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  • I'm Just a DJ But...It Makes Sense to Me

    by Tom Joyner, Mary Flowers Boyce ...
    Hall of Fame disc jockey Tom Joyner uses his signature brand of humor to discuss everything from business to careers to relationships as he shares the insights and lessons he's learned along the way.Now the host of a radio show that is the most popular media outlet ever among African Americans, Joyner started his career at a small AM radio station in his home state of Alabama, working his way ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

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  • Nurse, Come You Here!

    More True Stories of a Country Nurse on a Scottish Isle (The Country Nurse Series, Book Two)

    by Mary J. MacLeod ...
    Series Book 2 - The Country Nurse
    From the author of Call the Nurse, come new tales of a London nurse working to help and heal a community on a remote Scottish island. Lively, touching, engaging reading for fans of Call the Midwife and All Creatures Great and Small."Julia MacLeod shares unique and enchanting experiences as a nurse in rural Scotland. Her stories will ring true with every nurse—or anyone—who has ever cared for a ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • In the Country We Love

    My Family Divided

    by Diane Guerrero, Michelle Burford ...
    The star of Orange is the New Black and Jane the Virgin presents her personal story of the real plight of undocumented immigrants in this country—updated for 2018.Diane Guerrero was just fourteen years old on the day her parents and brother were arrested and deported while she was at school. Born in the U.S., Guerrero was able to remain in the country and continue her education, depending on the ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • The Other Side of Paradise

    A Memoir

    by Staceyann Chin ...
    Staceyann Chin has appeared on television and radio discussing issues of race and sexuality, but it is her extraordinary voice that launched her career as a performer, poet, and activist—here, she shares her unforgettable story of triumph against all odds in this brave and fiercely candid memoir.No one knew Staceyann's mother was pregnant until a dangerously small baby was born on the floor of her ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • Please Enjoy Your Happiness

    A Memoir

    by Paul Brinkley-Rogers ...
    Please Enjoy Your Happiness is a beautifully written coming-of-age memoir based on the English author's summer-long love affair with a remarkable older Japanese woman. Whilst serving as a seaman at the age of nineteen, Paul Brinkley-Rogers met Kaji Yukiko, a sophisticated, highly intellectual Japanese woman, who was on the run from her vicious gangster boyfriend, a member of Japan's brutal crime ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • The Scholar Gypsy

    The Quest for a Family Secret

    by Anthony Sampson ...
    As a child, Anthony Sampson was haunted by a family skeleton. He knew his grandfather John Sampson had been an authority on the gypsies. They had called him the Rai - the Master - and had flocked to his magnificent funeral on a Welsh mountain. But of his grandfather's private life he was told nothing, nor of the mysterious aunt who joined the family after his death. In fact only sixty years later ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • What Mama Taught Me

    The Seven Core Values of Life

    by Tony Brown ...
    Millions of viewers of Tony Brown's Journal, the longest-running series on PBS, know Tony Brown as an advocate for self-reliance and self-enrichment. Now, in his most personal book yet, he introduces us to the woman who brought him up and taught him the seven core values he lives by to this day: reality, knowledge, race, history, truth, patience, and love. What Mama Taught Me states that only by ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Billie Holiday

    The Musician and the Myth

    by John Szwed ...
    **• Kirkus Best Books of 2015 selection for Biography •Published in celebration of Holiday’s centenary, the first biography to focus on the singer’s extraordinary musical talent**When Billie Holiday stepped into Columbia’s studios in November 1933, it marked the beginning of what is arguably the most remarkable and influential career in twentieth-century popular music. Her voice weathered ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

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  • Selected Essays

    by Clark Blaise ...
    Clark Blaise's Selected Essays brings together another aspect of his tremendous and courageous oeuvre: belle lettres, essays and occasional pieces which range over autobiography, his French-Canadan heritage, the craft of fiction, American fiction, Australian fiction, and the work of such individual writers and Jack Kerouac, V.S. Naipaul, Salmon Rushdie, Alice Munro, Leon Rooke, and Bernard Malamud ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Making Rent in Bed-Stuy

    A Memoir of Trying to Get By in New York City

    by Brandon Harris ...
    A young African American millennial filmmaker’s funny, sometimes painful, true-life coming-of-age story of trying to make it in New York City—a chronicle of poverty and wealth, creativity and commerce, struggle and insecurity, and the economic and cultural forces intertwined with "the serious, life-threatening process" of gentrification.Making Rent in Bed-Stuy explores the history and ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Hot Fudge Sundae in a White Paper Cup

    A Spirited Black Woman in a White World

    by Gwendolyn Calvert Baker ...
    Gwendolyn Calvert Baker has had an extraordinary career and has witnessed a dramatic change in the ways that U.S. schools provide education to and about our multiethnic, multicultural society. But Baker hasn’t just lived through the progression of multicultural considerations—she has been singularly instrumental in the creation and acceptance of multicultural education. In Hot Fudge Sundae in a ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • An American Cakewalk

    Ten Syncopators of the Modern World

    by Zeese Papanikolas ...
    The profound economic and social changes in the post-Civil War United States created new challenges to a nation founded on Enlightenment and transcendental values, religious certainties, and rural traditions. Newly-freed African Americans, emboldened women, intellectuals and artists, and a polyglot tide of immigrants found themselves in a restless new world of railroads, factories, and skyscrapers ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD