Biography

Life After Life is the haunting and gloriously redemptive tale of Evans D. Hopkins's many lives, a sweeping journey from promising middle-class youth to civil rights militant, from criminal and convict to celebrated writer and enlightened man. Evans D...

From Sandy "Pepa" Denton--rap legend and outspoken star of VH1's smash-hit reality show--comes the juicy tell-all in which she talks about sex, music, life, love, fame, and so much more. The spiciest ingredient in the legendary rap group Salt-N-Pepa,...

The definitive and revealing biography of Chicago Cubs legend Ernie Banks, one of America's most iconic, beloved, and misunderstood baseball players, by acclaimed journalist Ron Rapoport.Ernie Banks, the first-ballot Hall of Famer and All-Century Team...

Lesotho and its Governing System. One Leadership of all time. Lesotho is a state party to a number of major international conventions, declarations and treaties relating to democracy and political participation. At international level, these instruments...

Leland, Mississippi. once considered the Hellhole of the Delta, transformed itself into a vibrant little community which was able to provide support and encouragement when Velma Allen needed it most. This segregated Mississippi community withheld many...

Leaving No One Behind: How Education Moved an African American Family from the Fields of Poverty to Living the American Dream will share the following: Good interpersonal family communication being the most important aspect when trying to reach...

Learning to Bow has been heralded as one of the funniest, liveliest, and most insightful books ever written about the clash of cultures between America and Japan. With warmth and candor, Bruce Feiler recounts the year he spent as a teacher in a small...

The American Dream is the fundamental story of this country, and my life is a grateful reflection of its reality. When Rosario was fourteen years old she moved from Mexico to California with no grasp of the English language and few resources. She has...

La lecture de 'Mu Nzila Kongo' me fait découvrir les talents des fils et filles de ma propre région. Joël Nsongo, par cet ouvrage, répond au besoin d'un récit fait par un ressortissant de la région du Bas-Congo. Enfin 'Mu Nzila Kongo' devrait interpeller...

"Land of the Free" is a history of the US cast as a memoir in two cultures. Navigating between two nations, Author David A. Bedford discovered the cultural differences and similarities between Argentina and the US. The typical themes and ideas, heard and...

In 1949, Rosamond Halsey Carr, a young fashion illustrator living in New York City, accompanied her dashing hunter-explorer husband to what was then the Belgian Congo. When the marriage fell apart, she decided to stay on in neighboring Rwanda, as the...

Billie Holiday deserves a biography in which her musicianship isn't overshadowed by the tragic events of her life. O'Meally has written that book, says Entertainment Weekly about this absorbing and authoritative account of the greatest jazz singer in...

Equal parts freedom fighter and statesman, Nelson Mandela bestrode the world stage for the past three decades, building a legacy that places him in the pantheon of history's most exemplary leaders.As a foreign correspondent based in South Africa, author...

The bestselling biography of Muhammad Ali--with an Introduction by Salman Rushdie On the night in 1964 that Muhammad Ali (then known as Cassius Clay) stepped into the ring with Sonny Liston, he was widely regarded as an irritating freak who danced and...

In this fast-paced biography, Harvard Sitkoff presents a concise, stunningly relevant and radical Martin Luther King, Jr. whose greatest accomplishments may have been yet to come. King's murder in April 1968 did far more than cut tragically short the...

The former child star--best known as Willis Jackson on Diff'rent Strokes--shares the shocking but inspirational details of his struggles with addiction, brushes with the law, and fierce fight to carve a path through the darkness and find his true...