Cultural/ Ethnic & Regional
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The True Story of Pocahontas
$5.99 Read moreLearn about how Pocahontas helped early Americans survive
Filled with suspense and historical details, here’s a very young biography of the Powhatan Indian princess who played a vital role in early- Series: Step Into Reading
- Author: Penner, Lucille Recht
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: September 10 1994
- ISBN10: 0679861661
- Language: English
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Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong
$18.99 Add to cartLouis Armstrong is widely known as the greatest jazz musician of the twentieth century. He was a phenomenally gifted and imaginative artist, and an entertainer so irresistibly magnetic that he knocked… [more below]
- Author: Teachout, Terry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: October 07 2010
- ISBN10: 547386370
- Language: English
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Jackie Robinson: Baseball’s Great Pioneer
$8.99 Read moreA biography telling the personal life and baseball career of the legendary player, Jackie Robinson. Written in graphic-novel format.
- Series: Graphic Library: Graphic Biographies
- Author: Glaser, Jason
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: January 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0736861971
- Language: English
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Memories: An Oasis in Time
$17.99 Read moreThe story of Kamel Abu Jaber (1932-2020) is in some ways the story of the modern day Kingdom of Jordan. In this short and sweet collection of memories, Kamel recounts his tribal past, being a Christia… [more below]
- Author: Abu Jaber, Kamel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: August 22 2023
- ISBN10: 1843919893
- Language: English
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Desde Las Copas de Los Árboles (from the Tops of the Trees)
$12.99 Add to cartA powerful true story of a young girl who has never known life outside a refugee camp and a father determined to help her dream big, now translated into Spanish. At Ban Vinai Refugee Camp, Kalia spend
- Author: Yang, Kao Kalia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: August 01 2023
- ISBN10: 9798765609248
- Language: Spanish
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The Ditchdigger’s Daughters: A Black Family’s Astonishing Success Story
$16.95 Read moreAs resonant now as it ever was, this inspiring portrait by a loving daughter of a father whose pervasive common sense, folk wisdom, and untutored but right-on insights gave his children their road map… [more below]
- Author: Thornton, Yvonne S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 25 2023
- ISBN10: 1496739191
- Language: English
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Out of the Gobi: My Story of China and America
$21.95 Read moreForeword by Janet Yellen
Weijian Shan’s Out of the Gobi is a powerful memoir and commentary that will be one of the most important books on China of our time, one with the potential to re-shape how Am
- Author: Shan, Weijian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: February 22 2023
- ISBN10: 1394172583
- Language: English
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Leaving: How I Set Myself Free from an Abusive Marriage
$17.95 Read moreAs a young woman in New Delhi, Kay Bhaskar enters into an arranged marriage to a social charmer-only to find that her new husband is an alcoholic with a wildly violent streak, and the system in India … [more below]
- Author: Bhaskar, Kanchan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 11 2023
- ISBN10: 1647424755
- Language: English
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Hiromi’s Hands
$12.95 Read moreAsian/Pacific American Award for Literature – Asian/Pacific American Librarians Association (APALA)
The true story of Hiromi Suzuki, a Japanese American girl who defied tradition to train at her family
- Author: Barasch, Lynne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: March 01 2007
- ISBN10: 1620142511
- Language: English
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February 1965: The Final Speeches
$17.00 Read moreGathers speeches Malcolm X made during the last three weeks of his life.
- Series: Studies. Southwest Asia Series; 89
- Author: Malcolm X.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 331
- Publish Date: January 01 1992
- ISBN10: 0873487494
- Language: English
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Somebody’s Daughter: A Memoir
$27.99 Read moreINSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
“This is a book people will be talking about forever.” —Glennon Doyle, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Untame
NBCC John Leonard Prize Finalist
Indie Bestseller- Author: Ford, Ashley C.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: June 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1250305977
- Language: English
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Miss Chloe: A Memoir of a Literary Friendship with Toni Morrison
$27.99 Read more“Passionate, personal, insightful, testy, and unique.” —Kirkus (starred review)
“Verdelle offers us testimony in praise and consideration of life as a literary citizen and Black woman alongside the gu
- Author: Verdelle, A. J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 10 2022
- ISBN10: 0063031663
- Language: English
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Sally in Three Worlds: An Indian Captive in the House of Brigham Young
$34.95 Read moreIn this remarkable and deeply felt book, Virginia Kerns uncovers the singular and forgotten life of a young Indian woman who was captured in 1847 in what was then Mexican territory. Sold to a settler,
- Author: Kerns, Virginia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 07 2021
- ISBN10: 1647690153
- Language: English
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Through the Banks of the Red Cedar: My Father and the Team That Changed the Game
$14.95 Read moreA warm and invigorating memoir about a daughter’s love for her father and her appreciation for how he and others changed the game of football forever.
Gene Washington’s football career ended long befor
- Author: Washington, Maya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 250
- Publish Date: January 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1542016665
- Language: English
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Pura’s Cuentos: How Pura Belpré Reshaped Libraries with Her Stories
$18.99 Read moreA lyrical, vibrant picture book tribute to the amazing life and legacy of Pura Belpré, a lauded storyteller, librarian, and pioneer of bilingual storytimes
Pura’s abuela always has a cuento to share- Author: Pimentel, Annette Bay
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: September 07 2021
- ISBN10: 1419749412
- Language: English
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Notes from a Young Black Chef: Adapted for Young Adults
$12.99 Read moreThis inspiring memoir, now adapted for young adults, chronicles Top Chef star and Forbes and Zagat 30 Under 30 phenom Kwame Onwuachi’s incredible and odds-defying fame in the food world after a tough … [more below]
- Author: Onwuachi, Kwame
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 25 2022
- ISBN10: 0593176030
- Language: English
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We Are Still Here: Afghan Women on Courage, Freedom, and the Fight to Be Heard
$17.00 Read moreA collection of first-hand accounts from courageous Afghan women who refuse to be silenced in the face of the Taliban, to be published for the first anniversary of the US leaving Afghanistan.
After de- Author: Shahalimi, Nahid
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: August 16 2022
- ISBN10: 059347290X
- Language: English
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An Apple for Harriet Tubman
$9.99 Add to cartBest Children’s Books of the Year, Bank Street College
One day I am going to be free–and I’m going to have all the apples I want.
Like other enslaved African American children, young Harriet Tubman had
- Author: Turner, Glennette Tilley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 24
- Publish Date: November 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0807503967
- Language: English
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Strength in What Remains
$18.00 Read moreNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY:
In Strength in What Remains, Tracy Kidder
Los Angeles Times – San Francisco Chronicle –Chicago Tribune – The Christian Science Monitor – Publishers Weekly- Series: Random House Reader’s Circle
- Author: Kidder, Tracy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 04 2010
- ISBN10: 0812977610
- Language: English
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Don’t Let the Sun Step Over You: A White Mountain Apache Family Life (1860-1975)
$32.00 Read moreWhen the Apache wars ended in the late nineteenth century, a harsh and harrowing time began for the Western Apache people. Living under the authority of nervous Indian agents, pitiless government-sch… [more below]
- Author: Watt, Eva Tulene
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 340
- Publish Date: September 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0816523916
- Language: English
