Cultural/ Ethnic & Regional
-
Undocumented: My Journey to Princeton and Harvard and Life as a Heart Surgeon
$14.95 Add to cartAmerica is still the land of immigrants. Not all of them arrive with a visa. Undocumented tells a story of an immigrant in America. From the hazardous environment that inspired his family’s desire to
- Author: Fernandez, Harold
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: October 21 2019
- ISBN10: 1700147544
- Language: English
-
A Creek Runs Through This Driftless Land: A Farm Family’s Journey Toward a Land Ethic
$36.00 Add to cartRichard (Dick) and his wife Kim co-own the Cates Family Farm LLC in Wyoming Township Iowa County with their son Eric and his wife Kiley and their daughter Shannon and her husband Dan. Dick is a life-l
- Author: Cates, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 243
- Publish Date: September 06 2024
- ISBN10: 1955656770
- Language: English
-
The Book of (More) Delights: Essays
$19.99 Add to cartFrom bestselling author of The Book of Delights and award-winning poet, a book of lyrical mini-essays celebrating the everyday that will inspire readers to rediscover the joys in the world around us. … [more below]
- Author: Gay, Ross
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 08 2024
- ISBN10: 1643756354
- Language: English
-
Salvage: Readings from the Wreck
$27.00 Add to cartOne of Literary Hub‘s most anticipated books of 2024
Dionne Brand explores English and American literature, and the colonial aesthetic that shaped her sense of self and the world, of what was possible- Author: Brand, Dionne
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 0374614849
- Language: English
-
A Rift in Time: Travels with My Ottoman Uncle
$16.99 Add to cartAn engrossing family memoir that shines a light on Palestine’s history, offering a wise, sobering view of how radically conditions there have changed since the late Ottoman Empire, from the award-winn… [more below]
- Author: Shehadeh, Raja
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 24 2024
- ISBN10: 1635425212
- Language: English
-
Owner of a Lonely Heart: A Memoir of Motherhood and Absence
$17.99 Add to cartNamed a Best Memoir of 2023 by Oprah Daily – Selected by Time, NPR, and BookPage as a Best Book of 2023
“This book…is what memoir writing in the hands of a caring, curious wunderkind can be.” –Kies- Author: Nguyen, Beth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 07 2024
- ISBN10: 1982196351
- Language: English
-
Nuestras almas migrantes (Our Migrant Souls – Spanish Edition)
$19.00 Add to cartGanador del Kirkus Prize para Literatura No Ficci?n
Nominado al Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence en Literatura No Ficci?n
Entre los mejores libros del a?o: The New York Times – Time – Kirkus Revi- Author: Tobar, H?ctor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 24 2024
- ISBN10: 1250366860
- Language: Spanish
-
Lucky Me: A Memoir of Changing the Odds
$20.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – A memoir of will, success, and the luck we make–from the founder and CEO of Klutch Sports Group and one of the most influential figures in the multibillion-dollar sports i… [more below]
- Author: Paul, Rich
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 0593448499
- Language: English
-
Compton in My Soul: A Life in Pursuit of Racial Equality
$28.00 Add to cartLessons and inspiration from a lifetime of teaching about race and ethnic relations
When Al Camarillo grew up in Compton, California, racial segregation was the rule. His relatives were among the firs
- Series: Stanford Studies in Comparative Race and Ethnicity
- Author: Camarillo, Albert M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: July 02 2024
- ISBN10: 1503638197
- Language: English
-
Two Hundred Miles From Baghdad: Cultures, Conflicts, and the Lost Art of Hitchhiking
$18.00 Add to cartBy planes, trains, and automobiles, journalist Lou Salome has hitched his way through some of the most interesting – and volatile – places on Earth.
In September 1958, Lou Salome hurried past Barney Mc
- Author: Salome, Louis J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 194
- Publish Date: September 10 2024
- ISBN10: 195866930X
- Language: English
-
Black Buffalo Woman: An Introduction to the Poetry & Poetics of Lucille Clifton
$23.00 Read moreThis long-awaited and much-needed volume shines new light on one of America’s most beloved, and profound, poets–Lucille Clifton.
Black Buffalo Woman is a deep, comprehensive dive into Clifton’s work t
- Author: Ali, Kazim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 294
- Publish Date: September 24 2024
- ISBN10: 1960145355
- Language: English
-
Kazuko: Sixth Grade in World War II Hiroshima
$17.99 Add to cartKazuko is the memoir of a Hiroshima atomic bomb survivor. It is the story of a young Japanese girl’s experience living through the world’s first atomic bomb and its aftermath.
Kazuko Blake, now in her
- Author: Blake, Kazuko
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 164
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 9.79899E+12
- Language: English
-
Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant: A Memoir
$19.99 Add to cartThis “vivid, moving, funny, and heartfelt” memoir tells the story of Curtis Chin’s time growing up as a gay Chinese American kid in 1980’s Detroit (Lisa Ko, author of The Leavers).
Nineteen eighties D… [more below]
- Author: Chin, Curtis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 031650775X
- Language: English
-
?Viva Latina!: Wisdom from Remarkable Women to Inspire and Empower
$19.99 Read moreDraw power and pride from the words of inspiring Latina women held in this keepsake volume written by and for Latinas.
!Viva Latina! captures generations of wisdom and Latina stories to inspire you th- Author: Velasquez, Sandra
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: September 17 2024
- ISBN10: 157715438X
- Language: English
-
A Map to the Door of No Return: Notes to Belonging
$19.00 Add to cartNow in its first American edition, Dionne Brand’s groundbreaking A Map to the Door of No Return has emerged as a modern classic, a highly influential exploration of “being” in the Black Diaspora.
Since- Author: Brand, Dionne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1250348846
- Language: English
-
The King of Orchard Street
$25.95 Add to cartThe King of Orchard Street is a tale told by six men, including the author, over three generations and across the decades of the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s. Their stories recreate a world that was bound
- Author: Palmieri, Vincent
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 326
- Publish Date: June 27 2024
- ISBN10: 9.79889E+12
- Language: English
-
The Road to Now
$13.95 Add to cartLife is a journey, and during that journey, we often veer onto different paths or what some would call roads, whether it be willingly or forced. Sometimes, we unconsciously follow others. However, all
- Author: Powell, Kesha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 72
- Publish Date: March 14 2024
- ISBN10: 9798891308442
- Language: English
-
Bird of Four Hundred Voices: A Mexican American Memoir of Music and Belonging
$28.00 Add to cartFrom the founder of Los Cenzontles Cultural Arts Academy, a profoundly personal exploration of music’s power to build cultural bridges that last.
“I wish I had studied with Eugene Rodrigeuz when I was
- Author: Rodriguez, Eugene
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: August 06 2024
- ISBN10: 1597146447
- Language: English
-
Stories from the Stoop: A Memoir of the 1960s Bronx
$24.99 Read moreThe Outsiders meets This Boy’s Life, in this coming-of-age memoir about growing up in the Bronx during the 1960s among racial tension, street violence, and trouble at home.
Growing up in the 1960s in- Author: Bernstein, Steve
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: April 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1510759964
- Language: English
-
Little Lady with a Big Drum
$23.95 Add to cartThis, the official autobiography of Elayne Jones, is the story of one woman’s remarkable life and career in her own words; a journey from meager beginnings as a self-described “skinny little girl from
- Author: Jones, Elayne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 310
- Publish Date: March 15 2019
- ISBN10: 1631320661
- Language: English
