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JUST AS I AM: A Memoir, de Cicely Tyson

The Academy, Tony, and three-time Emmy Award-winning actor and trailblazer, Cicely Tyson, tells her stunning story, looking back at her six-decade career and life.

JUST AS I AM: A Memoir
by Cicely Tyson
HarperCollins, January 2021

“In her long and extraordinary career, Cicely Tyson has not only exceeded as an actor, she has shaped the course of history.” –President Barack Obama, 2016 Presidential Medal of Honor ceremony

Over the course of her career, Cicely Tyson was nominated for 49 television and film awards and won 42, most notably an Oscar, a Tony Award, 3 Emmys, 8 NAACP Image Awards, the African American Film Critics Special Achievement Award, the BAFTA Film Award, the Black Film Critics Circle Award, 4 Black Reel Awards, the Elle Women in Hollywood Award, the Essence Black Women in Hollywood Award, a Gold Derby Award, the Gracie Allen Award, the Hollywood Film Award, 2 National Board of Review Awards, 3 Lifetime Achievement Awards, and many more. She was a Kennedy Center Honoree in 2015 and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Barak Obama in 2016. Most recently, she was featured on the cover of ELLE Magazine’s November 2017 issue, which went on to become one or their most popular and highest grossing issues. She was also on TIME’s February 2019 issue. When interviewed for TIME Magazine in February 2019, she vowed that she would never retire.

Cicely Tyson broke incredible ground for Black women in Hollywood by becoming one of the top Black models in the 1950s, gracing the covers of Ebony and Jet; the First African-American woman to win an Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Television movie (The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, 1974); the first woman to wear her natural hair on television (East Side/West Side, 1963); the highest paid Black actress in the 1980s; and the first Black woman to host Saturday Night Live. She founded the Dance Theatre of Harlem with Arthur Miller and dutifully supported the Cicely L. Tyson Community School of Performing and Fine Arts in New Jersey.

Miss Tyson passed away on January 28, 2021. She is beloved and will be missed by her family and friends.

KILLING THE MOB de Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard

In the tenth book in the multimillion-selling Killing series, Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard take on their most dramatic subject yet: The Mob.

KILLING THE MOB:
The Fight Against Organized Crime in America
by Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard
St. Martin’s Press, May 2021

KILLING THE MOB is the tenth book in Bill O’Reilly’s #1 New York Times bestselling series of popular narrative histories, with sales of nearly 18 million copies worldwide, and over 320 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. O’Reilly and co-author Martin Dugard trace the brutal history of 20th Century organized crime in the United States, and expertly plumb the history of this nation’s most notorious serial robbers, conmen, murderers, and especially, mob family bosses. Covering the period from the 1930s to the 1980s, O’Reilly and Dugard trace the prohibition-busting bank robbers of the Depression Era, such as John Dillinger, Bonnie & Clyde, Pretty Boy Floyd and Baby-Face Nelson. In addition, the authors highlight the creation of the Mafia Commission, the power struggles within the “Five Families,” the growth of the FBI under J. Edgar Hoover, the mob battles to control Cuba, Las Vegas and Hollywood, as well as the personal war between the U.S. Attorney General Bobby Kennedy and legendary Teamsters boss Jimmy Hoffa.
O’Reilly and Dugard turn these legendary criminals and their true-life escapades into a read that rivals the most riveting crime novel. With Killing the Mob, their hit series is primed for its greatest success yet.

Bill O’Reilly‘s success in broadcasting and publishing is unmatched. He was the iconic anchor of The O’Reilly Factor, the highest-rated cable news broadcast in the nation for 16 consecutive years. His website BillOReilly.com is followed by millions all over the world, his No Spin News is broadcast weekday nights on The First TV, and his O’Reilly Update is heard weekdays on more than 225 radio stations across the country. He has authored an astonishing fifteen #1 bestsellers; his historical Killing series is the bestselling nonfiction series of all time, with nearly 18 million books in print. O’Reilly has received a number of journalism accolades, including three Emmys. He holds a History degree from Marist College, a master’s degree in Broadcast Journalism from Boston University, and a master’s degree from Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. O’Reilly lives on Long Island where he was raised. His philanthropic enterprises have raised tens of millions for people in need and wounded American veterans.
Martin Dugard is the New York Times bestselling author of several books of history, among them the Killing series, Into Africa, and The Explorers. He and his wife live in Southern California with their three sons.

HOW THE WORD IS PASSED by Clint Smith

The Atlantic staff writer and poet Clint Smith’s revealing, contemporary portrait of America as a slave-owning nation.

HOW THE WORD IS PASSED:
A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
by Clint Smith
Little, Brown, June 2021

Beginning in his own hometown of New Orleans, Clint Smith leads the reader through an unforgettable tour of monuments and landmarks—those that are honest about the past and those that are not—that offer an intergenerational story of how slavery has been central in shaping our nation’s collective history, and ourselves. It is the story of the Monticello Plantation in Virginia, the estate where Thomas Jefferson wrote letters espousing the urgent need for liberty while enslaving over 400 people on the premises. It is the story of the Whitney Plantation, one of the only former plantations devoted to preserving the experience of the enslaved people whose lives and work sustained it. It is the story of Angola, a former plantation-turned maximum security prison in Louisiana that is filled with Black men who work across the 18,000-acre land for virtually no pay. And it is the story of Blandford Cemetery, the final resting place of tens of thousands of Confederate soldiers. In a deeply researched and transporting exploration of the legacy of slavery and its imprint on centuries of American history, HOW THE WORD IS PASSED illustrates how some of our country’s most essential stories are hidden in plain view—whether in places we might drive by on our way to work, holidays such as Juneteenth, or entire neighborhoods—like downtown Manhattan—on which the brutal history of the trade in enslaved men, women and children has been deeply imprinted.
Informed by scholarship and brought alive by the story of people living today, Clint Smith’s debut work of nonfiction is a landmark work of reflection and insight that offers a new understanding of the hopeful role that memory and history can play in making sense of our country and how it has come to be.

Clint Smith is a staff writer at The Atlantic and the author of the poetry collection Counting Descent. The book won the 2017 Literary Award for Best Poetry Book from the Black Caucus of the American Library Association and was a finalist for an NAACP Image Award. His writing has been published in The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, Poetry Magazine, The Paris Review and elsewhere. Born and raised in New Orleans, he received his B.A. in English from Davidson College and his Ph.D. in Education from Harvard University.

WHEN STARS ARE SCATTERED dans la selection « 2020 Notable Children’s Books » de la New York Times Book Review

En plus de nombreuses distinctions, WHEN STARS ARE SCATTERED a récemment été choisi par la Book Review du New York Times pour leur sélection des 25 meilleurs livres jeunesse de 2020 (voir la liste complète). Dans cette bande-dessinée middle-grade, publiée par Dial Books for Young Readers en avril 2020, Victoria Jamieson, autrice-illustratrice du best-seller Roller Girl, a recueilli et donné vie au témoignage du Somalien Omar Mohamed sur son enfance dans un camp de réfugiés.

Omar et son jeune frère Hassan ont passé la plus grande partie de leur vie à Dadaab, un camp de réfugiés au Kenya. La vie y est dure : jamais assez de nourriture, rien à faire, et pas d’accès aux soins médicaux dont Hassan a besoin. Quand une occasion d’être scolarisé se présente, Omar sait que cela pourrait être une chance de changer leur avenir à tous les deux… mais aller à l’école signifierait aussi quitter chaque jour son frère, le seul membre de sa famille qui lui reste.

 

• National Book Award Finalist
• Amazon Best Children’s Book of 2020
• School Library Journal Best Book of 2020
• Kirkus Best Children’s Book of 2020
• NYPL Best Book for Kids
• NPR’s Book Concierge Pick…

“Through Omar’s journey, and those of his friends and family members, readers get a close, powerful view of the trauma and uncertainty that attend life as a refugee as well as the faith, love, and support from unexpected quarters that get people through it. . . This engaging, heartwarming story does everything one can ask of a book, and then some.” —Kirkus, starred review

“Mohamed’s experience is unfortunately not unique, but it is told with grace, humility, and forgiveness. This beautiful memoir is not to be missed.” —Booklist, starred review

“Jamieson and Mohamed together craft a cohesive, winding story that balances daily life and boredom, past traumas, and unforeseen outcomes alongside camp denizens’ ingenuity and community . . . colorist Iman Geddy’s deep purple skies drive home the title. The result of this team effort is a personal and poignant entry point for young readers trying to understand an unfair world.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review

“Over the next fifteen years chronicled in this moving, slightly fictionalized graphic novel, the boys grow to manhood in an overcrowded tent city . . . Jamieson’s artwork, affectionately depicting resilient kids who manage to carve out lives in a community with few solid prospects, reprises the inviting ebullience readers will recognize from Roller Girl and All’s Faire. ”  —BCCB

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THE BETRAYAL de Robert Mazur

The follow-up to Mazur’s New York Times bestselling memoir The Infiltrator, of which the movie version came out in 2016 starring Bryan Cranston as Mazur.

THE BETRAYAL:
My Undercover Struggle With Deceit, Corruption & Death
by Robert Mazur
Amazon Publishing, Summer 2022

After the events of The Infiltrator, the story’s main character still wants more adrenaline. He’s come to realize the chase is like a drug for him when he’s recruited by the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) to be the lead undercover agent in another dangerous two-year covert operation. The offer to Special Agent Robert Mazur is to infiltrate the corrupt financial networks of Panama and Colombia in order to become embedded as a money launderer within Colombia’s notorious Cali Drug Cartel. He couldn’t say “No” because this was likely his last chance to resume his obsession—an addicted desire to expose more international banks and businesses laundering money and power into the heart of the underworld.

Robert Mazur was a federal agent for 27 years. During 5 years of his law enforcement career he was a long-term undercover agent, operating in deep cover within the underworld as a high-level money launderer for senior members of Colombian drug cartels. He not only dealt directly with cartel leaders, but also functioned as their counduit to corrupt international bankers around the world. He is court-certified in both the U.S. and Canada as an expert in money laundering. Mr. Mazur has been a significant contributor to news and media outlets, including the New York Times, PBS, ABC and NBC. His first book, The Infiltrator (also available) was made into a feature film starring Bryan Cranston.