Social Activists
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Emmett J. Scott: Power Broker of the Tuskegee Machine
$45.00 Add to cartReared in Houston (Freedmen’s Town), Texas, Emmett J. Scott was a journalist, newspaper editor, government official, author, and chief of staff, adviser, and ghostwriter to Booker T. Washington. Calle… [more below]
- Series: Afro-Texans
- Author: Dailey, Maceo C.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 424
- Publish Date: May 30 2023
- ISBN10: 168283123X
- Language: English
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Helen Keller: Autobiographies & Other Writings (Loa #378): The Story of My Life / The World I Live in / Essays, Speeches, Letters, and Jour Nals
$40.00 Add to cartIn her own words, the legendary American icon who overcame adversity to become a brilliant writer and powerful advocate for the disabled: The Story of My Life, The World I Live In, plus a dozen reveal… [more below]
- Author: Keller, Helen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 653
- Publish Date: March 12 2024
- ISBN10: 1598537725
- Language: English
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Sister Rebel
$18.95 Add to cartTheresa Bonpane’s memoir Sister Rebel charting her journey from a young Irish American woman, to a Maryknoll sister working in Chile, to a dedicated peace activist and director of the Office of the Am
- Author: Bonpane, Theresa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: August 29 2023
- ISBN10: 1939096081
- Language: English
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Gordon Cressy Tells Great Stories
$20.99 Add to cartGordon Cressy is a walking, talking civics lesson. His work over the years has been a driving force in making Toronto what it is today – a city that takes top spots globally in livability rankings for
- Author: Cressy, Gordon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 20 2023
- ISBN10: 1771806702
- Language: English
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Brooklyn Goes Home: The Rise and Fall of American Greyhound Racing and the Dog That Inspired a Movement
$19.95 Read more2023 Finalist in the American Book Fest Awards
Brooklyn Goes Home is the true story of how one greyhound sparked a movement to close the worst dog tr
Silver Award Winner in the NonFiction Book Awards- Author: Dorchak, Christine A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1590567145
- Language: English
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Twelve Years a Slave
$18.00 Read moreBorn a free man in New York State in 1808, Solomon Northup was kidnapped in Washington, D.C., in 1841. He spent the next twelve years as a slave on a Louisiana cotton plantation. During this time he w… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Northup, Solomon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 31 2012
- ISBN10: 0143106708
- Language: English
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Find the Helpers: What 9/11 and Parkland Taught Me about Recovery, Purpose, and Hope (School Safety, Grief Recovery)
$19.95 Add to cartHow a Parkland Dad and 9/11 Brother Faced Tragedy
“Don’t tell me there’s no such thing as gun violence. It happened in Parkland.” ―Fred Guttenberg
2020 Nautilus Silver Winner
2021 Chanticleer Heart- Author: Guttenberg, Fred
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 198
- Publish Date: September 22 2020
- ISBN10: 1642505358
- Language: English
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Fighting Times: Organizing on the Front Lines of the Class War
$24.95 Add to cartDeeply personal, astutely political, Fighting Times: Organizing on the Front Lines of the Class War
recounts the thirteen-year journey of Jonathan Melrod to harness
working-class militancy and jump st- Author: Melrod, Jon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 27 2022
- ISBN10: 1629639656
- Language: English
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Acceptable Men: Life in the Largest Steel Mill in the World
$12.00 Read moreIn the 1960s and ’70s, class struggle surged in U.S. industrial cities. Many leftists joined these struggles by going to work in the nation’s factories; among them was Noel Ignatiev. He labored in dif… [more below]
- Author: Ignatiev, Noel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 110
- Publish Date: July 20 2021
- ISBN10: 0882860003
- Language: English
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The Weight of Air: A Story of the Lies about Addiction and the Truth about Recovery
$32.95 Add to cart“Soulful, achingly honest . . . A potent addition to the literature on drug addiction and recovery.”–Kirkus Reviews (starred)
While his wife and two-year-old daughter watched TV in the living room, Da
- Author: Poses, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 252
- Publish Date: July 06 2021
- ISBN10: 1954861990
- Language: English
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Vida y Hacienda: The Life and Legacy of Dr. Pedro Albizu Campos
$35.00 Add to cartVIDA Y HACIENDA: THE LIFE AND LEGACY OF DR. PEDRO ALBIZU CAMPOS is the first biography of the renowned revolutionary leader from Puerto Rico to be written in English. It offers the general history det
- Author: Muniz, Andre Lee
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 236
- Publish Date: August 11 2022
- ISBN10: 0578292750
- Language: English
