Cultural, Ethnic & Regional - General
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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
$27.00 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
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Positively Uncivilized
$20.99 Add to cartInaugural winner of Raven Chronicles Press’s Keepers of the Fire Prize for Nonfiction in 2025, Positively Uncivilized examines, from an Indigenous perspective, the impact of human inhabitants on the p
- Author: Priest, Rena
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: September 05 2025
- ISBN10: 9798991403238
- Language: English
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Makes Me Wanna Holler: A Young Black Man in America
$18.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – One of our most visceral and important memoirs on race in America, this is the story of Nathan McCall, who began life as a smart kid in a close, protective family in a black work… [more below]
- Author: McCall, Nathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: January 31 1995
- ISBN10: 0679740708
- Language: English
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Cipher: Decoding My Ancestor’s Scandalous Secret Diaries
$28.95 Add to cartIn the 1800s, Appalachian farmer and rogue William Prestwood kept salacious coded diaries, leaving his descendent, Jeremy Jones, to reflect on his complicated legacy.
In 1975, a man stumbled upon a box
- Author: Jones, Jeremy B.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: September 16 2025
- ISBN10: 1958888532
- Language: English
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A Hope More Powerful Than the Sea: One Refugee’s Incredible Story of Love, Loss, and Survival
$21.99 Add to cart“Urgently required reading.” —People
“Deeply affecting… Fleming brings a moral urgency to the narrative.” —The New Yorker
“Fleming deftly illustrates the pain of those who choose to leave Syria…a- Author: Fleming, Melissa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 23 2018
- ISBN10: 1250106001
- Language: English
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Running Around Town: An Ann Arbor Memoir
$18.00 Add to cartThis collection of essays shares the observations of an energetic boy living in an anything-but-simple time: the mercurial decades of the 1960s and 1970s in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Running Around Town bri
- Author: Postema, Stephen K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 220
- Publish Date: July 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1956697489
- Language: English
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Prince Among Slaves (Anniversary)
$21.99 Add to cartIn this remarkable work, Terry Alford tells the story of Abd al Rahman Ibrahima, a Muslim slave who, in 1807, was recognized by an Irish ship’s surgeon as the son of an African king who had saved his … [more below]
- Author: Alford, Terry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 19 2007
- ISBN10: 019532045X
- Language: English
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Home in Exile: Where She Uncovered the Freedom to Write Her Own Story
$19.99 Add to cartWhen Home Becomes Hostile, Where Do You Belong?
Author Liz Matney weaves a courageous and poetic memoir of faith, identity, and resilience across generations. Born in the US but shaped by her family’s
- Author: Matney, Liz
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 158
- Publish Date: June 30 2025
- ISBN10: 1964251745
- Language: English
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The Vacation: A Teenage Migrant Farmworker’s Experience Picking Cherries in Michigan
$24.95 Add to cartThe Vacation: A Teenage Migrant Farmworker’s Experience Picking Cherries in Michigan is a coming-of-age story that intertwines the bonds of family and friends, emphasizes the importance of heritage, c
- Author: Fuentes, Robert Carlos
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 278
- Publish Date: June 12 2025
- ISBN10: 9798998502903
- Language: English
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Where the Valley Widens
$23.99 Add to cartIn Where the Valley Widens, Lindsey Williams explores classroom life and the daunting realities that both students and teachers face in our schools. Young and idealistic, Mrs. Williams begins her jour
- Author: Williams, Lindsey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: July 22 2025
- ISBN10: 9798991456388
- Language: English
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Escaping Castro – The Refugee Edit: The Biography of Mary and Eduardo
$12.99 Add to cartFrom Communism to Freedom: A Granddaughter’s Journey into Her Grandparents’ Heroic Cuban Escape
Every culinary expedition has a beginning, and in this compelling biography, Amber Garcia-Rameau’s journe
- Author: Garcia-Rameau, Amber
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 78
- Publish Date: June 03 2025
- ISBN10: 9798822979291
- Language: English
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Simplified Choices: A Family Memoir of Latvia, World War II and Identity
$14.99 Add to cart“Spigulis-DeSnyder is a meticulous and scrupulous writer who looks carefully at each turn in the lives of her native Latvian family members and how they impact her own life”
Baron Wormser, author of S
- Author: Spigulis-Desnyder, Anita
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 294
- Publish Date: November 08 2024
- ISBN10: 9798330501755
- Language: English
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They Still Call Me Doctor: My Life with Multiple Sclerosis… A Physician’s Journey with MS
$15.95 Add to cartDr. Bachow spent her childhood in the inner city, growing up in the Brooklyn projects. Blessed with the necessary academic skills and personality, she fought her way out of her humble beginnings to ac
- Author: Bachow M. D., Barbara Henick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 124
- Publish Date: May 22 2024
- ISBN10: 9798889823957
- Language: English
