Social Activists
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I Am Maroon: The True Story of an American Political Prisoner
$32.50 Add to cartA cinematic memoir of justice and redemption that traces one man’s tumultuous life from gang member to Black liberation leader to political prisoner.
Russell Shoatz was a gang member in inner Philad- Author: Shoatz, Russell
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 03 2024
- ISBN10: 1645030490
- Language: English
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Against the American Grain: A Borderlands History of Resistance
$24.95 Add to cartA century ago, William Carlos Williams’s In the American Grain profiled Anglo, French, and Spanish conquistadors, tyrants, preachers, and thought leaders who first shaped American culture. Since then,
- Author: Nabhan, Gary Paul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 082636697X
- Language: English
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Against All Odds: A Memoir
$27.99 Add to cartA story of resilience, courage, and the power of dreams…
From a young age, Tristian’s life was marked by chaos and uncertainty. Witnessing his mother being taken away on a stretcher was a pivotal mom
- Author: Smith, Tristian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 204
- Publish Date: July 16 2024
- ISBN10: 9.79899E+12
- Language: English
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Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World
$20.00 Add to cartA finalist for the 2023 National Book Critics Circle Award
A New York Times notable book of 2023 Vulture‘s #1 book of 2023
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER National Indie Bestseller
One of Slate‘s ten best boo- Author: Klein, Naomi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: September 10 2024
- ISBN10: 125033814X
- Language: English
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Other Girls Like Me
$16.95 Add to cartTill now, Stephanie has done her best to play by the rules–which seem to be stacked against girls like her. It doesn’t help that she wants to play football, dress like a boy, and fight apartheid in S
- Author: Davies, Stephanie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 230
- Publish Date: September 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1949290387
- Language: English
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Return to Homelessness
$17.95 Add to cartWhen a physician driven by compassion takes to the streets of downtown Los Angeles to anonymously live among the homeless community he has been treating for years, he unexpectedly learns lessons beyon
- Author: Tachdjian, Vartan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 166
- Publish Date: October 10 2023
- ISBN10: 9798890611703
- Language: English
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Memory Mansion: How to Glow the Fu%k Up
$28.00 Add to cartTHE SELF-LOVE MEMOIR THAT READS LIKE A THRILLER, AN ENTERTAINING AND INSPIRING READ
“Cindy, you asked me to warn you if anyone ever came looking for you. Now might be a good time to get lost,” starts t
- Author: Isis, Shaman
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 274
- Publish Date: February 03 2024
- ISBN10: 9798869020185
- Language: English
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The Moment: Changemakers on Why and How They Joined the Fight for Social Justice
$24.95 Add to cartThey are as diverse as America. Young and old. Of color and white. Urban and rural. Immigrants and native born. They are students and teachers. Athletes and artists. Lawyers, doctors, politicians, far
- Author: Fiffer, Steve
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1588384756
- Language: English
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Remnants: A Memoir of Spirit, Activism, and Mothering
$28.95 Add to cartAn activist influential in the civil rights movement, Rosemarie Freeney Harding’s spirituality blended many traditions, including southern African American mysticism, Anabaptist Christianity, Tibetan … [more below]
- Author: Freeney Harding, Rosemarie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: May 15 2015
- ISBN10: 0822358794
- Language: English
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Howard Zinn’s Southern Diary: Sit-Ins, Civil Rights, and Black Women’s Student Activism
$26.95 Add to cartIn the 1960s, students of Spelman College, a black liberal arts college for women, were drawn into historic civil rights protests occurring across Atlanta, leading to the arrest of some for participat
- Author: Cohen, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: September 15 2018
- ISBN10: 0820353280
- Language: English
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A Stranger at My Door: Finding My Humanity on the U.S./Mexico Border
$16.95 Add to cartA Stranger At My Door is a personal odyssey of challenge, failure, and redemption. A man in desperate crisis appears at the doorstep of a family home in the Sonoran desert. Attempts to do the right th
- Author: Bowden, Peg
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: September 18 2019
- ISBN10: 0989200930
- Language: English
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A Day I Ain’t Never Seen Before: Remembering the Civil Rights Movement in Marks, Mississippi
$22.95 Add to cartThe Black people of Marks, Mississippi, and other rural southern towns were the backbone of the civil rights movement, yet their stories have too rarely been celebrated and are, for the most part, for
- Author: Bateman, Joe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 310
- Publish Date: January 15 2023
- ISBN10: 0820363049
- Language: English
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Terrorized: A Memoir of Trauma, Healing, and Coming Home
$18.95 Add to cartFred Thelen, a Catholic priest, embarks on a mission to Peru, only to confront a growing terrorist movement that will shatter him.
In his gripping memoir, Terrorized, Thelen recounts his immersion in
- Author: Thelen, Fred
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 250
- Publish Date: October 03 2024
- ISBN10: 1965278000
- Language: English
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Terrorized: A Memoir of Trauma, Healing, and Coming Home
$27.95 Add to cartFred Thelen, a Catholic priest, embarks on a mission to Peru, only to confront a growing terrorist movement that will shatter him.
In his gripping memoir, Terrorized, Thelen recounts his immersion in
- Author: Thelen, Fred
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 250
- Publish Date: October 03 2024
- ISBN10: 1961302993
- Language: English
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Across the Plains in 1884
$18.99 Add to cartIn April 1844 the Sager family took part in the great westward migration and started their journey along the Oregon Trail. During it, both Henry and Naomi lost their lives and left their seven childre
- Author: Sager, Catherine
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: October 24 2023
- ISBN10: 9798868942082
- Language: English
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Daring to Drive: A Saudi Woman’s Awakening
$18.99 Add to cart“A vital, inspiring book” (O, The Oprah Magazine)–a ferociously intimate memoir by a devout woman from a modest family in Saudi Arabia who became the unexpected leader of the courageous movement that… [more below]
- Author: Al-Sharif, Manal
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 12 2018
- ISBN10: 1476793034
- Language: English
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White Lies: The Double Life of Walter F. White and America’s Darkest Secret
$21.99 Read moreA New Yorker Best Book of the Year 2022
An “electrifying” biography of Walter White, a little-remembered Black civil rights leader who passed for white in order to investigate racist murders, help put
- Author: Baime, A. J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: February 14 2023
- ISBN10: 0063268744
- Language: English
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Bird Uncaged: An Abolitionist’s Freedom Song
$18.99 Read moreFrom a leading prison abolitionist, a moving memoir about coming of age in Brooklyn and surviving incarceration–and a call to break free from all the cages that confine us.
Marlon Peterson grew up in- Author: Peterson, Marlon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: December 06, 2022
- ISBN10: 1645036529
- Language: English
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Coretta: My Life, My Love, My Legacy
$18.99 Read moreThe True Story of Coretta Scott King Told Fully for the First Time
Named a Washington Post Book to Read – A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice – A USA Today “New and Noteworthy” Pick – A Read- Author: King, Coretta Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: February 20 2018
- ISBN10: 1250159938
- Language: English
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Autobiography of a Recovering Skinhead: The Frank Meeink Story as Told to Jody M. Roy, Ph.D.
$20.95 Add to cartThis new edition of the acclaimed Frank Meeink story includes a preface by the author, nine new chapters, an updated epilogue, and resource guides for substance abuse recovery and countering racism.
A- Author: Meeink, Frank
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 0
- Publish Date: September 05 2017
- ISBN10: 099706837X
- Language: English
