Product Description: What The World is Saying!Readers will be touched not only by her story but by her daughter's dedication in bringing it to light. How fortunate we are today to be able to read it, that it needn't be hidden away for an occasional scholar to happen upon, but available to all...read more

Poetry. While Hettie Jones' past collections of poetry "combined prosaic diction with a knowing, urban wit .This new collection of several dozen short, unsentimental works primarily located in New York City, Jones's longtime home, extend her territory"--Publishers Weekly. "Readers who have appreciated Hettie Jones's previous literary works.will be intrigued and exhilarated by her recent book..an engaging meditation from the personal to the collective that.touches upon a variety of themes"--Rochelle Owens. Hettie Jones is the prize-winning author of two previous collections of poetry All Told and Drive and a memoir How I Became Hettie Jones as well as many other books for children and adults.

A history of the Underground Railroad brings together portraits of the men and women who established the escape organization for runaway slaves, as well as the people who traveled it to find new lives in Canada.

Product Description: The lives of Rita Marley and her husband Bob Marley are intimately shared in this look at their youths, their marriage, and the music that has made them legends. Beginning with her youth in the Trench Town ghetto of Kingston, Jamaica, Rita narrates her early encounters with the Wailing Wailers and how her relationship with Bob developed and changed as he transformed from local musician to international icon...read more

The wife of Bob Marley describes her life with the legendary reggae singer, from their courtship and marriage, through their tumultuous relationship, to his 1981 death from cancer and her own life as a musician and businesswoman.

Product Description: Poetry. African American Studies. "How lucky I am to have my good humor! Without it I might / have been blue instead of delighted enough with my life/ and the two baby house plants I've just brought home / to share with me their destiny, or maybe to combine us/ in that one big destiny"-("All Told")...read more

Product Description: Poetry. African American Studies. "Jones is known best for her resonant memoir about the beat milieu and her marriage to Amiri Baraka (formerly LeRoi Jones), How I Became Hettie Jones (1990), but this collection of poems, her first, will establish her as a potent and fearless poet...read more

Portraits of five Black women and the kind of music they sang during a period of social change; includes Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, Mahalia Jackson, Billie Holiday, and Aretha Franklin.

Product Description: " A few years ago, the Bedford Hills Workshop gave us More in than out with this second collection, Hettie Jones' group sings so tellingly, so irresistibly that we find the walls dissolving. These writers feel themselves to be aliens at the border...read more

A woman who, during the Beat scene of the 1950s, defied social constraints and married black poet-playwright Leroi Jones chronicles her family's turbulent journey through the 1960s, confronting racism and sexism along the way

In a collection of mildly spooky stories, members of the Austin family tell their scary tales around the campfire during a family outing, in an entertaining anthology enhanced by full-color illustrations and glow-in-the-dark pictures.

Thirty-two poems from the oral tradition of fifteen North American tribes.

Four tales together with geometric drawings bring to life the fears and beliefs of the Iroquois concerning the power of animals