Cultural/ Ethnic & Regional
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I Am Harriet Tubman
$16.99 Add to cartHarriet Tubman’s heroic and pivotal role in the fight against slavery is the subject of the fourteenth picture book in this New York Times bestselling biography series. (Cover may vary)
This friendly,- Series: Ordinary People Change the World
- Author: Meltzer, Brad
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: January 16 2018
- ISBN10: 073522871X
- Language: English
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Dispersals: On Plants, Borders, and Belonging
$27.00 Add to cartA prize-winning memoirist and nature writer turns to the lives of plants entangled in our human world to explore belonging, displacement, identity, and the truths of our shared future
A seed slips bey- Author: Lee, Jessica J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 12 2024
- ISBN10: 1646221788
- Language: English
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I Finally Bought Some Jordans: Essays
$19.99 Add to cart“Very good writers have an ability to make you understand what they’re feeling. But the very best writers have an ability to make you understand what you’re feeling. And that’s where Michael Arceneaux
- Author: Arceneaux, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 12 2024
- ISBN10: 0063140411
- Language: English
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Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist’s Memoir of the Jim Crow South
$30.00 Add to cartWINNER OF THE 2022 PULITZER PRIZE IN BIOGRAPHY
Booklist #1 Nonfiction Book of the Year * African American Literary Book Club (AALBC) #1 Nonfiction Bestseller * Named a Best Book of the Year by: NPR, P- Author: Rembert, Winfred
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 07 2021
- ISBN10: 1635576598
- Language: English
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Dinner on Monster Island: Essays
$17.99 Add to cart- Author: de Rozario, Tania
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: February 06 2024
- ISBN10: 0063299666
- Language: English
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Living High: An Unconventional Biography
$30.99 Add to cartLiving High is the compelling story of June and Farrar Burn and their unconventional lifestyle, philosophy, and experiences-homesteading a small island in the Salish Sea, living north of the Arctic Ci
- Author: Burn, June
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 276
- Publish Date: March 28 2023
- ISBN10: 9798218069315
- Language: English
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Who Was Sitting Bull?
$6.99 Add to cartNo one knew the boy they called “Jumping Badger” would grow to become a great leader. Born on the banks of the Yellowstone River, Sitting Bull, as he was later called, was tribal chief and holy man of… [more below]
- Series: Who Was?
- Author: Spinner, Stephanie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: December 26 2014
- ISBN10: 0448479656
- Language: English
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Milloo’s Mind: The Story of Maryam Faruqi, Trailblazer for Women’s Education
$18.99 Add to cartFrom the author of Lailah’s Lunchbox and Unsettled comes a powerful picture book biography about Maryam Faruqi, the founder of the Happy Home Schools, which provided education to thousands of girls ac
- Author: Faruqi, Reem
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: January 17 2023
- ISBN10: 0063056615
- Language: English
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Twin A: A Memoir
$19.00 Add to cartShortly after learning they would become the parents of twins, the physician-writer Amit Majmudar and his wife received a devastating in utero diagnosis: one of the twins had a potentially fatal conge
- Author: Majmudar, Amit
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 206
- Publish Date: August 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1639821384
- Language: English
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Skinfolk: A Memoir
$30.00 Add to cartCould a picturesque white house with a picket fence save the world? What if it was filled with children drawn together from around the globe? And what if, within the yard, the lines of kin and skin, o… [more below]
- Author: Guterl, Matthew Pratt
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 28 2023
- ISBN10: 1324091711
- Language: English
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Brown Enough: True Stories about Love, Violence, the Student Loan Crisis, Hollywood, Race, Familia, and Making It in America
$24.99 Read moreAt a time when disinformation, hate crimes, inequality, racial injustice, and white supremacy are on the rise, Brown Enough, part memoir and part social commentary, emerges, asking readers to proudly … [more below]
- Author: Rivas, Christopher
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 11 2022
- ISBN10: 1955905045
- Language: English
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The Forest Keeper- The True Story of Jadav Payeng
$18.95 Add to cartTrees don’t grow on sandbars . . . but a boy from India grew a forest.
What can one person do in the face of global environmental degradation? Indian Jadav Payeng has proven that each and every one of- Author: Singh, Rina
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: April 18 2023
- ISBN10: 0735845050
- Language: English
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The Vast Wonder of the World: Biologist Ernest Everett Just
$19.99 Add to cart“A must-purchase picture book biography of a figure sure to inspire awe and admiration among readers.”–School Library Journal (starred review)
Extraordinary illustrations and lyrical text present p
- Author: Mangal, Mélina
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: November 01 2018
- ISBN10: 1512483753
- Language: English
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The Story of Gandhi: An Inspiring Biography for Young Readers
$6.99 Add to cartDiscover the life of Gandhi–a story for kids ages 6 to 9 about building bridges to peace
Gandhi was one of the most important leaders in history. He used peaceful protests and other nonviolent metho- Series: Story of
- Author: Katz, Susan B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: December 22 2020
- ISBN10: 1647399459
- Language: English
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Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir
$18.00 Add to cartFEATURED ON THE COVER OF TIME MAGAZINE AS A 2021 NEXT GENERATION LEADER
“A once-in-a-generation voice.” – Vulture “One of our greatest living writers.” – Shondaland A full-throated and provocative me- Author: Emezi, Akwaeke
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 07 2022
- ISBN10: 0593329201
- Language: English
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Satchmo: My Life in New Orleans
$18.99 Add to cart“In all my whole career the Brick House was one of the toughest joints I ever played in. It was the honky-tonk where levee workers would congregate every Saturday night and trade with the gals who’d s… [more below]
- Author: Armstrong, Louis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: August 22 1986
- ISBN10: 0306802767
- Language: English
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Mumbet’s Declaration of Independence
$20.99 Add to cart“All men are born free and equal.”
Everybody knows about the Founding Fathers and the Declaration of Independence in 1776. But the founders weren’t the only ones who believed that everyone had a ri- Author: Woelfle, Gretchen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: February 01 2014
- ISBN10: 0761365893
- Language: English
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A Two-Spirit Journey: The Autobiography of a Lesbian Ojibwa-Cree Elder
$27.95 Add to cartA compelling, harrowing, but ultimately uplifting story of resilience and self-discovery. “A Two-Spirit Journey” is Ma-Nee Chacaby’s extraordinary account of her life as an Ojibwa-Cree lesbian. From h… [more below]
- Series: Critical Studies in Native History #18
- Author: Chacaby, Ma-Nee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 22 2016
- ISBN10: 0887558127
- Language: English
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If These Stones Could Talk: African American Presence in the Hopewell Valley
$29.95 Add to cartCemeteries have stories to tell, voices to unearth-and lessons from the past that we can draw upon to better shape the future. If These Stones Could Talk brings fresh light to a forgotten corner of Am
- Author: Buck, Elaine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 372
- Publish Date: March 27 2023
- ISBN10: 9798986618852
- Language: English
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
$10.99 Add to cartFirst appearing in 1845 The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, with its painfully vivid depiction of life in bondage, was both a bestseller in its day and one of the most powerful, authorita
- Series: Mint Editions (Black Narratives)
- Author: Douglass, Frederick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 106
- Publish Date: February 15 2022
- ISBN10: 151313356X
- Language: English
