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Mirror to America: The Autobiography of John Hope Franklin
$29.00 Add to cartJohn Hope Franklin lived through America’s most defining twentieth-century transformation, the dismantling of legally protected racial segregation. A renowned scholar, he has explored that transformat
- Author: Franklin, John Hope
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: October 31 2006
- ISBN10: 0374530475
- Language: English
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The Book Collectors: A Band of Syrian Rebels and the Stories That Carried Them Through a War
$17.00 Add to cartA BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: NPR
An urgent and compelling account of great bravery and passion. –Susan Orlean Award-winning journalist Delphine Minoui recounts the true story of a band of young rebels, a- Author: Minoui, Delphine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 19 2021
- ISBN10: 125080017X
- Language: English
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A Boy, an Orphanage, a Cuban Refugee
$18.95 Add to cartI became a man when I was nine. My other option was death.
I just didn’t know it then, but the truth is that I . . . we . . . had to leave.
Why would parents send their children, alone, to a foreign cou
- Author: Dora, Tony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 246
- Publish Date: March 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1646638794
- Language: English
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Searching for Zion
$18.00 Add to cart“A brilliant illustration of the ways in which race is an artificial construct that, like beauty, is often a matter of perspective.”–The Wall Street Journal
“Frank and expansive . . . Each impression- Author: Raboteau, Emily
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 11 2014
- ISBN10: 0802122272
- Language: English
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American Slaves Tell Their Stories: Six Interviews
$8.95 Add to cartVivid narratives recall life during and just after the Civil War, not only describing cruel punishments, divided families, and debilitating labor, but also providing information about religious belief… [more below]
- Series: Dover Books on Americana
- Author: Albert, Octavia V. Rogers
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 87
- Publish Date: April 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0486441903
- Language: English
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A Creek Runs Through This Driftless Land: A Farm Family’s Journey Toward a Land Ethic
$36.00 Add to cartRichard (Dick) and his wife Kim co-own the Cates Family Farm LLC in Wyoming Township Iowa County with their son Eric and his wife Kiley and their daughter Shannon and her husband Dan. Dick is a life-l
- Author: Cates, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 243
- Publish Date: September 06 2024
- ISBN10: 1955656770
- Language: English
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Frederick Douglass: Autobiographies (Loa #68): Narrative of the Life / My Bondage and My Freedom / Life and Times
$42.50 Read moreHenry Louis Gates, Jr. presents the only authoritative edition of all three autobiographies by the escaped slave who became a great American leader.
Here in this Library of America volume are collecte- Series: Library of America #68
- Author: Douglass, Frederick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 1126
- Publish Date: February 01 1994
- ISBN10: 0940450798
- Language: English
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Hurricane: The Miraculous Journey of Rubin Carter
$16.95 Add to cartIn 1967, the black boxer Rubin “Hurricane” Carter and a young acquaintance, John Artis, were wrongly convicted of triple murder by an all-white jury in Paterson, New Jersey. Over the next decade, Cart… [more below]
- Author: Hirsch, James S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 20 2000
- ISBN10: 0618087281
- Language: English
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The Church of Cheese: Gypsy Ritual in the American Heyday
$15.95 Add to cartA disapora spread over five continents, Gypsies have yet to enter the American public consciousness, yet they have been arriving since the late sixteenth century. Columbus brought several, forcibly tr… [more below]
- Author: Miller, Carol
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: January 01 2010
- ISBN10: 1934848611
- Language: English
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The Life and Adventures of Nat Love
$14.95 Add to cartThousands of black cowpunchers drove cattle up the Chisholm Trail after the Civil War, but only Nat Love wrote about his experiences. Born to slaves in Davidson County, Tennessee, the newly freed Love… [more below]
- Series: Blacks in the American West
- Author: Love, Nat
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 162
- Publish Date: September 01 1995
- ISBN10: 0803279558
- Language: English
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Coltrane: The Story of a Sound
$23.00 Add to cartJohn Coltrane left an indelible mark on the world, but what was the essence of his achievement that makes him so prized forty years after his death? What were the factors that helped Coltrane become w
- Author: Ratliff, Ben
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 28 2008
- ISBN10: 0312427786
- Language: English
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Jackie Robinson and the Integration of Baseball
$23.99 Add to cart“No athlete performed at a higher level through greater stress than Jackie Robinson.” -Scott Simon
The integration of baseball in 1947 had undeniable significance for the civil rights movement and Ame- Series: Turning Points in History #16
- Author: Simon, Scott
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: September 01 2002
- ISBN10: 047126153X
- Language: English
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Shelf Life: Chronicles of a Cairo Bookseller
$18.00 Add to cart“As a bookseller, I loved Shelf Life for the chance to peer behind the curtain of Diwan, Nadia Wassef ‘s bookstore–the way that the personal is inextricable from the professional, the way that failur
- Author: Wassef, Nadia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 1250858860
- Language: English
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My Two Italies: A Personal and Cultural History
$18.00 Add to cartA charming, informative personal history that blends the anecdotal, historical, and downright unusual
The child of Italian immigrants and an award-winning scholar of Italian literature, Joseph Luzzi s- Author: Luzzi, Joseph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: July 14 2015
- ISBN10: 0374535396
- Language: English
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The Interesting Narrative and Other Writings
$15.00 Add to cartCompletely revised and edited with an introduction and notes by Vincent Carretta
An exciting and often terrifying adventure story, as well as an important precursor to such famous nineteenth-century s- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Equiano, Olaudah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: May 27 2003
- ISBN10: 0142437166
- Language: English
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John Brown
$24.99 Add to cartThree years and 29 days prior to Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation, a man branded “zealot”, “fanatic” and “traitor” was hanged. John Brown and his band of 21 followers
seized the armory at Harper’s F
- Series: New World Paperbacks #25
- Author: DuBois, W. E. B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 314
- Publish Date: August 14 2021
- ISBN10: 0717803759
- Language: English
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The Autobiography of LeRoi Jones
$24.95 Read morePoet, dramatist, novelist, critic, teacher, and political activist Amiri Baraka, born LeRoi Jones, vividly recounts his crusading role in African American literature. A driving force behind the Black … [more below]
- Series: Library of Black America
- Author: Baraka, Amiri
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: March 01 1997
- ISBN10: 1556522312
- Language: English
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Never Marry A Greek: Kansas Baptist Marries New England Greek
$16.95 Add to cartIt’s “My Big Fat Greek Wedding” all over again, only this time from the non-Greek view point. When the Baptist girl from Kansas marries a New England Greek boy, she realizes she is NOT in Kansas anymo… [more below]
- Author: Markos, Ruth Sloat
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 140
- Publish Date: August 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1977258352
- Language: English
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Negro with a Hat: The Rise and Fall of Marcus Garvey
$21.99 Add to cartNew in paperback, this groundbreaking biography captures the full sweep and epic dimensions of Marcus Garvey’s life, the dazzling triumphs and the dreary exile. As Grant shows, Garvey was a man of con… [more below]
- Author: Grant, Colin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: March 02 2010
- ISBN10: 0195393090
- Language: English
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Born in Cambridge: 400 Years of Ideas and Innovators
$39.95 Read moreAnne Bradstreet, W.E.B. Du Bois, gene editing, and Junior Mints: cultural icons, influential ideas, and world-changing innovations from Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Cambridge, Massachusetts is a city of- Author: Weintraub, Karen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 424
- Publish Date: May 03, 2022
- ISBN10: 0262046806
- Language: English
