Cultural/ Ethnic & Regional
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After Dark: Birth of the Disco Dance Party
$24.99 Add to cartMid-town Buppies, big-time mobsters, fabulous dancing queens, and unscrupulous promoters all come together in After Dark, a first-hand account of the birth and growth of the disco movement in the 1970
- Author: Hankin, Noel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 278
- Publish Date: August 03 2021
- ISBN10: 1736614908
- Language: English
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When I Listened to a Farmer: Photographs and Lyrical Stories of America’s Original Entrepreneurs
$27.95 Add to cartAmerica’s farmers remain our nation’s most successful problem-solvers. Today’s turmoil is no match for these original American entrepreneurs who launched innovations in the middle of fires, hailstorms
- Author: Curran, Pete
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 110
- Publish Date: June 22 2021
- ISBN10: 1620065746
- Language: English
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Muggsy: My Life from a Kid in the Projects to the Godfather of Small Ball
$28.00 Read moreA candid and insightful memoir from one the NBA’s most unlikely stars
Growing up, Muggsy Bogues was always told he should do something else, anything besides basketball. He never acknowledged his man- Author: Bogues, Muggsy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 12 2022
- ISBN10: 1629379476
- Language: English
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Life Among the Paiutes: Their Wrongs and Claims
$10.99 Add to cartLife Among the Paiutes (1883) is a book by Sarah Winnemucca. Written toward the end of a lifetime of advocacy on behalf of Native Americans, Life Among the Paiutes is a hybrid work of history and memo
- Series: Mint Editions–Native Stories, Indigenous Voices
- Author: Winnemucca, Sarah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 198
- Publish Date: April 23 2021
- ISBN10: 1513283405
- Language: English
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Pork Belly Tacos with a Side of Anxiety: My Journey Through Depression, Bulimia, and Addiction
$12.99 Add to cartIn Pork Belly Tacos with a Side of Anxiety, Yvonne Castada shares vibrant stories of her childhood growing up in Miami as the daughter of humble immigrants from Mexico and Cuba . . . and how she ca
- Author: Castañeda, Yvonne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: February 22 2022
- ISBN10: 1595801081
- Language: English
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Only in St. Louis!
$24.95 Add to cartIn Only in St. Louis , Charlie Brennan shares the most incredible, strange and inspiring stories he has come across in his three decades talking about the Gateway City. Readers will learn:
Wilt Chambe
- Author: Brennan, Charlie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 21 2020
- ISBN10: 1735815403
- Language: English
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Stories from Palestine: Narratives of Resilience
$40.00 Add to cartStories from Palestine profiles Palestinians engaged in creative and productive pursuits in their everyday lives in the West Bank, Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip. Their narratives amplify perspectives
- Author: Dunsky, Marda
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 268
- Publish Date: March 01 2021
- ISBN10: 0268200335
- Language: English
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The Tragedy of White Injustice
$19.99 Add to cartWhen he published its third edition from London, Garvey described The Tragedy of White Injustice in these terms: “It must be remembered that this is not an attempt at poetry: it is just a peculiar sty
- Author: Garvey, Marcus
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 34
- Publish Date: July 01 2020
- ISBN10: 4167412799
- Language: English
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Shame Pudding: A Graphic Memoir
$16.99 Add to cartA celebration of the wacky and wonderful Jewish grandmothers who nurtured the author as she grew from a kid struggling with anxiety and insecurity to a teen finding her own voice.
- Author: Noble, Danny
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: May 19 2020
- ISBN10: 1951491025
- Language: English
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A Long Way to School: A Story of Overcoming Challenges and Never Giving Up
$25.32 Add to cartFrom the author of the international award-winning memoir, Evolving Through Adversity, comes the Young Readers Edition, “A Long Way to School,” a story that will inspire teens and young adults on how
- Author: Nimenya, Seconde
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 204
- Publish Date: September 03 2019
- ISBN10: 1733112405
- Language: English
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Tuskegee Airmen WWII Fighter Pilots: The Story of an Original Tuskegee Pilot, Lt. Col. Hiram E. Mann
$24.99 Read moreThis book honors the Tuskegee Airmen – African American pilots known
as the “Red Tails,” who never lost escorted bombers during World War
II. These decorated pilots overcame the prejudicial conclusion o
- Author: Coggins, Patrick C.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 294
- Publish Date: December 26, 2017
- ISBN10: 1948262754
- Language: English
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Before I Was a Critic I Was a Human Being: Volume 7
$20.00 Read moreIn that moment, I felt closer to whiteness than not. I was completely complicit and didn’t think twice about entering a space that could cover their walls with images of contemporary Indigenous perspe
- Series: Essais
- Author: Fung, Amy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: May 15 2019
- ISBN10: 177166505X
- Language: English
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Coretta: My Life, My Love, My Legacy
$18.99 Add to cartThe True Story of Coretta Scott King Told Fully for the First Time
Named a Washington Post Book to Read – A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice – A USA Today “New and Noteworthy” Pick – A Read- Author: King, Coretta Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: February 20 2018
- ISBN10: 1250159938
- Language: English
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(Re)constructing Memory, Place, and Identity in Twentieth Century Houston: A Memoir on Family and Being Mexican American in Space City USA
$34.95 Add to cartWhat does it mean to be Mexican American in Houston, TX?
For the Mendoza-Martinez family, the answer to this question is complicated and evolving. In this fascinating memoir, author Dr Louis Mendoza te
- Series: Latinx Studies
- Author: Mendoza, Louis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 244
- Publish Date: July 22 2023
- ISBN10: 1915271541
- Language: English
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Jersey Breaks: Becoming an American Poet
$17.95 Add to cartIn late-1940s Long Branch, a historic but run-down Jersey Shore resort town, in a neighborhood of Italian, Black, and Jewish families, Robert Pinsky began his unlikely journey to becoming a poet. Desc
- Author: Pinsky, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1324066075
- Language: English
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My Life and an Era: The Autobiography of Buck Colbert Franklin
$29.95 Add to cart“My father’s life represented many layers of the human experience–freedman and Native American, farmer and rancher, rural educator and urban professional.”–John Hope Franklin
Buck Colbert Franklin (- Author: Franklin, John Hope
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 01 1997
- ISBN10: 0807125997
- Language: English
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My Two Italies: A Personal and Cultural History
$18.00 Add to cartA charming, informative personal history that blends the anecdotal, historical, and downright unusual
The child of Italian immigrants and an award-winning scholar of Italian literature, Joseph Luzzi s- Author: Luzzi, Joseph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: July 14 2015
- ISBN10: 0374535396
- Language: English
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The Interesting Narrative and Other Writings
$15.00 Add to cartCompletely revised and edited with an introduction and notes by Vincent Carretta
An exciting and often terrifying adventure story, as well as an important precursor to such famous nineteenth-century s- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Equiano, Olaudah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: May 27 2003
- ISBN10: 0142437166
- Language: English
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Silence to Strength: Writings and Reflections on the 60s Scoop
$16.00 Read moreFrom the 1960s through the 1980s the Canadian Children’s Aid Society engaged in a large-scale program of removing First Nations children from their families and communities and adopting them out to no
- Author: Smith, Christine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 140
- Publish Date: October 19 2022
- ISBN10: 1928120334
- Language: English
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John Brown
$24.99 Add to cartThree years and 29 days prior to Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation, a man branded “zealot”, “fanatic” and “traitor” was hanged. John Brown and his band of 21 followers
seized the armory at Harper’s F
- Series: New World Paperbacks #25
- Author: DuBois, W. E. B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 314
- Publish Date: August 14 2021
- ISBN10: 0717803759
- Language: English
