Cultural/ Ethnic & Regional
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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
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My Penitente Land: Reflections of Spanish New Mexico
$29.95 Add to cartThis unusual book, Fray Ang駘ico Chç–±ez’s personal meditation on his cultural heritage, is also a kind of spiritual autobiography of the Hispano people of New Mexico. The spirit of New Mexico, he fe
- Series: Southwest Heritage
- Author: Chavez, Angelico
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 300
- Publish Date: May 21 2012
- ISBN10: 0865348715
- Language: English
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We Got By: A Black Family’s Journey in the Heartland
$26.95 Add to cartLife along the color line in rural Ohio was hard. Being Black often meant feeling frightened and alone. For a family like Ric S. Sheffield’s, examining this reality closely meant confronting challenge… [more below]
- Series: Trillium Books
- Author: Sheffield, Ric S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: August 22 2022
- ISBN10: 0814258425
- Language: English
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My Indian Boyhood
$16.95 Add to cartAlthough the traditional Sioux nation was in its last days when Luther Standing Bear was born in the 1860s, he was raised in the ancestral manner to be a successful hunter and warrior and a respectful
- Author: Standing Bear, Luther
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 198
- Publish Date: November 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0803293348
- Language: English
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Ada Blackjack: A True Story of Survival in the Arctic
$30.00 Add to cartFrom the author of The Ice Master comes the remarkable true story of a young Inuit woman who survived six months alone on a desolate, uninhabited Arctic island
In September 1921, four young men and A- Author: Niven, Jennifer
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 431
- Publish Date: October 19 2007
- ISBN10: 0786868635
- Language: English
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Naked Truth: A Fight Against Racism, Religious Discrimination, and Retaliation in My Federal Government Career
$21.95 Add to cartJean served successfully for eighteen years in various government agencies-until her stellar career came to a screeching halt. Naked Truth is the riveting true story of one woman’s experiences with di… [more below]
- Author: Francis, Ph. D. Jean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 318
- Publish Date: June 27 2023
- ISBN10: 1646639677
- Language: English
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Some Girls: My Life in a Harem
$27.00 Add to cartA jaw-dropping story of how a girl from the suburbs ends up in a prince’s harem, and emerges from the secret Xanadu both richer and wiser
At eighteen, Jillian Lauren was an NYU theater school dropout- Author: Lauren, Jillian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 27 2010
- ISBN10: 0452296315
- Language: English
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Jim Brown: The Fierce Life of an American Hero
$17.99 Add to cartThe first, definitive biography of one of the most important, controversial, and outspoken athletes of the 20th century.
He intimidated people on and off the football field. He was brutal yet brillian
- Author: Freeman, Mike
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 16 2007
- ISBN10: 0060776838
- Language: English
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Latino Almanac: From Early Explorers to Corporate Leaders
$32.95 Add to cartA celebration of people and pride! Explore the achievements and contributions of Latinos in the United States with this illuminating history.
Latinos in the United States are a vibrant mix of people an… [more below]
- Series: Multicultural History & Heroes Collection
- Author: Kanellos, Nicolás
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: September 20 2022
- ISBN10: 1578596114
- Language: English
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Alabama Crimson Tide: 1967 and the Undercurrents of Integration – The First Five – Before the Season Changed
$34.99 Add to cartAlabama Crimson Tide: 1967 and the Undercurrents of Integration – The First Five – Before the Season Changed
By: Andrew Pernell
Mr.Pernell was born in the basement of the segregated Bessemer General Hos
- Author: Pernell, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 188
- Publish Date: March 25 2021
- ISBN10: 1649572700
- Language: English
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The Class of 1968: A Thread through Time
$33.95 Add to cartBorn in the late 1940’s and early 50’s and raised in a segregated town in southern Mississippi, a group of Black girls and boys came of age together, and graduated from high school in Hattiesburg as “
- Author: Townsend Gaines, Doris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 322
- Publish Date: February 22 2021
- ISBN10: 1646287304
- Language: English
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Black Widow: A Sad-Funny Journey Through Grief for People Who Normally Avoid Books with Words Like Journey in the Title
$16.99 Add to cartWith her signature warmth, hilarity, and tendency to overshare, Leslie Gray Streeter gives us real talk about love, loss, grief, and healing in your own way that “will make you laugh and cry, sometime… [more below]
- Author: Streeter, Leslie Gray
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 02 2021
- ISBN10: 0316490733
- Language: English
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Still on Vacation: In the middle of a pandemic Revised
$14.95 Add to cartThis memoir is the true story of an immigrant working mother whose journey led to an unintentional long-term vacation to the United States of America. Her story is filled with a myriad of learning exp
- Author: Baltodano, Ilean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 140
- Publish Date: August 24 2021
- ISBN10: 1643342118
- Language: English
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One Story, One Song
$16.95 Read moreA new collection of warm, wise, and inspiring stories from the author of the best-selling One Native Life
Since its publication in 2008, readers and reviewers have embraced Richard Wagamese’s One Nati- Author: Wagamese, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: October 15 2016
- ISBN10: 1771620803
- Language: English
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Daring to Drive: A Saudi Woman’s Awakening
$18.99 Add to cart“A vital, inspiring book” (O, The Oprah Magazine)–a ferociously intimate memoir by a devout woman from a modest family in Saudi Arabia who became the unexpected leader of the courageous movement that… [more below]
- Author: Al-Sharif, Manal
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 12 2018
- ISBN10: 1476793034
- Language: English
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I Am Charlie Wilson
$17.99 Add to cartThe long-awaited New York Times bestselling memoir of seven-time Grammy-nominated artist Charlie Wilson, the iconic R&B and Funk singer-songwriter-producer and former lead singer of The Gap Band–inte… [more below]
- Author: Wilson, Charlie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 28 2016
- ISBN10: 1476790086
- Language: English
