Social Activists
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By: Senghor, Shaka
Writing My Wrongs: Life, Death, and Redemption in an American Prison
$18.00PaperbackAdd to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – An “extraordinary, unforgettable” (Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow) memoir of redemption and second chances amidst America’s mass incarceration epidemic, fro… [more below]
- Author: Senghor, Shaka
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 31 2017
- ISBN10: 1101907312
- Language: English
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By: Bryan Stevenson
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
$20.00PaperbackAdd to cart#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING MICHAEL B. JORDAN AND JAMIE FOXX – A powerful true story about the potential for mercy to redeem us, and a clarion call to fix our br… [more below]
- Author: Stevenson, Bryan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: August 18 2015
- ISBN10: 081298496X
- Language: English
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By: Bender, Rebecca
In Pursuit of Love: One Woman’s Journey from Trafficked to Triumphant
$19.99PaperbackRead moreThrough her own gripping story of escape from human trafficking, Rebecca Bender reveals the inner workings of the underground world of modern-day slavery and helps us learn how we can be a catalyst fo
- Author: Bender, Rebecca
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 28 2020
- ISBN10: 0310356857
- Language: English
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By: Brown, Elaine
A Taste of Power: A Black Woman’s Story
$23.00PaperbackAdd to cart“Profound, funny … wild and moving … heartbreaking accounts of a lonely black childhood…. Brown sees racial oppression in national and global context; every political word she writes pounds home… [more below]
- Author: Brown, Elaine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: December 01 1993
- ISBN10: 0385471076
- Language: English
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Marie Louise Bottineau Baldwin: Political Pathfinder
$12.99PaperbackAdd to cartMarie Louise Bottineau Baldwin grew up in North Dakota and Minnesota speaking seven languages and watching her father, Jean Baptiste Bottineau, fight for the rights of his communities as a lawyer. Bot
- Series: Native American Lives
- Author: Patel, Hema Erdrich
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 56
- Publish Date: January 01 2026
- ISBN10: 9798765671849
- Language: English
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By: Horton, Myles
The Long Haul: An Autobiography
$34.95PaperbackAdd to cartIn his own direct, modest, plain-spoken style, Myles Horton tells the story of the Highlander Folk School. A major catalyst for social change in the United States for more than 70 years, this school h
- Author: Horton, Myles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 19 1997
- ISBN10: 0807737003
- Language: English
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Sharon Day: Water Walker
$12.99PaperbackAdd to cartSharon Day is the founder and executive director of the Indigenous Peoples Task Force. She grew up with her brothers and sisters on the Bois Forte Indian Reservation, and early on learned of the impor
- Series: Native American Lives
- Author: Danforth, Pauline
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 56
- Publish Date: January 01 2026
- ISBN10: 9798765671870
- Language: English
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All about Us: 20 True Tales of Courage and Disability
$29.95HardcoverRead moreMeet twenty inspiring kids and adults living with disability today.
Stefan Daniel is a Paralympian who began competing when he was 16 and won Canada’s first paratriathlon medal in 2016. Zamaan Jivraj,
- Author: Leavitt, Hannalora
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: May 19 2026
- ISBN10: 1459837088
- Language: English
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By: Beckerman, Gal
How to Be a Dissident
$19.00PaperbackRead moreAn invigorating guide to fighting back–part philosophy, part history, and part manual for living with integrity in an age of conformity and authoritarian drift
How do we push back in a world where po- Author: Beckerman, Gal
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 21 2026
- ISBN10: 9798217089215
- Language: English
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By: Bingham, Clara
The Movement: How Women’s Liberation Transformed America 1963-1973
$22.00PaperbackAdd to cartThis “indispensable new book that belongs on the shelf of every American woman” (Sally Jenkins, author of The Right Call) is a comprehensive oral history of the decade that defined the feminist moveme… [more below]
- Author: Bingham, Clara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: March 03 2026
- ISBN10: 198214422X
- Language: English
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By: Müller, Herta
The Village on the Edge of the World: Writing and Surviving Ceausescu’s Romania
$29.95HardcoverRead moreA Nobel laureate presents a brilliant, discomfiting reflection on literary life defined by the brutality of Ceausescu’s Romania.
From her childhood in Romania, in a village “as small as a thimble on t- Author: Müller, Herta
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 05 2026
- ISBN10: 9798897100828
- Language: English
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Dangerous, Dirty, Violent, and Young: A Fugitive Family in the Revolutionary Underground
$32.99HardcoverRead moreZayd Ayers Dohrn was born underground. His parents were fugitives after a decade fighting the US government; his mother was on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted list. All his life, Dohrn’s parents said his bi
- Author: Dohrn, Zayd Ayers
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: May 19 2026
- ISBN10: 1324089318
- Language: English
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By: Smalls, Chris
When the Revolution Comes: A Fight for the Future of the Working Class
$30.00HardcoverRead moreFrom one of the most electric and consequential figures to emerge from the contemporary American labor movement, the remarkable story of his battle to create the first Amazon union in the U.S. and a p… [more below]
- Author: Smalls, Chris
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 02 2026
- ISBN10: 0593700635
- Language: English
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By: Tepper, Jonathan
Shooting Up: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Addiction
$32.95HardcoverAdd to cart“Powerfully moving…an extraordinary memoir.” —George Stephanopoulos, political commentator and Good Morning America and ABC Sunday News anchor
In the shadows of Madrid’s most notorious drug slum, a… [more below]
- Author: Tepper, Jonathan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 17 2026
- ISBN10: 1964378133
- Language: English
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In the Arms of Mountains: A Memoir of Land, Love, and Queer Resistance in Red America
$28.95HardcoverRead moreRural America deserves more than an elegy: a powerful story of hope, resilience, and political resistance where you least expect it, from Idaho’s first openly LGBTQ+ lawmaker
“One doesn’t need to be q- Author: Lefavour, Cole Nicole
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 26 2026
- ISBN10: 080702418X
- Language: English
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By: Pressley, Nelson
Fonda on Film: The Political Movies of Jane Fonda
$21.99PaperbackRead more- Author: Pressley, Nelson
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 10 2026
- ISBN10: 1556522576
- Language: English
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By: Campbell, Rosa
The Book That Taught the World to Orgasm and Then Disappeared: Shere Hite and the Hite Report
$32.00HardcoverRead moreCome and meet Shere Hite–the feminist hero whose notorious work revolutionized how we think about sex, marriage, and the female orgasm…
Despite being one of the leading thinkers of the second wave- Author: Campbell, Rosa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: April 14 2026
- ISBN10: 1685892310
- Language: English
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By: Shabazz, Ilyasah
Malcolm in the Desert: Wisdom from the Spiritual Transformation of Malcolm X
$27.00HardcoverRead morePowerful self-transformation practices for navigating an increasingly uncertain world inspired by Malcolm X’s final years, written by his daughter, Ilyasah Shabazz.
When Malcolm X left the Nation of- Author: Shabazz, Ilyasah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 19 2026
- ISBN10: 1538774321
- Language: English
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By: Kurshan, Nancy
Levitating the Pentagon and Other Uplifting Stories: A Life of Activism
$22.00PaperbackRead more“Equal parts revealing memoir, valuable historical document, and galvanizing guide to following one’s beliefs.” –Publishers Weekly
A bold, unflinching memoir from the front lines of American protest b
- Author: Kurshan, Nancy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 350
- Publish Date: March 24 2026
- ISBN10: 1953103715
- Language: English
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By: Mihaly, Christy
Music and Silence: The Passion and Protest of Pablo Casals
$19.99HardcoverRead moreAn inspiring picture book biography of a UN Peace Medal recipient who used his songs–and his silence–to fight fascism, oppression, and violence.
One day in Catalonia, Spain, eleven-year-old Pau Casa
- Series: Incredible Lives for Young Readers (Ilyr)
- Author: Mihaly, Christy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 56
- Publish Date: April 21 2026
- ISBN10: 0802855512
- Language: English








