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Kinfolks
Falling Off the Family Tree: The Search for My Melungeon Ancestors
Lisa Alther
Edition 2007
Best-selling author Lisa Alther chronicles her search for missing branches of her family tree in this dazzling, hilarious memoir.
Wellesley magazine
Compelling bits of history, raucous wit, genealogical sleuthing, and charming childhood memories . . . With equal parts humor, wonder, and investigative journalism, Alther takes the reader on her journey from eastern Tennessee through the wilds of genealogy. . . . Her discoveries are as revealing as much as they are hidden history.
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Lovesong
Becoming a Jew
Julius Lester
Edition 1995
In his beautifully written memoir, Julius Lester describes the evolution of his mind and heart from childhood in Arkansas, to his deep involvement with the civil rights movement of the 1960s, to his later conversion to Judaism.
Joel Oppenheimer - New York Times Book Review
"A moving memoir. . . . We are carried on his search for self, and along the way we hear echoes of all that has happened in the turbulent 50 years he's lived. Mr. Lester has paid attention, so it's worth paying attention to him."
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Ring of Hate
Joe Louis vs. Max Schmeling: The Fight of the Century
Patrick Myler
Edition 2005
“The definitive book” (The Ring) on one of the greatest sports events of the twentieth century, the heavyweight championship bout between Germany’s Max Schmeling and America’s “Brown Bomber,” Joe Louis.
The Ring
Excellent . . . A distinctively authoritative, flowing narrative . . . Myler’s literary muscle brings together the careers and lives of Louis and Schmeling into a vivid and absorbing portrait. . . . The overwhelmingly human nature of their relationship is faithfully told. . . . The definitive book on the subject of one of boxing’s greatest rivalries.
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The Zebra Murders
A Season of Killing, Racial Madness, and Civil Rights
Bennett Cohen, Prentice Earl Sanders
Edition 2006
The riveting story, told by San Francisco's first black police chief, of the racially-motivated serial killings—black on white—that terrorized the city in the winter of 1973–4, and how it was solved...by black detectives.
Julius Lester, author of And All Our Wounds Forgiven
A riveting account of parallel stories of a struggle against racism, and the violent underside of the black radical movement of the early 1970s. It is also the heretofore little known story of domestic terrorism perpetrated by blacks against whites. I found it hard to put down. Having finished it, the book continues to reverberate within me.
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The End of White World Supremacy
Four Speeches by Malcolm X
Malcolm X
Edition 1971
A collection from four major speeches by Malcolm X that Julius Lester called in The New York Times Book Review,"The best examples in print of why, even dead, Malcolm is a man to measure one's self against."
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The Jimi Hendrix Experience
Jerry Hopkins
Edition 1996
From the bestselling author of No One Here Gets Out Alive,behind-the-scenes account of the wild life and high times of Jimi Hendrix.
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Race Manners
Navigating the Minefield Between Black and White Americans in an Age of Fear
Bruce A. Jacobs
Edition 1999
Completely revised and updated, this is a candid assessment of, and guide to, improving race relations, a book Kirkus Reviews called "shocking," and Publishers Weekly termed "a frank, intelligent guide."
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