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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
Ahmed Alnaouq, Pam Bailey

We Are Not Numbers

$26.99
$26.99
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
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The Cancer Journals
Audre Lorde

The Cancer Journals

$22.99
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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
Deepa Paul

Ask Me How It Works: Love in an Open Marriage

$26.99
$26.99
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
Named: A Story Of Names And Reclaiming Who We Are cover image
Camilla Balshaw

Named

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$29.99
Mainline Mama: A Memoir cover image
Keeonna Harris

Mainline Mama

$55.00
$55.00
Saving Five
Amanda Nguyen

Saving Five

$24.99
$24.99
Building Material: The Memoir of a Park Avenue Doorman: A Hilarious Memoir of a Doorman's Experiences with the Rich and Famous on Park Avenue cover image
Stephen Bruno

Building Material: The Memoir of a Park Avenue Doorman

$34.99
$34.99
Suzuki: The Man and His Dream to Teach the Children of the World cover image
Eri Hotta

Suzuki: The Man and His Dream to Teach the Children of the World

$34.95
$34.95
My Palestine: An Impossible Exile cover image
Mohammad Tarbush

My Palestine: An Impossible Exile

$49.95
$49.95
Life in the Pitlane cover image
Calum Nicholas

Life in the Pitlane

$34.99
$34.99
Amongst the Grapevines
Minney Richani

Amongst the Grapevines

$44.99
$44.99
The Koran and the Flesh cover image
Ludovic-Mohamed Zahed

The Koran and the Flesh

$36.99
$36.99
Chinese Parents Don't Say I Love You: A memoir of saying the unsayable with food cover image
Candice Chung

Chinese Parents Don't Say I Love You

$34.99
$34.99
My Country, Africa: Autobiography of the Black Pasionaria (Verso's Southern Questions) cover image
Andrée Blouin

My Country, Africa

$34.99
$34.99
The Wilderness
Aysegül Savas

The Wilderness

$27.99
$27.99
Fully Sikh cover image
Sukhjit Kaur Khalsa

Fully Sikh

$29.99
$29.99
The Boy from Baghdad: My Journey from Waziriyah to Westminster cover image
Nadhim Zahawi

The Boy from Baghdad

$59.99
$59.99
The Cooking of Books: A Literary Memoir cover image
Ramachandra Guha

The Cooking of Books

$24.99
$24.99
Return to Sri Lanka cover image
Razeen Sally

Return to Sri Lanka

$27.99
$27.99
The Dissident Club: Chronicle of a Pakistani Journalist in Exile cover image
Taha Siddiqui

The Dissident Club

$49.99
$49.99
You're Embarrassing Yourself
Desiree Akhavan

You're Embarrassing Yourself

$24.99
$24.99
In My Dreams I Dance: The inspirational memoir from Paralympian and disability advocate Anne Wafula Strike, newly updated for 2024 Olympics and Paralympics cover image
Anne Wafula Strike

In My Dreams I Dance

$24.99
$24.99
My Garden (Book) (Picador Collection) cover image
Jamaica Kincaid

My Garden (Book)

$24.99
$24.99
My Brother (Picador Collection) cover image
Jamaica Kincaid

My Brother

$24.99
$24.99
Q&A cover image
Adrian Tomine

Q&A

$26.99
$26.99
You'll Never Believe Me: Before Anna Delvey, before the Tinder Swindler, there was 'Hipster Grifter' Kari Ferrell... cover image
Kari Ferrell

You'll Never Believe Me

$34.99
$34.99
How to Tell When We Will Die: On Pain, Disability, and Doom cover image
Johanna Hedva

How to Tell When We Will Die

$49.99
$49.99
Don't Look Back cover image
Achut Deng, Keely Hutton

Don't Look Back

$22.99
$22.99
A Rebel in Gaza: A Daughter of Rafah Speaks cover image
Asmaa Alghoul, Sélim Nassib

A Rebel in Gaza

$32.99
$32.99
How to Lose a Country: The 7 Steps from Democracy to Fascism (Canons) cover image
Ece Temelkuran

How to Lose a Country

$24.99
$24.99
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