Cultural/ Ethnic & Regional
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The Shape of My Eyes: A Memoir of Race, Faith, and Finding Myself
$27.00 Add to cartA touching, humorous account of the author’s cultural reckoning with his Korean heritage and hidden family secrets.
A surprising diagnosis of PTSD led Dave Gibbons to look to his past for clues to ex- Author: Gibbons, Dave
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: July 23 2024
- ISBN10: 1546003231
- Language: English
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I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokbokki: Conversations with My Psychiatrist
$17.99 Read moreThe internationally bestselling therapy memoir translated by International Booker Prize shortlisted Anton Hur.
PSYCHIATRIST: So how can I help you?
ME: I don’t know, I’m-what’s the word-depressed? Do I- Author: Sehee, Baek
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: August 06 2024
- ISBN10: 1639732047
- Language: English
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Nola Face: A Latina’s Life in the Big Easy
$25.95 Add to cartEarly in Brooke Champagne’s childhood, her Ecuadorian grandmother Lala (half bruja, half santa) strictly circumscribed the girl’s present and future: become beautiful but know precisely when to use it
- Series: Crux: The Georgia Literary Nonfiction
- Author: Champagne, Brooke
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: April 01 2024
- ISBN10: 0820366536
- Language: English
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First Gen: A Memoir
$21.99 Add to cartAn unflinching memoir and “invaluable resource” (Kirkus) about navigating social mobility as a first gen Latina–offering both a riveting personal story and an examination of the unacknowledged emotio… [more below]
- Author: Campoverdi, Alejandra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 06 2024
- ISBN10: 1538757192
- Language: English
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Days Gone By: Aiken, Texas and the Outskirts
$35.95 Add to cartTake a step back in time to a small community in Texas called Aiken. Learn about her citizens through the eyes of their neighbors and families. As the narratives come together and expand, nearby commu… [more below]
- Author: Adkison, Pamila Hooper
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: January 26 2024
- ISBN10: 0578276585
- Language: English
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Reap the Whirlwind: Violence, Race, Justice, and the Story of Sagon Penn
$30.00 Read moreThe bestselling author of Norco ’80 returns with a riveting story of mid-1980s San Diego that placed one young Black man at the center of a whirlwind of crime and punishment that profoundly altered So… [more below]
- Author: Houlahan, Peter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: July 23 2024
- ISBN10: 1640094512
- Language: English
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Twenty Years: Hope, War, and the Betrayal of an Afghan Generation
$30.00 Read moreAn intimate history of the Afghan war–and the young Afghans whose dreams it enabled and dashed.
No country was more deeply affected by 9/11 than Afghanistan: an entire generation grew up amid the uph- Author: Rasmussen, Sune Engel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 06 2024
- ISBN10: 0374609942
- Language: English
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The End of Respectability: Notes of a Black American Reckoning with His Life and His Nation
$28.95 Add to cartWith Kamala Harris’s rise, American Blacks are entering a new phase in the struggle against white supremacy. Standing firmly in the African American tradition, Walton believes in the possibility of re
- Author: Walton, Anthony
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: October 15 2024
- ISBN10: 1567927289
- Language: English
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Bringing Ben Home: A Murder, a Conviction, and the Fight to Redeem American Justice
$30.00 Read moreHow states are making their legal systems more equitable, seen through the story of a Black man falsely imprisoned for thirty years for murder.
In 1987, Ben Spencer, a twenty-two-year-old Black man fr- Author: Hagerty, Barbara Bradley
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: August 06 2024
- ISBN10: 059342008X
- Language: English
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The Little Book of Abuelita Wisdom: For When You Need a Bit of Guidance from Abuela
$17.00 Add to cartOye! Listen to your abuelita, por favor. This sweet and cheeky guide, in abuela’s signature voice, with Spanish peppered throughout, is filled with abuelita wisdom, including sayings, tips, and trick… [more below]
- Author: Ishak, Raven
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: April 02 2024
- ISBN10: 0762484209
- Language: English
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The Black Utopians: Searching for Paradise and the Promised Land in America
$30.00 Add to cartOne of Literary Hub‘s most anticipated books of 2024
How do the disillusioned, the forgotten, an
A lyrical meditation on how Black Americans have envisioned utopia–and sought to transform their lives.- Author: Robertson, Aaron
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 0374604983
- Language: English
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Mama: A Queer Black Woman’s Story of a Family Lost and Found
$29.00 Add to cartIn this searing and uplifting memoir, a young Black queer woman fresh out of college adopts her baby brother after their incarcerated mother dies, determined to create the kind of family she never had… [more below]
- Author: Hargrove, Nikkya
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 15 2024
- ISBN10: 1643751581
- Language: English
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Squanto: A Native Odyssey
$28.00 Add to cartTaken to Europe as a slave, he found his way home and changed the course of American history
American schoolchildren have long learned about Squanto, the welcoming Native who made the First Thanksgiv- Author: Lipman, Andrew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: September 17 2024
- ISBN10: 0300238770
- Language: English
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Budding Lotus in the West: Buddhism from an Immigrant’s Feminist Perspective
$25.99 Read moreA thought-provoking and critical exploration of Buddhism’s adaptation in America from Vietnamese immigrant and debut author Nhi Yến Đỗ Trần.
Born into a family legacy of Buddhis
- Author: Trần, Nhi Yến Đỗ
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 266
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1506495141
- Language: English
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Horse Barbie: A Memoir of Reclamation
$18.00 Add to cart“A moving chronicle of trans resilience and joy” (Vogue) from one of Out100’s Most Impactful and Influential LGBTQ+ Storytellers
“Groundbreaking . . . [Rocero] quite literally models what triumph can- Author: Rocero, Geena
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 04 2024
- ISBN10: 0593445902
- Language: English
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Our South: Black Food Through My Lens
$40.00 Add to cartRaised in Appalachia, native daughter Ashleigh Shanti, a queer Black woman and acclaimed chef, knows Southern Black cooking means more than we’ve come to believe. While hot buttered cast-iron-pan corn
- Author: Shanti, Ashleigh
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 15 2024
- ISBN10: 1454949120
- Language: English
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Belonging: A Daughter’s Search for Identity Through Loss and Love
$19.99 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
“[An] outstanding debut.”–Publishers Weekly (starred review)
The award-winning journalist and co-host of CBS Saturday Morning tells the candid, and deeply personal story of he
- Author: Miller, Michelle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 12 2024
- ISBN10: 006322044X
- Language: English
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Being Black in America’s Schools: A Student-Educator-Reformers Call for Change
$28.00 Read moreFor readers of The Knowledge Gap, Race to the Bottom, and The Inequality Machine, education and equity strategist Brian Rashad Fuller sheds a stark light on America’s public schools, the miseducation … [more below]
- Author: Fuller, Brian Rashad
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: July 23 2024
- ISBN10: 1496746600
- Language: English
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Ordinary Disasters: How I Stopped Being a Model Minority
$27.00 Add to cartThe most personal writing yet to come from a noted scholar of race: a bold and moving look at race, gender, aging, and immigration that examines, through lenses both intimate and political, what it me… [more below]
- Author: Cheng, Anne Anlin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 10 2024
- ISBN10: 0593316827
- Language: English
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Namesake: Reflections on a Warrior Woman
$20.00 Add to cartA Palestinian Woman’s dazzling exploration of heritage, gender and the idea of home.
I may not be brave enough, but somewhere deep inside of me there is, perhaps, the kernel of someone who is. That- Author: Nuseibeh, N. S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 25 2024
- ISBN10: 162371687X
- Language: English
