Cultural/ Ethnic & Regional
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While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age During the Civil Rights Movement
$17.99 Add to cartOn September 15, 1963, a Klan-planted bomb went off in the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama. Fourteen-year-old Carolyn Maull was just a few feet away when the bomb exploded, killing f… [more below]
- Author: McKinstry, Carolyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 01 2013
- ISBN10: 1414336373
- Language: English
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Black Box: The Memoir That Sparked Japan’s #Metoo Movement
$17.95 Add to cartBlack Box is a riveting, sobering memoir that chronicles one woman’s struggle for justice, calling for changes to an industry–and in society at large–to ensure that future victims of sexual assault
- Author: Ito, Shiori
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 13 2021
- ISBN10: 1952177979
- Language: English
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Catfish and Mandala: A Two-Wheeled Voyage Through the Landscape and Memory of Vietnam
$22.00 Read moreWinner of the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize
Catfish and Mandala is the
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year
Winner of the Whiting Writers’ Award
A Seattle Post-Intelligencer Best Book of the Year- Author: Pham, Andrew X.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 02 2000
- ISBN10: 0312267177
- Language: English
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
$15.00 Add to cartThe unflinching nineteenth-century autobiography that broke the silence on the psychosexual exploitation of Black women–with an introduction by Tiya Miles, author of All That She Carried and National… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Torchbearers
- Author: Jacobs, Harriet
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 02 2021
- ISBN10: 0593230361
- Language: English
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Paul Robeson: No One Can Silence Me: The Life of the Legendary Artist and Activist (Adapted for Young Adults)
$28.99 Add to cartThe inspiring life and legacy of vocal artist and civil rights icon Paul Robeson–one of the most important public figures in the twentieth century–adapted for young adults by the acclaimed Robeson b
- Author: Duberman, Martin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 09 2021
- ISBN10: 1620976498
- Language: English
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Taking Hold: From Migrant Childhood to Columbia University
$9.99 Add to cart“Simply written but full of beautiful details, this book should inspire every citizen of our diverse and changing world.” —VOYA In this fourth book in his award-winning memoir series, Francisco Jimen… [more below]
- Series: Circuit #4
- Author: Jiménez, Francisco
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 17 2017
- ISBN10: 1328742091
- Language: English
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
$14.95 Add to cart‘The degradations, the wrongs, the vices, that grow out of slavery, are more than I can describe.’
Harriet Jacobs was born a slave in the American South and went on to write one of the most extraordin- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Jacobs, Harriet
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0198709870
- Language: English
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Hispanic Star En Español: Ellen Ochoa
$9.99 Add to cartLee sobre la primera astronauta Latina en el espacio, Ellen Ochoa, quien se encuentra entre los h?roes hispanos y latinos m?s innovadores e ic?nicos que han dado forma a nuestra cultura y al mundo en
- Series: Hispanic Star
- Author: Edelman, Claudia Romo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: September 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1250840171
- Language: Spanish
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My Broken Language: A Memoir
$20.00 Add to cartGOOD MORNING AMERICA BUZZ PICK – The Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and co-writer of In the Heights tells her lyrical story of coming of age against the backdrop of an ailing Philadelphia barrio, w… [more below]
- Author: Hudes, Quiara Alegría
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 11 2022
- ISBN10: 0399590064
- Language: English
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Martin Luther King, Jr. and the March on Washington
$5.99 Read moreAll Aboard Reading!
On August 28, 1963, more than 250,000 people came to the nation’s capital. They came by plane, by bus, by car–even on roller-skates–to speak out against segregation and to demand
- Series: Penguin Young Readers, Level 3
- Author: Ruffin, Frances
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: December 04 2000
- ISBN10: 0448424215
- Language: English
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I Will Scream to the World: My Story. My Fight. My Hope for Girls Everywhere.
$28.00 Add to cartThis extraordinary memoir details the monumental journey of one young Gambian woman from survivor of FGM and forced child marriage, to global activist and political leader who became UN Women’s first … [more below]
- Author: Dukureh, Jaha Marie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: December 24 2024
- ISBN10: 1496748468
- Language: English
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I Decided to Live as Me: An Illustrated Checklist for How to Stop Comparing Yourself to Others So You Can Learn to Love Yourself
$30.00 Add to cartThe million-copy internationally bestselling illustrated life guide about how to stop comparing yourself to others–especially on social media–and how to find the strength to be yourself
In a world w- Author: Suhyun, Kim
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 19 2024
- ISBN10: 0143138227
- Language: English
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Resist: How a Century of Young Black Activists Shaped America
$29.00 Add to cartThe story of young Black activists at the helm of fighting injustice over the last century, from the 1920s to the Trayvon generation, and how they transformed America and left an indelible mark on his
- Author: Omokha, Rita
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 19 2024
- ISBN10: 1250290988
- Language: English
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Growing Up Urkel
$28.99 Add to cartAn incisive and insightful memoir by one of the most beloved icons of nineties television Jaleel White, the actor who portrayed Steve Urkel on the hit sitcom Family Matters.
At the tender age of twelv- Author: White, Jaleel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 19 2024
- ISBN10: 1668068893
- Language: English
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Master of Me: The Secret to Controlling Your Narrative
$27.99 Add to cartFrom the award-winning, multi-hyphenate global entertainer Keke Palmer comes the inspiring true story of her journey to understanding her genuine value.
Right when it seemed like all the pieces were c- Author: Palmer, Keke
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 19 2024
- ISBN10: 1250372518
- Language: English
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I’m Laughing Because I’m Crying: A Memoir
$29.00 Add to cartFrom standup comedian Youngmi Mayer, an unforgettable memoir written with “raw, enviable freedom that simply floors you,” interrogating whiteness, gender, and sexuality in America, navigating a tumult
- Author: Mayer, Youngmi
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 12 2024
- ISBN10: 0316569232
- Language: English
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Redeemed: A Memoir of a Stolen Childhood
$17.95 Add to cartPenny is just four years old when she is snatched away from her all-American home by the Hungarian father who abandoned her when she was a baby. After facing isolation and neglect in a strange, dysfun… [more below]
- Author: Lane, Penny
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: June 25 2024
- ISBN10: 1647427002
- Language: English
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Radical Vision: A Biography of Lorraine Hansberry
$18.00 Read moreA “loving, lavishly detailed” (New York Times) and captivating portrait of Lorraine Hansberry’s life, art, and political activism–one of O Magazine‘s best books of April 2021
“A devoted and deeply fe- Author: Colbert, Soyica Diggs
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 08 2022
- ISBN10: 030026478X
- Language: English
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A Song Flung Up to Heaven
$23.95 Read moreThe culmination of a unique achievement in modern American literature: the six volumes of autobiography that began more than thirty years ago with the appearance of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.
A- Author: Angelou, Maya
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 212
- Publish Date: April 02 2002
- ISBN10: 0375507477
- Language: English
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This Jazz Man
$9.99 Read moreIn this toe-tapping jazz tribute, the traditional “This Old Man” gets a swinging makeover, and some of the era’s best musicians take center stage. The tuneful text and vibrant illustrations bop, slide… [more below]
- Author: Ehrhardt, Karen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: January 27 2015
- ISBN10: 0544339223
- Language: English
