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Quick view Down These Mean Streets by Piri Thomas Still relevant today, Piri Thomas's classic memoir of the "barrio" of Spanish Harlem celebrates its 30th anniversary of publication with a new Introduction by the author. As Thomas recounts his transformation from gang member, junkie, and stick-up man... View Details
Quick view DonĀt Kill the Birthday Girl: Tales from an Allergic Life by Sandra Beasley Sandra Beasley has had severe allergies to certain foods her entire life. When butter is deadly and eggs can make your throat swell shut, cupcakes and other joys of childhood are out of the question-and so Sandra's mother used to warn guests against a... View Details
Quick view Black Ice by Lorene Cary Ā In 1972 Lorene Cary, a bright, ambitious teenager from Philadelphia, went as a scholarship student to a formerly all-white, all-male (and still unapologetically elite) school in New Hampshire. She was determined to suceed--without selling out. This... View Details
Quick view Before We Get Started: A Practical Memoir of the Writer's Life by Bret Lott The novelist, teacher, and "Southern Review" editor offers thoughts on the craft of writing, the writer's life, and what he's learned from the trajectory of his own career. View Details
Quick view Ava's Man by Rick Bragg The national bestseller, now in paperback, continues Rick Bragg's personal history of the Deep South in this masterly family chronicle so vivid one can smell the cornbread and whiskey. "As toothsome as a catfish supper. Bragg is every bit the equal of ... View Details
Quick view A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers The literary bestseller that redefines both family and narrative for the 21st century, this moving memoir is the story of a college senior who, in the space of five weeks, loses both of his parents to cancer and inherits his eight-year-old brother. This... View Details
Quick view Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup A harrowing memoir about one of the darkest periods in American historyBorn a free man in New York, Solomon Northup was abducted in Washington, D.C., in 1841 and spent the next twelve years of his life in captivity as a slave on a Louisiana cotton... View Details
Quick view Fist Stick Knife Gun: A Personal History of Violence by Geoffrey Canada Long before President Barack Obama praised his work as "an all-encompassing, all-hands-on-deck anti-poverty effort that is literally saving a generation of children," and First Lady Michelle Obama called him "one of my heroes," Geoffrey Canada was a... View Details
Quick view Che: A Graphic Biography by Spain Rodriguez This dramatic and extensively researched book breathes new life into Ernesto Che Guevaras story, portraying his struggle through the medium of the underground political comic--one of the most prominent countercultural art forms since the 1960s. View Details
Quick view Frozen in Time: Clarence Birdseye's Outrageous Idea about Frozen Food by Mark Kurlansky This biography--perfect for middle-grade readers--tells the life story of Clarence Birdseye, the man who revolutionized the frozen food industry, and is adapted from Mark Kurlansky's adult work Birdseye: The Adventures of a Curious Man. Adventurer and... View Details
Quick view Andy Warhol, Prince of Pop by Jan Greenberg The Campbell s Soup Cans. The Marilyns. The Electric Chairs. The Flowers. The work created by Andy Warhol elevated everyday images to art, ensuring Warhol a fame that has far outlasted the 15 minutes he predicted for everyone else. His very name is... View Details
Quick view Lab Girl by Hope Jahren Lab GirlĀ is a book about work, love, and the mountains that can be moved when those two things come together. It is told through Jahren's remarkable stories: about her childhood in rural Minnesota with an uncompromising mother and a father who... View Details
