memoir, Blair Underwood, acclaimed star of film, stage, and television, pays homage to his mother, sharing her well-lived life, and key lessons learned as a fashion designer, mother, and soldier’s wife. Born in Buffalo, New...
$28.00
Shut Up and Read: A Memoir from Harriett's Bookshop
The author of It’s Me They Follow chronicles the improbable true story of how she left an abusive past to build a bookshop that survived the Covid pandemic and become an international sensation. Jeannine Cook always thought she’d open a bookshop in...
$18.00
Shut Up and Read: A Memoir from Harriett's Bookshop
The author of It’s Me They Follow chronicles the improbable true story of how she left an abusive past to build a bookshop that survived the Covid pandemic and become an international sensation. Jeannine Cook always thought she’d open a bookshop in...
$29.00
Confessions of a Video Vixen
This is the post-Me Too update to the ahead-of-its-time emotionally charged memoir from a former hip hop music video vixen many women needed to see. Twenty years after she took us beyond the glitz and glamour of celebrity, this powerful...
$19.00
A Committee of One: How Faith + Action = a Purposefull Life
A Committee of One: How Faith + Action = A PurposeFULL Life is an inspirational memoir/self-help book from the Grandmother of Juneteenth that will be a testament to the transformative power of resilience, faith, and love. In 2016, then-90-year-old Opal Lee began...
$27.00
Chasing Space: An Astronaut's Story of Grit, Grace, and Second Chances
In this revelatory and moving memoir of perseverance, a former NASA astronaut and NFL wide receiver shares his personal journey from the gridiron to the stars, examining the intersecting roles of community, perseverance and grace that align to create the opportunities for success....
$17.00
Making Rent in Bed-Stuy: A Memoir of Trying to Make It in New York City
A young African American millennial filmmaker’s funny, sometimes painful, true-life coming-of-age story of trying to make it in New York City—a chronicle of poverty and wealth, creativity and commerce, struggle and insecurity, and the economic and cultural forces intertwined with...
$19.00
Redbone: The Millionaire and the Gold Digger
Lance Herndon was at the top of his game in 1996. At age forty-one he was a self-made millionaire, the owner of Access, Inc., a successful information-systems consulting company. As a prominent member of Atlanta's young, wealthy, and powerful set,...
$15.00
Reclamation: Sally Hemings, Thomas Jefferson, and a Descendant's Search for Her Family's Lasting Legacy
A Black descendant of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings’ family explores America’s racial reckoning through the prism of her ancestors—both the enslaver and the enslaved.Gayle Jessup White had long heard the stories passed down from her father’s family, that they...
$18.00
Make Way: Five Centuries of Black Women Who Made the World
Religious talk quickly degenerates into insider talk, but what if we turned it back out?Episcopal Bishop Mary Gray-Reeves takes six words related to Christian faith and translates them so they speak more broadly to those who proclaim themselves “spiritual but...
$29.00
Cack-Handed: A Memoir
The Britishcomedian of Nigerianheritage and co-executive producer and writer of the CBS hit series Bob Hearts Abishola chroniclesher odyssey to get to America and break into Hollywood in this lively andhumorous memoir. According to family superstition, Gina Yashere was born to fulfill...
$19.00
Black Women Will Save the World: An Anthem
"Forceful and inspired, this is a rousing praise song for strong Black women."—Publishers Weekly "An impassioned celebration of Black women and their roles in transforming the nation."—Kirkus Reviews In this long-overdue social justice book and celebration of Black women’s resilience...
$19.00
Black Women Rising: A Joyful Self-Care Guide for Liberation & Healing
Black Women Rising weaves ancestral wisdom with contemporary insight to speak directly to Black women’s lived realities—racial trauma, chronic stress, care fatigue, and resilience—through a wholistic lens. Filling a long-standing gap in the self-help and wellness market, Black Women Rising is a culturally...
$30.00
Black, White, Colored: The Hidden Story of an Insurrection, a Family, a Southern Town, and Identity in America
An absorbing investigation into a little-known historical tragedy—an insurrection which upended a resilient and wealthy Black community who found themselves in the clutches of an insurrection at the turn of the twentieth century in Laurinburg, North Carolina. In the late...
$30.00
Black Fortunes: The Story of the First Six African Americans Who Survived Slavery and Became Millionaires
“By telling the little-known stories of six pioneering African American entrepreneurs, Black Fortunes makes a worthy contribution to black history, to business history, and to American history.”—Margot Lee Shetterly, New York Times Bestselling author of Hidden Figures Between the years of 1830 and 1927, as...
$19.00
Before the Legend: The Rise of Bob Marley
Bob Marley was a reggae superstar, a musical prophet who brought the sound of the Third World to the entire globe. Before the Legend: The Rise of Bob Marley goes beyond the myth of Marley to bring you the private...
$13.00
After the Dance: My Life with Marvin Gaye
A riveting cautionary tale about the ecstasy and dangers of loving Marvin Gaye, a performer passionately pursued by all—and a searing memoir of drugs, sex, and old school R&B from the wife of legendary soul icon Marvin Gaye. After her...
$16.00
The a Word: A Mother's Journey Through Autism and Love
Actress, comedian and mother Tisha Campbell (Martin, My Wife and Kids) shares her entertaining, emotional, and sometimes comical journey navigating her son’s Autism diagnosis, offering realistic insight and personal stories of the challenges and triumphs that come with raising a...
$30.00
Witness to Belief: Conversations on Faith and Meaning
“An openhearted testament to the power of religious belief in a chaotic world.” –Publishers Weekly From a beloved pastor, a collection of powerful conversations on faith and meaning with twelve public figures who explore the impact of faith in their...
$30.00
To Pause at the Threshold
"A threshold is a sacred thing," goes the traditional saying of ancient wisdom. In some corners of the earth, in some traditional cultures, and in monastic life, this is still remembered. But in our fast-paced modern world, this wisdom is...
$18.00
This Band of Sisterhood: Black Women Bishops on Race, Faith, and the Church
Get to know the first five Black women to be elected diocesan bishops within the Episcopal Church. During this moment, with the #metoo movement, Black Lives Matter, and the increased feelings of division in our country, Black women clergy in...
$19.00
Songs My Grandma Sang
In a conversation about his teaching and preaching style, Michael Curry notes with a laugh that hymns and songs of faith were always a part of the mix. “I learned what I believed in the songs I heard my family―especially...
$21.00
Sewing Room
In these insightful essays, Barbara Cawthorne Crafton reflects on a broad range of experiences ministering among merchant seafarers, the homeless, the bereaved, AIDS patients, and others in need of personal and spiritual help. She shares honestly her own emotions as...
$27.00
I Will Arise and Go Now: Reflections on the Meaning of Places and People
“I would like to think that there are things in my own life that might attract the interest of others–even if only to spark in them a recollection of similar escapades and experiences of their own.”―Herbert O'Driscoll Beloved preacher and...
$27.00
He Called Me Sister: A True Story of Finding Humanity on Death Row
Deeply poignant and astonishingly personal, this “moving story of a death in Tennessee” (Bill Moyers) shows hope can endure, grace can redeem, and humanity can exist―even in the darkest of places It was a clash of race, privilege, and circumstance...
$30.00
Gospel Memories: The Future Can Rewrite Our Past
While there is truth in the idea that our past shapes our future, the gospel is all about the counter-intuitive promise that God is shaping us right now toward God's vision of who we will become. It is not our...
$20.00