Denise LaSalle memoir, Arshay Cooper West Side high school rowing tale, 6 more must-read books
(World News USA)

Singer Denise LaSalle in 2009. | AP ‘A Most Beautiful Thing: The True Story of America`s First All-Black High School Rowing Team` recounts Cooper`s experience as a Manley Career Academy student. Here`s the lowdown on some of the latest must-read new books. ‘Always the Queen: The Denise LaSalle Story` by Denise LaSalle with David Whiteis University of Illinois Press, nonfiction, $19.95 What it`s about : A posthumous memoir from blues and soul singer Denise LaSalle, who died in 2018, written with Chicago writer David Whiteis, takes us from her childhood picking cotton and dreaming of performing in Belzoni, Mississippi, to her move to Chicago as a teenager and her hits “Trapped by a Thing...