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Alice Walker's 1982 novel, The Color Purple, won the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award, exploring the lives of black women in the South and their experiences of abuse and struggle for independence.

A personal, illustrated memoir of Marjane Satrapi’s childhood in Tehran, her coming‑of‑age during the Islamic Revolution, teenage years in Vienna and eventual exile from Iran.

Jeannette Walls' memoir chronicles her turbulent childhood in a dysfunctional, itinerant family, detailing poverty, alcoholism, and homelessness across the United States as she seeks stability and personal growth.

Maya Angelou's autobiography, 'I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings', tells the story of her life and the challenges she faced growing up in Arkansas, including racism, abuse, and the loss of her father. The book is a powerful and moving portrayal of the African American experience during the 1930s and 1940s.

Junior, a budding cartoonist from the Spokane Indian Reservation, transfers to an all‑white farm‑town high school, where the only other Indian is the school mascot.

Craig of the Mohicans, a frontier scout turns away from civilization, forming a bond with a Mohican warrior as they escort two sisters across the perilous wilderness of America's frontier.

An eight‑year‑old girl discovers her bravery as she journeys alone with her father to build a new home in the Connecticut wilderness, later staying with local Indians while her father returns with the rest of the family.

A factual biography of Squanto, a Wampanoag Indian who journeyed to London with early English explorers, endured Spanish slavery, and later helped the Pilgrims upon their arrival in America.

Michelle Obama chronicles her life from South Side Chicago to the White House, revealing the personal drive behind her public advocacy for women, families, and health.

A young Swedish immigrant girl discovers friendship and learns valuable lessons in an American prairie school.

Young Samuel, 13, lives in a remote frontier colony and must trek into enemy-held New York City to rescue his kidnapped parents during the early American Revolution.

During the eighteenth century in Maine, a young boy is left alone to guard his family's wilderness home and must learn survival skills from local Indians before anyone else arrives.

A pioneer boy raised by Crow Indians returns home to Oregon and struggles to bridge his tribal upbringing with the challenges of white society.

Fourteen‑year‑old Francis Tucket sets out west on the Oregon Trail, receives a rifle and is captured by the Pawnee; wild horses, hostile tribes, and a mysterious one‑armed mountain man named Mr. Grimes shape him into the man who will later be known as Mr. Tucket.

Chickadee, set in 1866, follows a young Ojibwa boy kidnapped by two outlaw brothers from his own tribe, as he forges unlikely friendships and embarks on a perilous journey to return home.

A story of friendship between a Sioux Indian girl and a Swedish American girl set in the early 1900s.

Elie Wiesel chronicles the harrowing realities of his childhood in Nazi concentration camps, and how witnessing the loss of family and friends transformed his faith.

Set on the Michigan frontier in 1840, the story follows Libby, whose ordinary life is altered when she encounters the forced displacement of Potawatomi Indians from their ancestral lands.

A timid schoolboy faces his fear of the stage during a spelling bee, finds courage through his father’s advice and the heroic legacy of his Shoshoni ancestors.

"Across North America, Indigenous acts of resistance have in recent years opposed the removal of federal protections for forests and waterways in Indigenous lands, halted the expansion of tar sands extraction and the pipeline construction at Standing Rock, and demanded justice for murdered and missing Indigenous women. In As We Have Always Done, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson locates Indigenous political resurgence as a practice rooted in uniquely Indigenous theorizing, writing, organizing, and thinking. Indigenous resistance is a radical rejection of contemporary colonialism focused around refusing the dispossession of Indigenous bodies and land. Simpson makes clear that the resistance's goal can no longer be cultural resurgence as a mechanism for inclusion in a multicultural mosaic. Instead, she calls for unapologetic, place-based Indigenous alternatives to the destructive logics of the settler colonial state, including heteropatriarchy, white supremacy, and capitalist exploitation."--Dust jacket.

Boston Jane follows the adventures of a young woman from Philadelphia who ventures into the untamed Pacific Northwest, facing sea voyages, frontier hardships, and personal growth.