Cultural/ Ethnic & Regional
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The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou
$42.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – Maya Angelou’s classic memoirs have had an enduring impact on American literature and culture. Her life story is told in the documentary film And Still I Rise, as seen on P… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library (Hardcover)
- Author: Angelou, Maya
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 1184
- Publish Date: September 21 2004
- ISBN10: 0679643257
- Language: English
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Negro with a Hat: The Rise and Fall of Marcus Garvey
$22.99 Add to cartNew in paperback, this groundbreaking biography captures the full sweep and epic dimensions of Marcus Garvey’s life, the dazzling triumphs and the dreary exile. As Grant shows, Garvey was a man of con… [more below]
- Author: Grant, Colin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: March 02 2010
- ISBN10: 0195393090
- Language: English
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Baby Girl: Better Known as Aaliyah
$18.00 Add to cartIn a definitive and “excellent homage to a star who left this planet too soon” (Questlove), the life, career, tragic death, and evolution of Aaliyah into a music legend are explored–now updated with … [more below]
- Author: Iandoli, Kathy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 23 2022
- ISBN10: 1982156856
- Language: English
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George Washington Carver: A Life
$34.95 Add to cartNearly every American can cite at least one of the accomplishments of George Washington Carver. The many tributes honoring his contributions to scientific advancement and black history include a natio
- Series: Southern Biography
- Author: Vella, Christina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 454
- Publish Date: February 02 2022
- ISBN10: 0807177199
- Language: English
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Radical Empathy: Finding a Path to Bridging Racial Divides
$14.95 Add to cartStructural racism has impacted the lives of African Americans in the United States since before the country’s founding. Although the country has made some progress towards a more equal society, politi… [more below]
- Author: E. Givens, Terri
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: February 14 2022
- ISBN10: 1447357256
- Language: English
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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 Read moreThis 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
