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3 Kings: Diddy, Dr. Dre, Jay-Z, and Hip-Hop's Multibillion-Dollar Rise By Zack O'Malley Greenburg
$28.00 $19.60
Tracing the careers of hip-hop's three most dynamic stars, this deeply reported history brilliantly examines the entrepreneurial genius of the first musician tycoons: Diddy, Dr. Dre, and Jay-ZBeing successful musicians was simply never enough for the three kings of hip-hop. Diddy, Dr. Dre, and Jay-Z...
A Chance in the World: An Orphan Boy, A Mysterious Past, and How He Found a Place Called Home By: Steve Pemberton
$16.99 $14.44
A heart-rending but uplifting story of the human spirit’s ability to prevail. From the day he is five-years-old and dropped off at his foster home of the next eleven years, Stephen is mentally and physically tortured. No one in the system can help him. No one...
A Child Called It: One Child's Courage to Survive By Dave Pelzer
$11.95 $9.56
This book chronicles the unforgettable account of one of the most severe child abuse cases in California history. It is the story of Dave Pelzer, who was brutally beaten and starved by his emotionally unstable, alcoholic mother: a mother who played tortuous, unpredictable games--games that...
A Child's Introduction to African American History: The Experiences, People, and Events That Shaped Our Country By Jabari Asim
$19.99 $14.99
Jabari Asim goes beyond what's taught in the classroom and tells a fact-filled history of African Americans through politics, activism, sports, entertainment, music, and much more. You'll follow the road to freedom beginning with the slave trade and the middle passage through the abolitionist movement...
A Hope in the Unseen
$15.99 $14.39
Reviews It is 1993, and Cedric Jennings is a bright and ferociously determined honor student at Ballou, a high school in one of Washington D.C.’s most dangerous neighborhoods, where the dropout rate is well into double digits and just 80 students out of...
A New Model: What Confidence, Beauty, and Power Really Look Like By Ashley Graham With Rebecca Paley
$15.99 $12.79
“Evocative.” — The Cut One of the most outspoken voices gracing the cover of magazines today encourages women to be their most confident selves, recognize their personal beauty, and reach for their highest dreams in this wise, warm, and inspiring memoir. Voluptuous beauty Ashley Graham has been...
A Piece of Cake
$16.00 $14.40
Reviews There are shelves of memoirs about overcoming the death of a parent, childhood abuse, rape, drug addiction, miscarriage, alcoholism, hustling, gangbanging, near-death injuries, drug dealing, prostitution, or homelessness.Cupcake Brown survived all these things before she’d even turned twenty. And that’s when things got...
A Strong Right Arm: The Story of Mamie "Peanut" Johnson By Michelle Y. Green
$5.99 $5.39
Motivated by her love for the game and inspired by the legendary Jackie Robinson, Mamie Johnson is determined to be a professional baseball pitcher. But in a sport that's determined by white men, there is no place for a black woman. Mamie doesn't give up-from...
A Voice of Her Own: Candlewick Biographies: The Story of Phillis Wheatley, Slave Poet
$4.99 $3.99
Two best friends, a minnow and a tadpole, are practically inseparable until the tadpole grows legs and decides to explore the world beyond the pond. When the tadpole, now a frog, returns to tell his friend of the extraordinary things he’s seen, the...
A Weed Is a Flower
$7.99 $6.39
Brief text and pictures present the life of the man, born a slave, who became a scientist and devoted his entire life to helping the South improve its agriculture. A Weed Is a Flower: The Life of George Washington Carver By Aliki (Author/Illustrator) Paperback:...
Ali: A Life By: Jonathan Eig
$30.00 $22.50
The definitive biography of an American icon, from a New York Times best-selling author with unique access to Ali’s inner circleHe was the wittiest, the prettiest, the strongest, the bravest, and, of course, the greatest (as he told us himself). Muhammad Ali was one of the twentieth...
All Souls
$15.95 $14.36
Reviews A breakaway bestseller since its first printing, All Souls takes us deep into Michael Patrick MacDonald's Southie, the proudly insular neighborhood with the highest concentration of white poverty in America. Rocked by Whitey Bulger's crime schemes and busing riots, MacDonald's Southie is populated by...
American Sniper
$9.99 $8.49
Gripping, eye-opening, and powerful, American Sniper is the astonishing autobiography of SEAL Chief Chris Kyle, who is the record-holding sniper in U.S. military history. Kyle has more than 150 officially confirmed kills (the previous American record was 109), though his remarkable career total has not...
April 4, 1968: Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Death and How it Changed America By Michael Eric Dyson
$17.50 $15.75
On April 4, 1968, at 6:01 p.m., while he was standing on a balcony at a Memphis hotel, Martin Luther King Jr. was shot and fatally wounded. Only hours earlier King ended his final speech with the words, “I may not get there with you,...
Around the Way Girl: A Memoir By: Taraji P. Henson
$16.00 $14.40
From Academy Award nominee and Golden Globe winner, Taraji P. Henson, comes an inspiring and funny book about family, friends, the hustle required to make it from DC to Hollywood, and the joy of living in your own truth.With a sensibility that recalls her beloved...
Arthur Ashe: A Life By Raymond Arsenault
$37.50 $30.00
The first comprehensive, authoritative biography of American icon Arthur Ashe—the Jackie Robinson of men’s tennis—a pioneering athlete who, after breaking the color barrier, went on to become an influential civil rights activist and public intellectual.Born in Richmond, Virginia, in 1943, by the age of eleven,...
Bad Girls Throughout History: 100 Remarkable Women Who Changed the World By: Ann Shen
$19.95 $15.96
Aphra Behn, first female professional writer. Sojourner Truth, activist and abolitionist. Ada Lovelace, first computer programmer. Marie Curie, first woman to win the Nobel Prize. Joan Jett, godmother of punk. The 100 revolutionary women highlighted in this gorgeously illustrated book were bad in the best...
Becoming Kareem: Growing Up On and Off the Court By Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Raymond Obstfeld
$17.99 $12.59
The first memoir for young readers by sports legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.At one time, Lew Alcindor was just another kid from New York City with all the usual problems: He struggled with fitting in, with pleasing a strict father, and with overcoming shyness that made him...
Bedtime Inspirational Stories: 50 Amazing Black People Who Changed the World (Volume 1) By L. A. Amber
$27.70
Best Seller in African American Children's Books Help your child develop a strong sense of self by following these stories that can equip children with the powerful mantra: We Are Masters of Our Own Destiny. Bedtime Inspirational Stories... celebrates the achievements of the amazing black...
Believing in Magic: My Story of Love, Overcoming Adversity, and Keeping the Faith By: Cookie Johnson
$26.00 $18.20
In her new memoir, Cookie Johnson, wife of NBA legend Earvin ?Magic? Johnson, shares details of her marriage, motherhood, faith, and how an HIV diagnosis twenty-five years ago changed the course of their lives forever.On November 7, 1991, basketball icon Earvin ?Magic? Johnson stunned the...
Between the World and Me By Ta-Nehisi Coates
$25.00 $17.50
Hailed by Toni Morrison as “required reading,” a bold and personal literary exploration of America’s racial history by “the single best writer on the subject of race in the United States” (The New York Observer)#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER | NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER | NAACP IMAGE...
Black Boy
$15.99 $10.71
Reviews Richard Wright grew up in the woods of Mississippi amid poverty, hunger, fear, and hatred. He lied, stole, and raged at those around him; at six he was a "drunkard," hanging about in taverns. Surly, brutal, cold, suspicious, and self-pitying, he was...
Black Fortunes: The Story of the First Six African Americans Who Escaped Slavery and Became Millionaires By Shomari Wills
$26.99 $20.24
The astonishing untold history of America’s first black millionaires—former slaves who endured incredible challenges to amass and maintain their wealth for a century, from the Jacksonian period to the Roaring Twenties—self-made entrepreneurs whose unknown success mirrored that of American business heroes such as Henry Ford,...
Black Pioneers of Science and Invention
$8.99 $8.09
A readable, perceptive account of the lives of fourteen gifted innovators who have played important roles in scientific and industrial progress. The achievements of Benjamin Banneker, Granville T. Woods, George Washington Carver, and others have made jobs easier, saved countless lives, and in...
Blessed Life: My Surprising Journey of Joy, Tears, and Tales from Harlem to Hollywood By Kim Fields With Todd Gold
$22.00 $17.60
From "Facts of Life" to "Living Single" to "Dancing with the Stars" to wife and mom, here's the BLESSED LIFE of Kim Fields, veteran actress, TV personality, and star.Kim Fields has lived most of her life with people thinking they know her, which is understandable....
BMF
$16.99 $15.29
Praise In the early 1990s, Demetrius “Big Meech” Flenory and his brother, Terry “Southwest T,” rose up from the slums of Detroit to build one of the largest cocaine empires in American history: the Black Mafia Family. They socialized with music mogul Sean...
Brain on Fire
$16.00 $14.40
An award-winning memoir and instant New York Timesbestseller that goes far beyond its riveting medical mystery,Brain on Fire is the powerful account of one woman’s struggle to recapture her identity. When twenty-four-year-old Susannah Cahalan woke up alone in a hospital room, strapped to her bed...
Cartel Wives: A True Story of Deadly Decisions, Steadfast Love, and Bringing Down El Chapo By: Mia Flores Olivia Flores
$27.00 $20.25
An astonishing, revelatory, and redemptive memoir from two women who escaped the international drug trade, with never-before-revealed details about El Chapo, the Sinaloa Cartel, and the dangerous world of illicit drugs.Olivia and Mia Flores are married to the highest level drug traffickers ever to become...
Charlie Takes His Shot: How Charlie Sifford Broke the Color Barrier in Golf By Nancy Churnin
$16.99 $13.59
Charlie Sifford loved golf, but in the 1930’s only white people were allowed to play in the Professional Golf Association. Sifford had won plenty of black tournaments, but he was determined to break the color barrier in the PGA. In 1960 he did, only to...
Chasing Grace: What the Quarter Mile Has Taught Me about God and Life By: Sanya Richards-Ross
$24.99 $19.99
"For as long as I can remember, life has been measured in seconds. The fewer, the better.” Most people equate success with having more, but Sanya’s quest was always for less. She started running track as a little girl in Jamaica and began competing when...
Colored People
$15.00 $13.50
Reviews From an American Book Award-winning author comes a pungent and poignant masterpiece of recollection that ushers readers into a now-vanished "colored" world and extends and deepens our sense of African-American history, even as it entrances us with its bravura storytelling. Colored People:...
Courage To Soar: A Body In Motion, A Life In Balance by Simone Biles
$24.99 $18.74
Simone Biles entrance into the world of gymnastics may have started on a daycare field trip in her hometown of Spring, Texas, but her God-given talent, passion, and perseverance have made her one of the top gymnasts in the world, as well as a four-time...
Creative Quest By Questlove
$27.99 $20.99
NAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2018 BY Esquire • PopSugar • The Huffington Post • Buzzfeed • Publishers Weekly A unique new guide to creativity from Questlove—inspirations, stories, and lessons on how to live your best creative life Questlove—musician, bandleader, designer, producer, culinary entrepreneur, professor, and all-around cultural omnivore—shares his...
Death of Innocence
$16.00 $9.60
Reviews There are many heroes of the civil rights movement—men and women we can look to for inspiration. Each has a unique story, a path that led to a role as leader or activist. Death of Innocence is the heartbreaking and ultimately inspiring story of...
Diversifying Diplomacy: My Journey from Roxbury to Dakar (Adst-dacor Diplomats and Diplomacy) By Harriet Lee Elam-Thomas Jim Robison John Bersia(Preface) Allan Goodman(Foreword)
$29.99 $22.46
Today, diverse women of all hues represent this country overseas. Some have called this development the “Hillary Effect.” But well before our most recent female secretary of state there was Madeleine Albright, the first woman to serve in that capacity, and later Condoleezza Rice. Beginning...
Down These Mean Streets By Piri Thomas
$15.95 $12.76
Thirty years ago Piri Thomas made literary history with this lacerating, lyrical memoir of his coming of age on the streets of Spanish Harlem. Here was the testament of a born outsider: a Puerto Rican in English-speaking America; a dark-skinned morenito in a family that...
Dream Big, Little One (Vashti Harrison) By Vashti Harrison
$8.99 $8.09
This beautifully illustrated board book edition of instant bestseller Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History showcases women who changed the world and is the perfect goodnight book to inspire big dreams. Featuring 18 trailblazing black women in American history, Dream Big, Little One is the irresistible board book adaptation...
Dreams from My Father
$17.00 $14.45
Reviews In this lyrical, unsentimental, and compelling memoir, the son of a black African father and a white American mother searches for a workable meaning to his life as a black American. It begins in New York, where Barack Obama learns that his...
Duke Ellington: The Piano Prince and His Orchestra By Andrea Davis Pinkney, Brian Pinkney(Illustrator)
$6.99 $6.29
Another stunning picture book biography of a prominent twentieth-century African-American in the arts, from the creative team behind Alvin Ailey. Book : Format: Paperback Publication Date: 12/12/2006 Pages: 32 Reading Level: Age 5 and Up
E.A.R.L.
$17.99 $15.29
Reviews The dark journey of a boy who became a man, the man who became an artist, and the artist who became an icon. A talent for rhyme saved his life, but the demons and sins of his past continue to haunt him....
Ella Fitzgerald: The Tale of a Vocal Virtuosa By Andrea Davis Pinkney, Brian Pinkney(Illustrator)
$6.99 $6.29
Ella Fitzgerald began her life as a singer on the stage of the Apollo Theater when she was just seventeen years old. Her rich voice and vocal innovations brought her fame and a remarkable career than spanned half a century and won her generations of...
Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower By Brittney Cooper
$25.99 $18.19
Roxane Gay: "I encourage you to check out Eloquent Rage out now." Joy Reid, Cosmopolitan: "A dissertation on black women’s pain and possibility." Damon Young: "Like watching the world’s best Baptist preacher but with sermons about intersectionality and Beyoncé instead of Ecclesiastes." Melissa Harris Perry: “I was waiting for an author...
Every Day I'm Hustling By Vivica A. Fox
$26.99 $20.24
Vivica A. Fox is a dynamo who has created a lasting career on her own, through sheer, roll-up-your-sleeves DIY hustle. Every Day I'm Hustling is a personal book with a message Fox passionately believes in: that you make your own luck, that you never ever wake up...
Every Day Is Extra By John Kerry
$35.00 $28.00
John Kerry tells the story of his remarkable American life—from son of a diplomat to decorated Vietnam veteran, five-term United States senator, 2004 Democratic presidential nominee, and Secretary of State for four years—a revealing memoir by a witness to some of the most important events...
Every Little Step: My Story by Bobby Brown
$16.99 $15.29
In Every Little Step, Brown will for the first time tell the full story of his life and set the record straight, particularly about his relationship with Whitney Houston. Bobby Brown has been one of the most compelling American artists of the past thirty years, a magnetic...
Fist Stick Knife Gun
$14.00 $9.38
Video A new edition, including the story of the founding of the Harlem Children’s Zone Long before the avalanche of praise for his work—from Oprah Winfrey, from President Bill Clinton, from President Barack Obama—long before he became known for his talk show appearances, Members...
Fly High! The Story Of Bessie Coleman
$17.99 $14.39
Bessie Coleman was born in rural Texas in 1892. She loved school, especially learning about numbers, and she was a good reader, too. Yet when it was time to pick cotton she had to work in the fields instead of going to school. Nevertheless,...
George Washington Carver
$19.95 $12.57
A Coretta Scott King Honor Award author offers a fresh look at this pioneering American innovatorShampoo from peanuts? Wallpaper from clay? Ink from sweet potatoes? Discover Carver’s imagination and inspiration in this one-of-a-kind biography. With imagination and intellect, George Washington Carver (1864–1934) developed...
Ghost of the Innocent Man: A True Story of Trial and Redemption By: Benjamin Rachlin
$27.00 $21.60
"Intriguing...A gripping legal-thriller mystery...This is a story that profoundly elevates good-cause advocacy to greater heights--to where innocent lives are saved." --USA Today "A crisply written page turner."-NPR During the last two decades, more than two thousand American citizens have been wrongfully convicted. Ghost of the...
Gifted Hands, Kids Edition: The Ben Carson Story
$7.99 $7.19
Ben Carson used to be the class dummy. Today he is one of the world's most brilliant surgeons. Gifted Hands Kids Edition tells the extraordinary true story of an angry, young boy from the inner city who, through faith and determination, grew up...
Ten years ago Leonard Egerton began working with Bob Romanow, who also started Frugal Furniture.
In 2008 Mr. Romanow sold Frugal Bookstore to Leonard.
Leonard and Clarrissa have been operating the bookstore successfully as a family and have dedicated themselves to not only building a business that they hope one day will be looked at as one of this community’s staples, but also as a major contribution to the uplift of literacy within it.
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