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The Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories
by Translated by Jay Rubin; Introduction by Haruki Murakami
Pub Date 28 Jun 2018
A major new anthology of great Japanese short stories introduced by Haruki Murakami This fantastically varied and exciting collection celebrates the great Japanese short story, from its modern origins in the nineteenth century to the remarkable examples being written today. Curated by Jay Rubin (who has himself freshly translated several of the stories)...
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The Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories
Translated by Jay Rubin; Introduction by Haruki Murakami
The Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories
by Translated by Jay Rubin; Introduction by Haruki Murakami
Pub Date 28 Jun 2018
A major new anthology of great Japanese short stories introduced by Haruki Murakami This fantastically varied and exciting collection celebrates the great Japanese short story, from its modern origins in the nineteenth century to the remarkable examples being written today. Curated by Jay Rubin (who has himself freshly translated several of the stories)...
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Pub Date 31 May 2019
Creoles have long been the subject of debate in linguistics, with many conflicting views, both on how they are formed, and what their political and linguistic status should be. Indeed, over the past twenty years, some creole specialists have argued that it has been wrong to think of creoles as anything but language blends in the same way that Yiddish is a...
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The Creole Debate
John H. McWhorter
Pub Date 31 May 2019
Creoles have long been the subject of debate in linguistics, with many conflicting views, both on how they are formed, and what their political and linguistic status should be. Indeed, over the past twenty years, some creole specialists have argued that it has been wrong to think of creoles as anything but language blends in the same way that Yiddish is a...
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Pub Date 15 May 2018
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The Chocolate War
Martin Walker
Pub Date 15 May 2018
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Girls Write Now
Two Decades of True Stories from Young Female Voices
by Girls Write Now, editor
Pub Date 16 Oct 2018
Teenage girls tell their most urgent stories, punctuated by inspiration and advice from Zadie Smith, Roxane Gay, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Gloria Steinem, Alice Walker, and more of today's great writers.
Girls Write Now: Two Decades of True Stories from Young Female Voices offers a brave and timely portrait of teenage-girl life in the United States over the...
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Girls Write Now
Girls Write Now, editor
Girls Write Now
Two Decades of True Stories from Young Female Voices
by Girls Write Now, editor
Pub Date 16 Oct 2018
Teenage girls tell their most urgent stories, punctuated by inspiration and advice from Zadie Smith, Roxane Gay, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Gloria Steinem, Alice Walker, and more of today's great writers.
Girls Write Now: Two Decades of True Stories from Young Female Voices offers a brave and timely portrait of teenage-girl life in the United States over the...
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Pub Date 28 Nov 2016
My novel, "Myth and Madness" explores the root causes of the "revolution of dignity" that took place on the Maidan (Independence Square) in Kyiv, Ukraine during the winter of 2013/2014, and which culminated in the sniper deaths of over 100 protestors. My novel uses the devices of magical realism and a "story within a story," in which a Ukrainian fairy...
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Myth and Madness
Daniel Hryhorczuk
Pub Date 28 Nov 2016
My novel, "Myth and Madness" explores the root causes of the "revolution of dignity" that took place on the Maidan (Independence Square) in Kyiv, Ukraine during the winter of 2013/2014, and which culminated in the sniper deaths of over 100 protestors. My novel uses the devices of magical realism and a "story within a story," in which a Ukrainian fairy...
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Catfish Dream
Ed Scott's Fight for His Family Farm and Racial Justice in the Mississippi Delta
by Julian Rankin
Pub Date 10 Jul 2018
Catfish Dream centers around the experiences, family, and struggles of Ed Scott Jr. (born in 1922), a prolific farmer in the Mississippi Delta and the first ever nonwhite owner and operator of a catfish plant in the nation.
Both directly and indirectly, the economic and political realities of food and subsistence affect the everyday lives of Delta farmers...
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Catfish Dream
Julian Rankin
Catfish Dream
Ed Scott's Fight for His Family Farm and Racial Justice in the Mississippi Delta
by Julian Rankin
Pub Date 10 Jul 2018
Catfish Dream centers around the experiences, family, and struggles of Ed Scott Jr. (born in 1922), a prolific farmer in the Mississippi Delta and the first ever nonwhite owner and operator of a catfish plant in the nation.
Both directly and indirectly, the economic and political realities of food and subsistence affect the everyday lives of Delta farmers...
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Pub Date 29 May 2018
Brooklyn Wells has fought her dominating father, CEO Parker Wells, every...
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Touched by You
Elle Wright
Pub Date 29 May 2018
Brooklyn Wells has fought her dominating father, CEO Parker Wells, every...
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Pub Date 29 May 2018
Two gorgeous sisters. One plays by the rules. The other lives her wild-card dreams on blast. But in this sizzling, twist-filled tale, they must help the exploited by putting their troubled relationship—and very different lives—on the line.
Sisters from Trinidad, Violet and Lily have never had much in common. Stunning Lily arrives...
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The Accidental Mistress
Aya de León
Pub Date 29 May 2018
Two gorgeous sisters. One plays by the rules. The other lives her wild-card dreams on blast. But in this sizzling, twist-filled tale, they must help the exploited by putting their troubled relationship—and very different lives—on the line.
Sisters from Trinidad, Violet and Lily have never had much in common. Stunning Lily arrives...
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Who Are You and Why Are You Here?
Tales of International Development
by Jacques Claessens, Translated by Nigel G. Spencer
Pub Date 28 Jun 2018
Every international development project looks good on paper until someone asks, “Who are you and why are you here?” In this case, it’s a man from northern Burkina Faso. His question reveals everything wrong with international development work today.
Jacques Claessens questions the real effects of development programs and agencies, NGOs, and multinational...
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Who Are You and Why Are You Here?
Jacques Claessens, Translated by Nigel G. Spencer
Who Are You and Why Are You Here?
Tales of International Development
by Jacques Claessens, Translated by Nigel G. Spencer
Pub Date 28 Jun 2018
Every international development project looks good on paper until someone asks, “Who are you and why are you here?” In this case, it’s a man from northern Burkina Faso. His question reveals everything wrong with international development work today.
Jacques Claessens questions the real effects of development programs and agencies, NGOs, and multinational...
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Pub Date 18 Sep 2018
When Rap Spoke Straight to God isn’t sacred or profane, but a chorus joined in a single soliloquy, demanding to be heard. There’s Wu-Tang and Mary Magdelene with a foot fetish, Lil’ Kim and a self-loving Lilith. Slurs, catcalls, verses, erasures—Dawson asks readers, “Just how far is it to nigger?” Both grounded and transcendent, the book is reality and...
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When Rap Spoke Straight to God
Erica Dawson
Pub Date 18 Sep 2018
When Rap Spoke Straight to God isn’t sacred or profane, but a chorus joined in a single soliloquy, demanding to be heard. There’s Wu-Tang and Mary Magdelene with a foot fetish, Lil’ Kim and a self-loving Lilith. Slurs, catcalls, verses, erasures—Dawson asks readers, “Just how far is it to nigger?” Both grounded and transcendent, the book is reality and...
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Pub Date 11 Sep 2018
Hailed as “one of the most thrilling writers at work today” (Huffington Post), Diana Evans reaches new heights with her searing depiction of two couples struggling through a year of marital crisis. In a crooked house in South London, Melissa feels increasingly that she’s defined solely by motherhood, while Michael mourns the former thrill of their romance...
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Ordinary People
Diana Evans
Pub Date 11 Sep 2018
Hailed as “one of the most thrilling writers at work today” (Huffington Post), Diana Evans reaches new heights with her searing depiction of two couples struggling through a year of marital crisis. In a crooked house in South London, Melissa feels increasingly that she’s defined solely by motherhood, while Michael mourns the former thrill of their romance...
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The Life and Adventures of Joaquín Murieta
The Celebrated California Bandit
by John Rollin Ridge
Pub Date 10 Jul 2018
With a new foreword by Diana Gabaldon, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Outlander series
An action-packed blend of folk...
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The Life and Adventures of Joaquín Murieta
John Rollin Ridge
The Life and Adventures of Joaquín Murieta
The Celebrated California Bandit
by John Rollin Ridge
Pub Date 10 Jul 2018
With a new foreword by Diana Gabaldon, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Outlander series
An action-packed blend of folk...
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Pub Date 17 Jul 2018
A heartpounding, exhilarating novel based on the hot new movie from Nick Cannon.
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King of the Dancehall
Nick Cannon
Pub Date 17 Jul 2018
A heartpounding, exhilarating novel based on the hot new movie from Nick Cannon.
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Pub Date 06 Nov 2018
In 1948 Najin and Calvin Cho, with their young daughter Miran, travel from South Korea to the United States in search of new...
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The Kinship of Secrets
Eugenia Kim
Pub Date 06 Nov 2018
In 1948 Najin and Calvin Cho, with their young daughter Miran, travel from South Korea to the United States in search of new...
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Pub Date 12 Jun 2018
Romaine Wilder, big-city medical examiner with a small-town past, has been downsized and evicted. With few other options, she’s forced to return to her hometown of Robel in East Texas, leaving behind the man she’s dating and the life she’s worked hard to build.
Suzanne Babet Derbinay, Romaine’s Auntie Zanne and proprietor of the Ball Funeral Home, has long...
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SECRETS, LIES, & CRAWFISH PIES
Abby L. Vandiver
Pub Date 12 Jun 2018
Romaine Wilder, big-city medical examiner with a small-town past, has been downsized and evicted. With few other options, she’s forced to return to her hometown of Robel in East Texas, leaving behind the man she’s dating and the life she’s worked hard to build.
Suzanne Babet Derbinay, Romaine’s Auntie Zanne and proprietor of the Ball Funeral Home, has long...
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The Last Christians
Stories of Persecution, Flight, and Resilience in the Middle East
by Andreas Knapp
Pub Date 01 Sep 2017
Gold Medal Winner, 2018 IPPY Book of the Year Award in Religion, Independent Publishers
Silver Medal Winner, 2018 Benjamin Franklin Award in Religion from IBPA
Finalist, 2018 ECPA Christian Book Awards, Faith and Culture
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The Last Christians
Andreas Knapp
The Last Christians
Stories of Persecution, Flight, and Resilience in the Middle East
by Andreas Knapp
Pub Date 01 Sep 2017
Gold Medal Winner, 2018 IPPY Book of the Year Award in Religion, Independent Publishers
Silver Medal Winner, 2018 Benjamin Franklin Award in Religion from IBPA
Finalist, 2018 ECPA Christian Book Awards, Faith and Culture
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Pub Date 04 Jan 2017
“A truly beautiful collection that deserves its place on any literary-lover's bookshelf,” T. Williams.
Cornelia Fick's debut collection is written with a compassionate eye for the fragile positions of women, the dispossessed and the poor. While experimenting with different styles and forms of storytelling, Fick displays an acute insight into the mysteries...
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Eye of a needle: And other stories
Cornelia Fick
Pub Date 04 Jan 2017
“A truly beautiful collection that deserves its place on any literary-lover's bookshelf,” T. Williams.
Cornelia Fick's debut collection is written with a compassionate eye for the fragile positions of women, the dispossessed and the poor. While experimenting with different styles and forms of storytelling, Fick displays an acute insight into the mysteries...
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Pub Date 25 May 2018
The magnificent new coming-of-age novel by Dr Nat Tanoh that shines a light on what it's really like growing up in Africa. The Day of the Orphan tells the story of what unfolds when a chubby kid from a charmed background becomes the reluctant revolutionary his country so desperately needs. Can one happy-go-lucky...
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The Day of the Orphan
Dr Nat Tanoh
Pub Date 25 May 2018
The magnificent new coming-of-age novel by Dr Nat Tanoh that shines a light on what it's really like growing up in Africa. The Day of the Orphan tells the story of what unfolds when a chubby kid from a charmed background becomes the reluctant revolutionary his country so desperately needs. Can one happy-go-lucky...
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Great Cape o' Colors: Capa de colores (English-Spanish with pronunciation guide)
by Karl Beckstrand
Pub Date 27 May 2018
(Language, careers) “This is a magic cape!” A picture book for exploring colors—and daring jobs—with full text & pronunciation guide in Spanish and English (ages 3+). Count the careers/colors/cultures, try on the costumes. 28-page, 8.5"x8.5" hard cover (also soft, ebook, English-only or Spanish-only) with black & Hispanic superhero characters, 100 words...
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Great Cape o' Colors: Capa de colores (English-Spanish with pronunciation guide)
Karl Beckstrand
Great Cape o' Colors: Capa de colores (English-Spanish with pronunciation guide)
by Karl Beckstrand
Pub Date 27 May 2018
(Language, careers) “This is a magic cape!” A picture book for exploring colors—and daring jobs—with full text & pronunciation guide in Spanish and English (ages 3+). Count the careers/colors/cultures, try on the costumes. 28-page, 8.5"x8.5" hard cover (also soft, ebook, English-only or Spanish-only) with black & Hispanic superhero characters, 100 words...
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What My Left Hand Was Doing
Lessons from a Grassroots Activist
by Joann Castle
Pub Date 15 May 2018
In 1967, race riots burned across America, fueled by white blindness and black rage. In Detroit, the fire burned hottest and brightest. Faced with this unforgettable devastation, grassroots activists rose from the ashes to advance a radical social vision: blacks and whites working together toward a just society.
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What My Left Hand Was Doing
Joann Castle
What My Left Hand Was Doing
Lessons from a Grassroots Activist
by Joann Castle
Pub Date 15 May 2018
In 1967, race riots burned across America, fueled by white blindness and black rage. In Detroit, the fire burned hottest and brightest. Faced with this unforgettable devastation, grassroots activists rose from the ashes to advance a radical social vision: blacks and whites working together toward a just society.
In What My Left Hand Was Doing, Joann Castle...
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Pub Date 27 Mar 2018
Puerto Rico Strong is a comics anthology that explores what it means to be Puerto Rican and the diversity that exists within that concept, from today's most exciting Puerto Rican comics creators.
All proceeds go to UNIDOS Disaster Relief & Recovery Program to Support Puerto Rico. Despite being a US territory, Puerto Rico is often thought of as a foreign...
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Puerto Rico Strong
Vita Ayala
Pub Date 27 Mar 2018
Puerto Rico Strong is a comics anthology that explores what it means to be Puerto Rican and the diversity that exists within that concept, from today's most exciting Puerto Rican comics creators.
All proceeds go to UNIDOS Disaster Relief & Recovery Program to Support Puerto Rico. Despite being a US territory, Puerto Rico is often thought of as a foreign...
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Pub Date 25 May 2018
A desperate boy, in a desperate search … for peace.
A quiet town in Kentucky explodes from a racial incident and fourteen-year-old Tom Wallace is in the thick of it. His past haunts him and now he’s witness to a horrific event leaving him devastated and afraid.
Along with his cousin, Will, he searches for lost gold he believes can help him escape his town...
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The Staircase of Fire
Ben Woodard
Pub Date 25 May 2018
A desperate boy, in a desperate search … for peace.
A quiet town in Kentucky explodes from a racial incident and fourteen-year-old Tom Wallace is in the thick of it. His past haunts him and now he’s witness to a horrific event leaving him devastated and afraid.
Along with his cousin, Will, he searches for lost gold he believes can help him escape his town...
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Pub Date 15 Jun 2018
In the stillness of autumn, I feel I can almost hear someone hum ‘Lokame tharavadu (the world is my home)….’
In her tiny flat in East London, as Mili waits for her baby to arrive, little things remind her of her life in India—the scent of jasmine flowers, a heavy downpour, a late-night cup of coffee, an amla or gooseberry—and she is overcome with a deep...
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Amla Mater
Devi Menon
Pub Date 15 Jun 2018
In the stillness of autumn, I feel I can almost hear someone hum ‘Lokame tharavadu (the world is my home)….’
In her tiny flat in East London, as Mili waits for her baby to arrive, little things remind her of her life in India—the scent of jasmine flowers, a heavy downpour, a late-night cup of coffee, an amla or gooseberry—and she is overcome with a deep...
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Pub Date 01 May 2018
—Booklist (starred review)
★ Chamoiseau’s prose is astounding in its beauty. . . and he ups the stakes by making this novel a breathtaking thriller, as well.”
—Publisher Weely (starred review)
From a Prix Goncourt writer hailed by...
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Slave Old Man
Patrick Chamoiseau
Pub Date 01 May 2018
—Booklist (starred review)
★ Chamoiseau’s prose is astounding in its beauty. . . and he ups the stakes by making this novel a breathtaking thriller, as well.”
—Publisher Weely (starred review)
From a Prix Goncourt writer hailed by...
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Pub Date 01 May 2018
The Arctic region of North America is a land of long days, icy cold, hardy people and peculiar creatures. The Inuit people there have made traditional use of remarkable folk tales to find truth and explain the mysteries of an astonishing world.
In Fish-Boy, An Inuit Folk Tale, Vanita Oelschlager retells a tale passed down by a wise old Inuit. It's an...
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Fish-Boy
Vanita Oelschlager
Pub Date 01 May 2018
The Arctic region of North America is a land of long days, icy cold, hardy people and peculiar creatures. The Inuit people there have made traditional use of remarkable folk tales to find truth and explain the mysteries of an astonishing world.
In Fish-Boy, An Inuit Folk Tale, Vanita Oelschlager retells a tale passed down by a wise old Inuit. It's an...
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Pub Date 31 Jul 2018
--SANDRA CISNEROS, author of The House on Mango Street
A mesmerizing debut set in Colombia at the height Pablo Escobar's violent reign about...
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Fruit of the Drunken Tree
Ingrid Rojas Contreras
Pub Date 31 Jul 2018
--SANDRA CISNEROS, author of The House on Mango Street
A mesmerizing debut set in Colombia at the height Pablo Escobar's violent reign about...
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Pub Date 15 Feb 2018
One of the major features of politics in the past few years has been a renewed attention to race as a driving factor in both politics and everyday life. How, after decades of civil rights activism, do people from black and minority ethnic communities continue to be marginalized? In White Privilege, Kalwant Bhopal draws on social science research and...
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White Privilege
Kalwant Bhopal
Pub Date 15 Feb 2018
One of the major features of politics in the past few years has been a renewed attention to race as a driving factor in both politics and everyday life. How, after decades of civil rights activism, do people from black and minority ethnic communities continue to be marginalized? In White Privilege, Kalwant Bhopal draws on social science research and...
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Pub Date 14 Aug 2018
Holed up with other moms-to-be in a secret maternity home in Los Angeles, Scarlett Chen is far from her native China, where she worked in a factory and fell in love with the owner, Boss Yeung...
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A River of Stars
Vanessa Hua
Pub Date 14 Aug 2018
Holed up with other moms-to-be in a secret maternity home in Los Angeles, Scarlett Chen is far from her native China, where she worked in a factory and fell in love with the owner, Boss Yeung...
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Pub Date 10 Apr 2018
Calling to mind the best works of Paul Beatty and Junot Díaz, this collection of moving, timely, and darkly funny stories examines the concept of black identity in this so-called post-racial era.
A stunning new talent in literary fiction, Nafissa Thompson-Spires grapples with black identity and the contemporary middle class in these compelling...
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Heads of the Colored People
Nafissa Thompson-Spires
Pub Date 10 Apr 2018
Calling to mind the best works of Paul Beatty and Junot Díaz, this collection of moving, timely, and darkly funny stories examines the concept of black identity in this so-called post-racial era.
A stunning new talent in literary fiction, Nafissa Thompson-Spires grapples with black identity and the contemporary middle class in these compelling...
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Queering Sexual Violence
Radical Voices from Within the Anti-Violence Movement
by Jennifer Patterson
Pub Date 22 Apr 2016
Often pushed to the margins, queer, transgender and gender non-conforming survivors have been organizing in anti-violence work since the birth of the movement. Queering Sexual Violence: Radical Voices from Within the Anti-Violence Movement locates them at the center of the anti-violence movement and creates a space for their voices to be heard. Moving...
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Queering Sexual Violence
Jennifer Patterson
Queering Sexual Violence
Radical Voices from Within the Anti-Violence Movement
by Jennifer Patterson
Pub Date 22 Apr 2016
Often pushed to the margins, queer, transgender and gender non-conforming survivors have been organizing in anti-violence work since the birth of the movement. Queering Sexual Violence: Radical Voices from Within the Anti-Violence Movement locates them at the center of the anti-violence movement and creates a space for their voices to be heard. Moving...
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Pub Date 27 Jul 2018
Move over Mad Max—here comes Nyx.
Ex-government assassin turned bounty-hunter, Nyx, is good at solving other people’s problems. Her favorite problem-solving solution is punching people in the face. Then maybe chopping off some heads. Hey—it’s a living.
Her disreputable reputation has been well earned. To Nyx’s mind, it’s also justified. After all, she’s...
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Apocalypse Nyx
Kameron Hurley
Pub Date 27 Jul 2018
Move over Mad Max—here comes Nyx.
Ex-government assassin turned bounty-hunter, Nyx, is good at solving other people’s problems. Her favorite problem-solving solution is punching people in the face. Then maybe chopping off some heads. Hey—it’s a living.
Her disreputable reputation has been well earned. To Nyx’s mind, it’s also justified. After all, she’s...
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Pub Date 16 Jan 2018
When first published in 1930, Not Without Laughter established Langston Hughes as not only a brilliant poet and leading light of the Harlem Renaissance but also a gifted novelist. In telling the story of Sandy Rogers, a young...
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Not Without Laughter
Langston Hughes
Pub Date 16 Jan 2018
When first published in 1930, Not Without Laughter established Langston Hughes as not only a brilliant poet and leading light of the Harlem Renaissance but also a gifted novelist. In telling the story of Sandy Rogers, a young...
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Pub Date 25 Aug 2016
Outside the XY: Queer Black and Brown Masculinity is an anthology of more than 50 stories, memories, poems, ideas, essays and letters--all examining what it looks like, feels like, and is like to inhabit masculinity outside of cisgendered manhood as people of color in the world. Read these passionate, complex autobiographical glimpses into the many layers...
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Outside the XY
Morgan Mann Willis
Pub Date 25 Aug 2016
Outside the XY: Queer Black and Brown Masculinity is an anthology of more than 50 stories, memories, poems, ideas, essays and letters--all examining what it looks like, feels like, and is like to inhabit masculinity outside of cisgendered manhood as people of color in the world. Read these passionate, complex autobiographical glimpses into the many layers...
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Pub Date 08 Feb 2018
The groundbreaking Harlem Renaissance novel about prejudice within the black community Emma Lou Morgan's skin is black - 'too black', as the narrator writes at the beginning of The Blacker the Berry. Tired of the scorn and contempt of her classmates, teachers, friends and even family, she leaves her hometown of Boise, Idaho, travelling first to Los...
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The Blacker the Berry
Wallace Thurman
Pub Date 08 Feb 2018
The groundbreaking Harlem Renaissance novel about prejudice within the black community Emma Lou Morgan's skin is black - 'too black', as the narrator writes at the beginning of The Blacker the Berry. Tired of the scorn and contempt of her classmates, teachers, friends and even family, she leaves her hometown of Boise, Idaho, travelling first to Los...
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At the Dark End of the Street
Black Women, Rape, and Resistance--A New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power
by Danielle L. McGuire
Pub Date 04 Oct 2011
Discover more about Recy Taylor, the inspiring woman Oprah Winfrey spoke about in her Golden Globes speech...
Rosa Parks was often described as a sweet and reticent elderly woman whose tired feet caused her to defy segregation on Montgomery’s city buses, and whose supposedly solitary, spontaneous act sparked the 1955 bus boycott that gave birth to the civil...
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At the Dark End of the Street
Danielle L. McGuire
At the Dark End of the Street
Black Women, Rape, and Resistance--A New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power
by Danielle L. McGuire
Pub Date 04 Oct 2011
Discover more about Recy Taylor, the inspiring woman Oprah Winfrey spoke about in her Golden Globes speech...
Rosa Parks was often described as a sweet and reticent elderly woman whose tired feet caused her to defy segregation on Montgomery’s city buses, and whose supposedly solitary, spontaneous act sparked the 1955 bus boycott that gave birth to the civil...
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Reconstructing the Gospel
Finding Freedom from Slaveholder Religion
by Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove
Pub Date 13 Mar 2018
"I am a man torn in two. And the gospel I inherited is divided."
Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove grew up in the Bible Belt in the American South as a faithful church-going Christian. But he gradually came to realize that the gospel his Christianity proclaimed was not good news for everybody. The same Christianity that sang, "Amazing grace, how sweet the...
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Reconstructing the Gospel
Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove
Reconstructing the Gospel
Finding Freedom from Slaveholder Religion
by Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove
Pub Date 13 Mar 2018
"I am a man torn in two. And the gospel I inherited is divided."
Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove grew up in the Bible Belt in the American South as a faithful church-going Christian. But he gradually came to realize that the gospel his Christianity proclaimed was not good news for everybody. The same Christianity that sang, "Amazing grace, how sweet the...
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Happily ever after begins now for Abdulla and Sangita, the unlikely duo who met by chance in a London apartment. Married life holds more than they bargained for with the pressures of living amongst his extended family. Hind has made good on her aspirations to work in the foreign service in India as an independent woman. Except loneliness dogs her...
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Pearls of the Past
Mohanalakshmi Rajakumar
Happily ever after begins now for Abdulla and Sangita, the unlikely duo who met by chance in a London apartment. Married life holds more than they bargained for with the pressures of living amongst his extended family. Hind has made good on her aspirations to work in the foreign service in India as an independent woman. Except loneliness dogs her...
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At a river near his home in the Philippine countryside, respected doctor Manolo Lualhati encounters the unthinkable—a young woman with wings. After several incredible visits, he coaxes her to stay behind—to quit flying to the stars with her sisters each night—so they can marry. Tala agrees, but soon finds herself grounded in a new life where she must...
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The Hour of Daydreams
Renee Macalino Rutledge
At a river near his home in the Philippine countryside, respected doctor Manolo Lualhati encounters the unthinkable—a young woman with wings. After several incredible visits, he coaxes her to stay behind—to quit flying to the stars with her sisters each night—so they can marry. Tala agrees, but soon finds herself grounded in a new life where she must...
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Pub Date 09 May 2017
In today’s fast-paced, fast food world, everyone seems to be eating alone, all the time—whether it’s at their desks or in the car. Even those who find time for a family meal are cut off from the people who grew, harvested, distributed, marketed, and sold the foods on their table. Few ever break bread with anyone outside their own socioeconomic group. So why...
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No One Eats Alone
Michael S. Carolan

Pub Date 09 May 2017
In today’s fast-paced, fast food world, everyone seems to be eating alone, all the time—whether it’s at their desks or in the car. Even those who find time for a family meal are cut off from the people who grew, harvested, distributed, marketed, and sold the foods on their table. Few ever break bread with anyone outside their own socioeconomic group. So why...
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Whitewash
The Story of a Weed Killer, Cancer, and the Corruption of Science
by Carey Gillam
Pub Date 10 Oct 2017
"A damning picture...Gillam expertly covers a contentious front." —Publishers Weekly
"A must-read." —Booklist
"Hard-hitting, eye-opening narrative." —Kirkus
It’s the herbicide on our dinner plates, a chemical so pervasive it’s in the air we breathe...
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Whitewash
Carey Gillam

Whitewash
The Story of a Weed Killer, Cancer, and the Corruption of Science
by Carey Gillam
Pub Date 10 Oct 2017
"A damning picture...Gillam expertly covers a contentious front." —Publishers Weekly
"A must-read." —Booklist
"Hard-hitting, eye-opening narrative." —Kirkus
It’s the herbicide on our dinner plates, a chemical so pervasive it’s in the air we breathe...
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Sixteen-year-old Liana Bedford lives in constant fear. Political tensions in Pakistan are rising and terrorist attacks are becoming an everyday norm.
As a Pakistani-Australian, she could be the next target. When her school friends are taken hostage by terrorists, Liana’s world disappears overnight.
Alongside her new teacher, Mr Kimberley, she must...
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Liana's Dance
Rosanne Hawke
Sixteen-year-old Liana Bedford lives in constant fear. Political tensions in Pakistan are rising and terrorist attacks are becoming an everyday norm.
As a Pakistani-Australian, she could be the next target. When her school friends are taken hostage by terrorists, Liana’s world disappears overnight.
Alongside her new teacher, Mr Kimberley, she must...
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Pub Date 10 Apr 2018
Anthology of short stories from culturally diverse writers writing in response to Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories.
Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories was one of the first true children's books in the English language, a timeless classic that continues to delight readers to this day. Beautiful, evocative and playful, the stories of How the Whale Got His...