Cultural/ Ethnic & Regional
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The Dead Don’t Need Reminding: In Search of Fugitives, Mississippi, and Black TV Nerd Shit
$30.00 Add to cartThis brilliant, adult nonfiction debut from the acclaimed MG author and poet weaves two personal narratives of recovery and reclamation, spliced with a dazzle of pop-culture
The Dead Don’t Need Remind- Author: Randall, Julian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 07 2024
- ISBN10: 1645030261
- Language: English
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Diabetes Knockout!
$13.99 Add to cartDiabetes Knockout is Michael Hall’s personal story of how he overcame Type 2 Diabetes, by changing his life, and the life of his son. Micheal shares his urban story of success, to encourage everyone t
- Author: Hall, Michael Anthony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 56
- Publish Date: December 01 2023
- ISBN10: 9798989330317
- Language: English
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chief spokan garry: the first american indian evangelist west of the rockies
$14.95 Add to cartThe history of chief spokan garry was the first american indian evangelist west of the rockies.
Garry was the chief of the middle and upper bands of the spokan indians. Garry was a laison for the Army,
- Author: Robert D. Bolen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 182
- Publish Date: March 02 2017
- ISBN10: 0997327626
- Language: English
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Weren’t No Good Times: Personal Accounts of Slavery in Alabama
$16.95 Add to cartFrom 1936 to 1938, the Federal Writers’ Project (FWP), a part of the New Deal’s Works Progress Administration, hired writers, editors, and researchers to interview as many former slaves as they could
- Series: Real Voices, Real History Series
- Author: Williams, Horace Randall
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 191
- Publish Date: February 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0895872846
- Language: English
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Incurable Blues: The Troubles & Triumph of Blues Legend Hubert Sumlin
$29.98 Add to cartINCURABLE BLUES THE TROUBLES AND TRIUMPH OF BLUES LEGEND HUBERT SUMLIN
- Author: Romano, Will
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: March 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0879308338
- Language: English
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Little Crow: Spokesman for the Sioux
$18.95 Add to cartGovernment officials and missionaries wanted all Sioux men to become self-sufficient farmers, wear pants, and cut their hair. The Indians, confronted by a land-hungry white population and a loss of hu… [more below]
- Author: Anderson, Gary Clayton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 01 1986
- ISBN10: 0873511964
- Language: English
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Voice in the Night: The True Story of a Man and the Miracles That Are Changing Africa
$17.99 Add to cartAstonishing True Story of the Miracles That Are Changing Africa
Born into a long line of witch doctors, Surprise (“Surpresa”) Sithole was destined for a life of fear, oppression, and poverty in the jun… [more below]
- Author: Pastor Surprise
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: February 01 2012
- ISBN10: 0800795237
- Language: English
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Crazy Brave: A Memoir
$26.95 Add to cartIn this transcendent memoir, grounded in tribal myth and ancestry, music and poetry, Joy Harjo, one of our leading Native American voices, details her journey to becoming a poet. Born in Oklahoma, the… [more below]
- Author: Harjo, Joy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: July 09 2012
- ISBN10: 0393073467
- Language: English
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The Heart of a Woman
$26.00 Add to cartIn The Heart of a Woman Maya Angelou leaves California with her son, Guy, to go to New York. There she enters the society and world of black artists and writers. Not since her childhood has she lived … [more below]
- Series: Oprah’s Book Club
- Author: Angelou, Maya
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 17 1997
- ISBN10: 0375500723
- Language: English
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Mirror to America: The Autobiography of John Hope Franklin
$29.00 Add to cartJohn Hope Franklin lived through America’s most defining twentieth-century transformation, the dismantling of legally protected racial segregation. A renowned scholar, he has explored that transformat
- Author: Franklin, John Hope
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: October 31 2006
- ISBN10: 0374530475
- Language: English
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Equal Justice Under Law: An Autobiography
$22.00 Add to cartThis wise and affecting memoir is the inside story of the great efforts leading up to the Supreme Court’s decision in Brown v. Board of Education in 1954 and the fight to implement it–and its implica
- Author: Motley, Constance Baker
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 09 2003
- ISBN10: 0374526184
- Language: English
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Crazy Horse: A Life
$17.00 Add to cartLegends cloud the life of Crazy Horse, a seminal figure in American history but an enigma even to his own people in his own day. This superb biography looks back across more than 120 years at the life… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Lives Biographies
- Author: McMurtry, Larry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: December 27 2005
- ISBN10: 0143034804
- Language: English
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Don’t Be Afraid, Gringo: A Honduran Woman Speaks from the Heart: The Story of Elvia Alvarado
$16.99 Add to cart“Here is a voice seldom heard, the voice of Latin America’s majority, those who bear the burdens of society. If we are to understand Honduras, Central America, or, for that matter, Latin America, we m
- Author: Benjamin, Medea
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: July 19 1989
- ISBN10: 006097205X
- Language: English
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Invisible Vision: The hidden story of Dr. Newton K. Wesley, American contact lens pioneer
$17.95 Add to cartAs recently as 1940, contact lenses did not exist for Americans. Invisible Vision is the hidden story of the man who brought them into existence, trained doctors and opticians to fit them, and develop
- Author: Wesley, Roy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 198
- Publish Date: July 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1945398051
- Language: English
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From Orphan to Greatness: An African Story
$17.95 Add to cartDuring one of his memorable speeches, President JFK declared, Ask not what your country can do for you but what you can do for your country. This speech marked the beginning of the Peace Corps program
- Author: T. Adade, Pierre Komi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: February 08 2021
- ISBN10: 1662430396
- Language: English
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The Book Collectors: A Band of Syrian Rebels and the Stories That Carried Them Through a War
$17.00 Add to cartA BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: NPR
An urgent and compelling account of great bravery and passion. –Susan Orlean Award-winning journalist Delphine Minoui recounts the true story of a band of young rebels, a- Author: Minoui, Delphine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 19 2021
- ISBN10: 125080017X
- Language: English
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The Compton Cowboys: The New Generation of Cowboys in America’s Urban Heartland
$19.99 Add to cart“Thompson-Hern ndez’s portrayal of Compton’s black cowboys broadens our perception of Compton’s young black residents, and connects the Compton Cowboys to the historical legacy of African Americans in
- Author: Thompson-Hernandez, Walter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 20 2021
- ISBN10: 0062910612
- Language: English
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A Boy, an Orphanage, a Cuban Refugee
$18.95 Add to cartI became a man when I was nine. My other option was death.
I just didn’t know it then, but the truth is that I . . . we . . . had to leave.
Why would parents send their children, alone, to a foreign cou
- Author: Dora, Tony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 246
- Publish Date: March 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1646638794
- Language: English
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La Luna Está En Duala: Y Mi Destino En El Conocimiento / The Moon Is in Duala: And My Destiny, in Knowledge
$19.95 Add to cartImagina que vives en un paÃs que no te permite realizar los estudios necesarios para desarrollarte como individuo.
Trata de imaginar ahora qu
Imagina que no tienes mayor sueño que ese, precisamente.- Author: Ladan, Sani
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: July 11 2023
- ISBN10: 8401031176
- Language: Spanish
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Chipped: Writing from a Skateboarder’s Lens
$26.00 Read moreA memoir-in-essays about how skateboarding re-defines space, curates culture, confronts mortality, and affords new perspectives on and off the board
Chipping a board–where small pieces of deck and ta- Author: Vadi, Jos?
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1593767552
- Language: English
