Cultural/ Ethnic & Regional
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Dream Carver / El Tallador de Sue?os
$12.95 Add to cartPink goats, blue rabbits, and purple cats–oh my! Manuel has the determination and imagination to create them all!
Cabras rosas, conejos azules y gatos morados– que maravilla! Manuel tiene las ganas
- Author: Cohn, Diana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: August 08 2023
- ISBN10: 1643796356
- Language: English
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How to Give Zero F*cks: An Illustrated Guide
$14.99 Read moreA wickedly funny illustrated adult gift book for people who give too many f*cks to things they should not give a f*ck about.
Do you live your life caring what people think of you? Are you scared to liv
- Author: Wildish, Stephen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: January 31 2023
- ISBN10: 1728279763
- Language: English
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Muddy: The Story of Blues Legend Muddy Waters
$17.99 Add to cartAn Ezra Jack Keats Book Award Winner
A picture book celebration of t
A New York Times Best Illustrated Book
An NPR Best Book of the Year
A Bulletin Blue Ribbon Book
A Parents’ Choice Gold Award Winner- Author: Mahin, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: September 05 2017
- ISBN10: 1481443496
- Language: English
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Fifth Ward to Fourth Quarter: Football’s Impact on an NFL Player’s Body and Soul
$35.00 Read moreAfter his release from the Green Bay Packers, realizing that his football career was abruptly over, Delvin Williams asked himself some hard questions: What happened to the game he fell in love with a
- Series: Swaim-Paup Sports Series, Sponsored by James C. ’74 & Debra
- Author: Williams, Delvin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 26 2022
- ISBN10: 1648430716
- Language: English
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Darkly: Black History and America’s Gothic Soul
$14.95 Read moreA fascinating journey into the dark heart of the American gothic that analyzes its connections to race and racism in 21st-century America
Haunted houses, bitter revenants and muffled heartbeats under- Author: Taylor, Leila
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 206
- Publish Date: November 12 2019
- ISBN10: 1912248549
- Language: English
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The South: Jim Crow and Its Afterlives
$24.95 Read moreA narrative account of Jim Crow as people experienced it
The last generation of Americans with a living memory of Jim Crow will soon disappear. They leave behind a collective memory of segregation sha- Series: Jacobin
- Author: Reed, Adolph L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: February 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1839766263
- Language: English
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Little Mr. Prose Poem: Selected Poems of Russell Edson
$17.00 Add to cartA baby that keeps losing its brain, a cow in a wedding gown, a woman whose chest is a radio — bizarre and whimsical figures populate this collection of dreamlike prose poems from Russell Edson (1935-… [more below]
- Series: American Poets Continuum
- Author: Edson, Rusell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: October 25 2022
- ISBN10: 1950774732
- Language: English
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On Becoming an American Writer: Essays and Nonfiction
$17.95 Read moreDiscover the unique mind and humane vision of an under-recognized American author. Encompassing themes of race, education, fame, law, and America’s past and future, these essays are James Alan McPhers
- Series: Nonpareil Books #1
- Author: McPherson, James Alan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: January 17 2023
- ISBN10: 1567927483
- Language: English
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Embrace the Power of You: Owning Your Identity at Work
$17.95 Add to cart“An inspiring story of embracing one’s true self, with practical advice”
***** Embrace the Power of You In the competitive world of Silicon Valley, co
Publishers Weekly, BookLife Review (Editor’s Pick)- Author: Timm, Tricia Montalvo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: March 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1774582570
- Language: English
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I Embrace You with All My Revolutionary Fervor: Letters 1947-1967
$18.95 Read moreCollected for the first time, here are Guevara’s letters, the vast majority never-before published in English.
“The powerful of the earth should take heed: deep inside that T-shirt where we have tried- Series: The Che Guevara Library
- Author: Guevara, Ernesto Che
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: August 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1644212447
- Language: English
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Medgar Evers: Mississippi Martyr
$26.95 Add to cart- Author: Williams, Michael Vinson
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 446
- Publish Date: August 01 2013
- ISBN10: 1557286469
- Language: English
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George Washington Carver: From Slave to Scientist
$11.99 Read moreOnce a kidnapped slave baby, George Washington Carver found freedom in learning everything he could about the world around him. Overcoming poverty and racism, George became a brilliant scientist and a… [more below]
- Series: Heroes of History
- Author: Benge, Janet
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 191
- Publish Date: November 19 2001
- ISBN10: 1883002788
- Language: English
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Black Titan: A.G. Gaston and the Making of a Black American Millionaire
$18.00 Add to cartThe grandson of slaves, born into poverty in 1892 in the Deep South, A. G. Gaston died more than a century later with a fortune worth well over $130 million and a business empire spanning communicatio… [more below]
- Author: Jenkins, Carol
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 25 2005
- ISBN10: 0345453484
- Language: English
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The Witness Blanket: Truth, Art and Reconciliation
$24.95 Read moreFor more than 150 years, thousands of Indigenous children were taken from their families and sent to residential schools across Canada.
Artist Carey Newman created the Witness Blanket to make sure tha
- Author: Newman, Carey
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: April 19 2022
- ISBN10: 145983612X
- Language: English
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The Untold Story of Charlotta Spears Bass: Groundbreaking Politician
$31.32 Read moreIn 2020, Kamala Harris became the first Black and South Asian woman to be elected vice president of the United States. But in 1952, Charlotta Spears Bass was the first Black woman to run for vice pres… [more below]
- Series: First But Forgotten
- Author: Mansfield, Nicole A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: August 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1669016021
- Language: English
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Our Laundry, Our Town: My Chinese American Life from Flushing to the Downtown Stage and Beyond
$20.95 Add to cartNEW IN PAPERBACK!
BOOKS ARE MAGIC 2023 HOLIDAY GIFT BOOK With humor and grace, the memoir of a first-generation Chinese American in New York City. Our Laundry, Our Town is a memoir that decodes and pr- Author: Eng, Alvin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 212
- Publish Date: October 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1531504833
- Language: English
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Harriet Tubman, Secret Agent: How Daring Slaves and Free Blacks Spied for the Union During the Civil War
$5.95 Add to cartThomas B. Allen’s follow-up to the multi-award-winning George Washington, Spymaster is now available in paperback. This compelling biography tells the amazing tale of Harriet Tubman using details unco… [more below]
- Author: Allen, Thomas B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: December 23 2008
- ISBN10: 1426304013
- Language: English
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Confessions of a Bookseller
$27.95 Read moreOne cozy, funny year with a Scottish used bookseller as he stays afloat while managing staff, customers, and life in the village of Wigtown. This endearing world is the next best thing to visiting you
- Author: Bythell, Shaun
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 324
- Publish Date: April 07 2020
- ISBN10: 1567926649
- Language: English
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Baby Girl: Better Known as Aaliyah
$27.00 Read moreIn a definitive and “excellent homage to a star who left this planet too soon” (Questlove), the life, career, tragic death, and evolution of Aaliyah into a music legend are explored–featuring in-dept… [more below]
- Author: Iandoli, Kathy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 17 2021
- ISBN10: 1982156848
- Language: English
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The Mare and the Mouse: Stories of My Horses Vol. I
$22.00 Read moreBeautiful and hilarious, tearful and rambunctious, very real, ironic and magic-filled, Mart n Prechtel’s new book The Mare and the Mouse is a series of lyrical sagas in tribute to each of the native N… [more below]
- Series: Stories of My Horses
- Author: Prechtel, Martín
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 294
- Publish Date: July 13 2021
- ISBN10: 1682011178
- Language: English
