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E.L. Doctorow Medal for Distinquished Contribution to American Letters Acceptance Speech
E.L. Doctorow Medal for Distinquished Contribution to American Letters Acceptance Speech Author Interviews
W. Paul Coates Literarian Award Acceptance Speech from the 2024 National Book Awards
W. Paul Coates Literarian Award Acceptance Speech from the 2024 National Book Awards W. Paul Coates Article Watch a Video of Walter Mosleys’s Introduction and Paul Coates Acceptance Speech. ...
The Dancing Mind: Speech Upon Acceptance of the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished C Ontribution to American Letters
The Dancing Mind: Speech Upon Acceptance of the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished C Ontribution to American Letters Toni Morrison 9780375400322 Nonfiction Knopf Publishing Group Penguin...
The Short Life and Curious Death of Free Speech in America
The Short Life and Curious Death of Free Speech in America Ellis Cose 9780062999719 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins An urgent examination of free speech in America—addressing “cancel culture,” “accep...
The Speech: The Story behind Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Dream
The Speech: The Story behind Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Dream Kam Williams Book Review “A great speech is both timely and timeless. First and foremost, it must touch and move its immediate ...
Death of the Willie Lynch Speech: Exposing the Myth
Death of the Willie Lynch Speech: Exposing the Myth Manu Ampim 9781574780574 Nonfiction Black Classic Press Black Classic Press Finally, proof that the Willie Lynch Speech is a hoax! Supposedly giv...
Storyteller: 100 Poem Letters
Storyteller: 100 Poem Letters Morgan Harper Nichols 9781979990523 Poetry CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC “For over a decade, many of the stories and poems I have written eventually turned into so...
Dear Mary, Dear Luther: A Courtship in Letters
Dear Mary, Dear Luther: A Courtship in Letters Carol Taylor Book Review Dear Mary, Dear Luther: A Courtship in Letters is an epistolary love story of a 1930s courtship between Mary Brooks and Luther ...
The Short Life and Curious Death of Free Speech in America
The Short Life and Curious Death of Free Speech in America Ellis Cose 9780062999726 Nonfiction Amistad HarperCollins Named one of Newsweek’s 25 Must-Read Fall Fiction and Nonfiction Books to Escape th...
The Speech: The Story Behind Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’S Dream
The Speech: The Story Behind Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’S Dream Gary Younge 9781608463220 Nonfiction Haymarket Books Haymarket Books MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. DELIVERED his powerful I Have a Dream” spe...
A Love No Less: Two Centuries Of African American Love Letters
A Love No Less: Two Centuries Of African American Love Letters Pamela Newkirk 9780385503792 Nonfiction Knopf Penguin Random House A Delightful paean to African American love, this treasury of fifty le...
I Wrote You 37 Letters
I Wrote You 37 Letters Dee Miller 9798218093198 Nonfiction CreateSpace On-Demand Publishing LLC Warning: Some of the letters are frisky, funny, and head-tilting, but trust me, they will make you smile...
Freedom of Speech: Mightier Than the Sword
Freedom of Speech: Mightier Than the Sword David K. Shipler 9780307947611 Nonfiction Vintage Penguin Random House A provocative, timely assessment of the state of free speech in America With his be...
The March on Washington: Jobs, Freedom, and the Forgotten History of Civil Rights
The March on Washington: Jobs, Freedom, and the Forgotten History of Civil Rights William P. Jones 9780393082852 Fiction W. W. Norton & Company W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. A brilliant history that go...
I’ve Been to the Mountaintop
I’ve Been to the Mountaintop Martin Luther King, Jr. 9780063351042 Nonfiction HarperOne HarperCollins A beautiful commemorative edition of Dr. Martin Luther King’s last speech “I’ve Been to the Mounta...
Kwame Nkrumah’s Midnight Speech for Independence
Kwame Nkrumah’s Midnight Speech for Independence Useni Eugene Perkins 9780940975866 Nonfiction Just Us Books Just Us Books, Inc. On a humid March night in 1957, Kwame Nkrumah made history. While thous...
Mdw Dtr: Divine Speech: A Historiographical Reflection of African Deep Thought from the Time of the Pharaohs to the Present Paperback
Mdw Dtr: Divine Speech: A Historiographical Reflection of African Deep Thought from the Time of the Pharaohs to the Present Paperback Jacob Carruthers 9780907015949 Nonfiction Karnak House Karnak Hous...
Professor Chazelle Advocates Christian Social Activism in Keynote Speech Delivered at Medieval Studies Conference
Professor Chazelle Advocates Christian Social Activism in Keynote Speech Delivered at Medieval Studies Conference Kam Williams Interview Professor Chazelle Advocates Christian Social Activism...
Tuskegee Love Letters
Tuskegee Love Letters Kam Williams Book Review “My father was a pilot with the all-Negro Tuskegee Airmen; my mother a steno-typist… Separated by war and duty, they shared the events of...
In Spite of the Consequences: Prison Letters on Exoneration, Abolition, and Freedom
In Spite of the Consequences: Prison Letters on Exoneration, Abolition, and Freedom Lacino Hamilton 9781506488165 Nonfiction Broadleaf Books 1517 Media "If I do not write, who will? What I am liv...
Letters to a Young Sister: DeFINE Your Destiny
Letters to a Young Sister: DeFINE Your Destiny Hill Harper 9781592403516 Nonfiction Gotham Penguin Random House Now in paperback: the New York Times bestselling book of inspirational advice and wisdom...
The Hiptionary: A Survey Of African American Speech Patterns With A Digest Of Key Words And Phrases
The Hiptionary: A Survey Of African American Speech Patterns With A Digest Of Key Words And Phrases Mahmoud El-Kati 9780967558172 Nonfiction Papyrus Publishing Inc. Papyrus Publishing Inc. Hiptionary?...
Juana Martinez-Neal
Juana Martinez-Neal 0000000115462636 Juana Martinez-Neal, award-winning author-illustrator, received the 2019 Caldecott Honor and 2020 Robert F. Sibert Medal. She was also awarded the 2018 Pura Belpr...
Class ACT A Graphic Novel
Class ACT A Graphic Novel Jerry Craft 9780062885500 Fiction Quill Tree Books HarperCollins New York Times bestselling author Jerry Craft returns with Class Act, a companion book to New Kid, the 2020 N...
Zora Neale Hurston: A Life In Letters
Zora Neale Hurston: A Life In Letters Carla Kaplan 9780385490368 Nonfiction Anchor Penguin Random House A landmark collection of more than five hundred letters written by Zora Neale Hurston, a woman ...
Fannie Lou Hamer: America’s Freedom Fighting Woman
Fannie Lou Hamer: America’s Freedom Fighting Woman Maegan Parker Brooks 9781538115947 Nonfiction Rowman & Littlefield Rowman & Littlefield “[T]his is a testimonial to a courageous woman and her deep c...
John A. Williams Acceptance Speech - The King Alfred Plan
John A. Williams Acceptance Speech - The King Alfred Plan Author Interviews
Robin Coste Lewis Acceptance Speech - 2015 National Book Awards
Robin Coste Lewis Acceptance Speech - 2015 National Book Awards Literary Events
Ta-Nehisi Coates' Acceptance Speech - 2015 National Book Awards
Ta-Nehisi Coates' Acceptance Speech - 2015 National Book Awards Literary Events
James McBride: Acceptance Speech 2013 National Book Awards
James McBride: Acceptance Speech 2013 National Book Awards Literary Events
Maya Angelou's Literarian Award Acceptance Speech - 20 Nov 2013
Maya Angelou's Literarian Award Acceptance Speech - 20 Nov 2013 Author Interviews
Sonia Sanchez
Sonia Sanchez 0000000080885435 Sonia Sanchez (b. 1934) is a significant figure in the Black Arts Movement, known for her innovative and original poetry that explores racial and gender struggles. Her ...
A Place to Land: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Speech That Inspired a Nation
A Place to Land: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Speech That Inspired a Nation Barry Wittenstein 9780823443314 Nonfiction Neal Porter Books Holiday House "Barry Wittenstein’s poetic text provides the c...
Our God Is Marching on
Our God Is Marching on Martin Luther King, Jr. 9780063350991 Nonfiction HarperOne HarperCollins A beautiful commemorative edition of Dr. Martin Luther King’s speech Our God Is Marching On, part of Dr....
I Have a Dream
I Have a Dream Martin Luther King, Jr. 9780063236790 Nonfiction HarperOne HarperCollins Introducing the Martin Luther King Jr Library With a New Foreword by Amanda Gorman A beautiful collectible...
Behind the Dream: The Making of the Speech That Transformed a Nation
Behind the Dream: The Making of the Speech That Transformed a Nation Clarence B. Jones and Stuart Connelly 9780230337558 Nonfiction St. Martin’s Griffin Macmillan Publishers "I have a dream." When tho...
Letters From Black America
Letters From Black America Pamela Newkirk 9780374101091 Fiction Farrar, Straus and Giroux Macmillan Publishers Letters from Black America fills a literary and historical void by presenting the pantheo...
Book of Letters
Book of Letters Robert Fleming Book Review Mary J. Taylor’s Book Of Letters is just that, a book of letters from the Old School of storytelling. The series of sepia cultural flashbacks moves th...
Black Love Letters
Black Love Letters Cole Brown 9781638931201 Nonfiction Get Lifted Books Penguin Random House As seen on ABC’s The View • One of W magazine’s Most Anticipated Books of Fall 2023 “We reserve thi...
200 Letters
200 Letters Amy Watkins 9781736296011 Fiction Amy Watkins Amy Watkins 200 Letters is an inspirational romance suspense novel that follows two people as they try to escape abusive relationships. Their ...
Dear Continuum: Letters to a Poet Crafting Liberation
Dear Continuum: Letters to a Poet Crafting Liberation Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie 9780692430903 Poetry Grand Concourse Press Grand Concourse Press It’s a surprise to me that I’ve written this book. I’ve...
Obama Talks Back: Global Lessons - A Dialogue With America’s Young Leaders
Obama Talks Back: Global Lessons - A Dialogue With America’s Young Leaders Barack Obama and Gregory Reed 9781937269388 Nonfiction Amber Books Amber Communications Group Obama Talks Back: "provides...
Tuskegee Love Letters
Tuskegee Love Letters Kim Russell, Luana Knighten, and J. Bernard Knighten 9780615591544 Fiction 702 Entertainment LLC 702 Entertainment LLC A woman uncovers the hidden romantic story of her parents. ...
Killens Review of Arts & Letters (Spring& /& Summer 2010): The World of Book Publishing
Killens Review of Arts & Letters (Spring& /& Summer 2010): The World of Book Publishing Fred Beauford 21551758v1 Fiction Center for Black Literature Medgar Evers College Spring& /& Summer 2010 “The Wo...
Letters to a Young Sister: DeFINE Your Destiny
Letters to a Young Sister: DeFINE Your Destiny Hill Harper 9781592404599 Nonfiction Avery Penguin Random House • Does life sometimes seem so much harder for girls? • Do you ever feel inse...
Prose: Essays And Personal Letters
Prose: Essays And Personal Letters C. Liegh McInnis 9780965577557 Nonfiction Claude L. McInnis Claude L. McInnis Prose: Essays and Letters is a thorough collection of essays, lectures, and personal ...
Jill Marie Snyder
Jill Marie Snyder NONE Jill Marie Snyder, a Connecticut native with degrees from University of Connecticut and Fairfield University, discovered her parents' love letters from 1937-1941 and published ...
Do You Speak American?
Do You Speak American? Kam Williams Book Review "It is one of the paradoxes of American life that white America both is fascinated by black culture and disapproves of it, embracing it and bad-...
Selected Letters of Langston Hughes
Selected Letters of Langston Hughes Langston Hughes 9780375413797 Nonfiction Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Penguin Random House ARNOLD RAMPERSAD, the Sarah Hart Kimball Professor Emeritus in the Hu...
Hold the Flag High: The True Story of the First Black Medal of Honor Winner
Hold the Flag High: The True Story of the First Black Medal of Honor Winner Catherine Clinton 9780060504304 Nonfiction Katherine Tegen Books HarperCollins The true story of the first Black Medal of Fr...
Black Bottom Saints (Paperback)
Black Bottom Saints (Paperback) Alice Randall 9780062970862 Fiction Amistad HarperCollins An enthralling literary tour-de-force that pays tribute to Detroit’s legendary neighborhood, a mecca for jazz,...
Black Bottom Saints
Black Bottom Saints Alice Randall 9780062968623 Fiction Amistad HarperCollins An enthralling literary tour-de-force that pays tribute to Detroit’s legendary neighborhood, a mecca for jazz, sports, and...
Momma: Gone
Momma: Gone Nina Foxx 9781625174499 Fiction Brown Girls Books Brown Girls Books "Momma set me on the jukebox." So begins the personal story of Denise (Sweetie) Wooten, set between a post-civ...
Victory. Stand!: Raising My Fist for Justice
Victory. Stand!: Raising My Fist for Justice Tommie Smith, Derrick Barnes, and Dawud Anyabwile 9781324003908 Fiction Norton Young Readers W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. A groundbreaking and timely graph...
My Favorite Readings from the 2013 National Book Award Finalists
My Favorite Readings from the 2013 National Book Award Finalists Troy Johnson Article I covered this year's National Book Foundation's National Book Awards Finalists Reading for AALBC.com. The readin...
Inspire 2B Inspired
Inspire 2B Inspired Black Barbie 9781790591169 Nonfiction Independently Published Independently Published Motivating one another could be hard, and inspiring someone else could be a resistance. Inspir...
Phat Acceptance
Phat Acceptance Jess Mowry 9781590922675 Fiction Windstorm Creative Windstorm Creative Fourteen-year-old Brandon Williams is blond and blue-eyed with movie star good looks, a generous allowence, and a...
Ralph Ellison: A Life in Letters
Ralph Ellison: A Life in Letters Ralph Ellison 9780812998528 Nonfiction Random House Penguin Random House An autobiography through the previously unpublished letters of the renowned author of Invisibl...
The Scottsboro Boys in Their Own Words: Selected Letters, 1931-1950
The Scottsboro Boys in Their Own Words: Selected Letters, 1931-1950 Kwando M. Kinshasa 9780786472048 Nonfiction McFarland McFarland This is a collection of letters written by the nine African Amer...
The World Wasn’t Ready for You: Stories
The World Wasn’t Ready for You: Stories Justin C. Key 9780063290426 Fiction Harper HarperCollins “The most profound terror is rooted in love—the terror of losing love, of love betrayed, of love in per...
Conversation with the Mann
Conversation with the Mann Thumper Book Review Not since Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man has a first person narrative novel struck me with such a poignant sense of completeness and satisfaction a...
Melissa Sweet
Melissa Sweet 0000000072677126 Melissa Sweet is a prolific illustrator and New York Times bestselling author. Her work spans over 100 books, magazines, and greeting cards. She is a two-time Caldecott...
Russell Freedman
Russell Freedman 0000000373864646 Russell Freedman, an award-winning author of 47 books translated into multiple languages, wasn't always a children's book writer. He worked as a reporter and editor ...
Chris Raschka
Chris Raschka 000000008396928X Chris Raschka, born in 1959, is a renowned author, illustrator, and violist from Pennsylvania. Notable for his books “Hello, Goodbye Window,” and “A Ball for Daisy,” bo...
Kelsey Norris
Kelsey Norris NONE Kelsey Norris is a writer and editor from Alabama. Her debut story collection, House Gone Quiet, is a finalist for the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction. Kelsey Norris is a ...
John A. Williams
John A. Williams 0000000081606231 “…arguably the finest African-American novelist of his generation.” John Alfred Williams (1925-2015), a renowned author and professor, had a distin...
Clarence B. Jones
Clarence B. Jones 0000000036182118 AALBC mourns the passing of Clarence B. Jones Dr. Clarence Benjamin Jones (January 8, 1931 – May 22, 2026) the lawyer who served as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s pe...
Book of Letters
Book of Letters Mary J. Taylor 9780999830901 Nonfiction Sojourner Truth Press Sojourner Truth Press Book Of Letters is a literary archive of historical, sociological, psychological, and cultural data ...
Killens Review of Arts & Letters (Fall& /& Winter 2019): Life at a Crossroads
Killens Review of Arts & Letters (Fall& /& Winter 2019): Life at a Crossroads Clarence V. Reynolds A21551758v11 Fiction Center for Black Literature Medgar Evers College This is the most current issue....
Letters to the Future: Black Women/Radical Writing
Letters to the Future: Black Women/Radical Writing Erica Hunt 9781888553857 Nonfiction Kore Press Kore Press Poetry. African & African American Studies. LGBTQIA Studies. Women’s Studies. Art. Edited b...
Letters from Congo
Letters from Congo Danielle Legros Georges 9781941604052 Poetry Central Square Press Central Square Press LETTERS FROM CONGO, a powerful collection by Haitian-American poet Danielle Legros Georges, in...
Beloved Sisters And Loving Friends: Letters From Rebecca Primus Of Royal Oak, Maryland, And Addie Brown Of Hartford, Connecticut, 1854-1868
Beloved Sisters And Loving Friends: Letters From Rebecca Primus Of Royal Oak, Maryland, And Addie Brown Of Hartford, Connecticut, 1854-1868 Farah Jasmine Griffin 9780345408549 Nonfiction One World/Bal...
Letters to a Young Artist: Straight-up Advice on Making a Life in the Arts-For Actors, Performers, Writers, and Artists of Every Kind
Letters to a Young Artist: Straight-up Advice on Making a Life in the Arts-For Actors, Performers, Writers, and Artists of Every Kind Anna Deavere Smith 9781400032389 Nonfiction Anchor Penguin Random ...
The Color Purple
The Color Purple Angeli R. Rasbury Book Review Alice Walker once told an interviewer, "The black woman is one of America’s greatest heroes… . She has been oppressed beyond recogni...
Letters to a Young Sister
Letters to a Young Sister Kam Williams Book Review ’In Letters to a Young Sister, Hill has covered all the important issues. As a woman, I can't agree more with how import...
Malcolm X at Oxford Union: Racial Politics in a Global Era (Transgressing Boundaries: Studies in Black Politics and Black Communities)
Malcolm X at Oxford Union: Racial Politics in a Global Era (Transgressing Boundaries: Studies in Black Politics and Black Communities) Saladin Ambar 9780199975471 Nonfiction Oxford University Press Ox...
Kwame Nkrumah
Kwame Nkrumah 0000000110549118 Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana's first prime minister and president, led the country to independence from Britain in 1957 and ruled until a 1966 coup. His time in the U.S. greatl...
I Have a Dream: Writings and Speeches That Changed the World
I Have a Dream: Writings and Speeches That Changed the World Martin Luther King, Jr. 9780062505521 Nonfiction HarperOne HarperCollins Special 75th Anniversary Edition "His life informed us, his dream...
Echoes of Cabrini-Green: Letters to My Mother
Echoes of Cabrini-Green: Letters to My Mother Rudolph Elliot Willis 9780809339914 Nonfiction Southern Illinois University Press Southern Illinois University Press A powerful memoir of love, survival, ...
Lace & Pyrite: Letters from Two Gardens
Lace & Pyrite: Letters from Two Gardens Ross Gay and Aimee Nezhukumatathil 9781734580273 Poetry Get Fresh Books Publishing Get Fresh Books Publishing Originally published by Organic Weapon Arts in 201...
Letters to the Sons of Society
Letters to the Sons of Society Shaka Senghor 9780593238011 Nonfiction Convergent Books Penguin Random House The New York Times bestselling author of Writing My Wrongs invites men everywhere on a journ...
Killens Review of Arts & Letters (Fall / Winter 2021): The Beautiful Struggle
Killens Review of Arts & Letters (Fall / Winter 2021): The Beautiful Struggle Clarence V. Reynolds a21551758v12 Fiction Center for Black Literature Medgar Evers College Killens Review of Arts & Letter...
The Prison Letters of Nelson Mandela
The Prison Letters of Nelson Mandela Nelson Mandela 9781631491177 Nonfiction Liveright Publishing Corporation W. W. Norton & Company "Arrested in 1962 as South Africa’s apartheid regime intensified … ...
Light in the Darkness: A Story about How Slaves Learned in Secret
Light in the Darkness: A Story about How Slaves Learned in Secret Lesa Cline-Ransome 9781423134954 Fiction Jump At The Sun Jump At The Sun Rosa and her mama go to school together-in the dark of night,...
Letters to a Young Brother: Manifest Your Destiny
Letters to a Young Brother: Manifest Your Destiny Hill Harper 9781592402496 Nonfiction Avery Penguin Random House Offering inspirational advice in a down-to-earth style, this unique compilation of let...
Remember Me to Harlem: The Letters of Langston Hughes and Carl Van Vechten, 1925-1964
Remember Me to Harlem: The Letters of Langston Hughes and Carl Van Vechten, 1925-1964 Langston Hughes and Carl Van Vechten 9780679451136 Fiction Knopf Penguin Random House These engaging and wonderful...
Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson
Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson George Jackson 9781556522307 Nonfiction Chicago Review Press Chicago Review Press A collection of Jackson’s letters from prison, Soledad Brother i...
Echoes of Cabrini-Green: Letters to my Mother
Echoes of Cabrini-Green: Letters to my Mother Eryka Parker Book Review In Echoes of Cabrini-Green, Rudolph Elliot Willis writes letters to his late mother, narrating the events of his childhood leadi...
The Negro’s or Ethiopian’s Contribution to Art
The Negro’s or Ethiopian’s Contribution to Art Charles C. Seifert 9780933121119 Nonfiction Black Classic Press Black Classic Press Originally published on 1938, The Negro’s Contribution to Art, Seifer...
Every Man a King
Every Man a King Robert Fleming Book Review For those who love the creators of the hard-boiled private dicks from the 1930s such as Dashiell Hammett, James Cain, and Raymond Chandler, Walter Mosley&r...
Applying J.L. Austin: A Black Speech ACT Workbook
Applying J.L. Austin: A Black Speech ACT Workbook Tracie Morris 9781946104656 Nonfiction Chax Press Chax Press What are early elements or features of your relationship to the idea of Blackness vis...
I Have a Dream (Picture Book)
I Have a Dream (Picture Book) Martin Luther King, Jr. 9780375858871 Nonfiction Random House Children’s Books Penguin Random House From Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s daughter, Dr. Bernice A. King: “My ...
The Speech of Angels
The Speech of Angels Sharon Maas 9780007123865 Fiction Bookouture Bookouture Jyothi is a child of the slums and the streets, with a faint memory of past happiness: green hills at dawn, a boy’s clear a...
The Courage to Hope: How I Stood Up to the Politics of Fear
The Courage to Hope: How I Stood Up to the Politics of Fear Kam Williams Book Review “In the summer of 2010, Shirley Sherrod was catapulted into a media storm that blew apart her life…...
Hope On A Tightrope: Words And Wisdom
Hope On A Tightrope: Words And Wisdom Cornel West 9781401930769 Nonfiction SmileyBooks Penguin Random House Includes a free CD! The New York Times best-selling author of Race Matters and Democracy Ma...
Dinah Johnson
Dinah Johnson NONE Dinah Johnson is a renowned author in children's literature, particularly in African American storytelling. Her books, which include titles like Hair Dance! and Sitting Pretty, cel...
The Weary Blues
The Weary Blues Langston Hughes 9780385352970 Poetry Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Penguin Random House LANGSTON HUGHES was born in Joplin, Missouri, in 1902. After graduation from high school, he ...
William L. Andrews
William L. Andrews 0000000108957024 William L. Andrews is E. Maynard Adams Professor of English Emeritus at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has authored, edited, or co-edited more...
William H. Armstrong
William H. Armstrong 0000000121219974 William H. Armstrong, a celebrated author and educator, taught at the Kent School for over 50 years. Known for his award-winning children's book “Sounder”, he ha...
Letters to Misty: How to Move Through Life with Confidence and Grace
Letters to Misty: How to Move Through Life with Confidence and Grace Misty Copeland with Nikki Shannon Smith 9781534443037 Nonfiction Aladdin Paperbacks Simon & Schuster, Inc. New York Times bestselli...