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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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Black White and Jewish: Autobiography of a Shifting Self
$27.00 Add to cartNow in paperback, this national bestseller “offers painful childhood memories of straddling two vastly different cultures . . . to fashion a cautionary tale about the power of race in shaping identity… [more below]
- Author: Walker, Rebecca
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 08 2002
- ISBN10: 1573229075
- Language: English
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Lift Up Thy Voice: The Sarah and Angelina Grimk Family s Journey from Slaveholders to Civil Rights Leaders
$27.00 Add to cartIn the late 1820s Sarah and Angelina Grimk? traded their elite position as daughters of a prominent white slaveholding family in Charleston, South Carolina, for a life dedicated to abolitionism and ad… [more below]
- Author: Perry, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: December 31 2002
- ISBN10: 0142001031
- Language: English
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Passing Strange: A Gilded Age Tale of Love and Deception Across the Color Line
$27.00 Add to cartRead Martha A. Sandweiss’s posts on the Penguin Blog
The secret double life of the man who mapped the American West, and the woman he loved Clarence King was a late nineteenth-century celebrity, a- Author: Sandweiss, Martha A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: January 26 2010
- ISBN10: 014311686X
- Language: English
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The Patient Wait of the Stones: Time and Memory in Lunigiana
$19.99 Add to cartA poetic, personal, and historical narrative of a late in life move to a tiny Italian village and a reflection on time and memory in the shadow of a medieval castle borgo.
The Patient Wait of the Stone
- Author: Romani, Antonio
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 02 2026
- ISBN10: 9798992468748
- Language: English
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My Life Story: Memories Living Southwest of Button River
$15.95 Add to cartEva Collins always had a desire to tell her story. She has always been a writer growing up.
Writing has been her therapy during her life; whether she was up or down, she wrote it out, and it has kept h
- Author: Collins, Eva Lloyd
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 122
- Publish Date: December 08 2025
- ISBN10: 1637843119
- 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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Dear Maine: The Trials and Triumphs of Maine’s 21st Century Immigrants
$19.95 Read moreDear Maine, written by Morgan Rielly, an author and state senator, and Reza Jalali, a former refugee and executive director of the Greater Portland Immigrant Welcome Center, recounts the trails and tr… [more below]
- Author: Jalali, Reza
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 16 2021
- ISBN10: 1952143195
- Language: English
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The Palms Shore Club: A Brooklyn Legacy by the Bay
$20.00 Add to cartThis is a story about community – about how a single place can shape friendships, love stories, and memories that last a lifetime.
Beginning in 1960s Brooklyn, when ‘travel’ meant visiting the next nei
- Author: Berfond, Danielle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 188
- Publish Date: March 01 2026
- ISBN10: 1637778651
- 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 Add to cartFrom 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
