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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: Written by Herself
$15.00 Add to cartOne of the central firsthand accounts of slavery in America
A haunting, evocative recounting of her life as a slave in North Carolina and of her final escape and emancipation, Harriet Jacobs’s classic- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Jacobs, Harriet
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 1, 2000
- ISBN10: 0140437959
- Language: English
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The Black Reparations Project: A Handbook for Racial Justice
$29.95 Add to cartThis groundbreaking resource moves us from theory to action with a practical plan for reparations.
A surge in interest in black reparations is taking place in America on a scale not seen since the Re- Author: Darity, William
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 258
- Publish Date: May 23, 2023
- ISBN10: 0520383818
- Language: English
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Nobody Knows My Name
$16.00 Add to cartFrom one of the most brilliant writers and thinkers of the twentieth century comes a collection of “passionate, probing, controversial” essays (The Atlantic) on topics ranging from race relations in t… [more below]
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Baldwin, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: December 01 1992
- ISBN10: 0679744738
- Language: English
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Manchild in the Promised Land
$20.00 Add to cartWith more than two million copies in print, Manchild in the Promised Land is one of the most remarkable autobiographies of our time–the definitive account of African-American youth in Harlem of the 1… [more below]
- Author: Brown, Claude
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: December 27, 2011
- ISBN10: 145163157X
- Language: English
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The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family
$23.99 Add to cartThis epic work–named a best book of the year by the Washington Post, Time, the Los Angeles Times, Amazon, the San Francisco Chronicle, and a notable book by the New York Times–tells the story of the
- Author: Gordon-Reed, Annette
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 816
- Publish Date: September 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0393337766
- Language: English
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Revolutionary Suicide: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
$19.00 Add to cartThe searing, visionary memoir of founding Black Panther Huey P. Newton, in a dazzling graphic package
Tracing the birth of a revolutionary, Huey P. Newton’s famous and oft-quoted autobiography is as- Series: Penguin Classics Deluxe Editions
- Author: Newton, Huey P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0143105329
- Language: English
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Overlooked: A Celebration of Remarkable, Underappreciated People Who Broke the Rules and Changed the World
$35.00 Add to cartAn unforgettable collection of diverse, remarkable lives inspired by “Overlooked,” the groundbreaking New York Times series that publishes the obituaries of extraordinary people whose deaths went unre… [more below]
- Author: Padnani, Amisha
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1984860429
- Language: English
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This Country: Searching for Home in (Very) Rural America
$25.95 Add to cart“With light and airy illustrations, Mahdavian tackles these complex themes with humor and wit.”
NPR BEST BOOKS OF 2023 ● NEW YORKER BEST BOOKS WE’VE READ IN 2023●
—NPR, Books We Love 2023- Author: Mahdavian, Navied
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 12, 2023
- ISBN10: 1797223674
- Language: English
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Belonging: A German Reckons with History and Home
$24.00 Add to cart* Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award * Silver Medal Society of Illustrators *
* Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times, The Boston Globe, San Francisco Chronicle, NPR, Com- Author: Krug, Nora
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 17 2019
- ISBN10: 1476796637
- Language: English
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First, They Erased Our Name: A Rohingya Speaks
$25.00 Add to cartFor the first time, a Rohingya speaks up to expose the persecution facing his people
“I am three years old and will have to grow up with the hostility of others. I am already an outlaw in my own count
- Author: Habiburahman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 05 2019
- ISBN10: 1947534858
- Language: English
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No Quittin’ Sense
$25.00 Add to cartThis story, set in the Piney Woods country of East Texas, spans most of a century, from shortly after the close of the Civil War to the 1960’s. It is the story of Charley White, who was born in the mi
- Author: White, The Reverend C. C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 238
- Publish Date: February 01, 1995
- ISBN10: 0292755082
- Language: English
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Unbowed: A Memoir
$20.00 Add to cartNOBEL PRIZE WINNER – A remarkable memoir of courage, faith, and the power of persistence about one woman’s extraodinary journey from her childhood in rural Kenya to the world stage.
“[Maathai’s] story- Author: Maathai, Wangari
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 04 2007
- ISBN10: 0307275205
- Language: English
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Man of the Family
$16.95 Add to cartFortified with Yankee ingenuity and western can-do energy, the Moody family, transplanted from New England, builds a new life on a Colorado ranch early in the twentieth century. Father has died and Li
- Author: Moody, Ralph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 01, 1993
- ISBN10: 0803281951
- Language: English
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Whistling in the Dark: Personal Essays
$23.98 Add to cartLucienne S. Bloch’s beautifully written personal essays explore her world on the Upper West Side of New York City. Growing up in the 1950s as the daughter of refugees from Hitler’s Europe who longed f
- Author: Bloch, Lucienne S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 250
- Publish Date: April 11 2023
- ISBN10: 1954805446
- Language: English
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Enrique’s Journey: The Story of a Boy’s Dangerous Odyssey to Reunite with His Mother
$20.00 Add to cartAn astonishing story that puts a human face on the ongoing debate about immigration reform in the United States, now updated with a new Epilogue and Afterword, photos of Enrique and his family, an aut… [more below]
- Author: Nazario, Sonia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: February 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0812971787
- Language: English
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Street Shadows: A Memoir of Race, Rebellion, and Redemption
$18.95 Add to cartStreet Shadows recounts Jerald Walker’s renunciation of the “thug life” he had embraced as a teenager on the South Side of Chicago in favor of the education and middle-class life his parents had alway
- Author: Walker, Jerald
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 01, 2012
- ISBN10: 0803240953
- Language: English
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Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
$25.00 Add to cartWinner of the Pulitzer Prize for History and a New York Times bestseller, the definitive biography of Malcolm X
Hailed as “a masterpiece” (San Francisco Chronicle), Manning Marable’s acclaimed biograp- Author: Marable, Manning
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: December 28 2011
- ISBN10: 0143120328
- Language: English
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Extraordinary, Ordinary People: A Memoir of Family
$19.00 Read moreThis is the story of Condoleezza Rice that has never been told, not that of an ultra-accomplished world leader, but of a little girl–and a young woman–trying to find her place in a sometimes hostile
- Author: Rice, Condoleezza
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 11 2011
- ISBN10: 0307888479
- Language: English
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No Name in the Street
$15.95 Read moreFrom one of the most important American writers of the twentieth century–an extraordinary history of the turbulent sixties and early seventies that powerfully speaks to contemporary conversations aro… [more below]
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Baldwin, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: January 09 2007
- ISBN10: 0307275922
- Language: English
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Lay Bare the Heart: An Autobiography of the Civil Rights Movement
$19.95 Add to cartTexas native James Farmer is one of the “Big Four” of the turbulent 1960s civil rights movement, along with Martin Luther King Jr., Roy Wilkins, and Whitney Young. Farmer might be called the forgotten
- Author: Farmer, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 370
- Publish Date: June 01, 1998
- ISBN10: 0875651887
- Language: English
