Cultural/ Ethnic & Regional
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Growing Up Urkel
$28.99 Add to cartAn incisive and insightful memoir by one of the most beloved icons of nineties television Jaleel White, the actor who portrayed Steve Urkel on the hit sitcom Family Matters.
At the tender age of twelv- Author: White, Jaleel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 19 2024
- ISBN10: 1668068893
- Language: English
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Master of Me: The Secret to Controlling Your Narrative
$27.99 Add to cartFrom the award-winning, multi-hyphenate global entertainer Keke Palmer comes the inspiring true story of her journey to understanding her genuine value.
Right when it seemed like all the pieces were c- Author: Palmer, Keke
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 19 2024
- ISBN10: 1250372518
- Language: English
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I’m Laughing Because I’m Crying: A Memoir
$29.00 Add to cartFrom standup comedian Youngmi Mayer, an unforgettable memoir written with “raw, enviable freedom that simply floors you,” interrogating whiteness, gender, and sexuality in America, navigating a tumult
- Author: Mayer, Youngmi
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 12 2024
- ISBN10: 0316569232
- Language: English
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Redeemed: A Memoir of a Stolen Childhood
$17.95 Add to cartPenny is just four years old when she is snatched away from her all-American home by the Hungarian father who abandoned her when she was a baby. After facing isolation and neglect in a strange, dysfun… [more below]
- Author: Lane, Penny
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: June 25 2024
- ISBN10: 1647427002
- Language: English
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Lift Your Voice: How My Nephew George Floyd’s Murder Changed the World
$27.00 Read moreAngela Harrelson, George Floyd’s aunt and closest relative in Minnesota, tells the behind-the-scenes story of George’s family–how he lived and why he died–and how the world can find a solution to ra… [more below]
- Author: Harrelson, Angela
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: February 08 2022
- ISBN10: 1637583370
- Language: English
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Dear Maine: The Trials and Triumphs of Maine’s 21st Century Immigrants
$19.95 Read moreDear Maine, written by Morgan Rielly, an author and state senator, and Reza Jalali, a former refugee and executive director of the Greater Portland Immigrant Welcome Center, recounts the trails and tr… [more below]
- Author: Jalali, Reza
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 16 2021
- ISBN10: 1952143195
- Language: English
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Radical Vision: A Biography of Lorraine Hansberry
$18.00 Read moreA “loving, lavishly detailed” (New York Times) and captivating portrait of Lorraine Hansberry’s life, art, and political activism–one of O Magazine‘s best books of April 2021
“A devoted and deeply fe- Author: Colbert, Soyica Diggs
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 08 2022
- ISBN10: 030026478X
- Language: English
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A Song Flung Up to Heaven
$23.95 Read moreThe culmination of a unique achievement in modern American literature: the six volumes of autobiography that began more than thirty years ago with the appearance of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.
A- Author: Angelou, Maya
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 212
- Publish Date: April 02 2002
- ISBN10: 0375507477
- Language: English
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This Jazz Man
$9.99 Add to cartIn this toe-tapping jazz tribute, the traditional “This Old Man” gets a swinging makeover, and some of the era’s best musicians take center stage. The tuneful text and vibrant illustrations bop, slide… [more below]
- Author: Ehrhardt, Karen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: January 27 2015
- ISBN10: 0544339223
- Language: English
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Leaders of the Civil Rights Movement: A Brief Introduction
$16.95 Read more“When you make an observation, you have an obligation.”
–M.K. AsanteDeidra R. Moore-Janvier, Esq.–African American wife, mother, attorney, and advocate for social change–did just that. It was in 201
- Author: Moore, Deidra
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: October 03 2023
- ISBN10: 1645438554
- Language: English
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Nimrods: A Fake-Punk Self-Hurt Anti-Memoir
$19.95 Add to cartIn Nimrods, Kawika Guillermo chronicles the agonizing absurdities of being a newly minted professor (and overtired father) hired to teach in a Social Justice Institute while haunted by the inner ghost… [more below]
- Author: Guillermo, Kawika
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 12 2023
- ISBN10: 1478024925
- Language: English
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You’ve Changed: Fake Accents, Feminism, and Other Comedies from Myanmar
$16.95 Read moreIn this electric debut essay collection, a Myanmar millennial playfully challenges us to examine the knots and complications of immigration status, eating habits, Western feminism in an Asian home, an… [more below]
- Author: War, Pyae Moe Thet
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: August 08 2023
- ISBN10: 1646222008
- Language: English
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A Redemptive Path Forward: From Incarceration to a Life of Activism
$16.95 Read moreA motivational memoir by a formerly incarcerated man who transformed from founder and leader of the Dallas Bloods to a practitioner of peace and nonviolence in the neighborhood he once helped destroy … [more below]
- Author: Lucky, Antong
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 09 2023
- ISBN10: 1640095934
- Language: English
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Up from Slavery: An Autobiography
$9.99 Read moreBooker T. Washington’s famous 1901 memoir, Up From Slavery, charts Washington’s rise from an enslaved child with a passion for learning to the nation’s most prominent Black educator and first presiden… [more below]
- Series: Signature Classics
- Author: Washington, Booker T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 09 2023
- ISBN10: 1454949996
- Language: English
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Cowfolk’s Guide to Getting Older
$14.99 Read moreHard-won and universal wisdom from the ranch for those folks gittin’ up in years.
Judge Roy English has probably seen or heard it all in his courtroom. And now that he is retired and getting a little o
- Series: Western Humor
- Author: English, Roy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 05 2019
- ISBN10: 1423651723
- Language: English
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DK Life Stories: Katherine Johnson
$5.99 Read moreIn this kids’ biography, discover the inspiring story of Katherine Johnson, famed NASA mathematician and one of the subjects of the best-selling book and movie Hidden Figures.
It was an incredible acc- Series: DK Life Stories
- Author: Wilkins, Ebony Joy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: January 08 2019
- ISBN10: 1465479120
- Language: English
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Die Nigger Die!: A Political Autobiography of Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin
$14.95 Add to cartMore than any other black leader, H. Rap Brown, chairman of the radical Black Power organization Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), came to symbolize the ideology of black revolution. T… [more below]
- Author: Brown (Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin), H. Rap
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: April 01 2002
- ISBN10: 1556524528
- Language: English
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Marcus Garvey and the Vision of Africa
$24.95 Add to cartFirst published in 1974, and edited by John Henrik Clarke with the aid of Amy Jacques Garvey, this is a superbly edited collection of writings reflecting the life and work of Marcus Garvey. Included a… [more below]
- Author: Clarke, John Henrik
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 525
- Publish Date: August 30 2011
- ISBN10: 1574780476
- Language: English
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Bajo Las Palmas Reales: Una Infancia Cubana
$13.95 Read moreThe author offers young readers an inspiring collection of stories and memoirs drawn from her childhood in Cuba. Heartwarming, poignant, and often humorous, these memories encourage children to discov… [more below]
- Author: Ada, Alma Flor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 0
- Publish Date: March 15 2016
- ISBN10: 1631139711
- Language: Spanish
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A Fly in a Pail of Milk: The Herb Carnegie Story
$18.95 Read moreRevised and updated with commentary from Bernice Carnegie, Herb’s daughter, and life lessons passed from father to daughter Herbert Carnegie was the complete hockey package in the 1940s and 1950s. Tho… [more below]
- Author: Carnegie, Herb
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 08 2019
- ISBN10: 1770414959
- Language: English
