Non-Fiction
Non-Fiction
Henrietta Lacks: The Mother of Modern Medicine
Henrietta Lacks: The Mother of Modern Medicine introduces young readers to the remarkable story of Henrietta Lacks, an African American woman whose cancer cells revolutionized medical science. This book charts Henrietta’s life, from her upbringing in Virginia through to the births...
$12.95
Birds of West Africa: A Child's Guide
Birds of Our Land is a child's guide to West African birds with the aim of introducing children to some of the many fascinating birds that they may not be familiar with. It explains the basic features of birds and key...
$16.95
Rosa
She had not sought this moment but she was ready for it. When the policeman bent down to ask "Auntie, are you going to move?" all the strength of all the people through all those many years joined in her....
$19.99
$9.99
Dear Black Boy
Dear Black Boy is a letter of encouragement to all of the black boys around the world who feel like sports are all they have. It is a reminder that they are more than athletes, more than a jersey number,...
$99.99
Proudly Red and Black: Stories of African and Native Americans
A study of the relationship between native American and African-American people profiles six people of mixed African and native American ancestry, including colonial trader Richard Cuffe, Senator Robert Smalls, and artist Edmonia Lewis.
$45.00
Black Pioneers: An Untold Story
BLACK PIONEERS: AN UNTOLD STORY one of Katz’s four important books on the African American experience as western pioneers. It has a new Preface by Kenneth B. Morris, Jr. great, great, great grandson of Frederick Douglass, and founder of the...
$19.00
Breaking the Chains: African American Slave Resistance
Centering Black voices and the narratives of enslaved people, this young adult history offers a thoroughly researched account with first-hand testimonies of how people in bondage were themselves a driving force behind their own emancipation.Features a new introduction by Robin...
$16.95
$14.95
The Lincoln Brigade: A Picture History
THE LINCOLN BRIGADE The day after Christmas in 1936, a group of ninety-six Americans sailed from New York to help Spain defend its democratic government against fascism. Ultimately, twenty-eight hundred United States volunteers reached Spain to become the Abraham Lincoln...
$18.00
Winter Pasture
Named one of The Washington Post's Best Travel Books of 2021. "Winter Pasture is Li Juan's crowning achievement, shattering the boundaries between nature writing and personal memoir."—Smithsonian Magazine"Li Juan spent minus-20-degree nights with nomadic herders in the Chinese steppes. You’ll want to join her."—Laura...
$27.00
Wild Dances
"A page-turning, tragicomic memoir . . . By ingeniously weaving improbable and conflicting forces that make up his personal history, Adams affirms a resilient idea of home that yearns to transcend space and time." —Thúy Đinh, NPRA memoir of glitz, glamour, geopolitics,...
$26.00
The Sex Lives of African Women
"Dazzling... the tone is hopeful, resilient and accepting. Marked by the diversity of experiences shared, the wealth of intimate details, and the total lack of sensationalism, this is an astonishing report on the quest for sexual liberation."—Publishers Weekly, Starred Review "Touching,...
$27.00
The Rent Collectors
Tattoos on the Heart meets Ghettoside in this gripping true story about a botched gang murder set in the invisible economy of LA's immigrant street vendorsBaby-faced teen Giovanni Macedo is desperate to find belonging in one of LA’s most predatory gangs, the Columbia...
$27.00
The Parenthood Dilemma
Our Culture Magazine Best Book of 2023“Rushton's work is generous, thoughtful, and honest, taking care neither to romanticize nor to disparage the choice to become a parent.”—Jenny Hamilton, Booklist (starred review)A bold feminist investigation into the mother of all questions; whether or not...
$26.00
The Chronicles of DOOM
The definitive biography of MF DOOM, charting the reclusive and revered hip-hop artist’s life, career, and eventual immortality.From the journalist behind From the Streets of Shaolin and packed with behind-the-scenes content, for fans of hip-hop biographies like Dilla Time and The Marathon Don’t Stop.On December...
$29.00
The Bathysphere Book
Winner of the 2024 National Book Foundation's Science + Literature AwardA Washington Post top 10 best book of 2023A Publishers Weekly best nonfiction book of 2023"Hypnotic . . . Beautifully written and beautifully made."—W. M. Akers, The New York Times Book Review"one of the...
$28.00
The Artisans - A Vanishing Chinese Village
Evoking Studs Terkel, Shen Fuyu delivers a rollicking deep dive into working life in a small village in rural China, tracing the last 100 years of history.Born in Shen Village in Southeast China, Shen Fuyu grew up in a family...
$25.00
Takedown - Art and Power in the Digital Age
Farah Nayeri addresses the difficult questions plaguing the art world, from the bad habits of Old Masters, to the current grappling with identity politics.For centuries, art censorship has been a top-down phenomenon--kings, popes, and one-party states decided what was considered...
$27.00
Systemic: How Racism is Making Us Sick (Coming Soon-Jun 18, 2024)
In the spirit of Medical Apartheid and Killing the Black Body; A science-based, data-driven, and global exploration of racial disparities in health care access by virologist, immunologist, and science journalist Layal Liverpool.Layal Liverpool spent years as a teen bouncing from doctor to doctor, each one...
$30.00
Stalking the Atomic City
“His is a voice that must be heard.” —Patti Smith“A poetic rush to madness. . . a stunning, original voice as lyrical as it is unnerving."—Alan Weisman, author of The World Without Us and Countdown"In the shadow of catastrophe, Markiyan Kamysh writes with...
$28.00
Slow Down The Degrowth Manifesto
"[A] well-reasoned and eye-opening treatise . . . [Kohei Saito makes] a provocative and visionary proposal."—Publishers Weekly, (starred review)"Saito’s clarity of thought, plethora of evidence, and conversational, gentle, yet urgent tone . . . are sure to win over open-minded readers...
$26.00
Seeing
In the tradition of Katy Tur, Jane Pauley, and Peter Jennings, Chai Jing shows us the power of television news and the complex challenges of reporting in China.After becoming a radio DJ in college and a TV interviewer at 23,...
$26.00
Rivermouth
Best Nonfiction of 2023 - Kirkus“One of the most thoughtful meditations on our nation’s immigration policy in recent memory." —The Boston GlobeA chronicle of translation, storytelling, and borders as understood through the United States' “immigration crisis”In this powerful and deeply felt memoir of...
$27.00
Pleasure of Thinking
A yet-untranslated essay collection on the importance of critical thought, from one of the foremost Chinese intellectuals of the 1990s. Wang Xiaobo’s Pleasure of Thinking is an essay collection as riotous as it is contemplative. Between rollicking anecdotes about living between the East...
$25.00
No Country for Eight-Spot Butterflies
A Michelle Obama Reach Higher Fall 2022 reading list pickA Library Journal "BEST BOOK OF 2022""Aguon’s book is for everyone, but he challenges history by placing indigenous consciousness at the center of his project . . . the most tender polemic I’ve...
$22.00
Moonlight Rests on My Left Palm
Starting with the viral poem “Crossing Half of China to Fuck You,” Yu Xiuhua’s raw collection in Fiona Sze-Lorrain's translation chronicles her life as a disabled, divorced, single mother in rural China.Yu Xiuhua was born with cerebral palsy in Hengdian...
$20.00
Milly Cow Gives Milk
Follow Milly Cow as she grazes on grass, guzzles water, and gives fresh milk to drink in this stylish and fact-filled picture book, part of the new “Follow My Food” series that looks at the ways different foods are made.How...
$17.99
Look and Cook Snacks - A First Book of Recipes in Pictures
Featured in the 2023 New York Times Holiday Gift Guide!The first of its kind, Look and Cook Snacks is an entirely visual guide to cooking. Designed for children who can’t yet read, this is a must-have introduction to the joys of cooking for kids ages 4...
$18.99
Look and Cook Breakfast - A First Book of Recipes in Pictures
In this companion title to Look and Cook Snacks, these easy-to-follow and engaging visual recipes will have kids ages 4–7 making their favorite breakfast dishes for the whole family to enjoy!Designed for children who can’t yet read, Look and Cook Breakfast: A First...
$18.99
Limitarianism - The Case Against Extreme Wealth
"A powerful case for limitarianism—the idea that we should set a maximum on how much resources one individual can appropriate. A must-read!"—Thomas Piketty, bestselling author of Capital in the Twenty-First CenturyAn original, bold, and convincing argument for a cap on wealth by...
$27.00
Home Bound
"This moving book is both an act of defiance — a way to construct a home outside of borders — and a timely manifesto on the need for more equitable housing policy in America, weaving her scholarship in economic justice...
$27.00