Cultural/ Ethnic & Regional
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We Take Our Cities with Us: A Memoir
$19.95 Add to cartEven when we leave them, our cities never leave us. After her Dutch mother’s death, Sorayya Khan confronts her grief by revisiting their relationship, her parents’ lives, and her own Pakistani-Dutch h… [more below]
- Series: Machete
- Author: Khan, Sorayya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 07 2022
- ISBN10: 0814258484
- Language: English
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Laughing with the Trickster: On Sex, Death, and Accordions
$17.99 Read moreBrilliant, jubilant insights into the glory and anguish of life from one of the world’s most treasured Indigenous creators.
Trickster is zany, ridiculous. The ultimate, over-the-top, madcap fool. Her
- Series: CBC Massey Lectures
- Author: Highway, Tomson
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: September 27 2022
- ISBN10: 1487011237
- Language: English
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Don’t Let It Get You Down: Essays on Race, Gender, and the Body
$17.99 Add to cartA “brutal, beautifully rendered” (The New York Times Book Review) collection of essays that offers poignant reflections on living between society’s most charged, politicized, and intractable polar spa… [more below]
- Author: Nolan, Savala
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: July 19 2022
- ISBN10: 1982137282
- Language: English
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A Runaway Teenager: Who Found Freedom
$16.99 Add to cartWhat is freedom worth to you?
At 14 years old, Quyen (Quin) Ha risked everything for a chance for a better life. Living under the communist regime in Viet Nam, Quyen saw his freedoms being taken away.
- Author: Ha, Quyen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: September 29 2021
- ISBN10: 1736849107
- Language: English
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A Body Across Two Hemispheres: A Memoir in Essays
$18.95 Add to cart“A Body Across Two Hemispheres is a timely book, one many of us need and will be grateful to have read.” –Shara McCallum
“A Body Across Two Hemispheres is the kind of memoir that makes us more human;
- Author: Buitron, Victoria
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 260
- Publish Date: March 22 2022
- ISBN10: 1949116999
- Language: English
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I Came as a Shadow: An Autobiography
$19.99 Read moreA NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK
The long-awaited autobiography from Georgetown University’s legendary coach, whose life on and off the basketball court throws America’s unresolved struggle with racial j- Author: Thompson, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: February 08, 2022
- ISBN10: 125061936X
- Language: English
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Miseducated: A Memoir
$29.00 Add to cartAn inspiring memoir of one man’s transformation from a delinquent, drug-dealing dropout to an award-winning Harvard educator through literature and debate–all by the age of twenty-seven.
Brandon P. F- Author: Fleming, Brandon P.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 15 2021
- ISBN10: 0306925133
- Language: English
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Sure, I’ll Be Your Black Friend: Notes from the Other Side of the Fist Bump
$17.99 Add to cartIt is a truth universally acknowledged that a good white person of liberal leanings must be in want of a Black friend.
In the biting, hilarious vein of What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Blacker and We Ar
- Author: Philippe, Ben
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 27 2021
- ISBN10: 0063026449
- Language: English
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We Still Here: Pandemic, Policing, Protest, and Possibility
$12.95 Add to cartIn the midst of loss and death and suffering, our charge is to figure out what freedom really means–and how we take steps to get there.
“In the United States, being poor and Black makes you more like
- Author: Hill, Marc Lamont
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: November 10 2020
- ISBN10: 1642594539
- Language: English
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Woman Of Many Names
$27.99 Add to cartWoman of Many Names is a deeper look into a woman who helped shaped the history of our Nation. Nancy Ward had ties to Daniel Boone and George Washington, including having saved the latter’s life (and,
- Author: Yates, Debra S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 158
- Publish Date: August 08 2016
- ISBN10: 1943496080
- Language: English
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Jackie Robinson
$10.00 Add to cartThe year was 1947. A talented young minor-league baseball player was called up to the majors to join the Brooklyn Dodgers. But this was no ordinary man, nor any simple achievement. This was Jackie Rob
- Series: Gemma Open Door
- Author: Schuster, Joe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 82
- Publish Date: October 30 2018
- ISBN10: 1936846713
- Language: English
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The Church of Cheese: Gypsy Ritual in the American Heyday
$15.95 Add to cartA disapora spread over five continents, Gypsies have yet to enter the American public consciousness, yet they have been arriving since the late sixteenth century. Columbus brought several, forcibly tr… [more below]
- Author: Miller, Carol
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: January 01 2010
- ISBN10: 1934848611
- Language: English
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My Grandmother: An Armenian-Turkish Memoir
$19.95 Add to cartGrowing up in the small town of Maden in Turkey, Fethiye etin knew her grandmother as a happy and respected Muslim housewife called Seher.
Only decades later did she discover the truth. Her grandmoth- Author: Cetin, Fethiye
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: July 04 2012
- ISBN10: 1844678679
- Language: English
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Learning to Die in Miami: Confessions of a Refugee Boy
$20.00 Add to cartContinuing the personal saga begun in the National Book Award-winning Waiting for Snow in Havana, the inspiring, sad, funny, bafflingly beautiful story of a boy uprooted by the Cuban Revolution and tr… [more below]
- Author: Eire, Carlos
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 07 2011
- ISBN10: 1439181918
- Language: English
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The Fastest Bicycle Rider in the World
$38.00 Add to cartThe true story of Marshall “Major” Taylor, who overcame racial prejudice to become one of the most dominant cyclists in history. Part of Belt’s Revival series and with an introduction by Zito Madu.
The… [more below]
- Series: Belt Revivals
- Author: Taylor, Marshall W. Major
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: March 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1953368549
- Language: English
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Real American: A Memoir
$17.99 Add to cartA fearless debut memoir in which beloved and bestselling How to Raise an Adult author Julie Lythcott-Haims pulls no punches in her recollections of growing up a black woman in America
“Courageous, ach- Author: Lythcott-Haims, Julie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 21 2018
- ISBN10: 1250296730
- Language: English
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Meher & Me: A Mother-Daughter Relationship Memoir About The Life We Choose For The Lessons We Will Learn
$18.99 Add to cartA Tale of an Unconventional Life and Courage Developed Through a Combination of Nature, Nurture, and Skills Acquired Along the Way.
My mother, Meher, believed that we choose our lives for the lessons w
- Author: Farah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 186
- Publish Date: April 17 2023
- ISBN10: 1739355024
- Language: English
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Pure Joy’s Life Through the Wrong End of My Binoculars
$20.00 Add to cartThe simple humor of this Southern-style family will hit home for many readers. Walsh hopes to honor family and others associated with her stories in her best “Southernese” Tennessee style! This book i
- Author: Walsh, Joy Smith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 172
- Publish Date: April 17 2023
- ISBN10: 1954978863
- Language: English
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Reflections on Years Gone By
$21.99 Add to cartAfter much encouragement from family and friends, I finally used time in isolation during the COVID-19 pandemic to pen this novel. As a young man born on the Eastern Shore of Virginia, I never envisio
- Author: Collins, Clifton Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 220
- Publish Date: July 17 2023
- ISBN10: 9798988389002
- Language: English
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Ninety-Eight Years, Eleven Months, Nineteen Days: A Memoir
$14.99 Add to cartNINETY-EIGHT YEARS, ELEVEN MONTHS, NINETEEN DAYS is a memoir celebrating a life of legacy, love and strong family values.
Step into the heartwarming and inspiring tale of a man who lived a life that sp
- Author: Devers, Vernon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 122
- Publish Date: September 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1956879358
- Language: English
