Cultural/ Ethnic & Regional
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A Path to the World: Becoming You
$10.99 Add to cartA chorus of essays from a variety of voices, backgrounds, and experiences, exploring what it means to be human and true to yourself.
What does it mean to be yourself? To be born here or somewhere else- Author: Carlson-Hijuelos, Lori Marie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: August 22 2023
- ISBN10: 1481419773
- Language: English
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Skinny Woman in a Straw Hat
$27.00 Add to cartWhen young Hao Tran left Vietnam in 1974 to study abroad, he had no idea it would be 20 years before he could return, or how much his native land would change in his absence. These are the stories of
- Author: Tran, Hao C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 220
- Publish Date: June 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1945955422
- Language: English
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Meet Me Tonight in Atlantic City
$17.95 Add to cartIn the late 1980s on the Jersey shore, Jane Wong watches her mother shake ants from an MSG bin behind the family’s Chinese restaurant. She is a hungry daughter frying crab rangoon for lunch, a child s… [more below]
- Author: Wong, Jane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 30 2024
- ISBN10: 1959030396
- Language: English
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The Tale of a Wall: Reflections on the Meaning of Hope and Freedom
$19.99 Read moreThis passionate autobiography–at once history lesson, prison memoir, metaphysical inquiry, love story, and cry for justice–provides insights into the Israeli occupation and the struggle of the Pales… [more below]
- Author: Srour, Nasser Abu
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 30 2024
- ISBN10: 1635423872
- Language: English
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Benjamin Banneker and Us: Eleven Generations of an American Family
$19.99 Add to cartA family reunion gives way to an unforgettable genealogical quest as relatives reconnect across lines of color, culture, and time, putting the past into urgent conversation with the present.
In 1791,- Author: Webster, Rachel Jamison
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 19 2024
- ISBN10: 1250871808
- Language: English
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Chop Fry Watch Learn: Fu Pei-Mei and the Making of Modern Chinese Food
$29.99 Add to cartIn 1949, a young Chinese housewife arrived in Taiwan and transformed herself from a novice to a natural in the kitchen. She launched a career as a cookbook author and television cooking instructor tha
- Author: King, Michelle T.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 07 2024
- ISBN10: 1324021284
- Language: English
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Incansable: Mi Historia de la Fuerza Latina Que Est? Transformando a Los Estados Unidos
$17.99 Add to cartLectura esencial de una voz experta que nuestro pa?s necesita: las memorias personales y pol?ticas de Luis A. Miranda Jr. revelan una profunda comprensi?n de la cultura latina y de c?mo construir una
- Author: Miranda, Luis A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 07 2024
- ISBN10: 0306835568
- Language: Spanish
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Buoyant Passages: The Story of My Family, My Life as an Identical Twin, and My Escapes into the Canadian Wilderness
$34.99 Add to cartWhat started as a short account of author Daniel J. Demers’ ancestors, including their arrival in Canada and the many challenges they faced while striving to establish a life here, soon morphed into a… [more below]
- Author: DeMers, Daniel J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 258
- Publish Date: October 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1039186297
- Language: English
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300 Dollars and 3 Suitcases: What’s Next?
$11.95 Add to cartThis was my journey leaving home at age twenty-three up until this current time at age sixty-one, writing this book. All that I could bring to California was my faith in God, a few dollars, my clothes
- Author: Thomas, Dwayne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: October 31 2023
- ISBN10: 9798890437365
- Language: English
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Crazy Dave
$24.95 Add to cartThe unflinching and marvelously humane story of a man born with Down syndrome in an Ojibway community.
- Series: Native Voices
- Author: Johnston, Basil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 01 2002
- ISBN10: 0873514238
- Language: English
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Quanah Parker, Comanche Chief: Volume 6
$21.95 Add to cartThe son of white captive Cynthia Ann Parker, Quanah Parker rose from able warrior to tribal leader on the Comanche reservation. Between 1875 and his death in 1911, Quanah dealt with local Indian agent
- Series: Oklahoma Western Biographies #6
- Author: Hagan, William T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 158
- Publish Date: December 18 2020
- ISBN10: 0806127724
- Language: English
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The Dull Knifes of Pine Ridge: A Lakota Odyssey
$29.95 Add to cartA fine story of cultural survival and a history that should find a place alongside those of a Crazy Horse or a Sitting Bull-integral parts of the American experience.—Booklist
Joe Starita tells the tr
- Author: Starita, Joe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: May 01 2002
- ISBN10: 0803292945
- Language: English
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Toward the Setting Sun: John Ross, the Cherokees, and the Trail of Tears
$18.00 Add to cart“Richly detailed and well-researched, this heartbreaking history unfolds like a political thriller with a deeply human side.”–Publishers Weekly
Toward the Setting Sun chronicles one of the most signi- Author: Hicks, Brian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: March 27 2012
- ISBN10: 0802145698
- Language: English
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The Yellow House: A Memoir (2019 National Book Award Winner)
$26.00 Add to cartWinner of the 2019 National Book Award for Nonfiction
A New York Times Bestseller
Named a Notable Book of the Year by the New York Times Book Review
Named one of the “10 Best Books of 2019” by the New
- Series: National Book Award Winner
- Author: Broom, Sarah M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 13 2019
- ISBN10: 0802125085
- Language: English
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Searching for Zion
$18.00 Add to cart“A brilliant illustration of the ways in which race is an artificial construct that, like beauty, is often a matter of perspective.”–The Wall Street Journal
“Frank and expansive . . . Each impression- Author: Raboteau, Emily
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 11 2014
- ISBN10: 0802122272
- Language: English
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‘scuse Me While I Kiss the Sky: Jimi Hendrix: Voodoo Child
$28.99 Add to cartThe expanded edition of the definitive, critically praised, and most beloved biography of music legend Jimi Hendrix–including previously unpublished photos.
Originally published to great acclaim in 1- Author: Henderson, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: July 21 2009
- ISBN10: 0743274016
- Language: English
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American Slaves Tell Their Stories: Six Interviews
$8.95 Add to cartVivid narratives recall life during and just after the Civil War, not only describing cruel punishments, divided families, and debilitating labor, but also providing information about religious belief… [more below]
- Series: Dover Books on Americana
- Author: Albert, Octavia V. Rogers
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 87
- Publish Date: April 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0486441903
- Language: English
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My Land and My People: The Original Autobiography of His Holiness the Dalai Lama of Tibet
$18.99 Add to cartSchooled behind ancient palace walls to become the leader of Tibet, the Dalai Lama has become a spiritual leader to the world and a leading civil rights advocate. My Land and My People tells the story… [more below]
- Author: Dalai Lama
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: December 01 1997
- ISBN10: 0446674214
- Language: English
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Passage to Ararat
$23.99 Add to cartIn Passage to Ararat, which received the National Book Award in 1976, Michael J. Arlen goes beyond the portrait of his father, the famous Anglo-Armenian novelist of the 1920s, that he created in Exile
- Series: FSG Classics
- Author: Arlen, Michael J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 310
- Publish Date: May 16 2006
- ISBN10: 0374530122
- Language: English
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Such Good Girls: The Journey of the Holocaust’s Hidden Child Survivors
$18.99 Add to cartEdgar Award-winning mystery novelist R. D. Rosen tells the story of the hidden children who survived the Holocaust through the lives of three girls hidden in three different countries—among the less
- Author: Rosen, R. D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 04 2015
- ISBN10: 0062297112
- Language: English
