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Deep Ellum and Central Track: The Other Side of Dallas/Where the Black and White Worlds of Dallas Converged
HardcoverOriginal price $28.00Original price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /A new edition of the biography of Dallas' own Deep Ellum. Just outside of downtown Dallas lies a section of the city called Deep Ellum, where graff...
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Oklahoma Freedmen of the Five Tribes
HardcoverOriginal price $36.99Original price $36.99 - Original price $36.99Original price $36.99Current price $30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /Explore accounts of Oklahoma's Freedmen as told by their descendants in these stories of resistance and resilience on the Western frontier.The Free...
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The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
HardcoverOriginal price $38.00Original price $38.00 - Original price $38.00Original price $38.00Current price $35.99$35.99 - $35.99Current price $35.99| /Notes From Diverse Reads This riveting conversation among journalists, historians, poets, novelists, essayists and photographers lends a Technic...
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Black Dragon: Afro Asian Performance and the Martial Arts Imagination
HardcoverOriginal price $99.95 - Original price $99.95Original price $99.95$124.99$124.99 - $124.99Current price $124.99| /In Black Dragon: Afro Asian Performance and the Martial Arts Imagination, Zachary F. Price illuminates martial arts as a site of knowledge exchange...
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Great Crossings: Indians, Settlers, and Slaves in the Age of Jackson
HardcoverOriginal price $31.99Original price $31.99 - Original price $31.99Original price $31.99Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /In Great Crossings: Indians, Settlers, and Slaves in the Age of Jackson, prize-winning historian Christina Snyder reinterprets the history of Jac...
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DYNASTIES
HardcoverOriginal price $24.99 - Original price $24.99Original price $24.99$36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /DYNASTIES is a January 2023 International Book Of The Month Pick by the International Pulpwood Queen & Timber Guys Book Club Reading Nation ...
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The Creole Rebellion: The Most Successful Slave Revolt in American History
HardcoverOriginal price $27.95Original price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /The Creole Rebellion tells the suspenseful story of a successful mutiny on board the slave ship Creole. En route for a New Orleans slave-auction...
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The Black Washingtonians: The Anacostia Museum Illustrated Chronology
HardcoverOriginal price $42.00Original price $42.00 - Original price $42.00Original price $42.00Current price $38.99$38.99 - $38.99Current price $38.99| /The Black WashingtoniansTHE ANACOSTIA MUSEUM ILLUSTRATED CHRONOLOGYA history of African American life in our nation's capital, in words and pictu...
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A Lost Lady
HardcoverOriginal price $16.99 - Original price $16.99Original price $16.99$23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /Marian Forrester is the symbolic flower of the Old American West. She draws her strength from that solid foundation, bringing delight and beauty...
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North Korea Confidential: Private Markets, Fashion Trends, Prison Camps, Dissenters and Defectors
HardcoverOriginal price $21.95Original price $21.95 - Original price $21.95Original price $21.95Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /**Named one of the best books of 2015 by The Economist** Private Markets, Fashion Trends, Prison Camps, Dissenters and Defectors. North Korea is ...
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Native Provenance: The Betrayal of Cultural Creativity
HardcoverOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Gerald Vizenor’s Native Provenance challenges readers to consider the subtle ironies at the heart of Native American culture and oral traditions ...
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Return to Zion: The History of Modern Israel
HardcoverOriginal price $32.95Original price $32.95 - Original price $32.95Original price $32.95Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /The history of modern Israel is a story of ambition, violence, and survival. Return to Zion traces how a scattered and stateless people reconstit...
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Scars of the Golden Dancer
HardcoverOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /Life on the edge of the desert has never been easy, especially for the jackal prostitute and sword dancer, Zayn. After selling his wares at aucti...
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The House Behind the Cedars
HardcoverOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /The House Behind the Cedars (1900) is African-American writer Charles Chesnutt’s debut novel. Inspired by his own experience as a Black man capab...
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Angels of the Underground: The American Women who Resisted the Japanese in the Philippines in World War II
HardcoverOriginal price $29.99Original price $29.99 - Original price $29.99Original price $29.99Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /When the Japanese began their brutal occupation of the Philippines in January 1942, 76,000 ill and starving Filipino and American troops tried to...
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Found in Pieces
HardcoverOriginal price $22.95 - Original price $22.95Original price $22.95$26.99$26.99 - $26.99Current price $26.99| /A Heart-rending Story of Two Mothers-one White, One Black-struggling for Truth and Justice in the Civil Rights-era SouthIn 1958, when almost no w...
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King Sejong Invents an Alphabet
HardcoverOriginal price $16.99 - Original price $16.99Original price $16.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /A Junior Library Guild Selection March 2022How do you create a new alphabet?In 15th-century Korea, King Sejong was distressed. The complicated Ch...
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Pearl of the Desert: A History of Palmyra
HardcoverOriginal price $32.99 - Original price $32.99Original price $32.99$45.99$45.99 - $45.99Current price $45.99| /Palmyra has long attracted the attention of the world. Well before its rediscovery in the seventeenth century, the ancient city gained legendary ...
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Shambhala
HardcoverOriginal price $22.00 - Original price $22.00Original price $22.00$25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /In "Shambhala" Roerich has recorded the way of his journey through Central Asia and Tibet in the terms of spirit. It is a record of legends, of p...
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The invisible painting: My memoir of Leonora Carrington
HardcoverOriginal price $26.95Original price $26.95 - Original price $26.95Original price $26.95Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /Since her death in 2011, the legendary Surrealist Leonora Carrington has been reconstructed and reinvented many times over. In this book, Gabriel...
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Terrorism, Betrayal, and Resilience: My Story of the 1998 U.S. Embassy Bombings
HardcoverOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /On August 7, 1998, three years before President George W. Bush declared the War on Terror, the radical Islamist group al-Qaeda bombed the America...
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Rest for the Wicked (Jane Lawless Series #20)
HardcoverOriginal price $39.99Original price $39.99 - Original price $39.99Original price $39.99Current price $36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /Ellen Hart was named the 2017 MWA Grand Master, the most distinguished lifetime achievement award offered in the mystery community. DeAndre Moore...
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Love Speaks Its Name: Gay and Lesbian Love Poems
HardcoverOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /From Sappho to Shakespeare to Cole Porter–a marvelous and wide-ranging collection of classic gay and lesbian love poetry.The poets represented he...
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Open Wounds: Armenians, Turks and a Century of Genocide
HardcoverOriginal price $38.99 - Original price $38.99Original price $38.99$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /The assassination of the author Hrant Dink in Istanbul in 2007, a high-profile advocate of Turkish-Armenian reconciliation, reignited the debate ...
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