From the Oscar-winning actress comes the personal journals she compiled while performing humanitarian relief efforts across Africa and Asia. Between February and August of 2001, actress Angelina Jolie journeyed to the countries of Sierra Leone and Tanzania in Africa, Cambodia, and Pakistan to assist..
A LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER. NAMED A BEST CALIFORNIA BOOKS OF 2021 BY THE NEW YORK TIMESA provocative, exhilaratingly new understanding of the United States’ most confounding metropolis―not just a great city, but a full-blown modern city-stateAmerica is obsessed with Los Angeles. A..
New York Times bestsellerFrom the Winner of the James Beard Lifetime Achievement AwardNow a Netflix Original SeriesThe grande dame of African American cookbooks and winner of the James Beard Lifetime Achievement Award stakes her claim as a culinary historian with a narrative history of African ..
The international classic and bestseller, Maya Angelou's memoir paints a portrait of 'a brilliant writer, a fierce friend and a truly phenomenal woman' (BARACK OBAMA).'I write about being a Black American woman, however, I am always talking about what it's like to be a human being. This is how we ar..
The Angel and the Three Menis a beautifully illustrated and creatively written story about three men who were tested by Allah by showering His blessings on them. Only the third proved to be grateful while the first two did not...
The Angel and the Three Menis a beautifully illustrated and creatively written story about three men who were tested by Allah by showering His blessings on them. Only the third proved to be grateful while the first two did not...
Julius Bokoru’s “The Angel That Was Always There” is a memoir that tells the story about a child grappling at life, trying to make sense of who he really is. Struggling and failing. Confused and lonely. Saved intermittently by the love of his mother, but losing that mother when he most needed her. I..
Not even with her two sisters and mother, as they all battle to cope with the complexities of sisterhood, the fragile balances in mother-daughter relationships, and the deep scars of marriages gone awry. The story traces Osasé’s girl-to-woman journey of self-discovery from Kano, to Abuja, to Grenobl..