The true story of the high-flying Harlem Globetrotters -- the team that changed basketball forever. In this book you will find one-finger ball-spinning, rapid-fire mini-dribbling, and a ricochet head shot!You will find skilled athletes, expert players,...

She was chasing a sexual fantasy, and he was just plain curious. Her dream to explore the land of chocolate matched his longtime need to know if there was truly magic in the snow. Future attorneys Tyson Maxwell Junior and Mallorie Whitaker meet merely by...

Written by one of jazz journalism's best and most knowledgeable critics, this book explores the full swing spectrum from its origins in the 1920s through its current retro resurgence. Features intriguing capsule biographies of 400 of the best musicians,...

Before Elvis Presley and rock-'n'-roll, another King ruled the roost of American popular music. His name was Benny Goodman and his domain, the gilded age of Swing. Benny's concerts, records, and radio shows catapulted the hot and controversial sounds of...

The bebop era was a period in time where African descendants took European musical instruments and bent them to their well so that these European instruments told the story of African Americans in a uniquely African American voice. In Swing, Hard Bop,...

Not only biography, but also one of the earliest American attempts to trace the development of jazz.--from the foreword by Dan Morgenstern The first autobiography of a jazz musician, Louis Armstrong's Swing That Music is a milestone in jazz literature...

Back in 1909, not far from Jackson, Mississippi, Dr. Laurence Clifton Jones opened a special place for orphans named Piney Woods Country Life School. Dr. Jones loved music and wanted the children to love it too. In 1939 he started a school band that was...

The Sweeter the Juice is a provocative memoir that goes to the heart of our American identity. Shirlee Taylor Haizlip, in an effort to reconcile the dissonance between her black persona and her undeniably multiracial heritage, started on a journey of...

INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER Now a series on StarzBrilliantly written. . . . Outstanding.--The New York Times Book Review Newly arrived in New York City, twenty-two-year-old Tess lands a job working front of house at a celebrated downtown restaurant. What...

New York Times bestselling author Omar Tyree's seductive, insightful novel exploring the age-old question: how do people fall in love--and stay in love? When Anthony Ant Poole, a young auto mechanic with a creative approach to the mating game,

Moses is found as an infant next to his dying mother, an escaped slave, and is brought to Boston and raised with a baker's family. He grows to be a willful teenager, and after his uncle enlists in the 54th Massachusetts Regiment -- the first and most...

Sweet Relief is the remarkable story of how twenty-eight-year-old Marla Ruzicka took on the US government, changed the world, and made the ultimate sacrifice. Marla Ruzicka was a free spirit, a savvy political operator, a wartime Erin Brockovich...

In this fictional story set in the South in the 1920s, an African American girl and her family sell Mama's sweet potato pies at the Harvest Celebration to raise money and save their farm.The summer a great drought sweeps across the county, the only crop...

The Berry family tree is growing this Autumn! Meet characters like Junebug's daughter- Ladybug whose big recital is a few days away; Gumbo Moe who has the best catch in town; Fluffy the Dog who dances down the soul train line; Cousin Peanut who visits...

The famous Berry Family gives every season! Meet new characters like Little Dumplin' who writes about his purpose in a journal; Jelly Bean who travels through the snow to tell a story about adoption; Curly Girl whose courage proves the world wrong;...

When the summer breeze is a perfume of magnolias and jasmine, there is nothing better than sipping on your favorite batch of sugar tea while nibbling on those famously scrumptious, honey butter biscuits! "Sweet Pea & Sugar Tea's Country Family...