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In Inside Studio 54, the former owner takes you behind the scenes of the most famous nightclub in the world, through the crowd, to a place where celebrities, friends, and the beautiful people sip champagne and share lines of cocaine using rolled-up...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780544811942Author Dawn Anahid MackeenFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner BooksWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 201mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781613822913Author Frederick DouglassFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Simon & BrownPublisher Simon & BrownWeight(grams) 141gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780979097638Author Rick JamesFormat PaperbackPage Count 424Imprint Amber Communications GroupPublisher Amber Communications GroupWeight(grams) 565g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781592402441Author Zainab SalbiFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Gotham BooksPublisher Gotham BooksWeight(grams) 261gDimensions(mm) 202mm * 133mm * 21mm

A haunting, evocative recounting of her life as a slave in North Carolina, and her final escape and emancipation, Jacobs' narrative, written between 1853 and 1858 and published in 1861, is one of the most important books ever written documenting the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312147617Author Russell MeansFormat PaperbackPage Count 573Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 907g

Farah Jasmine Griffin's beloved father died when she was nine, bequeathing her an unparalleled inheritance in closets full of remarkable books and other records of Black genius. In Read Until You Understand-a line from a note he wrote to her-she shares a...

Each year, thousands of pilgrims visit the celebrated New Orleans tomb where Marie Laveau is said to lie. They seek her favors or fear her lingering influence. Voodoo Queen: The Spirited Lives of Marie Laveau is the first study of the Laveaus, mother and...

The story begins with a grandfather who heroically escaped from Russia by swimming the Pruth River to Romania-or did he? Then there are stories of another grandfather who kept a lifelong mistress; grandmothers who were ignored except in the kitchen;...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781608427710Author Mark TwainFormat HardbackPage Count 600Imprint Kathode Ray Enterprises, LLCPublisher Kathode Ray Enterprises, LLCWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143036487Author Marshall FradyFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 171gDimensions(mm) 179mm * 129mm...

Finalist for the 2022 Dayton Literary Peace Prize Nonfiction AwardWinner of the 2022 Gold Nautilus Award, Multicultural & Indigenous CategoryBorn in Somalia, a spare daughter in a large family, Shugri Said Salh was sent at age six to live with her...

As a world war rages in Europe in 1915, Ottoman authorities commence on the eastern frontier of their empire, the systematic slaughter of 1.5 million Armenians - the first genocide of the 20th century. A teenage boy named Kaspar Hovannisian is one among...

A new edition of the classic African American autobiography, now with with the inclusion of Douglass's other works.The pre-eminent American slave narrative published in 1845, the Narrative powerfully details the life of the abolitionist Frederick...

Duke Ellington is universally recognized as one of the towering figures of 20th-century music, both a brilliant composer and one of the preeminent musicians in jazz history. In The Duke Ellington Reader, Mark Tucker offers the first historical...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Hurston/Wright LEGACY Award (Nonfiction) 2010.Book InformationISBN 9781439190463Author Robin D G KelleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 624Imprint The Free...

Born in 1910, Rose Plummer grew up in an East End slum; she knew at first hand a soot-blackened world, lit by candles and oil lamps, where you slept in your clothes - if you hadn't already been sewn into them for the winter - and fought an unending...

Born in 1910, Rose Plummer grew up in an East End slum; she knew at first hand a soot-blackened world, lit by candles and oil lamps, where you slept in your clothes - if you hadn't already been sewn into them for the winter - and fought an unending...

Despite his importance and influence, jazz musician, educator, and community leader Horace Tapscott remains relatively unknown to most Americans. In Songs of the Unsung Tapscott shares his life story, recalling his childhood in Houston, moving with his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781784529413Author Bina BriggsFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Panoma PressPublisher Rethink PressWeight(grams) 226gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 12mm

Growing up in the small town of Maden in Turkey, Fethiye Cetin knew her grandmother as a happy and respected Muslim housewife called Seher.Only decades later did she discover the truth. Her grandmother's name was not Seher but Heranus. She was born a...

When author Jeff Hobbs arrived at Yale University, he became fast friends with the man who would be his college roommate for four years, Robert Peace. Robert's life was rough from the beginning in the crime-ridden streets of Newark in the 1980s, with his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781403349705Author Genna Sapia-RuffinFormat PaperbackPage Count 268Imprint AuthorHousePublisher AuthorHouseWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781733077903Author Bob J SatawakeFormat HardbackPage Count 196Imprint Bob J. SatawakePublisher Bob J. SatawakeWeight(grams) 513gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345350688Author MALCOLM XFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing GroupPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group...

"In 2015, when I ran to be mayor in Tower Hamlets, a smartly dressed middle-class man saw me wearing a headscarf and asked me what colour my hair was underneath it. I gave him a big smile. 'Pink,' I replied. Did I win his vote? I rather doubt it." ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578847764Author Cesar PinaFormat PaperbackPage Count 178Imprint Ikonic BooksPublisher Ikonic BooksWeight(grams) 245gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 10mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525510710Author Sarah HurwitzFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 556gDimensions(mm)...

One of the most influential leaders in the civil rights movement, Robert Parris Moses was essential in making Mississippi a central battleground state in the fight for voting rights. As a leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC),...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781789555936Author William CowieFormat PaperbackPage Count 186Imprint Legend Press LtdPublisher Legend Press LtdWeight(grams) 189g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781631321719Author Jamil HassanFormat PaperbackPage Count 242Imprint Advanced Publishing LLCPublisher Advanced Publishing LLCWeight(grams)...

Film star. Icon. Agitator. Martyr. Paul Robeson was a twentieth-century icon; the most famous African-American of his time. The son of a former slave, he found worldwide fame as a performer, travelling from Hollywood to the West End, and even to...

Film star. Icon. Agitator. Martyr. Paul Robeson was a twentieth-century icon; the most famous African-American of his time. The son of a former slave, he found worldwide fame as a performer, travelling from Hollywood to the West End, and even to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909526778Author Leonard FreedFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Reel Art PressPublisher Reel Art Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780989794817Author Solomon NorthupFormat PaperbackPage Count 362Imprint Eakin Films & PublishingPublisher Eakin Films & PublishingWeight(grams)...

Halima Bashir was born into the remote western deserts of Sudan. She grew up in a wonderfully rich environment and later went on to study medicine. At the age of twenty-four she returned to her tribe and began practising as their first ever qualified...

When author Jeff Hobbs arrived at Yale University, he became fast friends with the man who would be his college roommate for four years, Robert Peace. Robert's life was rough from the beginning in the crime-ridden streets of Newark in the 1980s, with his...

For the first time, a Rohingya speaks up to expose the persecution facing his people. 'I am three years old and will have to grow up with the hostility of others. I am already an outlaw in my own country, an outlaw in the world. I am three years old,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060565565Author Clarence ThomasFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)...