Cultural/ Ethnic & Regional
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Medgar Evers: Mississippi Martyr
$26.95 Add to cart- Author: Williams, Michael Vinson
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 446
- Publish Date: August 01 2013
- ISBN10: 1557286469
- Language: English
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George Washington Carver: From Slave to Scientist
$11.99 Read moreOnce a kidnapped slave baby, George Washington Carver found freedom in learning everything he could about the world around him. Overcoming poverty and racism, George became a brilliant scientist and a… [more below]
- Series: Heroes of History
- Author: Benge, Janet
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 191
- Publish Date: November 19 2001
- ISBN10: 1883002788
- Language: English
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Black Titan: A.G. Gaston and the Making of a Black American Millionaire
$18.00 Add to cartThe grandson of slaves, born into poverty in 1892 in the Deep South, A. G. Gaston died more than a century later with a fortune worth well over $130 million and a business empire spanning communicatio… [more below]
- Author: Jenkins, Carol
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 25 2005
- ISBN10: 0345453484
- Language: English
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The Witness Blanket: Truth, Art and Reconciliation
$24.95 Read moreFor more than 150 years, thousands of Indigenous children were taken from their families and sent to residential schools across Canada.
Artist Carey Newman created the Witness Blanket to make sure tha
- Author: Newman, Carey
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: April 19 2022
- ISBN10: 145983612X
- Language: English
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The Untold Story of Charlotta Spears Bass: Groundbreaking Politician
$31.32 Read moreIn 2020, Kamala Harris became the first Black and South Asian woman to be elected vice president of the United States. But in 1952, Charlotta Spears Bass was the first Black woman to run for vice pres… [more below]
- Series: First But Forgotten
- Author: Mansfield, Nicole A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: August 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1669016021
- Language: English
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Our Laundry, Our Town: My Chinese American Life from Flushing to the Downtown Stage and Beyond
$18.95 Add to cartNEW IN PAPERBACK!
BOOKS ARE MAGIC 2023 HOLIDAY GIFT BOOK With humor and grace, the memoir of a first-generation Chinese American in New York City. Our Laundry, Our Town is a memoir that decodes and pr- Author: Eng, Alvin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 212
- Publish Date: October 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1531504833
- Language: English
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Harriet Tubman, Secret Agent: How Daring Slaves and Free Blacks Spied for the Union During the Civil War
$5.95 Read moreThomas B. Allen’s follow-up to the multi-award-winning George Washington, Spymaster is now available in paperback. This compelling biography tells the amazing tale of Harriet Tubman using details unco… [more below]
- Author: Allen, Thomas B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: December 23 2008
- ISBN10: 1426304013
- Language: English
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Confessions of a Bookseller
$27.95 Read moreOne cozy, funny year with a Scottish used bookseller as he stays afloat while managing staff, customers, and life in the village of Wigtown. This endearing world is the next best thing to visiting you
- Author: Bythell, Shaun
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 324
- Publish Date: April 07 2020
- ISBN10: 1567926649
- Language: English
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Baby Girl: Better Known as Aaliyah
$27.00 Read moreIn a definitive and “excellent homage to a star who left this planet too soon” (Questlove), the life, career, tragic death, and evolution of Aaliyah into a music legend are explored–featuring in-dept… [more below]
- Author: Iandoli, Kathy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 17 2021
- ISBN10: 1982156848
- Language: English
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The Mare and the Mouse: Stories of My Horses Vol. I
$22.00 Read moreBeautiful and hilarious, tearful and rambunctious, very real, ironic and magic-filled, Mart n Prechtel’s new book The Mare and the Mouse is a series of lyrical sagas in tribute to each of the native N… [more below]
- Series: Stories of My Horses
- Author: Prechtel, Martín
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 294
- Publish Date: July 13 2021
- ISBN10: 1682011178
- Language: English
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Manos Que Bailan (Dancing Hands): Cómo Teresa Carreño Tocó El Piano Para El Presidente Lincoln
$8.99 Read moreGanador del premio Pura Belpr de ilustraci n
De ni a, a Teresa Carre o le encantaba dejar que sus manos bailaran a lo largo de las hermosas teclas del piano. Si se sent a triste, la m sica le levanta- Author: Engle, Margarita
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: May 04 2021
- ISBN10: 153449474X
- Language: Spanish
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They Got Daddy: One Family’s Reckoning with Racism and Faith
$20.00 Read moreAn unforgettable journey through racism and faith across the generations.
January 15, 1959–a day that changed one family forever. White supremacists kidnapped and severely beat rural Alabama preacher
- Author: Tubbs, Sharon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 162
- Publish Date: January 03 2023
- ISBN10: 0253064465
- Language: English
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Superfan: How Pop Culture Broke My Heart: A Memoir
$18.95 Read moreFinalist for the 2024 Forest of Reading Evergreen Book Award
This beautifully intimate memoir-in-pie
Named a Best Book of 2023 by the Globe and Mail and Apple Books Canada
A TODAY Show Recommended Read- Author: Lee, Jen Sookfong
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 17 2023
- ISBN10: 0771025211
- Language: English
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Deford Bailey: A Black Star in Early Country Music
$19.95 Read moreIncludes a new foreword by musician Dom Flemons, forty-five illustrations, and a complete session discography.
A founding member of the Grand Ole Opry and the program’s first Black star, DeFord Bailey
- Series: Distributed for the Country Music Foundation Press
- Author: Morton, David C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: June 13 2023
- ISBN10: 0915608391
- Language: English
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Never Caught, the Story of Ona Judge: George and Martha Washington’s Courageous Slave Who Dared to Run Away; Young Readers Edition
$19.99 Read more“A brilliant work of US history.” —School Library Journal (starred review)
“Gripping.” —BCCB (starred review)
“Accessible…Necessary.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
A School Library Journal Bes… [more below]- Author: Dunbar, Erica Armstrong
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 08 2019
- ISBN10: 153441617X
- Language: English
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Malcolm X: The Last Speeches
$12.00 Add to cart“Any kind of movement for freedom of Black people based solely within the confines of America is absolutely doomed to fail. “Speeches and interviews from the last two years of his life.
- Series: Malcolm X Speeches & Writings
- Author: Malcolm X
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 190
- Publish Date: January 01 1989
- ISBN10: 0873485432
- Language: English
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Psychiana Man: A Mail-Order Prophet, His Followers, and the Power of Belief in Hard Times
$24.95 Read moreSix weeks after the 1929 stock market crash, Frank Bruce Robinson created a self-help religion he called Psychiana. An ingenious mass-marketing pioneer, he sold a correspondence course promising healt
- Author: Schrand, Brandon R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 414
- Publish Date: March 30 2021
- ISBN10: 0874224047
- Language: English
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Rise!: From Caged Bird to Poet of the People, Maya Angelou
$21.95 Read moreIn celebration of the 50th anniversary of the publication of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, this beautiful biography of Maya Angelou describes how she rose above a childhood of trauma and emotional
- Author: Hegedus, Bethany
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: August 13 2019
- ISBN10: 1620145871
- Language: English
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The Eagle Huntress: The True Story of the Girl Who Soared Beyond Expectations
$11.99 Add to cartThe subject of the award-winning documentary The Eagle Huntress tells the true story of how she became the first girl to compete in–and win–one of Mongolia’s most prestigious competitions.
In this- Author: Welch, Liz
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: June 15 2021
- ISBN10: 0316522627
- Language: English
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Jesse Owens: Fastest Man Alive
$9.99 Read moreIn paperback for the first time, the compelling story of the famous Black Olympian who stood up to Hitler.
Jesse Owens grew up during the time of Jim Crow laws, but adversity didn’t stop him. After se- Author: Weatherford, Carole Boston
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: January 25 2022
- ISBN10: 1547608986
- Language: English
