Cultural & Regional
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Hispanic Star: Bad Bunny
$9.99 Read moreRead about Bad Bunny, known as the King of Latin Trap, who is among the most groundbreaking and iconic Latinx heroes to have shaped our culture and the world in the latest installment of the Hispanic
- Series: Hispanic Star
- Author: Edelman, Claudia Romo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: September 03 2024
- ISBN10: 1250339650
- Language: English
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Powerful Like a Dragon
$18.99 Add to cartIn this life-affirming picture book, acclaimed author Christopher Cheng weaves the true story of his family’s search for safety in the midst of war, demonstrating the strength of children in the face
- Author: Cheng, Christopher
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: April 15 2025
- ISBN10: 1250829399
- Language: English
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Baltic Souls: Remarkable Life Stories from Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania
$22.00 Add to cartA monumental journey through Baltic history and culture, in which we encounter well-known personalities and forgotten ones, and a disconcerting picture of Europe in the twentieth century.
From 1999 to
- Author: Brokken, Jan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: January 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1957363940
- Language: English
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Space Is the Place: The Lives and Times of Sun Ra
$25.95 Add to cartConsidered by many to be a founder of Afrofuturism, Sun Ra-aka Herman Blount-was a composer, keyboardist, bandleader, philosopher, entrepreneur, poet, and self-proclaimed extraterrestrial from Saturn…. [more below]
- Author: Szwed, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: May 15 2020
- ISBN10: 1478008415
- Language: English
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The Color of Family: History, Race, and the Politics of Ancestry
$30.00 Read moreA uniquely blended personal family history and history of the changing definitions of race in America.
A zealous eugenicist ran Virginia’s Bureau of Vital Statistics in the first half of the twentiet- Author: O’Malley, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 22 2024
- ISBN10: 0226835901
- Language: English
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Magic in the Mess
$17.99 Add to cartFrom an early age, Molly Booker was taught to follow rules, please others, and meet high standards. This drive for perfection became her most significant asset and heaviest burden, manifesting as acad
- Author: Booker, Molly
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 278
- Publish Date: January 14 2025
- ISBN10: 9.79899E+12
- Language: English
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Magic in the Mess
$24.99 Add to cartFrom an early age, Molly Booker was taught to follow rules, please others, and meet high standards. This drive for perfection became her most significant asset and heaviest burden, manifesting as acad
- Author: Booker, Molly
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 278
- Publish Date: January 14 2025
- ISBN10: 9.79899E+12
- Language: English
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Prince Among Slaves
$19.99 Add to cartThe extraordinary and consequential biography of Abdulrahman Ibrahim Ibn Sori, a Muslim West African prince turned enslaved plantation worker, and his lifelong fight to be free and return home.
In 176- Author: Senzai, N. H.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: January 14 2025
- ISBN10: 1984816985
- Language: English
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This Leaves Me Okay: Race, Legacy, and Letters From My Grandmother
$20.00 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: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: May 08 2025
- ISBN10: 1956474587
- Language: English
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Parallel Lives: A Love Story from a Lost Continent
$29.99 Add to cartBest-selling novelist and art historian Iain Pears enchants readers with the real-life romance between Larissa Salmina, a Russian art curator, and Francis Haskell, a British art historian. His fabulou
- Author: Pears, Iain
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 05 2025
- ISBN10: 1324073772
- Language: English
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Strong Roots: A Memoir of Food, Family, and Ukraine
$30.00 Add to cartWhen Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, award-winning Ukrainian chef and food writer Olia Hercules decided it was finally time to tell her story.
Strong Roots is the story of- Author: Hercules, Olia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 12 2025
- ISBN10: 0593537483
- Language: English
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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
$29.33 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
$27.00 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
