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Love Makes a Family by Sophie Beer
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWhether you have two mums, two dads, one parent, or one of each, there's one thing that makes a family a family... and that's love. A book for EVERY family by dazzling illustrator Sophie Beer... -
Domestic Policy by J.A. Armstrong
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsManaging an ever-growing family has taught President Candace Reid to expect the unexpected. Nothing could prepare her for what she’s about to face.Away from their home in New York, Candace and Jameson find that creating a sense of home in the White House is no simple task... -
Poems by Pier Paolo Pasolini
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratings"Sex, death, political passion, these are the simple objects to which I give my elegiac heart"Winner of the first Renato Poggioli/William Weaver Award of PEN American CenterPier Paolo Pasolini (1922-1975), who is best known in this country as an inspired filmmaker, was also the most outspoken and original Italian writer of his generation, the author of distinguished and controversial novels and... -
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Coal by Audre Lorde
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsOf Coal , the poet and critic Hayden Carruth said, "For us these words indeed are jewels in the open light." Coal is one of the earliest collections of poems by a woman who, Adrienne Rich writes, "for the complexity of her vision, for her moral courage and the catalytic passion of her language, has already become, for many, an indispensable poet... -
A Delicate Balance by Edward Albee
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsEdwards Albee's Pulitzer Prize-winning play A Delicate Balance reveals the emotional savagery of suburbia and the psychological terror of empty lives. First produced in 1966, this dark drawing room comedy may be Albee's masterpiece, as powerful in its 1996 revival as it was thirty years before... -
Wait Till I'm Dead: Uncollected Poems by Allen Ginsberg
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAllen Ginsberg’s poems, from “Howl” to “Kaddish” to “The Fall of America,” have influenced generations of writers and made him a defining figure of the twentieth century. Ginsberg’s Collected Poems, first published in 1984, and expanded in 1997, was originally thought to contain all of his poetic work... -
I Survived Capitalism and All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt: Everything I Wish I Never Had to Learn About Money by Madeline Pendleton
Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A big-hearted, no-bullshit memoir from the TikTok superstar about her journey from living paycheck to paycheck to creating a multi-million-dollar business that offers a compassionate alternative to capitalism • Includes no-nonsense life and money advice, from negotiating pay and building credit to putting home ownership within reach"Madeline's life is unique yet...Categorized as:
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Your Silence Will Not Protect You: Essays and Poems by Audre Lorde
Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsFrom The Guardian. Oct. 4, 2017. R.O. Kwon"Lorde seems prophetic, perhaps alive right now, writing in and about the US of 2017 in which a misogynist with white supremacist followers is president. But she was born in 1934, published her first book of poetry in 1968, and died in 1992... -
The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House by Audre Lorde
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsFrom the self-described 'black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet', these soaring, urgent essays on the power of women, poetry and anger are filled with darkness and light.Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary, international flavour... -
Was weiße Menschen nicht über Rassismus hören wollen by Alice Hasters
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 18 ratings„Aber wo kommst du wirklich her?“, „Darf ich deine Haare anfassen?“ und „Schokobabys sind so niedlich“ – rassistische Gedanken sitzen tief. Darüber müssen wir reden. Alice Hasters beschreibt, was es bedeutet, heute als schwarze Frau in Deutschland zu leben...Categorized as:
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Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom by bell hooks
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsIn Teaching to Transgress, bell hooks—writer, teacher, and insurgent black intellectual—writes about a new kind of education, educations as the practice of freedom. Teaching students to "transgress" against racial, sexual, and class boundaries in order to achieve the gift of freedom is, for hooks, the teacher's most important goal...Categorized as:
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Whites: On Race and Other Falsehoods by Otegha Uwagba
Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIn this powerful and timely personal essay, best-selling author Otegha Uwagba reflects on racism, whiteness, and the mental labour required of Black people to navigate the two... -
The Crown Ain't Worth Much by Hanif Abdurraqib
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe Crown Ain't Worth Much, Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib's first full-length collection, is a sharp and vulnerable portrayal of city life in the United States. A regular columnist for MTV.com, Willis-Abdurraqib brings his interest in pop culture to these poems, analyzing race, gender, family, and the love that finally holds us together even as it threatens to break us...Categorized as:
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Long Walk To Freedom by Nelson Mandela
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 28 ratingsFrom his birth in a village on the banks of the Mbashe River in the Transkei to his politicisation and development as a freedom fighter, this first volume of Nelson Mandela's classic autobiography charts the early years of his life, which culminated in his prison sentence in 1962...Categorized as:
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Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power by Audre Lorde
Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThere are many kinds of power, used and unused, acknowledged or otherwise. Thus begins this powerful essay; Uses of the Erotic defines the power of the erotic, names the process by which women have been stripped of this power, and considers how women can reclaim it... -
Tomorrow Will Be Different: Love, Loss, and the Fight for Trans Equality by Sarah McBride, Joe Biden
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsA timely and captivating memoir about gender identity set against the backdrop of the transgender equality movement, by a leading activist and the National Press Secretary for the Human Rights Campaign, the nation's largest LGBTQ civil rights organization. Sarah McBride is on a mission to fight for transgender rights around the world...Categorized as:
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Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language by Amanda Montell
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 24 ratings“I get so jazzed about the future of feminism knowing that Amanda Montell’s brilliance is rising up and about to explode worldwide.”—Jill SolowayA brash, enlightening, and wildly entertaining feminist look at gendered language and the way it shapes us.The word bitch conjures many images, but it is most often meant to describe an unpleasant woman...Categorized as:
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The Combahee River Collective Statement: Black Feminist Organizing In The Seventies and Eighties by Combahee River Collective
Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe Combahee River Collective Statement was issued in 1977. An essential piece of feminist theory and Black/womanist feminism... -
Lord of the Butterflies by Andrea Gibson
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIn Andrea Gibson's latest collection, they continue their artful and nuanced looks at gender, romance, loss, and family. Each emotion here is deft and delicate, resting inside of imagery heavy enough to sink the heart, while giving the body wings to soar... -
Before the Mayflower: A History of Black America by Lerone Bennett Jr.
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsTraces black history from its origins in western Africa, through the transatlantic journey and slavery, the Reconstruction period, the Jim Crow era, and the civil rights movement, to life in the 1990s. Reprint. 35,000 first printing. $20,000 ad/promo... -
Unreconciled: Family, Truth, and Indigenous Resistance by Jesse Wente
Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsNATIONAL BESTSELLERWINNER of the 2022 Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize for Non-FictionSHORTLISTED for the 2023 Speaker's Book AwardA GLOBE AND MAIL BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR" Unreconciled is one hell of a good book. Jesse Wente’s narrative moves effortlessly from the personal to the historical to the contemporary. Very powerful, and a joy to read...Categorized as:
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Feminism, Interrupted: Disrupting Power by Lola Olufemi
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsMore than just a slogan on a t-shirt, feminism is a radical tool for fighting back against structural violence and injustice. Feminism, Interrupted is a bold call to seize feminism back from the cultural gatekeepers and return it to its radical roots... -
Real American: A Memoir by Julie Lythcott-Haims
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA fearless debut memoir in which beloved and bestselling How to Raise an Adult author Julie Lythcott-Haims pulls no punches in her recollections of growing up a biracial black woman in America... -
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The Cancer Journals by Audre Lorde, Tracy K. Smith
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsMoving between journal entry, memoir, and exposition, Audre Lorde fuses the personal and political as she reflects on her experience coping with breast cancer and a radical mastectomy. First published over forty years ago, The Cancer Journals is a startling, powerful account of Audre Lorde's experience with breast cancer and mastectomy... -
Dark Days by James Baldwin
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 16 ratings'So the club rose, the blood came down, and his bitterness and his anguish and his guilt were compounded.'Drawing on Baldwin's own experiences of prejudice in an America violently divided by race, these searing essays blend the intensely personal with the political to envisage a better world... -
The Fire Is Upon Us: James Baldwin, William F. Buckley Jr., and the Debate Over Race in America by Nicholas Buccola
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsHow the clash between the civil rights firebrand and the father of modern conservatism continues to illuminate America's racial divideOn February 18, 1965, an overflowing crowd packed the Cambridge Union in Cambridge, England, to witness a historic televised debate between James Baldwin, the leading literary voice of the civil rights movement, and William F. Buckley Jr... -
Why We Matter: Das Ende der Unterdrückung by Emilia Roig
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWie erkennen wir unsere Privilegien? Wie können Weiße die Realität von Schwarzen sehen? Männliche Muslime die von weißen Frauen? Und weiße Frauen die von männlichen Muslimen? Die Aktivistin und Politologin Emilia Roig zeigt – auch anhand der Geschichte ihrer eigenen Familie, in der wie unter einem Brennglas Rassismus und Black Pride, Antisemitismus und Auschwitz, Homophobie und Queerness,... -
A Wild and Precious Life by Edie Windsor, Joshua Lyon
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA lively, intimate memoir from a marriage equality icon of the gay rights movement, describing gay life in the 1950s and 60s New York City and her longtime activism."Brash, funny and brave." --NPR"A captivating and inspiring story of a queer woman who believed in her right to take up space and be seen... -
You Have to Be Prepared to Die Before You Can Begin to Live: Ten Weeks in Birmingham That Changed America by Paul Kix
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFrom journalist Paul Kix, the riveting story, never before fully told, of the 1963 Birmingham Campaign―ten weeks that would shape the course of the Civil Rights Movement and the future of America.It’s one of the iconic photographs of American A Black teenager, a policeman and his lunging German Shepherd. Birmingham, Alabama, May of 1963...
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