Biography

Please God, Be With Us answers the question, "What was it like to grow up in the Brazil of the 1960's?" The sixties are a decade of turmoil for Americans, but most of it happened in the U.S. in the last half of the decade. In Brazil the turmoil was...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - From a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist comes "the best Jordan book so far" (The Washington Post), the story of Michael Jordan's legendary years with the Chicago Bulls, capped by the 1998 NBA Finals and the team's second...

After landing a job in the auto plant in the Motor City, Detroit, it seemed inevitable that Michael would follow in his family's footsteps. Fate would intervene and take him to near top as a deejay, only to then take him down as a crack addict. The one...

After landing a job in the auto plant in the Motor City, Detroit, it seemed inevitable that Michael would follow in his family's footsteps. Fate would intervene and take him to near top as a deejay, only to then take him down as a crack addict. The one...

The poignant, often comical story of a grown daughter getting to know her dying father in his last months in the rural town he'd fled as a young man. Pig Candy is the poignant and often comical story of a grown daughter getting to know her dying father...

Part memoir and part urban social history, Pieces from Life's Crazy Quilt is an African American woman's personal account of her life during a racially turbulent period in a northern American city. Raised in a black neighborhood in urban Detroit,...

Commemorating the bicentennial of Frederick Douglass's birthday and featuring images discovered since its original publication in 2015, this "tour de force" (Library Journal, starred review) reintroduced Frederick Douglass to a twenty-first-century...

Picturing Frederick Douglass is a work that promises to revolutionize our knowledge of race and photography in nineteenth-century America. Teeming with historical detail, it is filled with surprises, chief among them the fact that neither George Custer...

The Book of Esther has been examined by many, and most tell the story of Esther becoming a Queen and saving her people. Phoenix Rising From The Ashes: My Story of Restoration will examine the process to beautification that Esther experienced which...

Pearls and Knots is a grandmother's story about her family, her life's magical moments, and her never-too-late writing journey. Sometimes gripping, sometimes lyrical, always current and humorous, Sarah Schwarcz's tales will hook your imagination and...

Paul Robeson: A Life of Activism and Art is the biography of an African American icon and a demonstration of historian Lindsey R. Swindall's knack for thorough, detailed research and reflection. Paul Robeson was, at points in his life, an actor, singer,...