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Pressing Forward: My Life as a Baton Rouge Community Pioneer (HC) (2024)
$29.95In this down-to-earth memoir, longtime educator and community leader Press L. Robinson Sr. recounts his hardscrabble childhood in South Carolina, his education at Morehouse College and Howard University, his career as a professor and administrator in the... -
Playing the Changes: Jazz at an African University and on the Road (PB) (2024)
$24.95Catherine and Darius Brubeck's 1983 move to South Africa launched them on a journey that helped transform jazz education. Blending biography with storytelling, the pair recount their time at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, where they built a pioneering... -
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Catch as Catch Can: Building a Legacy by Finding Opportunity in Every Obstacle (PB) (2024)
$17.99From the streets of Louisville's Smoketown to corner offices and conference rooms, George Tinsley Sr.'s life journey is one of grit, perseverance, and the transformative power of seeing obstacles as opportunities. In this inspiring memoir, Tinsley... -
California Soul: An American Epic of Cooking and Survival (NOT Signed)
$18.00JAMES BEARD AWARD NOMINEE - A sharply crafted and unflinchingly honest memoir about gangs, drugs, cooking, and living life on the line--both on the streets and in the kitchen--from one of the most exciting stars in the food world...Qty in Cart: 0Price:$18.00Subtotal: -
Inciting Joy: Essays (PB) (2024)
$19.99From Ross Gay, the New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Delights, comes an intimate and electrifying collection of essays about the joy that comes from connection. "BRILLIANT." --Ada Limón, U.S. poet laureate Pre-order Gay's next literary... -
Our Secret Society: Mollie Moon and the Glamour, Money, and Power Behind the Civil Rights Movement (PB) (2024)
$16.99WINNER 2024 NAACP IMAGE AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING LITERARY WORK BIOGRAPHY/AUTOBIOGRAPHY An engrossing social history of the unsinkable Mollie Moon, the stylish founder of the National Urban League Guild and fundraiser extraordinaire who reigned over the... -
Claude L?vi-Strauss: The Father of Modern Anthropology (PB) (2012)
$24.00When Claude Lévi-Strauss passed away in 2009 at age 100, France celebrated the life and contributions of not only a preeminent anthropologist, but one of the defining intellectuals of the 20th century. Just as Freud had shaken up the antiquarian... -
Baltimore's Mansion: A Memoir (PB) (2001)
$19.00In this loving memoir Wayne Johnston returns to Newfoundland-the people, the place, the politics-and illuminates his family's story with all the power and drama he brought to his magnificent novel, The Colony of Unrequited Dreams. Descendents of the... -
The Bus: My Life in and Out of a Helmet (PB) (2008)
$20.00He was one of pro football's most beloved and respected stars, admired not only by NFL fans and his own teammates, but by his opponents as well. Super Bowl champion; six time Pro Bowler; NFL Comeback Player of the Year; NFL Man of the Year; fifth... -
City Kid: A Writer's Memoir of Ghetto Life and Post-Soul Success (PB) (2010)
$24.00"City Kid is perhaps one of the seven greatest books ever written. It has the realness of The Autobiography of Malcolm X, the warmth of The Color Purple, and the page count of Tuesdays with Morrie. It's a must read."-Chris Rock From Nelson George,... -
The Last Children of Mill Creek (PB) (2020)
$18.95Vivian Gibson's bestselling memoir of growing up in the 1950s in a segregated St. Louis neighborhood has been hailed by critics as "a spare, elegant jewel of a work" and "a love letter to Gibson's childhood."Vivian Gibson grew up in Mill Creek Valley, a...