 | "Negro President" : Jefferson and the Slave Power
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by Houghton Mifflin
Hardcover
(01 November, 2003)
(11 reviews) 
Editorial Review: Garry Wills' "Negro President": Jefferson and the Slave Power, despite its title, is not a profile of the Jefferson Presidency. Rather, the book offers a richly detailed study of the United States' tragic constitutional bargain with slavery, |
 | A Drinking Life : A Memoir
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by Back Bay Books
Paperback
(01 April, 1995)
(25 reviews) 
Customer Review: Pete Hamill: Brooklyn Drinking, Loving, Fighting, Living!: Pete Hamill is a New York Treasure. Hamill grew up in blue collar Brooklyn in the 40s and 50s in a working class "dysfunctional" famlly. |
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| A Drinking Life : A Memoir
list: $13.95
by Back Bay Books
Paperback
(01 April, 1995)
(25 reviews)
Customer Review: Pete Hamill: Brooklyn Drinking, Loving, Fighting, Living!: Pete Hamill is a New York Treasure. Hamill grew up in blue collar Brooklyn in the 40s and 50s in a working class "dysfunctional" famlly. |
 | A Gathering of Gifts (Journey Book)
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by Church Publishing, Inc.
Paperback
(01 March, 2002)
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 | A Knock at Midnight: Inspiration from the Great Sermons of Reverend Martin Luther King,
list: $26.98 - our price: $17.81
by Time Warner Audiobooks
Audio Cassette
(01 May, 1998)
(8 reviews) 
Editorial Review: These 11 historic sermons--some complete recordings of entire addresses, others reconstructed from various church services--make plain why Martin Luther King Jr. considered his "first calling and greatest commitment" to be a preacher of the gospel. |
 | A Place to Stand: The Making of a Poet
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by Grove Press
Paperback
(01 July, 2002)
(12 reviews) 
Customer Review: a EXCELLENT book: This is an excellent book. I dont read much but this book caught my attention fast. I can relate to this book alot because I grew up in some of the same sercomstances and had similar problems in life like Jimmy Santiago Baca did. |
 | A Pound of Paper : Confessions of a Book Addict
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by Thomas Dunne Books
Hardcover
(11 December, 2003)
(5 reviews)
Customer Review: disappointing: I was terribly disappointed in this book. It's more of an autobiography of the author's life than it is about books and book collecting. |
 | African American Lives
list: $55.00 - our price: $34.65
by Oxford University Press
Hardcover
(01 March, 2004)
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 | Alice Walker: A Life
list: $29.95 - our price: $19.77
by W. W. Norton & Company
Hardcover
(30 September, 2004)
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 | All God's Children
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by Perennial
Paperback
(01 November, 1996)
(14 reviews)
Customer Review: Excellent read: informative, sad and chilling: This book was exceptionally well written and well researched, giving a very detailed account of how violence in the African American community, |
 | All Our Kin
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by Basic Books
Paperback
(01 January, 1997)
(3 reviews)
Customer Review: ok for an anthro book: I was made to read this book for my anthro class. It was interesting to read about teh family situations, |
 | All Souls : A Family Story from Southie (Ballantine Reader's Circle)
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by Ballantine Books
Paperback
(03 October, 2000)
(141 reviews)
Customer Review: I Can't Get this Book Out of My Head: I was born just outside of Boston to a middle class Irish American suburban family, and went to college at BC, |
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| All Souls : A Family Story from Southie (Ballantine Reader's Circle)
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by Ballantine Books
Paperback
(03 October, 2000)
(141 reviews)
Customer Review: I Can't Get this Book Out of My Head: I was born just outside of Boston to a middle class Irish American suburban family, and went to college at BC, |
 | Almost a Woman
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by Vintage
Paperback
(07 September, 1999)
(28 reviews)
Customer Review: almost a woman, but not quite: I was overwhelmed and impressed by When I was Puerto Rican and as such had over the top expectations for Almost A Woman. |
 | American by Choice
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by Fire Dreams Publishing
Hardcover
(August, 2004)
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 | An Empire of Their Own : How the Jews Invented Hollywood
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by Anchor
Paperback
(08 August, 1989)
(15 reviews)
Editorial Review: That subtitle may inspire in some readers waves of ethnic pride, and in others waves of ethnic revulsion, but the point of this book is that its claim of origin is quite literally true. And what makes it an interesting read for political types is the way it demonstrates that no matter how much the founding Hollywood moguls and their successors tried to peddle an idealized, |
 | Angela's Ashes: A Memoir
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by Scribner
Paperback
(25 May, 1999)
(1623 reviews)
Customer Review: An exceptionally heartrendering and poignant novel: The non-fiction read of Angela's Ashes captured our attention with an infinite barrage of pure human emotions and experiences. |
 | Anita Brenner: A Mind of Her Own
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by University of Texas Press
Hardcover
(01 August, 1998)
(1 reviews)
Customer Review: Anita's Mexico: A fascinating book for those interested in Mexican-American relationships. Anita's active role in the rich cultural life of Mexico in the twenties, |
 | Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
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by Bantam
Mass Market Paperback
(01 June, 1993)
(436 reviews)
Editorial Review: A beloved classic since its initial publication in 1947, this vivid, insightful journal is a fitting memorial to the gifted Jewish teenager who died at Bergen-Belsen, Germany, in 1945. Born in 1929, Anne Frank received a blank diary on her 13th birthday, |
 | Assata: An Autobiography (Lawrence Hill & Co.)
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by Lawrence Hill Books
Paperback
(01 October, 1987)
(39 reviews)
Customer Review: A real page-turner!: Assata, is an autobiography that travels at a fast pace and it's hard to put down because you will truly anticipate the conclusion.T |
 | At the Entrance to the Garden of Eden : A Jew's Search for Hope with Christians and
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by Perennial
Paperback
(June, 2002)
(12 reviews)
Customer Review: A Message for Today's World: An extraordinary book. Yossi Klein Halevy is a deeply religious American-born Jewish journalist and Israeli citizen who has lived in Israel for almost twenty years. |
 | Auschwitz : A Doctor's Eyewitness Account
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by Arcade Publishing
Paperback
(01 September, 1993)
(29 reviews)
Customer Review: WARNING:Graphic Descriptions of Gruesome Horror - BEWARE!: Aushwitz - A Doctor's Eyewitness Account is not for the faint of heart. |
 | Autobiography of Malcolm X
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by Ballantine Books
Mass Market Paperback
(12 October, 1987)
(214 reviews)
Editorial Review: Malcolm X's searing memoir belongs on the small shelf of great autobiographies. The reasons are many: the blistering honesty with which he recounts his transformation from a bitter, self-destructive petty criminal into an articulate political activist, |
 | Barry Sanders: Now You See Him : His Story in His Own Words
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by Emmis Books
Hardcover
(01 November, 2003)
(12 reviews)
Customer Review: Barry Sanders story...short and sweet: The newly elected Hall of Fame running back, Barry Sanders, was always a man of many words and his recently released autobiography is fitting in its 139 page, |
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| Barry Sanders: Now You See Him : His Story in His Own Words
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by Emmis Books
Hardcover
(01 November, 2003)
(12 reviews)
Customer Review: Barry Sanders story...short and sweet: The newly elected Hall of Fame running back, Barry Sanders, was always a man of many words and his recently released autobiography is fitting in its 139 page, |
 | BETTY SHABAZZ : A SISTERFRIENDS TRIBUTE IN WORDS AND PICTURES
list: $23.00
by Simon & Schuster
Hardcover
(07 July, 1998)
(2 reviews)
Editorial Review: In 1997, when Betty Shabazz tragically died as a result of a fire set by her grandson Malcolm--named after her late husband, Malcolm X--most of the world had seen her as a grieving widow who was faced with the task of raising six daughters without a father. |
 | Beyond the River : The Untold Story of the Heroes of the Underground Railroad
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by Simon & Schuster
Paperback
(06 February, 2004)
(12 reviews)
Customer Review: Living History: Ann Hagedorn's new book, Beyond The River: The Untold Story of the Heroes of the Underground Railroad has taken a story people in this area already know and given it flesh and blood. |
 | Black Baby White Hands: A View from the Crib
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by Soul Water
Paperback
(June, 2002)
(17 reviews)
Customer Review: Thank you, Jaiya, for sharing your soul...: Black Baby White Hands: A View from the Crib by Dr. Jaiya John touched my soul. It is a journey into the world of a child who was a stranger surrounded by well meaning adoptive parents who were unable to reach the depth of his heart and soul. |
 | Black Boy (Perennial Classics)
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by Perennial Classics
Paperback
(01 September, 1998)
(117 reviews)
Customer Review: Excellent description of negro life in the 1920's: "Black Boy" is a great autobiographical book written by Richard Wright. Richard, |
 | Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux
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by University of Nebraska Press
Paperback
(01 December, 2000)
(38 reviews)
Customer Review: Valuable Biographical and Historical Document: Black Elk of the Ogallala Sioux (or Lakota, their real name) led quite an important life among his people. |
 | Black Hawk: An Autobiography (Prairie State Books)
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by University of Illinois Press
Paperback
(01 June, 1964)
(2 reviews)
Customer Review: The Autobiography of Black Hawk: The last "Indian War" in Illinois occurred in 1832 when a small band of Sauk refused under the leadership of the warrior Black Hawk to abandon their village (located under a subdivision of the present Rock Island, |
 | Black, White and Jewish: Autobiography of a Shifting Self
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by Riverhead Books
Paperback
(01 January, 2002)
(67 reviews) 
Customer Review: Praise for Black, White, and Jewish!: As soon as I realized that Black, White, and Jewish was by the same author who contributed to one of my all time favorite essays, |
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| Black, White and Jewish: Autobiography of a Shifting Self
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by Riverhead Books
Paperback
(01 January, 2002)
(67 reviews)
Customer Review: Praise for Black, White, and Jewish!: As soon as I realized that Black, White, and Jewish was by the same author who contributed to one of my all time favorite essays, |
 | Blood Done Sign My Name : A True Story
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by Crown
Hardcover
(18 May, 2004)
(6 reviews)
Editorial Review: When he was but 10 years old, Tim Tyson heard one of his boyhood friends in Oxford, N.C. excitedly blurt the words that were to forever change his life: "Daddy and Roger and 'em shot 'em a nigger!" The cold-blooded street murder of young Henry Marrow by an ambitious, |
 | Burning Down My Masters' House: My Life at the New York Times
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by New Millennium
Hardcover
(06 March, 2004)
(24 reviews)
Customer Review: Harrowing Personal Story: A lot of people have asked who is the master of the house that Jayson Blair says he burned down? He answers that question in the preface of his book: he is the master of the house that burnt down and in the pages that follow him explains in intense and candid detail that deceptions that he committed that damaged so many people. |
 | Burro Genius : A Memoir
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Hardcover
(29 June, 2004)
(3 reviews)
Customer Review: This is about ALL OF US!: I was born in America, like Victor. I am not Hispanic. I relate to this book because my ancestors were from Italy. |
 | But He Was Good to His Mother : The Lives and Crimes of Jewish Gangsters
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by Gefen Publishing House, Ltd
Paperback
(February, 2000)
(8 reviews)
Customer Review: great book and a fun reading: this book is a great academic book mixed with fun storytelling. |
 | Catch a Fire: The Life of Bob Marley
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by Owl Books (NY)
Paperback
(01 September, 1998)
(43 reviews)
Editorial Review: Bob Marley, reggae superstar and pop culture icon, left an indelible mark on modern music. Catch a Fire: The Life of Bob Marley delves deep into the life of the lionized leader of a musical, spiritual, and political explosion that still reverberates more than a decade after his death.A |
 | Christina, Queen of Sweden : The Restless Life of a European Eccentric
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by Fourth Estate
Hardcover
(21 September, 2004)
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 | Climbing Higher
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by New American Library
Hardcover
(06 January, 2004)
(13 reviews)
Customer Review: Inspiring strength to climb higher: ...I feel this book shows his strength and helps those that don't have it how to find it. He didn't listen to the doctors when they said nothing could be done about MS and just give up, |
 | Condi: The Condoleezza Rice Story
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by Newmarket Press
Hardcover
(01 October, 2002)
(17 reviews)
Customer Review: A dynamic individual: Condoleezza Rice, in what amounts to a relatively short amount of time spent in public service, has seen her political stock literally catapult of late. |
 | Cuando era puertorriqueña
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by Vintage
Paperback
(18 October, 1994)
(15 reviews)
Customer Review: Un gran libro: "Cuando era puertorriquena" es uno de los libros màs exquisitos y ricos en veracidad sentimental del puertorriqueno de esa epoca. |
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