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Trade Paperback : $16.99 Buy	Mankiller A Chief and Her People Wilma Mankiller and Michael Wallis St. Martin's Griffin In this spiritual, moving autobiography, Wilma Mankiller, former Chief of the Cherokee Nation and a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, tells of...

Mass Market Paperbound : $4.99 Buy	Salma Hayek An Unauthorized Biography Patricia J.Duncan St. Martin's Paperbacks The long road to Hollywood success was never easy for Mexican-born beauty Salma Hayek-but it was never dull either! Starting out in her late teens starring in...

Hardcover : $24.95 Buy	Never Before, Never Again The Autobiography of Eddie Robinson Eddie Robinson with Richard Lapchick Thomas Dunne Books Franklin Roosevelt was America's President when Eddie Robinson coached his first game. Fifty-seven years later, Robison left Grambling as the winningest coach...

Trade Paperback : $20.99 Buy	Executing Justice An Inside Account of the Case of Mumia Abu-Jamal Daniel R. Williams; With a Foreword by E.L. Doctorow St. Martin's Griffin Mumia Abu-Jamal is an award-winning journalist and author of three well-received books and many essays. He is also a death-row inmate, awaiting execution in...

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W. E. B. Du Bois, 1919-1963

The Fight for Equality and the American Century

David Levering Lewis A John Macrae/Holt Paperbacks Book

This monumental biography--eight years in the research and writing--treats the early and middle phases of a long and intense career: a crucial fifty-year...

Black Caucus of the American Library Association Literary Award - Winner - Outstanding Contribution
National Book Awards - Finalist - Nonfiction
Pulitzer Prize - Winner - Biography

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Trade Paperback : $16.00 Buy	The Women Hilton Als Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks A New York Times Notable Book Daring and fiercely original, The Women is at once a memoir, a psychological study, a sociopolitical manifesto, and an...

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Levels of the Game

John McPhee Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks

This account of a tennis match played by Arthur Ashe against Clark Graebner at Forest Hills in 1968 begins with the ball rising into the air for the initial...

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Trade Paperback : $30.00 Buy	From Plantation to Ghetto August Meier and Elliott Rudwick Hill and Wang This pioneering work in African American history begins with the earliest experiences of blacks in the United States and offers an in-depth account of slavery,...

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W. E. B. Du Bois, 1868-1919

Biography of a Race

David Levering Lewis Holt Paperbacks

This monumental biography--eight years in the research and writing--treats the early and middle phases of a long and intense career: a crucial fifty-year...

Black Caucus of the American Library Association Literary Award - Winner - Nonfiction

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Trade Paperback : $34.95 Buy	Martin Luther King, Jr. Apostle of Militant Nonviolence James Colaiaco Palgrave Macmillan In this exemplary work of scholarly synthesis the author traces the course of events from the emergence of Martin Luther King, Jr. as a national black...

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The Thin Black Line

True Stories by Black Law Enforcement Officers Policing America's Meanest Streets

Hugh Holton Forge Books

Meet the black men and women policing our meanest streets... LaVerne Dunlap: she infiltrated a drug gang and testified against them in court ... only to have...

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Longing to Tell

Black Women Talk About Sexuality and Intimacy

Tricia Rose Picador

In a culture driven by sexual and racial imagery, very few honest conversations about race, gender, and sexuality actually take place. In their absence,...

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Trade Paperback : $16.95 Buy	Target Zero A Life in Writing Eldridge Cleaver; Edited by Kathleen Cleaver; Foreword by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.; Afterword by Cecil Brown Palgrave Macmillan Former Black Panther information minister Eldridge Cleaver was a complex man who inspired profound adulation, love, rage, and, among many, fear. Target Zero...

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A Long Way Gone

Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

Ishmael Beah Sarah Crichton Books

My new friends have begun to suspect I haven’t told them the full story of my life. “Why did you leave Sierra Leone?” “Because there is a war.” “You mean,...

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Trade Paperback : $16.99 Buy	Low Road The Life and Legacy of Donald Goines Eddie B. Allen, Jr. St. Martin's Griffin Donald Goines was a pimp, truck driver, heroin addict, factory worker, and career criminal. He was also one of the most popular Black contemporary writers...

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Biko - Cry Freedom

Donald Woods Holt Paperbacks

Subjected to 22 hours of interrogation, torture and beating by South African police on September 6, 1977, Steve Biko died six days later. Donald Woods, Biko's...

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The Music Room

A Memoir

Namita Devidayal Thomas Dunne Books

When Namita is ten years old, her mother takes her to Kennedy Bridge, a seamy neighborhood in Bombay, home to hookers and dance girls. There, in a cramped...

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King

Pilgrimage to the Mountaintop

Harvard Sitkoff Hill and Wang

In this fast-paced biography, Harvard Sitkoff presents a stunningly relevant and radical King. Honestly assessing his successes alongside his failures, King:...

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The Bicycle Runner

A Memoir of Love, Loyalty, and the Italian Resistance

G. Franco Romagnoli Thomas Dunne Books

Like all boys growing up in Rome during the 1930s and 1940s, the author was expected to join the Balilla—Italy’s fascist Youth Organization. With political...

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Origins

A Memoir

Amin Maalouf; Translated from the French by Catherine Temerson Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks

Origins, by the world-renowned writer Amin Maalouf, is a sprawling, hemisphere-spanning intergenerational saga. Set during the last quarter of the nineteenth...

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The Spiders of Allah

Travels of an Unbeliever on the Frontline of Holy War

James Hider St. Martin's Griffin

In his fascinating, terrifying and often very funny book, James Hider takes his doubts about religious beliefs straight into the dark heart of the world’s holy...

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The Boy from Baby House 10

From the Nightmare of a Russian Orphanage to a New Life in America

Alan Philps and John Lahutsky St. Martin's Griffin

A boy named“Vanya” was born in Russia with cerebral palsy and is abandoned by his mother. A British couple discovered Vanya and vowed to save him. On the...

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Trade Paperback : $16.99 Buy	Sweet Mandarin The Courageous True Story of Three Generations of Chinese Women and Their Journey from East to West Helen Tse St. Martin's Griffin/Thomas Dunne Books Spanning almost a hundred years, this rich and evocative memoir recounts the lives of three generations of remarkable Chinese women. Their extraordinary...

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Paris, Baby!

Kirsten Lobe St. Martin's Griffin

Is it possible to maintain chic as a single-mom-to-be in a city where it’s all supposed to be effortless and breastfeeding is a horreur? Does one live by the...

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