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 Add to cartThrough 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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Permanent Record
$19.99 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Edward Snowden, the man who risked everything to expose the US government’s system of mass surveillance, reveals for the first time the story of his life, including how he he- Author: Snowden, Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1250772907
- 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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Postcards from Malcolm X: How Yuri Kochiyama Became a Civil Rights Activist
$24.99 Add to cartA moving portrait of Yuri Kochiyama–an ordinary woman who became an extraordinary activist–and her bond with Malcolm X
When Japanese American activist Yuri Kochiyama shook Malcolm X’s hand at a court
- Author: Wenjen, Mia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 42
- Publish Date: October 13 2026
- ISBN10: 1636550894
- Language: English
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Keep on A-Walkin’: Kimberly Burwell Stands Up for Environmental Justice
$18.95 Add to cartThe chaos and courage of protesting are brought to life in Keep on a-Walkin’, the true story of Kimberly Burwell who joins her mother to resist toxic dumping in their North Carolina community. Keep on… [more below]
- Author: Burwell, Dollie B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 36
- Publish Date: October 15 2026
- ISBN10: 0829802207
- Language: English
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Taxi Para Todos: C?mo Roy Vel?squez Luch? Por La Igualdad (a Taxi for Everyone) (Spanish Edition)
$19.99 Read moreEsta apasionante biograf?a narra la historia de Roy Vel?squez y c?mo construy? una comunidad que luchaba contra la segregaci?n y la discriminaci?n en Austin, Texas, al crear una pr?spera empresa de ta… [more below]
- Author: Zapata, Debbie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: July 21 2026
- ISBN10: 1499817320
- Language: Spanish
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No Land to Stand on: Notes from Detention
$27.99 Read moreA revelatory and powerful testament of protest, courage, and imprisonment in America’s deportation regime
“Are you Mahmoud Khalil?” The question marked the start of a politically charged odyssey that- Author: Khalil, Mahmoud
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: September 29 2026
- ISBN10: 1250462002
- Language: English
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An Inconvenient Woman: The Extraordinary Life of Lillian Smith, the Southerner Who Defied Jim Crow America
$30.00 Read moreA revelatory and immersive biography of a white Southern woman who was a key figure in the early civil rights movement, devoting her life to ending segregation in America only to be forgotten by histo
- Author: Merritt, Keri Leigh
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 29 2026
- ISBN10: 1250337933
- Language: English
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An Unexpected Life: A Memoir
$32.00 Read moreGloria Steinem offers an inspiring and candid memoir of her early life and the journey that made her one of the world’s most influential activists and storytellers, alongside a clear-eyed, urgent mess… [more below]
- Author: Steinem, Gloria
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 410
- Publish Date: September 22 2026
- ISBN10: 9798217412341
- Language: English
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An Unexpected Life: A Memoir
$30.00 Read moreGloria Steinem offers an inspiring and candid memoir of her early life and the journey that made her one of the world’s most influential activists and storytellers, alongside a clear-eyed, urgent mess… [more below]
- Author: Steinem, Gloria
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 22 2026
- ISBN10: 059397817X
- Language: English
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Restrung: A Memoir of Music and Transformation
$32.00 Add to cartViolinist 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: Paperback
- Page Count: 442
- Publish Date: June 09 2026
- ISBN10: 0306838176
- Language: English
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I Choose My Beginning: A Story of Courage and Activism
$29.00 Read more“Nadia is a fierce warrior for justice and a beautiful human being I feel privileged to know. She will inspire women for generations.” –Amal Clooney
In a lyrical and profoundly moving memoir, Nobel- Author: Murad, Nadia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 15 2026
- ISBN10: 1668097052
- Language: English
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Malcolm in the Desert: Wisdom from the Spiritual Transformation of Malcolm X
$32.00 Add to cartEssence’s “15 Books By Black Authors We’re Looking Forward To”
Powerful self-transformation practices inspired by Malcolm X’s final years, written by his daughter Ilyasah Shabazz. “A classic in the ma
- Author: Shabazz, Ilyasah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: May 19 2026
- ISBN10: 1538783568
- Language: English
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The Ballad of the Fugitive William Parker: A True Tale of Love, Murder, Treason, and Ordinary Folks Who Saved America
$31.00 Read moreFor fans of Master Slave Husband Wife and Django Unchained comes the extraordinary forgotten story of an event known in its day as “the first shots of the Civil War,” from the New York Times bestselli… [more below]
- Author: Aptowicz, Cristin O’Keefe
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: September 08 2026
- ISBN10: 1668035936
- Language: English
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Nathan Straus: From Macy’s Magnate to International Humanitarian
$35.95 Add to cartNathan Straus (1848-1931) encompassed worlds. He rose from his Jewish German immigrant family’s ruin in Civil War Georgia to become co-owner of Macy’s and Abraham & Straus department stores. He helped
- Author: Fisher, Andrew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 414
- Publish Date: April 14 2026
- ISBN10: 197884347X
- Language: English
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Jonathan Edwards: The Boy Who Sparked Revival
$14.99 Add to cartInspire kids with this true tale of God working powerfully through the simple sharing of his word. Jonathan Edwards’ story encourages kids to trust that God can do extraordinary things through everyda
- Series: Do Great Things for God
- Author: Mathis, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: June 01 2026
- ISBN10: 1802543546
- Language: English
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My Seven Mothers: Making a Family in the Danish Women’s Movement
$29.95 Add to cartSeven women raise a child together while redefining their place in society at the beginning of the Women’s Movement in Denmark in the 1970s
On New Year’s Eve in Copenhagen in 1972, seven women had a- Author: Ipsen, Pernille
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: October 21 2025
- ISBN10: 1517917794
- Language: English
