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|  | A Song Flung up to Heaven by Maya Angelou
When this volume of her autobiography opens, Angelou is returning home from Africa to work alongside Malcolm X. However, she shortly thereafter learns of his assassination and begins her dark journey through the violent terrain of the civil rights movement. AUTHOR: Maya Angelou
PUBLISHER: Random House, Incorporated
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Biographies 
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 | Raising Fences by Michael Datcher
This memoirist was determined all his life not to become an absentee dad like so many around him in his African-American community. This memoir explores his search for self in an environment with a dearth of role models and and an abundance of hopeless characters. AUTHOR: Michael Datcher
PUBLISHER: Berkley Publishing Group
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Living with Wisdom by Jim Forest
Here is a lavish pictorial biography of Thomas Merton, the extraordinary Trappist monk whose writings--including his classic autobiography The Seven Storey Mountain--exerted a profound influence on millions. An extensive collection of photographs captures the life and vision of one of the greatest spiritual figures of the century. AUTHOR: Jim Forest
PUBLISHER: Orbis Books
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Excursions in the Real World by William Trevor
In 29 essays, William Trevor writes about his own past, his opinions, his travels, his literary likes and dislikes, and the people he has known (many of them eccentric). All this is delivered in his signature style: elegant, allusive, detailed, and as precisely observed as his novels and stories. AUTHOR: William Trevor
PUBLISHER: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | The Pact by George Jenkins, Lisa Frazier Page, Rameck Hunt
In this memoir of success, three men tell how, by hanging together, they got themselves out of Newark, into a program for minority youth, and through medical school. They supported each other and eventually realized their dreams of careers in medicin... AUTHOR: George Jenkins, Lisa Frazier Page, Rameck Hunt
PUBLISHER: Putnam Publishing Group, The
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Biographies
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 | Mississippi by Anthony Walton
Traveling from the Natchez Trace to the cotton fields of the Delta, Walton assesses Mississippi's legacy of nostalgia, bitterness, and heartache. He weaves in the stories of his family, as well as those of slaves and Confederate generals, redneck demagogues and civil rights martyrs, writers and bluesmen, black and white. 12 photos. 304 pp. Author tour. AUTHOR: Anthony Walton
PUBLISHER: Knopf Publishing Group
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Biographies
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