Knowing the difficulties involved in documenting enslaved people’s lives, Nancy Koester made multiple trips to sites where Sojourner Truth lived and traveled; she also analyzed her dictated letters, speeches, and newspaper accounts in... Read More

David Mas Masumoto’s "Secret Harvests" shares the troubled history of two families alongside the extraordinary discovery of a long-lost relative. Soon after the Pearl Harbor attack, Masumoto’s grandparents and their children became... Read More

Anastasia C. Curwood’s vibrant biography of Shirley Chisholm reveals a tenacious congresswoman and presidential candidate. Curwood writes that Chisholm, the daughter of Caribbean immigrants and a Democratic party trailblazer, possessed... Read More

Brimming with life lessons, Let’s Be Frank is the informative memoir of an entertainment executive. Frank Biondi, a former CEO of HBO, Viacom, and Universal Studios, was a prominent figure in shaping the modern entertainment industry,... Read More

Telling the story of World War II bombers through the personal lens of family experiences, "The Job to Be Done" is a compelling slice of military history. Inspired by an inheritance of air force memorabilia, Clint L. Coffey’s "The Job... Read More

"Angel of the Garbage Dump" is the biography of a courageous change-maker, Hanley Denning. Denning first encountered the Guatemala City dump that she came to think of as “home” in 1999. Though her early experiences there were... Read More

"Family Matters" is a compelling memoir about an imperfect couple’s rise to fame and how it affected the people around them, including their child. Written from within a show business family, Lance Lee’s memoir "Family Matters"... Read More

Exemplifying family pride, Slim: Frank, 1922–2012 is the biography of an Australian man who memorably protested changing times. Slim: Frank, 1922–2012 is Angela Darlington’s biography of her grandfather, who resisted personal,... Read More