Ten-year-old Bud, a motherless boy living in Flint, Michigan, during the Great Depression, escapes a bad foster home and sets out in search of the man he believes to be his father--the renowned bandleader, H.E. Calloway of Grand Rapids.

Delivers new revelations about Michael Jackson's controversial life and legacy: his multiple plastic surgeries, his skin bleaching, his sexual identity, and his potentially fatal genetic condition ... and dispels the popular myths" about the King of Pop. The conclusion was written after "Michael Jackson's died just as this book was going to press."

A mother struggles to save a daughter from abduction by a pharmaceutical company, seeking to harvest the girl's healing powers. The girl, Amanda Dodson, 5, can even raise people from the dead, problem is the company's harvesting procedures result in the healer's death.

"Young Richard Antoine White and his mother don't have a key to a room or a house. Sometimes they have shelter, but they never have a place to call home. Still, they have each other, and Richard believes he can look after his mother, even as she struggles with alcoholism and sometimes disappears, sending Richard into loops of visiting familiar spots until he finds her again. And he always does—until one night, when he almost dies searching for her...

Escaping slavery to become a street performer in mid-nineteenth-century Philadelphia, Henry Sims hides his identity to join a troupe of white minstrels, until a ruthless slave hunter threatens his life.

A tribute to the artist known as Prince from the photographer who collaborated with him for a quarter of a century, documenting the career of one of the world's great superstars.

"The . . . story of Blind Willie Johnson--the legendary Texas musician whose song "Dark Was the Night" was included on the Voyager I space probe's Golden Record"--

The brilliant coming-of-age-and-into-superstardom story of one of the greatest artists of all time, in his own wordsfeaturing never-before-seen photos, original scrapbooks and lyric sheets, and the exquisite memoir he began writing before his tragic death Prince was a musical genius, one of the most beloved, accomplished, and acclaimed musicians of our time. He was a startlingly original visionary with an imagination deep enough to whip up whole worlds,...

A biography of one of the most famous gospel singers, also known as 'The Queen of Soul.'

The E Street Band member relates stories of adventures shared with Bruce Springsteen and their fellow performers as well as when the author was on his own, describing bizarre encounters, inspirational moments, and acts of kindness that inspired popular songs.