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  • Plastic
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    Plastic

    WINNER of the 2022 Oregon Book Award for Creative Nonfiction! WINNER of the 2022 CLMP Firecracker Award in Creative Nonfiction! "Plastic is powerful and moving, a deep, personal exploration of the modern world."-Richard Rhodes, Pulitzer Prize recipient...
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  • Green Green Green
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    Green Green Green

    The color green is at the center of the spectrum. For earlier writers like Emily Dickinson or William Blake, the green world was a space of haunting, irreconcilable, opposites: life and death, human and vegetal, innocence and experience. In these essays,...
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    We Both Laughed In Pleasure

    "Celebratory, even radical"-The New Yorker"Monumental"-HyperallergicWe Both Laughed In Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan narrates the inner life of a gay man moving through the shifting social, political, and medical mores of the second half...
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    The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions

    The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions is a beloved queer utopian text written by Larry Mitchell with lush illustrations by Ned Asta, published by Calamus Press in 1977. Part-fable, part-manifesto, the book takes place in Ramrod, an empire in...
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  • October Child
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    October Child

    From 2013 to 2017, Linda Bostrm Knausgrd was periodically interned in a psychiatric ward where she was subjected to electroconvulsive therapy. As the treatments at this "factory" progressed, the writer's memories began to disappear. What good is a writer...
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  • World's Best Mother
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    World's Best Mother

    A thirty-five-year-old writer decides she wants to have children. Rounds of IVF treatments and several years later, she has two daughters and sits down to write this book. World's Best Mother is a sublime journey - through pregnancy, the mothering of...
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  • A Little Annihilation
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    A Little Annihilation

    June 1, 1943, Eastern Poland. Within just a few hours, the village of Sochy had ceased to exist. Buildings were burned. Residents shot. Among the survivors was nine-year-old Teresa Ferenc, who saw her family murdered by German soldiers,...
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  • The Woman Who Fed The Dogs
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    The Woman Who Fed The Dogs

    The most hated woman in Belgium sits in her prison cell preparing for imminent release. Between brief interludes of counsel from Sister Virginie and Anouk, the prison psychiatrist, Odette is left alone to labor through the memories of her former life...
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  • Daring to Struggle, Daring to Win
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    Daring to Struggle, Daring to Win

    Daring to Struggle, Daring to Win tells the fascinating true story of an individual radical organizer turned independent Chicago city council member, and her forty year struggle for justice in Chicago.Helen Shiller went from radical anti-war activist in...
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  • Black Women Writers at Work
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    Black Women Writers at Work

    'Black women writers and critics are acting on the old adage that one must speak for oneself if one wishes to be heard.' - Claudia Tate, from the introductionLong out of print, Black Women Writers at Work is a vital contribution to...
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  • So We Can Know
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    So We Can Know

    In this brave and devastatingly beautiful anthology, the illustrious poet and editor Aracelis Girmay gathers complex and intimate pieces that illuminate the nuances of personal and collective histories, analyses, practices, and choices surrounding...
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  • Finding My Voice
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    Finding My Voice

    In this unforgettable memoir, Emerald Garner recounts her father's cruel and unjust murder, the immense pain that followed, the pressures of an exploitative media, and her difficult yet determined journey as an activist against police violence.She begins...
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  • Waiting in the Wings
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    Waiting in the Wings

    In a series of journal entries-some original passages, others revisited and expanded in retrospect-Cherri Moraga details her experiences with pregnancy, birth, and the early years of lesbian parenting.With the premature birth of her son-when HIV-related...
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    A Revolutionary for Our Time
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    A Revolutionary for Our Time

    Walter Rodney was a scholar, working class militant, and revolutionary from Guyana. Strongly influenced by Marxist ideas, he remains central to radical Pan-Africanist thought for large numbers of activists' today. Rodney lived through the failed though...
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    People Wasn't Made to Burn

    In 1947, James Hickman shot and killed the landlord he believed was responsible for a tragic fire that took the lives of four of his children on Chicago's West Side. But a vibrant defense campaign, exposing the working poverty and racism that led to his...
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    Nietzsche, the Aristocratic Rebel
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    Nietzsche, the Aristocratic Rebel

    Perhaps no philosopher is more of a conundrum than Nietzsche, the solitary rebel, poet, wayfarer, anti-revolutionary Aufklarer and theorist of aristocratic radicalism. His accusers identify in his 'superman' the origins of Nazism, and thus issue an...
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    On Edward Said

    Edward Said (1935-2003) was a towering figure in post-colonial studies and the struggle for justice in his native Palestine, best known for his critique of orientalism in western portrayals of the Middle East. As a public intellectual, activist, and...
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    Mama Phife Represents
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    Mama Phife Represents

    Mama Phife Represents is an arresting document of the body's lowest depth of hurt, from a poet and mother who suddenly loses her son to Type 1 diabetes at the height of his musical career. It is a love letter from a grieving mother to her child.
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    Choice Words
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    Choice Words

    The Supreme Court's overturning of Roe v. Wade has generated a critical urgency for this landmark literary anthology of poems, stories, and essays.Choice Words collects essential voices that renew our courage in the struggle to defend...
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    The Living Flame

    This collection will be of interest to all who want to dive deeper into one of the 20th centuries most brilliant women revolutionaries, Rosa Luxemburg. Publication will coincide with the 100-year anniversary of her death in 1919. Renewed attention to the...
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    Star-Spangled Zionism
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    Star-Spangled Zionism

    This is the story of how Zionism, supported by Americanism, created a modern miracle-told through the little-known stories of eight individuals who collectively changed history.And None Shall Make Them Afraid presents eight historic figures-four from...
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    Paper Belt on Fire
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    Paper Belt on Fire

    Written by a successful venture capitalist (and university dropout), this book is part memoir, part guide for the next generation of innovators who seek an alternative to the traditional path in higher education."Part adventure tale, part manifesto,...
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    The Statesman as Thinker
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    The Statesman as Thinker

    In his newest book, Daniel J. Mahoney offers refreshing historical antidotes to the displays of despotism in today's political arena."Abrilliantly written and researched tribute to the pantheon of classically trained and thinking men of action."-Victor...
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    United and Independent
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    United and Independent

    John Quincy Adams is widely recognized as America's most distinguished diplomat, taking into account the length and breadth of his public service and his influence on American foreign policy. In the course of this remarkable journey, John Quincy...
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    The Noise of Typewriters
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    The Noise of Typewriters

    W.H. Auden famously wrote: "Poetry makes nothing happen." Journalism is a different matter. In a brilliant study that is, in part, a memoir of his 40 years as an essayist and critic at TIME magazine, Lance Morrow returns to the Age of Typewriters and to...
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    Bad News
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    Bad News

    "...a timely and entertaining account of how class rivalries as well as political conflicts have shaped and sometimes warped the news industry."-Michael Lind, author ofThe New Class War: Saving Democracy from the Managerial Elite Something is wrong with...
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    The Fords

    In The Fords: An American Epic, Peter Collier and David Horowitz tell the riveting story of three generations of Fords, a dramatic story of conflict between fathers and sons played out against the backdrop of America's greatest industrial empire.The...
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    M. Stanton Evans

    M. Stanton Evans (d. 2015) was one of the unsung heroes and key figures of the modern conservativemovement, offering a model to be remembered and emulated in both thought and deed. A person ofextraordinary breadth, he combined the roles of journalist,...
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    Reaching Ninety
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    Reaching Ninety

    Martin Duberman, one of the LGBTQ+ community's maverick thinkers and historians, looks back on ninety years of life, his history in the movement, and what he's learned.In the early Sixties, Martin Duberman published a path-breaking article defending the...
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    All Things Must Pass Away
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    All Things Must Pass Away

    "Womack and Kruppa present a thorough history of Harrison and Clapton's songmaking and recording sessions." -BooklistNewly revised and expanded, this paperback edition featuresexclusive material from the Malcolm Frederick Evans archives and draws on rare...
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    Out in L.A.
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    Out in L.A.

    The Red Hot Chili Peppers were going to be a one-time act for a friend's album release party.Forty years later the funk rock band is arguably one of the best known and the longest running in the United States.Everything that happened in 1983 set the...
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    Prince on Prince
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    Prince on Prince

    Prince on Prince gets behind the controversies to tell the Prince story in his own words.Prince is among the most respected and influential entertainers of the twentieth century, breaking sexual, racial, and creative barriers throughout his almost forty...
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    Trauma, Tresses, and Truth
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    Trauma, Tresses, and Truth

    ALibrary Journal Best Social Science title of 2022Black women continue to have a complex and convoluted relationship with their hair.From grammar and high schools to corporate boardrooms and military squadrons, Black and Afro Latina natural hair...
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    The Power of Plus
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    The Power of Plus

    'The Power of Pluswill leave you feeling inspired, motivated, and ready to push for real change, as well as confident and encouraged to embrace yourself, just as you are. This is essential reading for anyone who truly cares about the future of...
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    Cash on Cash
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    Cash on Cash

    Cash on Cash offers unprecedented insight into one of the most significant American cultural figures of the twentieth century.As an interviewee, Cash was an exemplary communicator to an astonishingly broad spectrum of people: always open and articulate,...
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    An Angel in Sodom
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    An Angel in Sodom

    Henry Gerber was the father of American gay liberation.Born in 1892 in Germany, Henry Gerber was expelled from school as a boy and lost several jobs as a young man because of his homosexual activities. He emigrated to the United States and enlisted in...
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    The Golden Fortress
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    The Golden Fortress

    In February 1936, Los Angeles police officers drove hundreds of miles to California's state borders with one mission: turn back anyone deemed too poor to enter. Myths of the Golden State's abundance enticed thousands of Americans uprooted by the...
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    American Time Bomb
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    American Time Bomb

    Few stories are more central to understanding our history of racially biased incarceration and violent social activism than the life of Sam MelvilleSam Melville was both reviled and admired as one of the most feared radicals in post-World War II history...
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    Overdue
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    Overdue

    Who are libraries for, how have they evolved, and why do they fill so many roles in our society today?Based on firsthand experiences from six years of professional work as a librarian in high-poverty neighborhoods of Washington, DC, as well as interviews...
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    Bet My Soul on Rock 'n' Roll
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    Bet My Soul on Rock 'n' Roll

    The life and career of Haitian American musician Jean Beauvoir, a member of the legendary New York City punk band the PlasmaticsJean Beauvoir joined the Plasmatics in 1979, playing bass and keyboards for the most notorious band to emerge out of the New...
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    Neil Young on Neil Young
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    Neil Young on Neil Young

    The life of rock's most durable troubadour in his own wordsNeil Young on Neil Young: Interviews and Encounters is a revealing anthology of Young's most significant, fascinating, and entertaining discussions, declarations, and dreams, chronicling fifty...
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    Have a Little Faith
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    Have a Little Faith

    By the mid-1980s, singer-songwriter John Hiatt had been dropped from three record labels, burned through two marriages, and had fallen deep into alcoholism.It took a stint in rehab and a new family to inspire him, then a producer and an A&R man to...
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    Nora Ephron
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    Nora Ephron

    Nora Ephron was one of the most popular, accomplished, and beloved writers in American journalism and film.Nora Ephron: A Biographyis the first comprehensive portrait of the Manhattan-born girlwho forged a path of her own, earning accolades and adoration...
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    You're the Only One I've Told
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    You're the Only One I've Told

    "Moving, multifaceted, and deeply human...as eye-opening as it is compelling"-Cecile Richards, author ofMake TroubleAt a time where reproductive rights are at risk, these vital stories of diverse individuals serve as a reminder of the...
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    Open Skies
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    Open Skies

    Niloofar Rahmani was born in 1991 in Kabul, Afghanistan, just a few years after the Soviets left. During the rise of the Taliban, her father took his young family to Pakistan, where they lived for nine years as refugees. Then, after the 9/11 terrorist...
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    The Assassination of Fred Hampton
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    The Assassination of Fred Hampton

    Read the story behind the award-winning film Judas and the Black MessiahOn December 4, 1969, attorney Jeff Haas was in a police lockup in Chicago, interviewing Fred Hampton's fiance. Deborah Johnson described how the police pulled her from the room as...
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    Never Silent
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    Never Silent

    'Never Silentis a gorgeous book . . .Peter Staley has written an electrifying primer for anyone who's thinking/worrying/wondering about how to change/save the world.' - Tony Kushner, Pulitzer Prizewinning playwright ofAngels in...
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