Cultural & Regional
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The Hundred-Year Walk: An Armenian Odyssey
$18.99 Add to cartThe award-winning story of a young Armenian man’s harrowing escape from the massacre of his people and of his granddaughter’s quest to retrace his steps “Part family heirloom, part history less
- Author: Mackeen, Dawn Anahid
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: January 24 2017
- ISBN10: 0544811941
- Language: English
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My Family and I: A Mississippi Memoir
$32.00 Add to cartAn inspiring memoir about the author’s lifelong quest for racial reconciliation, the love that sustains his interracial family in contemporary Mississippi, and the “Yes we can!” hope for American rene… [more below]
- Author: Gussow, Adam
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 25 2025
- ISBN10: 9798888457658
- Language: English
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Love Me, Hate Me: Barry Bonds and the Making of an Antihero
$19.99 Add to cartFrom acclaimed sports writer and bestselling author Jeff Pearlman, a searing and insightful look into the life and career of Barry Bonds, one of the most celebrated, contradictory and controversial s
- Author: Pearlman, Jeff
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: February 20 2007
- ISBN10: 0060797533
- Language: English
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Finest Kind: Tales of a Brant Rock Lobsterman
$25.99 Add to cartDonal Staples joins the Navy at seventeen and soon finds himself in the Battle of Okinawa, one of the defining conflicts of World War II. Returning home a confident young man, he makes up for lost tim… [more below]
- Author: Staples-Bortner, Sandra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 306
- Publish Date: February 10 2025
- ISBN10: 1038317908
- Language: English
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Nonna
$22.00 Add to cartSome of life’s most beautiful lessons are learned in a grandmother’s kitchen, where love is measured in handfuls of flour and wisdom is stirred into every pot of sauce. Growing up with my Nonna meant
- Author: Moyo, Frank
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 28
- Publish Date: May 05 2025
- ISBN10: 1069441007
- Language: English
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Child of St Kilda
$19.99 Add to cartNorman John Gillies was one of the last children ever born on St Kilda, five years before the whole population was evacuated forever to the British mainland. People had lived on these islands for over… [more below]
- Series: Child’s Play Library
- Author: Waters, Beth
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: September 01 2019
- ISBN10: 1786281880
- Language: English
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Destination City: A Gallery of New York’s Most Surprising Visitors and Residents Throughout History
$24.95 Add to cartLeon Trotsky was living in The Bronx with his common-law wife and two children when the Russian Revolution broke out. President Woodrow Wilson and his successor, Warren G. Harding, had little in commo
- Author: Pigott, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: April 08 2025
- ISBN10: 0231216475
- Language: English
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City Kid: A Writer’s Memoir of Ghetto Life and Post-Soul Success
$24.00 Add to cart“City Kid is perhaps one of the seven greatest books ever written. It has the realness of The Autobiography of Malcolm X, the warmth of The Color Purple, and the page count of Tuesdays with Morrie. It… [more below]
- Author: George, Nelson
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 30 2010
- ISBN10: 0452296048
- Language: English
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This Leaves Me Okay: Race, Legacy, and Letters From My Grandmother
$32.00 Add to cartLucille “Mama Ceal” Hatch Eldridge wrote to her grandson Walter Pryor weekly for nearly 30 years, from his boyhood until she died at 80. Most extraordinarily, Mama Ceal was not a well-educated person,
- Author: Pryor, Walter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: May 08 2025
- ISBN10: 1956474676
- Language: English
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The Dressmaker of Khair Khana
$18.99 Add to cart“A courageous Afghan woman and her sisters success as unlikely entrepreneurs in this inspiring true story.” — O, The Oprah Magazine
The New York Times bestseller, written by a former reporter for ABC
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Lemmon, Gayle Tzemach
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 17 2024
- ISBN10: 0061732478
- Language: English
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Becoming Baba: Fatherhood, Faith, and Finding Meaning in America
$28.00 Add to cartFrom Slate staff writer Aymann Ismail comes an exquisite memoir about fatherhood, religion, and the search for identity in an ever-shifting world.
The son of Egyptian immigrants, Aymann Ismail came of- Author: Ismail, Aymann
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: July 08 2025
- ISBN10: 038554961X
- Language: English
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A Quantum Life (Adapted for Young Adults): My Unlikely Journey from the Street to the Stars
$12.99 Add to cartA NASA astrophysicist narrates his improbable journey from an impoverished childhood and an adolescence mired in drugs and crime to the nation’s top physics PhD program at Stanford in this inspiring c… [more below]
- Author: Oluseyi, Hakeem
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 13 2024
- ISBN10: 1984849662
- Language: English
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Water Buffalo Days: Growing Up in Vietnam
$7.99 Add to cartAs a young boy growing up in the hills of central Vietnam, Nhuong’s companion was Tank, the family water buffalo. When bullies harassed Nhuong, Tank sent them packing. When a wild tiger threatened the… [more below]
- Author: Huynh, Quang Nhuong
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 117
- Publish Date: January 16 1999
- ISBN10: 0064462110
- Language: English
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Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
$21.00 Add to cartIn this vivid biography Geoffrey C. Ward brings back to life the most celebrated — and the most reviled — African American of his age.
Jack Johnson battled his way out of obscurity and poverty in th- Author: Ward, Geoffrey C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: January 03 2006
- ISBN10: 0375710043
- Language: English
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The Rock from Which You Were Hewn: The Lives and Legacy of Holy Irish Men and Women
$18.95 Add to cartThis book presents brief, inspiring biographies of over 40 Irish men and women whose causes for canonization are in progress, along with others who enjoy a strong reputation for sanctity. Written in
- Author: Kenny, Patrick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 274
- Publish Date: November 11 2024
- ISBN10: 1621647498
- Language: English
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Dear Senator: A Memoir by the Daughter of Strom Thurmond
$18.99 Add to cartBreaking nearly eight decades of silence, Essie Mae Washington-Williams comes forward with a story of unique historical magnitude and incredible human drama. Her father, the late Strom Thurmond, was o
- Author: Washington-Williams, Essie Mae
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: January 24 2006
- ISBN10: 0060761423
- Language: English
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Lucy Sings on Lucy Street
$19.99 Add to cartThis inspiring historical picture book based on the childhood of Lucy Tolliver, the mother of Good Morning America‘s Robin Roberts, and written by her siblings, Sally-Ann Roberts and Lawrence Roberts,
- Author: Roberts, Lawrence
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: May 20 2025
- ISBN10: 006322254X
- Language: English
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Down on the Farm, Way Back When
$23.99 Add to cartDad would warn me to stay back from the barn door when he let the cows out for the first time at the end of a long winter. After taking a few steps outside, you might see a mature cow do something you… [more below]
- Author: Nelson, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 306
- Publish Date: January 08 2025
- ISBN10: 1038317932
- Language: English
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Broken Promise: The story of a man growing up in Bountiful and living under ‘The One Man Rule.’
$24.99 Add to cartBorn into the Fundamentalist Latter-Day Saint (FLDS) community of Bountiful, British Columbia, Jon Blackmore grew up believing that his church was the sole path to salvation, the only people destined … [more below]
- Author: Blackmore, Jon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 234
- Publish Date: January 30 2025
- ISBN10: 1038313600
- Language: English
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Icy Fruit: How My Grandfather Spread the Joy of Ice Pops Across Taiwan
$18.99 Add to cartThis fun and fascinating biography of a Taiwanese ice pop entrepreneur–the author’s beloved grandfather–is a terrific read-aloud about inventiveness and the treats of summer.
Charlotte Cheng’s grand- Author: Cheng, Charlotte
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 593617754
- Language: English
