Best Indian Biographies To Read - April 2024

Life Itself

• ASIN: B07FCSYS8G
• ASIN: B07FCSYS8G

Enemy of the Reich: The Noor Inayat Khan Story

• ASIN: B00NG0UE1Q
• ASIN: B00NG0UE1Q

1,000 Places to See Before You Die: Revised Second Edition

The world’s bestselling travel book is back in a more informative, more experiential, more budget-friendly full-color edition. A #1 New York Times bestseller, 1,000 Places reinvented the idea of travel book as both wish list and practical guide. As Newsweek wrote, it “tells you what’s beautiful, what’s fun, and what’s just unforgettable— everywhere on earth.” And now the best is better. There are 600 full-color photographs. Over 200 entirely new entries, including visits to 28 countries like Lebanon, Croatia, Estonia, and Nicaragua, that were not in the original edition. There is... [Read More]

• ASIN: B0061S3X8G
• ASIN: B0061S3X8G
• Manufacturer: Workman Publishing Company

The Basic Guide to How to Read Music

The Basic Guide to How to Read Music will teach you the principles of reading music in staff notation quickly and painlessly. If you could once read music but have forgotten how, it will refresh your memory. It contains all the terms and symbols you are likely to come across when studying music and explains them fully. Helen Cooper explains the written language of music in greater detail than you might get from your teacher. This book is ideal for the classroom, private lessons, and the home.

• ASIN: 0399511229
• ASIN: 0399511229
• ISBN: 0399511229
• Manufacturer: TarcherPerigee

Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America

The National Book Award winning history of how racist ideas were created, spread, and deeply rooted in American society.Some Americans insist that we're living in a post-racial society. But racist thought is not just alive and well in America--it is more sophisticated and more insidious than ever. And as award-winning historian Ibram X. Kendi argues, racist ideas have a long and lingering history, one in which nearly every great American thinker is complicit. In this deeply researched and fast-moving narrative, Kendi chronicles the entire story of anti-black racist ideas and their staggering ... [Read More]

• ASIN: B017QL8WV4
• ASIN: B017QL8WV4
• Manufacturer: Bold Type Books

The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Pulitzer Prize–winning historian David McCullough rediscovers an important and dramatic chapter in the American story—the settling of the Northwest Territory by dauntless pioneers who overcame incredible hardships to build a community based on ideals that would come to define our country.As part of the Treaty of Paris, in which Great Britain recognized the new United States of America, Britain ceded the land that comprised the immense Northwest Territory, a wilderness empire northwest of the Ohio River containing the future states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Mi... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1501168681
• ASIN: 1501168681
• ISBN: 1501168681
• Brand: Simon & Schuster
• Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster

Dickies Boys' Twill Shirt, Desert Sand, Small

Dickies Boy's twill shirt takes after their popular Men's work shirt

• ASIN: B004NNC7L0
• UPC: 607645535012
• ASIN: B004NNC7L0
• Brand: Dickies
• Size: Small 8
• Manufacturer: Dickies Boys 8-20

The Classic Slave Narratives

Henry Louis Gates, Jr., presents a seminal volume of four classic slave narratives, including the 1749 texts of The Life of Olaudah Equiano, the last edition corrected and published in his lifetime. The collection also includes perhaps the best known and most widely read slave narrative--Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, as well as two narratives by women: The History of Mary Prince: A West Indian Slave, and Incident in the Life of a Slave Girl, written by Harriet Jacobs as Linda Brent. This edition also features an updated introduction by Professor Gates.

• ASIN: 0451532139
• ASIN: 0451532139
• ISBN: 0451532139
• Manufacturer: Signet

The Revenant

• ASIN: B01AB7GJ4M
• ASIN: B01AB7GJ4M

To the American Indian: Reminiscences of a Yurok Woman

Lucy Thompson is, even today, one of the few Native American women to have written a book about her people. When she published _To the American Indian_ in 1916, the world of the Yurok Indians of northern California seemed on the edge of collapse. Concerned about the survival of her people and their customs, and concerned also that the true story of the Yurok was not being told - not by the popular press, not by the anthropologists - she took it upon herself to write this remarkable book. An aristocrat by birth, and an initiate into the exclusive priestly society known as Talth, Lucy Thompson g... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0930588479
• ASIN: 0930588479
• ISBN: 0930588479
• Brand: Brand: Heyday Books
• Manufacturer: Heyday Books

Sacagawea and the Bravest Deed

Young Sacagawea wants to be as brave as her brother. If only she were allowed to go with him and the other boys on a hunt to prove it! But while gathering wood with her grandmother, an angry rattlesnake shows Sacagawea that there are many ways to be brave.

• ASIN: 068984803X
• ASIN: 068984803X
• ISBN: 068984803X
• Brand: Simon Spotlight
• Manufacturer: Simon Spotlight

Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson and the Opening of the American West: Meriwether Lewis Thomas Jefferson and the Opening

• ASIN: B00AK78P8W
• ASIN: B00AK78P8W
• Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster

Ben Franklin and His First Kite

Learn all about the childhood of one of America's founding fathers in this nonfiction Level 2 Ready-to-Read!Ten-year-old Ben Franklin finds working in his father's candle shop boring—he'd much rather be doing experiments. He can't wait to try out his latest idea. With nothing but a simple kite, can Ben get across the pond—without swimming a single stroke?

• ASIN: 0689849842
• ASIN: 0689849842
• ISBN: 0689849842
• Brand: Simon Spotlight
• Manufacturer: Simon Spotlight

When Breath Becomes Air

• ASIN: 081298840X
• UPC: 642688054472
• ASIN: 081298840X
• ISBN: 081298840X
• Manufacturer: Random House

Born to Run

• ASIN: B0028MBKVG
• ASIN: B0028MBKVG
• Manufacturer: Vintage

The Best Place to Read

A young child with a new book hunts inside and outside the house before finding the right chair for

• UPC: 156104408
• Rating: 4.0

The True Story of Hiawatha and History of the Six Nation Indians

The True Story of Hiawatha and History of the Six Nation

• UPC: 53003324

Baseball's Best: Five True Stories

Examines the accomplishments of Babe Ruth, Joe DiMaggio, Jackie Robinson, Roberto Clemente, and Hank Aaron, all of whom were elected to the Baseball Hall of

• UPC: 455013
• Rating: 4.0

The Class Book of American Literature : Consisting Principally of Selections in the Department of History, Biography, Prose Fiction, Travels, the Drama, Popular Eloquence, and Poetry; From the Best Writers of Our County. Designed to Be Used as a Reading B

The Class Book of American Literature: Consisting Principally of Selections in the Department of History, Biography, Prose Fiction, Travels, the Drama Height : 0.68 In Length : 9.69 In Width : 7.44 In Weight :

• UPC: 706211039

Snowballs For Severance : The Terrifically True Story of Dane Best and the Snowball Ban

"The mayor told us about crazy laws," Dane said, including the one forbidding snowball throwing. "So, I wanted to do something about it." A law in Severance, Colorado contains wording that makes it illegal to

• UPC: 949001861

The Essential Writer's Guide : Spotlight on Lynne Reid Banks, Including Her Education, Analysis of Her Best Sellers Such as the Indian in the Cupboar

The Essential Writer's Guide

• UPC: 672761510

The Class Book of American Literature : Consisting Principally of Selections in the Department of History, Biography, Prose Fiction, Travels, the Drama, Popular Eloquence, and Poetry; From the Best Writers of Our County. Designed to Be Used as a Reading Bo

The Class Book of American Literature: Consisting Principally of Selections in the

• UPC: 545224928

Johnny Eagle, an American Indian - My Best Friend : An American Indian - My Best Friend

Johnny Eagle, an American Indian - My Best

• UPC: 880253108

The Mohammedan Controversy and Other Indian Articles - Biographies of Mohammed; Sprenger on Tradition and the Psalter

The Mohammedan Controversy and Other Indian Articles - Biographies of Mohammed; Sprenger on Tradition and the

• UPC: 909294827

The Mohammedan Controversy and Other Indian Articles - Biographies of Mohammed; Sprenger on Tradition and the Psalter

The Mohammedan Controversy and Other Indian Articles - Biographies of Mohammed; Sprenger On Tradition and the

• UPC: 428064864