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May.29.2012
In True Believers, Kurt Andersen—the New York Times bestselling and critically acclaimed author of Heyday and Turn of the Century—delivers his most powerful and moving novel yet. Dazzling in its wit and effervescent insight, this kaleidoscopic tour de force of cultural observation and seductive...
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Apr.01.2010
Nominated for an NAACP Image Award in the category of Outstanding Literary Work Poetry, Check the Rhyme: An Anthology of Female Poets & Emcees is a cross-generational volume of poetry, featuring the work of 50 thought provoking and inspirational women writers, lyricists and spoken word artists...
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Feb.14.2010
Ambassador Nancy Goodman Brinker is the founder and CEO of Susan G. Komen for the Cure. Promise Me is the story of her unique relationship with her sister, Susan Goodman Komen, who died of breast cancer at age 37, leaving her little sister galvanized with purpose. Woven with the cultural and...
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Feb.28.2009
" Renée Sigel's poetry has an erotic thrill and daring rarely seen in contemporary English language poetry. She is a poet entirely in love with both language and the world, but at the same time entirely unsentimental about either. her best work reads like that of a 1920's French surrealist...
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Nov.30.2008
A collection of cartoons drawn at the front lines of the 1990 student strike at Mills College. A panel from this collection hangs in the permanent timeline at the Women's Museum in Dallas, TX.
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Mar.03.2008
Palabras de mediodia/Noon Words is Lucha Corpi's pioneering collection of poems that established her as a major figure in Mexican American literature. Written in Spanish and expertly translated by Catherine Rodriguez-Nieto, the poems fairly bloom off the page in a display of lyric virtuosity....
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Jan.04.2008
A major collection of poetry by a walking legend in Chicana / Latina literature. Her first book in 15 years.
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Dec.27.2007
Following his arrest during the October 1967 anti-Vietnam march at the Pentagon, Mailer wrote of the anger, hippies, bewildered MPs and draft-card burners.
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Dec.27.2007
Attack of the Man-Eating Lotus Blossoms is a collection of these performance art texts, along with documents and scripts, that represent Chin’s performance work from 1993-2001. Whether playing native, tourist, or other, the performer questions our--as well as his own--assumptions, prejudices, and...
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Dec.19.2007
The biography of Black Panther Party co-founder Huey P. Newton, and co-written with Panther luminary David Hilliard.
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