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  • Have No Fear

    The Charles Evers Story

    by Charles Evers, Andrew Szanton ...
    "Have No Fear reminds us what it meant to live under a system where segregation was important enough to kill for and where being treated with dignity and respect was a whites-only entitlement." --The New York Times Book Review"A gutsy, American patriot and treasure . . . an important slice of American history."--Dan Rather"Charles Evers has given us one of the most extraordinary memoirs about race ... Read more

    $15.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • How to Be Black

    by Baratunde Thurston ...
    The comedian chronicles his coming of age while analyzing politics & culture in this New York Times–bestselling memoir and satirical guide.If You Don't Buy This Book, You're a Racist.Have you ever been called "too black" or "not black enough?"Have you ever befriended or worked with a black person?Have you ever heard of black people?If you answered yes to any of these questions, this book is for ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Laughing Without an Accent

    Adventures of a Global Citizen

    by Firoozeh Dumas ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “There’s such warmth to Dumas’ writing that it invites the reader to pull up a seat at her table and smile right along with her at the quirks of her family and Iranians and Americans in general.”—BooklistIn the New York Times bestselling memoir Funny in Farsi, Firoozeh Dumas recounted her adventures growing up Iranian American in Southern California. Now she again mines ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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  • The Arab of the Future

    A Childhood in the Middle East, 1978-1984: A Graphic Memoir

    by Riad Sattouf ...
    Series Book 1 - The Arab of the Future
    Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book PrizeThe Arab of the Future, the #1 French best-seller, tells the unforgettable story of Riad Sattouf's childhood, spent in the shadows of 3 dictators—Muammar Gaddafi, Hafez al-Assad, and his father.In striking, virtuoso graphic style that captures both the immediacy of childhood and the fervor of political idealism, Riad Sattouf recounts his nomadic childhood ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Thailand Confidential

    by Jerry Hopkins ...
    "Wanna stand in the face of a charging elephant, get hit by a motorcycle, eat giant water bugs, blowtorch your mouth on some of the hottest chili peppers on earth, then go watch a sex change operation? Of course you don't, but, happily, Jerry Hopkins has done all that and more—lots more—in this darkly humorous, deeply affectionate, clear-eyed but never patronizing portrait of Thailand, his adopted ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Washingtons of Wessyngton Plantation

    Stories of My Family's Journey to Freedom

    by John Baker ...
    When John F. Baker Jr. was in the seventh grade, he saw a photograph of four former slaves in his social studies textbook—two of them were his grandmother's grandparents. He began the lifelong research project that would become The Washingtons of Wessyngton Plantation, the fruit of more than thirty years of archival and field research and DNA testing spanning 250 years.A descendant of Wessyngton ... Read more

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  • The Interesting Narrative and Other Writings

    Revised Edition

    by Olaudah Equiano, Vincent Carretta ...
    Completely revised and edited with an introduction and notes by Vincent CarrettaAn exciting and often terrifying adventure story, as well as an important precursor to such famous nineteenth-century slave narratives as Frederick Douglass's autobiographies, Olaudah Equiano's The Interesting Narrativerecounts his kidnapping in Africa at the age of ten, his service as the slave of an officer in the ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Pushing Time Away

    My Grandfather and the Tragedy of Jewish Vienna

    by Peter Singer ...
    This account of a teacher in Austria—a friend of Freud and one of the millions of victims of the Holocaust—is "beautifully written and deeply moving" (Joyce Carol Oates).Peter Singer's Pushing Time Away is a rich and loving portrait of the author's grandfather, David Oppenheim, from the turn of the twentieth century to the end of his life in a concentration camp during the Second World War. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Wrapped in Rainbows

    The Life of Zora Neale Hurston

    by Valerie Boyd ...
    From critically acclaimed journalist Valerie Boyd comes an eloquent profile of one of the most intriguing cultural figures of the twentieth century—Zora Neale Hurston.A woman of enormous talent and remarkable drive, Zora Neale Hurston published seven books, many short stories, and several articles and plays over a career that spanned more than thirty years. Today, nearly every black woman writer ... Read more

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  • Gonna Do Great Things

    The Life of Sammy Davis, Jr.

    by Gary Fishgall ...
    A major reappraisal of the life of legendary entertainer Sammy Davis, Jr., Gonna Do Great Things is at once an intimate portrait and an exuberant celebration of a wholly American icon. Through his multifaceted talent and personality, Sammy became one of the most magnetic and contentious figures in modern entertainment history. His outstanding talents as a dancer, singer, actor, impressionist, and ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Buryin' Daddy

    Putting My Lebanese, Catholic, Southern Baptist Childhood to Rest

    by Teresa Nicholas ...
    Series series Willie Morris Books in Memoir and Biography
    A descendant of Lebanese Catholic immigrants on her father's side and Baptist sharecroppers on her mother's, Teresa Nicholas recounts in Buryin' Daddy a southern upbringing with an unusual inflection. As the book opens, the author recalls her charmed early childhood in the late 1950s, when she and her family live with her grandparents in a graceful old bungalow in Yazoo City, Mississippi. But when ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • The Gorilla Man and the Empress of Steak

    A New Orleans Family Memoir

    by Randy Fertel ...
    Series series Willie Morris Books in Memoir and Biography
    The Gorilla Man and the Empress of Steak is the story of two larger-than-life characters and the son whom their lives helped to shape. Ruth Fertel was a petite, smart, tough-as-nails blonde with a weakness for rogues, who founded the Ruth's Chris Steak House empire almost by accident. Rodney Fertel was a gold-plated, one-of-a-kind personality, a railbird-heir to wealth from a pawnshop of dubious ... Read more

    $17.99 USD