Author: Mary Seacole
Written in 1857, this is the autobiography of a Jamaican woman whose fame rivalled Florence Nightingale's during the Crimean War. Seacole's offer to volunteer as a nurse in the war met with racism and refusal. Undaunted, ... |
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Aretha Franklin, Respect, and the Making of a Soul Music Masterpiece
Author: Matt Dobkin
The album that earned soul legend Aretha Franklin her first major hits, "I Never Loved A Man the Way I Love You" was a pop and soul music milestone. Apart from its status as a hit record, the album also had a much wider ... |
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The Ben Carson Story
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Author: Ben Carson & Cecil B. Murphey
This is the mass market edition of the popular book by Dr. Ben Carson whose inspiring story tells of a frustrated inner-city kid whose faith in God helped him become director of pediatric neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins Un ... |
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The Bold and Reckless Life of President Obama's Father
Author: Sally Jacobs
Sally Jacobs tells the full story of the troubled life and times of President Obama's largely absent father, bringing to life both the man his son barely knew and the tragic history of post-colonial Kenya. The life story ... |
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A Family's Story of Slavery and Empire
Author: Andrea Stuart
In the late 1630s, lured by the promise of the New World, Andrea Stuart's earliest known maternal ancestor, George Ashby, set sail from England to settle in Barbados. He fell into the life of a sugar plantation owner by ... |
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Break Every Rule
Author: Mark Bego
New York Times best-selling celebrity Mark Bego herin delves into another self-made and strong-willed femail star: internationally renowned soul/pop vocalist Tina Turner. Perhaps the defining R&B singer of her generation ... |
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The Autobiography of Nina Simone
Author: Nina Simone & Stephen Cleary
The mesmerizing autobiography of one of the most revered soul, jazz, and blues divas of our time-the late Nina Simone. A gorgeous, inimitable singer and songwriter, Nina Simone (1933-2003) changed the face of both music ... |
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Author: Larry Haun
Part memoir, part cultural history, this is a book about the history of homebuilding in America over the past 100 years, told through twelve unique but modest houses that the author knows intimately. We follow the author ... |
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Author: Charles K. Wolfe & Kip Lornell
Huddie Ledbetter (18891949), known to millions of fans simply as Leadbelly, was arguably the most famous black singer in American history. His close musical associations included such towering figures as Blind Lemon Jeff ... |
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A Wilderness Spirit
Author: Kristin Gleeson
Whether she was a small town First Nations girl or an international celebrity promoting wilderness conservation, Anahareo always followed her own mind. Growing up with the name Gertrude, an Algonquin/Mohawk girl in a sma ... |
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From the Streets of Harlem to the Halls of Congress
Author: Charles B Rangel
In this inspiring and often humorous memoir, the outspoken Democratic congressman from Harlem--now the chairman of the powerful House Ways and Means Committee--tells about his early years on Lenox Avenue, being awarded a ... |
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The Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth and the Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights / Edited by Marjorie L. White & Andrew M. Manis.
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A Life of Reinvention
Author: Manning Marable
"Groundbreaking ...It will be difficult for anyone to better this book ...a work of art, a feast that combines genres skilfully: biography, true-crime, political commentary. It gives us Malcolm X in full gallop". (Wil Ha ... |
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A Man of Peace in a World of War
Author: Stanley Meisler & Scott Mendel
In this thoughtful, balanced biography, former Los Angeles Times foreign and diplomatic correspondent Stanley Meisler traces Kofi Annan's unconventional rise from optimistic student to striving personnel and budget speci ... |
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A True Story of Japanese American Experience During and After the World War II Internment
Author: Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston & James D Houston
A Japanese-American woman looks back on life at an internment camp during World War II and tells of how the fear, confusion, and ultimate dignity of the people there shaped her life. |
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An Armenian-Turkish Memoir
Author: Fethiye Cetin
As a child in Turkey, Fethiye Cetin knew her grandmother as a happy and well respected Muslim housewife. Decades later, her grandmother revealed the truth: she was by birth a Christian Armenian, and most of the men in th ... |
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Break Every Rule
Author: Mark Bego
New York Times best-selling celebrity Mark Bego herin delves into another self-made and strong-willed femail star: internationally renowned soul/pop vocalist Tina Turner. Perhaps the defining R&B singer of her generation ... |
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Author: Alice Pung
At twenty-something, Alice is eager for the milestones of adulthood: leaving home, choosing a career, finding friendship and love on her own terms. But with each step she takes she feels the sharp tug of invisible thread ... |
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Author: Jay-Z
Expanded paperback edition of the acclaimed "New York Times "bestseller features 16 pages of new material, including 3 new songs decoded. "Decoded "is a book like no other: a collection of lyrics and their meanings t ... |
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A Man of Peace in a World of War
Author: Stanley Meisler
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