Mule Bone: A Comedy of Negro Life in Three Acts

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Mule Bone is the only collaboration between Zora Neale Hurston and Langston Hughes, two stars of the Harlem Renaissance, and it holds an unparalleled place in the annals of African-American theater. Set in Eatonville, Florida--Hurston's hometown and the inspiration for much of her fiction--this energetic and often farcical play centers on Jim and Dave, a two-man song-and-dance team, and Daisy, the woman who comes between them. Overcome by jealousy, Jim hits Dave wit... More >>

Mule Bone: A Comedy of Negro Life in Three Acts

There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in the Other America

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This national best-seller chronicles the true story of two brothers coming of age in the Henry Horner public housing project in Chicago over a two-year period. Lafeyette and Pharoah Rivers are eleven and nine years old when the story begins in the summer of 1987. Living with their mother and six siblings, they struggle to survive gun battles, gang influences, overzealous police officers, and overburdened and mismanaged bureaucracies. Through extensive research, Ko... More >>

There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in the Other America

Night; with Connections

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An autobiographical narrative, in which the author describes his experiences in Nazi concentration camps.Amazon.com Review
In Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel's memoir Night, a scholarly, pious teenager is wracked with guilt at having survived the horror of the Holocaust and the genocidal campaign that consumed his family. His memories of the nightmare world of the death camps present him with an intolerable question: how can the God he once so fervently believe... More >>

Night; with Connections

Angela's Ashes: A Memoir

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"When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I managed to survive at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood." So begins the luminous memoir of Frank McCourt, born in Depression-era Brooklyn to recent Irish immigrants and raised in the slums of Limerick, Ireland. Frank's mothe... More >>

Angela's Ashes: A Memoir

Up from the Projects: An Autobiography

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A life of achievement and overcoming the oddsA lifetime of challenging conventional wisdomA uniquely American story of achievementFrom his lower middle class beginnings in a mixed but predominantly black neighborhood in West Philadelphia to his department chair at George Mason University, the life of Walter E. Williams is an "only in America" story of achievement. In Up From the Projects, this nationally syndicated columnist and prolific author recalls some of the h... More >>

Up from the Projects: An Autobiography

A Tiger in the Kitchen: A Memoir of Food and Family

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"Starting with charred fried rice and ending with flaky pineapple tarts, Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan takes us along on a personal journey that most can only fantasize about--an exploration of family history and culture through a mastery of home-cooked dishes. Tan's delectable education through the landscape of Singaporean cuisine teaches us that food is the tie that binds."
--Jennifer 8. Lee, author of The Fortune Cookie Chronicles After growing up in the most food... More >>

A Tiger in the Kitchen: A Memoir of Food and Family

Suits: A Woman on Wall Street

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"Quite literally, I could not put this book down." --Manisha Thakor, Forbes

"...told with alarming detail and considerable humility--it's a tale that will help the reader hone his or her ambition down to a finer, more human point."   --Los Angeles Times
"This book about choices and their consequences is a gripping read."--Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, bestselling author of The Mistress of Spices

"heartwarming, heartbreaking, and hilarious in one g... More >>

Suits: A Woman on Wall Street

Our Nig

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Considered the first novel by a female African-American, Our Nig is an autobiographical novel by Harriet E. Wilson. Ignored upon first publication in 1859 and lost for more than 100 years, the novel achieved national attention when it was rediscovered and reprinted in 1983. Our Nig tells the story of Frado growing up as an indentured servant in the antebellum northern United States.... More >>

Our Nig

The Seamstress

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"From its opening pages, in which she recounts her own premature birth, triggered by terrifying rumors of an incipient pogrom, Bernstein's tale is clearly not a typical memoir of the Holocaust. She was born into a large family in rural Romania...and grew up feisty and willing to fight back physically against anti-Semitism from other schoolchildren. She defied her father's orders to turn down a scholarship that took her to Bucharest, and got herself expelled from tha... More >>

The Seamstress

A Child al Confino: The True Story of a Jewish Boy and His Mother in Mussolini's Italy

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Eric Lamet was only seven years old when the Nazis invaded Vienna--and changed his life and the lives of all European Jews forever. Five days after Hitler marches, Eric Lamet and his parents flee for their lives. His father goes back to his native Poland--and never comes back. His mother hides out in Italy, on the run from place to place, taking her son deeper and deeper into the mountains to avoid capture.In this remarkable feat of memory and imagination, Lamet rec... More >>

A Child al Confino: The True Story of a Jewish Boy and His Mother in Mussolini's Italy

Flyboys: A True Story of Courage

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FLYBOYS is the true story of young American airmen who were shot down over Chichi Jima. Eight of these young men were captured by Japanese troops and taken prisoner. Another was rescued by an American submarine and went on to become president. The reality of what happened to the eight prisoners has remained a secret for almost 60 years. After the war, the American and Japanese governments conspired to cover up the shocking truth. Not even the families of the airmen ... More >>

Flyboys: A True Story of Courage

Falling Leaves: The Memoir of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter

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Born in 1937 in a port city a thousand miles north of Shanghai, Adeline Yen Mah was the youngest child of an affluent Chinese family who enjoyed rare privileges during a time of political and cultural upheaval. But wealth and position could not shield Adeline from a childhood of appalling emotional abuse at the hands of a cruel and manipulative Eurasian stepmother. Determined to survive through her enduring faith in family unity, Adeline struggled for independence a... More >>

Falling Leaves: The Memoir of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter

In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer

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IRENE GUT WAS just 17 in 1939, when the Germans and Russians devoured her native Poland. Just a girl, really. But a girl who saw evil and chose to defy it.

“No matter how many Holocaust stories one has read, this one is a must, for its impact is so powerful.”—School Library Journal, Starred

A Book Sense Top Ten Pick

A Publisher’s Weekly Choice of the Year’s Best Books

A Booklist Editors ChoiceAmazon.com ... More >>

In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer

A Piece of Cake: A Memoir

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There are shelves of memoirs about overcoming the death of a parent, childhood abuse, rape, drug addiction, miscarriage, alcoholism, hustling, gangbanging, near-death injuries, drug dealing, prostitution, or homelessness.

Cupcake Brown survived all these things before she’d even turned twenty.

And that’s when things got interesting….


You have in your hands the strange, heart-wrenching, and exhilarating tale of a woman named Cupcake. ... More >>

A Piece of Cake: A Memoir

Amazing Grace: William Wilberforce and the Heroic Campaign to End Slavery

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Amazing Grace tells the story of the remarkable life of the British abolitionist William Wilberforce (1759-1833). This accessible biography chronicles Wilberforce's extraordinary role as a human rights activist, cultural reformer, and member of Parliament. At the center of this heroic life was a passionate twenty-year fight to abolish the British slave trade, a battle Wilberforce won in 1807, as well as efforts to abolish slavery itself in the British colonies, a... More >>

Amazing Grace: William Wilberforce and the Heroic Campaign to End Slavery

Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books

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Every Thursday morning for two years in the Islamic Republic of Iran, Azar Nafisi, a bold and inspired teacher, secretly gathered seven of her most committed female students to read forbidden Western classics. Some came from conservative and religious families, others were progressive and secular; some had spent time in jail. They were shy and uncomfortable at first, unaccustomed to being asked to speak their minds, but soon they removed their veils and began to spe... More >>

Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books

Confessions of a Video Vixen

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Part tell-all, part cautionary tale, this emotionally charged memoir from a former video vixen nicknamed 'Superhead' goes beyond the glamour of celebrity to reveal the inner workings of the hip-hop dancer industry—from the physical and emotional abuse that's rampant in the industry, and which marked her own life—to the excessive use of drugs, sex and bling. Once the sought-after video girl, this sexy siren has helped multi-platinum artists, such as Jay-Z, R. Kel... More >>

Confessions of a Video Vixen

A Tale of Two Cities and Great Expectations: Two Novels, The Critical Edition with Complete Novels and 300+ Pages of Historical Materials

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ANNOTATED:

* Contains literary critiques, detailed biographies, and detailed historical context


SPECIAL CRITICAL, COMPLETE, AND UNABRIDGED EDITION OF CHARLES DICKENS' GREATEST NOVELS: A TALE OF TWO CITIES & GREAT EXPECTATIONS

This special critical edition of Charles Dickens' classic great novel A Tale of Two Cities is the only volume currently available that contains:

* The complete, unabridged novel A Tale of Two Cities, with a crit... More >>

A Tale of Two Cities and Great Expectations: Two Novels, The Critical Edition with Complete Novels and 300+ Pages of Historical Materials

Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets

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In this "riveting"(The New York Times) work of nonfiction, a sociologist infiltrates the world of Chicago's crack-dealing gangs

First presented in Freakonomics, the story of a young sociologist who embedded himself in Chicago's most notorious gang and captured the world's attention. Gang Leader for a Day is the fascinating full story of how Sudhir Venkatesh gained entrance into the lives of a group of drug-dealers and went on to witness-and participat... More >>

Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets

Message from an Unknown Chinese Mother: Stories of Loss and Love

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Following her internationally bestselling book The Good Women of China, Xinran has written one of the most powerful accounts of the lives of Chinese women. Her searing stories of mothers who have been driven to abandon their daughters or give them up for adoption is a masterful and significant work of literary reportage and oral history. Xinran has gained entrance to the most pained, secret chambers in the hearts of Chinese mothers—students, successful businesswom... More >>

Message from an Unknown Chinese Mother: Stories of Loss and Love

The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts

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A Chinese American woman tells of the Chinese myths, family stories and events of her California childhood that have shaped her identity.Amazon.com Review
The Woman Warrior is a pungent, bitter, but beautifully written memoir of growing up Chinese American in Stockton, California. Maxine Hong Kingston (China Men) distills the dire lessons of her mother's mesmerizing "talk-story" tales of a China where girls are worthless, tradition is exalted an... More >>

The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts

The Making of a Royal Romance

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Katie Nicholl, Royal Correspondent for the "Mail on Sunday", has been at the centre of royal reporting since she joined the newspaper in 2001. There is no one who is more intimately acquainted with the lives and loves of Princes William and Harry. Katie has spoken to a wealth of contacts close to William and Catherine Middleton and reveals how their love affair really started at St Andrews, the hurdles the pair overcame and the challenges they still face. Originally... More >>

The Making of a Royal Romance

Children of Terror

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Two very young girls, one a Catholic from Poland, the other a Jew from Germany, are caught in a web of terror during World War II. These are their unforgettable true stories. "War does not spare the innocent. Two young girls, one a Catholic from Poland, the other a Jew from Germany, were witnesses to the horror of the Nazi occupation and Hitler's terror in Germany. As children they saw their homes and communities destroyed and loved ones killed. They survived de... More >>

Children of Terror