"Jim Brown: The Fierce Life of an American Hero" by Mike Freeman

He intimidated people on and off the football field. He was brutal yet brilliant, narcissistic yet magnanimous, relentless yet unyielding. Most of all, he was the greatest football player of all time. He was Jim Brown.

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"The Call to Shakabaz" by Amy Wachspress

A highly original fantasy adventure, The Call to Shakabaz sidesteps many of the usual conventions of the genre and offers instead unusual and creative resolutions to a variety of sticky situations. When the recently orphaned Goodacre children are transported to the land of Faracadar, they must discover and develop their special talents if they hope to retrieve the powerful Staff of Shakabaz and rescue the land from the malevolent enchanter Sissrath.

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"We Look Like Men of War" by William Forschen

The poignant story of Samuel Washburn, born a slave in 1850. A young master's cruelty leads to an unforeseen confrontation, which results in Sam and his cousin fleeing the plantation for their lives. They run north to freedom, only to return south to fight for the greater cause.

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"Up from Slavery" by Booker T. Washington

"Up From Slavery" is an autobiography of Booker T. Washington's life and work, which has been the source of inspiration for all Americans. Washington reveals his inner most thoughts as he transitions from ex-slave to teacher and founder of one of the most important schools for African Americans in the south, The Tuskegee Industrial Institute.

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"The Life of Lincoln" by James Hugh Bowers

The Life of Lincoln depicts an amazing man's triumphs, insecurities, and crushing defeats with uncanny insight: his early poverty and the ambition that propelled him out of it; the shaping of the man and his political philosophy by youthful exposure to Christianity, slavery, and business; his tempestuous marriage and his fatherly love.

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"Four Great Americans" by James Baldwin, PhD

James Baldwin writes about the beginnings of four formidable figures, which were central to the founding of America. He tells the stories of George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Daniel Webster and Abraham Lincoln.  

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"The People Could Fly" by Virginia Hamilton

Virginia Hamilton (1936-2002), a giant in the world of children's literature, was the first African-American woman to win a Newbery Medal and the first children's book author to be awarded a MacArthur Genius Grant. In her prize-winning anthology of American Black folktales, The People Could Fly, Hamilton has gathered and retold a collection of stories that teach us much, move us deeply, and make us laugh out loud.

Savor this bridge to both the past and the future of a people and a nation as you hear these timeless tales brilliantly performed by Andrew Barnes.

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"Come Hell or High Water" by Michael Eric Dyson

Michael Dyson applies his prodigious critical acumen to the Hurricane Katrina matter--and he sees that the natural disaster that devastated the Gulf Coast region was followed immediately by a manmade disaster that was worse. In unsparing prose, Dyson reports on how this unconscionable total breakdown of government impacted along racial lines, and he places these events within a larger context of social policy and race relations that always plague the poor and people of color. 

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"Narrative of an American Slave" by Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass, a prominent abolitionist, civil rights activist and reform journalist, the malicious system of slavery. Frederick was brought to the nearby wheat plantation of Colonel Edward Lloyd. Two years later he was moved to Baltimore to labor in the household of Hugh and Sophia Auld, where he remained for the next seven years. Eventually, Frederick secretly learned to read and write, despite the laws against slave literacy, studied discarded newspapers, and became knowledgeable about the national debate over slavery. 

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"The Future of the American Negro" by Booker T. Washington

The Future of the American Negro was written to put more definite and permanent form the ideas regarding the condition of the negro. Booker T. Washington , a prominent African American leader, educator and author, articulates the importance of Industrial education. He emphasized the importance of the development of the Negro in hand and heart training, which would provide the solid foundation necessary to attain the highest form of citizenship.

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