Cultural/ Ethnic & Regional
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Grace Lee Boggs
$29.93 Add to cartHave you ever wanted to change the world so people can live better lives? This biography tells the story of philosopher and activist Grace Lee Boggs who did just that, part of the Leaders Like Us ser
- Series: Leaders Like Us
- Author: Su, Karen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 24
- Publish Date: March 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1731656300
- Language: English
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George Washington Carver
$4.99 Add to cartTake a bite into the fascinating history of peanut butter and the man who invented it. Through leveled text and engaging photos, kids meet George Washington Carver and learn about his important work w… [more below]
- Series: Readers BIOS
- Author: Jazynka, Kitson
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: January 12 2016
- ISBN10: 1426322852
- Language: English
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Viola Desmond Won’t Be Budged!
$12.99 Add to cartFinalist for the 2011 Norma Fleck Award for Canadian Children’s Non-Fiction
“On behalf of the Nova Scotia government, I sincerely apologize to Mrs. Viola Desmond’s family and to all African Nova Scoti
- Author: Warner, Jody Nyasha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: October 01 2018
- ISBN10: 177306035X
- Language: English
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Punk Avenue: Inside the New York City Underground, 1972-1982
$15.95 Read moreAn intimate account of Paris-born author Phil Marcade’s first ten years in the United States, where-after drifting from Boston to the West Coast and back-he wound up in New York City and became deeply… [more below]
- Author: Marcade, Phil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 02 2017
- ISBN10: 1941110495
- Language: English
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Dear White Friend: The Realities of Race, the Power of Relationships and Our Path to Equity
$21.95 Read moreMy friend, I do not believe you are a racist.
Melvin Gravely eloquently accomplishes what many have undoubtedly wished to do: talk openly to someone we know about race in the United States today. Gra- Author: Gravely II Phd, Melvin J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: July 27 2021
- ISBN10: 1626348766
- Language: English
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How I Survived a Chinese Reeducation Camp: A Uyghur Woman’s Story
$26.95 Read moreThe first memoir about the “reeducation” camps by a Uyghur woman.
“I have written what I lived. The atrocious reality.”
— Gulbahar Haitiwaji to Paris Match Since 2017, more than one million Uyghurs ha- Author: Haitiwaji, Gulbahar
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: February 22 2022
- ISBN10: 1644211483
- Language: English
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Son of Elsewhere: A Memoir in Pieces
$17.00 Read moreA NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR – A “funny and frank” (The New York Times) collection of essays on Blackness, faith, pop culture, and the challenges–and rewards–of finding one’s way in the… [more below]
- Author: Abdelmahmoud, Elamin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 17 2022
- ISBN10: 059349685X
- Language: English
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave: Written by Himself
$7.95 Read moreThe powerful story of slavery that has become a classic of American autobiography, in an authoritative edition
“This edition is the most valuable teaching tool on slavery and abolition available today- Series: Yale Nota Bene
- Author: Douglass, Frederick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: February 08 2001
- ISBN10: 0300087012
- Language: English
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Sequoyah: The Cherokee Man Who Gave His People Writing
$19.99 Add to cartA 2005 Sibert Honor Book
The story of Sequoyah is the tale of an ordinary man with an extraordinary idea–to create a writing system for the Cherokee Indians and turn his people into a nation of rea- Author: Rumford, James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: November 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0618369473
- Language: English
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A Lesson for Martin Luther King Jr.: Ready-To-Read Level 2
$5.99 Read moreLearn all about the childhood of America’s most famous civil rights activist in this nonfiction Level 2 Ready-to-Read
Young Martin Luther King Jr. is having some problems with his best friend, Bobby.- Series: Ready-To-Read Childhood of Famous Americans
- Author: Pate, Rodney S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: December 01 2003
- ISBN10: 0689853971
- Language: English
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Mistaken for an Empire: A Memoir in Tongues
$21.95 Read more“As an adult, [Imperial] attempted what no one else had done: translating [‘The White Man’s Burden’] into Tagalog. These efforts led Imperial to reflect on her many (often disorienting) moves between … [more below]
- Series: 21st Century Essays
- Author: Imperial, Christine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 07 2023
- ISBN10: 0814258638
- Language: English
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Sang Kancil: A Tale about How Ordinary Malaysians Defied the Odds
$21.99 Read moreStories of courageous underdogs who battled against disadvantages and challenges, and emerged victorious in pushing humanity forward Ordinary is not as ordinary as you think. History is written by the… [more below]
- Author: Chai, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: December 15 2023
- ISBN10: 9815127136
- Language: English
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Dust Yourself Off: The Gravel Road to a Good Life
$24.95 Read moreDust Yourself Off chronicles the life of Muriel, a quintessential Norwegian American farm girl in Fort Ransom, North Dakota, and the mother of co-author Tom Sandhei. Forced to leave home at the age of… [more below]
- Author: Velure, Tricia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 250
- Publish Date: March 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1946163503
- Language: English
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Local: A Memoir
$28.99 Read moreA powerful, lush memoir about a Hawaiian woman who ran away from paradise to discover who she is and where she belongs.
Born and raised in Hawai’i by a father whose ancestors are indigenous to the land
- Author: Machado, Jessica
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 236
- Publish Date: January 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1542027322
- Language: English
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My Name Is Tani . . . and I Believe in Miracles
$15.99 Add to cartAn amazing, miraculous refugee story of coming to America, the young readers edition of Tani Adewumi’s story will inspire kids looking for true stories of doing hard things.
At eight years old, Tani Ad
- Author: Adewumi, Tanitoluwa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 14 2020
- ISBN10: 1400218292
- Language: English
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How It Feels to Be Colored Me
$9.95 Add to cart“How It Feels To Be Colored Me” by Florida native Zora Neale Hurston was originally published in The World Tomorrow in May 1928. In this autobiographical piece about her own color, Hurston reflects on… [more below]
- Series: American Roots
- Author: Hurston, Zora
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: June 30 2015
- ISBN10: 1429096179
- Language: English
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True North Rising: My fifty-year journey with the Inuit and Dene leaders who transformed Canada’s North
$18.95 Read moreNATIONAL BESTSELLER
In this captivating memoir, Whit Fraser weaves scenes from more than fifty years of reporting and living in the North with fascinating portraits of the Dene and Inuit activists who … [more below]- Author: Fraser, Whit
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 31 2023
- ISBN10: 1039005594
- Language: English
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Prisoner #1056: How I Survived War and Found Peace
$27.00 Read more#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER
An incredible immigrant story from a prominent Canadian Tamil who fled torture and imprisonment, arrived in
BRONZE MEDALIST IN MEMOIR/BIOGRAPHY FOR THE AXIOM BUSINESS BOOK AWARDS- Author: Ratnavel, Roy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 18 2023
- ISBN10: 073524572X
- Language: English
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Emma’s Postcard Album: Black Lives in the Early Twentieth Century
$58.33 Read moreBCALA 2023 Outstanding Contribution to Publishing Citation Award winner
The turn of the twentieth century was an extraordinarily difficult period for African Americans, a time of unchecked lynchings,- Series: Atlantic Migrations and the African Diaspora
- Author: Mitchell, Faith
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: December 21 2022
- ISBN10: 1496843150
- Language: English
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Howard Thurman’s Great Hope
$11.95 Read moreBorn in segregated Daytona, Florida, in 1899, Howard Thurman grew up dreaming of a better life–a life where his mother and grandmother would not have to cook and clean for other people; a life where
- Author: Issa, Kai
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: April 01 2010
- ISBN10: 1600608906
- Language: English
