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Blood in My Eye
$22.95 Add to cartBlood In My Eye was completed only days before it’s author was killed. George Jackson died on August 21, 1971 at the hands of San Quentin prison guards during an alleged escape attempt. At eighteen, G… [more below]
- Author: Jackson, George L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 196
- Publish Date: December 19 1996
- ISBN10: 0933121237
- Language: English
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A Place to Stand
$18.00 Add to cartJimmy Santiago Baca’s harrowing, brilliant memoir of his life before, during, and immediately after the years he spent in a maximum-security prison garnered tremendous critical acclaim and went on to … [more below]
- Author: Baca, Jimmy Santiago
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 10, 2002
- ISBN10: 0802139086
- Language: English
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
$5.95 Add to cartFrederick Douglass’s dramatic autobiographical account of his early life as a slave in America.
Born into a life of bondage, Frederick Douglass secretly taught himself to read and write. It was a crim- Series: Signet Classics
- Author: Douglass, Frederick
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: June 07 2005
- ISBN10: 0451529944
- Language: English
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Killing Rage: Ending Racism
$19.99 Add to cart“hooks’s books help us not only to decolonize our minds, souls, and bodies; on a deeper level, they touch our lives.” –Cornel West
More than two decades before Black Lives Matter and the #MeToo moveme- Series: Owl Book
- Author: Hooks, Bell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 15, 1996
- ISBN10: 0805050272
- Language: English
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The Color of Water: A Black Man’s Tribute to His White Mother
$17.00 Add to cartFrom the bestselling author of Deacon King Kong and the National Book Award-winning The Good Lord Bird The modern classic that spent more than two years on The New York Times bestseller list and that … [more below]
- Author: McBride, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 07 2006
- ISBN10: 159448192X
- Language: English
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The Stowaway in First Class: A True Story of an Unforgettable Quest to Come to America
$17.95 Add to cartSOON a MAJOR MOTION PICTURE
A family’s legacy is forever changed in this true story of ransom notes, stowaways, and mobsters.
Paris, 1929. Gaetano “Guy” DeSantis is an Italian emigrant with a good lif
- Author: DeSantis, Anthony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: March 12 2025
- ISBN10: 9798991511018
- Language: English
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Aqua: A Story of Water and Lost Dreams
$29.00 Add to cartA hybrid of memoir, travel and cultural history that explores how water altered LA and the history of film.
In 1913, William Mulholland finished building the Los Angeles Aqueduct – a 233-mile engineer
- Author: Barzini, Chiara
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 250
- Publish Date: April 14 2026
- ISBN10: 1961884909
- Language: English
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The Inconvenient Child: The True Life Story of an Abandoned Australian Childs Struggle to Survive an Abusive Childhood and Search For Her Afri
$24.99 Add to cartAn unacceptable liaison, a secret birth, a mother’s silence, and her black child’s journey to discover the truth…
A Heart-Wrenching True Story of Resilience and Identity. The Inconvenient Child is th
- Author: Lewis, Lindsay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: April 24 2009
- ISBN10: 0646487825
- Language: English
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Malcolm and Ida: A Love Story in Letters
$18.95 Add to cartMalcolm Kyzer, principal of Cochran High School in Georgia, had no idea the turn his life would take when he hired Ida Reynolds as a teacher, sight unseen. Their budding romance was shaken with an unp
- Author: Metzger, Catherine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 236
- Publish Date: February 03 2026
- ISBN10: 1966343809
- Language: English
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Monster of a Land: On the Road in Search of Modern America
$30.00 Read moreFrom The New York Times bestselling author of Leaving Isn’t the Hardest Thing comes an update of John Steinbeck’s trip in Travels with Charley, a cross-country journey exploring modern America with La… [more below]
- Author: Hough, Lauren
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 16 2026
- ISBN10: 0593686624
- Language: English
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Radical Reparations: Healing the Soul of a Nation
$19.99 Add to cart“An urgent call to action, a manifesto for justice, and a blueprint for a more equitable America. . . .It’s time we confront our history head-on, and Radical Reparations provides the necessary tools.”
- Author: Hunter, Marcus Anthony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 20 2026
- ISBN10: 0063004739
- Language: English
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Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo
$16.00 Add to cartBefore his mysterious disappearance and probable death in 1971, Oscar Zeta Acosta was famous as a Robin Hood Chicano lawyer and notorious as the real-life model for Hunter S. Thompson’s “Dr. Gonzo,” a… [more below]
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Acosta, Oscar Zeta
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: July 17 1989
- ISBN10: 0679722130
- Language: English
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Walking Solo but Not Alone
$19.95 Add to cartEvery one of the books I note here is a light, each a gift from someone reaching from another time and place to offer us strength. The human spirit is capable of magnanimity that many of us have not e
- Author: Archibald, Jane Pitkin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 230
- Publish Date: January 14 2025
- ISBN10: 9798893080735
- Language: English
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A River Is Made: From South Waziristan to Kabul, Dubai, and Des Moines, Iowa – An Afghan Refugee’s Journey from War to Belonging in America
$16.99 Add to cartA River is Made is the true story of a life carried across borders, wars, and generations, told through the eyes of its author, Fazal Moneer Adil. From South Waziristan to Kabul, Dubai, and Des Moines… [more below]
- Author: Adil, Fazal Moneer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 238
- Publish Date: November 11 2025
- ISBN10: 9798993234403
- Language: English
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Rosa Parks: A Life
$24.00 Add to cartFifty years after she made history by refusing to give up her seat on a bus, Rosa Parks at last gets the major biography she deserves. The eminent historian Douglas Brinkley follows this thoughtful an… [more below]
- Author: Brinkley, Douglas G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0143036009
- Language: English
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Charles Whitfield Richards: The Artist and His Circle
$24.95 Add to cartCharles Whitfield Richards: The Artist and His Circle is the first book-length biography of the artist and journalist, whose career spanned Jazz Age Paris to modern New Orleans. He found himself at th… [more below]
- Author: Warner, J. Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: August 26 2025
- ISBN10: 1959569279
- Language: English
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To Be Young, Gifted and Black: A Memoir with an Introduction by James Baldwin
$21.00 Add to cartAssembled from plays, essays, letters, drawings, and photographs, this memoir records the passionate engagement and spectacular accomplishment of the playwright of A Raisin in the Sun.
It follows Lorr- Author: Hansberry, Lorraine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 03 1996
- ISBN10: 0679764151
- Language: English
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From Abuse to God’s Blessings: A Memoir of His Grace and Glory
$18.99 Add to cartGrowing up in rural Missouri, Jim Kissock’s childhood was anything but idyllic. Between his alcoholic father’s abuse, his parents’ divorce, and being trapped in a home dominated by violence and fear,
- Author: Kissock, Jim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 308
- Publish Date: September 18 2025
- ISBN10: 9798999069214
- Language: English
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Driftwood: The Life of Harlan Hubbard
$60.00 Read more- Author: Whitehead, Jessica K.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: February 25 2025
- ISBN10: 1985901544
- Language: English
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Unmothered, Untongued: Lyric Essays
$27.95 Add to cartunMothered, unTongued is a collection of lyric essays written from the liminal space of the in-between. These essays thread themselves around questions of language, landscape, and identity, weaving to… [more below]
- Series: The Sue William Silverman Prize for Creative Nonfiction
- Author: Roripaugh, Lee Horikoshi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 234
- Publish Date: September 15 2025
- ISBN10: 0820374415
- Language: English
