Cultural/ Ethnic & Regional
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The First Woman Cherokee Chief: Wilma Pearl Mankiller
$5.99 Read moreFind out all about Wilma Pearl Mankiller, the first woman Cherokee chief whose image appears on the U.S. quarter, in this Step 3 Biography Reader.
In 1985, Wilma Pearl Mankiller became the first woman- Series: Step Into Reading
- Author: Morris Buckley, Patricia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: February 07 2023
- ISBN10: 0593568508
- Language: English
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Why Didn’t You Tell Me? ¿Por Qué No Me Lo Dijiste? (Spanish Edition)
$19.99 Add to cart- Author: Wong, Carmen Rita
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 21 2023
- ISBN10: 0063209993
- Language: Spanish
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The White Mosque: A Memoir
$27.00 Read moreWinner of the Bernard J. Brommel Award for Biography & Memoir (Midland Authors Book Award)
Finalist for the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award A historical tapestry of border-crossing travelers, of students, w- Author: Samatar, Sofia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 25 2022
- ISBN10: 1646220978
- Language: English
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Things I Have Withheld
$17.00 Add to cartBy acclaimed Forward Prize winner, novelist, and poet, Kei Miller’s linked collection of essays blends memoir and literary commentary to explore the silences that exist in our conversations about race
- Author: Miller, Kei
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 20 2022
- ISBN10: 0802160336
- Language: English
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Mind Over Matter: Hard-Won Battles on the Road to Hope
$26.00 Read moreFollowing the bestselling success of the inspiring All the Way, pioneering Inuit NHLer Jordin Tootoo begins the process of healing in the wake of the suicide and violence that marks his family, only t… [more below]
- Author: Tootoo, Jordin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 17 2023
- ISBN10: 0735242267
- Language: English
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Almost Brown: A Memoir
$27.00 Read moreAn award-winning writer retraces her dysfunctional, biracial, globe-trotting family’s journey as she reckons with ethnicity and belonging, diversity and race, and the complexities of life within a mul… [more below]
- Author: Gill, Charlotte
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 06 2023
- ISBN10: 0593443012
- Language: English
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Hispanic Star: Ellen Ochoa
$9.99 Read moreRead about the first Latina in space, Ellen Ochoa, one of the most groundbreaking, iconic Hispanic and Latinx heroes that have shaped our culture and the world, in this gripping biography written by C
- Series: Hispanic Star
- Author: Edelman, Claudia Romo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: September 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1250828287
- Language: English
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Misty Copeland: Ballet Star
$5.99 Add to cartPresents the life of the African-American dancer, describing her childhood, her ballet training, and her work with the American Ballet Theatre.
- Series: I Can Read!: Level 1
- Author: Howden, Sarah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: January 21 2020
- ISBN10: 1443460249
- Language: English
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Grocery Shopping with My Mother
$24.00 Read more“Kevin Powell returns with a poetic time capsule written with love in honor of his mother’s evolution. Powell investigates the nature of our country’s oppression through the generational wounds surviv… [more below]
- Author: Powell, Kevin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: December 06 2022
- ISBN10: 1593767439
- Language: English
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The Fire Next Time
$22.00 Add to cartAt once a powerful evocation of his childhood in Harlem and a disturbing examination of the consequences of racial injustice, The Fire Next Time, which galvanized the nation in the early days of the C… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library (Hardcover)
- Author: Baldwin, James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: July 06 2021
- ISBN10: 0679601511
- Language: English
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Hispanic Star: Sonia Sotomayor
$6.99 Read moreRead about Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, one of the the most groundbreaking, iconic Hispanic and Latinx heroes that have shaped our culture and the world, in this gripping biography written b
- Series: Hispanic Star
- Author: Edelman, Claudia Romo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: September 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1250828236
- Language: English
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The Heartbreak Years: A Memoir
$16.99 Read moreA hilariously intimate memoir that gets to the turbulent joys and pains of coming of age and looking for love as a Black woman in America.
In the car she’d had since high school–with the boyfriend she
- Author: Honey, Minda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1662500017
- Language: English
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Mario Y El Agujero En El Cielo / Mario and the Hole in the Sky: Cómo Un QuÃmico Salvó Nuestro Planeta
$7.99 Read moreUna historia real sobre un cient?fico contempor?neo que salv? la capa de ozono y el planeta, evitando un desastre en el medioambiente.
Mario Molina es un cient?fico mexicoamericano y un h?roe de nuest- Author: Rusch, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: February 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1623541875
- Language: Spanish
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I Can’t Save You: A Memoir
$28.00 Read moreThe raw and gripping memoir of a Black physician who confronts his past mistakes and relationships as he learns to find his own path forward
At first glance, Anthony Chin-Quee looks like a traditiona- Author: Chin-Quee, Anthony
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 04 2023
- ISBN10: 0593418883
- Language: English
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One Earth: People of Color Protecting Our Planet
$24.95 Read more★ “The activists’ stories are extraordinary…It’s a powerful answer to Rao’s framing questions: ‘Who is an environmental defender? What does she or he look like? Maybe like you. Maybe like me.’
- Author: Rao, Anuradha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 07 2020
- ISBN10: 1459818865
- Language: English
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The Heartbreak Years: A Memoir
$28.99 Read moreA hilariously intimate memoir that gets to the turbulent joys and pains of coming of age and looking for love as a Black woman in America.
In the car she’d had since high school–with the boyfriend she
- Author: Honey, Minda
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1662500025
- Language: English
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The Wind at My Back: Resilience, Grace, and Other Gifts from My Mentor, Raven Wilkinson
$18.99 Read moreFrom celebrated ballerina and New York Times bestselling author Misty Copeland, a heartfelt memoir about her friendship with trailblazer Raven Wilkinson which captures the importance of mentorship, sh… [more below]
- Author: Copeland, Misty
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 03 2023
- ISBN10: 1538753871
- Language: English
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Granny Came Here on the Empire Windrush
$17.99 Read moreThis heart-warming and heartfelt debut picture book from multi-award-winning author Patrice Lawrence introduces the struggles and achievements of a generation of African Caribbeans who traveled across… [more below]
- Author: Lawrence, Patrice
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: May 02 2023
- ISBN10: 9798887770338
- Language: English
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The Swans of Harlem (Adapted for Young Adults): Five Black Ballerinas, a Legacy of Sisterhood, and Their Reclamation of a Groundbreaking History
$19.99 Add to cartA full accounting of five incredibly talented Black ballerinas from The Dance Theater of Harlem, founding members among them, that illuminates their hard-fought, historic, and overlooked contributions… [more below]
- Author: Valby, Karen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 14 2025
- ISBN10: 0593643569
- Language: English
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They Call You Back: A Lost History, a Search, a Memoir
$30.00 Read moreA haunting, an obsession, a calling: Tim Z. Hernandez has been searching for people his whole life. Now, in this highly anticipated memoir, he takes us along on an investigative odyssey through person… [more below]
- Series: Camino del Sol
- Author: Hernandez, Tim Z.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 17 2024
- ISBN10: 0816553610
- Language: English
