Biography

Author Sankalan was in the sixth grade when his guardians threw him out of their government-owned house in the picturesque community of Germany, Kakata, Liberia, West Africa. Why? Because he went to borrow a uniform from his friend to sit for the...

Albert Halm, Holocaust survivor tells the fascinating story of his family carving out a meager life on the farm in the Carpathian Mountains, in what was then Czechoslovakia, taken away and being interned in three Nazi camps, and ultimately being saved...

Provocative, inspiring, and unflinchingly honest, My Grandfather's Son is the story of one of America's most remarkable and controversial leaders, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, told in his own words.Thomas speaks out, revealing the pieces of his...

Sure, the stories of the Deep South during the 19th and 20th centuries are troubling. But, sometimes it's good for us to look deeper and often we find great stories of love and triumph. This is such a story. My Four Grandparents highlights the lives of...

Sure, the stories of the Deep South during the 19th and 20th centuries are troubling. But, sometimes it's good for us to look deeper and often we find great stories of love and triumph. This is such a story. My Four Grandparents highlights the lives of...

"Sixtus's father had only one request of Sixtus--'give back.' And give back he did." --Edward C. Benzel, MD, emeritus chairman of Neurosurgery, Cleveland Clinic Born into a poor West African family in the disease-stricken town of Fontem, John N. Atabong...

My Emigration to the United States and Achieving the American Dream chronicles how Glenn Chelliah achieved the American dream through hard work, his Catholic faith, and the kindness of many American benefactors.Glenn grew up in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka)...

A nostalgic voyage that reveals the Syrian capital's majestic past Writer and architect, Suad Amiry, was born in an old neighborhood of Damascus, the oldest continuously inhabited city in the world. In My Damascus she takes her reader by the hand through...

In this "story of hope--an affirmation of the promise, the potential, and the reality of the American Dream," (Nancy Pelosi), the first Muslim to be elected to Congress speaks out about what divides Americans--and what can bring us together. As a Black,...

A journalist's raw, first-person account of what his family endured after his eldest brother killed a man and was sentenced to life in prison. At the age of nine, Issac J. Bailey saw his hero, his eldest brother, taken away in handcuffs, not to return...

It's in the back of every officer's mind: the bullet that could end his or her life. They take the risk and are heroes for it-but can you imagine doing this at a time when bulletproof vests were not standard? In the early 80s Hawkins and his partner...

My Bondage and My Freedom is the second of three published autobiographies from one of the most brilliant and eloquent abolitionists and human rights activists in American history. The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave was...