Biography

The Best Man I Can Be is the result of Leonard Dungey's 94 years of experiences. It has been written at the urging of family and friends, and a gut instinct on the part of the author to catalogue his experiences in the military as an African American and...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Part cookbook, part memoir, these "rollicking, poignant, sometimes hilarious tales" (USA Today) are the Pulitzer Prize-winner's loving tribute to the South, his family and, especially, to his extraordinary mother. Here are...

Beautiful and spirited, Pannonica Rothschild, known as Nica, was born in 1913 to eccentric privilege and a storied family history. After marrying well, she settled into a French chateau to bear children and support her husband's war career. But when Nica...

FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR TRANSLATED LITERATURE A moving, unforgettable tribute to a Tutsi woman who did everything to protect her children from the Rwandan genocide, by the daughter who refuses to let her family's story be forgotten. The...

"This book is both brief and miraculous, and it will be finished before you're ready to let it go. Like life." --Ann Patchett, author of Commonwealth When Cheryl Strayed was asked by The Boston Globe to name a book she finds herself recommending time...

Born in New Orleans in 1894, Warren "Baby" Dodds became one of the greatest drummers of that city's early jazz tradition. This lively autobiography, first published more than 30 years ago and long unavailable, is the result of a series of interviews...

The first famous double-bass stylist in jazz, George Murphy "Pops" Foster enjoyed a career that spanned gigs with greats from Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington to Charlie Parker and John Coltrane. This autobiography, first published in 1971 and now...

First published anonymously in 1912, this resolutely unsentimental novel gave many white readers their first glimpse of the double standard -- and double consciousness -- that ruled the lives of black people in modern America. Republished in 1927, at the...

One hundred original profiles of the most influential African Americans of the twentieth century. Without Louis Armstrong or Miles Davis, we would not have jazz. Without Toni Morrison or Ralph Ellison, we would miss some of our greatest novels. Without...

Jaylen (Hiccup) and Larry (Ribbit) are cousins. They are 8-days apart, in age. Quite energetic and curious about everything, I thought it would be nice, if they agreed, to take them out and expose them to happenings at various venues. They were playful,...

When he was just 14, Dereck Lee watched as soldiers marched into his hometown of Phnom Penh. He would spend the rest of his teenage years enslaved in the Cambodian countryside where starvation, disease, and execution became unimaginably routine. A...

This book teaches readers that no matter what you go through, you are in control of your success and happiness. Things do get hard, and Harvey's stories prove that, but she inspires her readers to keep pushing through and become the best that you can...

Testimony of a Lost Child: A Lot of Years in a Very Short TimeBy: Janie M. Scroggins For every action, there is a reaction; be it positive or negative, consequence follows. Sometimes, it's on us to make the best choices we can; other times, it's out of...

Test Ride on the Sunnyland Bus chronicles the story of an American family against the backdrop of one of the civil rights movement's lesser-known stories. In January 1957, Joseph Spagna and five other young men waited to board a city bus called the...

The Temptations were the most commercially successful and critically lauded male vocal group of the Sixties and early Seventies. Through the years, the group's trademark razor-sharp choreography, finely tuned harmonies, and compelling vocals made them...

A memoir from a political prisoner in Morocco's notorious Tazmamart prison. On July 10, 1971, during birthday celebrations for King Hassan II of Morocco, attendant officers and cadets opened fire on visiting dignitaries. A young officer, Aziz BineBine,...