Cultural/ Ethnic & Regional
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A Place to Stand
$18.00 Add to cartJimmy Santiago Baca’s harrowing, brilliant memoir of his life before, during, and immediately after the years he spent in a maximum-security prison garnered tremendous critical acclaim and went on to … [more below]
- Author: Baca, Jimmy Santiago
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 10, 2002
- ISBN10: 0802139086
- Language: English
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Ada Blackjack: A True Story of Survival in the Arctic
$24.99 Add to cartFrom the author of The Ice Master comes the remarkable true story of a young Inuit woman who survived six months alone on a desolate, uninhabited Arctic island
In September 1921, four young men and A- Author: Niven, Jennifer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 431
- Publish Date: November 3, 2004
- ISBN10: 078688746X
- Language: English
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Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019
$35.00 Add to cart#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – A chorus of extraordinary voices tells the epic story of the four-hundred-year journey of African Americans from 1619 to the present–edited by Ibram X. Kendi, author of… [more below]
- Author: Kendi, Ibram X.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: February 02 2021
- ISBN10: 0593134044
- Language: English
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
$5.95 Add to cartFrederick Douglass’s dramatic autobiographical account of his early life as a slave in America.
Born into a life of bondage, Frederick Douglass secretly taught himself to read and write. It was a crim- Series: Signet Classics
- Author: Douglass, Frederick
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: June 07 2005
- ISBN10: 0451529944
- Language: English
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
$9.99 Read moreMaya Angelou’s debut memoir is a modern American classic beloved worldwide. Her life story is told in the documentary film And Still I Rise, as seen on PBS’s American Masters.
Here is a book as joyous- Author: Angelou, Maya
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 21 2009
- ISBN10: 0345514408
- Language: English
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Solito: A Memoir
$19.00 Add to cartNew York Times Bestseller – Read With Jenna Book Club Pick as seen on Today – Winner of the Los Angeles Times Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiography – Winner of the American Library Association… [more below]
- Author: Zamora, Javier
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: June 06 2023
- ISBN10: 0593498089
- Language: English
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A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
$17.00 Add to cartIn the #1 New York Times bestseller, A Long Way Gone, Ishmael Beah tells a riveting story: how at the age of twelve, he fled attacking rebels and wandered a land rendered unrecognizable by violence.
- Author: Beah, Ishmael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: August 05, 2008
- ISBN10: 0374531269
- Language: English
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Killing Rage: Ending Racism
$19.99 Add to cart“hooks’s books help us not only to decolonize our minds, souls, and bodies; on a deeper level, they touch our lives.” –Cornel West
More than two decades before Black Lives Matter and the #MeToo moveme- Series: Owl Book
- Author: Hooks, Bell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 15, 1996
- ISBN10: 0805050272
- Language: English
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We Had a Little Real Estate Problem: The Unheralded Story of Native Americans & Comedy
$18.99 Add to cartA Best Book of 2021 by NPR and Esquire
From Kliph Nesteroff, “the human encyclopedia of comedy” (VICE), comes the important and underappreciated story of Native Americans and comedy. It was one of the- Author: Nesteroff, Kliph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 15, 2022
- ISBN10: 1982103051
- Language: English
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Me Talk Pretty One Day
$19.99 Add to cartA recent transplant to Paris, humorist David Sedaris, bestselling author of Naked, presents a collection of his strongest work yet, including the title story about his hilarious attempt to learn Frenc
- Author: Sedaris, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 05, 2001
- ISBN10: 0316776963
- Language: English
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The Three Mothers: How the Mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation
$18.99 Add to cartNew York Times Bestseller
“This dynamic blend of biography and manifesto centers on Louise Little, Alberta King, and Berdis Baldwin . . . Tubbs’s book stands against the women’s erasure, a monument to- Author: Tubbs, Anna Malaika
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: December 28 2021
- ISBN10: 1250756138
- Language: English
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Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History
$18.99 Add to cart*Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award*
This New York Times bestseller
*A New York Times Notable Book*
*Winner of the Texas Book Award and the Oklahoma Book Award*- Author: Gwynne, S. C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 10 2011
- ISBN10: 1416591060
- Language: English
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Becoming
$20.00 Add to cartNow in paperback–the intimate, powerful, and inspiring memoir by the former First Lady of the United States, featuring a new introduction by Michelle Obama, a letter from the author to her younger se… [more below]
- Author: Obama, Michelle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: March 02 2021
- ISBN10: 1524763144
- Language: English
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The Color of Water: A Black Man’s Tribute to His White Mother
$17.00 Add to cartFrom the bestselling author of Deacon King Kong and the National Book Award-winning The Good Lord Bird The modern classic that spent more than two years on The New York Times bestseller list and that … [more below]
- Author: McBride, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 07 2006
- ISBN10: 159448192X
- Language: English
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Rebel for the Hell of It: The Life of Tupac Shakur
$19.99 Add to cartThe ever-controversial Shakur offers a great occasion for a close, passionate reading of rap and ghetto culture. White’s understanding of Tupac’s art will uncork the bottled up rage and confusion that
- Author: White, Armond
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 252
- Publish Date: November 22, 2002
- ISBN10: 1560254610
- Language: English
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Empire State of Mind: How Jay Z Went from Street Corner to Corner Office, Revised Edition
$18.00 Read moreUpdated and revised–the story of American rapper Jay-Z’s glass-shattering rise from the Brooklyn projects to the top of the business world.
Beyond the award-wining albums and chart-topping hits, Jay- Author: Greenburg, Zack O’Malley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 22 2015
- ISBN10: 1591848342
- Language: English
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
$19.00 Add to cartMaya Angelou’s debut memoir is a modern American classic beloved worldwide. Her life story is told in the documentary film And Still I Rise, as seen on PBS’s American Masters.
Here is a book as joyous- Author: Angelou, Maya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 21 2009
- ISBN10: 0812980026
- Language: English
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The Old Jewish Men’s Guide to Eating, Sleeping, and Futzing Around
$19.99 Add to cartFrom the viral social media account @oldjewishmen comes a hilarious and irresistible guide and perfect gift for every OJM and the people who put up with him
Here is a humorous, surprisingly stylish,- Author: Rinsky, Noah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 17 2024
- ISBN10: 1523523565
- Language: English
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Dear Maine: The Trials and Triumphs of Maine’s 21st Century Immigrants
$19.95 Read moreDear Maine, written by Morgan Rielly, an author and state senator, and Reza Jalali, a former refugee and executive director of the Greater Portland Immigrant Welcome Center, recounts the trails and tr… [more below]
- Author: Jalali, Reza
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 16 2021
- ISBN10: 1952143195
- Language: English
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I Am Charlie Wilson
$17.99 Add to cartThe long-awaited New York Times bestselling memoir of seven-time Grammy-nominated artist Charlie Wilson, the iconic R&B and Funk singer-songwriter-producer and former lead singer of The Gap Band–inte… [more below]
- Author: Wilson, Charlie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 28 2016
- ISBN10: 1476790086
- Language: English
