Biography & Autobiography
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Emperor of the Seas: Kublai Khan and the Making of China
$18.00 Add to cart“Astonishing…Brings to life a thriving – and rather civilized – empire” – The Telegraph
“sparkles with energy, insight and passion… difficult to put down.” Nicholas Morton, BBC History Magazine Co- Author: Weatherford, Jack
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 26 2026
- ISBN10: 1399417754
- Language: English
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Boy: When you find the boy, you discover the man
$22.99 Add to cartBoy
A true story of love, loss, survival and finding your voice.
Before the roads. Before the raves. Before the reputation. Before the man.
There was just the boy. A black child raised in a white seaside
- Author: Nwaka, Fredi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 228
- Publish Date: November 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1919214607
- Language: English
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The Fight Game in Black and White: A History of Black Boxing
$21.95 Add to cartAn American sports legend offers a sweeping Black history of boxing, celebrating the trailblazing athletes who fought in the ring and against racial injustice.
Features a 16-page photo insert. Here is- Author: Scott, Ray
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 25 2026
- ISBN10: 1644215594
- Language: English
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Cleared for Takeoff: A Pilot’s Memoir of Purpose and Resilience After 9/11
$32.00 Add to cartIn this inspiring memoir, a Black woman pilot leading the way for others shares her journey of fulfilling a lifelong dream to fly–and how she rediscovered her passion in the face of tragedy and adver… [more below]
- Author: Gilliam, Captain Nia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 04 2026
- ISBN10: 9798217087464
- Language: English
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The Island Within
$21.00 Add to cartWinner of the 1990 Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award, nominated for the American Book Award, and named by Booklist as an Editor’s Choice, this is Nelson’s lovely and luminously wise account of his e… [more below]
- Author: Nelson, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 23 1991
- ISBN10: 067973239X
- Language: English
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Malcolm in the Desert: Wisdom from the Spiritual Transformation of Malcolm X
$32.00 Add to cartEssence’s “15 Books By Black Authors We’re Looking Forward To”
Powerful self-transformation practices inspired by Malcolm X’s final years, written by his daughter Ilyasah Shabazz. “A classic in the ma
- Author: Shabazz, Ilyasah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: May 19 2026
- ISBN10: 1538783568
- Language: English
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Slow Motion: A Memoir of Friendship, Disability, and Advocacy
$18.95 Add to cartA heartfelt homage to a life-changing friendship
At twenty-one, Jen Dupree is working as an Activity Director in a nursing home when she meets Marcel–a man twenty-five years her senior who has cerebra
- Author: Dupree, Jennifer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 03 2026
- ISBN10: 1952143462
- Language: English
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Voice of a Century: The Life and Artistry of Marian Anderson
$35.00 Add to cartFrom the New York Times‘s former chief classical music critic, a tribute to one of the great singers of modern times and a national treasure who broke racial barriers
The night before Marian Anderson- Series: Significations
- Author: Tommasini, Anthony
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 08 2026
- ISBN10: 0593652673
- Language: English
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The Ballad of the Fugitive William Parker: A True Tale of Love, Murder, Treason, and Ordinary Folks Who Saved America
$31.00 Add to cartFor fans of Master Slave Husband Wife and Django Unchained comes the extraordinary forgotten story of an event known in its day as “the first shots of the Civil War,” from the New York Times bestselli… [more below]
- Author: Aptowicz, Cristin O’Keefe
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: September 08 2026
- ISBN10: 1668035936
- Language: English
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Divided We Stand
$23.95 Add to cartIn Divided We Stand, Bill Newcott – longtime senior editor/writer for National Geographic and AARP the Magazine – discovers a country that is not what we see in our daily doom scrolls. While Americans… [more below]
- Author: Newcott, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 206
- Publish Date: June 09 2026
- ISBN10: 9798994195833
- Language: English
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Stephen Curry
$8.95 Add to cartThe incredible story of basketball legend Steph Curry, filled with stats, facts and tons of amazing original illustrations.
Steph Curry is an amazing shooter who can make long three-pointers and chang- Series: Basketball Superstars #2
- Author: Dolan, Hannah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: April 28 2026
- ISBN10: 1804539406
- Language: English
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Un D?-A Contar?(c) Esta Historia / One Day I Will Tell This Story
$19.95 Add to cart«La noche del 19 de septiembre de 1986 me dorm? sobre el techo que le quit? la vida a mi padre, entre muebles rotos, bloques de cemento, piedras y varillas. Sobre miles de l?grimas, sobre el ?lt… [more below]
- Author: Amandititita
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: July 22 2025
- ISBN10: 6073855753
- Language: Spanish
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I am Saxon: A History of the Transylvanian Saxons
$28.99 Add to cartI Am Saxon chronicles the history of the little-known Transylvanian Saxons. From their humble beginnings in the 12th century as immigrants to a remote and sparsely populated area in the southern basin… [more below]
- Author: Gagesch, Karl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 266
- Publish Date: May 20 2025
- ISBN10: 1038329957
- Language: English
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Maysoon Zayid, the Girl Who Can Can
$6.99 Add to cartFrom the prolific Pulitzer Prize-nominated Muslim reporter Dr. Seema Yasmin comes an exciting nonfiction chapter book about one of America’s first female Muslim comedians–Maysoon Zayid–the first in … [more below]
- Series: Muslim Mavericks
- Author: Yasmin, Seema
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: February 10 2026
- ISBN10: 1665953411
- Language: English
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Don’t Buy What I’m Selling: On Breaking Up with Advertising and Finally Learning to Love My Whole, Fat Self
$32.00 Add to cartPart memoir, part manifesto, this is the “fascinating, smart, and hilarious look” (Christie Tate) of a woman determined to go deep inside advertising so she could save the world–and herself. What cou… [more below]
- Author: Chekowsky, Lu
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 556
- Publish Date: June 09 2026
- ISBN10: 0316607681
- Language: English
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The Afterlife of Malcolm X: An Outcast Turned Icon’s Enduring Impact on America
$21.00 Add to cartA New York Public Library and Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2025
Published to coincide with the hundredth anniversary of his birth, the first major study of Malcolm X’s influence in the sixty years sin- Author: Whitaker, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: June 02 2026
- ISBN10: 1668033305
- Language: English
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It’s Only Drowning: A Memoir
$19.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER * 2025 BOOKLIST EDITORS’ CHOICE SELECTION
A former Obama speechwriter moves to the Jersey Shore and learns to surf with the help of his brother-in-law: a tattooed, truck-driving- Author: Litt, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 16 2026
- ISBN10: 1668035367
- Language: English
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In My Darkest Hour: A Memoir
$30.00 Add to cartFrom King of Metal Dave Mustaine, a powerful reflection on the harsh truths and raw realizations that can only come from confronting death.
Dave Mustaine is no stranger to pain and suffering. He batt- Author: Mustaine, Dave
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 08 2026
- ISBN10: 0306837439
- Language: English
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Uncommon Sense: Rethinking Ordinary Problems in Extraordinary Ways
$29.95 Add to cartReal-world wisdom for when the textbook ends.
Why do some of the most successful people in the world–from Bill Gates to Steve Jobs, Oprah Winfrey to Ralph Lauren–never finish college, while others wi
- Author: Brody, William R.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: April 28 2026
- ISBN10: 1421455072
- Language: English
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Please Don’t Die
$15.00 Add to cartWhen her four-year-old son is diagnosed with cancer, one mother’s world fractures beyond recognition.
Please Don’t Die is not a story of tidy hope or polished strength-it is a testament to what it mean
- Author: Sweet-Davis, Amber
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 102
- Publish Date: October 13 2025
- ISBN10: 9798218797973
- Language: English
