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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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
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Huna: A Memoir of Revolution, Prison, and Becoming
$30.00 Add to cartA gripping, deeply moving memoir of survival, education, and resistance by a student protestor-turned-political prisoner in post-revolution Egypt.
“I will never be the same after reading Huna.” –Javi- Author: Elgendy, Abdelrahman
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 01 2026
- ISBN10: 9798217153602
- Language: English
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Elisabeth Elliot: The Brave Girl Who Chose to Love
$14.99 Add to cartA true tale of forgiveness and courageous missionary work, the story of Elisabeth Elliot shows kids that God is always with them, even when things are hard.
Kids will follow Elisabeth as her childhood
- Series: Do Great Things for God
- Author: Vaughn, Ellen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: June 01 2026
- ISBN10: 1802543961
- Language: English
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Freedom to Read: The Story of Teacher Mary Peake and One Mighty Oak Tree
$19.99 Read more- Author: Cline-Ransome, Lesa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: August 25 2026
- ISBN10: 153446350X
- Language: English
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Civil Rights Warrior: A Life on the Front Lines of Justice, Equality, and the American Dream
$28.99 Add to cartThe inspiring memoir of Evie Rich, a fearless African-American activist whose lifelong fight for justice, equality, and workers’ rights shaped pivotal moments in American civil rights history.
From th- Author: Rich, Evelyn Jones
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 03 2026
- ISBN10: 1510785655
- Language: English
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A Taxi for Everyone: How Roy Vel?squez Fought for Equality (a Nonfiction History Picture Book for Kids)
$19.99 Read moreThis compelling biography tells the story of Roy Vel?squez and how he built a community fighting against segregation and discrimination in Austin, Texas, by starting a thriving taxi company for those … [more below]
- Author: Zapata, Debbie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: July 21 2026
- ISBN10: 1499817002
- Language: English
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Malala: La ni?a que quer?a ir a la escuela
$17.32 Add to cartJournalist Adriana Carranca visited Swat soon after Malala was shot. She wrote this biography from what she observed and what she learned while there. It uses a combination of illustrations, photograp… [more below]
- Author: Carranca, Adriana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 98
- Publish Date: April 01 2026
- ISBN10: 9877472457
- Language: Spanish
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Rise Up!: Powerful Protests in American History
$10.99 Add to cartA 2025 EUREKA! Silver Award Winner
A 2025 Foreword Indies Book of the Year finalist
A 2026 Notable Social Studies Trade Book List selection
Featured on Literary Hub’s Most Anticipated Children’s Books of
- Author: Katz, Rachel C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: May 26 2026
- ISBN10: 9798888593691
- 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)
$17.99 Add to cartCommemorating the fiftieth anniversary of Paul Robeson’s death, a young adult version of his life, based on the biography USA Today called “magnificent”
“A history of a global luminary figure that serv
- Author: Duberman, Martin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 03 2026
- ISBN10: 1620979845
- Language: English
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Amal Clooney
$15.99 Read moreDiscover the inspiring story of Amal Clooney, the inspirational lawyer and human rights activist.
Amal Clooney was born in Beirut in Lebanon in 1978. When she was just two years old, her family fled- Series: Little People, Big Dreams
- Author: Sanchez Vegara, Maria Isabel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: August 04 2026
- ISBN10: 1805701916
- Language: English
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The People’s Historian: The Outsized Life of Howard Zinn
$33.00 Read moreA biography of iconic radical historian Howard Zinn, examining his life and work as a progressive icon and thought leader through the story of the times that shaped him as well as the United States of… [more below]
- Author: Zirin, Dave
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 04 2026
- ISBN10: 0593473655
- Language: English
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A River Is Made: From South Waziristan to Kabul, Dubai, and Des Moines, Iowa – An Afghan Refugee’s Journey from War to Belonging in America
$16.99 Add to cartA River is Made is the true story of a life carried across borders, wars, and generations, told through the eyes of its author, Fazal Moneer Adil. From South Waziristan to Kabul, Dubai, and Des Moines… [more below]
- Author: Adil, Fazal Moneer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 238
- Publish Date: November 11 2025
- ISBN10: 9798993234403
- 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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But She Looks Fine: From Illness to Activism
$24.99 Read moreCelebrities have a lot to say about this book
- I want to thank you for all the great work you are doing. – Mark Hamil, actor (Star Wars, The Mandalorian, The Sandman)
- Olivia is a ten plus year survivor,
- Author: Goodreau, Olivia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 146
- Publish Date: May 09 2023
- ISBN10: 1592112102
- Language: English
