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by Rufus Curry, Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2012
Fiction / Romance / Adult Caught in the crossfire between justification and knowing, Chapman Sweet, Jr. works to untangle the present mess he finds his life in. Surrounded by a smorgasbord of feminine opportunities and advisors, the leader of the Chapman Sweet Band stands in the middle of the crossroads...
The Beat
Go-Go Music from Washington, D.C.
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2009
The Beat! was the first book to explore the musical, social, and cultural phenomenon of go-go music. In this new edition, updated by a substantial chapter on the current scene, authors Kip Lornell and Charles C. Stephenson, Jr., place go-go within black popular music made since the middle 1970s--a...
Hail, Hail, Euphoria!
Presenting the Marx Brothers in Duck Soup, the Greatest War Movie Ever Made
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2010
Bestselling author Roy Blount Jr. tells the story of theclassic Marx Brothers wartime satire Duck Soup. As always, Blount isinformed yet informal, tongue-in-cheek yet tempered, providing the perfectvoice to recount the irreverent antics of Harpo, Chico, Groucho, and Zeppo. Readers of HarpoSpeaks,...
by Robert Grey Reynolds Jr
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2016
Charles Sonny Liston was an ex-con who entered boxing in 1953 after serving a term in prison in Missouri. He learned to fight on the streets of St. Louis. The first two years of the 1960s decade were eventful for Sonny, not just because of speculation of a possible title shot with heavyweight champion...
The Woman Who Wasn't There
The True Story of an Incredible Deception
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2012
It was a tale of loss and recovery, of courage and sorrow, of horror and inspiration. Tania Head’s astonishing account of her experience on September 11, 2001—from crawling through the carnage and chaos to escaping the seventy-eighth-floor sky lobby of the burning south tower to losing her fiancé...
Alphabet Juice
The Energies, Gists, and Spirits of Letters, Words, and Combinations Thereof; Their Roots, Bones, Innards, Piths, Pips, and Secret Parts, Tinctures, Tonics, and Essences; With Examples of Their Usage Foul and Savory
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2009
Ali G: How many words does you know?
Noam Chomsky: Normally, humans, by maturity, have tens of thousands of them.
Ali G: What is some of 'em?
—Da Ali G Show
Did you know that both mammal and matter derive from baby talk? Have you noticed how wince makes you wince? Ever wonder...
by Robert Grey Reynolds Jr
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
Joe Louis was the most marketable sports figure on earth at the beginning of 1937. On January 20, 1937 he fought an upstart Jewish boxer, Bob Pastor, at Yankee Stadium. The former New York University football player went the distance, 11 rounds, wounding Louis' ego in the process. This bout occurred...
Defenders of the Faith
Christianity and Islam Battle for the Soul of Europe, 1520-1536
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2009
A bestselling historian recounts the epic clash that ended the Renaissance and pushed Islam to the gates of Vienna
In Warriors of God and Dogs of God, James Reston, Jr., brought two epochal events in the struggle between Islam and Christendom to readers eager to understand the roots of the...
by Robert Grey Reynolds Jr
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Carmen Miranda was a sensational star of stage and film who was born in Portugal. She came to Rio de Janiero as a child, where she was raised by her parents. Carmen compensated for her mediocre voice with distinct and alluring movements of her hands. Her hands, she believed, were her most valuable...
Igniting Prayer's Passion and Power in Us
A Book for Proclaimers
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2001
"Walter M. Brown Jr. has accomplished something extraordinary in this fine book. He brings into sharp focus the nexus between fervent and prayer and evocative preaching set with in the rich linguistic and poetic world of African-American spirituality."-Robert M. Franklin, Ph.D. Former President,...
by Robert Grey Reynolds Jr
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2014
Mike DeJohn came from a family of boxers in Syracuse, New York. His brother, Joey, was a popular middleweight in the 1950s, as had been his brother Ralph in the late 1930s. Another brother, Johnny, managed Mike for the better part of his boxing career. Mike gained an early unexpected victory with...
Shades of Freedom
Racial Politics and Presumptions of the American Legal Process
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 1998
Few individuals have had as great an impact on the law--both its practice and its history--as A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr. A winner of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor, he has distinguished himself over the decades both as a professor at Yale, the University of Pennsylvania,...
by Richard DeCrescenzo Jr
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2012
This is the story of a mysterious young man who seeks assistance from an insurance office everyday despite being turned away each time for over three years.
by Robert Grey Reynolds Jr
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
Charles the Bug Workman was imprisoned for a generation for the murders of Dutch Schultz and three of his associates. The murders were among the most grisly in the annals of organized crime history. The slayings occurred in the Palace Chop House in Newark, New Jersey in October 1935. My e-book looks...