Cultural/ Ethnic & Regional
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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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The Canyon Wren: Stories of My Horses Vol. III
$24.00 Read moreThe Canyon Wren is the continuation and beautiful punchline of the full tale of Mart? Prechtel’s trilogy, The Story of My Horses, and picks up right where The Wild Rose leaves off. This third book in … [more below]
- Series: Stories of My Horses
- Author: Prechtel, Mart?n
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: April 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1682011291
- Language: English
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Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History
$27.95 Add to cartFamily and nation formed a reliable bedrock of security for precocious 11-year-old Lea Ypi. She was a Young Pioneer, helping to lead her country toward the future of perfect freedom promised by the le
- Author: Ypi, Lea
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 18 2022
- ISBN10: 0393867730
- Language: English
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Dear Benjamin Banneker
$9.99 Add to cartThroughout his life Banneker was troubled that all blacks were not free. And so, in 1791, he wrote to Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson, who had signed the Declaration of Independence. Banneker atta
- Author: Pinkney, Andrea Davis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: September 01 1998
- ISBN10: 0152018921
- Language: English
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Eventually, Inevitably / Tarde O Temprano Era Inevitable: My Writing Life in Verse / Mi Vida de Escritor En Verso
$14.95 Read more- Author: Saldaña Jr. René
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 222
- Publish Date: October 31 2023
- ISBN10: 1558859810
- Language: English
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Poems: Maya Angelou
$18.00 Add to cartTenderly, joyously, sometimes in sadness, sometimes in pain, Maya Angelou writes from the heart and celebrates life as only she has discovered it. In this moving volume of poetry, we hear the multi-fa… [more below]
- Author: Angelou, Maya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 12 1997
- ISBN10: 0553379852
- Language: English
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Mean Boys: A Personal History
$28.99 Read more“Makes you say: yes, that is exactly how it is.”-Torrey Peters
A ferocious inquiry into art and desire, style and politics, madness and salvation, and coming of age in our volatile, image-obsessed pre- Author: Mak, Geoffrey
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 30 2024
- ISBN10: 1635577942
- Language: English
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Relentless: My Story of the Latino Spirit That Is Transforming America
$30.00 Add to cartEssential reading from an expert voice: Luis A. Miranda Jr.’s personal and political memoir reveals a deep understanding of Latino culture and how to build community to change our world for the better… [more below]
- Author: Miranda, Luis A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 07 2024
- ISBN10: 0306833220
- Language: English
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You’ll Never Believe Me: A Life of Lies, Second Tries, and Things I Should Only Tell My Therapist
$29.00 Add to cartThe compelling, edgy, compassionate, laugh-out-loud memoir from Kari Ferrell, formerly known as the “Hipster Grifter”
Before Anna Delvey, before the Tinder Swindler, there was Kari Ferrell. Adopted at- Author: Ferrell, Kari
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1250288223
- Language: English
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From These Roots: My Fight with Harvard to Reclaim My Legacy
$30.00 Add to cartOne woman’s unrelenting mission to reclaim her ancestors’ history and honor their lineage pits her against one of the country’s most powerful institutions: Harvard University
Tamara Lanier grew up lis- Author: Lanier, Tamara
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 28 2025
- ISBN10: 059372772X
- Language: English
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One Day: A True Story of Survival in the Holocaust
$18.99 Add to cartFrom an eminent storyteller, this powerful, simply told, beautifully illustrated picture book recounts a rare story of survival during the Holocaust.
One day, a Hungarian-French Jew and his father wer- Author: Rosen, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: January 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1536238945
- Language: English
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Before Elvis: The African American Musicians Who Made the King
$30.00 Add to cartIn this thought-provoking book, the Black musicians who influenced Elvis Presley’s music finally receive recognition and praise.
After Baz Luhrmann’s movie, Elvis, hit theaters, audiences and critics- Author: Lauterbach, Preston
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 07 2025
- ISBN10: 0306833085
- Language: English
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Cartas de Amor Y Rebeld?a / Letters of Love and Rebellion
$15.95 Read moreEs un viaje que nos permite acompa?ar a la prestigiosa Lydia Cacho a trav?s de su carrera, sus obst?culos, sus querencias, sus fallas, sus deseos y sus pasiones.
Es un libro que ense?a desde lo m?s hu- Author: Cacho, Lydia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: August 23 2022
- ISBN10: 607381321X
- Language: Spanish
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My Life with Earth, Wind & Fire
$16.99 Add to cartForeword by Steve Harvey and afterword by David Foster
The Grammy-winning founder of the legendary pop/R&B/soul/funk/disco group tells his story and charts the rise of his legendary band in this sincer
- Author: White, Maurice
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: July 24 2018
- ISBN10: 0062329162
- Language: English
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Playing for Keeps: Michael Jordan and the World He Made
$18.00 Read moreNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – From a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist comes “the best Jordan book so far” (The Washington Post), the story of Michael Jordan’s legendary years with the Chicago Bulls, ca… [more below]
- Author: Halberstam, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: February 01 2000
- ISBN10: 0767904443
- Language: English
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With Books and Bricks: How Booker T. Washington Built a School
$17.99 Read more2016-2017 Young Hoosier Book Award Intermediate Nominee
Booker T. Washington had an incredible passion for learning. Born a slave, he taught himself to read. When the Civil War ended, Booker finally fu
- Author: Slade, Suzanne
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: September 01 2014
- ISBN10: 0807508977
- Language: English
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One Day When I Was Lost: A Scenario Based on Alex Haley’s the Autobiography of Malcolm X
$15.00 Add to cartA rare, lucidly composed screenplay from one of America’s greatest writers, based on the bestselling classic The Autobiography of Malcolm X. – “Sharp…. Precise…. There is no questioning the depth … [more below]
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Baldwin, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 14 2007
- ISBN10: 0307275949
- Language: English
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Mas Alla de Mi: Reaching Out (Spanish Edition) = Reaching Out
$9.99 Read moreFrom the perspective of the young adult he once was, Francisco Jimenez describes the challenges he faces when continuing his education. During his college years, the very family solidarity that allows
- Series: Cajas de Carton #3
- Author: Jiménez, Francisco
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0547250312
- Language: Spanish
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Wuhan Diary: Dispatches from a Quarantined City
$17.99 Add to cartFrom one of China’s most acclaimed and decorated writers comes a powerful first-person account of life in Wuhan during the COVID-19 outbreak.
On January 25, 2020, after the central government imposed a
- Author: Fang, Fang
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: September 13 2022
- ISBN10: 0063273543
- Language: English
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This Will Be My Undoing: Living at the Intersection of Black, Female, and Feminist in (White) America
$17.99 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
One of The Roots’ 28 Brilliant Books by Black Authors in 2018
“A writer to be reckoned with.” –Roxane Gay
Named one of the Most Anticipated Books of 2018 by Esquire, Elle, Vo
- Author: Jerkins, Morgan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 30 2018
- ISBN10: 0062666150
- Language: English
