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After Emily: Two Remarkable Women and the Legacy of America's Greatest Poet
Julie Dobrow · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
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The untold story of the extraordinary mother and daughter who brought Emily Dickinson's genius to light.Despite Emily Dickinson's world renown, the story of the two women most responsible for her initial posthumous publication -- Mabel Loomis Todd and her daughter, Millicent Todd... |
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A Mind Unraveled: A Memoir
KURT EICHENWALD · Ballantine Books
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover
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The compelling story of an acclaimed journalist and New York Times bestselling author's ongoing struggle with epilepsy - his torturous decision to keep his condition a secret to avoid discrimination, and his ensuing decades-long battle to not only survive, but to thrive.As a college... |
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Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom
DAVID W BLIGHT · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 896
Format: Hardcover
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The definitive, dramatic biography of the most important African-American of the nineteenth century: Frederick Douglass, the escaped slave who became the greatest orator of his day and one of the leading abolitionists and writers of the era.As a young man Frederick Douglass (1818-1895)... |
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Heavy: An American Memoir
Kiese Laymon · Scribner
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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In this powerful and provocative memoir, genre-bending essayist and novelist Kiese Laymon explores what the weight of a lifetime of secrets, lies, and deception does to a black body, a black family, and a nation teetering on the brink of moral collapse.Kiese Laymon is a fearless writer.... |
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Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry
Imani Perry · Beacon Press
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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A revealing portrait of one of the most gifted and charismatic, yet least understood, Black artists and intellectuals of the twentieth century.Lorraine Hansberry, who died at thirty-four, was by all accounts a force of nature. Although best-known for her work A Raisin in the Sun, her short... |
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On the Other Side of Freedom: The Case for Hope
DERAY MCKESSON · Viking
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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From the internationally recognized civil rights activist/organizer and host of the podcast Pod Save the People, a meditation on resistance, justice, and freedom, and an intimate portrait of a movement from the front lines.In August of 2014, twenty-nine-year-old activist DeRay Mckesson... |
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Sound Pictures: The Life of Beatles Producer George Martin, The Later Years, 1966–2016
Kenneth Womack · Chicago Review Press
Pages: 560
Format: Hardcover
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More than anyone besides the bandmates themselves, George Martin was the man who created the unique sound of the Beatles. Sound Pictures offers a powerful and intimate account of how he did so. The second and final volume of the definitive biography of the man, Sound Pictures traces... |
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Imagine
JOHN LENNON · Grand Central Publishing
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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"A lot has been written about the creation of the song, the album and the film of Imagine, mainly by people who weren't there, so I'm very pleased and grateful that now, for the first time, so many of the participants have kindly given their time to "gimme some truth"... |
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