Cultural & Regional
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Mixed Up: An Irish Boy’s Journey to Belonging: An Irish Boy’s Journey to Belonging
$12.99 Add to cartA groundbreaking memoir about growing up mixed-race in Ireland, by the recent European Leader of the Obama Foundation: Irish Book Award-winning author and media personality Leon Diop.
Mixed-race exper
- Author: Diop, Leon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: May 12 2026
- ISBN10: 1915071887
- Language: English
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Ahnsad: South River NJ Home Town Story
$34.99 Add to cartPart philosophical memoir, tribute to a blue-collar football town, and historical snapshot of the mid-twentieth century, this book is a microcosm of the American Dream. From war-torn Eastern Europe, w… [more below]
- Author: Tracy, C. Edwin (Trzeciak)
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 492
- Publish Date: April 29 2026
- ISBN10: 1038330106
- Language: English
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Boy: When you find the boy, you discover the man
$22.99 Add to cartBoy
A true story of love, loss, survival and finding your voice.
Before the roads. Before the raves. Before the reputation. Before the man.
There was just the boy. A black child raised in a white seaside
- Author: Nwaka, Fredi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 228
- Publish Date: November 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1919214607
- Language: English
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I am Saxon: A History of the Transylvanian Saxons
$28.99 Add to cartI Am Saxon chronicles the history of the little-known Transylvanian Saxons. From their humble beginnings in the 12th century as immigrants to a remote and sparsely populated area in the southern basin… [more below]
- Author: Gagesch, Karl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 266
- Publish Date: May 20 2025
- ISBN10: 1038329957
- Language: English
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Annihilating the Hillbilly Redux: Appalachia’s Struggle Against America’s Institutions
$26.95 Add to cartIn 1971, a young journalist from the Blue Ridge Mountains of Carroll County, Virginia, published Annihilating the Hillbilly – a manifesto against the stereotyping that justified Appalachia’s exploitat
- Author: Branscome, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 634
- Publish Date: June 06 2026
- ISBN10: 9798995932000
- Language: English
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American Men
$32.00 Add to cartA deeply intimate portrait of the lives of four men that examines–in profound and comprehensive ways–what it means to be a man in America.
Men wield outsized power across all major institutions. But
- Author: Conn, Jordan Ritter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 450
- Publish Date: April 21 2026
- ISBN10: 1538783045
- Language: English
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Black White and Jewish: Autobiography of a Shifting Self
$27.00 Add to cartNow in paperback, this national bestseller “offers painful childhood memories of straddling two vastly different cultures . . . to fashion a cautionary tale about the power of race in shaping identity… [more below]
- Author: Walker, Rebecca
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 08 2002
- ISBN10: 1573229075
- Language: English
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Remember Me to Harlem: The Letters of Langston Hughes and Carl Van Vechten
$21.00 Add to cartLangston Hughes is widely remembered as a celebrated star of the Harlem Renaissance — a writer whose bluesy, lyrical poems and novels still have broad appeal. What’s less well known about Hughes is t… [more below]
- Author: Bernard, Emily
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: February 05 2002
- ISBN10: 0375727078
- Language: English
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Oscar Micheaux: The Great and Only: The Life of America’s First Black Filmmaker
$18.99 Add to cartOscar Micheaux was the Jackie Robinson of film, the black D. W. Griffith–a bigger-than-life American folk hero whose important life story has been nearly forgotten today. The son of freed slaves, he
- Author: McGilligan, Patrick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: June 17 2008
- ISBN10: 0060731400
- Language: English
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Wifredo’s Jungle: The Power of Wifredo Lam’s Art (a Picture Book Biography)
$19.99 Read moreNewbery Honor and Pura Belpr? Medal Winner Margarita Engle and New York Times bestselling illustrator Jacqueline Alc?ntara bring to light the life of Cuban artist Wifredo Lam, who portrayed the enduri
- Author: Engle, Margarita
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: August 25 2026
- ISBN10: 1419734202
- Language: English
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Lift Up Thy Voice: The Sarah and Angelina Grimk Family s Journey from Slaveholders to Civil Rights Leaders
$27.00 Add to cartIn the late 1820s Sarah and Angelina Grimk? traded their elite position as daughters of a prominent white slaveholding family in Charleston, South Carolina, for a life dedicated to abolitionism and ad… [more below]
- Author: Perry, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: December 31 2002
- ISBN10: 0142001031
- Language: English
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Seeking Shelter: A Working Mother, Her Children, and a Story of Homelessness in America
$20.00 Add to cartNamed a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker
In the tradition of Evicted and Invisible Child, a “remarkably vivid…deeply empathetic” (Los Angeles Times) story that follows a single mother of si- Author: Hobbs, Jeff
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 10 2026
- ISBN10: 1668034832
- Language: English
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Passing Strange: A Gilded Age Tale of Love and Deception Across the Color Line
$27.00 Add to cartRead Martha A. Sandweiss’s posts on the Penguin Blog
The secret double life of the man who mapped the American West, and the woman he loved Clarence King was a late nineteenth-century celebrity, a- Author: Sandweiss, Martha A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: January 26 2010
- ISBN10: 014311686X
- Language: English
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I Think I’m Goin’ Back: A Memoir of Wausau
$19.95 Read moreI Think ‘m Goin Back follows Michael O. Sajbel as he returns to Wausau, Wisconsin, after many long, forgotten years. What begins as a tentative visit for a class reunion becomes a reconnection with th… [more below]
- Author: Sajbel, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 405
- Publish Date: March 03 2026
- ISBN10: 1967311900
- Language: English
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The Patient Wait of the Stones: Time and Memory in Lunigiana
$19.99 Add to cartA poetic, personal, and historical narrative of a late in life move to a tiny Italian village and a reflection on time and memory in the shadow of a medieval castle borgo.
The Patient Wait of the Stone
- Author: Romani, Antonio
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 02 2026
- ISBN10: 9798992468748
- Language: English
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Midwestern Death Trip
$25.00 Read moreMeaghan Garvey’s Midwestern Death Trip is part memoir, part gonzo reportage, in which the great American road trip meets an unsparing coming-of-age story. Estranged in the most misunderstood part of t… [more below]
- Author: Garvey, Meaghan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 0
- Publish Date: May 12 2026
- ISBN10: 9798999146731
- Language: English
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My Life Story: Memories Living Southwest of Button River
$15.95 Add to cartEva Collins always had a desire to tell her story. She has always been a writer growing up.
Writing has been her therapy during her life; whether she was up or down, she wrote it out, and it has kept h
- Author: Collins, Eva Lloyd
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 122
- Publish Date: December 08 2025
- ISBN10: 1637843119
- Language: English
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The Maverick’s Museum: Albert Barnes and His American Dream
$19.99 Add to cartA fascinating biography of the philanthropist Albert Barnes, whose pioneering collection of modern art was meant to transform America’s soul
From prominent critic and biographer Blake Gopnik comes a co
- Author: Gopnik, Blake
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: March 17 2026
- ISBN10: 0063284049
- Language: English
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A River Is Made: From South Waziristan to Kabul, Dubai, and Des Moines, Iowa – An Afghan Refugee’s Journey from War to Belonging in America
$16.99 Add to cartA River is Made is the true story of a life carried across borders, wars, and generations, told through the eyes of its author, Fazal Moneer Adil. From South Waziristan to Kabul, Dubai, and Des Moines… [more below]
- Author: Adil, Fazal Moneer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 238
- Publish Date: November 11 2025
- ISBN10: 9798993234403
- Language: English
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Sonia Sotomayor (National Geographic Kids Readers, Level 3)
$5.99 Add to cartExplore one of the most recognized names in modern America with this biography of Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor. Kids will learn about her rise to be the first Hispanic Supreme Court Justice a… [more below]
- Series: National Geographic Kids Readers
- Author: Kramer, Barbara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: January 12 2016
- ISBN10: 1426322895
- Language: English
