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  • And I Haven't Had a Bad Day Since

    From the Streets of Harlem to the Halls of Congress

    by Charles B. Rangel, Leon Wynter ...
    "Long on sass and spirit . . . brims with brio. . . As a politician/raconteur with a hell of a tale to tell, he sure has my vote."— The New York Times Book ReviewIn this inspiring and often humorous memoir, the outspoken Democratic congressman from Harlem—later the chairman of the powerful House Ways and Means Committee—tells about his early years on Lenox Avenue, being awarded a Bronze Star and a ... Read more

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    “[A] beguiling memoir of family and culture.”—O, The Oprah MagazineIn a story that travels beyond borders and between families, acclaimed Dominican novelist and poet Julia Alvarez reflects on the joys and burdens of love—for her parents, for her husband, and for a young Haitian boy known as Piti. In this intimate true account of a promise kept, Alvarez takes us on a journey into experiences that ... Read more

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  • Let the Trumpet Sound

    A Life of Martin Luther King, Jr.

    by Stephen B. Oates ...
    "The most comprehensive, the most thoroughly researched and documented, the most scholarly of the biographies of Martin Luther King, Jr." —Henry Steele Commanger, Philadelphia InquirerWinner of the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Book Award * A New York Times Notable Book of the YearBy the acclaimed biographer of Abraham Lincoln, Nat Turner, and John Brown, Stephen B. Oates's prizewinning Let the ... Read more

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  • Mayor for Life

    The Incredible Story of Marion Barry, Jr.

    by Marion Barry Jr. ...
    Four-time mayor of Washington, D.C., Marion Barry, Jr. tells his shocking and courageous life story, beginning in the cotton fields in Mississippi to the executive offices of one of the most powerful cities in the world.Marion Barry fought relentlessly in his life and his career. A near-life threatening bullet wound to the chest, a survivor of cancer, allegations of drug use, political scandal—he ... Read more

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  • I Shall Not Be Moved

    Poems

    by Maya Angelou ...
    In her first book of poetry since Why Don't You Sing? Maya Angelou, bestselling author of the classic autobiography I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, writes with lyric, passionate intensity that reaches out to touch the heart and mind.This memorable collection of poems exhibits Maya Angelou's unique gift for capturing the triumph and pain of being black and every man and woman's struggle to be free ... Read more

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  • Mangrove Roots Chronicles

    by Wanjiru Uhuru ...
    This book chronicles the life of a girl born during the baby boom years in post slavery British Honduras (Belize) to African Creole parents. The story is a factual chronology in the backdrop of the exotic landscape of this country interplayed with historical events that shaped Belize and ultimately, her life. With an inherent desire for learning, this young girl valiantly persisted on her life ... Read more

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  • Run, Run, Run: A Young Boy's Journey through the Cambodian Tragedy

    by Glenn Boda ...
    Cambodia, 1975, Pol Pot succeeds in military vistory and ascends to a four year ablolute dictatorship. After victory, he plunges Cambodia into total isolation and inflicts genocide on 25% of his citizens, a per capita rate exceeding that of any other country in history including Germany. Pol dreams that counterrevolutionary forces will take control, thus ousting him from power. This must be ... Read more

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  • Sixty Degrees North

    by Malachy Tallack ...
    The sixtieth parallel marks a borderland between the northern and southern worlds. Wrapping itself around the lower reaches of Finland, Sweden, and Norway, it crosses the tip of Greenland and the southern coast of Alaska, and slices the great expanses of Russia and Canada in half. The parallel also passes through Shetland, where Malachy Tallack has spent most of his life.In Sixty Degrees North, ... Read more

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  • The Original Black Elite

    Daniel Murray and the Story of a Forgotten Era

    by Elizabeth Dowling Taylor ...
    New York Times–Bestselling Author: "A compelling biography of Daniel Murray and the group the writer-scholar W.E.B. DuBois called 'The Talented Tenth.'" —Patricia Bell-Scott, National Book Award nominee and author of The Firebrand and the First LadyIn this outstanding cultural biography, the author of A Slave in the White House chronicles a critical yet overlooked chapter in American history: the ... Read more

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  • Never Look an American in the Eye

    A Memoir of Flying Turtles, Colonial Ghosts, and the Making of a Nigerian American

    by Okey Ndibe ...
    The author of Foreign Gods, Inc. and Arrows of Rain tells his own immigrant’s tale, where what is lost in translation is often as hilarious as it is harrowing.Okey Ndibe’s funny, charming, and penetrating memoir tells of his move from Nigeria to America, where he came to edit the influential—but forever teetering on the verge of insolvency—African Commentary magazine. It recounts stories of Ndibe ... Read more

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  • A Century and Some Change

    My Life Before the President Called My Name

    by Ann Nixon Cooper ...
    President-elect Barack Obama reflected on the life of Ann Nixon Cooper on Tuesday, November 4, 2008, singling her out of millions of voters, he said, because she was “born just a generation past slavery; a time when there were no cars on the road or planes in the sky, when someone like her couldn’t vote for two reasons—because she was a woman and because of the color of her skin.”Energized by this ... Read more

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  • Canada Made Me

    by Norman Levine ...
    Series series Biblioasis Renditions Series
    Norman Levine's Canada Made Me, a bitter, critical reassessment of the moral and cultural values of 'the polite nation,' proved so shocking it took 21 years-despite initial acclaim when released in 1958-to see a Canadian edition. A record of his three-month journey from coast to coast, Levine's vision of Canada's seedy and unpleasant underworld is now a laconic classic. ... Read more

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