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Ethnic & National
Ethnic & National
 | De pie frente al público, Victor Villaseñor miró al grupo de maestros sentados frente a él, y su mente se llenó de recuerdos de infancia llenos de humillación y abuso por parte de sus... [More information about Burro Genio (Spanish Edition)...] |
 | Louis Armstrong is widely known as the greatest jazz musician of the twentieth century. He was a phenomenally gifted and imaginative artist, and an entertainer so irresistibly magnetic that he... [More information about Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong...] |
 | South Africa heads toward majority rule, yet Breytenbach is far from optimistic about its future. He sees a civil war raging and the land awash in blood. "[This] book...is fueled by the sort of rage... [More information about Return To Paradise (Harvest Book)...] |
 | "Ms. Simone's vocal and piano style make her a culture unto herself." --New York Times A gorgeous, inimitable singer and songwriter, Nina Simone (1933-2003) changed the face of both music and race... [More information about I Put A Spell On You: The Autobiography Of Nina Simone...] |
 | Based on three years of research and reporting as well as 850 interviews with sources, many of whom have never before spoken for publication, Oprah is the first comprehensive biography of one of the... [More information about Oprah: A Biography...] |
 | In this hilarious and ultimately moving memoir, comedians and real-life married couple Annabelle Gurwitch and Jeff Kahn prove that in marriage, all you need is love—and a healthy dose of... [More information about You Say Tomato, I Say Shut Up: A Love Story...] |
 | "Fascinating . . . Alison Weir does full justice to the subject."--The Philadelphia InquirerAt his death in 1547, King Henry VIII left four heirs to the English throne: his only son, the... [More information about The Children of Henry VIII...] |
 | “There are places that I have never forgotten. A little cobbled street in a smoky mill town in the North of England has haunted me for the greater part of my life. It was inevitable that I should... [More information about The Invisible Wall: A Love Story That Broke Barriers...] |
 | These are the true-life accounts of nine Jewish boys and girls whose lives spiraled into danger and fear as the Holocaust overtook Europe. In a time of great horror, these children each found a way... [More information about Survivors: True Stories of Children in the Holocaust...] |
 | Moody's famous autobiography is a classic work on growing up poor and Black in the rural South. Her searing account of life before the Civil Rights Movement is as moving as The Color Purple and as... [More information about Coming of Age in Mississippi...] |
 | Born to legendary singer Nat King Cole in the halcyon days of the 1950s, Natalie Cole grew up to become a versatile and soulful singer whose talents catapulted her all the way to Grammy Award-winning... [More information about Angel on My Shoulder: An Autobiography...] |
 | Oliver Cromwell is one of the most puzzling and controversial figures in English history. In this excellent introduction, Barry Coward uses Cromwell's own words and actions to analyse the life of... [More information about Oliver Cromwell...] |
| Magia, tensión sexual, comedia e intenso drama se mueven dentro de ésta encantadora pero a la vez dura autobiografía; es la historia de una niña que deja a su pueblo en Puerto Rico por la... [More information about Cuando Era Puertorriqueña (Spanish Edition)...] |
 | "When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I managed to survive at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary... [More information about Angela's Ashes: A Memoir...] |
 | Frank McCourt's glorious childhood memoir, Angela's Ashes, has been loved and celebrated by readers everywhere for its spirit, its wit and its profound humanity. A tale of redemption, in which... [More information about 'Tis: A Memoir...] |
 | By age twelve, Luis Rodriguez was a veteran of East L.A. gang warfare. Lured by a seemingly invincible gang culture, he witnessed countless shootings, beatings, and arrests, then watched with... [More information about Always Running: La Vida Loca: Gang Days in L.A....] |
 | By almost any statistical system you care to devise, Michael Jackson - solo and with his brothers - is far and away the world's most successful entertainer of the past three decades or more. The aim... [More information about Michael Jackson The Solo Years...] |
 | Originally published in 1958, The Question is the book that opened the torture debate in France during Algeria’s war of independence and was the first book since the eighteenth century to be banned... [More information about The Question...] |
 | Night is one of the masterpieces of Holocaust literature. First published in 1960, it is the autobiographical account of an adolescent boy and his father in Auschwitz. Elie Wiesel writes of their... [More information about The Night Trilogy: Night, Dawn, Day...] |
 | To fans of sassy and savvy urban music, the name Rick James will forever be associated with the mainstream emergence of funk—that bottom-heavy blend of rock and soul that sparked a multiracial... [More information about The Confessions of Rick James: Memoirs of a Super Freak...] |
 | Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors, yet her cells—taken without her... [More information about The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks...] |
 | Carnie Wilson's story is a journey from the darkness of a lifelong struggle with emotional rejection, compulsive eating, and morbid obesity into the light of health. Born the daughter of pop music... [More information about Gut Feelings: From Fear And Despair To Health And Hope...] |
 | A powerful, beautifully written memoir about coming of age as a black girl in an exclusive white suburb in "integrated," post-Civil Rights California in the 1970s and 1980s.At six years of age, after... [More information about The Black Girl Next Door: A Memoir...] |
 | ReadHowYouWant publishes a wide variety of best selling books in Large and Super Large fonts in partnership with leading publishers. EasyRead books are available in 11pt and 13pt. type. EasyRead... [More information about Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass...] |
 | The complete autobiography of a literary legend.
Manufacturer: Lawrence Hill Books
Author: Amiri Baraka
ISBN: 1556522312
Number Of Pages: 496 [More information about The Autobiography of Leroi Jones...] |
| Twenty years of research and thousands of interviews have finally revealed the shocking truth about Josephine Baker: Born in poverty in St. Louis, a chorus girl, the sensation of Europe, the first... [More information about Josephine: The Josephine Baker Story...] |
 | Frank personal account of growing up black during the era of the civil rights movement. The author wrestles with racism, the death of Martin Luther King, black radicalism, his interracial family, and... [More information about In Between: Memoir of an Integration Baby...] |
 | In search of a place to call home, thousands of Hmong families made the journey from the war-torn jungles of Laos to the overcrowded refugee camps of Thailand and onward to America. But lacking a... [More information about The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir...] |
 | "Paul Butler utilizes his years as a prosecutor and law teacher to dramatically describe this country's war on crime as one encouraging what it seeks to eliminate, corrupting those commissioned to... [More information about Let's Get Free: A Hip-Hop Theory of Justice...] |
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