Social Activists
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Writing My Wrongs: Life, Death, and Redemption in an American Prison
$18.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – An “extraordinary, unforgettable” (Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow) memoir of redemption and second chances amidst America’s mass incarceration epidemic, fro… [more below]
- Author: Senghor, Shaka
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 31 2017
- ISBN10: 1101907312
- Language: English
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Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
$20.00 Add to cart#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING MICHAEL B. JORDAN AND JAMIE FOXX – A powerful true story about the potential for mercy to redeem us, and a clarion call to fix our br… [more below]
- Author: Stevenson, Bryan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: August 18 2015
- ISBN10: 081298496X
- Language: English
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In Pursuit of Love: One Woman’s Journey from Trafficked to Triumphant
$19.99 Read moreThrough her own gripping story of escape from human trafficking, Rebecca Bender reveals the inner workings of the underground world of modern-day slavery and helps us learn how we can be a catalyst fo
- Author: Bender, Rebecca
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 28 2020
- ISBN10: 0310356857
- Language: English
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Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary
$19.95 Add to cart2024 Stonewall Honor Award for Nonfiction
The future of Black, queer, and trans liberation explored by a legendary transgender elder and activist Miss Major Griffin-Gracy is a veteran of the infamous- Author: Meronek, Toshio
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: May 16 2023
- ISBN10: 1839763345
- Language: English
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A Taste of Power: A Black Woman’s Story
$23.00 Add to cart“Profound, funny … wild and moving … heartbreaking accounts of a lonely black childhood…. Brown sees racial oppression in national and global context; every political word she writes pounds home… [more below]
- Author: Brown, Elaine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: December 01 1993
- ISBN10: 0385471076
- Language: English
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The Dream of an Education: How Phymean Noun Built a School
$24.95 Add to cartAs a young child, Phymean Noun dreamed of learning to read and write. But growing up during the Khmer Rouge reign of terror in Cambodia in the 1970s made that dream impossible.
Formal education was no
- Series: Orca Biography
- Author: Hughes, Susan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: May 19 2026
- ISBN10: 1459842421
- Language: English
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From the Streets to the Steps: One Day at a Time – A Memoir
$14.99 Add to cartJimmy Pidgeon was born into an upper-middle-class, albeit dysfunctional family just before the turbulent sixties. As disco was getting up a good head of steam, Jimmy’s life was spiraling out of contro
- Author: Pidgeon, Jimmy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 210
- Publish Date: January 07 2026
- ISBN10: 9798349689314
- Language: English
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We Want Equal Rights!: The Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Influence on the Women’s Rights Movement
$14.95 Add to cartWe Want Equal Rights! is the story of remarkable women who laid the foundation for the modern women’s movement and the American Indian nation that proved equality was possible. In 1850, these brave wo… [more below]
- Author: Roesch Wagner, Sally
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: August 27 2020
- ISBN10: 1939053285
- Language: English
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Jane Fonda: There’s a Great Deal to Say
$29.95 Add to cartSince the late 1960s, Jane Fonda has identified as an activist first and an actor second, using her celebrity as a vehicle to convey her views and her advocacy. Few stars of her stature have been as s
- Author: Greenwald, Marilyn S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 318
- Publish Date: May 12 2026
- ISBN10: 1978841493
- Language: English
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Restrung: A Memoir of Music and Transformation
$30.00 Read moreViolinist Vijay Gupta’s searing memoir of prodigy, ambition, collapse, and renewal reveals how music is not just performance but also survival, a lifeline of human connection–for readers of Jeremy De… [more below]
- Author: Gupta, Vijay
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 09 2026
- ISBN10: 0306835967
- Language: English
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Silenced No More: Surviving My Journey to Hell and Back
$17.99 Read moreJeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell survivor Sarah Ransome shares the shocking inside story of her time trapped in the horrific sex trafficking ring.
How could Jeffrey and Ghislaine operate a rape py
- Author: Ransome, Sarah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: December 13 2022
- ISBN10: 0063213702
- Language: English
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The Courage of Two: Anne Hutchinson, Mary Dyer and the Fight for Freedom of Conscience in Early America
$14.95 Add to cartWe know about America’s Founding Fathers but what about its Founding Mothers?
It’s the mid-1600s before the U.S. became a country. English Puritans are seeking refuge from religious persecution by sai
- Author: Kelley, Nancy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 158
- Publish Date: March 03 2026
- ISBN10: 1960373838
- Language: English
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Earth Heroes: Twenty-Two Stories of People Saving Our World
$17.99 Add to cartAmid the climate crisis, can individual people create change?
With twenty-two inspirational stories celebrating the pioneering work of a selection of Earth Heroes from all around the globe, each tale- Author: Dyu, Lily
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 24 2026
- ISBN10: 9798887772349
- Language: English
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Marie Louise Bottineau Baldwin: Political Pathfinder
$12.99 Add to cartMarie Louise Bottineau Baldwin grew up in North Dakota and Minnesota speaking seven languages and watching her father, Jean Baptiste Bottineau, fight for the rights of his communities as a lawyer. Bot
- Series: Native American Lives
- Author: Patel, Hema Erdrich
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 56
- Publish Date: January 01 2026
- ISBN10: 9798765671849
- Language: English
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The Long Haul: An Autobiography
$34.95 Read moreIn his own direct, modest, plain-spoken style, Myles Horton tells the story of the Highlander Folk School. A major catalyst for social change in the United States for more than 70 years, this school h
- Author: Horton, Myles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 19 1997
- ISBN10: 0807737003
- Language: English
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Sharon Day: Water Walker
$12.99 Add to cartSharon Day is the founder and executive director of the Indigenous Peoples Task Force. She grew up with her brothers and sisters on the Bois Forte Indian Reservation, and early on learned of the impor
- Series: Native American Lives
- Author: Danforth, Pauline
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 56
- Publish Date: January 01 2026
- ISBN10: 9798765671870
- Language: English
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All about Us: 20 True Tales of Courage and Disability
$29.95 Read moreMeet twenty inspiring kids and adults living with disability today.
Stefan Daniel is a Paralympian who began competing when he was 16 and won Canada’s first paratriathlon medal in 2016. Zamaan Jivraj,
- Author: Leavitt, Hannalora
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: May 19 2026
- ISBN10: 1459837088
- Language: English
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How to Be a Dissident
$19.00 Read moreAn invigorating guide to fighting back–part philosophy, part history, and part manual for living with integrity in an age of conformity and authoritarian drift
How do we push back in a world where po- Author: Beckerman, Gal
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 21 2026
- ISBN10: 9798217089215
- Language: English
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The Movement: How Women’s Liberation Transformed America 1963-1973
$22.00 Add to cartThis “indispensable new book that belongs on the shelf of every American woman” (Sally Jenkins, author of The Right Call) is a comprehensive oral history of the decade that defined the feminist moveme… [more below]
- Author: Bingham, Clara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: March 03 2026
- ISBN10: 198214422X
- Language: English
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The Village on the Edge of the World: Writing and Surviving Ceausescu’s Romania
$29.95 Read moreA Nobel laureate presents a brilliant, discomfiting reflection on literary life defined by the brutality of Ceausescu’s Romania.
From her childhood in Romania, in a village “as small as a thimble on t- Author: Müller, Herta
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 05 2026
- ISBN10: 9798897100828
- Language: English
