This exciting collection of traditional African folk tales introduces you to a host of interesting
people and unusual animals. Eighteen authentic fables, recorded as they were told by tribal members of Nigerian and other cultures, range from the imaginative Story ...
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Maya Angelou’s classic memoirs have had an enduring impact on American
literature and culture. Her life story is told in the documentary film And Still I Rise, as seen on PBS’s American Masters.This Modern Library edition ...
From Beauregard and Custer to Lee and Sherman, twelve commanders from each side vividly describe
what they and their men experienced at twelve of the war's most legendary battles from Fort Sumter to Appomattox Court House in accounts gathered from ...
The Ditchdigger's Daughters is a loving memoir of how a poor and uneducated black laborer,
a child of the Great Depression, overcame incredible obstacles to give his daughters a better life. Dr. Thornton's father fought in World War II as ...
In Earline’s Pink Party Elizabeth Findley Shores sifts through her family’s scattered artifacts to understand
her grandmother’s life in relation to the troubled racial history of Tuscaloosa, Alabama. A compelling, genre-bending page-turner, Earline’s Pink Party: The Social Rituals and ...
A superbly wrought memoir from one of folk music's most respected and influential musicians A
Guardian, Sunday Times, Observer, Telegraph and Financial Times Book of the YearThe musician Peggy Seeger has lived a life full of art and passion, family ...
A brilliant and thought-provoking collection of articles, profiles, and opinions from one of the twentieth
century’s most acclaimed African American writers A journalist, novelist, and educator, John A. Williams was never afraid to rock boats or take aim at society’s ...
Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain has been a central character in two feature films (Gettysburg and Gods
& Generals), a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel (The Killer Angels), and an inspiration for Ken Burns's production of the highly acclaimed PBS series The Civil War. ...
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