Cultural/ Ethnic & Regional
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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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Sandals in the Snow: A True Story of One African Family’s Journey to Achieving the American Dream
$16.99 Add to cartRose and three young children walked onto American soil wearing Sandals in the Snow, an abrupt transition from Nigeria to New York. This fascinating memoir recounts the amazing journey of an African f
- Author: Ihedigbo, Rose
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 260
- Publish Date: May 23 2017
- ISBN10: 1947247492
- 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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My Amazing Journey: A Celebration of Seasons and Travelers along the Way
$17.95 Add to cartYouth and coming of age in the latter half of the twentieth century offered countless challenges, exposures, and opportunities. For an African American female born and living in the South, challenges,
- Author: Byrd, Lynda R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 178
- Publish Date: March 23 2023
- ISBN10: 1685265219
- 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
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It’s Never Too Late: A Memoir
$18.95 Add to cartIt’s never too late. Betty Scott is a living example of that statement. At age 92, she has had a long life of fulfillment. She has not slowed up. She remains a fireball of energy. Betty still operates
- Author: Scott, Betty
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 90
- Publish Date: January 12 2024
- ISBN10: 9798988676010
- Language: English
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Deliverance Mary Fields, First African American Woman Star Route Mail Carrier in the United States: A Montana History
$21.95 Add to cartAWARD-WINNING CREATIVE NONFICTION BIOGRAPHY
O, THE OPRAH MAGAZINE “10 TITLES TO PICK UP NOW” 2018
1885-1914. Mary Fields, a fifty-three-year-old second-generation slave, emancipated and residing in Tole
- Author: Metcalf McConnell, Miantae
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 532
- Publish Date: September 20 2016
- ISBN10: 0997877006
- Language: English
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Paddling with Spirits: A Solo Kayak Journey
$21.95 Add to cartInspired partly by her own spirit of adventure, and partly by the stories of her native coastal ancestors, Irene Skyriver celebrated her fortieth year of life with a solo kayak voyage, paddling from A
- Author: Skyriver, Irene
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 26 2017
- ISBN10: 0998701246
- Language: English
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Unexpected Bride in the Promised Land: Journeys in Palestine and Israel
$19.95 Add to cartAfter hitchhiking from Paris to Jerusalem, Jordan in 1967, Iris Keltz had to wait three days for permission to cross a U.N. checkpoint into Jerusalem, Israel. That was enough time for this young Jewis
- Author: Keltz, Iris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: February 20 2017
- ISBN10: 0986270695
- Language: English
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The Grave on the Wall
$17.95 Add to cartWinner of the 2020 PEN Open Book Award
Best of 2019: Nonfiction – Entropy Magazine
A memoir and book of mourning, a grandson’s attempt to reconcile his own uncontested citizenship with his grandfather’s
- Author: Shimoda, Brandon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 222
- Publish Date: July 30 2019
- ISBN10: 0872867900
- Language: English
