Standing no more than five-feet, seven-inches; tall, Sam Langford was one of the 20th century's greatest fighters. In this biography, his life story is told in great and entertaining detail. Over 100 photographs are included. Sam was a great black prizefighter in an era when the color line was easily cited by white opponents wanting to avoid meeting him in the ring. Ring magazine editor Nat Fleischer ranked Langford among his favorites, stating, 'Sam was endowed with everything. He possessed strength, agility, cleverness, hitting power, a good thinking cap and an abundance of courage. He feared no one. But he had the fatal gift of being too good, and that's why he often had to give away weight in early days and make agreements with opponents. Many of those who agreed to fight him, especially of his own race, wanted an assurance that he would be merciful or insisted on a bout of not more than six rounds.' This biography brings to light Sam Langford's remarkable talents and life.

Sam Langford: Boxing's Greatest Uncrowned Champion

Biographies & Memoirs

Moyle, Clay

Community & Culture

Bennett & Hastings Pub

"This journey towards the remembrance and recognition of one’s true self awaits us all. Nothing can stop it. As we so beautifully see in these pages, not even the most tremendous pain can halt the flowering of the spirit—if we refuse to let it. In that sense, this is not a book about agony of abuse—be it sexual, physical or emotional. This is a book about healing, about coming together, about embracing the love and forgiveness that it takes to reclaim the most tender and vulnerable parts of the self. This is a book about one woman’s journey through grief and fear into authentic freedom.That is a freed woman’s dance." from the Foreword by Kuwana Haulsey, Author, Red Moon and Angel of Harlem  This is the story of Doris Cope's first eighteen years. Growing up in the deep south, she was the child of parents struggling to survive. They ran a saloon, which eventually moved into their home. This, and other circumstance, exposed Doris and her siblings to danger. Although she was betrayed and hurt on many fronts, Doris finds her way through and is able to live a joyful life.

A Freed Woman's Dance

Cope, Doris

Memoirs

CHEESE DELUXE: A Memoir, is a collection of mostly true tales of a group of baby boomers in a time of transition. They are high school seniors, full of their own good fortune, bright prospects and parents’ money, unaware of a world waiting impatiently to gobble them up. But they are beginning to get some inkling of that world as they make tentative forays into it and then come rushing back to the shelter of home. That home is the Samoa Drive In, a classic teen hangout, and purveyor of the Cheese Deluxe, one of the world’s best burgers. The time is 1965, and the place is an upper middle class suburb of Seattle called Mercer Island, known for fancy houses on the lake, one of the best public school systems in America, and an almost entirely white citizenry composed of attorneys, doctors, accountants, middle management, and the ubiquitous Boeing engineers of the Northwest 1960s. It is in many ways an idyllic place to grow up, the kind of community where one of the “gangs” in high school is made up of members of the drama club. Moreover, the class of ’65 is the last drug-free class in America―at least on the West Coast―as well as the last class where the boys don’t feel the increasingly ominous presence of a war in Southeast Asia awaiting them if they opt out, drop out or flunk out of college. Cheese Deluxe author Greg Palmer was a member of the Mercer Island Class of ’65, who worked evenings, weekends, and all summer after graduation as the Samoa’s main cook. Over many a Cheese Deluxe he and his fellow Samoans enjoyed the vicarious escapades of their colleagues. Sometimes as a participant, sometimes as an observer and sometimes as a confessor, Palmer tells fourteen stories; some romances, some comedies and one or two tragedies.

Cheese Deluxe

Palmer, Greg

A Foreword Reviews IndieFAB Award Finalist for 2015 History Book of the Year! Impeccable scholarship wrapped in page-turning prose: John Surratt: The Lincoln Assassin Who Got Away presents an astonishing new perspective on the Lincoln Assassination. Previous books and films have focused on the triggerman, John Wilkes Booth, or the military trial of the conspirators and the hanging of Mary E. Surratt, John Surratt s mother, but no major book has focused on this bold and clever Confederate Secret Service agent who was Booth s closest associate during the four months leading up to the assassination. Surratt is the man who met with the Confederate high command just weeks prior to the assassination! Adding to the intrigue, Surratt s two-year run from the law is a fascinating adventure, spanning the globe from New York to Canada, Great Britain, France, Italy and Egypt. At one point Surratt joined the Pope s army in Italy, until he was unmasked by a former acquaintance who tracked him across the ocean and the European Continent. Arrested by order of the Pope, Surratt escaped from the hilltop castle of Veroli by a daring leap over a parapet into a 100-foot chasm.John Surratt: The Lincoln Assassin Who Got Away explores the relationships that defined John Surratt s life: his love-hate for his college chum and bed-mate Louis J. Weichmann, who testified against him and his mother; his adventures with and possible love for the mysterious veiled lady spy, Sarah Nettie Slater; and his profound guilt over his executed mother, whom he abandoned to save his own skin. Ultimately a hung jury freed him from any punishment for the crime of the century other than survival at the expense of his soul.

John Surratt: The Lincoln Assassin Who Got Away

Schein, Michael

Historical

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Sam Langford: Boxing's Greatest Uncrowned Champion

A Freed Woman's Dance

Cheese Deluxe

John Surratt: The Lincoln Assassin Who Got Away