Cultural/ Ethnic & Regional
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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
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Finding Refuge: Real-Life Immigration Stories from Young People
$14.99 Read moreWhen you read about war in your history book or hear about it in the news, do you ever wonder what happens to the families and children in the places experiencing war? Many families in these situatio
- Author: Rouse, Victorya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: September 07 2021
- ISBN10: 1541581601
- Language: English
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Generations: A Memoir
$14.95 Read moreA moving family biography in which the poet traces her family history back through Jim Crow, the slave trade, and all the way to the women of the Dahomey people in West Africa.
Buffalo, New York. A f- Author: Clifton, Lucille
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: November 16 2021
- ISBN10: 1681375877
- Language: English
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Woman Of Many Names
$14.99 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: Paperback
- Page Count: 158
- Publish Date: August 08 2016
- ISBN10: 1943496072
- Language: English
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Furious Cool: Richard Pryor and the World That Made Him
$21.99 Add to cart- Author: Henry, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 21 2014
- ISBN10: 1616204478
- Language: English
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The Autobiography of LeRoi Jones
$24.95 Add to cartPoet, dramatist, novelist, critic, teacher, and political activist Amiri Baraka, born LeRoi Jones, vividly recounts his crusading role in African American literature. A driving force behind the Black … [more below]
- Series: Library of Black America
- Author: Baraka, Amiri
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: March 01 1997
- ISBN10: 1556522312
- Language: English
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Sound Therapy: Healing Power of Sound for Your Body Mind and Soul (A Comprehensive Guide to Its Instruments & Practices)
$19.95 Add to cartThe soothing sound of a wind chime, the calming tones of music during a massage or the exotic vibrations of a singing bowl are all sounds that can have healing properties. Learn more about the power o
- Author: Smith, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: August 26 2022
- ISBN10: 1774858029
- Language: English
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Generation Exile: The Lives I Leave Behind
$22.95 Read more- Author: Dorfman, Rodrigo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 0
- Publish Date: March 31 2023
- ISBN10: 1558859624
- Language: English
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One More Mountain: Fleeing Iran for America
$32.99 Add to cartThis book is the inspirational true story of young man willing to risk it all.
Since the Islamic Revolution began in 1979, millions of Iranians have fled to Turkey seeking refuge from religious and pol
- Author: Nurdel, Mansur
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 348
- Publish Date: March 08 2023
- ISBN10: 9798987808603
- Language: English
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Sons of Chinatown: A Memoir Rooted in China and America
$35.00 Read moreWilliam Gee Wong was born in Oakland, California’s Chinatown in 1941, the only son of his father, known as Pop. Pop was born in Guangdong Province, China and emigrated to Oakland as a teenager during … [more below]
- Author: Wong, William Gee
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: March 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1439924872
- Language: English
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A Faith of Many Rooms: Inhabiting a More Spacious Christianity
$26.99 Add to cartWhen your faith begins to feel too small, too confining, you could choose to leave it. But what if the faith we inhabit is roomier than we’d thought? What if our collapsing faith is just a closet in a
- Author: Thomas, Debie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: March 19 2024
- ISBN10: 1506481450
- Language: English
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Never Marry A Greek: Kansas Baptist Marries New England Greek
$16.95 Add to cartIt’s “My Big Fat Greek Wedding” all over again, only this time from the non-Greek view point. When the Baptist girl from Kansas marries a New England Greek boy, she realizes she is NOT in Kansas anymo… [more below]
- Author: Markos, Ruth Sloat
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 140
- Publish Date: August 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1977258352
- Language: English
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Anishinaabe Syndicated: A View from the Rez
$19.95 Add to cartA thoroughly traditional, modern man lives the seasonal round on the rez and writes about the changes he sees.
The topics of the day fly fast and furious over Jim Northrup’s moccasin telegraph: The gam
- Author: Northrup, Jim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: January 01 2011
- ISBN10: 0873518233
- Language: English
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The Other Side of Paradise: A Memoir
$18.99 Add to cartStaceyann Chin has appeared on television and radio discussing issues of race and sexuality, but it is her extraordinary voice that launched her career as a performer, poet, and activist–here, she sh… [more below]
- Author: Chin, Staceyann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 09 2010
- ISBN10: 074329291X
- Language: English
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Into the Twilight, Endlessly Grousing
$18.99 Add to cartPatrick McManus offers wry observations about small-town life and curmudgeonly insists on bigger and bigger fish stories in this hilarious collection from one of the greatest contemporary humorists.
P- Author: McManus, Patrick F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 04 1998
- ISBN10: 068484799X
- Language: English
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Still Life with Rice: A Young American Woman Discovers the Life and Legacy of Her Korean Grandmother
$19.99 Add to cart“A captivating memoir of a courageous survivor” (Publishers Weekly) and “a window onto the panorama of modern Korean history” (St. Petersburg Times) this is a radiant and engaging story about a young … [more below]
- Author: Lee, Helie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 08 1997
- ISBN10: 0684827115
- Language: English
