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The Human Origins of Beatrice Porter and Other Essential Ghosts
$27.00 Read more“Mothers never die. Children love to resurrect us in they stories.”
Folktales and spirits animate this lively and unforgettable coming-of-age tale of two Jamaican-Trinidadian sisters in Brooklyn grapp- Author: Palmer, Soraya
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 28 2023
- ISBN10: 1646220951
- Language: English
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Planes Flying Over a Monster: Essays
$26.00 Read moreFrom one of Mexico’s most exciting young writers, a cosmopolitan and candid essay collection exploring life in cities across the world and reflecting on the transformative importance of literature in … [more below]
- Author: Saldaña ParÃs, Daniel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: August 20 2024
- ISBN10: 1646222318
- Language: English
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Silken Gazelles
$27.00 Read more“In Alharthi’s world, it’s not only the future that holds promise; the past has possibility and opportunities for revision, too.” —The New York Times Book Review
From Man Booker International Prize-w- Author: Alharthi, Jokha
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 13 2024
- ISBN10: 1646222075
- Language: English
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The Male Gazed: On Hunks, Heartthrobs, and What Pop Culture Taught Me about (Desiring) Men
$16.95 Read moreFeaturing deep dives into thirst traps, drag queens, Antonio Banderas, and telenovelas–all in the service of helping us reframe how we talk about (desiring) men–this insightful memoir-in-essays is a… [more below]
- Author: Betancourt, Manuel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: May 21 2024
- ISBN10: 1646222229
- Language: English
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My Pisces Heart: A Black Immigrant’s Search for Home Across Four Continents
$28.00 Read moreWith heart, humor, and razor-sharp observation, this intimate and incisive memoir traces the journey of a Black, queer woman as she searches the world for a place of security and acceptance to call ho… [more below]
- Author: Neal, Jennifer
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 22 2024
- ISBN10: 1646221842
- Language: English
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All-Night Pharmacy
$17.95 Add to cartRachel Kushner meets David Lynch in this fever dream of an LA novel about a young woman who commits a drunken act of violence just before her sister vanishes without a trace
On the night of her high s- Author: Madievsky, Ruth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 09 2024
- ISBN10: 1646222253
- Language: English
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Made in China: A Memoir of Love and Labor
$16.95 Read moreEditors’ Choice, The New York Times Book Review
“The immigrant child longs to be understood and unload her truths, while simultaneously being tasked with preserving her parents’ humanity. . . Qu. . .- Author: Qu, Anna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: August 02 2022
- ISBN10: 1646221524
- Language: English
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The Repeat Room
$27.00 Add to cartFranz Kafka meets Yorgos Lanthimos in this provocative new novel from one of America’s most brilliant and distinctive writers
In a speculative future, Abel, a menial worker, is called to serve in a se- Author: Ball, Jesse
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 24 2024
- ISBN10: 1646221400
- Language: English
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On Vanishing: Mortality, Dementia, and What It Means to Disappear
$16.95 Add to cartA New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice
An essential book for those coping with Alzheimer’s and other cognitive disorders that “reframe[s] our understanding of dementia with sensitivity and acc… [more below]- Author: Harper, Lynn Casteel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 13 2021
- ISBN10: 1646220560
- Language: English
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Two Trees Make a Forest: In Search of My Family’s Past Among Taiwan’s Mountains and Coasts
$17.95 Read moreThis “stunning journey through a country that is home to exhilarating natural wonders, and a scarring colonial past . . . makes breathtakingly clear the connection between nature and humanity, and off… [more below]
- Author: Lee, Jessica J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 04 2020
- ISBN10: 1646220005
- Language: English
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In the Country of Women: A Memoir
$26.00 Read moreOne of NPR’s Best Books of the Year
“Straight’s memoir is a lyric social history of her multiracial clan in Riverside that explores the bonds of love and survival that bind them, with a particular emp- Author: Straight, Susan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: August 06 2019
- ISBN10: 1948226227
- Language: English
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Born Bad: Original Sin and the Making of the Western World
$16.95 Add to cart“Original sin is the Western world’s creation story.”
According to the Christian doctrine of original sin, humans are born inherently bad, and only through God’s grace can they achieve salvation. In t- Author: Boyce, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 10 2016
- ISBN10: 1619027186
- Language: English
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Juno Loves Legs
$17.95 Read moreFor readers of Sally Rooney and fans of Shuggie Bain and Just Kids, Juno Loves Legs is the epic and heartbreaking story of a young friendship set in working-class Dublin in the 1980s
Juno Loves Legs i- Author: Geary, Karl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 23 2024
- ISBN10: 1646222202
- Language: English
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The Golden Thread: The Story of Writing
$17.95 Add to cartFrom the simple representative shapes used to record transactions of goods and services in ancient Mesopotamia, to the sophisticated typographical resources available to the twenty-first-century users… [more below]
- Author: Clayton, Ewan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: January 20 2015
- ISBN10: 1619024721
- Language: English
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Paris Was a Woman: Portraits from the Left Bank
$24.95 Add to cartOriginally published more than twenty years ago and winner of a Lambda Literary Award, Paris Was a Woman is a rare profile of the female literati in Paris at the turn of the century. Now with a new pr… [more below]
- Author: Weiss, Andrea
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 29 2013
- ISBN10: 161902179X
- Language: English
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Gentrifier: A Memoir
$16.95 Read moreTaking on the thorny ethics of owning and selling property as a white woman in a majority Black city and a majority Bangladeshi neighborhood with both intelligence and humor, this memoir brings a new
- Author: Moore, Anne Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 18, 2022
- ISBN10: 1646221591
- Language: English
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Resistance: My Life for Lebanon
$15.95 Add to cartIn 1988, at the age of twenty, Souha B馗hara attempted to assassinate General Lahad, chief of militia in charge of Israeli-occupied Southern Lebanon. Immediately apprehended, interrogated, and tortur… [more below]
- Author: Bechara, Souha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 156
- Publish Date: December 01 2003
- ISBN10: 1887128808
- Language: English
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Rough Magic: Riding the World’s Loneliest Horse Race
$16.95 Read more“Think the next Educated or Wild. Palmer’s memoir of beating the odds to become a horse champion is an inspiring saga of perseverance–and a classic underdog tale.” —Entertainment Weekly
At the age o- Author: Prior-Palmer, Lara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 28 2020
- ISBN10: 1948226987
- Language: English
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Body Toxic
$16.95 Add to cartA thought-provoking and dramatic account two families who hope to start a new life in the boglands of New Jersey only to discover, much too late, that their new living environment was riddled with rad… [more below]
- Author: Antonetta, Susanne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 28 2002
- ISBN10: 1582432090
- Language: English
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Flying Couch: A Graphic Memoir
$22.95 Read moreA New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice – A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of 2016 – A Junior Library Guild Fall 2016 Selection
Flying Couch, Amy Kurzweil’s debut, tells the stories of three- Author: Kurzweil, Amy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 11 2016
- ISBN10: 1936787288
- Language: English
