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10 best books like Last Man Standing: The Tragedy and Triumph of Geronimo Pratt (Jack Olsen): Bold Spirit: Helga Estby's Forgotten Walk Across Victorian America, The Autobiography of W.E.B. Du Bois: A Soliloquy on Viewing My Life from the Last Decade of Its First Century, The Rogue: Searching for the Real Sarah Palin, Learning to Breathe: One Woman's Journey of Spirit and Survival, A Child al Confino: A True Story of Escape in War-Time Italy, When Harlem Was in Vogue, A New Orleans Voudou Priestess: The Legend and Reality of Marie Laveau, Taking on the Trust: The Epic Battle of Ida Tarbell and John D. Rockefeller, Halfway to Heaven: My White-knuckled--and Knuckleheaded--Quest for the Rocky Mountain High, The Dungeon Master: The Disappearance of James Dallas Egbert III

Bold Spirit: Helga Estby's Forgotten Walk Across Victorian America
AuthorLinda Lawrence Hunt
ISBN1400079934
In 1896, a Norwegian immigrant and mother of eight children named Helga Estby was behind on taxes and the mortgage when she learned that a mysterious sponsor would pay $10,000 to a woman who walked across America.
Hoping to win the wager and save her family’s farm, Helga and her teenaged daughter...
The Autobiography of W.E.B. Du Bois: A Soliloquy on Viewing My Life from the Last Decade of Its First Century
AuthorW.E.B. Du Bois
ISBN0717802345
I hadn't known how DuBois was blacklisted for his work in the peace movement, specifically for his making explicit the connections between war, the growth of industry, and colonialism. In the early 1950's he was banned as a speaker on college campuses, suffered a press black out in the Black and mainstream...
The Rogue: Searching for the Real Sarah Palin
AuthorJoe McGinniss
ISBN0307718921
rogue (r¯og), n: An elephant that has separated from a herd and roams about alone, in which state it is very savage.—Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary
 
After three years of research, bestselling journalist Joe McGinniss presents his already controversial and much anticipated...
Learning to Breathe: One Woman's Journey of Spirit and Survival
AuthorAlison Wright
ISBN1594630461
A searing and uplifting account of one woman’s spiritual journey from surviving a terrible accident to a triumphant ascent of Kilimanjaro

On the second day of this century, world- renowned photojournalist Alison Wright was traveling on a windy mountain road in Laos when the bus she was...
A Child al Confino: A True Story of Escape in War-Time Italy
AuthorEnrico Lamet
ISBN1440509972
The reading of any book on the Holocaust strikes fear in my heart, and this one is no different, except that I also came away from it with even more respect for those people who managed to survive the inhuman cruelty, deprivation and madness of that time. I was not aware, before reading this book, of the Jews,...
When Harlem Was in Vogue
AuthorDavid Levering Lewis
ISBN0140263349
The decade and a half that followed World War I was a time of tremendous optimism in Harlem. It was a time when Langston Hughes, Eubie Blake, Marcus Garvey, Zora Neale Hurston, Paul Robeson, and countless others made their indelible mark on the landscape of American culture: African Americans made their...
A New Orleans Voudou Priestess: The Legend and Reality of Marie Laveau
AuthorCarolyn Morrow Long
ISBN0813029740
Legendary for an unusual combination of spiritual power, beauty, charisma, showmanship, intimidation, and shrewd business sense, Marie Leveau also was known for her kindness and charity, nursing yellow fever victims and ministering to condemned prisoners, and her devotion to the Roman Catholic...
Taking on the Trust: The Epic Battle of Ida Tarbell and John D. Rockefeller
AuthorSteve Weinberg
ISBN0393049353
Long before the rise of mega-corporations like Wal-Mart and Microsoft, Standard Oil controlled the oil industry with a monopolistic force unprecedented in American business history. Undaunted by the ruthless power of its owner, John D. Rockefeller (1839–1937), a fearless and ambitious reporter...
Halfway to Heaven: My White-knuckled--and Knuckleheaded--Quest for the Rocky Mountain High
AuthorMark Obmascik
ISBN1416566996
Fat, forty-four, father of three sons, and facing a vasectomy, Mark Obmascik would never have guessed that his next move would be up a 14,000-foot mountain. But when his twelve-year-old son gets bitten by the climbing bug at summer camp, Obmascik can't resist the opportunity for some high-altitude...
The Dungeon Master: The Disappearance of James Dallas Egbert III
AuthorWilliam C. Dear
ISBN0395355362
I finished this book a few months ago, and have been putting off this review. This book makes me angry. It pains me mentally and emotionally. It is a despicable book, with a cast of despicable people and a child who is being exploited and used by all of them. This is what would happen if Satan wrote David Copperfield....
Man Up: Cracking the Code of Modern Manhood
AuthorCarlos Andrés Gómez
ISBN1592407781
Inspired by the award-winning poet and actor’s acclaimed one-man play, a powerful coming-of-age memoir that redefines masculinity for the twenty-first-century male.

Award-winning poet, actor, and writer Carlos Andrés Gómez is a supremely gifted storyteller with a captivating...
Black Rage: Two Black Psychiatrists Reveal the Full Dimensions of the Inner Conflicts and the Desperation of Black Life in the United States
AuthorWilliam H. Grier
ISBN0465007015
The first book to examine the full range of black life from the vantage point of psychiatry, this widely acclaimed work has established itself as the classic statement of the desperation, conflicts, and anger of black life in America today. Black Rage tells of the insidious effects of the heritage of...
By Any Means Necessary
AuthorMalcolm X
ISBN0873487540
Malcolm X
Unlike most of the people I’m writing to I don’t like to read, but if I were to read a book I would choose the Biography of Malcolm X. Like most of the civil rights activists Malcolm wasn’t content with being called a “nigger” for the rest of his life. Malcolm was born in Omaha, Nebraska....
Remembering Slavery: African Americans Talk About Their Personal Experiences of Slavery and Freedom
AuthorIra Berlin
ISBN1565845870
In 1998, The New Press published Remembering Slavery, a book-and-tape set that offered a startling first-person history of slavery. Using excerpts from the thousands of interviews conducted with ex-slaves in the 1930s by researchers working with the Federal Writers’ Project, the astonishing...
Die Nigger Die!
AuthorH. Rap Brown
ISBN1556524528
More than any other black leader, H. Rap Brown, chairman of the radical Black Power organization Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), came to symbolize the ideology of black revolution. This autobiography—which was first published in 1969, went through seven printings and has...
The Great Ponds
AuthorElechi Amadi
ISBN0435900447
what you are going to read is my analysis about the book during my afro asian literature class.

The Great Ponds focuses its attention on intertribal warfare. The novel by Elechi Amadi is a recreation of a seemingly simple domestic conflict between two villages that later snowballs into a war...
South by Southeast
AuthorBlair Underwood
ISBN1451650639
The fourth installment in this award-winning mystery series draws actor-turned-super-sleuth Tennyson Hardwick into his most challenging case, compelling him to face the unthinkable: save his daughter or the woman he loves.

South by Southeast, a title inspired by the master of suspense,...
The Book of Positive Quotations
AuthorJohn Cook
ISBN1577490533
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The Secrets of Newberry
AuthorVictor McGlothin
ISBN0446178136
Whose Gentleman?

Victor McGlothin’s “The Secrets of Newberry” follows the friendship of Hampton Bynote and Ivory ‘Bones’ Arcineaux. Their friendship is developed in clandestine predicaments of petty thievery up to murder with a backdrop of a changing economic climax through...
Choices That Change Lives: 15 Ways to Find More Purpose, Meaning, and Joy
AuthorHal Urban
ISBN0743257707
Hal Urban, author of the much-loved bestsellers Life's Greatest Lessons and Positive Words, Powerful Results, gives us his third book of inspirational and practical wisdom on leading a more meaningful and more joyful life. With Choices That Change Lives, Hal reminds us that our lives are the result...
B4B: How Technology and Big Data Are Reinventing the Customer-Supplier Relationship
AuthorJ.B. Wood
ISBN0986046205
Industry after industry is becoming technology driven as software rapidly eats the world. As it spreads, so do complexity and opportunity. There are clear signs that the traditional B2B business model designed 125 years ago as a simple “make, sell, ship” approach for early manufacturing companies...
Marilyn Monroe
AuthorNick Yapp
ISBN1435115015
Beautiful, sexy, funny, and talented, Marilyn Monroe was an icon, not only for America, but for the world. Typecast as the original dumb blonde, she gained fame in classic movies like Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, The Seven Year Itch, and How to Marry a Millionaire. She married America’s greatest sporting...
101 Things I Wish I Knew When I Got Married: Simple Lessons to Make Love Last
AuthorLinda Bloom
ISBN1577314247
With the current divorce rate spiking at a dizzying sixty percent, it is clear that young couples are not being taught the skills needed to navigate through the conflicts and difficulties of being in a committed relationship. Charlie and Linda Bloom, psychotherapists with fifty-five years of combined...
The History Of The Blues: The Roots, The Music, The People
AuthorFrancis Davis
ISBN0306812967
Francis Davis's The History of the Blues is a groundbreaking rethinking of the blues that fearlessly examines how race relations have altered perceptions of the music. Tracing its origins from the Mississippi Delta to its amplification in Chicago right after World War II, Davis argues for an examination...
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