Cultural, Ethnic & Regional - General
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I Lived to Tell the World: Stories from Survivors of Holocaust, Genocide, and the Atrocities of War
$29.95 Read moreAs Americans increasingly question how each of us fits into our nation’s cultural tapestry, I Lived to Tell the World presents thirteen inspiring profiles of refugees who have settled in Oregon. They
- Author: Mehren, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 26 2024
- ISBN10: 196264507X
- Language: English
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Malcolm X Speaks: Selected Speeches and Statements
$18.00 Add to cart“Policies change, and programs change, according to time. But objective never changes. You might change your method of achieving the objective, but the objective never changes. Our objective is comple
- Author: X, Malcolm
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 20 2024
- ISBN10: 0802160700
- Language: English
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Bones Worth Breaking: A Memoir
$18.00 Read moreBones Worth Breaking is a portrait of the unbreakable bond between brothers and a reckoning with the global forces that shaped them.
Nobody around David Martinez saw how quickly he was breaking apart e- Author: Martinez, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: April 09 2024
- ISBN10: 0374610959
- Language: English
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This Magnetic North: Candid Conversations on a Changing Northern Michigan
$34.95 Add to cartWhat happens when a place is so beautiful that everyone wants to go there–and then they stay?
This book explores a phenomenon occurring around Michigan’s Great Lakes and other high-demand scenic loc… [more below]- Author: Mulherin, Tim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 260
- Publish Date: June 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1611865360
- Language: English
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The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks (10th Anniversary Edition)
$22.00 Add to cart2014 NAACP Image Award Winner: Outstanding Literary Work – Biography / Auto Biography
2013 Letitia Woods Brown Award from the Association of Black Women Historians Choice Top 25 Academic Titles for 20- Author: Theoharis, Jeanne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 07 2025
- ISBN10: 0807020613
- Language: English
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Baltic Souls: Remarkable Life Stories from Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania
$22.00 Add to cartA monumental journey through Baltic history and culture, in which we encounter well-known personalities and forgotten ones, and a disconcerting picture of Europe in the twentieth century.
From 1999 to
- Author: Brokken, Jan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: January 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1957363940
- Language: English
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The Color of Family: History, Race, and the Politics of Ancestry
$30.00 Read moreA uniquely blended personal family history and history of the changing definitions of race in America.
A zealous eugenicist ran Virginia’s Bureau of Vital Statistics in the first half of the twentiet- Author: O’Malley, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 22 2024
- ISBN10: 0226835901
- Language: English
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Magic in the Mess
$17.99 Add to cartFrom an early age, Molly Booker was taught to follow rules, please others, and meet high standards. This drive for perfection became her most significant asset and heaviest burden, manifesting as acad
- Author: Booker, Molly
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 278
- Publish Date: January 14 2025
- ISBN10: 9.79899E+12
- Language: English
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Magic in the Mess
$24.99 Add to cartFrom an early age, Molly Booker was taught to follow rules, please others, and meet high standards. This drive for perfection became her most significant asset and heaviest burden, manifesting as acad
- Author: Booker, Molly
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 278
- Publish Date: January 14 2025
- ISBN10: 9.79899E+12
- Language: English
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Teaching in the Dark: A Memoir
$19.95 Add to cartA young teacher buys a one-way ticket to Shishmaref, Alaska. Within minutes of landing, she finds herself dealing with unexpected, rustic accommodations, and the culture shock of living in a remote I?… [more below]
- Author: Genét Simone
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 530
- Publish Date: October 12 2023
- ISBN10: 9.79877E+12
- Language: English
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Finest Kind: Tales of a Brant Rock Lobsterman
$25.99 Add to cartDonal Staples joins the Navy at seventeen and soon finds himself in the Battle of Okinawa, one of the defining conflicts of World War II. Returning home a confident young man, he makes up for lost tim… [more below]
- Author: Staples-Bortner, Sandra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 306
- Publish Date: February 10 2025
- ISBN10: 1038317908
- Language: English
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The Dressmaker of Khair Khana
$18.99 Add to cart“A courageous Afghan woman and her sisters success as unlikely entrepreneurs in this inspiring true story.” — O, The Oprah Magazine
The New York Times bestseller, written by a former reporter for ABC
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Lemmon, Gayle Tzemach
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 17 2024
- ISBN10: 0061732478
- Language: English
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The Rock from Which You Were Hewn: The Lives and Legacy of Holy Irish Men and Women
$18.95 Read moreThis book presents brief, inspiring biographies of over 40 Irish men and women whose causes for canonization are in progress, along with others who enjoy a strong reputation for sanctity. Written in
- Author: Kenny, Patrick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 274
- Publish Date: November 11 2024
- ISBN10: 1621647498
- Language: English
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Dear Senator: A Memoir by the Daughter of Strom Thurmond
$18.99 Add to cartBreaking nearly eight decades of silence, Essie Mae Washington-Williams comes forward with a story of unique historical magnitude and incredible human drama. Her father, the late Strom Thurmond, was o
- Author: Washington-Williams, Essie Mae
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: January 24 2006
- ISBN10: 0060761423
- Language: English
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Down on the Farm, Way Back When
$23.99 Add to cartDad would warn me to stay back from the barn door when he let the cows out for the first time at the end of a long winter. After taking a few steps outside, you might see a mature cow do something you… [more below]
- Author: Nelson, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 306
- Publish Date: January 08 2025
- ISBN10: 1038317932
- Language: English
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Black History for Beginners
$15.95 Read moreWhat is Black History? Did you know what blacks were in Cortez’s crew in Mexico, with Pizarro in Peru and Alvarado in Quito…that when Balboa discovered the Pacific Ocean, 30 black people were with h… [more below]
- Series: For Beginners (For Beginners)
- Author: Dennis, Denise
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: August 21 2007
- ISBN10: 1934389196
- Language: English
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Lori’s Lies and Family Ties
$15.99 Add to cart“I don’t have to eat ever again,” she said, her gaze locked on mine. “And if you shoot me, the bullet won’t hurt me, Adam. My body has almost completed the process of becoming immortal.”
So begins the
- Author: Conner, Rex
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 182
- Publish Date: November 01 2023
- ISBN10: 9798891845022
- Language: English
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What They Never Told Us: True Stories of Family Secrets and Hidden Identities Revealed
$32.99 Read moreFrom acclaimed bestselling author of White Like Her: My Family’s Story of Race and Racial Passing, comes a brand new collection of stories of people uncovering their past.
“A riveting page turner . .- Author: Lukasik, Gail
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 26 2024
- ISBN10: 1510780181
- Language: English
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Eminent Jews: Bernstein, Brooks, Friedan, Mailer
$32.00 Add to cartLeonard Bernstein, Mel Brooks, Betty Friedan, and Norman Mailer. Brilliant, brash, yet soulful, they were 100 percent Jewish and 100 percent American. They upended the restrained culture of their fore
- Author: Denby, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: April 08 2025
- ISBN10: 1250193400
- Language: English
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Lady Sings the Blues: The 50th-Anniversay Edition with a Revised Discography
$18.00 Add to cartPerfect for fans of The United States vs. Billie Holiday, this is the fiercely honest, no-holds-barred memoir of the legendary jazz, swing, and standards singing sensation–a fiftieth-anniversary edi… [more below]
- Series: Harlem Moon Classics
- Author: Holiday, Billie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: July 25 2006
- ISBN10: 0767923863
- Language: English
