Cultural & Regional
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Simplified Choices: A Family Memoir of Latvia, World War II and Identity
$14.99 Add to cart“Spigulis-DeSnyder is a meticulous and scrupulous writer who looks carefully at each turn in the lives of her native Latvian family members and how they impact her own life”
Baron Wormser, author of S
- Author: Spigulis-Desnyder, Anita
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 294
- Publish Date: November 08 2024
- ISBN10: 9798330501755
- Language: English
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Cuchillo: Meditaciones Tras Un Intento de Asesinato / Knife
$22.95 Add to cartUno de los 100 libros m?s notables del 2024 seg?n el New York Times
Barnes & Noble Mejores libros del 2024 (hasta ahora) / Memorias
Amazon Mejores biograph?as y memorias del 2024 (hasta ahora)
Los 100 me… [more below]- Author: Rushdie, Salman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: August 20 2024
- ISBN10: 6073842678
- Language: Spanish
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They Still Call Me Doctor: My Life with Multiple Sclerosis… A Physician’s Journey with MS
$15.95 Add to cartDr. Bachow spent her childhood in the inner city, growing up in the Brooklyn projects. Blessed with the necessary academic skills and personality, she fought her way out of her humble beginnings to ac
- Author: Bachow M. D., Barbara Henick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 124
- Publish Date: May 22 2024
- ISBN10: 9798889823957
- Language: English
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I Am Nobody’s Slave: How Uncovering My Family’s History Set Me Free
$28.99 Add to cart“Harrowing and insightful. . . . A profound work about the Black experience and white oppression.”–Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
“This work is vitally important and essential to understanding the ma
- Author: Hawkins, Lee
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: January 14 2025
- ISBN10: 0062823167
- Language: English
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I’m Still Standing: From Captive U.S. Soldier to Free Citizen–My Journey Home
$18.99 Add to cartSHOSHANA HOLDS NOTHING BACK in this harrowing account of an ordinary woman caught in extraordinary circumstances. She reveals decisions made by chain of command that may have led to her twenty-two-day… [more below]
- Author: Johnson, Shoshana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 08 2011
- ISBN10: 1416567496
- Language: English
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My Name Is Love
$18.99 Add to cartFeatured in the film Twenty Feet From Stardom, the woman whose voice the New York Times said “is as embedded in the history of rock ‘n’ roll as Eric Clapton’s guitar and Bob Dylan’s lyrics” tells her
- Author: Love, Darlene
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: June 04 2013
- ISBN10: 0062295543
- Language: English
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I and I Bob Marley
$12.95 Read moreA biography in verse of reggae legend Bob Marley, exploring the influences that shaped his life and music on his journey from rural Jamaican childhood to international superstardom.
Born in the Jamaica
- Author: Medina, Tony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: June 15 2013
- ISBN10: 1620140306
- Language: English
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How to Say Babylon: A Memoir
$18.99 Add to cartNational Book Critics Circle Award Winner A New York Times Notable Book Best Book of the Year for The Washington Post* The New Yorker * Time * The Atlantic * Los Angeles Times * NPR * Harper’s Bazaar … [more below]
- Author: Sinclair, Safiya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: July 09 2024
- ISBN10: 1982132345
- Language: English
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I Lived to Tell the World: Stories from Survivors of Holocaust, Genocide, and the Atrocities of War
$29.95 Add to cartAs Americans increasingly question how each of us fits into our nation’s cultural tapestry, I Lived to Tell the World presents thirteen inspiring profiles of refugees who have settled in Oregon. They
- Author: Mehren, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 26 2024
- ISBN10: 196264507X
- Language: English
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Abuela, Don’t Forget Me
$9.99 Add to cartIn his award-winning memoir Free Lunch, Rex Ogle’s abuela features as a source of love and support. In this companion-in-verse, Rex captures and celebrates the powerful presence a woman he could alway
- Author: Ogle, Rex
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: March 19 2024
- ISBN10: 1324053453
- Language: English
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Malcolm X Speaks: Selected Speeches and Statements
$18.00 Add to cart“Policies change, and programs change, according to time. But objective never changes. You might change your method of achieving the objective, but the objective never changes. Our objective is comple
- Author: X, Malcolm
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 20 2024
- ISBN10: 0802160700
- Language: English
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Bad Indians (Expanded Edition): A Tribal Memoir
$22.00 Add to cartNow in paperback and newly expanded, this gripping memoir is hailed as essential by Joy Harjo, Leslie Marmon Silko, and ELLE magazine–among others.
Bad Indians–part tribal history, part lyric and int
- Author: Miranda, Deborah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: March 05 2024
- ISBN10: 1597146285
- Language: English
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Bones Worth Breaking: A Memoir
$18.00 Read moreBones Worth Breaking is a portrait of the unbreakable bond between brothers and a reckoning with the global forces that shaped them.
Nobody around David Martinez saw how quickly he was breaking apart e- Author: Martinez, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: April 09 2024
- ISBN10: 0374610959
- Language: English
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Black History Heroes: Mae Jemison: Shooting for the Stars: The First Black Woman in Space
$12.99 Read moreBlack History Heroes: Mae Jemison: Shooting for the Stars: The First Black Woman in Space shows the power of grit, perseverance, and character in a dynamic biography for kids.
★ “This empowering
- Series: Black History Heroes #2
- Author: Singleton, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: May 07 2024
- ISBN10: 1638191786
- Language: English
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Mami King: How Ma Mon Luk Found Love, Riches, and the Perfect Bowl of Soup
$19.99 Read moreRejected by the parents of the girl he loves for being poor, Ma Mon Luk strikes out from China and boards a steamship headed for the Philippines in 1918.
He vows to make a fortune and return for his
- Author: Chio-Lauri, Jacqueline
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: April 02 2024
- ISBN10: 1728492351
- Language: English
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Unveiled Memories: Twins Reunited After the Holocaust
$18.00 Add to cartFor many years I lived my life with a hole in my soul that could not
be filled. Something was missing. In 1995 my beating heart found
the echo heartbeat of my twin brother Adam. Each of our questionin- Author: Paluch-Kersz, Ida
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 164
- Publish Date: November 15 2019
- ISBN10: 0578592274
- Language: English
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Black History Heroes: Chadwick Boseman: King of Wakanda: A Hero on and Off the Screen
$12.99 Read moreChadwick Boseman, King of Wakanda, A Hero On and Off the Screen, shows the power of grit, perseverance, and character in a dynamic biography for kids.
★ “This empowering and engaging middle grade
- Series: Black History Heroes
- Author: Singleton, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: May 07 2024
- ISBN10: 1638191778
- Language: English
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Growing Up Under a Red Flag: A Memoir of Surviving the Chinese Cultural Revolution
$19.99 Add to cartA stirring and magnificently illustrated picture-book memoir of the author’s childhood during the Chinese Cultural Revolution
Ying Chang Compestine was a young girl in 1966 when Mao launched his Cultu- Author: Compestine, Ying Chang
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: May 07 2024
- ISBN10: 0593533984
- Language: English
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And Yet You Shine: The Kohinoor Diamond, Colonization, and Resistance
$18.99 Add to cartThe story of one of the world’s most famous diamonds–stolen from South Asia during colonization and now among the crown jewels in London–is a call to action for readers to decolonize and hold their … [more below]
- Author: Kelkar, Supriya
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: April 02 2024
- ISBN10: 153622829X
- Language: English
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The Boy Who Touched the Stars/El Nino Que Alcanzo Las Estrellas
$18.95 Add to cartThis autobiographical, bilingual picture book recounts
the author’s rise from migrant farm worker to astronaut!
- Author: Hernandez, Jose M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: May 31 2019
- ISBN10: 1558858822
- Language: Spanish
