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Core Collection: Alternative Classics
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Inspired by the Alternate Classics Core Collection developed by a team of staff at Denver Public Library, we've identified books in our library's collection to recommend to readers looking to explore wider perspectives.
The fiction and nonfiction titles in this collection are "great works from around the world that may not traditionally be thought of as classics... they are diverse and capture many different voices; they are enduring and important works of literature and narrative non-fiction that speak to the human condition, and are exemplary representations of a particular community, idea, or experience."
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The African Trilogy: Things Fall Apart/No Longer at Ease/Arrow of God By Achebe, Chinua Introduction by Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi 2010-01 - Everyman's Library 9780307592705 Check Our Catalog Here, collected for the first time in Everyman's Library, are the three internationally acclaimed classic novels that comprise what has come to be known as Achebe's African Trilogy: "Things Fall Apart, No Longer at Ease," and "Arrow of God." …More |
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Ake: The Years of Childhood By Soyinka, Wole 1989-10 - Vintage 9780679725404 Check Our Catalog A dazzling memoir of an African childhood from Nobel Prize-winning Nigerian novelist, playwright, and poet Wole Soyinka. Ak The Years of Childhood gives us the story of Soyinka's boyhood before and during World War II in a Yoruba village in western Nigeria called Ak . A relentlessly curious child who loved books and getting into trouble, Soyinka grew up on a parsonage compound, …More |
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The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay By Chabon, Michael 2000-09 - Random House 9780679450047 Check Our Catalog
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American Born Chinese By Yang, Gene Luen Illustrator Yang, Gene Luen 2006-09 - First Second 9781596431522 Check Our Catalog
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Americanah By Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi 2013-05 - Knopf Publishing Group 9780307271082 Check Our Catalog
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An American Marriage By Jones, Tayari - Algonquin Books 9781616201340 Check Our Catalog THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB 2018 SELECTION LONGLISTED FOR THE 2018 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION "One of my favorite parts of summer is deciding what to read when things slow down just a bit, whether it's on a vacation with family or just a quiet afternoon . . . An American Marriage by Tayari Jones is a moving portrayal of the effects …More |
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An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States By Dunbar-Ortiz, Roxanne 2015-08 - Beacon Press 9780807057834 Check Our Catalog New York Times Bestseller
Now part of the HBO docuseries "Exterminate All the Brutes," written and directed by Raoul Peck
Recipient of the American Book Award
The first history of the United States told from the perspective of indigenous peoples |
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An Untamed State By Gay, Roxane 2014-05 - Grove Press, Black Cat 9780802122513 Check Our Catalog
"Once you start this book, you will not be able to put it down. An Untamed State is a novel of hope intermingled with fear, a book about possibilities mixed with horror and despair. It is written at a pace that will match your racing heart, and while you find yourself shocked, amazed, devastated, you also dare to hope for the best, for all involved." --Edwidge Danticat, author …More |
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And the Band Played on: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic By Shilts, Randy 2007-11 - St. Martin's Griffin 9780312374631 Check Our Catalog The national bestseller is now a major HBO TV movie, with stars including Alan Alda, Richard Gere, Lily Tomlin and Angelica Houston. "A heroic work of journalism on what must rank as one of the foremost catastrophes of modern history" (New York Times), this extraordinary book reveals how the federal government put budget considerations ahead of the nation's welfare. (Penguin) …More |
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Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes By Kushner, Tony 2014-01 - Theatre Communications Group 9781559363952 Check Our Catalog Tony Kushner's two-part masterwork is now available in a single edition to coincide with the broadcast of the epic HBO special directed by Mike Nichols and starring Meryl Streep, Al Pacino, Emma Thompson, Mary-Louise Parker, Jeffrey Wright, Michael Gambon and Simon Callow, scheduled for December 2003. …More |
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Autobiography of Malcolm X By Malcolm X 1992-09 - Ballantine Books 9780345379757 Check Our Catalog With its first great victory in the landmark Supreme Court decision, Brown vs. Board of Education in 1954, the Civil Rights movement gained the powerful momentum it needed to sweep forward into its crucial decade, the 1960s. As voices of protest and change rose above the din of history and false promises, one sounded more urgently, more passionately than the rest. Malcolm X - once called the most …More |
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The Awakening By Chopin, Kate Introduction by Showalter, Elaine 1992-11 - Everyman's Library 9780679417217 Check Our Catalog In the summer of her 28th year, Edna Pontellier and her children, along with the wives and families of other prospective businessmen, spend the summer in an idyllic coastal community away from their husbands and the sweltering heat of 1890s' New Orleans. Aware of deep yearnings that are unfulfilled by marriage and motherhood, Edna plunges into an illicit liaison that reawakens her long dormant …More |
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The Bell Jar By Plath, Sylvia 2013-06 - Harper 0060174900 Check Our Catalog The Bell Jar is a classic of American literature, with over two million copies sold in this country. This extraordinary work chronicles the crack-up of Esther Greenwood: brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented, successful - but slowly going under, and maybe for the last time. Step by careful step, Sylvia Plath takes us with Esther through a painful month in New York as a contest-winning junior …More |
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The Best We Could Do: An Illustrated Memoir By Bui, Thi 2018-04 - Harry N. Abrams 9781419718786 Check Our Catalog National bestseller! |
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Between the World and Me By Coates, Ta-Nehisi 2015-07 - One World 9780812993547 Check Our Catalog
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The Black Book By Harris, Middleton A. Editor Smith, Ernest Editor Levitt, Morris 2019-12 - Random House 9781400068487 Check Our Catalog Now in a deluxe 35th anniversary hardcover edition, "The Black Book" remains a breathtaking testament to the legendary wisdom, strength, and perseverance of black men and women intent on freedom. Features a new Foreword and original poem by Toni Morrison. …More |
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Bless Me, Ultima By Anaya, Rudolfo A. 1999-04 - Grand Central Publishing 9780446675369 Check Our Catalog When a curandera comes to stay with a young boy, he tests the bonds that tie him to his culture and finds himself in the secrets of the past. …More |
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Blindness By Saramago, Jose 1999-10 - Harpervia 0156007754 Check Our Catalog Portuguese Nobel Laureate Saramago tells a fantastic tale about a city hit by an epidemic of "white blindness," in this work that is the basis for the upcoming movie with Julianne Moore. …More |
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The Bluest Eye By Morrison, Toni 2000-04 - Knopf Publishing Group 0375411550 Check Our Catalog The Bluest Eye, published in 1970, is the first novel written by Toni Morrison, winner of the 1993 Nobel Prize in Literature. |
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A Body, Undone: Living on After Great Pain By Crosby, Christina 2017-10 - New York University Press 9781479853168 Check Our Catalog A woman's fight to reclaim her body after a paralysis-inducing cycling accident In the early evening on October 1, 2003, Christina Crosby was three miles into a seventeen mile bicycle ride, intent on reaching her goal of 1,000 miles for the riding season. She was a respected senior professor of English who had celebrated her fiftieth birthday a month before. As she crested a hill, …More |
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The Bone People By Hulme, Keri Illustrator Heller, Pepa 2010-06 - Penguin Group 9780143116455 Check Our Catalog Set in the harsh environment of the South Island beaches of New Zealand, this masterful story brings together three singular people in a trinity that reflects their country's varied heritage. Winner of the 1985 Booker-McConnell prize for fiction. …More |
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Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza, Fourth Edition By Anzaldua, Gloria 2012-06 - Aunt Lute Books 9781879960855 Check Our Catalog Literary Nonfiction. Poetry. Latino/Latina Studies. LGBT Studies. Fourth Edition. Rooted in Gloria Anzald a's experience as a Chicana, a lesbian, an activist, and a writer, the essays and poems in this volume profoundly challenged, and continue to challenge, how we think about identity. BORDERLANDS/LA FRONTERA remaps our understanding of what a border is, presenting it not as a simple divide …More |
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Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood By Noah, Trevor 2016-11 - One World 9780399588174 Check Our Catalog #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - More than one million copies sold! A "brilliant" (Lupita Nyong'o, Time), "poignant" (Entertainment Weekly), "soul-nourishing" (USA Today) memoir about coming of age during the twilight of apartheid "Noah's childhood stories are told with all the hilarity and intellect that characterizes his comedy, while illuminating a …More |
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Born Both: An Intersex Life By Viloria, Hida 2017-03 - Hachette Books 9780316347846 Check Our Catalog From one of the world's foremost intersex activists, a candid, provocative, and eye-opening memoir of gender identity, self-acceptance, and love. My name is Hida Viloria. I was raised as a girl but discovered at a young age that my body looked different. Having endured an often turbulent home life as a kid, there were many times when I felt scared and alone, especially given my …More |
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Born on the Edge of Race and Gender: A Voice for Cultural Competency By Wilkinson, Willy 2015-11 - Hapa Papa Press 9780997012309 Check Our Catalog In this historic moment of transgender visibility in the U.S., writer, activist, and public health consultant Willy Wilkinson's Born on the Edge of Race and Gender: A Voice for Cultural Competency uses the power of storytelling to contextualize one of the most misunderstood social issues of our time. This poetic, journalistic memoir shines an intersectional beacon on the ambiguity and …More |
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Breath, Eyes, Memory By Danticat, Edwidge Author Giroux Author Straus 2003-07 - Soho Press 1569471428 Check Our Catalog |
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The Cairo Trilogy: Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, Sugar Street By Mahfouz, Naguib Translator Maynard, William H. Introduction by Hafez, Sabry 2001-10 - Everyman's Library 9780375413315 Check Our Catalog Naguib Mahfouz's magnificent epic trilogy of colonial Egypt appears here in one volume for the first time. The Nobel Prize--winning writer's masterwork is the engrossing story of a Muslim family in Cairo during Britain's occupation of Egypt in the early decades of the twentieth century. |
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Cane By Toomer, Jean 1994-06 - Modern Library 0679601090 Check Our Catalog Originally published in 1923, Cane is a literary masterpiece of the Harlem Renaissance. The growing interest in African-American literature that began in the1960's led to the rediscovery of earlier African-American writers, oneof whom is Jean Toomer, author of Cane. Itis an innovative literary work part drama, part poetry, part fiction. …More |
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A Century of Dishonor: A Sketch of the United States Government's Dealings with Some of the Indian Tribes By Jackson, Helen Hunt 1995-04 - University of Oklahoma Press 9780806127262 Check Our Catalog First published in 1881 and reprinted in numerous editions since, Helen Hunt Jackson's A Century of Dishonor is a classic account of the U.S. government's flawed Indian policy and the unfair and cruel treatment afforded North American Indians by expansionist Americans. Jackson wrote the book as a polemic to "appeal to the hearts and conscience of the American people", who she hoped would demand …More |
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Ceremony By Silko, Leslie Marmon Introduction by McMurtry, Larry 2007-01 - Penguin Group 9780143104919 Check Our Catalog "Demanding but confident and beautifully written" (Boston Globe), this is the story of a young Native American returning to his reservation after surviving the horrors of captivity as a prisoner of the Japanese during World War II. …More |
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Cloudstreet By Winton, Tim 2002-06 - Scribner Book Company 0743234413 Check Our Catalog From separate catastrophes, two rural Australian families flee to the city and find themselves sharing a great, breathing, shuddering joint called Cloudstreet, where they begin their lives again. …More |
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The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays By Wang, Esme Weijun 2019-02 - Graywolf Press 9781555978273 Check Our Catalog Powerful, affecting essays on mental illness, winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize and a Whiting Award An intimate, moving book written with the immediacy and directness of one who still struggles with the effects of mental and chronic illness, The Collected Schizophrenias cuts right to the core. Schizophrenia is not a single unifying diagnosis, and Esm Weijun Wang …More |
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Coming Through Slaughter By Ondaatje, Michael 1996-03 - Vintage 9780679767855 Check Our Catalog At the turn of the century, the Storyville district of New Orleans had some 2,000 prostitutes, 70 professional gamblers, and 30 piano players. It had only one man who played the cornet like Buddy Bolden. By day he cut hair and purveyed gossip at N. Joseph's Shaving Parlor. At night he played jazz as though unleashing wild animals in a crowded room. At the age of thirty-one, Buddy Bolden went mad. …More |
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The Complete Maus: A Survivor's Tale By Spiegelman, Art 1996-11 - Pantheon Books 0679406417 Check Our Catalog In a world where Jews are mice, Germans are Cats and the Polish are pigs, a son documents his parents' experience during the Holocaust and his relationship with his father. …More |
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The Conference of the Birds By Attar, Farid Ud-Din Translator Abdulla, Raficq 2003-03 - Interlink Books 1566564808 Check Our Catalog A twelfth-century Sufi allegorical poem. The Conference of the Birds tells the story of the quest for a king undertaken by the birds of the world, as it also describes the Sufi (or mystical Islamic) path to enlightenment. Richly illustrated with illuminations from Persian manuscripts in the British Library. …More |
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Confessions of a Mask By Mishima, Yukio Translator Weatherby, Meredith 1958-01 - New Directions Publishing Corporation 9780811201186 Check Our Catalog This book is one of the classics of modern Japanese fiction. It is the story of an adolescent who must learn to live with the painful fact that he is unlike other young men. Mishima's protagonist discovers that he is becoming a homosexual in a polite, post-war Japan. To survive, he must live behind a mask of propriety. …More |
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Confessions of the Fox By Rosenberg, Jordy - One World 9780399592270 Check Our Catalog A New York Times Editors' Choice: "A mind-bending romp through a gender-fluid, eighteenth century London . . . a joyous mash-up of literary genres shot through with queer theory and awash in sex, crime, and revolution." NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New Yorker - HuffPost - Kirkus Reviews - Finalist for the Lambda Literary Award - …More |
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Crazy Brave: A Memoir By Harjo, Joy 2012-07 - W. W. Norton & Company 9780393073461 Check Our Catalog Narrating the complexities of betrayal and love, "Crazy Brave" is a memoir about family and the breaking apart necessary to find a voice. Harjo's tale of a hardscrabble youth, young adulthood, and transformation into an award-winning poet and musician is haunting and unique. …More |
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Custer Died for Your Sins: Shadows from the Past and Portents for the Future By Deloria, Vine 1988-05 - University of Oklahoma Press 9780806121291 Check Our Catalog It seems that each generation of whites and Indians will have to read and reread Vine Deloria's Manifesto for some time to come, before we absorb his special, ironic Indian point of view and what he tells us, with a great deal of humor, about U.S. race relations, federal bureaucracies, Christian churches, and social scientists. This book continues to be required reading for all Americans, …More |
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Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness By Styron, William 1992-01 - Vintage 9780679736394 Check Our Catalog A work of great personal courage and a literary tour de force, this bestseller is Styron's true account of his descent into a crippling and almost suicidal depression. Styron is perhaps the first writer to convey the full terror of depression's psychic landscape, as well as the illuminating path to recovery. …More |
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Devil in a Blue Dress By Mosley, Walter 1990-06 - W. W. Norton & Company 0393028542 Check Our Catalog 1st book in Easy Rawlins series Devil in a Blue Dress honors the tradition of the classic American detective novel by bestowing on it a vivid social canvas and the freshest new voice in crime writing in years, mixing the hard-boiled poetry of Raymond Chandler with the racial realism of Richard Wright to explosive effect. …More |
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The Devil's Highway: A True Story By Urrea, Luis Alberto 2004-04 - Little Brown and Company 0316746711 Check Our Catalog A BookPage Notable Title |
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Dhalgren By Delany, Samuel R. 2001-05 - Vintage 9780375706684 Check Our Catalog
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The Diary of a Young Girl By Frank, Anne Editor Frank, Otto M. Editor Pressler, Mirjam 1997-01 - Bantam 0553577123 Check Our Catalog Anne Frank's "The Diary of a Young Girl is among the most enduring documents of the twentieth century. Since its publication in 1947, it has been read by tens of millions of people all over the world. It remains a beloved and deeply admired testament to the indestructible nature of the human spirit. Restored in this Definitive Edition are diary entries that were omitted from the original edition. …More |
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The Diving Bell and the Butterfly: A Memoir of Life in Death By Bauby, Jean-Dominique 1998-06 - Vintage 9780375701214 Check Our Catalog In 1995, Jean-Dominique Bauby was the editor-in-chief of French Elle, the father of two young childen, a 44-year-old man known and loved for his wit, his style, and his impassioned approach to life. By the end of the year he was also the victim of a rare kind of stroke to the brainstem. After 20 days in a coma, Bauby awoke into a body which had all but stopped working: only his left eye …More |
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The Dream of the Red Chamber By Xueqin, Cao Translator Joly, H. Bencraft Foreword by Minford, John 2010-09 - Tuttle Publishing 9780804840965 Check Our Catalog Beloved by generations of Chinese readers, The Dream of the Red Chamber is China's equivalent of Romeo & Juliet …More |
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Dreamtigers By Borges, Jorge Luis Translator Boyer, Mildred Translator Morland, Harold 1964-01 - University of Texas Press 9780292715493 Check Our Catalog Dreamtigers has been heralded as one of the literary masterpieces of the twentieth century by Mortimer J. Adler, editor of Great Books of the Western World. It has been acknowledged by its author as his most personal work. Composed of poems, parables, and stories, sketches and apocryphal quotations, Dreamtigers at first glance appears to be a sampler -- albeit a dazzling one -- of the master's …More |
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Drowned City: Hurricane Katrina and New Orleans By Brown, Don 2015-08 - Clarion Books 9780544157774 Check Our Catalog
Sibert Honor Medalist - Kirkus' Best of 2015 list - School Library Journal Best of 2015 - Publishers Weekly's Best of 2015 list - Horn Book Fanfare Book - Booklist Editor's Choice On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina's monstrous winds and surging water overwhelmed the protective levees around low-lying New Orleans, Louisiana. Eighty percent of the city flooded, in some …More |
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Empire of the Senseless By Acker, Kathy Introduction by Kleeman, Alexandra 2018-05 - Grove Press 9780802128355 Check Our Catalog Set in the near future, in a Paris rated by two terrorists and occasional lovers, Thivai, a pirate, and Abhor, part robot and part human. …More |
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The Essential Dykes to Watch Out for By Bechdel, Alison 2008-11 - Mariner Books 9780618968800 Check Our Catalog
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Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City By Desmond, Matthew 2016-03 - Crown Publishing Group (NY) 9780553447439 Check Our Catalog NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE - NAMED ONE OF TIME'S TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE - One of the most acclaimed books of our time, this modern classic "has set a new standard for reporting on poverty" (Barbara Ehrenreich, The New York Times Book Review). In Evicted, Princeton sociologist and MacArthur "Genius" Matthew …More |
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Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close By Foer, Jonathan Safran 2006-04 - Mariner Books Classics 9780618711659 Check Our Catalog
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The Famished Road By Okri, Ben 1992-05 - Nan A. Talese 9780385424769 Check Our Catalog
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Farewell to Manzanar: A True Story of Japanese American Experience During and After the World War II Internment By Houston, Jeanne Wakatsuki Author Houston, James D. 2002-04 - Houghton Mifflin 9780618216208 Check Our Catalog A Japanese-American woman looks back on life at an internment camp during World War II and tells of how the fear, confusion, and ultimate dignity of the people there shaped her life. …More |
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The Fire Next Time By Baldwin, James A. 1992-12 - Vintage 9780679744726 Check Our Catalog A national bestseller when it first appeared in 1963, The Fire Next Time galvanized the nation and gave passionate voice to the emerging civil rights movement. At once a powerful evocation of James Baldwin's early life in Harlem and a disturbing examination of the consequences of racial injustice, the book is an intensely personal and provocative document. It consists of two "letters," written on …More |
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The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks about Race By Ward, Jesmyn 2016-08 - Scribner Book Company 9781501126345 Check Our Catalog The New York Times bestseller, these groundbreaking essays and poems about race--collected by National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward and written by the most important voices of her generation--are "thoughtful, searing, and at times, hopeful. The Fire This Time is vivid proof that words are important, because of their power to both cleanse and to clarify" (USA TODAY). …More |
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For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf: A Choreopoem By Shange, Ntozake 2010-11 - Scribner Book Company 9781451624205 Check Our Catalog From its inception in California in 1974 to its highly acclaimed critical success at Joseph Papp's Public Theater and on Broadway, the Obie Award-winning "for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf "has excited, inspired, and transformed audiences all over the country. Passionate and fearless, Shange's words reveal what it meant to be of color and female in the …More |
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Frederick Douglass: Autobiographies: Narrative of the Life / My Bondage and My Freedom / Life and Times By Douglass, Frederick Editor Gates, Henry Louis 1994-02 - Library of America 9780940450790 Check Our Catalog Born a slave, Frederick Douglass educated himself, escaped, and made himself one of the greatest leaders in American history. His three autobiographical narratives, collected here in one volume, are now recognized as classics of both American history and American literature. Writing with the eloquence and fierce intelligence that made him a brilliantly effective spokesman for abolition and equal …More |
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Freshwater By Emezi, Akwaeke 2018-02 - Grove Press 9780802127358 Check Our Catalog A National Book Foundation "5 Under 35" Honoree One of the most highly praised novels of the year, the debut from an astonishing young writer, Freshwater tells the story of Ada, an unusual child who is …More |
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Gender Outlaws: The Next Generation By Bornstein, Kate Author Bergman, S. Bear 2010-08 - Seal Press (CA) 9781580053082 Check Our Catalog
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Giovanni's Room By Baldwin, James Introduction by Toibin, Colm 2016-03 - Everyman's Library 9781101907740 Check Our Catalog Set among the bohemian bars and nightclubs of 1950s Paris, this groundbreaking novel about love and the fear of love is a book that belongs in the top rank of fiction (The Atlantic). Introduction by Colm T ib n. David is a young American expatriate who has just proposed marriage to his girlfriend, Hella. While she is away on a trip, David meets a bartender …More |
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The God of Small Things By Roy, Arundhati 1997-04 - Random House (NY) 9780679457312 Check Our Catalog Set mainly in Kerala, India, in 1969, this is the story of twins, a brother and sister, who learn that their whole world can change in a single day--that love and life can be lost in a moment. Armed only with the invisible innocence of children, they seek to craft a childhood for themselves amid the wreckage that constitutes their family. …More |
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Heavy: An American Memoir By Laymon, Kiese 2018-10 - Scribner Book Company 9781501125652 Check Our Catalog *Named a Best Book of 2018 by the New York Times, Publishers Weekly, NPR, Broadly, Buzzfeed (Nonfiction), The Undefeated, Library Journal (Biography/Memoirs), The Washington Post (Nonfiction), Southern Living (Southern), Entertainment Weekly, and The New York Times Critics* *WINNER of the Andrew Carnegie Medal and FINALIST for …More |
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Here Comes the Sun By Dennis-Benn, Nicole Y. 2016-07 - Liveright Publishing Corporation 9781631491764 Check Our Catalog In this radiant, highly anticipated debut, a cast of unforgettable women battle for independence while a maelstrom of change threatens their Jamaican village. …More |
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The Home and the World By Tagore, Rabindranath Translator Tagore, Surendranath Introduction by Desai, Anita 2005-04 - Penguin Group 9780140449860 Check Our Catalog This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to …More |
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Homegoing By Gyasi, Yaa 2016-06 - Knopf Publishing Group 9781101947135 Check Our Catalog Winner of the NBCC's John Leonard First Book Prize "Homegoing is an inspiration." --Ta-Nehisi Coates The unforgettable …More |
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House Made of Dawn (50th Anniversary Edition) By Momaday, N. Scott 2018-12 - Harper Perennial 9780062909954 Check Our Catalog "Both a masterpiece about the universal human condition and a masterpiece of Native American literature. . . . A book everyone should read for the joy and emotion of the language it contains." -- The Paris Review A special 50th anniversary edition of the magnificent Pulitzer Prize-winning novel from …More |
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The House of the Spirits By Allende, Isabel Translator Bolin, Magda Introduction by Hitchens, Christopher 2005-04 - Everyman's Library 1400043182 Check Our Catalog Here, in an astonishing debut by a gifted storyteller, is the magnificent saga of proud and passionate men and women and the turbulent times through which they suffer and triumph. They are the Truebas. And theirs is a world you will not want to leave, and one you will not forget. |
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The House on Mango Street By Cisneros, Sandra 1991-04 - Vintage 9780679734772 Check Our Catalog Told in a series of vignettes stunning for their eloquence, The House on Mango Street is Sandra Cisneros's greatly admired novel of a young girl growing up in the Latino section of Chicago. Acclaimed by critics, beloved by children, their parents and grandparents, taught everywhere from inner-city grade schools to universities across the country, and translated all over the world, it has entered …More |
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How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York; With Illustrations Chiefly from Photographs Taken by the Author By Riis, Jacob 2011-10 - University of Michigan Library 9781458500427 Check Our Catalog How the Other Half Lives occupies a premier place on a small list of American books along with Uncle Tom's Cabin, The Jungle, Silent Spring, The Feminine Mystique, and Unsafe at Any Speed that changed public opinion, influenced public policy, and left an indelible mark on history. …More |
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Human Acts By Kang, Han 2017-01 - Hogarth Press 9781101906729 Check Our Catalog From the internationally bestselling author of The Vegetarian, a "rare and astonishing" (The Observer) portrait of political unrest and the universal struggle for justice. The story of this tragic episode unfolds in a sequence of interconnected …More |
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The Hungry Tide By Ghosh, Amitav 2005-05 - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) 0618329978 Check Our Catalog A BookPage Notable Title |
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I Am a Cat By Natsume, Soseki Translator Ito, Aiko 2001-09 - Tuttle Publishing 9780804832656 Check Our Catalog "A nonchalant string of anecdotes and wisecracks, told by a fellow who doesn't have a name, has never caught a mouse, and isn't much good for anything except watching human beings in action."--"The New Yorker" …More |
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings By Angelou, Maya 1970-01 - Random House (NY) 0394429869 Check Our Catalog The moving and beautiful autobiography of a talented black woman. ". . . I have no words for this achievement, but I know that not since the days of my childhood . . . have I found myself so moved . . . Her portrait is a Biblical study of life in the midst of death".--James Baldwin. …More |
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I the Supreme By Bastos, Augustos Roa Resfr 2019-02 - Vintage 9780525564690 Check Our Catalog "An elaborate and erudite opus saturated in the verbal bravura of classic modernism." The New Yorker …More |
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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks By Skloot, Rebecca 2010-02 - Crown Publishing Group (NY) 9781400052172 Check Our Catalog
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In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose By Walker, Alice 2004-05 - Amistad Press 9780156028646 Check Our Catalog In this, her first collection of nonfiction, Alice Walker speaks out as a |
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In the Time of the Butterflies By Alvarez, Julia 2010-01 - Algonquin Books 9781565129764 Check Our Catalog Set during the waning days of the Trujillo dictatorship in the Dominican Republica in 1960, this extraordinary novel tells the story the Mirabal sisters, three young wives and mothers who are assassinated after visiting their jailed husbands. …More |
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: Written by Herself By Jacobs, Harriet Ann Editor Painter, Nell Irvin Introduction by Painter, Nell Irvin 2000-07 - Penguin Group 9780140437959 Check Our Catalog A haunting, evocative recounting of her life as a slave in North Carolina, and her final escape and emancipation, Jacobs' narrative, written between 1853 and 1858 and published in 1861, is one of the most important books ever written documenting the traumas and horrors of slavery in the antebellum South. …More |
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Interpreter of Maladies By Lahiri, Jhumpa 1999-06 - Mariner Books 9780395927205 Check Our Catalog
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Into the Beautiful North By Urrea, Luis Alberto 2009-05 - Little Brown and Company 9780316025270 Check Our Catalog
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Invisible Life By Harris, E. Lynn 1994-02 - Anchor Books 9780385469685 Check Our Catalog 1st book in Invisible life trilogy The re-issue of a remarkable first novel by a young, gay, black author who has fashioned a deeply moving and compelling coming of age story out of the highly controversial issues of bisexuality and AIDS. …More |
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Invisible Man By Ellison, Ralph Waldo 1992-09 - Modern Library 0679600159 Check Our Catalog Ellison won the National Book Award for this searing record of a black man's journey through contemporary America. "Unquestionably, Ellison's book is a work of extraordinary intensity--powerfully imagined and written with a savage, wryly humorous gusto".--Atlantic. …More |
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Journey Into the Whirlwind By Ginzburg, Eugenia Semyonovna 2002-11 - Mariner Books 9780156027519 Check Our Catalog Both witness to and victim of Stalin's reign of terror, a courageous woman tells the story of her harrowing eighteen-year odyssey through Russia's prisons and labor camps. Translated by Paul Stevenson and Max Hayward. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book |
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Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption By Stevenson, Bryan 2014-10 - One World 9780812994520 Check Our Catalog
" Bryan Stevenson's] dedication to fighting for justice and equality has inspired me …More |
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Kindred By Butler, Octavia E. 2009-02 - Beacon Press 9780807083109 Check Our Catalog Dana, a modern black woman, is celebrating her twenty-sixth birthday with her new husband when she is snatched abruptly from her home in California and transported to the antebellum South. Rufus, the white son of a plantation owner, is drowning, and Dana has been summoned to save him. Dana is drawn back repeatedly through time to the slave quarters, and each time the stays grow longer, more …More |
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The Kite Runner By Hosseini, Khaled 2003-06 - Riverhead Books 1573222453 Check Our Catalog An epic tale of fathers and sons, of friendship and betrayal, takes readers from Afghanistan in the final days of the monarchy to the atrocities of the present. As emotionally gripping as it is tender, "The Kite Runner" is an unusual and powerful debut. …More |
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The Known World By Jones, Edward P. 2003-08 - Amistad Press 0060557540 Check Our Catalog 2005 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Winner |
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Lakota Woman By Crow Dog, Mary With Erdoes, Richard 2011-06 - Grove Press 9780802145420 Check Our Catalog This is the powerful autobiography of Mary Brave Bird, who grew up in the misery of a South Dakota reservation. Rebelling against the violence and hopelessness of reservation life, she joined the tribal pride movement in an effort to bring about much-needed changes. Now a major movie from TNT. Photos. …More |
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Less By Greer, Andrew Sean 2017-07 - Lee Boudreaux Books 9780316316125 Check Our Catalog
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The Left Hand of Darkness By Le Guin, Ursula K. Foreword by Mitchell, David Afterword by Anders, Charlie Jane 2000-07 - Ace Books 9780441007318 Check Our Catalog
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Let's Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir By Lawson, Jenny 2012-04 - Amy Einhorn Books 9780399159015 Check Our Catalog Internet star Lawson, aka The Bloggess, makes her comedic and pointed debut. Lawson takes readers on a hilarious journey recalling her bizarre upbringing in rural Texas, her devastatingly awkward high school years, and her relationship with her long-suffering husband, Victor. …More |
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Like Water for Chocolate By Esquivel, Laura 1992-09 - Doubleday Books 9780385420167 Check Our Catalog
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The Living Is Easy By West, Dorothy Foreword by Jerkins, Morgan Afterword by Cromwell, Adelaide M. 2020-11 - Feminist Press 9781936932979 Check Our Catalog The captivating firts novel by Dorothy West--author of "The Wedding." …More |
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Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela By Mandela, Nelson 1995-10 - Back Bay Books 9780316548182 Check Our Catalog Nelson Mandela is one of the great moral and political leaders of our time: an international hero whose lifelong dedication to the fight against racial oppression in South Africa won him the Nobel Peace Prize and the presidency of his country. Since his triumphant release in 1990 from more than a quarter-century of imprisonment, Mandela has been at the center of the most compelling and inspiring …More |
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Lost City Radio By Alarcon, Daniel 2007-02 - HarperCollins Publishers 9780060594794 Check Our Catalog BookPage Notable Title |
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Love in a Fallen City By Chang, Eileen Translator Kingsbury, Karen S. Translator Chang, Eileen 2006-10 - New York Review of Books 9781590171783 Check Our Catalog A New York Review Books Original |
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Love in the Time of Cholera By Garcia Marquez, Gabriel 1988-03 - Knopf Publishing Group 0394561619 Check Our Catalog Set in a country on the Caribbean coast of South America, this is a story about a woman and two men and their entwined lives. From the author of the legendary One Hundred Years of Solitude. …More |
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Love Medicine By Erdrich, Louise 2013-04 - Harper Perennial 9780062206312 Check Our Catalog The first book in Erdrich's Native American tetralogy that includes The Beet Queen, Tracks, and The Bingo Palace is an authentic and emotionally powerful glimpse into the Native American experience--now resequenced and expanded to include never-before-published chapters. …More |
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Madame President: The Extraordinary Journey of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf By Cooper, Helene - Simon & Schuster 9781451697353 Check Our Catalog BEST BOOKS of 2017 SELECTION by * THE WASHINGTON POST * NEW YORK POST * The harrowing, but triumphant story of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, leader of the Liberian women's movement, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, and the first democratically elected female president in African history. When Ellen Johnson Sirleaf won the 2005 Liberian presidential election, she demolished a barrier …More |
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Mahabharata: A Modern Retelling By Satyamurti, Carole Afterword by Dharwadker, Vinay Foreword by Doniger, Wendy 2015-03 - W. W. Norton & Company 9780393081756 Check Our Catalog Originally composed approximately two thousand years ago, the Mahabharata tells the story of a royal dynasty, descended from gods, whose feud over their kingdom results in a devastating war. But it contains much more than conflict. An epic masterpiece of huge sweep and magisterial power, "a hundred times more interesting" than the Iliad and the Odyssey, writes Wendy …More |
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Man's Search for Meaning: Gift Edition By Frankl, Viktor E. Preface by Allport, Gordon W. 2000-03 - Beacon Press (MA) 9780807014264 Check Our Catalog Man's Search for Meaning has riveted generations of readers with its descriptions of life in Nazi death camps and its lessons for spiritual survival. Between 1942 and 1945 psychiatrist Viktor Frankl labored in four different camps, including Auschwitz, while his parents, brother, and pregnant wife perished. Based on his own experience and the stories of his many patients, Frankl argues that we …More |
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March: Book One By Lewis, John Author Aydin, Andrew Illustrator Powell, Nate 2013-08 - Top Shelf Productions 9781603093002 Check Our Catalog
Congressman John Lewis (GA-5) is an American icon and key figure of the civil rights movement. His commitment to justice and nonviolence has taken him from an Alabama sharecropper's farm to the halls of Congress, from a segregated schoolroom to the 1963 March on Washington, and from receiving beatings from state troopers to receiving the Medal of …More |
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The Master and Margarita By Bulgakov, Mikhail Translator Glenny, Michael Introduction by Franklin, Simon 1992-04 - Everyman's Library 0679410465 Check Our Catalog The devil, disguised as a magician, descends upon Moscow in the 1930s with his riotous band, which includes a talking cat and an expert assassin. Together they succeed in comically befuddling a population which denies the devil's existence, even as it is confronted with the diabolic results of a magic act gone wrong. This visit to the capital of world atheism has several aims, one of which …More |
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Maurice By Forster, E. M. 2005-12 - W. W. Norton & Company 9780393310320 Check Our Catalog Written during 1913 and 1914, Maurice deals with the then unmentionable subject of homosexuality. More unusual, it concerns a relationship that ends happily. …More |
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Men We Reaped By Ward, Jesmyn 2013-09 - Bloomsbury USA 9781608195213 Check Our Catalog
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Midnight's Children By Rushdie, Salman Introduction by Desai, Anita 1995-10 - Everyman's Library 9780679444626 Check Our Catalog
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The Moor's Account By Lalami, Laila 2014-09 - Pantheon Books 9780307911667 Check Our Catalog
A Pulitzer Prize Finalist
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My Name Is Asher Lev By Potok, Chaim 2003-03 - Anchor Books 9781400031047 Check Our Catalog Asher Lev is a Ladover Hasid who keeps kosher, prays three times a day and believes in the Ribbono Shel Olom, the Master of the Universe. Asher Lev is an artist who is compulsively driven to render the world he sees and feels even when it leads him to blasphemy.In this stirring and often visionary novel, Chaim Potok traces Asher's passage between these two identities, the one consecrated to God, …More |
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My People the Sioux By Standing Bear, Luther Introduction by Sneve, Virginia Driving Hawk 2006-11 - Bison Books 9780803293328 Check Our Catalog Landmark description of life of the Lakota Indians in the late nineteenth century from the perspective of an Indian. …More |
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Near to the Wild Heart By Lispector, Clarice Translator Entrekin, Alison Preface by Moser, Benjamin 2012-06 - New Directions Publishing Corporation 9780811220026 Check Our Catalog
Near to the Wild Heart, published in Rio de Janeiro in 1943, introduced Brazil to what one writer called "Hurricane Clarice" a twenty-three-year-old girl who wrote her first book in a tiny rented room and then baptized it with a title taken from Joyce: "He was alone, unheeded, near to the wild heart of life." The book was an unprecedented sensation -- the discovery of a genius. Narrative …More |
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Nervous Conditions By Dangarembga, Tsitsi 2004-12 - Ayebia Clarke Publishing 9780954702335 Check Our Catalog A modern classic in the African literary canon and voted in the Top Ten Africa's 100 Best Books of the 20th Century, this novel brings to the politics of decolonization theory the energy of women's rights. An extraordinarily well-crafted work, this book is a work of vision. Through its deft negotiation of race, class, gender and cultural change, it dramatizes the 'nervousness' of the …More |
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Never Let Me Go By Ishiguro, Kazuo 2005-04 - Knopf Publishing Group 9781400043392 Check Our Catalog
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No Longer Human By Dazai, Osamu Translator Keene, Donald 1973-01 - New Directions Publishing Corporation 9780811204811 Check Our Catalog The poignant and fascinating story of a young man who is caught between the breakup of the traditions of a northern Japanese aristocratic family and the impact of Western ideas. …More |
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No Time Like the Present By Gordimer, Nadine 2012-03 - Farrar, Straus and Giroux 9780374222642 Check Our Catalog Nobel Prize winner Gordimer trains her keen eye on Steve and Jabulile, an interracial couple living in a newly, tentatively, free South Africa to capture the tortured, fragmented essence of a nation struggling to define itself post-apartheid. …More |
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The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression By Solomon, Andrew 2014-09 - Scribner Book Company 9781451611038 Check Our Catalog A Scribner Classics edition of Andrew Solomon's National Book Award-winning, bestselling, and transformative masterpiece on depression--"the book for a generation, elegantly written, meticulously researched, empathetic, and enlightening" (Time)--now with a major new chapter covering recently introduced and novel treatments, suicide and anti-depressants, pregnancy and depression, and much …More |
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Notes of a Crocodile By Miaojin, Qiu Translator Huie, Bonnie 2017-05 - New York Review of Books 9781681370767 Check Our Catalog WINNER OF THE 2018 LUCIEN STRYK ASIAN TRANSLATION PRIZE An NYRB Classics Original |
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Obasan By Kogawa, Joy 1993-12 - Anchor Books 0385468865 Check Our Catalog Based on the author's own experiences, this award-winning novel was the first to tell the story of the evacuation, relocation, and dispersal of Canadian citizens of Japanese ancestry during the Second World War. …More |
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Orlando. Virginia Woolf By Woolf, Virginia 2011-11 - Penguin Books 9780141198521 Check Our Catalog A brand new series of five of Woolf's major works, in beautifully designed hardback editions. Written for Virginia Woolf's intimate friend, the charismatic, bisexual writers Vita Sackville-West, Orlando is a playful mock 'biography' of a chameleon-like historical figure who changes sex and identity at will. First masculine, then feminine, Orlando begins life as a young sixteenth-century nobleman, …More |
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Pachinko By Lee, Min Jin 2017-02 - Grand Central Publishing 9781455563937 Check Our Catalog
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Pedro Paramo By Rulfo, Juan Translator Peden, Margaret Sayers Foreword by Sontag, Susan 1994-03 - Grove Press 9780802133908 Check Our Catalog A raíz del ruego de su madre moribunda de localizar a su padre, Pedro Paramo, del cual escaparon muchos años antes, Juan Preciado viaja a Comala. Comala es un pueblo que vive por susurros y sombras -un lugar que parece poblado únicamente por la memoria y las alucinaciones. Construido sobre la tiranía de la familia Páramo, sus estériles y derruidas calles son el eco de las voces de …More |
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Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood By Satrapi, Marjane 2004-06 - Pantheon Books 9780375714573 Check Our Catalog A "New York Times Notable Book |
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Picnic at Hanging Rock By Lindsay, Joan Foreword by Meloy, Maile 2017-10 - Penguin Group 9780143132059 Check Our Catalog *Now a six-part TV series starring Natalie Dormer, from Amazon Prime* It was a cloudless summer day in the year 1900. Everyone at Appleyard College for Young Ladies …More |
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Poems of Anna Andreevna Akhmatova By Akhmatova, Anna Andreevna Translator Coffin, Lyn Introduction by Brodsky, Joseph 2008-10 - W. W. Norton & Company 9780393300147 Check Our Catalog Ever since her death in 1966 Anna Akhmatova has been recognized as the greatest modern Russian poet. A rich and representative selection of Akhmatova's work--from her poignant, deeply personal love poems to her haunting laments for the martyrs of the Stalinist purges--has been newly translated by the American poet Lyn Coffin. In her finely crafted translations Coffin has been uniquely successful …More |
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Prince Among Slaves By Alford, Terry 2007-09 - Oxford University Press, USA 9780195320459 Check Our Catalog First published in 1977, this engaging biography is the story of Abd al-Rahman Ibrahima, a Muslim slave in Natchez, Mississippi, who was in fact an African prince. This 30th anniversary edition feature new material discovered since the original publication and is being released to coincide with a new documentary about Ibrahima's life. 16 halftones. …More |
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Quicksand and Passing By Larsen, Nella 2010-03 - Wilder Publications 9781604599923 Check Our Catalog "Quicksand and Passing are novels I will never forget. They open up a whole world of experience and struggle that seemed to me, when I first read them years ago, absolutely absorbing, fascinating, and indispensable."--Alice Walker "Discovering Nella Larsen is like finding lost money with no name on it. One can enjoy it with delight and share it without guilt." --Maya …More |
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A Raisin in the Sun By Hansberry, Lorraine Introduction by Nemiroff, Robert 1995-08 - Modern Library 9780679601722 Check Our Catalog "Never before, the entire history of the American theater, has so much of the truth of black people's lives been seen on the stage," observed James Baldwin shortly before "A Raisin in the Sun opened on Broadway in 1959. |
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Rashomon: And Other Stories By Akutagawa, Ryunosuke Translator Kojima, Takashi Illustrator Kuwata, M. 1999-12 - Liveright Publishing Corporation 9780871401731 Check Our Catalog This fascinating collection features several stories by a master storyteller about Japan's cultural upheaval, including the classic "Rashomon, " the disturbing tale of a murder told from different perspectives. …More |
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The Reason I Jump: The Inner Voice of a Thirteen-Year-Old Boy with Autism By Higashida, Naoki Translator Yoshida, Ka Translator Mitchell, David 2013-08 - Random House 9780812994865 Check Our Catalog
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Return of the Spirit By Al-Hakim, Tawfiq Translator Hutchins, William Maynard Foreword by Aswany, Alaa Al 2019-07 - Penguin Group 9780143133971 Check Our Catalog The celebrated, revolutionary novel from a pioneering Egyptian writer Tawfiq al-Hakim, now for the first time in Penguin Classics with a foreword by Egyptian writer Alaa Al-Aswany First published in Arabic in 1933, Egyptian playwright and novelist Tawfiq Al-Hakim's Return of the Spirit follows a patriotic young Egyptian and his extended family as they grapple with the events …More |
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Roots: The Saga of an American Family By Haley, Alex 2000-09 - Wings 0517208601 Check Our Catalog One of the most beloved bestsellers of all time that touched the hearts of readers across the globe, "Roots" is now available in the Modern Classic Edition marking the 25th anniversary of its first printing. …More |
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Rubyfruit Jungle By Brown, Rita Mae 2015-06 - Bantam 9781101965122 Check Our Catalog "The rare work of fiction that has changed real life . . . If you don't yet know Molly Bolt--or Rita Mae Brown, who created her--I urge you to read and thank them both."--Gloria Steinem Winner of the Lambda Literary Pioneer Award Winner of the Lee Lynch Classic Book Award A landmark coming-of-age novel that launched the career of one of this country's most distinctive …More |
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The Savage Detectives By Bolano, Roberto Translator Wimmer, Natasha 2007-04 - Farrar Straus Giroux 9780374191481 Check Our Catalog BookPage Notable Title |
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Say You're One of Them By Akpan, Uwem 2009-07 - Back Bay Books 9780316113953 Check Our Catalog From a portrait of a family living together in a makeshift shanty in urban Kenya to a Rwandan girl's account of her family's struggles to maintain normalcy amid unspeakable horrors, each of the short stories in this collection is a testament to the wisdom and resilience of children. …More |
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Searching for Sappho: The Lost Songs and World of the First Woman Poet By Freeman, Philip 2016-02 - W. W. Norton & Company 9780393242232 Check Our Catalog For more than twenty-five centuries, all that the world knew of the poems of Sappho--the first woman writer in literary history--were a few brief quotations preserved by ancient male authors. Yet those meager remains showed such power and genius that they captured the imagination of readers through the ages. But within the last century, dozens of new pieces of her poetry have been found written …More |
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Season of Migration to the North By Salih, Tayeb Introduction by Lalami, Laila Translator Johnson-Davies, Denys 2009-04 - New York Review of Books 9781590173022 Check Our Catalog After years of study in Europe, the young narrator of Season of Migration to the North returns to his village along the Nile in the Sudan. It is the 1960s, and he is eager to make a contribution to the new postcolonial life of his country. Back home, he discovers a stranger among the familiar faces of childhood--the enigmatic Mustafa Sa'eed. Mustafa takes the young man into his confidence, …More |
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The Selected Works of Ida B. Wells-Barnett By Wells-Barnett, Ida B. Introduction by Harris, Trudier 1991-04 - Oxford University Press, USA 0195062027 Check Our Catalog Four of Ida B. Wells-Barnett's moving anti-lynching essays are presented in this volume. Written during the height of the lynching craze at the turn of the century, they elegantly speak to the pain and loss caused by racist thought and action. …More |
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The Shadow of the Wind By Ruiz Zafon, Carlos Translator Graves, Lucia 2005-01 - Penguin Books 9780143034902 Check Our Catalog 1st book in Cemetery of forgotten books series Barcelona, 1945 A great world city lies shrouded in secrets after the war, and a boy mourning the loss of his mother finds solace in his love for an extraordinary book called The Shadow of the Wind, by an author named Julian Carax. When the boy searches for Carax's other books, it begins to dawn on him, to his horror, that someone has been systematically destroying every copy of …More |
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Signs Preceding the End of the World By Herrera, Yuri Translator Dillman, Lisa 2015-03 - And Other Stories (P408) 9781908276421 Check Our Catalog From the author of "A Silent Fury," available Summer 2020. Signs Preceding the End of the World is one of the most arresting novels to be published in Spanish in the last ten years. Yuri Herrera does not simply write about the border between Mexico and the United States and those who cross it. He explores the crossings and translations people make in their minds and …More |
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A Small Place By Kincaid, Jamaica 1988-07 - Farrar Straus Giroux 9780374266387 Check Our Catalog Kincaid introduces readers to the place where she grew up. Antigua is a ten-by-twelve-mile island in the British West Indies. In an expansive essay--lyrical, sardonic, and forthright by turns--she amplifies the vision of one small place and all that it signifies. …More |
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Snow By Pamuk, Orhan 2004-08 - Knopf Publishing Group 0375406972 Check Our Catalog From the acclaimed author of "My Name Is Red ("a sumptuous thriller"-John Updike; "chockful of sublimity and sin"-"New York Times Book Review), comes a spellbinding tale of disparate yearnings-for love, art, power, and God-set in a remote Turkish town, where stirrings of political Islamism threaten to unravel the secular order. |
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So Lucky By Griffith, Nicola 2018-05 - MCD X Fsg Originals 9780374265922 Check Our Catalog From the author of Hild, a fierce and urgent autobiographical novel about a woman facing down a formidable foe |
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Sor Juana Ines de La Cruz: Selected Works By De La Cruz, Juana Ines Translator Grossman, Edith Introduction by Alvarez, Julia 2014-09 - W. W. Norton & Company 9780393241754 Check Our Catalog Sor Juana (1651-1695) was a fiery feminist and a woman ahead of her time. Like Simone de Beauvoir, she was very much a public intellectual. Her contemporaries called her the Tenth Muse and the Phoenix of Mexico, names that continue to resonate. An illegitimate child, self-taught intellectual, and court favorite, she rose to the height of fame as a writer in Mexico City during the Spanish Golden …More |
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The Souls of Black Folk By Du Bois, W. E. B. Introduction by Rampersad, Arnold 1993-10 - Everyman's Library 067942802X Check Our Catalog First published in 1903, this eloquent collection of essays exposed the magnitude of racism in our society. The book endures today as a classic document of American social and political history: a manifesto that has influenced generations with its transcendent vision for change. …More |
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The Story of My Life By Keller, Helen Editor Shattuck, Roger With Herrmann, Dorothy 2003-05 - W. W. Norton & Company 0393057445 Check Our Catalog The astonishing original version of Helen Keller's story, first published in 1903, has been out of print for many years and lost to the public. Now, 100 years after its initial publication, eminent literary scholar Roger Shattuck, in collaboration with Keller biographer Dorothy Hermann, has reedited the book to reflect more accurately its original composition. 10 illustrations. …More |
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The Street By Petry, Ann Introduction by Jones, Tayari 2020-01 - Mariner Books 9780358187547 Check Our Catalog As much a historical document as it is a novel, this 1946 winner of the Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship is the poignant and unblinkingly honest story of a young black woman's struggle to live and raise her son by herself amid the violence, poverty, and racial dissonance of Harlem in the late 1940s. …More |
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A Suitable Boy By Seth, Vikram 2005-10 - Harper Perennial 9780060786526 Check Our Catalog Vikram Seth's novel is, at its core, a love story: Lata and her mother, Mrs. Rupa Mehra, are both trying to find -- through love or through exacting maternal appraisal -- a suitable boy for Lata to marry. Set in the early 1950s, in an India newly independent and struggling through a time of crisis, "A Suitable Boy" takes us into the richly imagined world of four large extended families and …More |
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The Sympathizer: A Novel (Pulitzer Prize for Fiction) By Nguyen, Viet Thanh 2016-04 - Grove Press 9780802124944 Check Our Catalog Soon to be an HBO Original Series Winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction "[A] remarkable debut novel." --Philip Caputo, New York Times Book Review (cover …More |
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The Tale of Genji By Murasaki, Shikibu Translator Washburn, Dennis 2016-12 - W. W. Norton & Company 9780393353396 Check Our Catalog Murasaki Shikibu, born into the middle ranks of the aristocracy during the Heian period (794-1185 CE), wrote The Tale of Genji--widely considered the world's first novel--during the early years of the eleventh century. Expansive, compelling, and sophisticated in its representation of ethical concerns and aesthetic ideals, Murasaki's tale came to occupy a central place in Japan's …More |
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Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in 40 Questions By Luiselli, Valeria Introduction by Anderson, Jon Lee 2017-04 - Coffee House Press 9781566894951 Check Our Catalog Humane yet often horrifying, Tell Me How It Ends offers a compelling, intimate look at a continuing crisis--and its ongoing cost in an age of increasing urgency. --Jeremy Garber, Powell's Books Valeria Luiselli's extended essay on her volunteer work translating for child immigrants confronts with compassion and honesty the problem of the North American refugee crisis. It's a rare thing: a …More |
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Their Eyes Were Watching God By Hurston, Zora Neale Illustrator Pinkney, Jerry Introduction by Williams, Sherley Anne 1991-10 - University of Illinois Press 0252017781 Check Our Catalog Initially published in 1937, this novel about a proud, independent black woman has, since its reissue in trade paper in 1978, been the most widely readand highly acclaimed novel in the canon of African-American literature. With this richly illustrated new edition, the novel is finally accorded the treatment it deserves as a classic. …More |
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There There: A novel By Orange, Tommy 2018-06 - Knopf Publishing Group 9780525520375 Check Our Catalog
WINNER OF THE CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE One of the Best Books of the Year: The Washington Post, NPR, Time, O, The Oprah Magazine, San Francisco Chronicle, Entertainment Weekly, The Boston Globe, GQ, The Dallas Morning …More |
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The Thief's Journal By Genet, Jean Foreword by Sartre, Jean-Paul Introduction by Smith, Patti 2018-08 - Grove Press 9780802128270 Check Our Catalog Writing in the intensely lyrical prose style that is his trademark, the man Jean Cocteau dubbed France's 'Black Prince of Letters' her reconstructs his early adult years- time he spent as a petty criminal and vagabond, traveling through Spain and Antwerp, occasionally border hopping across the rest of Europe, always one step ahead of the authorities. …More |
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Thinking in Pictures: And Other Reports from My Life with Autism By Grandin, Temple, Speaker 2006-01 - Vintage 9780307275653 Check Our Catalog The captivating subject of Oliver Sack's "Anthropologist on Mars, here is Temple Grandin's personal account of living with autism extraordinary gift of animal empathy has transformed her world and ours.
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This Blinding Absence of Light By Ben Jelloun, Tahar Translator Coverdale, Linda 2002-05 - New Press 9781565847231 Check Our Catalog
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This Bridge Called My Back, Fourth Edition: Writings by Radical Women of Color By Moraga, Cherrie Editor Anzaldúa, Gloria 2015-03 - State University of New York Press 9781438454399 Check Our Catalog Finalist for the 2015 ForeWord INDIEFAB Book of the Year Award in the Anthologies Category |
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Three Daughters of Eve By Shafak, Elif 2017-12 - Bloomsbury USA 9781632869951 Check Our Catalog The stunning, timely new novel from the acclaimed, internationally bestselling author of The Architect's Apprentice and The Bastard of Istanbul. Peri, a married, wealthy, beautiful Turkish woman, is on her way to a dinner party at a seaside mansion in Istanbul when a beggar snatches her handbag. As she wrestles to get it back, a photograph falls to the ground--an old …More |
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The Tibetan Book of the Dead By Coleman, Graham Editor Coleman, Graham Editor Jinpa, Thupten 2006-01 - Viking 0670858862 Check Our Catalog Reflecting the insights and intentions of the original work, this text includes one of the most detailed and compelling descriptions of the after-death state and practices that transform the experience of daily life and the process of dying. …More |
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The Tiger's Wife By Obreht, Tea 2011-03 - Random House 9780385343831 Check Our Catalog
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Under the Udala Trees By Okparanta, Chinelo 2015-09 - Houghton Mifflin 9780544003446 Check Our Catalog Inspired by Nigeria's folktales and its war, Under the Udala Trees is a deeply searching, powerful debut about the dangers of living and loving openly. |
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The Underground Railroad By Whitehead, Colson 2016-08 - Doubleday Books 9780385542364 Check Our Catalog
Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. Life is hell for all the slaves, …More |
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We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families: Stories from Rwanda By Gourevitch, Philip 1999-09 - Picador USA 9780312243357 Check Our Catalog
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The Well of Loneliness: The Classic of Lesbian Fiction By Hall, Radclyffe 1990-10 - Anchor Books 9780385416092 Check Our Catalog First published in 1928, this timeless portrayal of lesbian love is now a classic. The thinly disguised story of Hall's own life, it was banned outright upon publication and almost ruined her literary career. …More |
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West with the Night: A Memoir By Markham, Beryl Introduction by Wheeler, Sara 2013-01 - North Point Press 9780865477636 Check Our Catalog "West with the Night" is the story of Beryl Markham--aviator, racehorse trainer, beauty--and her life in the Kenya of the 1920s and '30s. |
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When I Was Puerto Rican By Santiago, Esmeralda 2006-02 - Da Capo Press 9780306814525 Check Our Catalog Magic, sexual tension, high comedy, and intense drama move through an enchanted yet harsh autobiography, in the story of a young girl who leaves rural Puerto Rico for New York's tenements and a chance for success. …More |
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White Teeth By Smith, Zadie 2000-04 - Random House (NY) 0375501851 Check Our Catalog Winner - 2001 ALA Notable Fiction Selection |
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Whose Names Are Unknown By Babb, Sanora Foreword by Rodgers, Lawrence R. 2004-05 - University of Oklahoma Press 0806135794 Check Our Catalog An intimate story about the Oklahoma Panhandle farmers in the 1930s who fought and fled drought and dust storms, this long-hidden novel--upstaged by John Steinbeck's "The Grapes of Wrath," which was published during the same period--is told with an empathy derived from the author's own firsthand experiences. …More |
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Wide Sargasso Sea By Rhys, Jean Introduction by Danticat, Edwidge 2016-01 - W. W. Norton & Company 9780393352566 Check Our Catalog 2nd book in Jane Eyre series The fortieth anniversary reissue of the best-selling "tour de force" (Walter Allen, New York Times Book Review). …More |
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Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China By Chang, Jung 1991-09 - Simon & Schuster 0671685465 Check Our Catalog Chang recounts the evocative, unsettling, and insistently gripping story of how three generations of women in her family fared in the political maelstrom of China during the 20th century. …More |
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The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle By Murakami, Haruki Translator Rubin, Jay 1997-10 - Alfred A. Knopf 0679446699 Check Our Catalog The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle is many things: the story of a marriage that mysteriously collapses; a jeremiad against the superficiality of contemporary politics; an investigation of painfully suppressed memories of war; a bildungsroman about a compassionate young man's search for his own identity as well as that of his nation. All of Murakami's storytelling genius - combining elements of detective …More |
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Woman on the Edge of Time By Piercy, Marge 1997-06 - Ballantine Books 9780449000946 Check Our Catalog Connie Ramos, a woman in her mid-thirties, has been declared insane. But Connie is overwhelmingly sane, merely tuned to the future, and able to communicate with the year 2137. As her doctors persuade her to agree to an operation, Connie struggles to force herself to listen to the future and its lessons for today.... "From the Paperback edition. …More |
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Written on the Body By Winterson, Jeanette 1994-02 - Vintage Books USA 9780679744474 Check Our Catalog
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The Year of Magical Thinking By Didion, Joan 2005-10 - Knopf Publishing Group 140004314X Check Our Catalog Didion chronicles the experience of losing her husband, the writer John Gregory Dunne, to a massive coronary, just weeks after the two of them watched as their only daughter was put into an induced coma to save her life. With honesty and passion, Didion explores this intensely personal yet universal experience. …More |
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The Years with Laura Diaz By Fuentes, Carlos 2011-06 - Harpervia 9780156007566 Check Our Catalog
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Zami, a New Spelling of My Name By Lorde, Audre 1983-09 - Crossing Press 0895941236 Check Our Catalog Audre Lorde pioneered "biomythography" in Zami: A New Spelling of My Name, originally published in 1982. In this extraordinary tale, Lorde weaves a narrative tapestry out of the threads of her own life--from her family's immigration to New York through her own coming of age--and the lives of the women who shaped her. As an added bonus, when you purchase our Audible Modern …More |
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