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  • Seeing Like an Artist
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    Seeing Like an Artist

    The first book by highly respected contemporary artist, Lincoln Perry. For readers of What Are You Looking At?: The Surprising, Shocking, and Sometimes Strange Story of 150 Years of Modern Art, the classic Ways of Seeing, How to See: Looking, Talking,...
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    Old Poets

    "Old Poets is an indispensable jewel." -Washington Post"An astonishing array of encounters...Hall's observations are shrewd and generous." -Boston GlobeIntimate portraits of great poets in old age, giving new insight into their work and their lives, and...
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  • The Isolation Artist
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    The Isolation Artist

    The first book on a fascinating mysterious death with art as big business at the center. Indiana's work is loved even by those unfamiliar with his name. Expect major review attention from mainstream and art news media. Robert Indiana's life, work and...
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    Invisible Years
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    Invisible Years

    An intimate portrait of an extended Jewish family in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands, who, when faced with imminent deportation and death, refused to comply.As the Nazis tightened their grip on the Netherlands' Jewish population, Daphne Geismar's family...
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    The Guynd

    A woman from New England falls for a charming Scottish landowner only to discover she's also in a complex relationship with his family's 400-year-old ancestral estate, The Guynd. Funny and heartwarming, this is the story of a house, a place, and a...
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    Make Way for Nancy

    For artists and makers, the entertaining, informative, and inspirational story of a public art sculptor.Nancy Schn is the creator of the Make Way for Ducklings sculpture in the Boston Public Garden. Based on Robert McCloskey's beloved children's book,...
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  • Farnsworth's Classical English Rhetoric
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    Farnsworth's Classical English Rhetoric

    "I must refrain from shouting what a brilliant work this is (prteritio). Farnsworth has written the book as he ought to have written it and as only he could have written it (symploce). Buy it and read it buy it and read it (epimone)."-Bryan A. Garner,...
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  • In Vitro
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    In Vitro

    A meditation on in vitro fertilization that expands and complicates the stories we tell about pregnancy.Medical interventions become an exercise in patience, desire, and delirium in this intimate account of bodily transformation and disruption. In...
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  • Brown Neon
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    Brown Neon

    A meditation on southwestern terrains, intergenerational queer dynamics, and surveilled brown artists that crosses physical and conceptual borders. Part butch memoir, part ekphrastic travel diary, part queer family tree, Raquel Gutirrez's debut essay...
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    Letters to Memory

    Praise for Karen Tei Yamashita:"It's a stylistically wild ride, but it's smart, funny and entrancing." -NPR"Fluid and poetic as well as terrifying." -New York Times Book ReviewWith delightful plays of voice and structure, this is literary fiction at an...
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  • Swinging on the Garden Gate
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    Swinging on the Garden Gate

    Foreword by Bishop Karen Oliveto. Oliveto is the first openly lesbian bishop to be elected in the United Methodist Church. Resonates with young people as it is both a memoir of coming of age and of coming out. Readers looking for queer stories-Cultural...
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  • The Stonewall Generation
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    The Stonewall Generation

    "It deserves prominent placement on LGBTQ history bookshelves. . . . An indelible collection of wise voices resonating with experience, pride, resilience, and revolution." -Kirkus starred reviewForeword by Kate Bornstein and Barbara CarrellasIn The...
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  • In Time's Shadow
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    In Time's Shadow

    "Through the spaces between people in these beguiling fictions, love wanders like a ghost, offering whispered hints of solace against a backdrop of isolating divisions. In the spirit of the enigmatic stories of Lydia Davis, Isak Dinesen, Yasunari...
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    Ghostbelly

    In this courageous memoir, Elizabeth Heineman "illuminates the complex emotional landscape of stillbirth-putting into frank and poetic words the unspeakable experience of simultaneously grieving and mothering a baby who has died" (Deborah L. Davis)...
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  • I Had a Miscarriage
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    I Had a Miscarriage

    In this evocative account of navigating pregnancy loss, Jessica Zucker confronts the cultural silence around miscarriages and illuminates how she built a movement from her experience, transforming trauma into human connection.Sixteen weeks into her...
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    Die Nigger Die!

    More than any other black leader, H. Rap Brown, chairman of the radical Black Power organization Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), came to symbolize the ideology of black revolution. This autobiography-which was first published in 1969,...
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  • Rooms
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    Rooms

    A reconsideration of Virginia Woolf's groundbreaking A Room of One's Own through a very modern lens, revisiting Woolf's now archaic politics and mining the text for lessons on how to be a writer. The central message of A Room of One's Own is that, to...
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  • Made-Up
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    Made-Up

    For fans of Jia Tolentino's Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
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  • Queer Little Nightmares
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    Queer Little Nightmares

    The fiction and poetry of Queer Little Nightmares reimagines monsters old and new through a queer lens, subverting the horror gaze to celebrate ideas and identities canonically feared in monster lit. Throughout history, monsters have appeared in popular...
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  • This Has Always Been A War
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    This Has Always Been A War

    Capitalism has infiltrated every aspect of our personal, social, economic, and sexual lives. By examining the politics of gender, environment and sexuality, we can see the ways straight, cis, white, and especially male upper-class people control and...
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  • This Is My Real Name
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    This Is My Real Name

    The frank and bracing memoir of a woman who spent ten years as a stripper.This Is My Real Name is the memoir of Cid V Brunet, who spent ten years working as a dancer at strip clubs, using the name Michelle. From her very first lap dance in a small-town...
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  • Kimiko Does Cancer
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    Kimiko Does Cancer

    At the age of twenty-five, Kimiko Tobimatsu was a young, queer,mixed-race woman with no history of health problems whose world was turnedupside down when she was diagnosed with breast cancer. In an instant, shebecame immersed in a new and complicated...
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  • Dear Scarlet
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    Dear Scarlet

    In this intimate and movinggraphic memoir, Teresa Wong writes and illustrates the story of her strugglewith postpartum depression in the form of a letter to her daughter Scarlet.Equal parts heartbreaking and funny, DearScarlet perfectly captures the...
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  • The Woo-Woo
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    The Woo-Woo

    Inthis jaw-dropping, darkly comedic memoir, a young woman comes of age in adysfunctional Asian family who blame their woes on ghosts and demons when theyshould really be on anti-psychotic meds. Lindsay Wong grew up with a paranoidschizophrenic...
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  • Forward
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    Forward

    A life-affirming graphic novel about two women - one a widow, the other recovering from a horrible breakup - neither of whom knows a way to move forward.Still smarting years after ahorrible breakup, Rayanne diligently buries herself in her work. Aside...
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  • The Case of Alan Turing (Graphic Novel)
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    The Case of Alan Turing (Graphic Novel)

    Alan Turing, subject of the Oscar-winning 2014 film The Imitation Game, was the brilliant mathematician solicited by the British government to help decipher messages sent by Germany's Enigma machines during World War II. The work of...
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  • My Body is Yours
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    My Body is Yours

    Michael V. Smith is a multi-talented force of nature: a novelist, poet, improv comic, filmmaker, drag queen, performance artist and occasional clown. In this, his first work of nonfiction, Michael traces his early years as an inadequate male - a fey kid...
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  • So You Girls Remember That
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    So You Girls Remember That

    Collected wisdoms, reflections and stories from Indigenous Elder Naanii Nora of the Haida Nation.So You Girls Remember That is an oral history of a Haida Elder, Naanii Nora, who lived from 1902 to 1997. A collaborative effort, this project was initiated...
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    Wilson Duff
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    Wilson Duff

    The fascinating origin story of Wilson Duff, the pioneering BC anthropologist and museologist remembered for his contributions to research on First Nations cultures of the Northwest Coast. Wilson Duff was born in 1925 in the city of Vancouver and his...
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    My Life as a Potter

    A gorgeous full-colour coffee table book celebrating the art of one of BC's finest potters, My Life as a Potter recounts Mary Fox's long journey to the peak of her craft. Part memoir, part coming-of-age story and part handbook for ceramicists, Fox's...
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  • The Bushman's Lair
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    The Bushman's Lair

    A captivating biography of a fugitive with intriguing connections to a top-secret US military program, the infamous Bre-X mining scandal and moreIn the summer of 2002, the discovery of a cave on Shuswap Lake in British Columbia by a group of houseboaters...
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  • The Little Ukrainian
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    The Little Ukrainian

    In the Ukraine during World War II, a father sends his little son to live with his brother and his wife. Shortly thereafter, the father joins the partisans in the East, while his brother, wife, and the boy proceed West with the retreating Germans. On the...
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  • Charles Dickens and Georgina Hogarth
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    Charles Dickens and Georgina Hogarth

    Charles Dickens called his sister-in-law Georgina Hogarth his 'best and truest friend'. Georgina saw Dickens as much more than a friend. They lived together for twenty-eight years, during which time their relationship constantly changed. The sister of...
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  • Emmanuel Macron and the two years that changed France
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    Emmanuel Macron and the two years that changed France

    This book looks at the period 2015-18 in French politics, a turbulent time that witnessed the apparent collapse of the old party system, the taming of populist and left-wing challenges to the Republic and the emergence of a new political order centred on...
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    Intimacy in postmodern times
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    Intimacy in postmodern times

    Zygmunt Bauman was one of the most important social theorists of recent decades. He did major work on the Holocaust, the postmodern and much else, up to fifty-eight books in English on almost as many topics. In this book, Australian sociologist Peter...
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  • This Man and Music
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    This Man and Music

    This man and music asks two central questions: what can literature contribute to the art of composition, and how can music influence the writer? Anthony Burgess, famed novelist, journalist, and composer, answers these questions and many more. As a person...
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  • Isherwood on Writing
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    Isherwood on Writing

    Isherwood's lectures on writing and writers, now all available for the first timeIn the 1960s, Christopher Isherwood gave an unprecedented series of lectures at California universities about his life and work. During this time Isherwood, who would...
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  • African Meditations
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    African Meditations

    An influential thinker's fascinating reflections and meditations on reacclimating to his native Senegal as a young academic after years of study abroad The call to morning prayer. A group run at daybreak along the Corniche in Dakar. A young woman...
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    Seven Aunts

    Part memoir, part cultural history, these memories of seven aunts holding home and family together tell a crucial, often overlooked story of women of the twentieth centuryThey were German and English, Anishinaabe and French, born in the north woods and...
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    Lemon Jail

    A tour diary of life on the road with one of Minnesota's greatest bands-with nearly 100 never-before-seen photographs"Don't bore us, get to the chorus" is Bill Sullivan's motto, which will come as no surprise to anyone who opens Lemon Jail. A raucous...
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    Raising Ollie

    The account of one radically new school year for a Teacher of the Year and for his nonbinary, art-obsessed, brilliant childSeven-year-old Ollie was researching local advanced school programs-because every second grader does that, right? Ollie, who used...
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    Finding Turtle Farm

    The story of starting and running an organic farm-told by the woman who owned one of the first Community-Supported Agriculture operations in the Upper Midwest On a twenty-acre farm in Iowa in 1995, Angela Tedesco planted the seeds (quite literally) of a...
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    Troll Magic

    A collection of macabre and magical folklore from the "godfather" of the Norwegian trollAcross the stillness of the sprawling mountain heath, the shadow of the mighty forest falls, its wildness calling to the child in all of us. Here the Hidden Folk...
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    Brave Enough

    Travel with Olympic gold medalist Jessie Diggins on her compelling journey from America's heartland to international sports history, navigating challenges and triumphs with rugged grit and a splash of glitterPyeongchang, February 21, 2018. In the...
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  • By the Fire
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    By the Fire

    Thesestories, collected by the Danish artist and ethnographer Emilie Demant Hatt(18731958) during her travels in the early twentieth century among the nomadicSami in Swedish Spmi, grant entry to a fascinating world of wonder and peril,of nature imbued...
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  • It Won't Be Easy
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    It Won't Be Easy

    A tribute to an impossible and impossibly rewarding profession, It Won't Be Easy captures the experience of teaching in all its messy glory. Short on jargon and long on practical wisdom, it is accessible to anyone interested in a...
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  • Romantic and Horrific Stories
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    Romantic and Horrific Stories

    Romantic and Horrific Stories (2021) is a collection of short fiction by Bram Stoker. Although he is largely remembered as the author of Dracula (1897), one of the greatest horror novels of all time, Stoker was a versatile writer whose gift for...
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