James Brown. Counterpoint, $26 (256p) ISBN 978-1-64009-286-0
Novelist Brown (The Los Angeles Diaries) depicts his addiction and subsequent long-term sobriety in this riveting memoir. Brown and his wife, Freddie, were retired and living in sleepy Lake Arrowhead, Calif., before developing opiate addictions that
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James Brown, Author, Marc Eliot, Author , with an intro. by Marc Eliot. NAL $24.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-451-21393-8
"Others may have followed in my wake, but I was the one who turned racist minstrelsy into Black soul—and by doing so, became a cultural force." So claims Brown in the opening pages of his garrulous, vernacular memoir written with the...
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James Brown, Author, Theodore E. Brown, Author . Harvard Univ. $26 (256p) ISBN 978-0-674-00652-2
Postmodernists and social constructionists claim that there can be no such thing as "objective science." Indeed, many argue that the underlying "facts" of science are merely social conventions and that any view of the natural world...
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James Brown, Author, Nathan Whitaker, With, Tony Dungy, Foreword by with Nathan Whitaker. FaithWords $24.99 (201p) ISBN 978-0-446-54117-6
Media personalities tend to have big egos. Brown, a sports broadcaster and host of The NFL Today
, does not fit this mold. The author presents his life story, warts and all, hoping to inspire readers to embrace a fulfilling life. In college, Brown...
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James Brown, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $22.95 (287p) ISBN 978-0-15-100067-8
In his fourth novel, Brown ( Hot Wire ) tells the intriguing story of Bobby Barlow, a teenaged boy growing up in the early '70s with a father who is more son than parent. Floyd Barlow is a laborer, gambler and occasional con man who drifts from one...
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James Brown, Author William Morrow & Company $18.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-688-06842-4
In this gripping novel, a young man looks back over his troubled adolescence, while at the same time exploring the events leading to his older brother's suicide. Jay and Mike McKinney are teenagers when their mother, Gina, is arrested for arson....
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James Brown, Author . Morrow $21.95 (200p) ISBN 978-0-06-052151-6
Novelist Brown (Lucky Town; Hot Wire; etc.) mines the explosive territory of his own harsh and complicated life in this gut-wrenching memoir. The youngest child of a mentally ill mother and an absent father, Brown (b. 1957) grew up in the shadow of...
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Bruce Tucker, With, James Brown, Author Thunder's Mouth Press $13.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-938410-97-3
Published in hardcover in 1986--before ``the hardest working man in show business'' was arrested in Georgia--this new edition updates an autobiography that PW called ``both involving and inspirational.'' Photos. (July)
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James Brown. Candlewick, $6.99 (16p) ISBN 978-0-7636-5931-8
Readers meet six common farm animals, including a pig, sheep, and goose, in this stylish board book from British illustrator Brown. The book is a showcase for his understated hand-printed lino prints: each animal appears in profile, set against...
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James Brown. Candlewick, $25 (64p) ISBN 978-0-7636-9879-9
Brown (A World of Information) delivers visually dramatic graphic renderings of 30 cities in screenprints reminiscent of vintage travel posters, with iconic representations of the city’s monuments and symbolic objects. Color schemes frequently...
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