Cultural/ Ethnic & Regional
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As Figs in Autumn: One Year in a Forever War
$27.00 Add to cartIn his final college semester, Ben awakens to read on his computer screen of the death of his classmate and childhood friend Avi. Avi’s death is sudden and senseless, killed by a drunk driver on his w
- Author: Bastomski, Ben
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: July 18 2023
- ISBN10: 1953002242
- Language: English
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Spirit Car: Journey to a Dakota Past
$22.95 Read moreA child of a typical 1950s suburb unearths her mother’s hidden heritage, launching a rich and magical exploration of her own identity and her family’s powerful Native American past.
- Author: Wilson, Diane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: August 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0873517652
- Language: English
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Antiman: A Hybrid Memoir
$19.00 Add to cartWinner of the Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing, Rajiv Mohabir’s Antiman is an impassioned, genre-blending memoir that navigates the fraught constellations of race, sexuality, and cultura
- Author: Mohabir, Rajiv
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: August 16 2022
- ISBN10: 1632061686
- Language: English
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The Devil’s Half Acre: The Untold Story of How One Woman Liberated the South’s Most Notorious Slave Jail
$32.00 Add to cartThe inspiring true story of an enslaved woman who liberated an infamous slave jail and transformed it into one of the nation’s first HBCUs
In The Devil’s Half Acre, New York Times bestsell
- Author: Green, Kristen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 12 2022
- ISBN10: 1541675630
- Language: English
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Never Grow Up
$18.99 Add to cartA candid, thrilling memoir from one of the most recognizable, influential, and beloved cinematic personalities in the world.
Everyone knows Jackie Chan. Whether it’s from Rush Hour, Shanghai Noon, The- Author: Chan, Jackie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 10 2019
- ISBN10: 1982107227
- Language: English
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Obreros Unidos: The Roots and Legacy of the Farmworkers Movement
$24.95 Read more- Author: Salas, Jesus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 06 2023
- ISBN10: 1976600073
- Language: English
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Daddy’s House: A Daughter’s Memoir of Setbacks, Triumphs & Rising Above Her Roots
$29.99 Add to cartA raw and poignant memoir of a daughter’s journey from a difficult upbringing in rural Alabama to a fulfilling life as a wife and mother with a successful career far beyond the limitations of her upbr
- Author: Mills, Mildred J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 324
- Publish Date: December 03 2023
- ISBN10: 196175729X
- Language: English
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Catfish Dream: Ed Scott’s Fight for His Family Farm and Racial Justice in the Mississippi Delta
$26.95 Add to cartCatfish Dream centers around the experiences, family, and struggles of Ed Scott Jr. (born in 1922), a prolific farmer in the Mississippi Delta and the first ever nonwhite owner and operator of a catfi
- Series: Southern Foodways Alliance Studies in Culture, People, and P #2
- Author: Rankin, Julian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: July 10 2018
- ISBN10: 0820353590
- Language: English
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Growing Up King: An Intimate Memoir
$21.99 Add to cartDexter King’s courageous efforts, amid widespread skepticism, to investigate what really happened in his father’s slaying resulted in a civil jury trial proving there was a conspiracy involving govern… [more below]
- Author: King, Dexter Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: July 30 2008
- ISBN10: 0446692379
- Language: English
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The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates
$30.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – From the governor of Maryland, the “compassionate” (People), “startling” (Baltimore Sun), “moving” (Chicago Tribune) true story of two kids with the same name from the city… [more below]
- Author: Moore, Wes
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 27 2010
- ISBN10: 0385528191
- Language: English
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The Real Hoosiers: Crispus Attucks High School, Oscar Robertson, and the Hidden History of Hoops
$30.00 Add to cartThe true story behind Crispus Attucks High School and the all-Black basketball team loosely depicted as the championship opponent in the beloved classic sports movie Hoosiers.
For far too long the my- Author: McCallum, Jack
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 05 2024
- ISBN10: 0306830752
- Language: English
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Dust Tracks on a Road: A Memoir
$16.99 Add to cartFirst published in 1942 at the crest of her popularity as a writer, this is Zora Neale Hurston’s imaginative and exuberant account of her rise from childhood poverty in the rural South to a prominent … [more below]
- Series: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
- Author: Hurston, Zora Neale
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 02 2010
- ISBN10: 0062004832
- Language: English
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My Name Is Jason. Mine Too.: Our Story. Our Way.
$10.99 Read moreA stunning visual autobiography of two crazy-talented besties, bestselling and award-winning author Jason Reynolds and painter Jason Griffin, who could never be who they are singularly if they weren’t… [more below]
- Author: Reynolds, Jason
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: June 28 2022
- ISBN10: 1534478221
- Language: English
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Daughters of the Flower Fragrant Garden: Two Sisters Separated by China’s Civil War
$27.95 Add to cartJun and Hong were scions of a once great southern Chinese family. Each other’s best friend, they grew up in the 1930s during the final days of Old China before the tumult of the twentieth century brou
- Author: Li, Zhuqing
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: June 21 2022
- ISBN10: 0393541770
- Language: English
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Walk Boldly: Empowerment Toolkit for Young Black Men (Feel Comfortable and Proud in Your Skin as a Black Male Teen)
$16.99 Add to cartEmbrace Who You Are as a Male Black Teen
#1 New Release in Teen & Young Adult Language Arts Books
Embrace the color of your skin and celebrate your identity. Finding the courage to live freely and authe
- Series: Bold and Black
- Author: Fievre, M. J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 218
- Publish Date: June 14 2022
- ISBN10: 1642507334
- Language: English
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Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History
$27.95 Read moreFamily and nation formed a reliable bedrock of security for precocious 11-year-old Lea Ypi. She was a Young Pioneer, helping to lead her country toward the future of perfect freedom promised by the le
- Author: Ypi, Lea
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 18 2022
- ISBN10: 0393867730
- Language: English
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Girl Gurl Grrrl: On Womanhood and Belonging in the Age of Black Girl Magic
$16.99 Add to cartA People Pick
“One of the year’s must-reads.” -ELLE
” A] provocative, heart-breaking, and frequently hilarious collection.” -GLAMOUR
“Essential, vital, and urgent.” -HARPER’S BAZAAR
In the vein of Roxane
- Author: Hunt, Kenya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 09 2021
- ISBN10: 0062987666
- Language: English
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Bright: A Memoir
$16.95 Add to cartThe highly anticipated, first full-length essay collection from acclaimed poet Kiki Petrosino.
Bright: A Memoir, the first full-length essay collection from acclaimed poet Kiki Petrosino, is a work o- Author: Petrosino, Kiki
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: August 09 2022
- ISBN10: 1946448923
- Language: English
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Ida B. the Queen: The Extraordinary Life and Legacy of Ida B. Wells
$27.00 Add to cartJournalist. Suffragist. Antilynching crusader. In 1862, Ida B. Wells was born enslaved in Holly Springs, Mississippi. In 2020, she won a Pulitzer Prize.
Ida B. Wells committed herself to the needs of- Author: Duster, Michelle
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: January 26 2021
- ISBN10: 1982129816
- Language: English
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Fantasmas: Puerto Rican Tales of the Dead
$17.99 Add to cartThese stories range from tales told to the author as a child, to fictional accounts interweaving erotica, fantasy, and suspense elements in the rural and urban Gothic; part homage to the ancestors who
- Author: Vázquez, Charlie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 230
- Publish Date: April 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1087869129
- Language: English
