Cultural, Ethnic & Regional - General
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Behind the Scenes: Myth, Magic, and Makeup
$21.95 Add to cartIn Behind the Scenes: Myth, Magic, and Makeup, Victor Callegari, long-time head makeup artist for the Metropolitan Opera (1975-2010), shares his love for the company, backstage insights, and personal
- Author: Callegari, Victor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 166
- Publish Date: December 13 2024
- ISBN10: 9798893152357
- Language: English
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The Stowaway in First Class: A True Story of an Unforgettable Quest to Come to America
$26.95 Add to cartA 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 life: a stable construction job
- Author: DeSantis, Anthony
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: March 12 2025
- ISBN10: 9.79899E+12
- Language: English
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Children of the Twelve Tribes
$21.10 Add to cartWe are all connected
Children of the 12 Tribes is a collection of artwork, stories, poems, letters, language lessons and Articles from the UN Declaration Of The Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP),
- Author: Goulding, Bernie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 30 2020
- ISBN10: 1922372420
- Language: English
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Living High: An Unconventional Biography
$30.99 Add to cartLiving High is the compelling story of June and Farrar Burn and their unconventional lifestyle, philosophy, and experiences-homesteading a small island in the Salish Sea, living north of the Arctic Ci
- Author: Burn, June
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 276
- Publish Date: March 28 2023
- ISBN10: 9798218069315
- Language: English
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The New Yorkers: 31 Remarkable People, 400 Years, and the Untold Biography of the World’s Greatest City
$18.99 Read moreLonglisted for the Brooklyn Public Library Book Prize in Nonfiction
From award-winning New York Times reporter Sam Roberts, the story of the world’s most exceptional city, told through 31 little-known- Author: Roberts, Sam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: November 19 2024
- ISBN10: 163973371X
- Language: English
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I Want to Go Home
$13.95 Add to cartTwo of society’s biggest problems is illegal drug addiction and unconventional housing. Through my experience, I have solutions for both of these problems.
Spiritualism is talked about, which is an ass
- Author: Gipson, Ayres
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 66
- Publish Date: October 31 2024
- ISBN10: 9798891576438
- Language: English
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Orphan Bachelors: A Memoir
$17.00 Add to cartCALIFORNIA BOOK AWARDS GOLD MEDAL WINNER FOR NONFICTION
From the bestselling and award-winning author of novels Bone and Steer Toward Rock, Fae Myenne Ng’s Orphan Bachelors is an extraordinary memoir o
- Author: Ng, Fae Myenne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 21 2024
- ISBN10: 0802163351
- Language: English
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Mao’s Hijacked Generation
$24.95 Add to cartMao’s Hijacked Generation. Sarasota, FL: New Knowledge Press, 2024
According to Ai Weiwei, the renowned Chinese artist and human rights activist, “[t]his rare book is a true record of the dark history.
- Author: Wang, Youfen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: June 01 2024
- ISBN10: 9798990507302
- Language: English
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Crapalachia: A Biography of a Place
$17.95 Read moreCrapalachia is a portrait of Scott McClanahan’s formative years, coming of age in rural West Virginia, during a stretch of time where he was deeply influenced by his Grandma Ruby and Uncle Nathan, who… [more below]
- Series: Two Dollar Radio New Classics
- Author: McClanahan, Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 182
- Publish Date: October 15 2024
- ISBN10: 1953387470
- Language: English
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All God’s Dangers: The Life of Nate Shaw
$17.00 Add to cartNate Shaw’s father was born under slavery. Nate Shaw was born into a bondage that was only a little gentler. At the age of nine, he was picking cotton for thirty-five cents an hour. At the age of fort… [more below]
- Author: Rosengarten, Theodore
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: July 31 2018
- ISBN10: 0525562850
- Language: English
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While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age During the Civil Rights Movement
$17.99 Add to cartOn September 15, 1963, a Klan-planted bomb went off in the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama. Fourteen-year-old Carolyn Maull was just a few feet away when the bomb exploded, killing f… [more below]
- Author: McKinstry, Carolyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 01 2013
- ISBN10: 1414336373
- Language: English
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The Ditchdigger’s Daughters: A Black Family’s Astonishing Success Story
$16.95 Read moreAs resonant now as it ever was, this inspiring portrait by a loving daughter of a father whose pervasive common sense, folk wisdom, and untutored but right-on insights gave his children their road map… [more below]
- Author: Thornton, Yvonne S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 25 2023
- ISBN10: 1496739191
- Language: English
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February 1965: The Final Speeches
$17.00 Read moreGathers speeches Malcolm X made during the last three weeks of his life.
- Series: Studies. Southwest Asia Series; 89
- Author: Malcolm X.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 331
- Publish Date: January 01 1992
- ISBN10: 0873487494
- Language: English
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Strength in What Remains
$18.00 Read moreNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY:
In Strength in What Remains, Tracy Kidder
Los Angeles Times – San Francisco Chronicle –Chicago Tribune – The Christian Science Monitor – Publishers Weekly- Series: Random House Reader’s Circle
- Author: Kidder, Tracy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 04 2010
- ISBN10: 0812977610
- Language: English
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave: Written by Himself
$7.95 Read moreThe powerful story of slavery that has become a classic of American autobiography, in an authoritative edition
“This edition is the most valuable teaching tool on slavery and abolition available today- Series: Yale Nota Bene
- Author: Douglass, Frederick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: February 08 2001
- ISBN10: 0300087012
- Language: English
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How It Feels to Be Colored Me
$9.95 Add to cart“How It Feels To Be Colored Me” by Florida native Zora Neale Hurston was originally published in The World Tomorrow in May 1928. In this autobiographical piece about her own color, Hurston reflects on… [more below]
- Series: American Roots
- Author: Hurston, Zora
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: June 30 2015
- ISBN10: 1429096179
- Language: English
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Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands
$17.00 Add to cartWritten in 1857, Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands is the autobiography of a Jamaican woman whose fame rivaled Florence Nightingale’s during the Crimean War. Seacole traveled widely be… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Seacole, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 29 2005
- ISBN10: 0140439021
- Language: English
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Medgar Evers: Mississippi Martyr
$26.95 Add to cart- Author: Williams, Michael Vinson
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 446
- Publish Date: August 01 2013
- ISBN10: 1557286469
- Language: English
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Malcolm X: The Last Speeches
$12.00 Add to cart“Any kind of movement for freedom of Black people based solely within the confines of America is absolutely doomed to fail. “Speeches and interviews from the last two years of his life.
- Series: Malcolm X Speeches & Writings
- Author: Malcolm X
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 190
- Publish Date: January 01 1989
- ISBN10: 0873485432
- Language: English
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Every Farm Tells a Story: A Tale of Family Values
$15.95 Add to cartJerry Apps details the virtues and hardships of rural living.
“Do your chores without complaining. Show up on time. Do every job well. Always try to do better. Never stop learning. Next year will be- Author: Apps, Jerry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: February 06 2018
- ISBN10: 0870208632
- Language: English
