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Much Ado About Keanu: A Critical Reeves Theory cover image
Sezin Devi Koehler

Much Ado About Keanu: A Critical Reeves Theory

$49.99
$49.99
Babylon, Albion: A Personal History of Myth and Migration cover image
Dalia Al-dujaili

Babylon, Albion: A Personal History of Myth and Migration

$29.99
$29.99
The Snag
Tessa McWatt

The Snag

$45.00
$45.00
Book cover of 'Nobody Can Give You Freedom: the Real Mission of Malcolm X' by Kehinde Andrews with a white background.
Kehinde Andrews

Nobody Can Give You Freedom

$65.00
$65.00
The Woman Warrior cover image
Maxine Hong Kingston

The Woman Warrior

$24.99
$24.99
Feeding Ghosts: A Graphic Memoir cover image
Tessa Hulls

Feeding Ghosts: A Graphic Memoir

$49.99
$49.99
Zora Neale Hurston (Critical Lives) cover image
Cheryl R. Hopson

Critical Lives: Zora Neale Hurston

$29.99
$29.99
Daybreak in Gaza: Stories of Palestinian Lives and Culture cover image
Mahmoud Muna, Matthew Teller

Daybreak in Gaza

$34.99
$34.99
My Vietnam, Your Vietnam: A father flees. A daughter returns. A dual memoir. cover image
Christina Vo, Nghia M. Vo

My Vietnam, Your Vietnam

$32.99
$32.99
Unbroken: The inspirational memoir from the double-world champion and Olympic silver medallist cover image
Katarina Johnson-Thompson

Unbroken

$36.99
$36.99
I'm Highly Percent Sure: A Memoir of Intuition, Instigation, and the Bold Pursuit of Purpose cover image
Caroline A. Wanga

I'm Highly Percent Sure

$59.99
$59.99
Speaking My Language: A story of reconnection to te ao Maori from the New Zealand journalist and news presenter cover image
Mike McRoberts

Speaking My Language

$36.99
$36.99
Fly, Wild Swans
Jung Chang

Fly, Wild Swans

$37.99
$37.99
Brown, Female, Doctor: A Memoir cover image
Sarah Arachchi

Brown, Female, Doctor

$34.99
$34.99
Find me at the Jaffa Gate: An encyclopaedia of a Palestinian family cover image
Micaela Sahhar

Find Me at the Jaffa Gate

$34.99
$34.99
Red Pockets: An Offering cover image
Alice Mah

Red Pockets: An Offering

$45.00
$45.00
Fire Dragon Feminism: Asian Migrant Women's Tales of Migration, Coloniality and Racial Capitalism cover image
Quah Ee Ling

Fire Dragon Feminism

$44.99
$44.99
The South: Jim Crow and Its Afterlives cover image
Adolph L. Reed

The South: Jim Crow and Its Afterlives

$32.99
$32.99
Terraglossia
Dr Debra Dank

Terraglossia

$29.99
$29.99
Hubris Maximus: The Shattering of Elon Musk cover image
Faiz Siddiqui

Hubris Maximus: The Shattering of Elon Musk

$36.99
$36.99
My Beautiful Sisters: A Story of Courage, Hope and the Afghan Women’s Football Team cover image
Khalida Popal

My Beautiful Sisters

$24.99
$24.99
The Children of Hiroshima: The True Story Of How I Searched For My Family In The Ruins Of The City cover image
Sadako Teiko Okuda

The Children of Hiroshima

$24.99
$24.99
Down with the System: The highly-awaited memoir from the System Of A Down legend cover image
Serj Tankian

Down with the System

$24.99
$24.99
Matriarch
Tina Knowles

Matriarch

$34.99
$34.99
Please Live: The Chechen Wars, My Mother and Me cover image
Lana Estemirova

Please Live: The Chechen Wars, My Mother and Me

$34.99
$34.99
One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer: Three Tales of John Lee Hooker cover image
Gabe Soria

One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer

$50.00
$50.00
Kill 'Em and Leave: Searching for the Real James Brown cover image
James McBride

Kill 'Em and Leave

$24.99
$24.99
While I Have Your Attention: It’s Never Too Late for a New Beginning cover image
Lucille O'Neal

While I Have Your Attention

$32.99
$32.99
Broken Dreams (First Nations Classics) cover image
Bill Dodd

Broken Dreams

$19.99
$19.99
Aboriginal Women by Degrees (First Nations Classics) cover image
MaryAnn Bin-Sallik PhD

Aboriginal Women by Degrees

$19.99
$19.99
Fearless and Free
Josephine Baker

Fearless and Free

$26.99
$26.99
We Are Not Numbers: The Voices of Gaza's Youth cover image
Ahmed Alnaouq, Pam Bailey

We Are Not Numbers

$36.99
$36.99
Toussaint Louverture: The French Revolution and the Colonial Problem (Critical South) cover image
Aime Cesaire

Toussaint Louverture: The French Revolution and the Colonial Problem

$36.95
$36.95
Book cover of 'When I Dare to Be Powerful' by Audre Lorde, featuring text in blue and black colors on a white background.
Audre Lorde

When I Dare to Be Powerful

$16.99
$16.99
The Cancer Journals
Audre Lorde

The Cancer Journals

$22.99
$22.99
Songs of My Grandmother: On Finding Ourselves, Each Other, and the Things That Make Us Come Alive cover image
Sara Surani

Songs of My Grandmother

$26.99
$26.99
Firstborn Girls
Bernice L. McFadden

Firstborn Girls

$36.99
$36.99
Chopping Onions on My Heart: on losing and preserving culture cover image
Samantha Ellis

Chopping Onions on My Heart

$36.99
$36.99
Ask Me How It Works: Love in an Open Marriage cover image
Deepa Paul

Ask Me How It Works: Love in an Open Marriage

$36.99
$36.99
Broken Brains cover image
Jamila Rizvi, Rosie Waterland

Broken Brains

$36.99
$36.99
The Eyes of Gaza
Plestia Alaqad

The Eyes of Gaza

$24.99
$24.99
Letters From Gaza: A Collection By the People; Unveiling Their Stories and Emotions From the Year That Has Been cover image
Mahmoud Alshaer, Mohammed Al-Zaqzooq

Letters From Gaza

$34.99
$34.99
How to Dodge Flying Sandals and Other Advice for Life: An unreliable ethnic memoir cover image
Daniel Nour

How to Dodge Flying Sandals and Other Advice for Life

$29.99
$29.99
White Hibiscus cover image
Loribelle Spirovski

White Hibiscus

$29.99
$29.99
Sir Lewis: The Definitive Biography cover image
Michael E. Sawyer

Sir Lewis: The Definitive Biography

$24.99
$24.99
I Am Not a Tourist: Conversations on migration, race, belonging and identity in this fierce new memoir about what it means to be British Chinese cover image
Daisy J. Hung

I Am Not a Tourist

$39.99
$39.99
Docile: Memoir of a Not So Perfect Asian Girl cover image
Hyeseung Song

Docile

$34.99
$34.99
Full Circle
Jenny-May Clarkson

Full Circle

$36.99
$36.99
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