Cultural/ Ethnic & Regional
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Junkyard Girl: A Memoir of Ancestry, Family Secrets, and Second Chances
$18.95 Add to cart“An astonishing tale, told by a gifted storyteller. Beautifully written, emotionally engaging and unrestrained in its intimacy…as heartbreaking as it is heartfelt.”-Jay Rabinowitz, ACE, award-winnin
- Author: Montes de Oca, Carlyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 310
- Publish Date: October 12 2022
- ISBN10: 0999781227
- Language: English
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Kansas City Lightning: The Rise and Times of Charlie Parker
$19.99 Add to cart“A tour de force. . . . Crouch has given us a bone-deep understanding of Parker’s music and the world that produced it. In his pages, Bird still lives.” — Washington Post
A stunning portrait of Charli
- Author: Crouch, Stanley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 21 2014
- ISBN10: 0062005618
- Language: English
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Everything and Nothing: The Dorothy Dandridge Tragedy
$16.99 Add to cartThe autobiography of Dorothy Dandridge, Hollywood’s first Black sex symbol and first Black best actress Oscar-nominee, examines her early life, slow rise to stardom, and swift decline. The book was co
- Author: Dandridge, Dorothy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 26 2000
- ISBN10: 0060956755
- Language: English
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Shelf Life: Chronicles of a Cairo Bookseller
$18.00 Add to cart“As a bookseller, I loved Shelf Life for the chance to peer behind the curtain of Diwan, Nadia Wassef ‘s bookstore–the way that the personal is inextricable from the professional, the way that failur
- Author: Wassef, Nadia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 1250858860
- Language: English
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The Quiet Trailblazer: My Journey as the First Black Graduate of the University of Georgia
$32.95 Add to cartThe Quiet Trailblazer recounts Mary Frances Early’s life from her childhood in Atlanta, her growing interest in music, and her awakening to the injustices of racism in the Jim Crow South. Early carefu
- Author: Early, Mary Frances
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 15 2021
- ISBN10: 0820360813
- Language: English
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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 Read moreThe 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
