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Genocide-the intent to destroy in whole or in part, a group of people. TIME's 42 Most Anticipated Books of Fall 2019 Book Riot's 50 of the Best Books to Read This Fall As seen on CBS This Morning, award-winning attorney Ben Crump exposes a heinous...

A brilliant exploration of the outburst of cultural exuberance that swept African America during the late 1930s. If the 1930s was the Swing Era, then the years from 1937 on might well be called the Jump Era. That summer Count Basie recorded ""Jumping at...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781439153789Author DonaldsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Simon & Schuster Children's PublishingPublisher Simon & Schuster

When Fred Shuttlesworth suffered only a bump on the head in the 1956 bombing of his home, members of his church called it a miracle. Shuttlesworth took it as a sign that God would protect him on the mission that had made him a target that night. Standing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781925162103Author Alice Bilari SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Fremantle PressPublisher Fremantle PressWeight(grams) 256gDimensions(mm) 201mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780870209574Author Peggy Prilaman MarxenFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Wisconsin Historical Society PressPublisher Wisconsin Historical Society Press

Each day, as Oded Loewenheim commutes by mountain bike along dirt trails and wadis in the hills of Jerusalem to Hebrew University, he feels a strong emotional connection to his surroundings. But for him this connection also generates, paradoxically,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780870209598Author Pao LorFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Wisconsin Historical Society PressPublisher Wisconsin Historical Society PressWeight(grams)...

An account of the community development programs of the Black Consciousness movement in South Africa, covering the emergence of the movement's ideas and practices in the context of the late 1960s and early 1970s, then analysing how activists refined...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for Midwest Book Award (MIPA) (Cookbook) 2011 and Midwest Book Award (MIPA) (Cookbook) 2012.Book InformationISBN 9780870204623Author Irene O SandvoldFormat...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781643753287Author Ross GayFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Algonquin BooksPublisher Algonquin BooksWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm) 175mm * 127mm *...

During the turbulent 1960s, civil rights leader Whitney M. Young Jr. devised a new and effective strategy to achieve equality for African Americans. Young blended interracial mediation with direct protest, demonstrating that these methods pursued...

In 1991, acclaimed poet Kenneth A. McClane published Walls: Essays, 1985-1990, a volume of essays dealing with life in Harlem, the death of his alcoholic brother, and the complexities of being black and middle-class in America. Now, in Color: Essays on...

Gwendolyn Calvert Baker has had an extraordinary career and has witnessed a dramatic change in the ways that U.S. schools provide education to and about our multiethnic, multicultural society. But Baker hasn't just lived through the progression of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781948677806Author Greg FrancisFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Forefront BooksPublisher Forefront Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476773155Author Alice WalkerFormat HardbackPage Count 560Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 885gDimensions(mm) 231mm * 168mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788492979271Author Michele DrouartFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Ediciones BaratariaPublisher Ediciones BaratariaWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm)...

Evolving from a conversation between Joshua Whitehead and Angie Abdou, Indigiqueerness is part dialogue, part collage, and part memoir. Beginning with memories of his childhood poetry and prose and travelling through the library of his life, Whitehead...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781771622189Author William Ging Wee DereFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Douglas & McIntyrePublisher Douglas & McIntyreDimensions(mm) 228mm * 152mm *...

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...

One wet autumn evening in 1848, fifteen-year-old Mary Ann Gill stole out of a bedroom window in her father's Sydney hotel and took a coach to a local racecourse. There she was to elope with James Butler Kinchela, wayward son of the former...

Winner, San Antonio Conservation Society Citation, 2011Texas's King Ranch has become legendary for a long list of innovations, the most enduring of which is the development of the first official cattle breed in the Americas, the Santa Gertrudis. Among...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Hurston/Wright Legacy Award 2007.Book InformationISBN 9780307275202Author Wangari MaathaiFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780870208638Author Jerry AppsFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Wisconsin Historical Society PressPublisher Wisconsin Historical Society...

An iconic figure of the Asian American movement, Richard Aoki (1938-2009) was also, as the most prominent non-Black member of the Black Panther Party, a key architect of Afro-Asian solidarity in the 1960s and '70s. His life story exposes the personal...

In "Black on the Block", Mary Pattillo - a "Newsweek" Woman of the 21st Century - uses the historic rise, alarming fall, and equally dramatic renewal of Chicago's North Kenwood - Oakland neighborhood to explore the politics of race and class in...

The world-renowned Peruvian poet Cesar Vallejo (1892-1938) was also a journalist, essayist, novelist and would-be dramatist. The study of his life and work has encountered problems since the 1950s, stemming from the fact that half of his writing was...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780800638535Author Martin Luther King, IIIFormat PaperbackPage Count 142Imprint Augsburg FortressPublisher Augsburg Fortress PublishersWeight(grams) 318g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541602717Author Tricia RoseFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Basic BooksPublisher Basic BooksWeight(grams) 376gDimensions(mm) 212mm * 144mm * 28mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998532318Author Andre HaynalFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint IpbooksPublisher IpbooksWeight(grams) 254gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 10mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476748412Author David MaranissFormat PaperbackPage Count 672Imprint Atria BooksPublisher Simon & Schuster

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

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060924737Author Stephen B. OatesFormat PaperbackPage Count 576Imprint HarperPerennialPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

A groundbreaking collection of poetry, personal narratives, and art from refugee youth around the world. Foreword by actor and UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador Ben Stiller.Beginning in 2018, Ahmed M. Badr-an Iraqi-American poet and former refugee-traveled to...

An intimate story of a Polish family torn apart by war: of heartbreak, loss, and survival against the odds. Julian Czerkawski was born in 1926 on his aristocratic family's large estate, near Lwow, now Ukrainian Lviv. He was the son of a charismatic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781843914716Author Solomon NorthupFormat PaperbackPage Count 199Imprint Hesperus Press LtdPublisher Hesperus Press LtdWeight(grams) 225gDimensions(mm) 194mm...

A new edition of one of the most influential literary documents in American and African American history Ideal for coursework in American and African American history, this revised edition of Frederick Douglass's memoir of his life as a slave in...

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 9780143112112Author June CrossFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Penguin BooksPublisher Penguin Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781592407378Author Jeff PearlmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Gotham BooksPublisher Gotham BooksWeight(grams) 539gDimensions(mm) 228mm * 152mm * 28mm