Cultural, Ethnic & Regional - General
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Sting-Ray Afternoons: A Memoir
$19.99 Add to cartThis is a story of the 1970s. Of a road trip in a wood-paneled station wagon, with the kids in the way-back, singing along to the Steve Miller Band. Of brothers waking up early on Saturday mornings fo… [more below]
- Author: Rushin, Steve
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 17 2018
- ISBN10: 0316392251
- Language: English
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The Newcomers: Finding Refuge, Friendship, and Hope in America
$19.99 Add to cartFrom the award-winning author of Soldier Girls and Just Like Us, an “extraordinary” (The Denver Post) account of refugee teenagers at a Denver public high school and their compassionate teacher and “a… [more below]
- Author: Thorpe, Helen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: September 18 2018
- ISBN10: 1501159100
- Language: English
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American Sweetheart: Still Not Making the Team
$14.95 Add to cartIn 1999, Chiufang Hwang tried out for the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders on a whim, and the experience was an epiphany. “That day in Texas Stadium, I finally understood what I had missed out on in high s
- Author: Hwang, Chiufang
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 146
- Publish Date: November 11 2016
- ISBN10: 0997722452
- Language: English
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Opening Day: The Story of Jackie Robinson’s First Season
$20.99 Add to cartThis bestselling account of the most important season in baseball history, 1947, tells the dramatic story of how Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier and changed baseball forever.April 15, 1947, ma… [more below]
- Author: Eig, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0743294610
- Language: English
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The Revolt of the Cockroach People
$16.95 Add to cartThe further adventures of “Dr. Gonzo” as he defends the “cucarachas”– the Chicanos of East Los Angeles.
One of The Atlantic‘s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years Before his mysterious disappe- Author: Acosta, Oscar Zeta
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 262
- Publish Date: August 28 1989
- ISBN10: 0679722122
- Language: English
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The Autobiography of Medgar Evers: A Hero’s Life and Legacy Revealed Through His Writings, Letters, and Speeches
$21.99 Add to cartOn the evening of June 12, 1963 — the day President John F. Kennedy gave his most impassioned speech about the need for interracial tolerance “Medgar Evers, the NAACP’s first field secretary in Missi… [more below]
- Author: Evers-Williams, Myrlie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: August 29 2006
- ISBN10: 0465021786
- Language: English
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Trauterose: Growing Up in Postwar Munich
$17.99 Add to cartTrauterose: Growing Up in Postwar Munich is the compelling first-person account of Elisabeth Haggblade, who was orphaned at birth at the height of World War II and spent the first eleven years of her
- Author: Haggblade, Elisabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 228
- Publish Date: September 02 2023
- ISBN10: 1957917342
- Language: English
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Promise – A Story of Race, Culture and Black Potential
$16.99 Add to cartSpanning the time from emancipation of slaves to present day, Promise explores issues of race in America and how we arrived at this moment in our racial quandary.
Told through the author’s eyes, it f
- Author: Tinsley, Ron
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 300
- Publish Date: November 13 2023
- ISBN10: 9798218959005
- Language: English
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Children of the State: Stories of Survival and Hope in the Juvenile Justice System
$19.99 Add to cartFrom the bestselling and critically acclaimed author of The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace comes “an eye-opening, fully humanizing, deeply affecting look at the often-misunderstood juvenile jus… [more below]
- Author: Hobbs, Jeff
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 02 2024
- ISBN10: 1982116374
- Language: English
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Until the Last Pickle: A memoir in 18 recipes
$29.00 Add to cartBorn to a Jewish mother and Ukrainian father during the final years of the Soviet Union, Yuliya Patsay grew up believing bread lines were a fun way to spend an afternoon, drafts caused pneumonia, and
- Author: Patsay, Yuliya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: January 14 2024
- ISBN10: 1956989285
- Language: English
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Wrapped in Rainbows: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston
$22.00 Add to cartFrom critically acclaimed journalist Valerie Boyd comes an eloquent profile of one of the most intriguing cultural figures of the twentieth century–Zora Neale Hurston.
A woman of enormous talent and- Series: Lisa Drew Books (Paperback)
- Author: Boyd, Valerie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 527
- Publish Date: February 03 2004
- ISBN10: 0743253299
- Language: English
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Life of Black Hawk, or Ma-Ka-Tai-Me-She-Kia-Kiak
$14.00 Read moreA rediscovered, defiant work of Native American literature, presented here on the 175th anniversary of its first publication
Upon its publication in 1833, this unflinching narrative by the vanquished- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Black Hawk
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: May 01, 2008
- ISBN10: 0143105396
- Language: English
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Montana Eccentrics: A Collection of Extraordinary Montanans, Past & Present
$19.95 Add to cartThe unusual lives of 41 unique Montanans are profiled in Montana Eccentrics: A Collection of Extraordinary Montanans, Past & Present. The characters range from the world famous to the almost unknown,
- Author: D’Ambrosio, Brian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1606391380
- Language: English
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Truman of St. Helens: The Man and His Mountain
$14.95 Add to cartAt 8:32am, Sunday, May 18, 1980, Mount St. Helens erupted in Washington State with the explosive force of more than 20 million tons of TNT. It remains the most deadly and economically destructive volc… [more below]
- Author: Rosen, Shirley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: August 21 2015
- ISBN10: 0914019724
- Language: English
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Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
$30.00 Add to cart#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – ONE OF ESSENCE‘S 50 MOST IMPACTFUL BLACK BOOKS OF THE PAST 50 YEARS
In this iconic memoir of his early days, Barack Obama “guides us straight to the intersection of the- Author: Obama, Barack
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: January 09 2007
- ISBN10: 0307383415
- Language: English
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Burn Hill: Growing Up Dirt Poor and Hilariously Rich
$17.99 Add to cartBurn Hill” by Andrew Louis Hale
Prepare to embark on a remarkable journey through time as you delve into the captivating pages of “Burn Hill” by Andrew Louis Hale. This heartwarming memoir transports r
- Author: Hale, Andrew L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 204
- Publish Date: January 08 2024
- ISBN10: 1957506644
- Language: English
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My Jewish Year: 18 Holidays, One Wondering Jew
$22.95 Read moreThe much-dissected Pew Research Center study of 2013, “A Portrait of Jewish Americans,” revealed that most U.S. Jews locate their Jewishness in their ancestry and culture–not in religion. Abigail Pog… [more below]
- Author: Pogrebin, Abigail
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 14 2017
- ISBN10: 1941493203
- Language: English
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My Appalachian Trail
$20.00 Add to cartA gripping tale, beautifully told.
“My Appalachian Trail is an epic autobiography of love and family, as well as a portrayal of Dale Hall’s dedication to Earth’s land, water, and wildlife. The author’s
- Author: Hall, H. Dale
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 188
- Publish Date: May 16 2023
- ISBN10: 195497888X
- Language: English
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
$5.95 Add to cart“One of the major autobiographies of the African-American tradition.”–Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
“It has been painful to me, in many ways, to recall the dreary years I passed in bondage. I would gladly f- Series: Signet Classics
- Author: Jacobs, Harriet
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 05 2010
- ISBN10: 0451531469
- Language: English
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Panther Baby
$16.95 Add to cartIn the 1960s he exhorted students at Columbia University to burn their college to the ground. Today he’s chair of their School of the Arts film division. Jamal Joseph’s personal odyssey–from the stre… [more below]
- Author: Joseph, Jamal
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 290
- Publish Date: February 07 2012
- ISBN10: 1616201290
- Language: English
