Cultural/ Ethnic & Regional
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Can I Have Your Pearl Bracelet?
$18.95 Add to cartIn Can I Have Your Pearl Bracelet? award-winning author, poet and advice columnist Frances H. Kakugawa presents stories and poems gleaned from a lifetime search for answers to life’s existential quest
- Author: Kakugawa, Frances H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: October 16 2023
- ISBN10: 1958701076
- Language: English
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A Tourist From Petach Tikva: Growing Up Alongside the Creation of the State of Israel
$19.99 Add to cart“An enjoyable, touchingly personal account of a turbulent time in the Middle East.” – Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
Shulamit Frankel grew up in the tumultuous years during the creation of the State o… [more below]
- Author: Kagan, Aubrey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 210
- Publish Date: June 12 2023
- ISBN10: 1039162681
- Language: English
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Pendar
$19.99 Add to cartPENDAR – A MEMOIR OF COURAGE, HEARTBREAK, AND PERSEVERANCE
A young family’s world is turned upside down after the Iranian revolution leads to a bloody war. Young 12-year-old Pendar learns that children
- Author: Malek, Pendar
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 254
- Publish Date: June 02 2023
- ISBN10: 1637774362
- Language: English
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Where There’s a Will, There’s a Way
$24.95 Add to cartMa was a crafty lady who had been taught well by her father and mother, Elias Samuel Totten and Nancy Jane Bradford Totten. She learned to cook, sew, plow, hoe, pick cotton, do housework, and dry appl… [more below]
- Author: Barger, Carl J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 458
- Publish Date: May 02 2023
- ISBN10: 1682358291
- Language: English
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God Is Good
$9.99 Add to cartA story written by a father for his kids that talks of his hardships in life from being left by both of his parents early in his life and being born from an American man and a Korean woman in which he
- Author: Green, Albert K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 86
- Publish Date: April 27 2023
- ISBN10: 1088098843
- Language: English
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Here We Are: To Migrate to America… It’s the Boldest Act of One’s Life
$19.99 Add to cartHere We Are is a heart-wrenching memoir about an immigrant family’s American Dream, the justice system that took it away, and the daughter who fought to get it back, from NPR correspondent Aarti Namde
- Author: Shahani, Aarti Namdev
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 06 2020
- ISBN10: 1250204747
- Language: English
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Children of the Twelve Tribes
$21.10 Add to cartWe are all connected
Children of the 12 Tribes is a collection of artwork, stories, poems, letters, language lessons and Articles from the UN Declaration Of The Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP),
- Author: Goulding, Bernie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 30 2020
- ISBN10: 1922372420
- Language: English
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Beyond the Orange Shirt Story
$15.95 Read moreBeyond the Orange Shirt Story is a unique collection of truths that articulate the lives and experiences of some Residential School Survivors and their families. Compiled by Phyllis Webstad, Residenti… [more below]
- Author: Webstad, Phyllis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 100
- Publish Date: September 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1989122752
- Language: English
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Nothing Like a Dane: A real-life search for hygge in Denmark
$19.99 Add to cartThe Danish concept of hygge is a wonderful thing. Even if most fail miserably when they try to pronounce or explain its true essence. Unless you’re a Viking of course.
As Keri stood in the departure
- Author: Bloomfield, Keri
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 222
- Publish Date: April 19 2022
- ISBN10: 8797367400
- Language: English
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An American Girl in India: Letters and Recollections, 1963-64
$24.95 Add to cartOffers a portrait of India as seen through the eyes of a sensitive, sharp-eyed, and witty young scholar in the early 1960s.
- Author: Doniger, Wendy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1438494173
- Language: English
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Unstoppable: How Jim Thorpe and the Carlisle Indian School Football Team Defeated Army
$18.99 Add to cartIn the autumn of 1912, the football team from Carlisle Indian Industrial School took the field at the U.S. Military Academy, home to the bigger, stronger, and better-equipped West Points Cadets. Sport… [more below]
- Series: Encounter: Narrative Nonfiction Picture Books
- Author: Coulson, Art
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: August 01 2018
- ISBN10: 154350406X
- Language: English
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My Song: A Memoir of Art, Race, and Defiance
$18.00 Add to cartAn eloquently told personal account of an era of enormous cultural and political change, which reveals Harry Belafonte as not only one of America’s greatest entertainers, but also one of our most prof
- Author: Belafonte, Harry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: November 13 2012
- ISBN10: 0307473422
- Language: English
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I Was Right on Time
$17.99 Add to cartAn eye-opening biography of baseball legend Buck O’Neil, first baseman and then manager of the Kansas City Monarchs, who witnessed the heyday of the Negro leagues and their ultimate demise.
From Babe- Author: Conrads, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 12 1997
- ISBN10: 068483247X
- Language: English
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Altogether Different: A Memoir About Identity, Inheritance, and the Raid That Started the Civil War
$17.00 Add to cartIf you could choose between being Black and being white, what would you do?
As a child, Brianna Wheeler, the mixed-race descendant of Dangerfield Newby-first of John Brown’s raiders to die at Harpers F
- Author: Wheeler, Brianna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 214
- Publish Date: October 17 2023
- ISBN10: 1957024054
- Language: English
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Tasting the Sky: A Palestinian Childhood
$10.99 Add to cart“When a war ends it does not go away,” my mother says.”It hides inside us . . . Just forget!”
In this groundbreaking memoir set in Ra
But I do not want to do what Mother says . . . I want to remember.- Author: Barakat, Ibtisam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 25 2016
- ISBN10: 1250097185
- Language: English
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Balcony on the Moon: Coming of Age in Palestine
$16.99 Add to cartFrom award-winning Palestinian author Ibtisam Barakat comes a touching account of coming of age against a backdrop of political turmoil in the Middle East.
Picking up where Ibtisam Barakat’s first me- Author: Barakat, Ibtisam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 12 2018
- ISBN10: 1250144299
- Language: English
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Autumn Song: Essays on Absence
$19.95 Add to cartWe all live lives littered with what we leave behind: places we once lived, friendships we once had, dreams we once envisioned, the people we once were. Each new day we attempt to find a way to contin… [more below]
- Series: American Lives
- Author: Gopo, Patrice
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: September 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1496235800
- Language: English
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Epic Athletes: Lebron James
$7.99 Add to cartEpic Athletes: LeBron James is an inspiring young readers biography of the best basketball player of the modern era from celebrated sports journalist Dan Wetzel!
Featuring comic-style illustrations by- Series: Epic Athletes #5
- Author: Wetzel, Dan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 13 2020
- ISBN10: 125061984X
- Language: English
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Planting Stories: The Life of Librarian and Storyteller Pura Belpré
$19.99 Add to cartRECIPIENT OF THE PURA BELPR HONOR
* A Today Show’s Best Kids’ Books of 2019 * Indie Next List Pick * Junior Library Guild Selection *
“An appealing tribute and successful remedy to the lack of titles
- Author: Denise, Anika Aldamuy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: January 15 2019
- ISBN10: 0062748688
- Language: English
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Mankiller: A Chief and Her People
$23.00 Add to cartIn this spiritual, moving autobiography, Wilma Mankiller, former Chief of the Cherokee Nation and a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, tells of her own history while also honoring and rec
- Author: Mankiller, Wilma
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: February 12 2000
- ISBN10: 0312206623
- Language: English
