Activism & Social Justice
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A Seat at the Table: The Making of Busboys and Poets
$24.95 Add to cartA Seat at the Table is the story of the founding of Busboys and Poets, a Washington, D.C.-based restaurant that has become a celebrated hub for political activism. Named in honor of Langston Hughes, w
- Author: Shallal, Andy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 02 2025
- ISBN10: 1682196380
- Language: English
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3 Weeks in the Rainforest: A Rapid Inventory in the Amazon
$21.99 Add to cartA women-led team of scientists protect the Amazon rainforest from destruction as readers get a firsthand account of real-life fieldwork in action.
A compelling, nonfiction, photo-illustrated STEM read- Author: Swanson, Jennifer
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: October 14 2025
- ISBN10: 1623543169
- Language: English
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My Green Style
$16.99 Add to cartA teen decides to create upcycled clothing for a fashion show and expose the costs of fast fashion–and learns about effective activism.
Montreal teen Pearl is passionate and dedicated both about fas
- Author: Beddia, Lea
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: August 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1459420233
- Language: English
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What a Waste: 9 Ways to Fight Climate Change
$19.95 Add to cartHumans create mountains of garbage, but did you know you can use that waste to help the planet?
You can heat your house with poop, make coffee with filtered pee and blow your nose with your cereal box
- Series: Orca Take Action
- Author: Tam Wu, Karen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: August 19 2025
- ISBN10: 1459840445
- Language: English
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What We Stand to Lose: Black Teachers, the Culture They Created, and the Closure of a New Orleans High School
$20.95 Add to cartSpotlights the tireless work of Black teachers in a historic New Orleans public school, one of countless public schools now part of a school closing crisis in cities nationwide
Time and again, teacher- Author: Buras, Kristen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 29 2025
- ISBN10: 0807019496
- Language: English
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Fat and Furious: Igniting Radical Fat Resistance
$27.95 Add to cartA bold takedown of the ways women are terrorized about fatness, and a treatise on the revolutionary power of fat fury
Anti-fatness and fat-shaming are used most often as a way to inspire fear in other- Author: Fahs, Breanne
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: August 19 2025
- ISBN10: 080701091X
- Language: English
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Allyship as Action: 7 Ways to Advocate for Others
$19.95 Add to cartBeing an ally is about learning and action. It’s a constant, ongoing willingness to engage in the hard, confronting work of standing alongside those who don’t have the same privileges.
As a young pers
- Series: Orca Take Action
- Author: Boteju, Tanya
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: August 19 2025
- ISBN10: 145984047X
- Language: English
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Cree (Best Believe): Las Tres Hermanas, Una Hermandad Para El Bien Com?n (the Tres Hermanas, a Sisterhood for the Common Good)
$10.99 Add to cartConoce a las Tres Hermanas: Evelina Antonetty, Lillian L?pez y Elba Cabrera.
Se trasladaron de Puerto Rico a Nueva York siendo ni?as y crecieron para convertirse en l?deres de su comunidad del Bronx.
- Author: Ramos, Nonieqa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: August 05 2025
- ISBN10: 9798765685648
- Language: Spanish
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Radical Cartography: How Changing Our Maps Can Change Our World
$40.00 Add to cart“This is it: the full download from a true genius of cartography. Radical Cartography will make you see maps, and, indeed, your place on the planet, with fresh eyes.”–Daniel Immerwahr, author of How … [more below]
- Author: Rankin, William
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 11 2025
- ISBN10: 0525559795
- Language: English
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Pushing Hope: An Illustrated Memoir of Survival
$24.99 Add to cart★ School Library Journal, starred review
“This is what justice looks like. We are told we live in an age of few if any heroes, but Raymond Santana is a real genuine hero. His story is one of unb- Author: Santana, Raymond
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 28 2025
- ISBN10: 1662680392
- Language: English
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Kin: The Future of Family
$29.00 Add to cartDiscover a transformative reframing of intimate relationships with practical steps to build community and combat the loneliness epidemic in this bold and warmhearted blend of memoir and social science… [more below]
- Author: Johnson, Sophie Lucido
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1668060655
- Language: English
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Be Unapologetically Impatient: The Mindset Required to Change the Way We Do Things
$18.99 Add to cartHave you ever asked why and been met by a response like: “That’s just the way we do things here.”
In Be Unapologetically Impatient, award-winning psychologist Dr. Christina Cipriano teaches everyone-p
- Author: Cipriano, Christina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 170
- Publish Date: June 03 2025
- ISBN10: 9798889264507
- Language: English
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Breaking Up on X: 20 Poems for a Nation in Crisis
$20.25 Add to cart“If they come for me in the morning, they will come for you in the night.” Angela Davis.
Breaking Up on X: 20 Poems for a Nation in Crisis is a collaborative response to our current national crisis. D
- Author: Gaynor, James W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 86
- Publish Date: July 01 2025
- ISBN10: 9798992505511
- Language: English
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True Nature: The Pilgrimage of Peter Matthiessen
$40.00 Add to cartThe first biography of Peter Matthiessen, the novelist, naturalist, and Zen roshi, whose trailblazing work championed Native American rights and helped usher in the modern environmental movement, by a… [more below]
- Author: Richardson, Lance
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 736
- Publish Date: October 14 2025
- ISBN10: 1524748315
- Language: English
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Can Posters Kill?: Antisemitic Propaganda and World War II
$22.95 Add to cartHow did Hitler and the Nazi Party convince millions of people that the murder of Jews during the Holocaust was not only justifiable but correct? What can we learn from one of the most horrific times i
- Author: Faivish, Jerry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 100
- Publish Date: October 21 2025
- ISBN10: 1772604291
- Language: English
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Somebody Should Do Something: How Anyone Can Help Create Social Change
$32.95 Add to cartA novel and scientific approach to creating transformative social change–and the surprising ways that each of us can help make a real difference.
Changing the world is difficult. One reason is that t- Author: Brownstein, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 16 2025
- ISBN10: 0262049783
- Language: English
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The Right to Play: How Jane Addams Fought for America’s Playgrounds
$18.99 Add to cartJane Addams ensured that all children in the United States had the right to play.
When Jane Addams was a little girl, she had a limp that prevented her from running and playing with the other childre- Author: Brown, Elizabeth
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: August 07 2025
- ISBN10: 0807570745
- Language: English
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A Kids Book about Joy
$19.99 Add to cartAn informative and engaging introduction to joy for kids – how to find it, hold onto it, and never let it go.
This is a kids’ book about joy. Joy is a funny emotion. Sometimes we think it’s silly, or- Series: Kids Book
- Author: Kothari, Shivantika Jain
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: July 22 2025
- ISBN10: 059396585X
- Language: English
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Badass Women of Charlottesville: Inspiring Stories of Powerful Women Changing the World, Starting in the City of Charlottesville
$19.99 Add to cartBadass Women of Charlottesville shares the personal stories of two dozen women, as told to Rachael Kesler Palm. Here, you’ll find stories from some of the trailblazing women who make Charlottesville t
- Series: Badass Women of Charlottesville
- Author: Palm, Rachael Kesler
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 146
- Publish Date: March 01 2025
- ISBN10: 9798218604554
- Language: English
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Framed: Astonishing True Stories of Wrongful Convictions
$18.00 Add to cart#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – “The master of the legal thriller” (Associated Press) teams up with “the godfather of the innocence movement” (Texas Monthly) to share ten harrowing true stories of wron… [more below]
- Author: Grisham, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: August 26 2025
- ISBN10: 059368723X
- Language: English
