Social Activists
-
Tears for Tarshiha
$21.35 Add to cartOlfat Mahmoud’s confronting autobiography asks when the world will deliver on its promise and allow her people to return home to Palestine.
Olfat Mahmoud is a stateless Palestinian refugee. Born in a r
- Author: Mahmoud, Olfat
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 218
- Publish Date: August 01 2018
- ISBN10: 0648066363
- Language: English
-
Bird Uncaged: An Abolitionist’s Freedom Song
$18.99 Add to cartFrom a leading prison abolitionist, a moving memoir about coming of age in Brooklyn and surviving incarceration–and a call to break free from all the cages that confine us.
Marlon Peterson grew up in- Author: Peterson, Marlon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: December 06, 2022
- ISBN10: 1645036529
- Language: English
-
Fighting for Life: Becoming a Force for Change in a Wounded World
$18.99 Add to cartWhat makes your heart break for our broken world?
You want to make a difference in the world. You’re concerned about all the problems you see, the injustices and the suffering. But you don’t know wher
- Author: Rose, Lila
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: July 05 2022
- ISBN10: 1400219914
- Language: English
-
World Piece: A Pie Baker’s Global Quest for Peace, Love, and Understanding
$18.00 Add to cartCAN PIE REALLY PROMOTE WORLD PEACE?
Beth Howard always dreamed of circumnavigating the planet; not to tick off a list of tourist sites, but to immerse herself in the culture of each country by making p
- Author: Howard, Beth M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: September 16 2022
- ISBN10: 1732672563
- Language: English
-
Coretta: My Life, My Love, My Legacy
$18.99 Add to cartThe True Story of Coretta Scott King Told Fully for the First Time
Named a Washington Post Book to Read – A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice – A USA Today “New and Noteworthy” Pick – A Read- Author: King, Coretta Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: February 20 2018
- ISBN10: 1250159938
- Language: English
-
Border Hacker: A Tale of Treachery, Trafficking, and Two Friends on the Run
$19.99 Read moreAn unlikely friendship, a four-thousand-mile voyage, and an impenetrable frontier–this dramatic odyssey reveals the chaos and cruelty US immigration policies have unleashed beyond our borders.
Axel K- Author: Vonk, Levi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 03, 2023
- ISBN10: 1645037061
- Language: English
-
Autobiography of a Recovering Skinhead: The Frank Meeink Story as Told to Jody M. Roy, Ph.D.
$20.95 Add to cartThis new edition of the acclaimed Frank Meeink story includes a preface by the author, nine new chapters, an updated epilogue, and resource guides for substance abuse recovery and countering racism.
A- Author: Meeink, Frank
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 0
- Publish Date: September 05 2017
- ISBN10: 099706837X
- Language: English
-
All Else Failed: The Unlikely Volunteers at the Heart of the Migrant Aid Crisis
$19.99 Read moreAs hundreds of thousands of displaced people sought refuge in Europe, the global relief system failed. This is the story of the volunteers who stepped forward to help.
In 2015, increasing numbers of re
- Author: Sachs, Dana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1954276095
- Language: English
-
Generation Exile: The Lives I Leave Behind
$22.95 Read more- Author: Dorfman, Rodrigo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 0
- Publish Date: March 31 2023
- ISBN10: 1558859624
- Language: English
-
My Name Is Bill
$17.00 Add to cartThe definitive biography of Bill Wilson, the man who established Alcoholics Anonymous, and the first to be written with access to documents in that organization’s archives, by a noted author who is he… [more below]
- Author: Cheever, Susan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 23 2005
- ISBN10: 0743405919
- Language: English
-
Twelve Years a Slave
$4.50 Read moreThe basis for the Academy Award(R)-winning movie
A moving, vital testament to one of slavery’s ‘many thousand gone’ who retained his humanity in the bowels of degradation. — Saturday Review Born a f- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Northup, Solomon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 19 2014
- ISBN10: 0486789624
- Language: English
-
Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body
$25.99 Read moreA memoir-in-essays from disability advocate and creator of the Instagram account @sitting_pretty Rebekah Taussig, processing a lifetime of memories to paint a beautiful, nuanced portrait of a body tha
- Author: Taussig, Rebekah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 25 2020
- ISBN10: 0062936794
- Language: English
-
Surrender. 40 Canciones, Una Historia / Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story
$25.95 Read moreLas memorias de Bono, el vocalista principal de U2. Un libro honesto e irreverente, Ãntimo y profundo, Surrender es la historia de su vida, de sus retos, y de los amigos y familia que lo han sostenid… [more below]
- Author: Bono
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: December 20 2022
- ISBN10: 1644737191
- Language: Spanish
-
The Hands That Crafted the Bomb: The Making of a Lifelong Antifascist
$22.95 Add to cartJosh Fernandez is a community college professor who finds himself under investigation for “soliciting students for potentially dangerous activities” after starting an antifascist club on campus.
As Fe
- Author: Fernandez, Josh
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 13 2024
- ISBN10: 9798887440231
- Language: English
-
Limited Engagement: A Way of Living
$18.99 Add to cartAs a child, Jacquelyn Shah recognized she could not count on anyone else for her needs, so she developed the attitude to “expect nothing” in order to avoid being disappointed. Then, in college, deep t
- Author: Shah, Jacquelyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 172
- Publish Date: May 25 2023
- ISBN10: 9798987785256
- Language: English
-
Not the Camilla We Knew: One Woman’s Life from Small-Town America to the Symbionese Liberation Army
$17.95 Read moreThe mystery of how an ordinary Minnesota girl came to be, briefly, one of the most wanted domestic terrorists in the United States
Behind every act of domestic terrorism there is someone’s child, an- Author: Hanel, Rachael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: December 13 2022
- ISBN10: 1517913454
- Language: English
-
The Book of Rosy: A Mother’s Story of Separation at the Border
$19.99 Add to cart“Offers hope in the face of desperate odds” – ELLE Magazine, ELLE’s Most Anticipated Books of Summer 2020
“[D]isturbing and unforgettable memoir…This wrenching story brings to vivid life the plight o
- Author: Pablo Cruz, Rosayra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 22 2021
- ISBN10: 0062941933
- Language: English
-
The Last Heroes: Foot Soldiers of Indian Freedom
$16.99 Read moreSo who really spearheaded India’s Freedom Struggle? Millions of ordinary people-farmers, labourers, homemakers, forest produce gatherers, artisans and others-stood up to the British. People who never
- Author: Sainath, P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 15 2023
- ISBN10: 067009692X
- Language: English
-
Love and Capital: Karl and Jenny Marx and the Birth of a Revolution
$24.99 Add to cartBrilliantly researched and wonderfully written, Love and Capital reveals the rarely glimpsed and heartbreakingly human side of the man whose works would redefine the world after his death.
Drawing upo- Author: Gabriel, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 784
- Publish Date: November 13 2012
- ISBN10: 0316066125
- Language: English
-
Whole Earth: The Many Lives of Stewart Brand
$32.00 Read moreTold by one of our greatest chroniclers of technology and society, the definitive biography of iconic serial visionary Stewart Brand, from the Merry Pranksters and the generation-defining Whole Earth
- Author: Markoff, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: March 22, 2022
- ISBN10: 0735223947
- Language: English
