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Slow Cooked: An Unexpected Life in Food Politics (California Studies in Food and Culture #78) By Marion Nestle Cover Image
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Angela Davis: An Autobiography By Angela Y. Davis Cover Image
$22.95
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Sissy: A Coming-of-Gender Story By Jacob Tobia Cover Image
$18.00
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War By Other Means: The Pacifists of the Greatest Generation Who Revolutionized Resistance By Daniel Akst Cover Image
$28.99
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Twelve Years a Slave By Solomon Northup Cover Image
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Unbound: My Story of Liberation and the Birth of the Me Too Movement By Tarana Burke Cover Image
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On the Line: Two Women's Epic Fight to Build a Union By Daisy Pitkin Cover Image
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Youth to Power: Your Voice and How to Use It By Jamie Margolin, Greta Thunberg (Foreword by) Cover Image
By Jamie Margolin, Greta Thunberg (Foreword by)
$17.99
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The Portable Anna Julia Cooper By Shirley Moody-Turner (Editor), Henry Louis Gates (Editor) Cover Image
By Shirley Moody-Turner (Editor), Henry Louis Gates (Editor)
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The Great Book of Black Heroes: 30 Fearless and Inspirational Black Men and Women that Changed History By Bill O'Neill Cover Image
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Becoming Ms. Burton: From Prison to Recovery to Leading the Fight for Incarcerated Women By Susan Burton, Cari Lynn, Michelle Alexander (Foreword by) Cover Image
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When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir By Patrisse Cullors, asha bandele Cover Image
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