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The Life and Adventures of Nat Love
$14.95 Add to cartThousands of black cowpunchers drove cattle up the Chisholm Trail after the Civil War, but only Nat Love wrote about his experiences. Born to slaves in Davidson County, Tennessee, the newly freed Love… [more below]
- Series: Blacks in the American West
- Author: Love, Nat
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 162
- Publish Date: September 01 1995
- ISBN10: 0803279558
- Language: English
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Coltrane: The Story of a Sound
$23.00 Add to cartJohn Coltrane left an indelible mark on the world, but what was the essence of his achievement that makes him so prized forty years after his death? What were the factors that helped Coltrane become w
- Author: Ratliff, Ben
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 28 2008
- ISBN10: 0312427786
- Language: English
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Jackie Robinson and the Integration of Baseball
$23.99 Add to cart“No athlete performed at a higher level through greater stress than Jackie Robinson.” -Scott Simon
The integration of baseball in 1947 had undeniable significance for the civil rights movement and Ame- Series: Turning Points in History #16
- Author: Simon, Scott
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: September 01 2002
- ISBN10: 047126153X
- Language: English
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Shelf Life: Chronicles of a Cairo Bookseller
$18.00 Add to cart“As a bookseller, I loved Shelf Life for the chance to peer behind the curtain of Diwan, Nadia Wassef ‘s bookstore–the way that the personal is inextricable from the professional, the way that failur
- Author: Wassef, Nadia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 1250858860
- Language: English
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My Two Italies: A Personal and Cultural History
$18.00 Add to cartA charming, informative personal history that blends the anecdotal, historical, and downright unusual
The child of Italian immigrants and an award-winning scholar of Italian literature, Joseph Luzzi s- Author: Luzzi, Joseph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: July 14 2015
- ISBN10: 0374535396
- Language: English
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The Interesting Narrative and Other Writings
$15.00 Add to cartCompletely revised and edited with an introduction and notes by Vincent Carretta
An exciting and often terrifying adventure story, as well as an important precursor to such famous nineteenth-century s- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Equiano, Olaudah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: May 27 2003
- ISBN10: 0142437166
- Language: English
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John Brown
$24.99 Add to cartThree years and 29 days prior to Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation, a man branded “zealot”, “fanatic” and “traitor” was hanged. John Brown and his band of 21 followers
seized the armory at Harper’s F
- Series: New World Paperbacks #25
- Author: DuBois, W. E. B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 314
- Publish Date: August 14 2021
- ISBN10: 0717803759
- Language: English
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The Autobiography of LeRoi Jones
$24.95 Add to cartPoet, dramatist, novelist, critic, teacher, and political activist Amiri Baraka, born LeRoi Jones, vividly recounts his crusading role in African American literature. A driving force behind the Black … [more below]
- Series: Library of Black America
- Author: Baraka, Amiri
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: March 01 1997
- ISBN10: 1556522312
- Language: English
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Never Marry A Greek: Kansas Baptist Marries New England Greek
$16.95 Add to cartIt’s “My Big Fat Greek Wedding” all over again, only this time from the non-Greek view point. When the Baptist girl from Kansas marries a New England Greek boy, she realizes she is NOT in Kansas anymo… [more below]
- Author: Markos, Ruth Sloat
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 140
- Publish Date: August 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1977258352
- Language: English
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Negro with a Hat: The Rise and Fall of Marcus Garvey
$22.99 Add to cartNew in paperback, this groundbreaking biography captures the full sweep and epic dimensions of Marcus Garvey’s life, the dazzling triumphs and the dreary exile. As Grant shows, Garvey was a man of con… [more below]
- Author: Grant, Colin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: March 02 2010
- ISBN10: 0195393090
- Language: English
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Born in Cambridge: 400 Years of Ideas and Innovators
$39.95 Read moreAnne Bradstreet, W.E.B. Du Bois, gene editing, and Junior Mints: cultural icons, influential ideas, and world-changing innovations from Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Cambridge, Massachusetts is a city of- Author: Weintraub, Karen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 424
- Publish Date: May 03, 2022
- ISBN10: 0262046806
- Language: English
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The Butler: A Witness to History
$18.99 Add to cartThis mesmerizing companion book to the award-winning film, The Butler traces the Civil Rights Movement and explores crucial moments of twentieth century American history through the eyes of Eugene All… [more below]
- Author: Haygood, Wil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: January 30 2018
- ISBN10: 1501195603
- Language: English
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My Ireland
$23.95 Add to cartMy Ireland presents a factual and descriptive account of Ireland in the 1950s from the perspective of the author looking back on her early life in the country of her birth. Margaret’s captivating and
- Author: Connor, Margaret
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: November 02 2022
- ISBN10: 1739872533
- Language: English
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Grown-Up Child: A Memoir
$14.95 Add to cartCHIUFANG HWANG came to the United States from Taiwan when she was a toddler so her father could pursue a PhD. But his academic American dream stalled, forcing the family into a transient lifestyle as
- Author: Hwang, Chiufang
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: May 15 2017
- ISBN10: 0998673013
- Language: English
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A More Noble Cause: A. P. Tureaud and the Struggle for Civil Rights in Louisiana: A Personal Biography
$44.95 Add to cartThroughout the decades-long legal battle to end segregation, discrimination, and disfranchisement, attorney Alexander Pierre Tureaud was one of the most influential figures in Louisiana’s courts. A Mo
- Author: Emanuel, Rachel L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: April 25 2011
- ISBN10: 0807137936
- Language: English
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Burn Hill: Growing Up Dirt Poor and Hilariously Rich
$21.99 Add to cartBurn Hill” by Andrew Louis Hale
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Hardback: Case Laminate
Prepare to embark on a remarkable journey through time as you delve into the captivating pages of “Burn Hill” by Andrew Louis Hale. This he
- Author: Hale, Andrew L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 204
- Publish Date: January 08 2024
- ISBN10: 1957506660
- Language: English
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Narrative of Sojourner Truth: A Bondswoman of Olden Time, with a History of Her Labors and Correspondence Drawn from Her “Book of Life”; Also, a Mem
$12.00 Add to cartTruth’s landmark slave narrative chronicles her experiences as a slave in upstate New York and her transformation into an extraordinary abolitionist, feminist, orator, and preacher. Based on the compl… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Truth, Sojourner
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 01 1998
- ISBN10: 0140436782
- Language: English
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The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace: A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League
$17.99 Add to cart*Now a major motion picture–Rob Peace–starring Jay Will, Mary J. Blige, and Chiwetel Ejiofor*
*Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times Book Review, Entertainment Weekly, and more* The- Author: Hobbs, Jeff
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: July 28 2015
- ISBN10: 1476731918
- Language: English
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Guest of Honor: Booker T. Washington, Theodore Roosevelt, and the White House Dinner That Shocked a Nation
$19.99 Add to cartIn this revealing social history, one remarkable White House dinner shines a powerful light on race, politics, and the lives and legacies of Theodore Roosevelt and Booker T. Washington.
In this reveal- Author: Davis, Deborah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 05 2013
- ISBN10: 1439169829
- Language: English
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Life of Miracles Along the Yangtze and Mississippi
$28.95 Add to cartThere are only two ways to live our life, according to Albert Einstein: one is as if nothing is a miracle; the other, as if everything is a miracle.
Life of Miracles along the Yangtze and Mississippi- Series: Association of Writers and Writing Programs Award for Creati
- Author: Ping, Wang
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 15 2018
- ISBN10: 0820353922
- Language: English
