Cultural & Regional

Award-winning comedian Zarna Garg turns her astonishing life story into a hilarious memoir, spilling all the chai on her wild ride from escaping an arranged marriage and homelessness in India to carving her own path in America and launching a dazzling second act in midlife.

Poetic and powerful, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings is a modern American classic....

Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors, yet her cells - taken without her knowledge - became one of the most important tools in medicine....

Helene Hadsell was "the woman who won every contest prize she desired". In Contesting: The Name It & Claim It Game, she shares her winning secrets in the vibrant, warm, and folksy manner that was uniquely her....

The true story of a couple who lost everything and embarked on a transformative journey walking the South West Coast Path in England, The Salt Path is ultimately a portrayal of home - how it can be lost, rebuilt, and rediscovered in the most unexpected ways....

Academy Award nominee and Golden Globe winner Taraji P. Henson reads her inspiring and funny book about family, friends, the hustle required to make it from DC to Hollywood....

The definitive, dramatic biography of the most important African American of the 19th 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....

The Color of Water touches listeners of all colors as a vivid portrait of growing up, a haunting meditation on race and identity, and a lyrical valentine to a mother from her son....

With echoes of Educated and The Glass Castle, How to Say Babylon is a “lushly observed and keenly reflective chronicle” (The Washington Post), brilliantly recounting the author’s struggle to break free of her rigid religious upbringing and navigate the world on her own terms.

The Worlds I See is the moving memoir of a scientist coming of age as an immigrant in America who finds her calling at the forefront of the AI revolution.

An extraordinary insight into life under one of the world’s most ruthless and secretive dictatorships - and the story of one woman’s terrifying struggle to avoid capture/repatriation and guide her family to freedom....

Harriet Ann Jacob's autobiography documents her life as a slave and how she attained freedom. Harrowing in its descriptions of sexual abuse, Jacob's slave narrative is notable for the appeal it made to abolitionist women to open their eyes to the realities of slavery....

The phenomenal true story of the Black female mathematicians at NASA whose calculations helped fuel some of America's greatest achievements in space....

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Dedicated to the daughter she never had but sees all around her, Letter to My Daughter reveals Maya Angelou's path to living well and living a life with meaning....

Decades ago, Paul Mooney set out not just make audiences laugh but to make them think. Black Is the New White is his blisteringly funny, no-holds-barred memoir of how he continues to succeed wildly at both....

Alexandra Fuller tells the idiosyncratic story of her life growing up white in rural Rhodesia as it was becoming Zimbabwe....

The definitive biography of a legendary athlete. The Shrug. The Shot. The Flu Game. When most people think of him, they think of his beautiful shots with the game on the line, his body totally in sync with the ball - hitting nothing but net....

From New York Times best-selling author Elizabeth Dowling Taylor comes this riveting chronicle of a critical yet overlooked chapter in American history: the inspiring rise and calculated fall of the Black elite, from Emancipation through Reconstruction to the Jim Crow Era....

Raised in the ghetto, abandoned as a child, addicted to drugs and women all his life but still able to produce four consecutive number one hip-hop albums in a row...this is the life and times of the darkest and most dangerously introspective hip-hop artist ever....

"My name is 'J' and I'm awkward--and Black. Someone once told me those were the two worst things anyone could be."....

Tracing the birth of a revolutionary, Huey P. Newton's famous and oft-quoted autobiography is as much a manifesto as a portrait of the inner circle of America's Black Panther Party.

Notes of a Native Son inaugurated Baldwin as one of the leading interpreters of the dramatic social changes erupting in the United States in the 20th century, and many of his observations have proven almost prophetic....

When journalist Annabelle Tometich picks up the phone one June morning, she isn’t expecting a collect call from an inmate at the Lee County Jail. And when she accepts, she certainly isn’t prepared to hear her mother’s voice on the other end of the line.

From one of the greatest rappers of all time, the memoir of a life cut short, a revealing look at the dark side of hip hop’s Golden Era....

A.G. Gaston, the poor grandson of slaves, was born in the Deep South in 1892. Over the course of his extraordinary life, he amassed a fortune of over $130 million and a vast business empire....

It’s 1996, and Jeremy Atherton Lin has met the boy of his dreams—a mumbling, starry-eyed Brit—just as, amid a media frenzy, US Congress prepares the Defense of Marriage Act, denying same-sex couples federal rights including immigration. The pair steals away to remote forests and vast deserts, London fashion shows and Berlin sex clubs, dinner parties, back alleys, East Village hotel rooms, and San Francisco dives. Finding no other way to stay together, they shack up illicitly among unlikely allies in a “city of refuge.”

Discover London as you’ve never seen it before—a city brimming with endless opportunities for those seeking change and growth. "London Lives Reinvented" is your gateway to transformative journeys in this vibrant metropolis, offering a roadmap for anyone yearning to start anew in one of the world’s most dynamic cities. Begin your adventure by uncovering why London stands as a beacon of diversity and opportunity, making it the ideal backdrop for reimagining your life’s path. Learn how to recognize the need for change and conquer those initial fears holding you back from your true ...

When she was twenty-five, Ursula Pike boarded a plane to Bolivia and began her term of service in the Peace Corps. A member of the Karuk Tribe, Pike sought to make meaningful connections with Indigenous people halfway around the world. But she arrived in La Paz with trepidation as well as excitement, 'knowing I followed in the footsteps of Western colonizers and missionaries who had also claimed they were there to help.'

This is all 3 of the world-famous Trailer Dogs books all in one place for one low price. TD1 TRAILER DOGS TD2 REVENGE OF THE TRAILER DOGS TD3 FLIGHT OF THE TRAILER DOGS

An enlightening and entertaining inside look at the lifestyles of America's extremely wealthy from the bestselling author of "Our Crowd" It's no secret that the rich are different from the rest of us. But the rich, as author Stephen Birmingham so insightfully points out, are also different from the very rich. There's Society, and then there's Real Society, and it takes multiple generations for families of the former to become entrenched in the latter.

In the neighborhoods of South Central LA, LaShawn Wiley grew up learning how to navigate life without a father. Surrounded by noise, pressure, and expectation, he searched for stability in a world that offered very little. Through moments of quiet reflection, painful lessons, and unexpected guidance, his journey from a confused boy to a purposeful man began to take shape.

This is the story of a senior couple whose front porch is occupied by an unfamiliar cat. Out of compassion, the couple provides the cat with water and food, but keeps him outside. Before long they allow the cat in. The story is told from the point of view of a cat who is imagined to have a wry sense of humor. It is a story that has been enjoyed by adults as well as by children as young as eight or nine years old.

Hace veinticinco años Fresia Castro comenzó un viaje personal en el que lo cotidiano se volvió extraordinario para siempre. Inició su recorrido en Chile, continuó en Francia y culminó con la revelación de los Siete Documentos en Sudamérica, en los que están contenidas las claves para acceder a las verdades universales. Surameris es el relato de esa travesía y de una serie de acontecimientos que auguran tiempos mejores. Esta nueva propuesta del Universo exige de nosotros una gran preparación interna y creadora, y aprender a mirar la vida de manera nueva.

Move over Hemingway - there is a new bad boy in town and man does he have a story. It is about an intellectual rosier from the hood who refuses to crow and all the shenanigans that come whit that. Enjoy!

Diane Vanette’s Cherry Sisters Music City tells of the three women who became this famous team and have remained lifelong friends. These are the behind the scenes stories of Nashville’s recording studios, the owners, producers, technicians and the development of the Unions that would assure benefits to these independent contractors who made the world’s music. And it shares the near launch of The Cherry Sisters as a front of the stage starring band.