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Fourteen-year-old John Grimes finds a spiritual awakening during an evening night service at a Harlem storefront Pentecostal church while his parents reflect on their sins and despairs.

After Beau Boutan, a Cajun farmer, is found shot on a Louisiana plantation, the claimants to the killing form a wall of protection around the real murderer.

A collection of reminiscences offers the poet's thoughts on aging, sensuality and sexuality, rage and violence, Africa, and the home.

Barack Obama's memoir of growing up as the son of a white American mother and a black African father whom he hardly knew. Describes how, upon hearing of his father's death, he reexamined his life's meaning by tracing his mother's family's migration from Kansas to Hawaii and then visited Kenya and met the African side of his family.

The family and friends of a Haitian immigrant living in New York City describe his tortured past.

Nigerian Ifemelu leaves her country to study in America while the man she loves back home, Obinze, is denied entrance to America due to 9/11. After struggling in London, Obinze is sent back to Nigeria but becomes a wealthy man with family. Meanwhile Ifemelu explores racism in America and becomes a successful blogger about race. When Ifemelu returns to Nigeria, she reunites with Obinze, but now the couple faces new decisions about their future.

Nigerian Ifemelu leaves her country to study in America while the man she loves back home, Obinze, is denied entrance to America due to 9/11. After struggling in London, Obinze is sent back to Nigeria but becomes a wealthy man with family. Meanwhile Ifemelu explores racism in America and becomes a successful blogger about race. When Ifemelu returns to Nigeria, she reunites with Obinze, but now the couple faces new decisions about their future.

Introduces what it takes to succeed as an auto mechanic, discussing the necessary educational steps, useful character traits, potential hazards, and daily job tasks related to this career.

A brief biography of African American civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.