Cultural/ Ethnic & Regional
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Remembering Shanghai: A Memoir of Socialites, Scholars and Scoundrels
$19.95 Add to cartWINNER OF OVER 20 LITERARY AND DESIGN AWARDS including the Writer’s Digest Grand Prize and Rubery Book Award Book of the Year
True stories of glamour, drama, and tragedy told through five generations
- Author: Chao, Isabel Sun
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 308
- Publish Date: October 19 2021
- ISBN10: 1954854056
- Language: English
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Don’t Hurt a Sasquatch: And Other Wacky-But-Real Laws in the USA and Canada
$19.99 Add to cartThis hilarious compendium dives into the quirkiest decrees from around the country, from Alabama’s ban on driving blindfolded to Delaware’s restriction on selling dog hair.
Every state in the country
- Author: Vendetti, Tyler
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: July 06 2021
- ISBN10: 1951511158
- Language: English
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Charley Patton: Expanded Edition
$12.95 Read moreThe Father of the Delta Blues, Charley Patton (1891-1934) was born and raised around Mississippi’s cotton plantations. During the 1920s, he was the first of the region’s great stars, performing for pa… [more below]
- Series: Dover Books on Music: Folk Songs
- Author: Fahey, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: August 12 2020
- ISBN10: 486843440
- Language: English
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While the Earth Sleeps We Travel: Stories, Poetry, and Art from Young Refugees Around the World
$19.99 Read moreA groundbreaking collection of poetry, personal narratives, and art from refugee youth around the world. Foreword by actor and UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador Ben Stiller.
Beginning in 2018, Ahmed M. Badr–- Author: Badr, Ahmed M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 13 2020
- ISBN10: 1449496423
- Language: English
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My Life, as I See It: An Autobiography
$19.99 Add to cartDionne Warwick made her singing debut in church at the request of her grandfather, the Reverend Elzae Warrick, when she was six years old. No one knew then that she would become an international music… [more below]
- Author: Warwick, Dionne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 22 2011
- ISBN10: 1439171351
- Language: English
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Geronimo: Twenty-Three Years as a Prisoner of War
$22.95 Add to cartWhen Geronimo and his warriors surrendered to the US Army, General Miles made a number of promises for the surrender terms that were in fact false. Geronimo: Prisoner of Lies provides insights into ho
- Author: Farmer, W. Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: November 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1493074407
- Language: English
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Born Bright
$22.99 Add to cartStanding on the stage, I felt exposed and like an intruder. In these professional settings, my personal experiences with hunger, poverty, and episodic homelessness often go undetected. I had worked ha… [more below]
- Author: Mason, C. Nicole
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 16 2016
- ISBN10: 1250891124
- Language: English
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Meeting the Sweet Grass
$13.95 Add to cartThese short stories are the memories of a sixteen-year-old boy born and raised under the Big Sky, Montana. His dream of working on a ranch and becoming a cowboy was fulfilled in the late 1960s when he
- Author: Glueckert, Joe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 76
- Publish Date: February 23 2023
- ISBN10: 9798887513515
- Language: English
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Federico Villalba’s Texas: The Story of a Mexican Pioneer’s Life in the Big Bend
$24.00 Add to cartIn the 1880s Federico Villalba left old San Ger nimo (Aldama, Chihuahua) and began ranching near the village of San Carlos, about fifteen miles south of the Lajitas ford of the Rio Grande. Villalba pr
- Author: Casas, Juan Manuel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: February 13 2019
- ISBN10: 0974504866
- Language: English
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John Joseph Mathews, 69: Life of an Osage Writer
$21.95 Add to cartJohn Joseph Mathews (1894-1979) is one of Oklahoma’s most revered twentieth-century authors. An Osage Indian, he was also one of the first Indigenous authors to gain national renown. Yet fame did not… [more below]
- Series: American Indian Literature and Critical Studies #69
- Author: Snyder, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 284
- Publish Date: February 02 2018
- ISBN10: 0806160527
- Language: English
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Fifty Miles from Tomorrow: A Memoir of Alaska and the Real People
$20.00 Read moreA NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS’ CHOICE
An alternately charming and harrowing account of over 50 years of one remarkable native Alaskan’s life – from living off the land north of the Arctic Circl- Author: Hensley, William L. Iggiagruk
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 02 2010
- ISBN10: 0312429363
- Language: English
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On the Rez
$23.99 Add to cartOn the Rez is a sharp, unflinching account of the modern-day American Indian experience, especially that of the Oglala Sioux, who now live on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in the plains and badlan
- Author: Frazier, Ian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 04 2001
- ISBN10: 0312278594
- Language: English
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Trailblazing Black Women of Washington State
$21.99 Read moreBreaking glass ceilings, organizing clubs, and making history as the first in their fields, these trailblazing Black women paved the way for new generations.
From Nettie Craig Asberry, founder of the T
- Series: American Heritage
- Author: Morgan, Marilyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: July 04 2022
- ISBN10: 1467150428
- Language: English
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Life and Times of Frederick Douglass: Written by Himself
$12.95 Add to cart‘It will be seen in these pages that I have lived several lives in one: first, the life of slavery; secondly, the life of a fugitive from slavery; thirdly, the life of comparative freedom; fourthly, t… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Douglass, Frederick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: October 28 2022
- ISBN10: 0198835329
- Language: English
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Born in Cambridge: 400 Years of Ideas and Innovators
$39.95 Read moreAnne Bradstreet, W.E.B. Du Bois, gene editing, and Junior Mints: cultural icons, influential ideas, and world-changing innovations from Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Cambridge, Massachusetts is a city of- Author: Weintraub, Karen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 424
- Publish Date: May 03, 2022
- ISBN10: 0262046806
- Language: English
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The Improbable Rise of Redneck Rock
$29.95 Add to cartFirst published in 1974, The Improbable Rise of Redneck Rock grew out of a magazine article coauthored by Jan Reid. His first book was a sensation in Texas. It portrayed an Austin-based live music exp… [more below]
- Author: Reid, Jan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 05 2021
- ISBN10: 0875657761
- Language: English
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Bad as I Wanna Be
$8.99 Add to cartA wild ride inside the glowing head of Dennis Rodman–the NBA’s greatest rebounder and America’s most outspoken and outrageous athlete.
When Sports Illustrated put the man they call “America’s most pr- Author: Rodman, Dennis
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 12 1997
- ISBN10: 0440222664
- Language: English
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Rubber Bands on My Socks: The Reflections of a Sharecropper’s Daughter – Family, Poverty, Potential and Progress
$19.95 Add to cartNothing explains this book more than the subtitle, “The Reflections of a Sharecropper’s Daughter – Family, Poverty, Potential, and Progress,” that refers to the journey of the daughter of a sharecropp… [more below]
- Author: Wimbish Ed D., Annie P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: January 29 2020
- ISBN10: 1977209548
- Language: English
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Said I Wasn’t Gonna Tell Nobody: The Making of a Black Theologian
$26.00 Add to cartJames Cone is widely regarded as the “father of Black Theology”–his own synthesis of Gospel message embodied by Martin Luther King, Jr., and the black pride of Malcolm X. Next year marks the 50th ann
- Author: Cone, James H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: January 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1626983771
- Language: English
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Neurotic Beauty: An Outsider Looks at Japan
$27.50 Add to cartNeurotic Beauty is a remarkable reevaluation of Japan’s role in the modern world.
It includes a new assessment of the events leading up to the dropping of the bomb on Hiroshima, and of the potential r
- Author: Berman, Morris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 520
- Publish Date: June 18 2019
- ISBN10: 1621342107
- Language: English
