Cultural/ Ethnic & Regional
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I Will Live for Both of Us: A History of Colonialism, Uranium Mining, and Inuit Resistance
$24.95 Read moreBorn at a traditional Inuit camp in what is now Nunavut, Joan Scottie has spent decades protecting the Inuit hunting way of life, most famously with her long battle against the uranium mining industry
- Series: Contemporary Studies on the North #9
- Author: Scottie, Joan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: November 11 2022
- ISBN10: 088755265X
- Language: English
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A Tapestry Woven: From the past into the future
$16.95 Add to cartIf you believe there are no coincidences in life and we are on a destined path, then this book will attest to that perception. The story of Luz is where this journey begins. It is a powerful example o
- Author: Morales, Peggy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 180
- Publish Date: December 22 2020
- ISBN10: 1646289536
- Language: English
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The Most Perfect Justice: Alexander McGillivray and George Washington Strive to Save the Creek Nation
$10.50 Add to cartAlexander McGillivray, chief of the Creek Nation, was the most powerful Native American in the United States when George Washington became the nation’s first president in 1789.
Both men faced uncerta
- Author: Bouler, Jean Lufkin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 194
- Publish Date: April 08 2020
- ISBN10: 1733449701
- Language: English
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Immigration Stories from an Atlanta High School: Green Card Youth Voices
$20.00 Add to cart“Green Card Youth Voices: Immigration Stories from an Atlanta High School” is a collection of twenty-one personal essays written by refugee and immigrant students, and one current teacher, from Cross … [more below]
- Series: Green Card Youth Voices
- Author: Rozman Clark, Tea
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: April 09 2019
- ISBN10: 1949523055
- Language: English
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Bob Marley, My Son
$16.95 Add to cartIn this revealing and poignant account of the life of her son, reggae icon Bob Marley (1945-1980), Mother Cedella Marley Booker traces the unique history of Bob Marley and his contribution to popular … [more below]
- Author: Booker, Cedella Marley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 270
- Publish Date: February 21 2015
- ISBN10: 1630760773
- Language: English
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Men We Reaped
$27.99 Read moreNamed one of the Best Books of the Century by New York Magazine
Two-time National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward (Salvage the Bones, Sing, Unburied, Sing) contends with the deaths of five young men dear- Author: Ward, Jesmyn
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 17 2013
- ISBN10: 160819521X
- Language: English
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Remember This Titan: The Bill Yoast Story: Lessons Learned from a Celebrated Coach’s Journey As Told to Steve Sullivan
$28.95 Add to cartBill Yoast is one of the real-life heroes of Remember the Titans, the inspirational hit movie that chronicled the struggles of black and white high school football athletes to create a championship se… [more below]
- Author: Sullivan, Steve
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: October 01 2005
- ISBN10: 1589792785
- Language: English
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Lejos de Egipto
$25.95 Read moreThis richly colored memoir chronicles the exploits of a flamboyant Jewish family, from its bold arrival in cosmopolitan Alexandria to its defeated exodus three generations later. In elegant and witty … [more below]
- Author: Aciman, Andre
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 8417977759
- Language: Spanish
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A Path to the World: Becoming You
$10.99 Read moreA 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
