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Running Around Town: An Ann Arbor Memoir
$18.00 Add to cartThis collection of essays shares the observations of an energetic boy living in an anything-but-simple time: the mercurial decades of the 1960s and 1970s in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Running Around Town bri
- Author: Postema, Stephen K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 220
- Publish Date: July 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1956697489
- Language: English
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Prince Among Slaves (Anniversary)
$20.99 Add to cartIn this remarkable work, Terry Alford tells the story of Abd al Rahman Ibrahima, a Muslim slave who, in 1807, was recognized by an Irish ship’s surgeon as the son of an African king who had saved his … [more below]
- Author: Alford, Terry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 19 2007
- ISBN10: 019532045X
- Language: English
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Home in Exile: Where She Uncovered the Freedom to Write Her Own Story
$19.99 Add to cartWhen Home Becomes Hostile, Where Do You Belong?
Author Liz Matney weaves a courageous and poetic memoir of faith, identity, and resilience across generations. Born in the US but shaped by her family’s
- Author: Matney, Liz
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 158
- Publish Date: June 30 2025
- ISBN10: 1964251745
- Language: English
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The Vacation: A Teenage Migrant Farmworker’s Experience Picking Cherries in Michigan
$24.95 Add to cartThe Vacation: A Teenage Migrant Farmworker’s Experience Picking Cherries in Michigan is a coming-of-age story that intertwines the bonds of family and friends, emphasizes the importance of heritage, c
- Author: Fuentes, Robert Carlos
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 278
- Publish Date: June 12 2025
- ISBN10: 9798998502903
- Language: English
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Where the Valley Widens
$23.99 Add to cartIn Where the Valley Widens, Lindsey Williams explores classroom life and the daunting realities that both students and teachers face in our schools. Young and idealistic, Mrs. Williams begins her jour
- Author: Williams, Lindsey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: July 22 2025
- ISBN10: 9798991456388
- Language: English
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Escaping Castro – The Refugee Edit: The Biography of Mary and Eduardo
$12.99 Add to cartFrom Communism to Freedom: A Granddaughter’s Journey into Her Grandparents’ Heroic Cuban Escape
Every culinary expedition has a beginning, and in this compelling biography, Amber Garcia-Rameau’s journe
- Author: Garcia-Rameau, Amber
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 78
- Publish Date: June 03 2025
- ISBN10: 9798822979291
- Language: English
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Simplified Choices: A Family Memoir of Latvia, World War II and Identity
$14.99 Add to cart“Spigulis-DeSnyder is a meticulous and scrupulous writer who looks carefully at each turn in the lives of her native Latvian family members and how they impact her own life”
Baron Wormser, author of S
- Author: Spigulis-Desnyder, Anita
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 294
- Publish Date: November 08 2024
- ISBN10: 9798330501755
- Language: English
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They Still Call Me Doctor: My Life with Multiple Sclerosis… A Physician’s Journey with MS
$15.95 Add to cartDr. Bachow spent her childhood in the inner city, growing up in the Brooklyn projects. Blessed with the necessary academic skills and personality, she fought her way out of her humble beginnings to ac
- Author: Bachow M. D., Barbara Henick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 124
- Publish Date: May 22 2024
- ISBN10: 9798889823957
- Language: English
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I Lived to Tell the World: Stories from Survivors of Holocaust, Genocide, and the Atrocities of War
$29.95 Add to cartAs Americans increasingly question how each of us fits into our nation’s cultural tapestry, I Lived to Tell the World presents thirteen inspiring profiles of refugees who have settled in Oregon. They
- Author: Mehren, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 26 2024
- ISBN10: 196264507X
- Language: English
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Malcolm X Speaks: Selected Speeches and Statements
$18.00 Add to cart“Policies change, and programs change, according to time. But objective never changes. You might change your method of achieving the objective, but the objective never changes. Our objective is comple
- Author: X, Malcolm
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 20 2024
- ISBN10: 0802160700
- Language: English
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Bones Worth Breaking: A Memoir
$18.00 Read moreBones Worth Breaking is a portrait of the unbreakable bond between brothers and a reckoning with the global forces that shaped them.
Nobody around David Martinez saw how quickly he was breaking apart e- Author: Martinez, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: April 09 2024
- ISBN10: 0374610959
- Language: English
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This Magnetic North: Candid Conversations on a Changing Northern Michigan
$34.95 Add to cartWhat happens when a place is so beautiful that everyone wants to go there–and then they stay?
This book explores a phenomenon occurring around Michigan’s Great Lakes and other high-demand scenic loc… [more below]- Author: Mulherin, Tim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 260
- Publish Date: June 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1611865360
- Language: English
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The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks (10th Anniversary Edition)
$22.00 Add to cart2014 NAACP Image Award Winner: Outstanding Literary Work – Biography / Auto Biography
2013 Letitia Woods Brown Award from the Association of Black Women Historians Choice Top 25 Academic Titles for 20- Author: Theoharis, Jeanne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 07 2025
- ISBN10: 0807020613
- Language: English
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Baltic Souls: Remarkable Life Stories from Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania
$22.00 Add to cartA monumental journey through Baltic history and culture, in which we encounter well-known personalities and forgotten ones, and a disconcerting picture of Europe in the twentieth century.
From 1999 to
- Author: Brokken, Jan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: January 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1957363940
- Language: English
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The Color of Family: History, Race, and the Politics of Ancestry
$30.00 Read moreA uniquely blended personal family history and history of the changing definitions of race in America.
A zealous eugenicist ran Virginia’s Bureau of Vital Statistics in the first half of the twentiet- Author: O’Malley, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 22 2024
- ISBN10: 0226835901
- Language: English
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Magic in the Mess
$17.99 Add to cartFrom an early age, Molly Booker was taught to follow rules, please others, and meet high standards. This drive for perfection became her most significant asset and heaviest burden, manifesting as acad
- Author: Booker, Molly
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 278
- Publish Date: January 14 2025
- ISBN10: 9.79899E+12
- Language: English
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Magic in the Mess
$24.99 Add to cartFrom an early age, Molly Booker was taught to follow rules, please others, and meet high standards. This drive for perfection became her most significant asset and heaviest burden, manifesting as acad
- Author: Booker, Molly
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 278
- Publish Date: January 14 2025
- ISBN10: 9.79899E+12
- Language: English
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Teaching in the Dark: A Memoir
$19.95 Add to cartA young teacher buys a one-way ticket to Shishmaref, Alaska. Within minutes of landing, she finds herself dealing with unexpected, rustic accommodations, and the culture shock of living in a remote I?… [more below]
- Author: Genét Simone
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 530
- Publish Date: October 12 2023
- ISBN10: 9.79877E+12
- Language: English
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Finest Kind: Tales of a Brant Rock Lobsterman
$25.99 Add to cartDonal Staples joins the Navy at seventeen and soon finds himself in the Battle of Okinawa, one of the defining conflicts of World War II. Returning home a confident young man, he makes up for lost tim… [more below]
- Author: Staples-Bortner, Sandra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 306
- Publish Date: February 10 2025
- ISBN10: 1038317908
- Language: English
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The Dressmaker of Khair Khana
$18.99 Add to cart“A courageous Afghan woman and her sisters success as unlikely entrepreneurs in this inspiring true story.” — O, The Oprah Magazine
The New York Times bestseller, written by a former reporter for ABC
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Lemmon, Gayle Tzemach
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 17 2024
- ISBN10: 0061732478
- Language: English
