Biographical
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We Beat the Street: How a Friendship Pact Led to Success
$9.99 Read moreGrowing up on the rough streets of Newark, New Jersey, Rameck, George, and Sampson could easily have followed their childhood friends into drug dealing, gangs, and prison. But when a presentation at t… [more below]
- Author: Davis, Sampson
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 20 2006
- ISBN10: 0142406279
- Language: English
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Enlightened
$13.99 Add to cartA spirited young prince longing to learn more about the world grows into a man on a quest to find the cause of human suffering in this first-of-its-kind graphic novel retelling of the life of Siddhart… [more below]
- Author: Ediriweera, Sachi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 26 2023
- ISBN10: 1665903104
- Language: English
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America Is in the Heart
$18.00 Add to cartA 1946 Filipino American social classic about the United States in the 1930s from the perspective of a Filipino migrant laborer who endures racial violence and struggles with the paradox of the Americ… [more below]
- Author: Bulosan, Carlos
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 21 2019
- ISBN10: 0143134035
- Language: English
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Carnegie’s Maid
$15.99 Add to cartThe USA Today Bestseller
From the author of The Other Einstein comes the mesmerizing tale of what kind of woman could have inspired an American dynasty. Clara Kelley is not who they think she is. She’- Author: Benedict, Marie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 469
- Publish Date: April 03 2019
- ISBN10: 1432861239
- Language: English
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Tomas and the Library Lady
$8.99 Add to cartA Common Core Exemplar Text by an award-winning author-illustrator team
Tomç–½ is a son of migrant workers. Every summer he and his family follow the crops north from Texas to Iowa, spending long, arduo- Series: Dragonfly Books
- Author: Mora, Pat
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: February 22, 2000
- ISBN10: 0375803491
- Language: English
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The Day of the Locust
$13.95 Add to cartAdmired by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Dorothy Parker, and Dashiell Hammett, and hailed as one of the “Best 100 English-language novels” by Time magazine, The Day of the Locust continues to influence America… [more below]
- Author: West, Nathanael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: May 28 2015
- ISBN10: 0811224619
- Language: English
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The Body Where I Was Born
$16.95 Add to cart- Author: Nettel, Guadalupe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: July 25 2017
- ISBN10: 1609807510
- Language: English
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Dream Big: Michael Jordan and the Pursuit of Excellence
$8.99 Add to cartOlympic dreams come true in this inspiring picture book from Michael Jordan’s mother, author of the New York Times bestselling Salt in His Shoes.
Long before he became a professional All-Star basketba- Author: Jordan, Deloris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: May 06 2014
- ISBN10: 1442412704
- Language: English
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Why Mummy Drinks at Christmas
$18.99 Read more‘I romped through ‘Why Mummy Drinks at Christmas’, and I absolutely adored it’ – Jilly Cooper
Tis’ the season to get trollied!
Mummy has always loved Christmas. Sure, the kids turn into demons, the di
- Author: Sims, Gill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 07, 2023
- ISBN10: 0008611904
- Language: English
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Lemony Snicket: The Unauthorized Autobiography
$9.99 Read moreNOW A NETFLIX ORIGINAL SERIES
A Warning from the Publisher:
Many readers have questions about Lemony Snicket, author of the distressing serial concerning the trials of the charming but unlucky Baudelai
- Series: A Unfortunate Events
- Author: Snicket, Lemony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 06 2003
- ISBN10: 0060562250
- Language: English
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Go Show the World: A Celebration of Indigenous Heroes
$18.99 Add to cart“We are a people who matter.” Inspired by President Barack Obama’s Of Thee I Sing, Go Show the World is a tribute to historic and modern-day Indigenous heroes, featuring important figures such as Tec… [more below]
- Author: Kinew, Wab
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: September 11 2018
- ISBN10: 0735262926
- Language: English
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Kamala and Maya’s Big Idea
$18.99 Add to cartINSPIRED BY A TRUE STORY FROM THE CHILDHOOD OF VICE PRESIDENT KAMALA HARRIS
A beautiful, empowering picture book about two sisters who work with their community to effect change, inspired by a true st
- Author: Harris, Meena
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: June 02 2020
- ISBN10: 0062937405
- Language: English
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Blonde
$19.99 Add to cartThe National Book Award finalist and national bestseller exploring the life and legend of Marilyn Monroe
Now a Netflix Film starring Ana de Armas, Adrien Brody, Bobby Cannavale and Julianne Nicholson
In
- Author: Oates, Joyce Carol
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 768
- Publish Date: April 14, 2020
- ISBN10: 0062968459
- Language: English
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Journey to the Bottomless Pit: The Story of Stephen Bishop & Mammoth Cave
$12.99 Add to cart“A fascinating story.” –LeVar Burton
The thrilling adventures of a slave who became known worldwide for his explorations of Mammoth Cave.
If you toured Mammoth Cave in Kentucky in the year 1838, you- Author: Mitchell, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: March 19, 2019
- ISBN10: 1504057708
- Language: English
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The Autobiography of Santa Claus: A Revised Edition of the Christmas Classic
$11.95 Add to cartIt all started when Jeff Guinn was assigned to write a piece full of little-known facts about Christmas for his paper, The Fort Worth Star-Telegram. A few months later, he received a call from a gent… [more below]
- Series: Santa Chronicles
- Author: Guinn, Jeff
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 1, 2006
- ISBN10: 158542448X
- Language: English
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Crossing the Tracks
$18.95 Add to cartWhile dramatic history unfolds from Greensboro to Selma to Memphis, one man makes his own stand for justice and inclusion.
> WINNER: Pinnacle Book Achievement Award, Fall 2023 – Best Fiction – Social
- Author: Hill, Drew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 276
- Publish Date: July 10, 2023
- ISBN10: 9798890250230
- Language: English
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Catherine’s Mercy
$17.99 Read moreIn 1824, Catherine, a Catholic spinster of 44, unexpectantly inherits millions. However, she doesn’t use it to climb the social ladder or snare a husband; she uses it to fulfill a lifelong dream of bu… [more below]
- Author: Evelina, Nicole
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: November 07 2023
- ISBN10: 827207506
- Language: English
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The Unstoppable Eliza Haycraft
$19.99 Add to cartLonglisted, Shelf Unbound Best Indie Book 2023
“Beautifully written, compulsively readable… ” So says Indie Reader of The Unstoppable Eliza Haycraft – the riveting novel about a legendary woman in an
- Author: Dempsey, Diana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: July 7, 2023
- ISBN10: 0990696472
- Language: English
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James Baldwin: Early Novels & Stories (Loa #97): Go Tell It on the Mountain / Giovanni’s Room / Another Country / Going to Meet the Man
$45.00 Add to cartHere, in a Library of America volume edited by Nobel laureate Toni Morrison, is the fiction that established James Baldwin’s reputation as a writer who fused unblinking realism and rare verbal eloquen
- Series: Library of America James Baldwin Edition #2
- Author: Baldwin, James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 992
- Publish Date: February 01, 1998
- ISBN10: 1883011515
- Language: English
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Sleepless Nights
$15.95 Read moreIn Sleepless Nights a woman looks back on her life–the parade of people, the shifting background of place–and assembles a scrapbook of memories, reflections, portraits, letters, wishes, and dreams. … [more below]
- Series: New York Review Books Classics
- Author: Hardwick, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: August 31 2001
- ISBN10: 0940322722
- Language: English
