Cultural/ Ethnic & Regional
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Ida B. Wells: Let the Truth Be Told
$9.99 Read more“An important and inspiring book.” (School Library Journal starred review)
Ida B. Wells worked bravely as an activist, educator, writer, journalist, suffragette, and pioneering voice against the horror
- Author: Myers, Walter Dean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: January 27 2015
- ISBN10: 0060544686
- Language: English
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The Story of Tennis Champion Arthur Ashe
$10.95 Read moreThe “Story” chapter-book line debuts with this action-packed tribute to Arthur Ashe, one of the most compelling athletes and humanitarians of the twentieth century.
From the start, Arthur Ashe was an u
- Series: Story of
- Author: Hubbard, Crystal
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: June 05 2018
- ISBN10: 1620147890
- Language: English
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It Jes’ Happened: When Bill Traylor Started to Draw
$11.95 Read moreThe inspiring biography of self-taught (outsider) artist Bill Traylor, a former slave who at the age of eighty-five began to draw pictures based on his memories and observations of rural and urban lif
- Author: Tate, Don
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: February 19 2019
- ISBN10: 1643790552
- Language: English
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A Lifetime in Galápagos
$35.00 Read moreA magnificent collection of photos representing fifty years of De Roy’s best work in the islands she calls home
Tui De Roy was a year old in 1955 when her family left Europe, boarding a banana boat bo- Author: de Roy, Tui
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: July 21 2020
- ISBN10: 0691194998
- Language: English
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Young Trailblazers: The Book of Black Inventors and Scientists: (Inventions by Black People, Black History for Kids, Children’s United States History)
$31.99 Add to cartDiscover Incredible Inventions by Black People (Ages 8-12)
#1 New Release in Children’s Inventors Books
Young Trailblazers: The Book of Black Inventors and Scientists is a fun new book for children that
- Series: Young Trailblazers
- Author: Fievre, M. J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: November 11 2021
- ISBN10: 1642506060
- Language: English
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Epic Athletes: Zion Williamson
$8.99 Read moreIn the illustrated middle-grade biography Epic Athletes: Zion Williamson, acclaimed sports journalist Dan Wetzel tells the inspirational story of the greatest basketball prospect of his generation.
Fo- Series: Epic Athletes #10
- Author: Wetzel, Dan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: March 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1250821282
- Language: English
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La Syrena: Visions of a Syrian Mermaid from Space
$16.95 Read moreWinner of the Dzanc Diverse Voices Prize
LA SYRENA. For me home is in the water. When I go to the sea I want to swim forever and never look back. But I know I would die and the earth needs me on shore… [more below]- Author: El Ghadbanah, Banah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: August 23 2022
- ISBN10: 195053944X
- Language: English
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Stealing Buddha’s Dinner
$18.00 Read moreWinner of the PEN/Jerard Award
“[A] perfectly pitched and prodigiously detailed memoir.” – Boston Globe As a Vietnamese girl coming of age in
Chicago Tribune Best Book of the Year
Kiriyama Notable Book- Author: Nguyen, Bich Minh
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0143113038
- Language: English
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Slave Narratives of the Underground Railroad
$9.00 Read more“Loved this and I’m not a big history buff. This was an eye-opener. This will make you have an even deeper respect for those who went through slavery and all they endured.” — Pollard House
During the- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Rudisel, Christine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 17 2014
- ISBN10: 0486780619
- Language: English
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A Bowl Full of Ideas for Inventive Minds
$18.00 Read moreSouthern Ute elder Joseph Rael (Beautiful Painted Arrow) offers words of wisdom to children and the young at heart, as told to David R. Kopacz, MD. Joseph fills the bowls of hearts and minds with 18 i
- Author: Rael, Joseph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 50
- Publish Date: June 02 2023
- ISBN10: 1734280050
- Language: English
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Rancho Guadalasca: Last Ranch of California’s Central Coast
$23.99 Read moreA journey through Ventura County history.
A Mexican land grant awarded in 1836, Rancho Guadalasca lay at the western end of the Santa Monica Mountains along the eastern Oxnard Plain. Grantee Ysabel Y… [more below]- Series: The History Press
- Author: Delaney, Colleen Marie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: May 29 2023
- ISBN10: 1467151149
- Language: English
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The Cowgirl’s Guide to Life
$14.99 Read moreThis sassy cowgirl and her sidekick cowboy partner capture the feminine perspective on life. This common-sense wisdom in humorous form is all about life and love. Women will laugh about it–from the b
- Series: Western Humor
- Author: Montana, Gladiola
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 05 2019
- ISBN10: 1423651707
- Language: English
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Lost Boy, Lost Girl: Escaping Civil War in Sudan
$15.95 Read moreOne of thousands of children who fled strife in southern Sudan, John Bul Dau survived hunger, exhaustion, and violence. His wife, Martha, endured similar hardships. In this memorable book, the two con… [more below]
- Author: Dau, John Bul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 12 2010
- ISBN10: 142630708X
- Language: English
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The Right to Be Cold: One Woman’s Fight to Protect the Arctic and Save the Planet from Climate Change
$22.95 Read moreA “courageous and revelatory memoir” (Naomi Klein) chronicling the life of the leading Indigenous climate change, cultural, and human rights advocate
For the first ten years of her life, Sheila Watt-- Author: Watt-Cloutier, Sheila
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 01 2018
- ISBN10: 1517904978
- Language: English
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Poet: The Remarkable Story of George Moses Horton
$8.99 Read moreGeorge loved words. Enslaved and forced to work long hours, he was unable to attend school or learn how to read.
But he was determined―he listened to the white children’s lessons and learned the- Author: Tate, Don
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 36
- Publish Date: October 02 2018
- ISBN10: 1682630625
- Language: English
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Jersey Breaks: Becoming an American Poet
$26.95 Read moreIn late-1940s Long Branch, a historic but run-down Jersey Shore resort town, in a neighborhood of Italian, Black, and Jewish families, Robert Pinsky began his unlikely journey to becoming a poet. Desc
- Author: Pinsky, Robert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 11 2022
- ISBN10: 0393882047
- Language: English
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Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands
$17.00 Add to cartWritten in 1857, Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands is the autobiography of a Jamaican woman whose fame rivaled Florence Nightingale’s during the Crimean War. Seacole traveled widely be… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Seacole, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 29 2005
- ISBN10: 0140439021
- Language: English
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I Am Martin Luther King Jr. (I Am #4): Volume 4
$5.99 Read moreA brand-new biography series featuring some of the most important people from history and today.
I helped organize the Montgomery Bus Boycott. I am only 34 when I give the “I Have a Dream” speech. I am… [more below]
- Series: I Am #4
- Author: Norwich, Grace
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: December 01 2012
- ISBN10: 0545447801
- Language: English
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Yearning to Breathe Free: Robert Smalls of South Carolina and His Families
$22.99 Read moreA sociological approach to appreciating the heroism and legacy of the Gullah statesman
On May 13, 1862, Robert Smalls (1839-1915) commandeered a Confederate warship, the Planter, from Charleston harbor
- Author: Billingsley, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 13 2023
- ISBN10: 1643364618
- Language: English
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Schlepping Across the Nile: Collected Stories
$17.99 Read moreIn the footsteps of Andre Aciman’s Out of Egypt and Lucette Lagnado’s The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit comes Aaron Zevy’s Schlepping Across the Nile: a collection of vignettes, memoirs and stories,
- Author: Zevy, Aaron
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: June 06 2023
- ISBN10: 1778201768
- Language: English
