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African Samurai: The True Story of Yasuke, a Legendary Black Warrior in Feudal Japan
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /"A readable, compassionate account of an extraordinary life.” —The Washington PostThe remarkable life of history’s first foreign-born samurai, an...
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Prince Eddy and the Homosexual Underworld
PaperbackOriginal price $12.99 - Original price $12.99Original price $12.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Prince Albert Victor, known to his family as 'Eddy', was the eldest child of King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra. This is the story of Prince Eddy'...
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Things I'll Never forget: Memories of a Marine in Viet Nam
PaperbackOriginal price $14.95 - Original price $14.95Original price $14.95$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Things I'll never forget is the story of a young high school graduate in 1965 who faces being drafted into the Army or volunteering for the Marine ...
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Unbuttoned: Gay Life in the Santa Fe Arts Scene
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00$22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /Where gays live, creativity thrives! For over 100 years, the Santa Fe/Taos region of Northern New Mexico has nurtured a rich gay culture, yet most ...
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Coconut: A Black Girl, a White Foster Family, and the Search for Belonging and Identity
PaperbackOriginal price $12.99 - Original price $12.99Original price $12.99$14.99$14.99 - $14.99Current price $14.99| /This inspiring memoir tells the story of one woman’s self discovery while surviving poverty, loss, loneliness, maltreatment, and fighting to get ...
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El miedo nos hizo fuertes / Fear Made Us Strong
PaperbackOriginal price $16.95 - Original price $16.95Original price $16.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /La conmovedora historia de un niño que, a pesar de afrontar el abuso físico en casa, en su barrio y en su país, jamás perdió la alegría de vivir....
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Mighty Justice: My Life in Civil Rights
PaperbackOriginal price $16.95 - Original price $16.95Original price $16.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /“Dovey Johnson Roundtree set a new path for women and proved that the vision and perseverance of a single individual can turn the tides of histor...
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Aimee & Jaguar: A Love Story, Berlin 1943
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /This powerful, poignant, and inspirational novel, a Lambda Literary Award winner, is the true story of two unlikely lovers set against World War ...
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Evita
PaperbackOriginal price $14.95 - Original price $14.95Original price $14.95$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /In 1987, a small Argentine publishing house published a document that had recently been found in a government archive in Buenos Aires. The docume...
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Sylvia Rafael: The Life and Death of a Mossad Spy
HardcoverOriginal price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95$30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /"There is a lack of quiet in Sylvia that craves for action.... She knows that she is special and that she possesses unusual and varied abilities....
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The invisible painting: My memoir of Leonora Carrington
PaperbackOriginal price $18.95 - Original price $18.95Original price $18.95$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /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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Molly Spotted Elk: A Penobscot in Paris
PaperbackOriginal price $21.95 - Original price $21.95Original price $21.95$30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /Molly Spotted Elk: A Penobscot in Paris chronicles the extraordinary life of a twentieth-century American Indian performing artist. Born in 1903 ...
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Bad Dyke: Salacious Stories from a Queer Life
PaperbackOriginal price $9.99 - Original price $9.99Original price $9.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /"Clear, frank, and refreshingly without shame." -Publishers Weekly, Starred Review Finalist, Bisexual Book Awards Finalist, Golden Crown Award fo...
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Damn Few: Making the Modern SEAL Warrior
HardcoverOriginal price $38.00Original price $38.00 - Original price $38.00Original price $38.00Current price $37.99$37.99 - $37.99Current price $37.99| /From leadership expert, former Navy SEAL, American Grit feature player, and author of Worth Dying For: A Navy SEAL's Call to a Nation, Rorke Den...
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The Prince Of The Marshes: And Other Occupational Hazards of a Year in Iraq
PaperbackOriginal price $16.99 - Original price $16.99Original price $16.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /In August 2003, at the age of thirty, Rory Stewart took a taxi from Jordan to Baghdad. A Farsi-speaking British diplomat who had recently complet...
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Kwame Nkrumah: The Father of African Nationalism
PaperbackOriginal price $18.95 - Original price $18.95Original price $18.95$26.99$26.99 - $26.99Current price $26.99| /The first African statesman to achieve world recognition was Kwame Nkrumah (1909-1972), who became president of the new Republic of Ghana in 1960...
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Hosteen Klah: Navaho Medicine Man and Sand Painter
PaperbackOriginal price $21.95 - Original price $21.95Original price $21.95$30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /Navaho medicine man and sand painter Hosteen Klah bridged the long span from the old days of tribal greatness and warfare to the new days of trib...
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Desmond Tutu: A Biography
PaperbackOriginal price $24.00 - Original price $24.00Original price $24.00$36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /History will remember Desmond Tutu, who has been called South Africa's Martin Luther King, Jr., as a great leader in the struggle against aparthe...
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Fidel:: A Critical Portrait
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Never before has any biographer had such close access to Fidel Castro as did Tad Szule. The outcome of a long, direct relationship, this rivetin...
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The African Memory of Mark: Reassessing Early Church Tradition
PaperbackOriginal price $35.00Original price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /We often regard the author of the Gospel of Mark as an obscure figure about whom we know little. Many would be surprised to learn how much fuller...
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The Prime Ministers: An Intimate Narrative of Israeli Leadership
HardcoverOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /The Prime Ministers is the first and only insider account of Israeli politics from the founding of the Jewish State to the near-present day. It r...
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Gratitude in Low Voices: A Memoir
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /“A candid, inspiring memoir of cultural and historical importance” from an Eritrean-Ethiopian War refugee (Michael Bloomberg). Dawit Gebremichael...
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Secret Historian: The Life and Times of Samuel Steward, Professor, Tattoo Artist, and Sexual Renegade
PaperbackOriginal price $24.00Original price $24.00 - Original price $24.00Original price $24.00Current price $21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /2010 National Book Award Finalist for NonfictionDrawn from the secret, never-before-seen diaries, journals, and sexual records of the novelist, p...
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Under The Same Sky: From Starvation in North Korea to Salvation in America
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /An inspirational memoir about an abandoned young boy who escaped the devastating famine in North Korea and came to America in search of survival,...
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