Cultural, Ethnic & Regional

The issue of race has indelibly shaped the history of the United States. Nowhere has the drama of race relations been more powerfully staged than in the American South. This book charts the turbulent course of southern race relations from the colonial...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781586422417Author Kenn HarperFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Steerforth PressPublisher Steerforth Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541700666Author Damien LewisFormat HardbackPage Count 496Imprint PublicAffairsPublisher PublicAffairsWeight(grams) 767gDimensions(mm) 243mm * 159mm * 40mm

Each year, thousands of pilgrims visit the celebrated New Orleans tomb where Marie Laveau is said to lie. They seek her favors or fear her lingering influence. Voodoo Queen: The Spirited Lives of Marie Laveau is the first study of the Laveaus, mother and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913606053Author Charles MoseleyFormat HardbackPage Count 450Imprint Eyewear PublishingPublisher Eyewear PublishingWeight(grams) 707gDimensions(mm) 215mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593238011Author Shaka SenghorFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint ConvergentPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 346gDimensions(mm) 217mm * 147mm...

In 1976, at the age of twenty-three, Farideh Goldin left Iran in searchof her imagined America. Meanwhile, the political unrest in Iranintensified and in 1979, Farideh's family was forced to flee Iranon the last El-Al flight to Tel Aviv. Farideh's father...

In October 1999 during a trip to Cairo, Cyrus Kadivar, an exiled Iranian living in London, visited the tomb of the last shah and opened a Pandora's box. Haunted by nostalgia for a bygone era, he recalled a protected and idyllic childhood in the fabled...

Finalist, Dartmouth Book Award for Non-Fiction, and Taste Canada Awards (Culinary Narratives)Nominated for 3 Gourmand AwardsAn Atlantic BestsellerA Hill Times Top 100 SelectionFebruary 2016. Antigonish, Nova Scotia.Tareq Hadhad was worried about his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807018101Author Cornel WestFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 283gDimensions(mm) 227mm * 152mm * 19mm

In 1849, Henry Brown escaped from slavery by shipping himself in a three-foot-by-two-foot wooden crate from Virginia to an anti-slavery office in Philadelphia. Twenty-seven hours and 350 miles later, Brown stepped out of his box to begin a new life. This...

'What we ought to do, as writers, is seize freedom now, immediately, by recognizing that we already have it.'Cynthia Ozick, one of 'the greatest living American writers', has, over a lifetime of observation, produced some of the sharpest and most...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805088304Author Robert M UtleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Holt McDougalPublisher Holt McDougalWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 132mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Pulitzer Prize (Biography) 2022 and ALA Notable Books (Nonfiction) 2022.Book InformationISBN 9781635576597Author Winfred RembertFormat HardbackPage Count...

An unflinching memoir of addiction, intergenerational trauma, and the wounds of sexual assault from a resilient, emerging Indigenous voice. Helen Knott, a highly accomplished Indigenous woman, seems to have it all. But in her memoir, she offers a...

From the prizewinning Jewish Lives series, a new biography of the seminal twentieth-century historian and thinker who pioneered the study of Jewish mysticism and profoundly influenced the Zionist movement Gershom Scholem (1897-1982) was perhaps the...

As I was coming up, it was painful to me not to have been given my own nickname. It made me feel different, or rather that I was being treated differently from other family members. I wondered why everybody else was spoken to in terms of their identity,...

Cole has heard it all before - token, bougie, oreo, Blackish - the things we call the kids like him. Black kids who grow up in white spaces, living at an intersection of race and class that many doubt exists. He needed to get far away from the preppy...

Read Martha A. Sandweiss's posts on the Penguin Blog The secret double life of the man who mapped the American West, and the woman he loved Clarence King was a late nineteenth-century celebrity, a brilliant scientist and explorer once described by...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781420968682Author Sarah H BradfordFormat PaperbackPage Count 76Imprint Digireads.comPublisher Digireads.comWeight(grams) 109gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *...

Born in Wisconsin, Philip Bergin Gordon-whose Ojibwe name Tibishkogijik is said to mean Looking into the Sky-became one of the first Native Americans to be ordained as a Catholic priest in the United States. Gordon's devotion to Catholicism was matched...

'[Pinckney] reveals himself to be a skilful chronicler of black experience in literary criticism, reportage and biography' The New York Times In these twenty-five essays, Darryl Pinckney has given us a view of our recent racial history that blends the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature (Adult Nonfiction) 2023.Book InformationISBN 9780525576228Author Jay Caspian KangFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint...

What does it mean to be a Pakistani? Can it mean more than one thing? And what do others think it means? Ziauddin Sardar explores what makes a Pakistani, and whether it's something one wants or ought to be. Reflecting on his culture and heritage...

Once upon a time, Baghdad was home to a flourishing Jewish community. More than a third of the city's people were Jews, and Jewish customs and holidays helped set the pattern of Baghdad's cultural and commercial life. On the city's streets and in the...

The autobiography of the Civil Rights activist, Walter White, during his 30 years of service to the National Association of Service for the Advancement of Colored People. Although African American, White's blue eyes and fair skin enabled him to cross the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Christopher Award 2016.Book InformationISBN 9780399573224Author Wendell PierceFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Penguin Putnam IncPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143034803Author Larry McMurtryFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 130gDimensions(mm) 179mm * 129mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781951142278Author E J KohFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Tin House BooksPublisher Tin House BooksWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 213mm * 137mm * 18mm

A Finalist for the NAACP Image AwardA Finalist for the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for NonfictionA Finalist for the Thurber Prize for American HumorLonglisted for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the EssayAn NPR Best Book of the YearA...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780981386904Author Kamal K DhillonFormat PaperbackPage Count 314Imprint Lotus Speaking and WritingPublisher Lotus Speaking and Writing

The Romanian historian Nicolae Iorga played a critical role in the history of his country for more than fifty years until his tragic death in 1940. The author of more than 1,200 books and 20,000 articles, Iorga was one of the most prolific scholars of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781627793537Author Riad SattoufFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Metropolitan BooksPublisher Metropolitan BooksWeight(grams) 499gDimensions(mm) 231mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807009178Author Sidney Wilfred MintzFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 164gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063273542Author Fang FangFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint HarperviaPublisher HarperviaWeight(grams) 135g

"I can't wait to read...This Will Be My Undoing."-Roxane Gay One of the sharpest, fiercest, and most eloquent critics writing right now, Morgan Jerkins's byline has appeared around the Internet for The New Yorker's Page-Turner,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781934389195Author Denise DennisFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint For BeginnersPublisher For Beginners

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781984860422Author Amisha PadnaniFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Ten Speed PressPublisher Potter/Ten Speed/Harmony/Rodale

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Canada Reads 2022 and Dafoe Book Prize 2022 and McNally Robinson Book of the Year 2022.Book InformationISBN 9780735240087Author Clayton Thomas-MullerFormat...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780914019725Author Shirley RosenFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Discover Your NorthwestPublisher Discover Your NorthwestWeight(grams)...