Cultural/ Ethnic & Regional
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Red Cloud: A Lakota Story of War and Surrender
$19.95 Read moreAn illuminating picture book biography of the Lakota warrior and chief Red Cloud, from award-winning author and illustrator S. D. Nelson.
Red Cloud (1822-1909) was a great warrior and chief of the La- Author: Nelson, S. D.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: March 14 2017
- ISBN10: 1419723138
- Language: English
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You Got Anything Stronger?: Stories
$27.99 Read moreIncluded in Time’s 100 Must Read Books of 2021 list * A New York Times Best Seller * One of Audible’s Best of The Year * AV Club’s Best Books to Buy
“Funny, tender, and so good.” — Mindy Kaling, #1 N
- Author: Union, Gabrielle
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 14 2021
- ISBN10: 0062979930
- Language: English
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The NBA in Black and White: The Memoir of a Trailblazing NBA Player and Coach
$25.95 Read moreA memoir of hard lessons learned in the racially segregated and sometimes outright racist NBA of the early ’60s by celebrated NBA player and the first Black Coach of the Year, Ray Scott. Introduced by… [more below]
- Author: Scott, Ray
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 14 2022
- ISBN10: 164421198X
- Language: English
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Where Tomorrows Aren’t Promised: A Memoir of Survival and Hope
$19.00 Add to cartFrom iconic NBA All-Star Carmelo Anthony comes a New York Times bestselling memoir about growing up in the housing projects of Red Hook and Baltimore–a brutal world Where Tomorrows Aren’t Promised.
F- Author: Anthony, Carmelo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 1982160608
- Language: English
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Fly High!: The Story of Bessie Coleman
$8.99 Read moreWhen Bessie Coleman was a child, she wanted to be in school — not in the cotton fields of Texas, helping her family earn money. She wanted to be somebody significant in the world. So Bessie did every… [more below]
- Author: Borden, Louise
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: January 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0689864620
- Language: English
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South to South: Writing South Asia in the American South
$29.95 Read moreThis anthology of eight short stories and eight narrative essays depicts diverse facets of the South Asian experience in the American South. Some of them relate to the proverbial longing for what the … [more below]
- Author: Aryal, Khem K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 186
- Publish Date: April 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1680032968
- Language: English
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Red Cloud and the Indian Trader: The Remarkable Friendship of the Sioux Chief and JW Dear in the Last Days of the Frontier
$24.95 Add to cartIn the summer of 1871, JW Dear met Red Cloud, the leader of the Oglala, who at that time was probably the most powerful and respected Indian chief in America. For the next twelve years the two men liv
- Author: Nelson, Marilyn Dear
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 406
- Publish Date: November 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1493073907
- Language: English
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Living in Two Worlds: The American Indian Experience
$24.95 Add to cartThis beautifully illustrated book presents a vivid account of the American Indian experience as seen through the eyes of Charles Eastman (Ohiyesa), the first and greatest of the Native American author… [more below]
- Series: American Indian Traditions
- Author: Eastman, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: December 01 2009
- ISBN10: 1933316764
- Language: English
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The New Yorkers: 31 Remarkable People, 400 Years, and the Untold Biography of the World’s Greatest City
$30.00 Read moreLonglisted for the Brooklyn Public Library Book Prize in Nonfiction
From award-winning New York Times reporter Sam Roberts, the story of the world’s most exceptional city, told through 31 little-known- Author: Roberts, Sam
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 25 2022
- ISBN10: 162040978X
- Language: English
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CHI Boy: Native Sons and Chicago Reckonings
$21.95 Read moreIn Chi Boy, Keenan Norris melds memoir, cultural criticism, and literary biography to indelibly depict Chicago–from the Great Migration to the present day–as both a cradle of black intellect, art, a… [more below]
- Series: Machete
- Author: Norris, Keenan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: January 09 2023
- ISBN10: 0814258530
- Language: English
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I Am These Truths: A Memoir of Identity, Justice, and Living Between Worlds
$16.99 Read moreThe Emmy Award-winning legal journalist and co-host of The View Sunny Hostin chronicles her journey from growing up in a South Bronx housing project to becoming an assistant U.S. attorney and journali
- Author: Hostin, Sunny
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: December 21 2021
- ISBN10: 0062950835
- Language: English
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I Lost My Talk
$10.95 Read moreRita Joe’s powerful poem is presented anew in this children’s picture book with illustrations from Pauline Young. A story of recovering what was lost in residential school, I Lost My Talk will raise c
- Author: Joe, Rita
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: March 08 2021
- ISBN10: 1774710056
- Language: English
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The Strong Black Woman: How a Myth Endangers the Physical and Mental Health of Black Women (African American Studies)
$18.95 Add to cartThis book unpacks the myth of the “strong black woman” who is never allowed any weakness and the health impacts, both physical and mental, of living in a skewed culture.
- Author: Golden, Marita
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 12 2021
- ISBN10: 1642506834
- Language: English
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My Life in the Sunshine: Searching for My Father and Discovering My Family
$26.00 Read more“Nabil traces the image of his father through song. With growing fascination and heartbreak, he draws out meaning from the shadow of absence, and ultimately redefines what it means to be a family.” – … [more below]
- Author: Ayers, Nabil
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 07 2022
- ISBN10: 059329596X
- Language: English
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Queen of Snails: A Graphic Memoir
$25.95 Read moreUprooted from her childhood in Germany and set adrift in the American Midwest, Maureen was raised by a kind but neglectful mother who loved Jesus more than her own child and a stern, disinterested gra… [more below]
- Author: Burdock, Maureen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: November 22 2022
- ISBN10: 1637790368
- Language: English
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Bill Pickett: Rodeo-Ridin’ Cowboy
$9.99 Read moreThe true sweat-and-dirt tale of the feisty cowboy-child who became the most famous black rodeo performer who ever lived. Includes a note about the history of the black West and a bibliography.
- Author: Pinkney, Andrea Davis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: October 04 1999
- ISBN10: 0152021035
- Language: English
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Soul Culture: Black Poets, Books, and Questions That Grew Me Up
$19.95 Read more“A powerful celebration of poets…Lit lovers will be dazzled.”
Examines firsthand the lives of legendary Black writers who made a way out of no way to illuminate a road map for b
—Publishers Weekly- Author: Bingham-Risher, Remica
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 15 2023
- ISBN10: 0807012726
- Language: English
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Hollywatts: From the Promised Land to Purgatory
$16.95 Read more“Madness embraces us / There is no rest / Fighting for a cause / Without reason or test.” The Great Migration of the 1910s – 1940s was both a flight and a pursuit, as African Americans moved north and… [more below]
- Author: Jr. Cribbs, Arthur Lawrence
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 0
- Publish Date: November 15 2023
- ISBN10: 0829800379
- Language: English
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The Book Rescuer: How a Mensch from Massachusetts Saved Yiddish Literature for Generations to Come
$17.99 Read moreRecipient of a Sydney Taylor Book Award for Younger Readers
“Text and illustration meld beautifully.” —The New York Times
An ALA Notable Book
A Bank Street Best Book of the Year
“Stunning.” —- Author: Macy, Sue
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: October 01 2019
- ISBN10: 1481472208
- Language: English
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Hispanic Star En Espa?ol: Sylvia Rivera
$6.99 Read moreRead about Sylvia Rivera, who is among the most groundbreaking, iconic Hispanic and Latinx heroes who have shaped our culture and the world in Hispanic Star: Sylvia Rivera, co-written with J. Gia Lovi
- Series: Hispanic Star
- Author: Edelman, Claudia Romo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: May 16 2023
- ISBN10: 1250840155
- Language: Spanish
