A raw and unfiltered look into the life of a West Indies cricket icon. Tino Best, one of the fastest bowlers in cricket history, shares his incredible journey on and off the pitch. From humble beginnings in Barbados to facing legends like Sachin...

12 Years A Slave: A True Story is the harrowing and powerful autobiography of Solomon Northup, a free Black man who was kidnapped and sold into slavery in the American South. First published in 1853, this firsthand account lays bare the inhumanity of...

Live . . . work . . . play . . . dieSouth Haven is the premier mixed-used community in metro Atlanta, a vibrant place where old-fashioned country living gets a modern update. There's the town square where residents watch family movies on the lawn on warm...

Spotlighting a New England sports icon, this autobiography chronicles the extraordinary life and career of Troy Brown, the talented athlete who played 15 seasons with the New England Patriots. Brown demonstrates how his grit, hustle, and hard work...

*Selected as One of the Best Books of the 21st Century by The New York Times * WINNER of the NATIONAL BOOK AWARD and A NEW YORK TIMES TOP 10 BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR A finalist for the Kirkus Prize, Andrew Carnegie Medal, Aspen Words Literary Prize, and a...

An astonishing memoir of redemption--the moving story of a former top NBA player who miraculously rebounded from a monumental fall thanks to hard work and his deep, transformative faith.Sixteen years ago, Vin Baker was an NBA All-Star, an Olympic Gold...

Despite some field research our knowledge of the sacred among the Mumuye is still embryonic. In all these acephalic groups of a binary and antinomic nature, the complex va constitutes an extremely varied semantic field in which certain aspects are...

Set in the Central California countryside and the Southern California desert, By the Lemon Tree's old school stories chronicle the collision of wide-eyed childhood with the end of lives human and animal.

The poems in Black Steel Magnolias In The Hour of Chaos Theory interrogate identity, family, loneliness and the expectations of masculinity, using dreams, blues and a chorus of voices.

Poetry. African & African American Studies. California Interest. The poems in BLACK STEEL MAGNOLIAS IN THE HOUR OF CHAOS THEORY interrogate identity, family, loneliness, and the expectations of masculinity. Using dreams, blues, and a chorus of voices,...

During the Battle of Fort Wagner in 1863, Sgt. William Harvey Carney picked up the fallen flag from his lifeless comrade. He waved the flag for all of the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry to see and led the way to the parapet to plant the colors...