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Help Me Die Well: A Queer Prisoner's Poetry Anthology, Vol. 3 - Paperback

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by A B O Comix (Editor), Oliver Mills (Editor)Our third annual poetry anthology features original work from over two dozen queer and trans incarcerated poets. Proceeds from this anthology support the poets' continued survival, subsidizing everything from commissary packages to legal fees to medical copays. From anthology editor Ollie Mills: "HELP ME DIE WELL is a plea to loved ones, to circumstance - really, to everything - to make one's life worth living." A.B.O. Comix is a collective of cre...

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by Lamya H (Author)A queer hijabi Muslim immigrant survives her coming-of-age by drawing strength and hope from stories in the Quran in this "raw and relatable memoir that challenges societal norms and expectations" (Linah Mohammad, NPR). "A masterful, must-read contribution to conversations on power, justice, healing, and devotion from a singular voice I now trust with my whole heart."--Glennon Doyle, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Untamed AN AUDACIOUS BOOK CLUB PICK - WINNER: The B...

Charles Goodyear, Connecticut Yankee And Rubber Pioneer: A Biography - Paperback

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by P. W. Barker (Author)""Charles Goodyear, Connecticut Yankee And Rubber Pioneer: A Biography"" is a comprehensive account of the life and work of Charles Goodyear, a pioneering figure in the rubber industry. Written by P.W. Barker, the book chronicles Goodyear's early life and career, including his experiments with rubber and his development of the vulcanization process. The book also explores Goodyear's personal life, including his family relationships and his struggles with financial diff...

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by Hugh Allen (Author)Originally published by the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. as a promotional, The Story of the Airship chronicles the history and development of these great "silver cruisers of the sky." Filled with photos and authoritative text, the book springs from an era when dirigibles, balloons andblimps competed against airplanes for public attention. Sadly, incidents such as those that befell the USS Macon, USS Akron and Hindenburg caused the public to lose faith in these craft. Pub...

Lafayette In America In 1824 And 1825 V2: Or Journal Of A Voyage To The United States (1829) - Paperback

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by Auguste Levasseur (Author)""Lafayette In America In 1824 And 1825 V2: Or Journal Of A Voyage To The United States (1829)"" is a historical account written by Auguste Levasseur about the French general Marquis de Lafayette's visit to the United States in 1824 and 1825. The book is the second volume of Levasseur's journal and it provides a detailed description of Lafayette's travels and experiences during his time in America. Levasseur was a close friend of Lafayette and accompanied him on h...

The Best of the Bellevue Literary Review - Paperback

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by Danielle Ofri (Editor), Sherwin B. Nuland (Foreword by)"A kaleidoscope of creativity . . . unsentimental and sometimes unpredictable."--Journal of the American Medical AssociationFounded just six years ago, Bellevue Literary Review is already widely recognized as a rare forum for emerging and celebrated writers--among them Julia Alvarez, Raphael Campo, Rick Moody, and Abraham Verghese--on issues of health and healing. Gathered here are poignant and prizewinning stories, essays, and poems, ...

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by Robert Browning (Author), Adam Roberts (Editor), Daniel Karllin (Introduction by)Robert Browning's poetic scope was broad, ranging from the beguiling magic of The Pied Piper of Hamelin to the epic book-length poem The Ring and the Book. This comprehensive selection includes over eighty of his shorter poems, amongst them his most famous and best-loved dramatic monologues, as well as the complete text of many of his longer poems. It contains three books from The Ring and the Book and Brownin...

Sing a Black Girl's Song: The Unpublished Work of Ntozake Shange - Hardcover

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by Ntozake Shange (Author), Imani Perry (Editor), Tarana Burke (Foreword by)GMA's 15 Spectacular New Books to Read in September Ms. Magazine's September 2023 Reads for the Rest of Us The Millions "Most Anticipated" Books of 2023 LitHub's Most Anticipated Books of 2023 Never-before-seen unpublished works by award-winning American literary icon Ntozake Shange, featuring essays, plays, and poems from the archives of the seminal Black feminist writer who stands alongside giants like Toni Morriso...

The Hurricane Book: A Lyric History - Paperback

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by Claudia Acevedo-Quines (Author) Number of Pages: 160 Dimensions: 0.7 x 7.1 x 6.3 IN Publication Date: October 24, 2023

All the Songs We Sing: Celebrating the 25th Anniversary of the Carolina African American Writers' Collective - Paperback

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by Lenard D. Moore (Editor), Jaki Shelton Green (Introduction by)An anthology celebrating twenty-five years of the Carolina African American Writers' Collective edited by founder Lenard D. Moore.Author BiographyLenard D. Moore is an internationally acclaimed poet and anthologist. His literary works have been published in more than fifteen countries and translated into more than a dozen languages. He is a U.S. Army Veteran. Moore is the author of The Geography of Jazz, A Temple Looming, Desert...

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by Maggie Nelson (Author)Suppose I were to begin by saying that I had fallen in love with a color . . .A lyrical, philosophical, and often explicit exploration of personal suffering and the limitations of vision and love, as refracted through the color blue. With Bluets, Maggie Nelson has entered the pantheon of brilliant lyric essayists.Maggie Nelson is the author of numerous books of poetry and nonfiction, including Something Bright, Then Holes (Soft Skull Press, 2007) and Women, the New Yo...

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by Mary Cappello (Author)Los Angeles Times Bestseller "Mary Cappello 's] inventive, associative taxonomy of discomfort . . . is] revelatory indeed." --MARK DOTY, author of Dog Years: A Memoir and Fire to Fire: New and Selected Poems "A wonderful, multi-layered piece of writing, with all the insight of great cultural criticism and all the emotional pull of memoir. A fascinating book." --SARAH WATERS, author of The Night Watch and The Little Stranger Without awkwardness we would not know grace...

Making Face, Making Soul/Haciendo Caras: Creative and Critical Perspectives by Feminists of Color - Paperback

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by Gloria Anzaldua (Editor)Literary Nonfiction. Fiction. Latino/Latina Studies. African American Studies. Asian American Studies. Native American Studies. A bold collection of creative pieces and theoretical essays by women of color. New thought and new dialogue: a book that will teach in the most multiple sense of that word: a book that will be of lasting value to many diverse communities of women as well as to students from those communities. The authors explore a full spectrum of present c...

How to Fuck Like a Girl: Essays - Paperback

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by Vera Blossom (Author)A cheeky how-to guide, as raunchy as it is heartfelt, from a bright new literary voice. A bold and vulnerable collection from a new, young voice, How to Fuck Like a Girl is a daring mash-up of pillow book, grimoire, and manifesto by writer Vera Blossom. From hooking up to trans witchcraft, petty crime, capitalism, friendships, divorce, and survival, Blossom brings wit and melancholy, grandeur and smarts, debuting a bright literary voice as raunchy as it is heartfelt. A...

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by Michael Crudden (Translator)Most people are familiar, at least by repute, with Homer's two great epics, the Iliad and the Odyssey, but few are aware that other poems survive that were attributed to Homer in ancient times. The Homeric Hymns are now known to be the work of various poets working in the same tradition, probably during the seventh and sixth centuries BC. They honor the Greek gods, and recount some of the most attractive of the Greek myths. Four of them (Hymns 2-5) stand out by ...

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by Emile Zola (Author), Elinor Dorday (Translator), Robert Lethbridge (Editor)The penultimate novel of the Rougon-Macquart cycle, La Debacle (1892) takes as its subject the dramatic events of the Franco-Prussian War and the Commune of 1870-1. During Zola's lifetime it was the bestselling of all his novels, praised by contemporaries for its epic sweep as well as for its attention to historical detail. La Debacle seeks to explain why the Second Empire ended in a crushing military defeat and rev...

Homer's Iliad and the Problem of Force - Hardcover

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by Charles H. Stocking (Author)The topic of force has long remained a problem of interpretation for readers of Homer's Iliad, ever since Simone Weil famously proclaimed it as the poem's main subject. This book seeks to address that problem through a full-scale treatment of the language of force in the Iliad from both philological and philosophical perspectives. Each chapter explores the different types of Iliadic force in combination with the reception of the Iliad in the French intellectual ...

808s & Otherworlds: Memories, Remixes, & Mythologies - Paperback

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by Sean Avery Medlin (Author)September's Most Anticipated LGBTQIA+ Literature --Lambda LiteraryMost-Anticipated New LGBTQIA+ Books of 2021 --Paperback ParisAn elegant mash of memoir, poetry, tales of appropriation, thoughts on Black masculinity, Hulk, Kanye. --Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune808s & Otherworlds announces a bold and incendiary new voice in Sean Avery Medlin. Against the backdrop of the Phoenix suburbs where they were raised, Medlin interrogates the effects of media mis...

Some of Us Are Very Hungry Now - Paperback

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by Andre Perry (Author)Beautiful, brilliant, bold... Tantamount to a slice from the Americana songbook. --Christopher John Stephens, PopMattersWith luminous insight and fervent prose, Andre Perry's debut collection of personal essays, Some of Us Are Very Hungry Now, travels from Washington, DC, to Iowa City to Hong Kong in search of both individual and national identity. While displaying tenderness and a disarming honesty, Perry catalogs racial degradations committed on the campuses of elite ...

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by Mary Oliver (Author)One of O, The Oprah Magazine's Ten Best Books of the Year The New York Times bestselling collection of essays from beloved poet, Mary Oliver. "There's hardly a page in my copy of Upstream that isn't folded down or underlined and scribbled on, so charged is Oliver's language . . ." --Maureen Corrigan, NPR's Fresh Air "Uniting essays from Oliver's previous books and elsewhere, this gem of a collection offers a compelling synthesis of the poet's thoughts on the natural, sp...

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by Sarah Thankam Mathews (Author)2022 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST ONE OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES' TOP 5 FICTION BOOKS OF THE YEAR ONE OF TIME AND SLATE'S TOP 10 BOOKS OF THE YEAR Named one of the BEST BOOKS OF 2022 by NPR, Vogue, Vulture, BuzzFeed, Harper's Bazaar, and more "One of the buzziest, most human novels of the year...breathless, dizzying, and completely beautiful." --Vogue "Dazzling and wholly original...[written] with such mordant wit, insight, and specificity, it feels like watc...

Inspiring Canadians: Forty Brilliant Canadians and Their Visions for the Nation - Paperback

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by Mark Bulgutch (Author), Peter Mansbridge (Foreword by)Forty influential and diverse Canadians with expertise in subjects such as Indigenous rights, climate change, social justice and race, gun control, higher education and poetry reflect on everything Canada is getting right--and what still needs to change to make the country even better. Acclaimed journalist Mark Bulgutch collects inspiring stories and ideas from multifaceted Canadians whose love for Canada compels them to make this count...

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by Laurie Frankel (Author)New York Times BestsellerThe Reese Witherspoon x Hello Sunshine Book Club Pick"Every once in a while, I read a book that opens my eyes in a way I never expected." --Reese Witherspoon (Reese's Book Club x Hello Sunshine book pick) People Magazine's Top 10 Books of 2017Bustle's 17 Books Every Woman Should Read From 2017PopSugar's Our Favorite Books of the Year (So Far)Refinery29's Best Books of the Year So FarBookBrowse's The 20 Best Books of 2017Pacific Northwest Book...

The Invisible Third Culture Adult: Time for everyone to be seen and heard - Paperback

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by Camellia Yang (Author)Nora Jia Qiao-Bridges' home is everywhere and nowhere - from China to New Zealand, and from the UK to the world. Born in China's cultural centre as a descendant of Confucius, Nora grew up influenced by western culture. She constantly struggles with the inner conflict of embracing the dual cultures from the East and West. Nora's campus scandal with her English teacher Tom Norton makes her move to New Zealand to start a new life chapter. Her sexual experience with Jason...

Pachinko (National Book Award Finalist) - Paperback

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by Min Jin Lee (Author)A New York Times Top Ten Book of the Year and National Book Award finalist, Pachinko is an extraordinary epic of four generations of a poor Korean immigrant family as they fight to control their destiny in 20th-century Japan (San Francisco Chronicle). NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2017 * A USA TODAY TOP TEN OF 2017 * JULY PICK FOR THE PBS NEWSHOUR-NEW YORK TIMES BOOK CLUB NOW READ THIS * FINALIST FOR THE 2018DAYTON LITERARY PEACE PRIZE* WINNER OF THE MEDICI BOOK CLUB ...

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by Anthony Doerr (Author)* COMING IN NOVEMBER AS A NETFLIX LIMITED SERIES--from producer and director Shawn Levy (Stranger Things) starring Mark Ruffalo, Hugh Laurie, and newcomer Aria Mia Loberti * Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist, the beloved instant New York Times bestseller and New York Times Book Review Top 10 Book about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II. Marie-La...

The City That Killed the President: A Cultural History of Dallas and the Assassination - Hardcover

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by Tim Cloward (Author)A creative cultural history of Dallas through the lens of its defining twentieth century event: JFK's assassination.The assassination of John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963, shocked America. Instantly, Dallas was blamed for the killing, labeled "the City of Hate." In the half century since the president's murder, this city's artists and writers have produced important, if often overlooked, work that speaks to the difficult burden of our civic shaming. Here are the work...

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by Tedi López Mills (Author), Robin Myers (Translator)From one of Mexico's premier poets, the award-winning Tedi López Mills, a hybrid, genre-defying book of essays following the unusual and surprising complexities of everyday life. Through thirteen essays, Tedi López Mills explores the minutiae that at first glance go unnoticed. In "Improper Nouns," she explores the history and destiny of an uncomfortable name, asking whether the way we name what surrounds us affects the fabric of its essenc...

Dispatches from the Republic of Letters: 50 Years of the Neustadt International Prize for Literature - Hardcover

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by Daniel Simon (Editor)Celebrating the prize that has honored international literature's top players, from Gabriel García Márquez to Edwidge Danticat, a groundbreaking collection of Neustadt Laureate acceptance speeches and literary evocations of the muse.Author BiographyDaniel Simon serves as World Literature Today's assistant director and editor in chief. He teaches for the Department of English at the University of Oklahoma. In addition, he is a poet, translator, and member of the Academy...

Writers on Earth: New Visions for Our Planet - Paperback

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by Write the World (Contribution by), Elizabeth Kolbert (Foreword by)Writers on Earth is a collection of reflections, essays, stories, and poems that captures the heart of Gen Z's relationship with the environmental issues of the 21st century.Rather than equating nature with the pristine and preserved, the pieces represent the environment as all-encompassing: the toxic dust in Bangkok, the rain in Manila, the disappearing maya birds and the invasive stoats and possums in New Zealand. The worl...

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by Elizabeth Miki Brina (Author)A "hauntingly beautiful memoir about family and identity" (NPR) and a young woman's journey to understanding her complicated parents--her mother an Okinawan war bride, her father a Vietnam veteran--and her own, fraught cultural heritage. Elizabeth's mother was working as a nightclub hostess on U.S.-occupied Okinawa when she met the American soldier who would become her husband. The language barrier and power imbalance that defined their early relationship follo...

Love in the Time of Time's Up: Short Fiction Edited by Christine Sneed - Paperback

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by Christine Sneed (Editor)With pathos and insight, each of the sixteen accomplished authors--among them Lynn Freed, Karen Bender, May-lee Chai, Gina Frangello, Cris Mazza, and Amina Gautier--featured in Love in the Time of Time's Up skillfully explores the complexities of desire, intention, and what it means to be a woman in the era of Me Too and Time's Up. From the fraught, sexually charged groves of academia and elevators of corporate America, to the imagined diary entries of Brett Kavanau...