Max Rodriguez talked about his favorite books being published this fall:

Mona Smith, Becoming Something: The Story of Canada Lee;

David Waldstreicher, Runaway America: Benjamin Franklin, Slavery, and the American Revolution;

Frances Clayton Gray and Yanick Rice Lamb, Born to Win: The Authorized Biography of Althea Gibson;

Nadine Cohodas, Queen: The Life and Music of Dinah Washington; and

Angela Fisher and Carol Beckwith, Faces of Africa.