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Make Your Own History
Timeless Truths from Black American Trailblazers
Price: $18.95
Now available in paperback!One hundred and twenty Black leaders, innovators, and entrepreneurs share their wisdom and experience across the centuries in Make Your Own History, an inspiring collection...
Matisse at War
Price: $24.65
Spotlighting the years during WWII when Henri Matisse and his family defiantly refused to evacuate Nazi-occupied France, this groundbreaking book illuminates the previously untold history of their passionate...
Leading with Respect
From the Backroom to the Boardroom
Price: $24.65
Infused with inspiring lessons and advice from a groundbreaking entrepreneur, this is a compelling look at leadership from the perspective of Marcy Syms, who helped guide her family’s business through...
Evil at Our Table
Inside the Minds of the Monsters Who Live Among Us
Price: $24.65
Written from a never-before-seen perspective, a real-life Mindhunter’s provocative true crime memoir takes readers inside the prison interview room—and the minds—of serious sex offenders, as she...
Being Black in America's Schools
A Student-Educator-Reformer's Call for Change
Price: $18.95
For readers of The Knowledge Gap, Race to the Bottom, and The Inequality Machine, education and equity strategist Brian Rashad Fuller sheds a stark light on America's public schools, the miseducation...
A Light in the Northern Sea
Denmark’s Incredible Rescue of Their Jewish Citizens During WWII
Price: $29.00
From the bestselling author of Three Ordinary Girls, the gripping, remarkably little-known true story of how the people of Denmark banded together during WWII to rescue nearly all of their Jewish citizens...
Agents of Change
The Women Who Transformed the CIA
Price: $29.00
From a former intelligence operative, a sweeping, daring look at America’s female CIA officers, detailing their groundbreaking, clandestine work inside a deeply masculine environment that faces ongoing...
My Beautiful Sisters
A Memoir of Courage, Hope, and the Afghan Women's Soccer Team
Price: $29.00
Argo meets The Bookseller of Kabul in this incredible memoir from the Afghan women’s soccer pioneer turned activist and feminist icon who has helped save more than 350 female soccer players from the...
Meet the Kellys
The True Story of Machine Gun Kelly and His Moll Kathryn Thorne
Price: $29.00
Gangsters. Lovers. Legends.From New York Times bestselling author and historian Chris Enss, the jaw-dropping Prohibition Era true crime tale of “Machine Gun” Kelly and Kathyrn Thorne, the bootlegging,...
Robert Shaw
An Actor’s Life on the Set of JAWS and Beyond
Price: $29.00
Just in time for the 50th anniversary of Steven Spielberg’s Jaws, an intimate and richly-told portrait of the iconic actor and writer Robert Shaw, from his portrayal of the legendary shark hunter...
Robert Shaw
An Actor's Life on the Set of JAWS and Beyond
Price: $24.65
Robert Shaw, the iconic star of Steven Spielberg’s Jaws, comes boisterously to life in an up-close-and-personal biography that reveals the brilliant actor, esteemed playwright, prize-winning novelist,...
Nothin' Comes Easy
The Life of Rodney Dangerfield
Price: $29.00
The first-ever biography of the legendary comic and the most improbable rise to fame in the history of American comedy. Getting there wasn’t always a laughing matter.Rodney Dangerfield’s fidgety...
The Master of Drums
Gene Krupa and the Music He Gave the World
Price: $29.00
The first definitive biography of Gene Krupa, the most famous drummer on the planet, whose feverish rhythms leapt across genres to change music forever. From jazz to the Swing Era, to rock and roll,...
Low Road
The Life and Legacy of Donald Goines
Price: $18.95
FOREWORD FROM THE LATE RAPPER DMXThe riveting biography of Donald Goines—one of the most authentic Black voices in American fiction—that explores the raw world of the street-smart literary icon...
The Survivor of the Holocaust
Price: $29.00
Anniversary edition hardcover with a new foreword.A courageous and remarkably accomplished Holocaust survivor’s powerfully vivid account of his transformation from a 13-year-old music student, to...
Make Your Own History
Timeless Truths from Black American Trailblazers
Price: $18.95
Now available in paperback!One hundred and twenty Black leaders, innovators, and entrepreneurs share their wisdom and experience across the centuries in Make Your Own History, an inspiring collection...
Matisse at War
Price: $24.65
Spotlighting the years during WWII when Henri Matisse and his family defiantly refused to evacuate Nazi-occupied France, this groundbreaking book illuminates the previously untold history of their passionate...
Leading with Respect
From the Backroom to the Boardroom
Price: $24.65
Infused with inspiring lessons and advice from a groundbreaking entrepreneur, this is a compelling look at leadership from the perspective of Marcy Syms, who helped guide her family’s business through...
Evil at Our Table
Inside the Minds of the Monsters Who Live Among Us
Price: $24.65
Written from a never-before-seen perspective, a real-life Mindhunter’s provocative true crime memoir takes readers inside the prison interview room—and the minds—of serious sex offenders, as she...
Being Black in America's Schools
A Student-Educator-Reformer's Call for Change
Price: $18.95
For readers of The Knowledge Gap, Race to the Bottom, and The Inequality Machine, education and equity strategist Brian Rashad Fuller sheds a stark light on America's public schools, the miseducation...
A Light in the Northern Sea
Denmark’s Incredible Rescue of Their Jewish Citizens During WWII
Price: $29.00
From the bestselling author of Three Ordinary Girls, the gripping, remarkably little-known true story of how the people of Denmark banded together during WWII to rescue nearly all of their Jewish citizens...
Agents of Change
The Women Who Transformed the CIA
Price: $29.00
From a former intelligence operative, a sweeping, daring look at America’s female CIA officers, detailing their groundbreaking, clandestine work inside a deeply masculine environment that faces ongoing...
My Beautiful Sisters
A Memoir of Courage, Hope, and the Afghan Women's Soccer Team
Price: $29.00
Argo meets The Bookseller of Kabul in this incredible memoir from the Afghan women’s soccer pioneer turned activist and feminist icon who has helped save more than 350 female soccer players from the...
Meet the Kellys
The True Story of Machine Gun Kelly and His Moll Kathryn Thorne
Price: $29.00
Gangsters. Lovers. Legends.From New York Times bestselling author and historian Chris Enss, the jaw-dropping Prohibition Era true crime tale of “Machine Gun” Kelly and Kathyrn Thorne, the bootlegging,...
Robert Shaw
An Actor’s Life on the Set of JAWS and Beyond
Price: $29.00
Just in time for the 50th anniversary of Steven Spielberg’s Jaws, an intimate and richly-told portrait of the iconic actor and writer Robert Shaw, from his portrayal of the legendary shark hunter...
Robert Shaw
An Actor's Life on the Set of JAWS and Beyond
Price: $24.65
Robert Shaw, the iconic star of Steven Spielberg’s Jaws, comes boisterously to life in an up-close-and-personal biography that reveals the brilliant actor, esteemed playwright, prize-winning novelist,...
Nothin' Comes Easy
The Life of Rodney Dangerfield
Price: $29.00
The first-ever biography of the legendary comic and the most improbable rise to fame in the history of American comedy. Getting there wasn’t always a laughing matter.Rodney Dangerfield’s fidgety...
The Master of Drums
Gene Krupa and the Music He Gave the World
Price: $29.00
The first definitive biography of Gene Krupa, the most famous drummer on the planet, whose feverish rhythms leapt across genres to change music forever. From jazz to the Swing Era, to rock and roll,...
Low Road
The Life and Legacy of Donald Goines
Price: $18.95
FOREWORD FROM THE LATE RAPPER DMXThe riveting biography of Donald Goines—one of the most authentic Black voices in American fiction—that explores the raw world of the street-smart literary icon...
The Survivor of the Holocaust
Price: $29.00
Anniversary edition hardcover with a new foreword.A courageous and remarkably accomplished Holocaust survivor’s powerfully vivid account of his transformation from a 13-year-old music student, to...