Cultural/ Ethnic & Regional
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Who Was Sitting Bull?
$6.99 Add to cartNo one knew the boy they called “Jumping Badger” would grow to become a great leader. Born on the banks of the Yellowstone River, Sitting Bull, as he was later called, was tribal chief and holy man of… [more below]
- Series: Who Was?
- Author: Spinner, Stephanie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: December 26 2014
- ISBN10: 0448479656
- Language: English
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Milloo’s Mind: The Story of Maryam Faruqi, Trailblazer for Women’s Education
$18.99 Add to cartFrom the author of Lailah’s Lunchbox and Unsettled comes a powerful picture book biography about Maryam Faruqi, the founder of the Happy Home Schools, which provided education to thousands of girls ac
- Author: Faruqi, Reem
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: January 17 2023
- ISBN10: 0063056615
- Language: English
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Twin A: A Memoir
$19.00 Add to cartShortly after learning they would become the parents of twins, the physician-writer Amit Majmudar and his wife received a devastating in utero diagnosis: one of the twins had a potentially fatal conge
- Author: Majmudar, Amit
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 206
- Publish Date: August 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1639821384
- Language: English
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Skinfolk: A Memoir
$30.00 Add to cartCould a picturesque white house with a picket fence save the world? What if it was filled with children drawn together from around the globe? And what if, within the yard, the lines of kin and skin, o… [more below]
- Author: Guterl, Matthew Pratt
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 28 2023
- ISBN10: 1324091711
- Language: English
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The Forest Keeper- The True Story of Jadav Payeng
$18.95 Add to cartTrees don’t grow on sandbars . . . but a boy from India grew a forest.
What can one person do in the face of global environmental degradation? Indian Jadav Payeng has proven that each and every one of- Author: Singh, Rina
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: April 18 2023
- ISBN10: 0735845050
- Language: English
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The Vast Wonder of the World: Biologist Ernest Everett Just
$19.99 Add to cart“A must-purchase picture book biography of a figure sure to inspire awe and admiration among readers.”–School Library Journal (starred review)
Extraordinary illustrations and lyrical text present p
- Author: Mangal, Mélina
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: November 01 2018
- ISBN10: 1512483753
- Language: English
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The Story of Gandhi: An Inspiring Biography for Young Readers
$6.99 Add to cartDiscover the life of Gandhi–a story for kids ages 6 to 9 about building bridges to peace
Gandhi was one of the most important leaders in history. He used peaceful protests and other nonviolent metho- Series: Story of
- Author: Katz, Susan B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: December 22 2020
- ISBN10: 1647399459
- Language: English
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Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir
$18.00 Add to cartFEATURED ON THE COVER OF TIME MAGAZINE AS A 2021 NEXT GENERATION LEADER
“A once-in-a-generation voice.” – Vulture “One of our greatest living writers.” – Shondaland A full-throated and provocative me- Author: Emezi, Akwaeke
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 07 2022
- ISBN10: 0593329201
- Language: English
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Satchmo: My Life in New Orleans
$18.99 Add to cart“In all my whole career the Brick House was one of the toughest joints I ever played in. It was the honky-tonk where levee workers would congregate every Saturday night and trade with the gals who’d s… [more below]
- Author: Armstrong, Louis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: August 22 1986
- ISBN10: 0306802767
- Language: English
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Mumbet’s Declaration of Independence
$20.99 Add to cart“All men are born free and equal.”
Everybody knows about the Founding Fathers and the Declaration of Independence in 1776. But the founders weren’t the only ones who believed that everyone had a ri- Author: Woelfle, Gretchen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: February 01 2014
- ISBN10: 0761365893
- Language: English
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A Two-Spirit Journey: The Autobiography of a Lesbian Ojibwa-Cree Elder
$27.95 Add to cartA compelling, harrowing, but ultimately uplifting story of resilience and self-discovery. “A Two-Spirit Journey” is Ma-Nee Chacaby’s extraordinary account of her life as an Ojibwa-Cree lesbian. From h… [more below]
- Series: Critical Studies in Native History #18
- Author: Chacaby, Ma-Nee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 22 2016
- ISBN10: 0887558127
- Language: English
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If These Stones Could Talk: African American Presence in the Hopewell Valley
$29.95 Add to cartCemeteries have stories to tell, voices to unearth-and lessons from the past that we can draw upon to better shape the future. If These Stones Could Talk brings fresh light to a forgotten corner of Am
- Author: Buck, Elaine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 372
- Publish Date: March 27 2023
- ISBN10: 9798986618852
- Language: English
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
$10.99 Add to cartFirst appearing in 1845 The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, with its painfully vivid depiction of life in bondage, was both a bestseller in its day and one of the most powerful, authorita
- Series: Mint Editions (Black Narratives)
- Author: Douglass, Frederick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 106
- Publish Date: February 15 2022
- ISBN10: 151313356X
- Language: English
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Steel Drivin’ Man: John Henry, the Untold Story of an American Legend
$17.98 Add to cartThe ballad “John Henry” is the most recorded folk song in American history and John Henry–the mighty railroad man who could blast through rock faster than a steam drill–is a towering figure in our c… [more below]
- Author: Nelson, Scott Reynolds
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: August 04 2008
- ISBN10: 0195341198
- Language: English
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Help Is on the Way: Stay Up and Live Your Truth
$27.00 Read moreFind your hustle without losing your soul. Comedic superstar and internet entrepreneur Kountry Wayne made it to the top with a little bit of faith, a lot of perseverance, and a fearless commitment to … [more below]
- Author: Wayne, Kountry
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 18 2023
- ISBN10: 0593236475
- Language: English
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Off the Hook: Off-Beat Reporter’s Tales from Michigan’s Upper Peninsula (U.P.)
$21.95 Add to cartBack in 1981, publisher Ed Danner took a chance, hiring Nancy Besonen, a rookie reporter from Chicago’s South Side, for his weekly newspaper, the L’Anse Sentinel. Her humor column, “Off the Hook,” was
- Author: Besonen, Nancy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 180
- Publish Date: October 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1615997482
- Language: English
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American Struggle: Teens Respond to Jacob Lawrence
$19.95 Add to cart“A fresh lens for viewing Jacob Lawrence’s art: through the perspective of teens of color. . . . An invaluable resource amplifying marginalized teen voices and conveying Lawrence’s relevance to their
- Author: Kim, Chul R.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: January 21 2020
- ISBN10: 164442021X
- Language: English
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Namesake: Reflections on a Warrior Woman
$20.00 Add to cartA Palestinian Woman’s dazzling exploration of heritage, gender and the idea of home.
I may not be brave enough, but somewhere deep inside of me there is, perhaps, the kernel of someone who is. That- Author: Nuseibeh, N. S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 25 2024
- ISBN10: 162371687X
- Language: English
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Climbing the Vines in Burgundy: How an American Came to Own a Legendary Vineyard in France
$31.58 Add to cartNamed one of the New York Times Best Wine Books of 2023
Named one of the Washington Post’s Best Wine Books of 2023
In the late 1980s, while working for his family’s real estate and parking business in W
- Author: Gambal, Alex
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 03 2024
- ISBN10: 1538196158
- Language: English
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Bringing Ben Home: A Murder, a Conviction, and the Fight to Redeem American Justice
$30.00 Read moreHow states are making their legal systems more equitable, seen through the story of a Black man falsely imprisoned for thirty years for murder.
In 1987, Ben Spencer, a twenty-two-year-old Black man fr- Author: Hagerty, Barbara Bradley
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: August 06 2024
- ISBN10: 059342008X
- Language: English
