Cultural, Ethnic & Regional - General
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No Quittin’ Sense
$25.00 Add to cartThis story, set in the Piney Woods country of East Texas, spans most of a century, from shortly after the close of the Civil War to the 1960’s. It is the story of Charley White, who was born in the mi
- Author: White, The Reverend C. C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 238
- Publish Date: February 01, 1995
- ISBN10: 0292755082
- Language: English
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Unbowed: A Memoir
$20.00 Add to cartNOBEL PRIZE WINNER – A remarkable memoir of courage, faith, and the power of persistence about one woman’s extraodinary journey from her childhood in rural Kenya to the world stage.
“[Maathai’s] story- Author: Maathai, Wangari
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 04 2007
- ISBN10: 0307275205
- Language: English
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Man of the Family
$16.95 Add to cartFortified with Yankee ingenuity and western can-do energy, the Moody family, transplanted from New England, builds a new life on a Colorado ranch early in the twentieth century. Father has died and Li
- Author: Moody, Ralph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 01, 1993
- ISBN10: 0803281951
- Language: English
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Whistling in the Dark: Personal Essays
$23.98 Add to cartLucienne S. Bloch’s beautifully written personal essays explore her world on the Upper West Side of New York City. Growing up in the 1950s as the daughter of refugees from Hitler’s Europe who longed f
- Author: Bloch, Lucienne S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 250
- Publish Date: April 11 2023
- ISBN10: 1954805446
- Language: English
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Enrique’s Journey: The Story of a Boy’s Dangerous Odyssey to Reunite with His Mother
$20.00 Add to cartAn astonishing story that puts a human face on the ongoing debate about immigration reform in the United States, now updated with a new Epilogue and Afterword, photos of Enrique and his family, an aut… [more below]
- Author: Nazario, Sonia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: February 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0812971787
- Language: English
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Street Shadows: A Memoir of Race, Rebellion, and Redemption
$18.95 Add to cartStreet Shadows recounts Jerald Walker’s renunciation of the “thug life” he had embraced as a teenager on the South Side of Chicago in favor of the education and middle-class life his parents had alway
- Author: Walker, Jerald
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 01, 2012
- ISBN10: 0803240953
- Language: English
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Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
$25.00 Add to cartWinner of the Pulitzer Prize for History and a New York Times bestseller, the definitive biography of Malcolm X
Hailed as “a masterpiece” (San Francisco Chronicle), Manning Marable’s acclaimed biograp- Author: Marable, Manning
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: December 28 2011
- ISBN10: 0143120328
- Language: English
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Extraordinary, Ordinary People: A Memoir of Family
$19.00 Read moreThis is the story of Condoleezza Rice that has never been told, not that of an ultra-accomplished world leader, but of a little girl–and a young woman–trying to find her place in a sometimes hostile
- Author: Rice, Condoleezza
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 11 2011
- ISBN10: 0307888479
- Language: English
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No Name in the Street
$16.00 Read moreFrom one of the most important American writers of the twentieth century–an extraordinary history of the turbulent sixties and early seventies that powerfully speaks to contemporary conversations aro… [more below]
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Baldwin, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: January 09 2007
- ISBN10: 0307275922
- Language: English
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Lay Bare the Heart: An Autobiography of the Civil Rights Movement
$19.95 Add to cartTexas native James Farmer is one of the “Big Four” of the turbulent 1960s civil rights movement, along with Martin Luther King Jr., Roy Wilkins, and Whitney Young. Farmer might be called the forgotten
- Author: Farmer, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 370
- Publish Date: June 01, 1998
- ISBN10: 0875651887
- Language: English
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No Disrespect
$16.95 Add to cartFrom the #1 New York Times bestselling author, rapper, and activist–Sister Souljah uses her passionate voice to deliver what is at once a fiercely candid autobiography and a survival manual for any B… [more below]
- Author: Souljah, Sister
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 30 1996
- ISBN10: 0679767088
- Language: English
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Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement
$22.00 Add to cartThe award-winning national bestseller, Walking with the Wind, is one of our most important records of the American civil rights movement. Told by John Lewis, who Cornel West calls a “national treasure… [more below]
- Author: Lewis, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: February 10 2015
- ISBN10: 1476797714
- Language: English
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Black Pain: It Just Looks Like We’re Not Hurting
$18.99 Add to cartBlack people are dying everywhere we turn, in the faces we see and the headlines we read, and we feel emotional pain, but we don’t know how to tackle it–it’s time to recognize it and work through ou
- Author: Williams, Terrie M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: January 06, 2009
- ISBN10: 0743298837
- Language: English
