Kareem Abdul-Jabbar recounts the birth of Harlem, from the boll weevil to the Great Migration, and discusses how Harlem influenced his life.
20th century
- Author:Abdul-Jabbar, KareemSummary:
- Author:Monroe, DebraSummary:
In this memoir, the soon-to-be divorced Debra buys a dilapidated Texas cabin miles from her teaching job. While waiting to adopt a child, she refurbishes and expands the rude dwelling. She soon finds herself in the strange new world of...
- Author:Naumann, Francis M.Summary:
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- Author:Abulhawa, SusanSummary:
Palestine, 1941. In the small village of Ein Hod a father leads a procession of his family and workers through the olive groves. As they move through the trees the green fruits drop onto the orchard floor; the ancient cycle of the...
- Author:Foran, CharlesSummary:
Mordecai Richler won multiple awards for adult and children's fiction, and wrote Oscar-nominated screenplays. His influence was larger than life in Canada and abroad. Foran describes Mordecai's life as young bohemian,...
- Author:Weight, RichardSummary:
Welcome to the world of the sharp-suited ‘faces’. The Italianistas. The scooter-riding, all-night-dancing instigators of what became, from its myriad sources, a very British phenomenon.
Mod began life as the quintessential...
- Author:Ruth, ElizabethSummary:
Set in Spain and Mexico during the 1930s, Matadora tells the story of Luna Caballero Garcia, an impoverished and intrepid servant attempting to make her name in the bullring at a time when it was illegal for a girl to do so.
- Author:Noble, Jean BobbySummary:
Conventional ideas about gender and sexuality dictate that people born with male bodies naturally possess both a man’s identity and a man’s right to authority. Recent scholarship in the field of gender studies, however, exposes the...
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Margaret Laurence and Jack McClelland-one of Canada's most beloved writers and one of Canada's most significant publishers-enjoyed an unusual rapport. In this collection of annotated letters, readers gain rare insight into the private...
- Author:Bausum, Ann.Summary:
Bausum revisits 1968 Memphis, Tennessee, to examine how the sanitation workers' strike set the scene for one of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s greatest speeches. It would also be the site of his tragic death, an event that...
- Author:Millward, LizSummary:
In the 1960s, a youthful and ambitious lesbian movement began taking shape in Canada. After decades of being pathologized, disparaged, or erased from public view, lesbians were ready to make a scene – both by calling attention to...
- Author:Hoffman, AliceSummary:
Alice Hoffman evokes the world of the Samuelsons, a family torn apart by tragedy and divorce in a world of bad judgment and fierce attachments, disappointments and devotion. Hoffman charts the always unexpected progress of Gretel...
- Author:McMurtry, LarrySummary:
Larry McMurtry opens up about the triumphs and trials of his abundant literary career. Relaying his early interest in writing that began with a creative writing class at Rice University, to a career that boasts over 40 novels and an...
- Author:Sedaris, DavidSummary:
From the unique perspective of David Sedaris comes a new book of essays taking his readers on a bizarre and stimulating world tour. Whether railing against the habits of litterers in the English countryside or marveling over a...
- Author:Crenne, Hélisenne deSummary:
- Author:RANGER, LauraSummary:
Here are poems written by Laura between the ages of six and nine, poems about zoos and pets, parents and little brothers. They are full of life and intelligent good humour, and set a new standard for poetry by young writers.
- Author:Okrent, DanielSummary:
A brilliant, authoritative, and fascinating history of America’s most puzzling era, the years 1920 to 1933, when the U.S. Constitution was amended to restrict one of America’s favorite pastimes: drinking alcoholic beverages.
From...
- Author:Cariou, WarrenSummary: