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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781496740540Author Rodnell P. CollinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Kensington PublishingPublisher Kensington Publishing

In almost sixty years of professional life, John Tusa has fought for and sometimes against the major arts and political institutions in the country. A distinguished journalist, broadcaster and leader of arts organisations, he has stood up publicly for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911412113Author Jean BovellFormat PaperbackPage Count 218Imprint BookpublishingworldPublisher BookpublishingworldWeight(grams) 259gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

As seen on The Today Show! "Important in helping us understand America's complex racial history."-Kenyatta D. Berry, Host of PBS's Genealogy RoadshowWhite Like Her: My Family's Story of Race and Racial Passing is the story of Gail Lukasik's mother's...

*Named a Most Anticipated Title of 2022 by TIME magazine, New York Times, Bustle, and more*In the midst of civil unrest in the summer of 2020 and following the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Ahmaud Arbery, Elizabeth Alexander-one of the...

'A grade, A list oral history' The Sunday Times'Eminently, moreishly readable' The New Statesmen'A rollicking read' Mail on Sunday'Entertaining' Observer The nineties was the decade when British culture reclaimed its position at the artistic centre of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781420952445Author Solomon NorthupFormat PaperbackPage Count 178Imprint Digireads.comPublisher Digireads.comWeight(grams) 231gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385198707Author John TytellFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 559gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909796188Author Victoria ManthorpeFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Poppyland PublishingPublisher Poppyland Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Alex Awards 2018.Book InformationISBN 9781250106001Author Melissa FlemingFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Flatiron BooksPublisher Flatiron BooksWeight(grams)...

"David Blight has produced a fine edition of Douglass' second autobiography. This is an essential work in African-American and American history, and displays Douglass' developing strength as a writer and political leader."-Richard Slotkin, Wesleyan...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780873485432Author Malcolm XFormat PaperbackPage Count 189Imprint Pathfinder PressPublisher Pathfinder PressWeight(grams) 300g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of New York Public Library Books for the Teen Age.Book InformationISBN 9781400077762Author Diana Abu-JaberFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Random House...

From the prizewinning Jewish Lives series, an illuminating new biography of the connoisseur who changed the art world and the way we see art When Gilded Age millionaires wanted to buy Italian Renaissance paintings, the expert whose opinion they sought...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812984873Author George DawsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 210gDimensions(mm) 202mm *...

A New York Times Best Seller! Baltimore, one of our country's quintessential urban war zones, is brought powerfully to life by literary talent, D. WatkinsTo many, the past 8 years under President Obama were meant to usher in a new post-racial American...

The classic, definitive title on the great Black figures in world history, beginning in antiquity and reaching into the modern age.World's Great Men of Color is the comprehensive guide to the most noteworthy Black personalities in world history and their...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615855363Author Badru DeenFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Caritrade, Inc.Publisher Caritrade, Inc.Weight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 133mm *...

An extraordinary memoir of one woman's fight to find her true self between the life into which she was born and the one she was given. Christiana Mara Coelho was born into extreme poverty in Brazil. After spending the first seven years of her life...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Hurston/Wright LEGACY Award (Nonfiction) 2002.Book InformationISBN 9780743431729Author BUNDLESPage Count 416Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon &...

A gripping biography that brings together the most recent research to shed provocative new light on the life of Saint Patrick Saint Patrick was, by his own admission, a controversial figure. Convicted in a trial by his elders in Britain and hounded by...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781922913562Author Helen LieblingFormat PaperbackPage Count 142Imprint Aurora HousePublisher Aurora HouseWeight(grams) 186gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 8mm

In the middle decades of the nineteenth century Jeremiah G. Hamilton was a well-known figure on Wall Street. Cornelius Vanderbilt, America's first tycoon, came to respect, grudgingly, his onetime opponent. The day after Vanderbilt's death on January 4,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915522177Author Maurice LennonFormat PaperbackPage Count 102Imprint Conscious Dreams PublishingPublisher Conscious Dreams PublishingWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781623718985Author Fikry AndrawesFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Olive Branch PressPublisher Interlink Publishing Group, Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781942645900Author Sergey GrechishkinFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint InksharesPublisher InksharesWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 142mm * 28mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780808501480Author Malcolm XFormat HardbackPage Count 466Imprint Turtleback BooksPublisher Turtleback BooksWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 182mm * 114mm *...

Widely acknowledged as the definitive history of the era, Henry Mayer's National Book Award finalist biography of William Lloyd Garrison brings to life one of the most significant American abolitionists. Extensively researched and exquisitely nuanced,...

This is a definitive assessment of the life and work of jazz musician John Coltrane, based on new interviews with his colleagues and never-before-published material. John Coltrane was a key figure in jazz, a pioneer in world music, and an intensely...

The biography of George Clinton, one of music's most fascinating, colourful and innovative characters, featuring a new cover and foreword by critic Miles Marshall Lewis. The most comprehensive history of the life, music and cultural significance of a...

From the leader of Canada's New Democratic Party-Jagmeet Singh-comes a personal and heartfelt story about family and overcoming adversity.In October 2017, Jagmeet Singh was elected as the first visible minority to lead a major federal political party in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787050211Author Luke KuhnsFormat HardbackPage Count 122Imprint MX PublishingPublisher MX PublishingWeight(grams) 445gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 216mm * 8mm

Meet Leela: nineteen, charismatic and fearlessly outspoken. With her sharp wit and stubborn optimism, she is the best paid bar dancer on Bombay's notorious Mira Road. Leela has a 'husband' (who is already married), a few lovers whose names she can't...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for Hurston/Wright LEGACY Award (Nonfiction) 2009.Book InformationISBN 9780060797362Author Paula J GiddingsFormat PaperbackPage Count 832Imprint HarperCollins...

'What we ought to do, as writers, is seize freedom now, immediately, by recognizing that we already have it.'Cynthia Ozick, one of 'the greatest living American writers', has, over a lifetime of observation, produced some of the sharpest and most...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for Kirkus Prize (Nonfiction) 2018.Book InformationISBN 9781501125652Author Kiese LaymonFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Scribner Book CompanyPublisher...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982141493Author John Paul BrammerFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 231mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781628725124Author Mary J MacLeodFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Arcade PublishingPublisher Arcade PublishingWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 210mm *...

A timely paperback reissue of the stunning, prize-winning portrait of the Jim Crow South through unique first-person accounts Praised as "viscerally powerful" (Publishers Weekly), this remarkable work of oral history captures the searing experience of...