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  • Forgotten Voices

    Excerpts from Valentina's Journal

    by Katy J. Smith ...
    About the BookIn 1912–1913 West Virginia, a coalfield strike was called to organize the miners. Evicted from their company homes, many moved to a nearby town, swelling the population from fewer than 300 to over 3,000. They refused to return to work, choosing to live in coarse tents, the only shelter available. Ten months into the strike, a coal operator commissioned an armored train to shoot up ... Read more

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  • Dreams from My Father

    A Story of Race and Inheritance

    by Barack Obama ...
    **#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • ONE OF ESSENCE’S 50 MOST IMPACTFUL BLACK BOOKS OF THE PAST 50 YEARSIn this iconic memoir of his early days, Barack Obama “guides us straight to the intersection of the most serious questions of identity, class, and race” (The Washington Post Book World).**“Quite extraordinary.”—Toni MorrisonIn this lyrical, unsentimental, and compelling memoir, the son of a black ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

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  • The Patriots Club

    A Novel

    by Christopher Reich ...
    Thomas Bolden grew up on the streets, his childhood a blur of fragmented memories. But now he’s managed to put his past behind him, find the woman he wants to share his life with, and carve out a successful career on Wall Street. Until, in the blink of an eye, his world is turned upside down. A bizarre kidnapping sends him fleeing for his life, his face everywhere on the TV news, and a violent, ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • All Over but the Shoutin'

    by Rick Bragg ...
    NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the Pulitzer Prize–winner and bestselling author, "a grand memoir.... Bragg tells about the South with such power and bone-naked love ... he will make you cry" (Atlanta Journal-Constitution).This haunting, harrowing, gloriously moving recollection of a life on the American margin is the story of Rick Bragg, who grew up dirt-poor in northeastern Alabama, seemingly ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

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  • Dispatches from Pluto

    Lost and Found in the Mississippi Delta

    by Richard Grant ...
    In Dispatches from Pluto, adventure writer Richard Grant takes on “the most American place on Earth”—the enigmatic, beautiful, often derided Mississippi Delta.Richard Grant and his girlfriend were living in a shoebox apartment in New York City when they decided on a whim to buy an old plantation house in the Mississippi Delta. Dispatches from Pluto—winner of the Pat Conroy Southern Book Prize—is ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Praying for Sheetrock

    A Work of Nonfiction

    by Melissa Fay Greene ...
    A National Book Award Finalist and a New York Times Notable Book, the true story of a black community standing up to a white, corrupt lawman."An inspiring and absorbing account of the struggle for human dignity and racial equality." —Coretta Scott KingFrom award-winning author and journalist Melissa Fay Greene, Praying for Sheetrock is the story of McIntosh County, a small, isolated, and lovely ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • Man From The South

    by Roald Dahl ...
    THE MAN FROM THE SOUTHIt was getting on toward six o'clock so I thought I'd buy myself a beer and go out and sit in a deck chair by the swimming pool and have a little evening sun.I went to the bar and got the beer and carried it outside and wandered down the garden toward the pool.It was a fine garden with lawns and beds of azaleas and tall coconut palms, and the wind was blowing s... ... Read more

    $6.60 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Life on the Color Line

    The True Story of a White Boy Who Discovered He Was Black

    by Gregory Howard Williams ...
    “Heartbreaking and uplifting… a searing book about race and prejudice in America… brims with insights that only someone who has lived on both sides of the racial divide could gain.”—Cleveland Plain Dealer“A triumph of storytelling as well as a triumph of spirit.”—Alex Kotlowitz, award-winning author of There Are No Children HereAs a child in 1950s segregated Virginia, Gregory Howard Williams grew ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom

    My Story of the 1965 Selma Voting Rights March

    by Lynda Blackmon Lowery ...
    Illustrated by PJ Loughran ...
    **A SIBERT INFORMATIONAL BOOK MEDAL HONOR BOOK • Discover the power of youth activism in this moving memoir about the Civil Rights Movement, ideal for young readers interested in America’s fight for equality.“A testament to the power we each have within us to stand up for what is right and to make the world a better and more just place.”—Dan Sturman, Academy Award–winning documentary filmmaker ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

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  • A Thousand Ways to Die

    The True Cost of Violence on Black Life in America

    by Trymaine Lee ...
    NOW A NATIONAL BESTSELLER!A deeply personal exploration of the generational impact of guns on the Black experience in AmericaA few years ago, Trymaine Lee, though fit and only 38, nearly died of a heart attack. When his then five-year-old daughter, Nola, asked her daddy why, he realized that to answer her honestly, he had to confront what almost killed him—the weight of being a Black man in ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

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  • The Outskirts of Hope

    A Memoir of the 1960s Deep South

    by Jo Ivester ...
    In 1967, when Jo Ivester was ten years old, her father transplanted his young family from a suburb of Boston to a small town in the heart of the Mississippi cotton fields, where he became the medical director of a clinic that served the poor population for miles around. But ultimately it was not Ivester’s father but her mother—a stay-at-home mother of four who became a high school English teacher ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Hillbilly Women

    Struggle and Survival in Southern Appalachia

    by Skye Moody ...
    “This book tells what it means to be a woman when you are poor, when you are proud, and when you are a hillbilly.”First published in 1973, Skye Moody’s Hillbilly Women shares the stunning and raw oral histories of nineteen women in twentieth-century Southern Appalachia, from their day-to-day struggles for survival to the personal triumphs of their hardscrabble existence. They are wives, widows, ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD