Cultural/ Ethnic & Regional
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Call Me American: A Memoir
$18.00 Add to cartAbdi Nor Iftin first fell in love with America from afar. As a child, he learned English by listening to American pop and watching action films starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. When U.S. marines landed… [more below]
- Author: Iftin, Abdi Nor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 07 2019
- ISBN10: 0525433023
- Language: English
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Hispanic Star En Español: Sonia Sotomayor
$6.99 Add to cartLee sobre la magistrada de la Corte Suprema, Sonia Sotomayor, quien se encuentra entre los h?roes hispanos y latinos m?s innovadores e ic?nicos que han dado forma a nuestra cultura y al mundo en esta
- Series: Hispanic Star
- Author: Edelman, Claudia Romo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: September 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1250840163
- Language: Spanish
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Isaac Murphy: The Rise and Fall of a Black Jockey
$25.00 Read moreThe rise and fall of one of America’s first Black sports celebrities
“Deeply and impressively researched. . . . Ms. Mooney pieces together a narrative with an arc so tight and clean that it’s a wonde- Series: Black Lives
- Author: Mooney, Katherine C.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: May 02 2023
- ISBN10: 0300254423
- Language: English
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This Boy We Made: A Memoir of Motherhood, Genetics, and Facing the Unknown
$16.95 Read moreA Black mother bumps up against the limits of everything she thought she believed–about science and medicine, about motherhood, and about her faith–in search of the truth about her son.
“The memoir- Author: Harris, Taylor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 17 2023
- ISBN10: 1646221621
- Language: English
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Brothers: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Race
$30.00 Read moreBrothers is Nico Slate’s poignant memoir about Peter Slate, aka XL, a Black rapper and screenwriter whose life was tragically cut short. Nico and Peter shared the same White American mother but had di
- Author: Slate, Nico
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: May 12 2023
- ISBN10: 1439923825
- Language: English
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We Will Be Free: The Life and Faith of Sojourner Truth
$29.99 Read moreChristianity Today Book Award of Merit in History/Biography (2024)
Sojourner Truth’s powerful voice calls to us through this evocative narrative of faith in action–and her words are more relevant tha- Series: Library of Religious Biography (Lrb)
- Author: Koester, Nancy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 293
- Publish Date: February 21 2023
- ISBN10: 0802872476
- Language: English
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Warrior Princess: The Story of Khutulun
$19.99 Read moreAn empowering and informative picture book biography about Khutulun, the great-great granddaughter of Genghis Khan, and how she defied the expectations of her time to become commander of the Khan’s ar
- Author: Deng, Sally
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 44
- Publish Date: August 23 2022
- ISBN10: 0374388385
- Language: English
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One Man’s Journey: The Mi’kmaw Revival in Ktaqmkuk
$31.45 Read moreWith a story spanning over seventy years of the life of respected Elder Calvin White, One Man’s Journey weaves personal history with White’s account of the Mi’kmaw movement and his role in the reclam
- Author: White, Calvin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 194
- Publish Date: June 15 2023
- ISBN10: 199044508X
- Language: English
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After Botham: Healing from My Brother’s Murder by a Police Officer
$19.99 Read moreOn September 6, 2018, White Dallas police officer Amber Guyger opened the door of Apartment 1478. Inside, Botham Jean lay on his couch, having hung up from the daily call with his sister, Allisa. She’… [more below]
- Author: Charles-Findley, Allisa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 195
- Publish Date: September 05 2023
- ISBN10: 0827201133
- Language: English
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Elephants Remember: A True Story
$19.95 Read moreFrom the author-illustrator of The Eye of the Whale (Tilbury House, 2013), this nonfiction picture book tells the story of Lawrence Anthony and the deep bond he forged with the matriarch of the herd h… [more below]
- Author: O’Connell, Jennifer
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: November 15 2022
- ISBN10: 0884489280
- Language: English
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I Must Resist: Bayard Rustin’s Life in Letters
$35.00 Add to cartBAYARD RUSTIN POSTHUMOUSLY AWARDED THE 2013 PRESIDENTIAL MEDAL OF FREEDOM
A master strategist and tireless activist, Bayard Rustin is best remembered as the organizer of the 1963 March on Washington, o
- Author: Rustin, Bayard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 516
- Publish Date: March 20 2012
- ISBN10: 0872865789
- Language: English
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The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row (Oprah’s Book Club Selection)
$29.00 Read moreOprah’s Book Club Summer 2018 Selection
The Instant New York Times Bestseller A powerful, revealing story of hope, love, justice, and the power of reading by a man who spent thirty years on death row- Series: Oprah’s Book Club
- Author: Hinton, Anthony Ray
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 05 2018
- ISBN10: 1250205794
- Language: English
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Brother, I’m Dying: National Book Award Finalist
$18.00 Add to cartWinner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography
From the age of four, award-winning writer Edwidge Danticat came to think
A National Book Award Finalist
A New York Times Notable Book- Series: Vintage Contemporaries
- Author: Danticat, Edwidge
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 09 2008
- ISBN10: 1400034302
- Language: English
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Quilt of Souls: A Memoir
$24.99 Read moreThe Yellow House meets Hidden in Plain View in this multigenerational memoir that celebrates African American quilting, family, and honoring the past.
At age four, Phyllis Biffle Elmore was plucked of- Author: Biffle Elmore, Phyllis
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 08 2022
- ISBN10: 1623545161
- Language: English
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Hispanic Star: Roberto Clemente
$17.99 Read moreRead about Puerto Rican Baseball Hall of Famer Roberto Clemente in Hispanic Star: Roberto Clemente, and learn the most groundbreaking, iconic Hispanic and Latinx heroes that have shaped our culture a
- Series: Hispanic Star #1
- Author: Edelman, Claudia Romo
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: September 06 2022
- ISBN10: 1250828082
- Language: English
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Path to Grace: Reimagining the Civil Rights Movement
$25.00 Read moreWinner of the 2023 Eudora Welty Prize
The civil rights movement is often defined narrowly, relegated to the 1950s and 1960s and populated by such colossal figures as Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Pa- Series: Margaret Walker Alexander African American Studies
- Author: Smith, Ethel Morgan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1496846419
- Language: English
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Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood
$19.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – A worthy heir to Isak Dinesen and Beryl Markham, Alexandra Fuller shares visceral memories of her childhood in Africa, and of her headstrong, unforgettable mother.
“This- Author: Fuller, Alexandra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 11 2003
- ISBN10: 0375758992
- Language: English
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La Plata, La Espada Y La Piedra: Tres Pilares Cruciales En La Historia de Améric a / Silver, Sword, and Stone: The Story of Latin America
$28.94 Read moreUna lectura necesaria para comprender el tumultuoso pasado de América Latina y la complejidad de su identidad.
«Trazar el alma de un continente es una hazaña extraordinaria, y Marie Arana lo h… [more below]- Author: Arana, Marie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: July 18 2023
- ISBN10: 8418006218
- Language: Spanish
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Unreconciled: Family, Truth, and Indigenous Resistance
$17.00 Read moreNATIONAL BESTSELLER
WINNER of the 2022 Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize for Non-Fiction
SHORTLISTED for the 2023 Speaker’s Book Award A GLOBE AND MAIL BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR “Unreconciled is one hell- Author: Wente, Jesse
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: June 14 2022
- ISBN10: 735235759
- Language: English
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Victorious in Defeat: The Life and Times of Chiang Kai-Shek, China, 1887-1975
$40.00 Read moreAn extensively researched, comprehensive biography of Chinese Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek, one of the twentieth century’s most powerful and controversial figures
Chiang Kai-shek (1887-1975) le- Author: Pantsov, Alexander V.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 736
- Publish Date: March 21 2023
- ISBN10: 0300260202
- Language: English
