Cultural, Ethnic & Regional

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780735242807Author Rueben GeorgeFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Prentice Hall PressPublisher Prentice Hall Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780873518437Author Anton TreuerFormat PaperbackPage Count 295Imprint Minnesota Historical Society Press,U.S.Publisher Minnesota Historical Society Press,U.S...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345453488Author Carol JenkinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 312gDimensions(mm)...

This is the story of how I became an unapologetic Black disabled woman in a white world. This book is for people who look and live structurally like me to be valued, seen, heard and perhaps some advice on how to navigate life amongst white supremacy...

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 9781538757185Author Alejandra CampoverdiFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Grand Central PublishingPublisher Grand Central PublishingWeight(grams)...

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...

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 *...

This book is the first life history of a Northwest Coast Indian woman. Florence Davidson, daughter of noted Haida carver and chief Charles Edenshaw, was born in 1896. As one of the few living Haida elders knowledgeable bout the culture of a bygone era,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789493056480Author Omar NdizeyeFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Amsterdam PublishersPublisher Amsterdam PublishersWeight(grams) 141gDimensions(mm) 229mm...

An intimate and sensitive psychological portrait, a well informed intellectual sketch, and and unusually readable scientific treatise, this biography of Carver has a depth and a breadth of research rarely found in such studies.ReviewsA superb book that...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781644211120Author David DeutschmannFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Seven Stories Press,U.S.Publisher Seven Stories Press,U.S.

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 9781592409426Author Val WangFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Gotham BooksPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 337g

Black Indian, searing and raw, is Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club and Alice Walker's The Color Purple meets Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony-only, this isn't fiction. Beautifully rendered and rippling with family dysfunction, secrets, deaths, drunks, and old...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780997493580Author Verda ByrdFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint HhpublishingPublisher Hhpublishing

In this powerful memoir, the creator of the viral videos "Before You Call the Cops" and "Walking While Black", Tyler Merritt, shares his experiences as a Black man in America with truth, humour, and poignancy.Tyler Merritt's video "Before You Call the...

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)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780228890676Author Lynell NolanFormat PaperbackPage Count 202Imprint Tellwell TalentPublisher Tellwell TalentWeight(grams) 372g

The essays collected in The Selfless Ego propose an innovative approach to one of the most fascinating aspects of Tibetan literature: life writing. Departing from past schemes of interpretation, this book addresses issues of literary theory and identity...

A gripping biography that brings together the most recent research to shed provocative new light on the life of Saint Patrick Saint Patrick was, by his own admission, a controversial figure. Convicted in a trial by his elders in Britain and hounded by...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501131707Author Mitchell JacksonFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Scribner Book CompanyPublisher Scribner Book CompanyWeight(grams) 499gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982126674Author A'Lelia BundlesFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 431gDimensions(mm) 234mm *...

What choices would you make to reunite your family?"You know, Haidi, we're going on a trip. A really big trip to find our way to Mama."In exile and far from his homeland, Hakim finds a bit of hope in the birth of his son. But between unstable jobs and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374530471Author John Hope FranklinFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncPublisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781880510568Author Charles M. RobinsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 254Imprint State House PressPublisher State House Press

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

"A brilliant and brilliantly different" (Kiese Laymon), wrenching and redemptive coming-of-age memoir about the difficulty of growing up in a hazardous home and the glory of finding salvation in geek culture. Stranded within an ever-shifting family's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781958861158Author Jerry IzenbergFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Sager Group LLCPublisher Sager Group LLCWeight(grams) 299gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781949996104Author Victor H GreenFormat HardbackPage Count 314Imprint About ComicsPublisher About ComicsWeight(grams) 699gDimensions(mm) 244mm * 170mm * 19mm

This definitive biography of George Antonius tells the life story of a man who lived during a dramatic period of history, amid challenge that remains unresolved: the Palestine-Zionist conflict. Betrayal of Palestine is an important and innovative work...

This exhaustive and yet enthralling study considers the life and work of al-Mutanabbi (915-965), often regarded as the greatest of the classical Arab poets. A revolutionary at heart and often imprisoned or forced into exile throughout his tumultuous...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486431703Author Frederick DouglassFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525434696Author James BaldwinFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 164gDimensions(mm) 202mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780771004384Author Jody Wilson-RaybouldFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint McClelland & Stewart Inc.Publisher McClelland & Stewart Inc.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060925949Author Ellis CoseFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint HarperPerennialPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374537821Author Sujatha GidlaFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar, Straus and GirouxWeight(grams)...