Cultural, Ethnic & Regional

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788493659790Author Manuel Chaves NogalesFormat PaperbackPage Count 376Imprint Libros del Asteroide S.L.U.Publisher Libros del Asteroide S.L.U.Weight(grams)...

Microsoft's associate general counsel shares this story that is "as nuanced as it is hopeful" (Hakeem Jeffries, House Minority Leader) about his rise from childhood poverty in pre-gentrified New York City to a stellar career at the top of the technology...

*Well-Read Black Girl - Book Club Pick*As an incredible glass-ceiling breaker and the woman who brought timeless television shows like The Game and Being Mary Jane to cable, Debra Lee has been the visionary responsible for elevating Black images and...

From the former President and CEO of the United States Tennis Association-the first black woman and youngest person ever to hold the position-comes a behind-the-scenes look at the leadership skills involved in hosting the U.S. Open, the largest and most...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812985436Author Eddie HuangFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint One World BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307386359Author Garrett HongoFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA Inc

Home is not a place you can reach by train or plane. It's something you carry with you. Uprooted from her childhood in Germany and set adrift in the American Midwest, Maureen was raised by a kind but neglectful mother who loved Jesus more than her own...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845409869Author K.J. FindlayFormat HardbackPage Count 230Imprint Amphora PressPublisher Imprint AcademicWeight(grams) 750g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679764151Author Lorraine HansberryFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 203mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780976835462Author Rudolf Ogoo OkonkwoFormat PaperbackPage Count 118Imprint Irokopost BooksPublisher Irokopost BooksWeight(grams) 145gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

"A touching, contemplative chronicle of loss and self-discovery."- Publishers WeeklyFrom the acclaimed biographer of Norway's most treasured cultural icons, Henrik Ibsen and Edvard Munch, comes a story of a migrant family in search of roots and for each...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781542613613Author Tom MooradianFormat PaperbackPage Count 446Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982186470Author Myriam GurbaFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & Schuster

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982141516Author John Paul BrammerFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 222gDimensions(mm) 211mm *...

Sonja Boon's heritage is complicated. Although she has lived in Canada for more than 30 years, she was born in the UK to a Surinamese mother and a Dutch father. An invitation to join a family tree project inspired a journey to the heart of the histories...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143105398Author Black HawkFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Penguin ClassicsPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 119gDimensions(mm) 196mm *...

A biographical tour de force on one of the 20th century's bravest civil rights champions. Critically heralded American historian D'Emilio brings Bayard Rustin out of the shadows of the past to tell the story of a man who was a victim of homophobic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781506478333Author Therese Taylor-StinsonFormat HardbackPage Count 172Imprint Broadleaf BooksPublisher 1517 MediaWeight(grams) 318g

In this "engrossing peek into a little-known chapter of World War II, and one family's harrowing tale of finding the lost pieces of its own history" (Karen Abbott, New York Times bestselling author of Liar Temptress Solider Spy), a woman sets out to...

WINNER OF THE 2020 RBC TAYLOR PRIZE * "Readers might well wonder if Jonathan Swift at his edgiest has been at work."-RBC Taylor Prize Jury Citation * "A remarkable biography of an even more remarkable 17th-century individual ... Beautifully written and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781627301039Author Solomon NorthupFormat PaperbackPage Count 228Imprint Stonewell PressPublisher Stonewell PressWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789888769797Author Rebecca ClarkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 210Imprint Earnshaw Books LtdPublisher Earnshaw Books LtdWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 216mm...

This is a new edition of a classic slave narrative, now fully annotated.It is the most celebrated escape in the history of American slavery. Henry Brown had himself sealed in a three-foot-by-two-foot box and shipped from Richmond, Virginia, to...

Dead Woman Pickney chronicles Yvonne Shorter Brown's life growing up in Jamaica between 1943 and 1965 and teaching in Canada from 1969. Told with stridency and humour, the stories include both personal experience and history.Taking up the haunting...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781959030126Author Athena DixonFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Tin House BooksPublisher Tin House BooksWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm) 213mm * 140mm...

Offering a glimpse into the culture of extreme poverty, this memoir is an insider's view into a neighborhood then described as the toughest in Canada. Point St. Charles is an industrial slum in Montreal which is now in the process of gentrification, but...

Much has been written about the Tiananmen Square protests, but very little exists in the words of those who were actually there. For over seven years, Liao Yiwu-a master of contemporary Chinese literature, imprisoned and persecuted as a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615855363Author Badru DeenFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Caritrade, Inc.Publisher Caritrade, Inc.Weight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 133mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611532807Author Beryl Crosher-SegersFormat PaperbackPage Count 245Imprint Light Messages PublishingPublisher Light Messages PublishingWeight(grams)...

Performance artist and scholar E. Patrick Johnson's provocative study examines how blackness is appropriated and performed-toward widely divergent ends-both within and outside African American culture. Appropriating Blackness develops from the contention...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781684117277Author Ph D Arthur Talmage AbernethyFormat PaperbackPage Count 114Imprint www.bnpublishing.comPublisher www.bnpublishing.comWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781935295112Author Mustafa OEzcelikFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Blue Dome PressPublisher Blue Dome PressWeight(grams) 162g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780940450790Author Frederick DouglassFormat HardbackPage Count 1126Imprint The Library of AmericaPublisher The Library of AmericaWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982173760Author Laura CoatesFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 155mm...

Black Elk (1863-1950), the Lakota holy man, is beloved by millions of readers around the world. The book Black Elk Speaks is the most widely-read Native American testimony of the last century and a key work in our understanding of American Indian...

In late May 1918 in Valdosta, Georgia, ten black men and one black woman, Mary Turner, eight months pregnant at the time, were lynched and tortured by mobs of white citizens. Through hauntingly detailed full-color artwork and collage, Elegy for Mary...

Larry Audlaluk was born in Uugaqsiuvik, a traditional settlement west of Inujjuak in northern Quebec, or Nunavik. He was almost three years old when his family was chosen by the government to be one of seven Inuit families relocated from Nunavik to the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525482871Author Jordan Ritter ConnFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060730604Author Paula Gunn AllenFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 354gDimensions(mm) 204mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781093562798Author Ray MansonFormat PaperbackPage Count 322Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams) 431gDimensions(mm)...