Cultural/ Ethnic & Regional
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Who Was J. R. R. Tolkien?
$6.99 Read moreBest known for his epic Lord of the Rings trilogy and The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien was born in British-occupied South Africa. His early life was full of action and adventure. Tolkien spent his childhood… [more below]
- Series: Who Was?
- Author: Pollack, Pam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: July 21 2015
- ISBN10: 0448483025
- Language: English
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Nonwhite and Woman: 131 Micro Essays on Being in the World
$21.95 Add to cartNonwhite and Woman celebrates how women of color live and thrive in the world, and how they make their lives their own. The anthology’s title is from Lucille Clifton’s luminous poem, “won’t you celebr… [more below]
- Series: Flash Nonfiction
- Author: Gee, Darien Hsu
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 354
- Publish Date: September 06 2022
- ISBN10: 1949116697
- Language: English
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The Original Black Elite: Daniel Murray and the Story of a Forgotten Era
$18.99 Add to cartIn this outstanding cultural biography, the author of the New York Times bestseller A Slave in the White House chronicles a critical yet overlooked chapter in American history: the inspiring rise and
- Author: Taylor, Elizabeth Dowling
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: January 30 2018
- ISBN10: 0062346105
- Language: English
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Brother Robert: Growing Up with Robert Johnson
$28.00 Add to cartA Rolling Stone-Kirkus Best Music Book of 2020
An intimate memoir by blues legend Robert Johnson’s st
” Brother Robert} book does much to pull the blues master out of the fog of myth.”–Rolling Stone- Author: Anderson, Annye C.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: June 09 2020
- ISBN10: 0306845261
- Language: English
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Teaching in the Dark: A Memoir
$19.95 Add to cartA young teacher buys a one-way ticket to Shishmaref, Alaska. Within minutes of landing, she finds herself dealing with unexpected, rustic accommodations, and the culture shock of living in a remote I?… [more below]
- Author: Genét Simone
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 530
- Publish Date: October 12 2023
- ISBN10: 9.79877E+12
- Language: English
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The True West: Real Stories about Black Cowboys, Women Sharpshooters, Native American Rodeo Stars, Pioneering Vaqueros, and the Unsun
$19.99 Read moreA 2021 Notable Social Studies Trade Book from the Children’s Book Council and National Council for the Social Studies
“Especially and unreservedly recommended for family, elementary school, middle sch
- Author: Luong, Wiliam
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: June 02 2020
- ISBN10: 1733633510
- Language: English
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Empowered Black Girl: Joyful Affirmations and Words of Resilience (Book for Black Girls Ages 12+)
$15.99 Add to cartEven strong, fearless, and badass Black women need affirmations!
- Series: Badass Black Girl
- Author: Fievre, M. J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: January 19 2021
- ISBN10: 1642505609
- Language: English
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Baba’s Gift: A Persian Father’s Love of Family
$18.99 Read moreBaba’s Gift is a radiant celebration of a Persian father’s love of family, from his boyhood in Iran to his new life in America.
Baba enchants his six daughters with his stories, transporting them to h- Author: Ariana Shaheen Amini
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: February 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1632173239
- Language: English
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Bread for Words: A Frederick Douglass Story
$16.99 Read moreFrederick Douglass knew where he was born but not when. He knew his grandmother but not his father. And as a young child, there were other questions, such as Why am I a slave? Answers to those questio… [more below]
- Author: Keller, Shana
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: January 15 2020
- ISBN10: 1534110011
- Language: English
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The Snarling Girl and Other Essays
$28.95 Add to cartIn sixteen essays published over the past decade, acclaimed novelist Elisa Albert considers everything from the creative process to reproductive justice, ambition to Ani DiFranco, Judaism to the ethos
- Author: Albert, Elisa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 194
- Publish Date: August 27 2024
- ISBN10: 1960988069
- Language: English
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Come by Here: A Memoir in Essays from Georgia’s Geechee Coast
$17.95 Add to cartIn this powerful debut memoir, Neesha Powell-Ingabire chips away at coastal Georgia’s facade of beaches and golden marshes to recover undertold Black history alongside personal and family stories.
In M
- Author: Powell-Ingabire, Neesha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: September 24 2024
- ISBN10: 9798885740388
- Language: English
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Six Walks: In the Footsteps of Henry David Thoreau
$17.95 Add to cartOn an autumn morning in 1849, Henry David Thoreau stepped out his front door to walk the beaches of Cape Cod. Over a century and a half later, Ben Shattuck does the same. With little more than a loaf
- Author: Shattuck, Ben
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 24 2024
- ISBN10: 1959030825
- Language: English
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Finding Otipemisiwak: The People Who Own Themselves
$21.95 Read moreForcibly removed from her Indigenous family as a child, Andrea Currie journeys back to her Nation and the truth of who she is
Otipemisiwak is a Plains Cree word describing the M?tis, meaning “the peopl
- Author: Currie, Andrea
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 08 2024
- ISBN10: 1551529556
- Language: English
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Soil: The Story of a Black Mother’s Garden
$19.99 Add to cartA “heartfelt and thoroughly enriching” (Aimee Nezhukumatathil, New York Times bestselling author of World of Wonders) work that expands on how we talk about the natural world and the environment as Na… [more below]
- Author: Dungy, Camille T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 07 2024
- ISBN10: 1982195312
- Language: English
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Can I Have Your Pearl Bracelet?
$18.95 Add to cartIn Can I Have Your Pearl Bracelet? award-winning author, poet and advice columnist Frances H. Kakugawa presents stories and poems gleaned from a lifetime search for answers to life’s existential quest
- Author: Kakugawa, Frances H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: October 16 2023
- ISBN10: 1958701076
- Language: English
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A Tourist From Petach Tikva: Growing Up Alongside the Creation of the State of Israel
$19.99 Add to cart“An enjoyable, touchingly personal account of a turbulent time in the Middle East.” – Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
Shulamit Frankel grew up in the tumultuous years during the creation of the State o… [more below]
- Author: Kagan, Aubrey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 210
- Publish Date: June 12 2023
- ISBN10: 1039162681
- Language: English
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Pendar
$19.99 Add to cartPENDAR – A MEMOIR OF COURAGE, HEARTBREAK, AND PERSEVERANCE
A young family’s world is turned upside down after the Iranian revolution leads to a bloody war. Young 12-year-old Pendar learns that children
- Author: Malek, Pendar
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 254
- Publish Date: June 02 2023
- ISBN10: 1637774362
- Language: English
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Where There’s a Will, There’s a Way
$24.95 Add to cartMa was a crafty lady who had been taught well by her father and mother, Elias Samuel Totten and Nancy Jane Bradford Totten. She learned to cook, sew, plow, hoe, pick cotton, do housework, and dry appl… [more below]
- Author: Barger, Carl J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 458
- Publish Date: May 02 2023
- ISBN10: 1682358291
- Language: English
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God Is Good
$9.99 Add to cartA story written by a father for his kids that talks of his hardships in life from being left by both of his parents early in his life and being born from an American man and a Korean woman in which he
- Author: Green, Albert K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 86
- Publish Date: April 27 2023
- ISBN10: 1088098843
- Language: English
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Here We Are: To Migrate to America… It’s the Boldest Act of One’s Life
$19.99 Add to cartHere We Are is a heart-wrenching memoir about an immigrant family’s American Dream, the justice system that took it away, and the daughter who fought to get it back, from NPR correspondent Aarti Namde
- Author: Shahani, Aarti Namdev
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 06 2020
- ISBN10: 1250204747
- Language: English
