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Little Bee Books
Unstoppable: How Bayard Rus...
$18.99
This powerful and triumphant picture book biography tells the story of how openly gay civil rights leader Bayard Rustin defied prejudice as he planned and organized the historic March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.*"A civil rights luminary finally gets his due. The prose works in perfect har...
OTHER PUBLISHERS
Thomas Girtin Forgotten Pai...
$39.99
The untold story of J.M.W. Turner’s friend and greatest rival, pioneering watercolor artist Thomas GirtinPart historical narrative, part modern fiction, this book consists of two interlinked stories: The first focuses on the 18th-century painter Thomas Girtin and his relationship with his friend ...
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Send a Girl!: The True Stor...
$17.99
Brenda Berkman was often told that she couldn't do certain things because she was a girl. When she grew up, she longed for a job that was challenging, different every day, and required physical and mental strength. In 1977 when the New York City Fire Department finally complied with the Civil Rig...
Image Comics
Good Asian TPB Volume 01 (N...
$14.99
Writer PORNSAK PICHETSHOTE's long-awaited follow-up to the critically acclaimed INFIDEL with stunning art by ALEXANDRE TEFENKGI (OUTPOST ZERO)! Following Edison Hark-a haunted, self-loathing Chinese-American detective-on the trail of a killer in 1936 Chinatown, THE GOOD ASIAN is Chinatown noir st...
Ten Speed Graphic
Stamped from the Beginning:...
$29.99
A striking graphic novel edition of the National Book Award-winning history of how racist ideas have shaped American life—from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of How to Be an Antiracist.Racism has persisted throughout history—but so have antiracist efforts to dismantle it. Through deep r...
SQUARE FISH
Burning (Young Readers Edit...
$12.99
One of the worst acts of racist violence in American history took place in 1921, when a White mob numbering in the thousands decimated the thriving Black community of Greenwood in Tulsa, Oklahoma.The Burning recreates Greenwood at the height of its prosperity, explores the currents of hatred, rac...
Verso
Miss Major Speaks: Conversa...
$19.95
The future of Black, queer, and trans liberation explored by a legendary transgender elder and activist Miss Major Griffin-Gracy is a veteran of the infamous Stonewall Riots, a former sex worker, and a transgender elder and activist who has survived Bellevue psychiatric hospital, Attica Prison, t...
OTHER PUBLISHERS
Dirty Pictures: How Rebels ...
$18.00
In the 1950s, comics meant POW! BAM! superheroes, family-friendly gags, and Sunday funnies, but in the 1960s, inspired by these strips and the satire of MAD magazine, a new generation of creators set out to subvert the medium, and with it, American culture. Their 'comix,' spelled that way to dist...
Bloomsbury Publishing
Deep as the Sky, Red as the...
$28.99
For readers of Outlawed, Piranesi, and The Night Tiger, a dazzling historical novel about a legendary Chinese pirate queen, her fight to save her fleet from the forces allied against them, and the dangerous price of power.As Recommended ByThe TODAY Show * Washington Post * Goodreads * LitHub * Re...
Celadon Books
You Have to Be Prepared to ...
$30.00
From journalist Paul Kix, the riveting story, never before fully told, of the 1963 Birmingham Campaign―ten weeks that would shape the course of the Civil Rights Movement and the future of America.It’s one of the iconic photographs of American history: A Black teenager, a policeman and his lunging...
Scribner
Lady Tan's Circle of Women:...
$28.00
The latest historical novel from New York Times bestselling author Lisa See, inspired by the true story of a woman physician from 15th-century China—perfect for fans of See’s classic Snow Flower and the Secret Fan and The Island of Sea Women.According to Confucius, “an educated woman is a worthle...
Avon Books
$18.99
Casey McQuiston meets The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo in this mid-century rom-dram about a scrappy reporter and a newspaper mogul’s son. “A spectacularly talented writer!” —Julia Quinn “This historical romance is billed as being ‘for Newsies shippers,’ and it absolutely delivers.” —Dahlia Adle...
OTHER PUBLISHERS
$9.99
Life in Hiroshima during the war was difficult for six-year-old Keiji and the Nakazawa family, but they made the best of it. On his way to school one bright August morning, Keiji was unaware his hometown would soon be turned into a world of horrors. That morning, he watched as a single airplane s...
Graphix
I Survived Great Chicago Fi...
$10.99
Oscar Starling never wanted to move to Chicago. The smog, the stench, the thieves around every corner - it's so different from his old life on the farm. Will the big city ever feel like home? But shortly after Oscar arrives, a huge fire breaks out. All of Chicago is ablaze and one thing is clear:...
OTHER PUBLISHERS
Frida Kahlo Her Life Her Ar...
$18.99
Frida Kahlo, remembered as one of the most inspiring personalities of the 20th century, was a woman of two intertwined parts: she was both a charismatic and empowered artist exploring themes of resistance, authenticity, cruelty, and suffering, and a more private person whose wounded body caused h...