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The island nation of Iceland is known for many things majestic landscapes, volcanic eruptions, distinctive seafood but racial diversity is not one of them. So the little-known story of Hans Jonathan, a free black man who lived and raised a family in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374515263Author John McPheeFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar, Straus and GirouxWeight(grams)...

Part memoir, part cultural history, this is a book about the history of homebuilding in America over the past 100 years, told through twelve unique but modest houses that the author knows intimately. We follow the author from the sod house in Nebraska...

The Welsh Folk Museum at St Fagans was the first large open-air folk museum in Britain. It was (according to himself) created by one man: Iorwerth C. Peate, poet, author, and scholar. This is the first book-length critical study of Peate as scholar and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486406619Author Olaudah EquianoFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

Written ten years after his legal emancipation, MY BONDAGE AND MY FREEDOM catapulted Frederick Douglass into the international spotlight as a leading spokesperson for American blacks, both freed and in slavery. This, Douglass's second autobiography, was...

'A revelation' KATY HESSEL'Brilliant' OBSERVEROver one night, alone in the Punta della Dogana Museum in Venice, Leila Slimani grapples with the self as it is revealed in solitude. In a place of old and new, she confronts her past and her present, through...

Sarah and Angelina Grimke-the Grimke sisters-are revered figures in American history, famous for rejecting their privileged lives on a plantation in South Carolina to become firebrand activists in the North. Their antislavery pamphlets, among the most...

Sardar travels to Asian communities throughout the UK to tell the history of Asians in Britain - from the arrival of the first Indian in 1614, to the young extremists in Walthamstow mosque in 2006. He interweaves throughout an illuminating account of his...

150 Station Road, Wheeldon Mill - a short stride across the Chesterfield Canal in the heart of Derbyshire - was home to the Nash family and their corner shop, serving a small mining community with everything from Brasso to Dolly Blue, from cheap dress...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780618087280Author James S HirschFormat PaperbackPage Count 358Imprint Houghton Mifflin (Trade)Publisher Houghton MifflinWeight(grams) 494g

Paul Robeson: A Life of Activism and Art is the biography of an African American icon and a demonstration of historian Lindsey R. Swindall's knack for thorough, detailed research and reflection. Paul Robeson was, at points in his life, an actor, singer,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781449539276Author Christopher PrinceFormat PaperbackPage Count 122Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

Bishop E.W. Jackson's life story unites Americans around a shared legacy of freedom. As a great grandson of slaves, he believes that the promise of liberty has always belonged to all Americans. For some, only their heirs would be the full beneficiaries...

John Barrington was a shepherd to over 750 Blackface ewes who graze 2,000 acres of some of Britain's most beautiful hills overlooking the deep dark water of Loch Katrine. The yearly round of lambing, dipping, shearing and the sales is marvelously...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476796635Author Nora KrugFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Scribner Book CompanyPublisher Scribner Book CompanyWeight(grams) 599gDimensions(mm) 229mm...

As seen on The Today Show and in the Washington Post's most inspiring stories of the year! "Important in helping us understand America's complex racial history."-Kenyatta D. Berry, Host of PBS's Genealogy RoadshowIncludes a new afterword by bestselling...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781983998119Author Kit FraserFormat PaperbackPage Count 212Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing...

Meet Leela: nineteen, charismatic and fearlessly outspoken. With her sharp wit and stubborn optimism, she is the best paid bar dancer on Bombay's notorious Mira Road. Leela has a 'husband' (who is already married), a few lovers whose names she can't...

Between 1948 and 1957, a period that witnessed two wars between Egypt and Israel, 60,000 members of Egypt's 75,000-strong Jewish population left the country, compelled by growing hostility to them because of their presumed links to Zionism, economic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909526778Author Leonard FreedFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Reel Art PressPublisher Reel Art Press

In We Flew over the Bridge, one of the country's preeminent African American artists-and award-winning children's book authors-shares the fascinating story of her life. Faith Ringgold's artworks-startling "story quilts," politically charged paintings,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307475275Author Michele NorrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 238gDimensions(mm) 203mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060959616Author MassaqudiFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

W. E. B. Du Bois was a public intellectual, sociologist, and activist on behalf of the African American community. He profoundly shaped black political culture in the United States through his founding role in the NAACP, as well as internationally...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375425066Author Garrett HongoFormat HardbackPage Count 544Imprint PantheonPublisher Random House USA Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Hurston/Wright LEGACY Award (Nonfiction) 2002.Book InformationISBN 9780743431729Author BUNDLESPage Count 416Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon &...

The author, a world-renowned transplant surgeon, scientist, bioethicist and global health expert, is a Tanzanian born into Swahili culture, with ancestral roots in Arabia, the Caucasus Mountains, and Ethiopia. This memoir chronicles the exploration of...

Peter Ling's acclaimed biography of Martin Luther King Jr provides a thorough re-examination of both the man and the Civil Rights Movement, showing how King grew into his leadership role and kept his faith as the challenges facing the movement...

Ita Doyle: 'In all my life I have lived in two houses, had two jobs, and one husband. I'm a very interesting person'Rory & Ita, Roddy Doyle's first non-fiction book, tells - largely in their own words - the story of his parents' lives. They remember...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486800455Author Josiah HensonFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Dover Children'sPublisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams) 80gDimensions(mm) 203mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781496740540Author Rodnell P. CollinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Kensington PublishingPublisher Kensington Publishing

As seen on The Today Show! "Important in helping us understand America's complex racial history."-Kenyatta D. Berry, Host of PBS's Genealogy RoadshowWhite Like Her: My Family's Story of Race and Racial Passing is the story of Gail Lukasik's mother's...

"David Blight has produced a fine edition of Douglass' second autobiography. This is an essential work in African-American and American history, and displays Douglass' developing strength as a writer and political leader."-Richard Slotkin, Wesleyan...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316510936Author John LewisFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Grand Central PublishingPublisher Little, Brown & CompanyWeight(grams) 159gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307383419Author Barack ObamaFormat HardbackPage Count 464Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 686gDimensions(mm) 243mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780873485432Author Malcolm XFormat PaperbackPage Count 189Imprint Pathfinder PressPublisher Pathfinder PressWeight(grams) 300g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476797717Author John LewisFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 544gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 150mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for National Book Critics Circle Awards 2010.Book InformationISBN 9780812977615Author Tracy KidderFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Random House...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805050271Author Bell HooksPage Count 288Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's Press