homes and haunts

Poet Maya Angelou chronicles her early life, focusing on her childhood in 1930s rural Arkansas, including her rape at the age of five, her subsequent years of muteness, and the strength she gained from her grandmother and Mrs. Bertha Flowers, a respected African-American woman in her town.

The author relates the story of his relationship with his uncle Shanti Behari Seth, who was sent to Germany as a young man in the 1930s to study medicine and dentistry, and Shanti's wife, Helga Gerda Caro, a Jewish German.

Color illustrations and simple text teach young readers about artist Mary Nohl.

Sketches of the author's early life in Paris in the twenties provide nostalgic reminiscences of his first marriage and the discipline of developing his own literary craft.

Richard Wright grew up in the woods of Mississippi. He endured a difficult childhood in the Jim Crow South.

Richie Jean Sherrod Jackson became part of history when she created a haven for civil rights leaders in her home in Selma, Alabama. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and his lieutenants, needed a place to plan and re-group as they mapped out their strategy for civil rights. Richie Jean was happy to give them her home.

"For readers of How to Be Parisian Wherever You Are, My Paris Dream is a charming and insightful memoir about coming of age as a fashion journalist in 1980s Paris, by former Vogue and Harper's Bazaar editor Kate Betts, the author of Everyday Icon : Michelle Obama and the Power of Style"--.

"The memoir of a German-Nigerian woman who learns that her grandfather was the brutal Nazi commandant depicted in Schindler's List, Amon Goeth"--Provided by publisher.

The author describes how she and her husband moved from cosmopolitan Paris to rural Provence after their son was born, the beginning of their adventures as culinary entrepreneurs, and their initiation into classic Proven??al cuisine.