Cultural/ Ethnic & Regional
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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
$24.00 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 Add to cartA 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 Read moreThe 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
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Spiritual Self-Care for Black Women: Powerful Spiritual Guide & Workbook to Help you Transform Your Life in 12 Months. Find Inner Peace and Happiness
$19.99 Add to cartA proactive approach to aligning your spirituality with healing, growth, and success is here – Find out how you can become the well-rounded badass you’re destined to be!
“Spirituality is a brave search
- Series: Black Is Beautiful #4
- Author: Studio, Easytube Zen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 226
- Publish Date: April 21 2022
- ISBN10: 1914271963
- Language: English
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To Walk about in Freedom: The Long Emancipation of Priscilla Joyner
$17.95 Add to cartPriscilla Joyner was born into the world of slavery in 1858 North Carolina and came of age at the dawn of emancipation. Raised by a white slaveholding woman, Joyner never knew the truth about her pare
- Author: Emberton, Carole
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1324050276
- Language: English
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An Enemy Such as This: Larry Casuse and the Fight for Native Liberation in One Family on Two Continents Over Three Centuries
$19.95 Add to cartThe remarkable true story of an Indigenous family who fought back, over multiple generations, against the world-destroying power of settler colonial violence.
Just weeks before police would kill him in
- Author: Correia, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 12 2023
- ISBN10: 1642599778
- Language: English
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Meher & Me: A Mother-Daughter Relationship Memoir About The Life We Choose For The Lessons We Will Learn
$9.99 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: Paperback
- Page Count: 186
- Publish Date: April 17 2023
- ISBN10: 1739355008
- Language: English
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The Lifta Hamideh Ismail Legacy
$26.60 Add to cartSue Hamideh’s heartwarming tribute to her late husband and his remarkable family-from its roots in Lifta, a tiny Palestinian village outside Jerusalem, to Texas, where much of the family eventually se… [more below]
- Author: Hamideh, Sue
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 36
- Publish Date: June 27 2023
- ISBN10: 1958640387
- Language: English
