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Finding Myself Lost in Louisiana
$41.67 Read moreIn Finding Myself Lost in Louisiana, author Keagan LeJeune brilliantly weaves the unusual folklore, landscape, and history of Louisiana along with his own family lineage that begins in 1760 to trace t… [more below]
- Author: LeJeune, Keagan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 278
- Publish Date: October 02 2023
- ISBN10: 1496850335
- Language: English
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Negroland: A Memoir
$19.00 Read moreNATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE WINNER – NATIONAL BESTSELLER – An extraordinary look at privilege, discrimination, and the fallacy of post-racial America by the renowned Pulitzer Prize-winning cultural c… [more below]
- Author: Jefferson, Margo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 23 2016
- ISBN10: 0307473430
- Language: English
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The New Yorkers: 31 Remarkable People, 400 Years, and the Untold Biography of the World’s Greatest City
$30.00 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: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 25 2022
- ISBN10: 162040978X
- Language: English
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave Written by Himself
$14.95 Add to cartA new edition of the African American masterpiece featuring critical essays by Angela Y. Davis.
A masterpiece of African American literature, Frederick Douglass’s Narrative is the powerful story of an
- Series: City Lights Open Media
- Author: Davis, Angela Y.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 220
- Publish Date: December 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0872865274
- Language: English
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Legacy Lost: Passing Across the Color Line
$20.95 Add to cartGrowing up white in Washington state, Barbara’s dad never told her anything about his family-except that his mother was “crazy.” Ten years after his death, she learned his sister was living in Hawai’i
- Author: Hilyer, S. Barbara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 278
- Publish Date: February 20 2024
- ISBN10: 9798218319434
- 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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Days Gone By: Aiken, Texas and the Outskirts
$35.95 Add to cartTake a step back in time to a small community in Texas called Aiken. Learn about her citizens through the eyes of their neighbors and families. As the narratives come together and expand, nearby commu… [more below]
- Author: Adkison, Pamila Hooper
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: January 26 2024
- ISBN10: 0578276585
- Language: English
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Gathering Blossoms Under Fire: The Journals of Alice Walker, 1965-2000
$21.99 Add to cartFrom National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize–winning author Alice Walker and edited by critic and writer Valerie Boyd, comes an unprecedented compilation of Walker’s fifty years of journals drawing an… [more below]
- Author: Walker, Alice
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: May 07 2024
- ISBN10: 1476773165
- Language: English
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A Lie Will Suffice: A DiGiovanni Family History
$23.95 Add to cartIn 1893 Western Sicily, Gaetano DiGiovanni, twenty-five years old, foresees a day when he abandons his turbulent, hard-scrabble life in the Palermo Province hinterlands for the promise of America. His
- Author: Wilkinson, Jay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 06 2022
- ISBN10: 1639856625
- Language: English
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Jackie Robinson and the Integration of Baseball
$12.95 Add to cart“An extraordinary book . . . invitingly written and brisk.” -Chicago Tribune
“Perhaps no one has ever told the tale [of Robinson’s arrival in the major leagues] so well as [Simon] does in this extende- Series: Turning Points in History #16
- Author: Simon, Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 180
- Publish Date: March 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0470170417
- Language: English
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Voice in the Night: The True Story of a Man and the Miracles That Are Changing Africa
$17.99 Add to cartAstonishing True Story of the Miracles That Are Changing Africa
Born into a long line of witch doctors, Surprise (“Surpresa”) Sithole was destined for a life of fear, oppression, and poverty in the jun… [more below]
- Author: Pastor Surprise
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: February 01 2012
- ISBN10: 0800795237
- Language: English
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Mirror to America: The Autobiography of John Hope Franklin
$29.00 Add to cartJohn Hope Franklin lived through America’s most defining twentieth-century transformation, the dismantling of legally protected racial segregation. A renowned scholar, he has explored that transformat
- Author: Franklin, John Hope
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: October 31 2006
- ISBN10: 0374530475
- Language: English
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The Book Collectors: A Band of Syrian Rebels and the Stories That Carried Them Through a War
$17.00 Add to cartA BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: NPR
An urgent and compelling account of great bravery and passion. –Susan Orlean Award-winning journalist Delphine Minoui recounts the true story of a band of young rebels, a- Author: Minoui, Delphine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 19 2021
- ISBN10: 125080017X
- Language: English
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A Boy, an Orphanage, a Cuban Refugee
$18.95 Add to cartI became a man when I was nine. My other option was death.
I just didn’t know it then, but the truth is that I . . . we . . . had to leave.
Why would parents send their children, alone, to a foreign cou
- Author: Dora, Tony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 246
- Publish Date: March 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1646638794
- Language: English
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Searching for Zion
$18.00 Add to cart“A brilliant illustration of the ways in which race is an artificial construct that, like beauty, is often a matter of perspective.”–The Wall Street Journal
“Frank and expansive . . . Each impression- Author: Raboteau, Emily
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 11 2014
- ISBN10: 0802122272
- Language: English
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American Slaves Tell Their Stories: Six Interviews
$8.95 Add to cartVivid narratives recall life during and just after the Civil War, not only describing cruel punishments, divided families, and debilitating labor, but also providing information about religious belief… [more below]
- Series: Dover Books on Americana
- Author: Albert, Octavia V. Rogers
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 87
- Publish Date: April 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0486441903
- Language: English
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A Creek Runs Through This Driftless Land: A Farm Family’s Journey Toward a Land Ethic
$36.00 Add to cartRichard (Dick) and his wife Kim co-own the Cates Family Farm LLC in Wyoming Township Iowa County with their son Eric and his wife Kiley and their daughter Shannon and her husband Dan. Dick is a life-l
- Author: Cates, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 243
- Publish Date: September 06 2024
- ISBN10: 1955656770
- Language: English
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Frederick Douglass: Autobiographies (Loa #68): Narrative of the Life / My Bondage and My Freedom / Life and Times
$42.50 Read moreHenry Louis Gates, Jr. presents the only authoritative edition of all three autobiographies by the escaped slave who became a great American leader.
Here in this Library of America volume are collecte- Series: Library of America #68
- Author: Douglass, Frederick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 1126
- Publish Date: February 01 1994
- ISBN10: 0940450798
- Language: English
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Hurricane: The Miraculous Journey of Rubin Carter
$16.95 Add to cartIn 1967, the black boxer Rubin “Hurricane” Carter and a young acquaintance, John Artis, were wrongly convicted of triple murder by an all-white jury in Paterson, New Jersey. Over the next decade, Cart… [more below]
- Author: Hirsch, James S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 20 2000
- ISBN10: 0618087281
- Language: English
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The Church of Cheese: Gypsy Ritual in the American Heyday
$15.95 Add to cartA disapora spread over five continents, Gypsies have yet to enter the American public consciousness, yet they have been arriving since the late sixteenth century. Columbus brought several, forcibly tr… [more below]
- Author: Miller, Carol
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: January 01 2010
- ISBN10: 1934848611
- Language: English
