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“ruth wright hayre”

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  • Tell Them We Are Rising

    A Memoir of Faith in Education

    by Ruth Wright Hayre, Alexis Moore ...
    "The inspiring story of how one woman gave back."--Ed Bradley"This is a heartwarming story about struggle, survival, and achieve ment. If we didn't know people like this in our lives, we would want to invent them. What more could one ask? A good story told with a deft hand."--William H. Gray III President, United Negro College Fund"An inspiring account of an African American educator determined to ... Read more

    $19.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    One Woman's Journey from Pakistani Muslim to American Muslim

    by Sabeeha Rehman ...
    **SHORTLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM SAROYAN INTERNATIONAL PRIZE FOR WRITING. ONE OF *BOOKLIST'*S TOP TEN RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY BOOKS. ONE OF BOOKLIST'S TOP TEN DIVERSE NONFICTION BOOKS. Honorable Mention in the San Francisco Book Festival Awards, Spiritual CategoryA 2019 United Methodist Women Reading Program SelectionThis enthralling story of the making of an American is a timely meditation on ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom; or, the Escape of William and Ellen Craft from Slavery

    by Ellen Craft ...
    William and Ellen Craft were slaves from Macon who gained celebrity after a daring public escape in December 1848. The light-skinned Ellen Craft posed as a white woman traveling with her valet. The bold ruse worked and the couple were able to elude slave hunters and eventually cross the Mason-Dixon line. After many trials and tribulations, including pretending to be a married interracial couple, ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Other Side of Paradise

    A Memoir

    by Staceyann Chin ...
    Staceyann Chin has appeared on television and radio discussing issues of race and sexuality, but it is her extraordinary voice that launched her career as a performer, poet, and activist—here, she shares her unforgettable story of triumph against all odds in this brave and fiercely candid memoir.No one knew Staceyann's mother was pregnant until a dangerously small baby was born on the floor of her ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Glow

    The Autobiography of Rick James

    by Rick James ...
    Best known for his 1980s hit songs “Super Freak,” “Give it to Me Baby,” and “Mary Jane,” the late singer and funk music pioneer Rick James collaborated with acclaimed music biographer David Ritz in this posthumously published, no-holds-barred memoir of a rock star’s life and soul.He was the nephew of Temptations singer Melvin Franklin; a boy who watched and listened, mesmerized from underneath ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Bus Stop

    A Memoir

    by Ruby Fay Burford ...
    In Bus Stop, Ruby Fay Burford, a Black domestic worker employed in the homes of wealthy white Texas families, shares her amazing life story. She vividly recounts her early family life as an African American woman growing up in rural East Texas, one of the more staunchly segregated areas of the US. She begins her story with the accidental meeting at a bus stop of the man she would marry, Frank ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • A Memoir

    by Tim Pat Coogan ...
    From the personal to the political, this is the much-awaited memoir from Tim Pat Coogan.Ireland's best-known journalist, broadcaster, historian and bestselling biographer Tim Pat Coogan has not only reported the news - he's been the news. Through the Irish Press, where he served as editor for twenty years, he is renowned for bringing social and political change to Ireland. He went on to play a ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Queen

    The Life and Music of Dinah Washington

    by Nadine Cohodas ...
    Queen is the landmark biography of the brief, intensely lived life and soulful music of the great Dinah Washington.A gospel star at fifteen, she was discovered by jazz great Lionel Hampton at eighteen, and for the rest of her life was on the road, playing clubs, or singing in the studio--making music one way or another.Dinah's tart and heartfelt voice quickly became her trademark; she was a ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • What Happened, Miss Simone?

    A Biography

    by Alan Light ...
    Inspired by the Academy Award-nominated Netflix documentary What Happened, Miss Simone?, an intimate and vivid look at the legendary life of Nina Simone, the classically trained pianist who evolved into a chart-topping chanteuse and committed civil rights activist.From music journalist and former Spin and Vibe editor-in-chief Alan Light comes a biography of incandescent soul singer and Black Power ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • After the Dance

    My Life with Marvin Gaye

    by Jan Gaye, David Ritz ...
    A riveting cautionary tale about the ecstasy and dangers of loving Marvin Gaye, a performer passionately pursued by all—and a searing memoir of drugs, sex, and old school R&B from the wife of legendary soul icon Marvin Gaye.After her seventeenth birthday in 1973, Janis Hunter met Marvin Gaye—the soulful prince of Motown with the seductive liquid voice whose chart-topping, socially conscious album ... Read more

    $8.49 USD

  • Long Road to Hard Truth

    The 100 Year Mission to Create the National Museum of African American History and Culture

    by Robert Leon Wilkins ...
    In Long Road to Hard Truth: The 100 Year Mission to Create the National Museum of African American History and Culture, Robert L. Wilkins tells the story of how his curiosity about why there wasn't a national museum dedicated to African American history and culture became an obsession-eventually leading him to quit his job as an attorney when his wife was seven months pregnant with their second ... Read more

    $5.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Selected Essays

    by Clark Blaise ...
    Clark Blaise's Selected Essays brings together another aspect of his tremendous and courageous oeuvre: belle lettres, essays and occasional pieces which range over autobiography, his French-Canadan heritage, the craft of fiction, American fiction, Australian fiction, and the work of such individual writers and Jack Kerouac, V.S. Naipaul, Salmon Rushdie, Alice Munro, Leon Rooke, and Bernard Malamud ... Read more

    $14.39 USD