Cultural/ Ethnic & Regional
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
$9.99 Add to cartMaya Angelou’s debut memoir is a modern American classic beloved worldwide. Her life story is told in the documentary film And Still I Rise, as seen on PBS’s American Masters.
Here is a book as joyous- Author: Angelou, Maya
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 21 2009
- ISBN10: 0345514408
- Language: English
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Solito: A Memoir
$19.00 Add to cartNew York Times Bestseller – Read With Jenna Book Club Pick as seen on Today – Winner of the Los Angeles Times Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiography – Winner of the American Library Association… [more below]
- Author: Zamora, Javier
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: June 06 2023
- ISBN10: 0593498089
- Language: English
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A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
$16.00 Add to cartIn the #1 New York Times bestseller, A Long Way Gone, Ishmael Beah tells a riveting story: how at the age of twelve, he fled attacking rebels and wandered a land rendered unrecognizable by violence.
- Author: Beah, Ishmael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: August 05, 2008
- ISBN10: 0374531269
- Language: English
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Killing Rage: Ending Racism
$19.99 Add to cart“hooks’s books help us not only to decolonize our minds, souls, and bodies; on a deeper level, they touch our lives.” –Cornel West
More than two decades before Black Lives Matter and the #MeToo moveme- Series: Owl Book
- Author: Hooks, Bell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 15, 1996
- ISBN10: 0805050272
- Language: English
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We Had a Little Real Estate Problem: The Unheralded Story of Native Americans & Comedy
$18.99 Add to cartA Best Book of 2021 by NPR and Esquire
From Kliph Nesteroff, “the human encyclopedia of comedy” (VICE), comes the important and underappreciated story of Native Americans and comedy. It was one of the- Author: Nesteroff, Kliph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 15, 2022
- ISBN10: 1982103051
- Language: English
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Me Talk Pretty One Day
$19.99 Add to cartA recent transplant to Paris, humorist David Sedaris, bestselling author of Naked, presents a collection of his strongest work yet, including the title story about his hilarious attempt to learn Frenc
- Author: Sedaris, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 05, 2001
- ISBN10: 0316776963
- Language: English
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The Three Mothers: How the Mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation
$18.99 Add to cartNew York Times Bestseller
“This dynamic blend of biography and manifesto centers on Louise Little, Alberta King, and Berdis Baldwin . . . Tubbs’s book stands against the women’s erasure, a monument to- Author: Tubbs, Anna Malaika
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: December 28 2021
- ISBN10: 1250756138
- Language: English
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Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History
$18.99 Add to cart*Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award*
This New York Times bestseller
*A New York Times Notable Book*
*Winner of the Texas Book Award and the Oklahoma Book Award*- Author: Gwynne, S. C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 10 2011
- ISBN10: 1416591060
- Language: English
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Becoming
$20.00 Add to cartNow in paperback–the intimate, powerful, and inspiring memoir by the former First Lady of the United States, featuring a new introduction by Michelle Obama, a letter from the author to her younger se… [more below]
- Author: Obama, Michelle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: March 02 2021
- ISBN10: 1524763144
- Language: English
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The Color of Water: A Black Man’s Tribute to His White Mother
$17.00 Add to cartFrom the bestselling author of Deacon King Kong and the National Book Award-winning The Good Lord Bird The modern classic that spent more than two years on The New York Times bestseller list and that … [more below]
- Author: McBride, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 07 2006
- ISBN10: 159448192X
- Language: English
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Rebel for the Hell of It: The Life of Tupac Shakur
$19.99 Add to cartThe ever-controversial Shakur offers a great occasion for a close, passionate reading of rap and ghetto culture. White’s understanding of Tupac’s art will uncork the bottled up rage and confusion that
- Author: White, Armond
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 252
- Publish Date: November 22, 2002
- ISBN10: 1560254610
- Language: English
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Empire State of Mind: How Jay Z Went from Street Corner to Corner Office, Revised Edition
$18.00 Read moreUpdated and revised–the story of American rapper Jay-Z’s glass-shattering rise from the Brooklyn projects to the top of the business world.
Beyond the award-wining albums and chart-topping hits, Jay- Author: Greenburg, Zack O’Malley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 22 2015
- ISBN10: 1591848342
- Language: English
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
$19.00 Add to cartMaya Angelou’s debut memoir is a modern American classic beloved worldwide. Her life story is told in the documentary film And Still I Rise, as seen on PBS’s American Masters.
Here is a book as joyous- Author: Angelou, Maya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 21 2009
- ISBN10: 0812980026
- Language: English
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You’ll Never Believe Me: A Life of Lies, Second Tries, and Things I Should Only Tell My Therapist
$29.00 Add to cartThe compelling, edgy, compassionate, laugh-out-loud memoir from Kari Ferrell, formerly known as the “Hipster Grifter”
Before Anna Delvey, before the Tinder Swindler, there was Kari Ferrell. Adopted at- Author: Ferrell, Kari
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1250288223
- Language: English
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From These Roots: My Fight with Harvard to Reclaim My Legacy
$30.00 Read moreOne woman’s unrelenting mission to reclaim her ancestors’ history and honor their lineage pits her against one of the country’s most powerful institutions: Harvard University
Tamara Lanier grew up lis- Author: Lanier, Tamara
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 28 2025
- ISBN10: 059372772X
- Language: English
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One Day: A True Story of Survival in the Holocaust
$18.99 Add to cartFrom an eminent storyteller, this powerful, simply told, beautifully illustrated picture book recounts a rare story of survival during the Holocaust.
One day, a Hungarian-French Jew and his father wer- Author: Rosen, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: January 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1536238945
- Language: English
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Before Elvis: The African American Musicians Who Made the King
$30.00 Add to cartIn this thought-provoking book, the Black musicians who influenced Elvis Presley’s music finally receive recognition and praise.
After Baz Luhrmann’s movie, Elvis, hit theaters, audiences and critics- Author: Lauterbach, Preston
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 07 2025
- ISBN10: 0306833085
- Language: English
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Cartas de Amor Y Rebeld?a / Letters of Love and Rebellion
$15.95 Read moreEs un viaje que nos permite acompa?ar a la prestigiosa Lydia Cacho a trav?s de su carrera, sus obst?culos, sus querencias, sus fallas, sus deseos y sus pasiones.
Es un libro que ense?a desde lo m?s hu- Author: Cacho, Lydia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: August 23 2022
- ISBN10: 607381321X
- Language: Spanish
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My Life with Earth, Wind & Fire
$16.99 Add to cartForeword by Steve Harvey and afterword by David Foster
The Grammy-winning founder of the legendary pop/R&B/soul/funk/disco group tells his story and charts the rise of his legendary band in this sincer
- Author: White, Maurice
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: July 24 2018
- ISBN10: 0062329162
- Language: English
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Playing for Keeps: Michael Jordan and the World He Made
$18.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – From a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist comes “the best Jordan book so far” (The Washington Post), the story of Michael Jordan’s legendary years with the Chicago Bulls, ca… [more below]
- Author: Halberstam, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: February 01 2000
- ISBN10: 0767904443
- Language: English
