Cultural, Ethnic & Regional - General
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The Butler: A Witness to History
$18.99 Add to cartThis mesmerizing companion book to the award-winning film, The Butler traces the Civil Rights Movement and explores crucial moments of twentieth century American history through the eyes of Eugene All… [more below]
- Author: Haygood, Wil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: January 30 2018
- ISBN10: 1501195603
- Language: English
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My Ireland
$23.95 Add to cartMy Ireland presents a factual and descriptive account of Ireland in the 1950s from the perspective of the author looking back on her early life in the country of her birth. Margaret’s captivating and
- Author: Connor, Margaret
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: November 02 2022
- ISBN10: 1739872533
- Language: English
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Grown-Up Child: A Memoir
$14.95 Add to cartCHIUFANG HWANG came to the United States from Taiwan when she was a toddler so her father could pursue a PhD. But his academic American dream stalled, forcing the family into a transient lifestyle as
- Author: Hwang, Chiufang
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: May 15 2017
- ISBN10: 0998673013
- Language: English
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A More Noble Cause: A. P. Tureaud and the Struggle for Civil Rights in Louisiana: A Personal Biography
$44.95 Add to cartThroughout the decades-long legal battle to end segregation, discrimination, and disfranchisement, attorney Alexander Pierre Tureaud was one of the most influential figures in Louisiana’s courts. A Mo
- Author: Emanuel, Rachel L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: April 25 2011
- ISBN10: 0807137936
- Language: English
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Burn Hill: Growing Up Dirt Poor and Hilariously Rich
$21.99 Add to cartBurn Hill” by Andrew Louis Hale
Binding
Hardback: Case Laminate
Prepare to embark on a remarkable journey through time as you delve into the captivating pages of “Burn Hill” by Andrew Louis Hale. This he
- Author: Hale, Andrew L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 204
- Publish Date: January 08 2024
- ISBN10: 1957506660
- Language: English
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Narrative of Sojourner Truth: A Bondswoman of Olden Time, with a History of Her Labors and Correspondence Drawn from Her “Book of Life”; Also, a Mem
$12.00 Add to cartTruth’s landmark slave narrative chronicles her experiences as a slave in upstate New York and her transformation into an extraordinary abolitionist, feminist, orator, and preacher. Based on the compl… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Truth, Sojourner
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 01 1998
- ISBN10: 0140436782
- Language: English
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The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace: A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League
$17.99 Add to cart*Now a major motion picture–Rob Peace–starring Jay Will, Mary J. Blige, and Chiwetel Ejiofor*
*Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times Book Review, Entertainment Weekly, and more* The- Author: Hobbs, Jeff
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: July 28 2015
- ISBN10: 1476731918
- Language: English
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Guest of Honor: Booker T. Washington, Theodore Roosevelt, and the White House Dinner That Shocked a Nation
$19.99 Add to cartIn this revealing social history, one remarkable White House dinner shines a powerful light on race, politics, and the lives and legacies of Theodore Roosevelt and Booker T. Washington.
In this reveal- Author: Davis, Deborah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 05 2013
- ISBN10: 1439169829
- Language: English
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Life of Miracles Along the Yangtze and Mississippi
$28.95 Add to cartThere are only two ways to live our life, according to Albert Einstein: one is as if nothing is a miracle; the other, as if everything is a miracle.
Life of Miracles along the Yangtze and Mississippi- Series: Association of Writers and Writing Programs Award for Creati
- Author: Ping, Wang
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 15 2018
- ISBN10: 0820353922
- Language: English
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Sting-Ray Afternoons: A Memoir
$19.99 Add to cartThis is a story of the 1970s. Of a road trip in a wood-paneled station wagon, with the kids in the way-back, singing along to the Steve Miller Band. Of brothers waking up early on Saturday mornings fo… [more below]
- Author: Rushin, Steve
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 17 2018
- ISBN10: 0316392251
- Language: English
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The Newcomers: Finding Refuge, Friendship, and Hope in America
$19.99 Add to cartFrom the award-winning author of Soldier Girls and Just Like Us, an “extraordinary” (The Denver Post) account of refugee teenagers at a Denver public high school and their compassionate teacher and “a… [more below]
- Author: Thorpe, Helen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: September 18 2018
- ISBN10: 1501159100
- Language: English
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American Sweetheart: Still Not Making the Team
$14.95 Add to cartIn 1999, Chiufang Hwang tried out for the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders on a whim, and the experience was an epiphany. “That day in Texas Stadium, I finally understood what I had missed out on in high s
- Author: Hwang, Chiufang
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 146
- Publish Date: November 11 2016
- ISBN10: 0997722452
- Language: English
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Opening Day: The Story of Jackie Robinson’s First Season
$20.99 Add to cartThis bestselling account of the most important season in baseball history, 1947, tells the dramatic story of how Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier and changed baseball forever.April 15, 1947, ma… [more below]
- Author: Eig, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0743294610
- Language: English
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The Revolt of the Cockroach People
$16.95 Add to cartThe further adventures of “Dr. Gonzo” as he defends the “cucarachas”– the Chicanos of East Los Angeles.
One of The Atlantic‘s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years Before his mysterious disappe- Author: Acosta, Oscar Zeta
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 262
- Publish Date: August 28 1989
- ISBN10: 0679722122
- Language: English
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The Autobiography of Medgar Evers: A Hero’s Life and Legacy Revealed Through His Writings, Letters, and Speeches
$21.99 Add to cartOn the evening of June 12, 1963 — the day President John F. Kennedy gave his most impassioned speech about the need for interracial tolerance “Medgar Evers, the NAACP’s first field secretary in Missi… [more below]
- Author: Evers-Williams, Myrlie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: August 29 2006
- ISBN10: 0465021786
- Language: English
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Trauterose: Growing Up in Postwar Munich
$17.99 Add to cartTrauterose: Growing Up in Postwar Munich is the compelling first-person account of Elisabeth Haggblade, who was orphaned at birth at the height of World War II and spent the first eleven years of her
- Author: Haggblade, Elisabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 228
- Publish Date: September 02 2023
- ISBN10: 1957917342
- Language: English
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Promise – A Story of Race, Culture and Black Potential
$16.99 Add to cartSpanning the time from emancipation of slaves to present day, Promise explores issues of race in America and how we arrived at this moment in our racial quandary.
Told through the author’s eyes, it f
- Author: Tinsley, Ron
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 300
- Publish Date: November 13 2023
- ISBN10: 9798218959005
- Language: English
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Children of the State: Stories of Survival and Hope in the Juvenile Justice System
$19.99 Add to cartFrom the bestselling and critically acclaimed author of The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace comes “an eye-opening, fully humanizing, deeply affecting look at the often-misunderstood juvenile jus… [more below]
- Author: Hobbs, Jeff
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 02 2024
- ISBN10: 1982116374
- Language: English
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Until the Last Pickle: A memoir in 18 recipes
$29.00 Add to cartBorn to a Jewish mother and Ukrainian father during the final years of the Soviet Union, Yuliya Patsay grew up believing bread lines were a fun way to spend an afternoon, drafts caused pneumonia, and
- Author: Patsay, Yuliya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: January 14 2024
- ISBN10: 1956989285
- Language: English
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Wrapped in Rainbows: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston
$22.00 Add to cartFrom critically acclaimed journalist Valerie Boyd comes an eloquent profile of one of the most intriguing cultural figures of the twentieth century–Zora Neale Hurston.
A woman of enormous talent and- Series: Lisa Drew Books (Paperback)
- Author: Boyd, Valerie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 527
- Publish Date: February 03 2004
- ISBN10: 0743253299
- Language: English
