Quick view Details Fall River Dreams: A Team's Quest for Glory, a Town's Search for It's Soul by Bill Reynolds
Quick view Fall River Dreams: A Team's Quest for Glory, a Town's Search for It's Soul by Bill Reynolds In this lyrical, deeply-felt, unforgettable book, the author of Lost Summer, Big Hoops, and, with Rick Pitino, Born to Coach spends a season with the kids, coaches, families, teachers, and fans of the Durfee High School basketball team in Fall River,... View Details
Quick view All But My Life by Gerda Weismann Klein Klein's openness and warmth are reflected everywhere in her famous book, from the opening account of her family in prewar Poland to her three-year imprisonment in German work camps. On May 7, 1945, she was liberated by the U.S. Army and rescued by Lt... View Details
Quick view A Child Called It by Dave Pelzer 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... View Details
Quick view Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela by Nelson Mandela As recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, president of the African National Congress, and head of the anti-apartheid movement, Nelson Mandela has been one of the world's great moral and political leaders. The story of his life - from the early development... View Details
Quick view Up from Slavery by Booker T Washington Vividly recounting Washington's life--his childhood as a slave, struggle for education, founding and presidency of the Tuskegee Institute, and meetings with the country's leaders, this book reveals the conviction he held that the black man's salvation... View Details
Quick view The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man by James Weldon Johnson African-American writer's pioneering novel parallels his own life, probes the psychological aspects of "passing for white," and examines the American caste and class system. Major contribution to American literature. View Details
Quick view Navajo Code Talkers by Nathan Aaseng On the Pacific front during World War II, strange messages were picked up by American and Japanese forces on land and at sea. The messages were totally unintelligible to everyone except a small select group within the Marine Corps: the Navajo code... View Details
Quick view Now is Your Time!: The African-American Struggle for Freedom by Walter Dean Myers A history of the African-American struggle for freedom and equality, beginning with the capture of Africans in 1619, continuing through the American Revolution, the Civil War, and into contemporary times. View Details
Quick view Never to Forget: The Jews of the Holocaust by Milton Meltzer By the time World War II was over, the dead included six million Jews--killed specifically because they were Jewish. This collection of first-person accounts of the Holocaust serves as a timeless reminder of how Europe's Jews reacted to the threat of... View Details
Quick view The Great Bridge by David McCullough Celebrating the centennial of the opening of the Brooklyn Bridge, here is the classic account of one of the greatest engineering feats of all time. View Details
Quick view The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe The first Americans in space--Yeager, Conrad, Grissom, and Glenn--battle the Russians for control of the heavens and put their lives on the line to demonstrate a quality beyond courage, in this classic by Wolfe. View Details
Quick view Listen, Little Man! by Wilhelm Reich Listen, Little Man! is a great physician's quiet talk to each one of us, the average human being, the Little Man. Written in 1946 in answer to the gossip and defamation that plagued his remarkable career, it tells how Reich watched, at first naively,... View Details