Dorothy Dandridge

9 best books like Dorothy Dandridge (Donald Bogle): Up from Slavery, Stella: One Woman's True Tale of Evil, Betrayal and Survival in Hitler's Germany, Batman: The Long Halloween, The Further Adventures of The Joker, Fences, How to Read the Bible for All Its Worth, The Color of Night, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5), Behind the Scenes: Or, Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House

Up from Slavery

Author	Booker T. Washington
ISBN	0451527542

Booker T. Washington, the most recognized national leader, orator and educator, emerged from slavery in the deep south, to work for the betterment of African Americans in the post Reconstruction period.

"Up From Slavery" is an autobiography of Booker T. Washington's life and work, which...

Stella: One Woman's True Tale of Evil, Betrayal and Survival in Hitler's Germany

Author	Peter Wyden
ISBN	0385471793

The story of Stella Goldschlag, whom Wyden knew  as a child, and who later became notorious as a  "catcher" in wartime Berlin, hunting down  hundreds of hidden Jews for the Nazis. A harrowing  chronicle of Stella's agonizing choice, her three  murder trials, her reclusive existence,...

Batman: The Long Halloween

Author	Jeph Loeb
ISBN	1563894696

Taking place during Batman's early days of crime fighting, this new edition of the classic mystery tells the story of a mysterious killer who murders his prey only on holidays. Working with District Attorney Harvey Dent and Lieutenant James Gordon, Batman races against the clock as he tries to discover...

The Further Adventures of The Joker

Author	Martin H. Greenberg
ISBN	0553285319

Insanity was just the beginning.
His madness is legendary.
His evil without limit.

Scarred in both body and mind, The Joker is possibly the most insidious criminal the world has ever known, his dark genius festering beneath an eternal jester’s grin. Yet, for all the pain and suffering...

Fences

Author	August Wilson
ISBN	0452264014

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the Tony Award for Best Play. Now a Major Motion Picture directed by and starring Denzel Washington.

From August Wilson, author of The Piano Lesson and the 1984-85 Broadway season's best play, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, is another powerful, stunning...

How to Read the Bible for All Its Worth

Author	Gordon D. Fee
ISBN	0310246040

Your Guide to Understanding the Bible

Understanding the Bible isn’t for the few, the gifted, the scholarly. The Bible is accessible. It’s meant to be read and comprehended by everyone from armchair readers to seminary students. A few essential insights into the Bible can clear up a lot...

The Color of Night

Author	Madison Smartt Bell
ISBN	0307741885

Mae, a blackjack dealer in a Las Vegas casino, spends her free time wandering the desert with a rifle, or sitting in her trailer obsessively watching replays of an old lover escaping the wreckage of 9/11. What she sees in those images is different from what the rest of us would see. She revels in the pure...

Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5)

Author	American Psychiatric Association
ISBN	0890425558

This new edition of Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5), used by clinicians and researchers to diagnose and classify mental disorders, is the product of more than 10 years of effort by hundreds of international experts in all aspects of mental health. Their dedication and...

Behind the Scenes: Or, Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House

Author	Elizabeth Keckley
ISBN	0195060849

Part slave narrative, part memoir, and part sentimental fiction Behind the Scenes depicts Elizabeth Keckley's years as a slave and subsequent four years in Abraham Lincoln's White House during the Civil War. Through the eyes of this black woman, we see a wide range of historical figures and events...