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Fatal Vision: A True Crime Classic - Paperback

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by Joe McGinniss (Author)The electrifying true crime story of Dr. Jeffrey MacDonald, the handsome, Princeton-educated physician convicted of savagely slaying his young pregnant wife and two small children--murders he vehemently denies committing.... "Chilling. . . . A haunting resurrection of Crime and Punishment."--TimeBestselling author Joe McGinniss chronicles every aspect of this horrifying and intricate crime and probes the life and psyche of the magnetic, all-American Jeffrey MacDonald-...

Sol de Medianoche / Midnight Sun - Paperback

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by Stephenie Meyer (Author) Llega la nueva novela de Stephenie Meyer! Revive la historia de amor inmortal de Crepúsculo contada desde la perspectiva de Edward Cullen. Best seller del New York Times. Cuando Edward Cullen y Bella Swan se conocieron en Crepúsculo, nació una historia de amor icónica. Pero hasta ahora, sus fans solo conocen la historia a través de Bella. Por fin los lectores podrán vivir la versión de Edward en la muy esperada novela Sol de medianoche.La inolvidable historia, cont...

The Souls of Black Folk: With the Talented Tenth and the Souls of White Folk - Hardcover

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by W. E. B. Du Bois (Author), Ibram X. Kendi (Introduction by), Monica E. Elbert (Notes by)A collectible hardcover edition of the landmark book about being black in America, featuring an introduction by Ibram X. Kendi, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of How to Be an Antiracist A Penguin Vitae Edition When The Souls of Black Folk was first published in 1903, it had a galvanizing effect on the conversation about race in America--and it remains both a touchstone in the literature of Af...

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by Eldridge Cleaver (Author)The classic memoir that shocked, outraged, and ultimately changed the way America looked at the civil rights movement and the black experience. With a preface by Ishmael Reed - "As with Malcolm X, Cleaver's book is a spiritual autobiography. An odyssey of a soul in search of itself, groping toward a personal humanism which will give meaning to life."--The Progressive By turns shocking and lyrical, unblinking and raw, the searingly honest memoirs of Eldridge Cleaver...

The Eyes on the Prize Civil Rights Reader: Documents, Speeches, and Firsthand Accounts from the Black Freedom Struggle - Paperback

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by Clayborne Carson (Editor), David J. Garrow (Editor), Gerald Gill (Editor)The most comprehensive anthology of primary sources available, spanning the entire history of the American civil rights movement. A record of one of the greatest and most turbulent movements of this century, The Eyes on the Prize Civil Rights Reader is essential for anyone interested in learning how far the American civil rights movements has come and how far it has to go. Included are the Supreme Court's Brown vs Boa...

Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Years, 1954-1965 - Paperback

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by Juan Williams (Author), Julian Bond (Introduction by)The 30th-anniversary edition of Juan Williams's celebrated account of the tumultuous early years of the civil rights movement From the Montgomery bus boycott to the Little Rock Nine to the Selma-Montgomery march, thousands of ordinary people who participated in the American civil rights movement; their stories are told in Eyes on the Prize. From leaders such as Martin Luther King, Jr., to lesser-known figures such as Barbara Rose John a...

Rediscovering Turtle Island: A First Peoples' Account of the Sacred Geography of America - Paperback

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by Taylor Keen (Author)An exploration of Indigenous cosmology and history in North America - Examines the complexities of Indigenous legends and creation myths and reveals common oral traditions across much of North America - Explores the history of Cahokia, the Mississippian Mound Builder Empire of 1050-1300 CE, told through the voice of Honga, a Native leader of the time - Presents an Indigenous revisionist history regarding Thomas Jefferson, expansionist doctrine, and Manifest Destiny Whil...

This Arab Is Queer: An Anthology by LGBTQ+ Arab Writers - Paperback

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by Elias Jahshan (Editor)This ground-breaking anthology featuresthe compelling and courageous memoirs of eighteen queer Arab writers - someinternationally bestselling, others using pseudonyms. Here, we findheart-warming connections and moments of celebration alongside essays exploringthe challenges of being LGBTQ+ and Arab. From a military base in the Gulf toloving whispers caught between the bedsheets; and from touring overseas as adrag queen to a concert in Cairo where the rainbow flag was ...

Thriving Postpartum: Embracing the Indigenous Wisdom of La Cuarentena - Paperback

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by Pānquetzani (Author)From ancestral healing expert Pānquetzani comes traditional Indigenous wisdom for helping women thrive in, rather than merely survive, the postpartum experience. Though we now have more resources for ancestral birthing and self-care practices than ever, postpartum care is still largely stuck in an outdated, patriarchal paradigm that fails to serve mothers and newborns. "Slowing down, recovering fully, and giving your baby the best start isn't a privilege--it's a basic...

Take Back Your Brain: How a Sexist Society Gets in Your Head--And How to Get It Out - Hardcover

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by Kara Loewentheil (Author)A manual for every woman who wants to stop endless negative self-talk, create unshakable confidence, and jump-start a life of joy and power. It all begins with your thoughts. I never look good in tight skirts. I can't ask for a raise or my boss will think I'm greedy. I'm getting too old to find a partner. I'm a bad mom. I'm always behind. I'll never be good enough. What if every time you had a self-critical thought, you heard it in a man's voice? The truth is not ...

The Future Is Collective: Effective Workplace Strategies for Building a Culture of Care--Frameworks and Practices for Nonprofits and Changemakers

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Report copyright infringementby Niloufar Khonsari (Author)Transform workplace structures and empower cultures of care--a practical guide for nonprofit leaders and social justice organizations This book is a powerful call for nonprofits and movement organizations to rethink their internal systems and processes--and to bring workplace culture and management into alignment with their political values and liberatory missions. Drawing on two decades of experience in community organizing and nonpro...

Good Economics for Hard Times - Paperback

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by Abhijit V. Banerjee (Author), Esther Duflo (Author)The winners of the Nobel Prize show how economics, when done right, can help us solve the thorniest social and political problems of our day. Figuring out how to deal with today's critical economic problems is perhaps the great challenge of our time. Much greater than space travel or perhaps even the next revolutionary medical breakthrough, what is at stake is the whole idea of the good life as we have known it. Immigration and inequality,...

Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection

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Report copyright infringementby John Green (Author)John Green, the #1 bestselling author of The Anthropocene Reviewed and a passionate advocate for global healthcare reform, tells a deeply human story illuminating the fight against the world's deadliest disease. Tuberculosis has been entwined with humanity for millennia. Once romanticized as a malady of poets, today tuberculosis is seen as a disease of poverty that walks the trails of injustice and inequity we blazed for it. In 2019, author ...

To Save and to Destroy: Writing as an Other

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Report copyright infringementby Viet Thanh Nguyen (Author)From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sympathizer (now an HBO series) comes a moving and unflinchingly personal meditation on the literary forms of otherness and a bold call for expansive political solidarity. Born in war-ravaged Vietnam, Viet Nguyen arrived in the United States as a child refugee in 1975. The Nguyen family would soon move to San Jose, California, where the author grew up, attending UC Berkeley in the aftermath...

Absolute Pleasure: Queer Perspectives on Rocky Horror

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Report copyright infringementby Margot Atwell (Editor), Magdalene Visaggio (Contribution by), Grace Lavery (Contribution by)Queer writers reflect on the complicated legacy of The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Since its earliest midnight showings at the Waverly Theater in New York City, The Rocky Horror Picture Show has been an underground sensation. For five decades, people around the world have dressed up and gathered in dark theaters to dance, yell, mime obscene acts, and forge connections wit...

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Report copyright infringementby Andrea Long Chu (Author)A bold, provocative collection of essays on one of the most urgent questions of our time: What is authority when everyone has an opinion on everything? Since her canonical 2017 essay "On Liking Women," the Pulitzer Prize-winning critic Andrea Long Chu has established herself as a public intellectual straight out of the 1960s. With devastating wit and polemical clarity, she defies the imperative to leave politics out of art, instead model...

Ending Isolation: The Case Against Solitary Confinement

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Report copyright infringementby Christopher William Blackwell (Author), Deborah Zalesne (Author), Kwaneta Harris (With)"These compelling reﬂections by people who have been entrapped within the tortures of solitary, should rekindle our abolitionist impulses at an especially critical moment in our history" - Angela Y. Davis "Oﬀers an indispensable tool to campaigns for abolition everywhere" - Juan E. Méndez, former UN Special Rapporteur on Torture "Powerful...These excruciating accounts from pr...

Why We Love (and Hate) Twilight: The Highs and Lows of the Twilight Saga (Twilight Book)

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Report copyright infringementby Sarah Elizabeth Gallagher (Author)The Polarizing Legacy of the Twilight SagaWhy does the Twilight saga-Stephenie Meyer's Twilight books, movies, and unforgettable characters--continue to inspire both passionate fandom and heated critique? In Why We Love (and Hate) Twilight, Sarah Elizabeth Gallagher unpacks the cultural obsession with Bella Swan, Edward Cullen, and the supernatural love story that redefined YA literature and pop culture forever.#1 Best Seller i...

Monsterland: A Journey Around the World's Dark Imagination

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Report copyright infringementby Nicholas Jubber (Author)Monsters, in all their terrifying glory, have preoccupied humans since we began telling stories. But where did these stories come from? In Monsterland, award-winning author Nicholas Jubber goes on a journey to discover more about the monsters we've invented, lurking in the dark and the wild places of the earth--giants, dragons, ogres, zombies, ghosts, demons--all with one thing in common: their ability to terrify. His far-ranging adventu...

The People's Project: Poems, Essays, and Art for Looking Forward

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Report copyright infringementby Saeed Jones (Author), Maggie Smith (Author)A liberatory anthology of twenty-seven writers--a community in book form--charting paths ahead for action and care in the face of political uncertainty, curated by Maggie Smith and Saeed Jones. Inspired by Saeed Jones and Maggie Smith's conversations in the wake of the 2024 election, this is a collection of poems, essays, and visual art on what we--individually and collectively--can hold onto, and what we can work tow...

Nothing Compares to You: What Sinead O'Connor Means to Us

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Report copyright infringementby Sonya Huber (Author), Martha Bayne (Author)An intimate and evocative celebration of the life and legacy of music and political icon Sinéad O'Connor, featuring writers including Neko Case, Sinéad Gleeson, Rayne Fisher-Quann, Porochista Khakpour, and more. More than thirty years ago, Sinéad O'Connor shocked the world by tearing up a photo of Pope John Paul II in an act of protest against the violence perpetrated by the Catholic Church. This single act cemented O'...

Ruptured: Jewish Women in Australia Reflect on Life Post-October 7

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Report copyright infringementby Lee Kofman (Editor), Tamar Paluch (Editor)In this powerful collection of personal essays, thirty-six Australian Jewish women, including Ramona Koval, Dani Valent and Kylie Moore-Gilbert, reveal how their lives were turned upside down in the wake of October 7 attacks.Our hope is that these essays, the opportunities they offer to hear and understand us, can become tools for repairing the rupture between our community and the world around us.The world changed irre...

So What If I'm a Puta: Diaries of Transness, Sex Work, Desire

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Report copyright infringementby Amara Moira (Author), Amanda de Lisio (Editor), Amanda de Lisio (Translator)An incisive, intimate diary of the life of a travesti sex worker in Brazil, with a foreward by Charlotte ShaneSo What If I'm a Puta, originally published on author Amara Moira's popular blog of the same name, consists of 44 crônicas that wryly portray her experiences as a trans sex worker in Brazil. In a brazen, funny, and at times heartbreaking voice, Moira explores the political and p...

Edge of the World: An Anthology of Queer Travel Writing

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Report copyright infringementby Alden Jones (Editor)An inclusive LGBTQ+ travel anthology, Edge of the World explores what it means to be a queer person moving through the world.These lively essays by luminary writers offer a queer perspective on how people experience other cultures and how other cultures receive queer people. This anthology of essays includes the perspectives of gay, lesbian, bisexual, queer, and trans American authors from multiple ethnic identities, showcasing the travel wr...

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Report copyright infringementby Virginia Woolf (Author), Xochitl Gonzalez (Introduction by), Michele Barrett (Editor)A collectible hardcover edition of Virginia Woolf's pioneering work of feminism, "probably the most influential piece of non-fictional writing by a woman in [the twentieth] century" (Hermione Lee), featuring a new introduction by Xochitl Gonzalez, Pulitzer Prize finalist and New York Times bestselling author of Olga Dies Dreaming and Anita de Monte Laughs Last A Penguin Vitae E...

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Report copyright infringementby Virginia Woolf (Author), Xochitl Gonzalez (Introduction by), Michele Barrett (Editor)Virginia Woolf's pioneering work of feminism, "probably the most influential piece of non-fictional writing by a woman in [the twentieth] century" (Hermione Lee), featuring a new introduction by Xochitl Gonzalez, Pulitzer Prize finalist and New York Times bestselling author of Olga Dies Dreaming and Anita de Monte Laughs Last A Penguin Classic In October 1928, Virginia Woolf de...

Jim Crow: Voices from a Century of Struggle Part 2 (Loa

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Report copyright infringementby Tyina L. Steptoe (Editor)A vivid firsthand record of the struggle for legal equality and dignity in the face of segregation and racial terror from 1919 to 1976 W.E.B. Du Bois famously identified "the problem of the color-line" as the defining issue in American life. The powerful writings gathered here reveal the many ways Americans, Black and white, fought against white supremacist efforts to police the color line, envisioning a better America in the face of di...

Ghost in the Criminal Justice Machine: Reform, White Supremacy, and an Abolitionist Future

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Report copyright infringementby Emile Suotonye Deweaver (Author)A powerful personal investigation of the insidious ways white supremacy compromises criminal justice reform, from the award-winning, formerly incarcerated activist and Soros Justice Fellow Despite reform efforts that have grown in scope and intensity over the last two decades, the machine of American mass incarceration continues to flourish. In this powerful polemic, formerly incarcerated activist, essayist, and organizer Emile ...

No Straight Road Takes You There: Essays for Uneven Terrain

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Report copyright infringementby Rebecca Solnit (Author)In the spirit of her bestselling book Hope in the Dark, Rebecca Solnit explores how our actions can shape the future and the liberatory possibilities of embracing uncertainty. Beginning with an essay about a three-hundred-year-old violin and what it can tell us about forests, abundance, and climate, and ending with on about a prisoner dreaming of seeing the ocean, No Straight Road Takes You There deftly bridges the political and the lit...

Prose to the People: A Celebration of Black Bookstores

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Report copyright infringementby Katie Mitchell (Author), Nikki Giovanni (Foreword by)A stunning visual homage to Black bookstores, featuring a selection of shops around the country alongside essays that celebrate the history, community, activism, and culture these spaces embody, with an original foreword by Nikki Giovanni. Black literature is perhaps the most powerful, polarizing force in the modern American zeitgeist. Today--as Black novels draw authoritarian ire, as Black memoirs shape publ...

Coercion: Surviving and Resisting Abortion Bans

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Report copyright infringementby Kylie Cheung (Author)"Clear-eyed and cutting, this disturbing litany of medical barbarisms calls into question the very notion that America is an advanced society, let alone a just one." - Publishers Weekly (Starred review)"A compelling and timely examination of the state of abortion access in the United States." -Library Journal "Read this book to get informed, stay sane, and learn to fight back" - Lizz Winstead, co-creator of The Daily Show and host of Femini...

Diversity without Discrimination: How to Promote a Culture of Unity in a Post-DEI/Affirmative Action World

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Report copyright infringementby Carol M. Swain (Author), Mike Towle (Author)Political scientist and former law professor Carol Swain warned in 2023 that the Supreme Court's decision that year to end race-based college admissions spelled doom for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) programs and affirmative action in the workplace. What had been unthinkable for many Americans occurred on January 20-21, 2025, when President Donald Trump signed executive orders jettisoning DEI in federal progr...