Veronica Chambers, Author . Doubleday $23.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-385-50638-0
In a series of interrelated essays, Chambers (Mama's Girl), explores the lives of middle- and upper-middle-class African-American women. Throughout, Chambers nicely weaves historical and literary anecdotes into her insightful narrative. While...
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Veronica Chambers, Author . Free Press $27 (276p) ISBN 978-0-7432-7156-1
In her fifth book, Chambers (Mama's Girl
) reports on dramatic changes in women's lives in postbust Japan, where, she notes, men are no longer the "financial titans" and where women—international travelers and avid consumersR
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Veronica Chambers, Author Riverhead Hardcover $22.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-57322-030-9
This involving biography, sympathetic but not sycophantic, presents Jesse Jackson as a ""deeply contrary"" American figure with ambitions personal and collective, transcendent and corporeal. White Southerner Frady (Wallace) writes in Faulknerian...
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Edited by Veronica Chambers. St. Martin’s, $25.99 (240p) ISBN 978-1-250-11496-9
This charming series of 16 essays about Michelle Obama, deftly assembled by editor Chambers (Mama’s Girl), finds inspiration in various facets of the 46th First Lady of the United States as her time in that role draws to a close. Chirlane McCray,...
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Edited by Veronica Chambers. St. Martin’s, $26.99 (240p) ISBN 978-1-250-20052-5
Chambers (The Meaning of Michelle) collects 19 insightful essays celebrating the cultural power of Beyoncé. Contributors—
academics, designers, and journalists among them—each address different aspects of the singer’s fame, glamour, and political...
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Veronica Chambers, illus. by Paul Ryding. HarperCollins, $16.99 (224p) ISBN 978-0-06-279625-7
In a foreword to this eclectic roundup of biographical sketches, New Jersey Senator Cory Booker underscores the importance of “pay[ing] back the blessings we have inherited from those who have resisted with our own continued struggle, service, and...
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Veronica Chambers, Author, Julie Maren, Illustrator Dial Books $16.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-8037-2970-4
Chambers's (Marisol and Magdalena) poetic, at times theatrical, portrait of the famous salsa singer begins with Cruz's childhood in Havana. Neighbors gathered outside the open windows of her family home when she sang lullabies to her younger...
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Veronica Chambers, Author, Tonya Lewis-Lee, Introduction by Hyperion Books $18.99 (72p) ISBN 978-0-7868-0512-9
Essays, photographs and snazzy graphics combine in Double Dutch: A Celebration of Jump Rope, Rhyme, and Sisterhood by Veronica Chambers. The volume chronicles the history of the sport and profiles double-Dutch devotees, including eight-year-old...
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Robin Roberts with Veronica Chambers. Grand Central, $27 (272p) ISBN 978-1-4555-7845-0
In this soulful memoir, the host of Good Morning America recounts her recent struggle with illness and path to recovery. The book begins in 2012, when Roberts was first diagnosed with MDS (a disease sometimes referred to as pre-leukemia), and traces
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Eric Ripert, with Veronica Chambers. Random House, $28 (220p) ISBN 978-0-8129-9298-4
Food enthusiasts who have seen the finesse of Ripert’s delicate plates on television shows and have attempted recipes from Le Bernardin Cookbook will be delighted to meet the man behind the recipes. In this engaging memoir, Ripert shares his life as
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Alexander Smalls, with Veronica Chambers. Flatiron, $35 (240p) ISBN 978-1-250-09809-2
Chef Smalls, a Grammy-winning opera singer and New York City restaurateur, shares more than 75 Creole and Low Country recipes in this passionate and clever collection. With food writer Chambers, Smalls creates a “playlist” of “essential African-Ameri
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Veronica Chambers. Little, Brown, $18.99 (400p) ISBN 978-0-316-50016-6
Chambers (Finish the Fight) crafts a fictionalized account of the professional and romantic life of civil rights figure Ida B. Wells in this expansive historical novel. As the daughter of formerly enslaved people who died when she was a child,...
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Veronica Chambers, illus. by Rachelle Baker. Dial, $18.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-8037-3089-2
Chambers captures the essence of trailblazing advocate and politician Shirley Chisholm with a conversational narrative that highlights action words representative of the stateswoman. Declaring “verbs are words that move the world forward,” the...
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Veronica Chambers, with Jennifer Harlan. Versify, $21.99 (160p) ISBN 978-0-358-57341-8
With fellow New York Times editor Jennifer Harlan and other Times staffers, Chambers offers a stylishly organized visual history and exploration of the Black Lives Matter movement, as well as the protests that led up to its creation and global...
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Veronica Chambers, illus. by Sujean Rim. Dial, $17.99 (272p) ISBN 978-0-525-55629-9
Afro-Panamanian American 10-year-old Flora Violeta LeFevre and her Argentinian American BFF Clara Ocampo Londra have experienced everything together, including agonizing Saturday Spanish lessons and daring adventures at the local skate park. So...
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Veronica Chambers and the Staff of the New York Times, illus. by various. Versify, $18.99 (144p) ISBN 978-0-358-40830-7
Declaring “suffrage history needs a makeover,” Chambers and other staff writers at the New York Times mark the centenary of the 19th Amendment’s ratification with this refreshing compilation featuring some of the American suffrage movement’s unsung...
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