Cultural & Regional
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Cipher: Decoding My Ancestor’s Scandalous Secret Diaries
$28.95 Add to cartIn the 1800s, Appalachian farmer and rogue William Prestwood kept salacious coded diaries, leaving his descendent, Jeremy Jones, to reflect on his complicated legacy.
In 1975, a man stumbled upon a box
- Author: Jones, Jeremy B.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: September 16 2025
- ISBN10: 1958888532
- Language: English
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Zippoo: Ventures of a Curious Child
$24.95 Add to cartCharlotte Giovanella Fullam grew up in Porter, Maine in the 1940s and early 1950s. She is the eldest of three daughters born to a sophisticated Bostonian and the musical son of Italian immigrants. Wit
- Author: Giovanella Fullam, Charlotte
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: May 28 2025
- ISBN10: 9798999082008
- Language: English
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A Hope More Powerful Than the Sea: One Refugee’s Incredible Story of Love, Loss, and Survival
$21.99 Add to cart“Urgently required reading.” —People
“Deeply affecting… Fleming brings a moral urgency to the narrative.” —The New Yorker
“Fleming deftly illustrates the pain of those who choose to leave Syria…a- Author: Fleming, Melissa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 23 2018
- ISBN10: 1250106001
- Language: English
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Running Around Town: An Ann Arbor Memoir
$18.00 Add to cartThis collection of essays shares the observations of an energetic boy living in an anything-but-simple time: the mercurial decades of the 1960s and 1970s in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Running Around Town bri
- Author: Postema, Stephen K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 220
- Publish Date: July 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1956697489
- Language: English
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The Community We Lost: Remembering For Our Future
$19.99 Add to cartBook Description:
The Community We Lost is a heartfelt journey through time, memory, and meaning-told through the eyes of someone who grew up in 1970s Detroit, when neighborhoods felt like family and
- Author: Joyce, Linda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: May 25 2025
- ISBN10: 9798218675189
- Language: English
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Standing on the Crack: Legacy of Five Jewish Families from Seattle’s Vibrant Gilded Age
$22.95 Add to cartBorn out of grief after the loss of her father, the author dives into old photos and family histories to search for answers and comfort. Bringing her ancestors to life, the author shares the stories o
- Author: Treiger, Karen I.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 314
- Publish Date: August 12 2025
- ISBN10: 1684924006
- Language: English
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We Flew over the Bridge: The Memoirs of Faith Ringgold
$28.95 Read moreIn We Flew over the Bridge, one of the country’s preeminent African American artists–and award-winning children’s book authors–shares the fascinating story of her life. Faith Ringgold’s artworks–st… [more below]
- Author: Ringgold, Faith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 11 2005
- ISBN10: 0822335646
- Language: English
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Jazz in the Bittersweet Blues of Life
$19.99 Add to cartExperience the inspiration and joy of creation and performance in Jazz in the Bittersweet Blues of Life, an intimate portrait of a unique artist and his audience. Set in the studio, on the stage, and … [more below]
- Author: Marsalis, Wynton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 22 2005
- ISBN10: 0306811278
- Language: English
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Fela: Music Is the Weapon
$48.00 Add to cartA spectacular graphic novel about the life and times of the legendary Fela Kuti–the Pan-African frontman, multi-instrumentalist, sociopolitical powerhouse, and father of Afrobeat.
In this bold and st
- Author: Fagbamiye, Jibola
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 07 2025
- ISBN10: 0063058790
- Language: English
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Black History Heroes: Beyonc?: The Voice That Shaped a Generation: The Rise of a Superstar
$12.99 Add to cartBlack History Heroes: Beyonc? shows the power of grit, perseverance, and character in a dynamic biography for kids.
Beyonc? Knowles-Carter started performing as a child, but first rose to fame as a mem… [more below]
- Series: Black History Heroes #4
- Author: Pete, Patricia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: August 19 2025
- ISBN10: 1638193177
- Language: English
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Bird City: Adventures in New York’s Urban Wilds
$28.00 Add to cartFor readers of What an Owl Knows and The World Without Us, this infectiously impassioned tour of the five New York City boroughs offers jaded city dwellers and bird lovers everywhere an unexpected, de… [more below]
- Author: Goldberg, Ryan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1643755560
- Language: English
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Prince Among Slaves (Anniversary)
$21.99 Add to cartIn this remarkable work, Terry Alford tells the story of Abd al Rahman Ibrahima, a Muslim slave who, in 1807, was recognized by an Irish ship’s surgeon as the son of an African king who had saved his … [more below]
- Author: Alford, Terry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 19 2007
- ISBN10: 019532045X
- Language: English
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The Plight of Southeastern Native American Indian Tribes: Fighting Systemic Eracism
$28.99 Add to cartErasing Indigenous Identity: Chief Creel’s Fight for Recognition of Native American Tribes Amidst Systemic Bias in US Records & Documentation.
In this captivating account, Chief John Glenn Creel, the
- Author: Creel, John Glenn Creel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: July 22 2025
- ISBN10: 9798822983977
- Language: English
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Vz: Volodymyr Zelenskyy and the Making of a Nation
$18.95 Add to cartHow does a comedian become the face of a nation’s fight for survival? In VZ: Volodymyr Zelenskyy and the Making of a Nation, celebrated Russian author Dmitry Bykov unpacks the extraordinary rise of Vl… [more below]
- Author: Bykov, Dmitry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 520
- Publish Date: June 10 2025
- ISBN10: 1960385399
- Language: English
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I Am My Name: A Girl’s Journey to Finding Her Cree Family
$19.99 Add to cartAn evocative autobiographical picture book about Cree activist Na’kuset’s life as a young girl taken from her home along with thousands of other indigenous children during the 1960s, and the journey o… [more below]
- Author: Na’kuset
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: October 14 2025
- ISBN10: 0593648765
- Language: English
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I Deliver Parcels in Beijing
$27.00 Add to cart“One of China’s most remarkable new literary talents.”
–Edward White, Financial Times
A runaway bestseller in China, sold in 17+ countries, this delightfully honest and humorous account gives a face a… [more below]- Author: Anyan, Hu
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 28 2025
- ISBN10: 1662603045
- Language: English
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Home in Exile: Where She Uncovered the Freedom to Write Her Own Story
$19.99 Add to cartWhen Home Becomes Hostile, Where Do You Belong?
Author Liz Matney weaves a courageous and poetic memoir of faith, identity, and resilience across generations. Born in the US but shaped by her family’s
- Author: Matney, Liz
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 158
- Publish Date: June 30 2025
- ISBN10: 1964251745
- Language: English
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Oh Give Me a Home
$19.95 Add to cartFrom Author Jane Kurtz, winner of the School Library Journal Best Of The Year and numerous other awards.
In verse, Oh Give Me a Home relates the story of a girl’s inside-out view of America as she jou… [more below]
- Author: Kurtz, Jane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: July 08 2025
- ISBN10: 1960803204
- Language: English
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Tracker
$29.95 Add to cart“How do you tell an impossible story, one that is almost too big to contain in a single book?”
In Tracker, Alexis Wright tells the story of charismatic Aboriginal Australian leader Tracker Tilmouth, wh
- Author: Wright, Alexis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: September 02 2025
- ISBN10: 0811239853
- Language: English
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H?roes de la Esperanza: M?s Poemas Sobre Latinos Asombrosos
$18.99 Add to cartIn this companion to Bravo!, Margarita Engle’s beautiful poetry introduces young readers to lesser-known Latinos from varied backgrounds who have all shown tremendous resilience. Now available in Span
- Author: Engle, Margarita
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: September 02 2025
- ISBN10: 125033912X
- Language: Spanish
