Social Activists
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Native Elders: Sharing Their Wisdom
$12.95 Read moreIn Indigenous cultures, elders serve as a bridge across time: they are connected to the past, they live in the present and they offer wisdom for the future. In these fascinating biographical essays, t… [more below]
- Series: Native Trailblazers
- Author: Sigafus, Kim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: May 24 2014
- ISBN10: 097791836X
- Language: English
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Girls Like Us: Fighting for a World Where Girls Are Not for Sale: A Memoir
$18.99 Add to cart“Powerfully raw, deeply moving, and utterly authentic. Rachel Lloyd has turned a personal atrocity into triumph and is nothing less than a true hero. . . . Never again will you look at young girls on
- Author: Lloyd, Rachel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 28 2012
- ISBN10: 0061582069
- Language: English
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Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem
$19.99 Add to cartThis updated edition of Gloria Steinem’s classic bestseller — called “the ultimate self-help book” by the Los Angeles Times — features a new preface by the author.
For decades, Gloria Steinem has l- Author: Steinem, Gloria
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: December 29 2020
- ISBN10: 0316706361
- Language: English
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The Essential Dick Gregory
$27.99 Read moreA soulful, generation-defining collection of thought-provoking, agitating, and liberating works from Dick Gregory, the activist and author of sixteen books, including the classic bestseller Nigger: An
- Author: Gregory, Dick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 11 2022
- ISBN10: 0062879200
- Language: English
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Firebrands: Activists You Didn’t Learn about in School
$15.95 Add to cart- Series: Real Heroes
- Author: Justseeds
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: March 12 2024
- ISBN10: 1648413447
- Language: English
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I Am Gandhi
$9.99 Read moreAdvocate for peace and nonviolent revolutionary Gandhi is the 12th hero in the New York Times bestselling picture book biography series for ages 5 to 8. (Cover may vary)
As a young man in India, Gand… [more below]- Series: Ordinary People Change the World
- Author: Meltzer, Brad
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: August 01 2023
- ISBN10: 0593619218
- Language: English
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Dead Weight: A Memoir in Essays
$22.95 Add to cartDead Weight chronicles the improbable turnaround of a drug smuggler who, after being sentenced to eight years in state prison, returned to society to earn a PhD in creative writing and become the only… [more below]
- Author: Horton, Randall
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: February 15 2022
- ISBN10: 0810144638
- Language: English
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Helen Roseveare: The Doctor Who Kept Going No Matter What
$14.99 Read moreRead the true story of Helen Roseveare, a missionary doctor in central Africa.
On the day of her eighth birthday, Helen sat in Sunday school cutting and sticking pictures of faraway countries and, in h
- Series: Do Great Things for God
- Author: Wickham, Laura
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 24
- Publish Date: February 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1784987468
- Language: English
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The Story of John Lewis: An Inspiring Biography for Young Readers
$6.99 Add to cartDiscover the life of John Lewis–a story for kids 6 to 9 about fighting for a better world
John Lewis was a civil rights leader and United States congressman who never stopped speaking up for justice- Series: Story of
- Author: Leslie, Tonya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 66
- Publish Date: January 26 2021
- ISBN10: 1648766978
- Language: English
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The Poison Squad: One Chemist’s Single-Minded Crusade for Food Safety at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
$18.00 Add to cartA New York Times Notable Book
The inspiration for PBS’s AMERICAN EXPERIENCE film The Poison Squad. From Pulitzer Prize winner and New York Times-bestselling author Deborah Blum, the dramatic true stor- Author: Blum, Deborah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 24 2019
- ISBN10: 0143111124
- Language: English
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Reweaving the Tapestry of Tenure: Eight Elders of the CLT Movement Who Championed Community Ownership of Land
$19.50 Add to cartThe community land trust (CLT) movement has grown from a single CLT in 1970 to nearly six hundred today, scattered across a dozen countries. While many people can be credited with the global spread of
- Author: Davis, John Emmeus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 10 2023
- ISBN10: 9798986177625
- Language: English
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Maria Fearing: The Girl Who Dreamed of Distant Lands
$14.99 Read moreRead the true story of Maria Fearing, a missionary who shared Christ’s love with children in Africa and protected them from slavery.
Once freed from slavery on an Alabama plantation, Maria Fearing went
- Series: Do Great Things for God
- Author: Ellis, K. a.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: June 19 2023
- ISBN10: 178498826X
- Language: English
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Red Bird Sings: The Story of Zitkala-Sa, Native American Author, Musician, and Activist
$9.99 Add to cart“I remember the day I lost my spirit.” So begins the story of Gertrude Simmons, also known as Zitkala-Sa, which means Red Bird. Born in 1876 on the Yankton Sioux reservation in South Dakota, Zitkala-S
- Author: Capaldi, Gina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: August 06 2019
- ISBN10: 1541578368
- Language: English
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La Historia de Ruby Bridges (the Story of Ruby Bridges)
$7.99 Add to cartThe inspirational true story of Ruby Bridges.
Es 1960 y Ruby Bridges, de seis a os, se acaba de mudar con su familia de Misisipi a Nueva Orleans buscando una vida mejor. Cuando un juez sentencia que Ru
- Author: Coles, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: September 07 2021
- ISBN10: 1338767496
- Language: Spanish
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Because Claudette
$18.99 Add to cartFrom NYT bestselling author Tracey Baptiste comes a singular picture book that is both a biography about Claudette Colvin, the teen whose activism launched the Montgomery bus boycott, and a celebratio… [more below]
- Author: Baptiste, Tracey
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: February 01 2022
- ISBN10: 593326407
- Language: English
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Free Cyntoia: My Search for Redemption in the American Prison System
$18.99 Add to cartNAACP Image Award nominee for Outstanding Biography/Autobiography
In her own words, Cyntoia Brown-Long shares the riveting and redemptive story of how she changed her life for the better while in pris- Author: Brown-Long, Cyntoia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 05 2020
- ISBN10: 1982141115
- Language: English
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Shaking Things Up: 14 Young Women Who Changed the World
$19.99 Add to cart“Each poem and illustration shines with a personality all its own.” —Shelf Awareness (starred review)
“This book has definitely made an impact on my life.” –Kitt Shapiro, daughter of Eartha Kitt
Fresh
- Author: Hood, Susan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: January 23 2018
- ISBN10: 0062699458
- Language: English
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The House That Love Built: Why I Opened My Door to Immigrants and How We Found Hope Beyond a Broken System
$17.99 Add to cart2021 Christian Book Award Finalist
“Jackson’s visionary account is a beautiful model of sacrificial love.” — Publishers Weekly Starred Review
The House That Love Built is the quintessential story of on
- Author: Jackson, Sarah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: July 14 2020
- ISBN10: 0310355621
- Language: English
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The Wind in My Hair: My Fight for Freedom in Modern Iran
$40.00 Add to cartAn extraordinary memoir from an Iranian journalist in exile about leaving her country, challenging tradition and sparking an online movement against compulsory hijab.
A photo on Masih’s Facebook page- Author: Alinejad, Masih
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: May 29 2018
- ISBN10: 031654891X
- Language: English
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A Dangerous Country: An American Elegy
$27.95 Add to cartWHEN EIGHTEEN-YEAR-OLD RON KOVIC enlisted in the United States Marine Corps in 1964, he couldn’t foresee that he would return from Vietnam paralyzed and in a wheelchair for life. His best-selling 197
- Author: Kovic, Ron
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: February 13 2024
- ISBN10: 1636141668
- Language: English
