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It's Only Blood: Shattering the Taboo of Menstruation

by Anna Dahlqvist

Published: 2018-06-15

Paperback: 160 pages

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Every day 800,000,000 people menstruate. Yet menstruation is still seen by many as a mark of shame. We are told not to discuss it in public, that tampons and sanitary pads should be hidden away, the blood rendered invisible. In many parts of the world, poverty, culture, and religion collid...

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No Friend But the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison

by Behrouz Boochani

Published: 2019-07-02

Paperback: 416 pages

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“Our government jailed his body, but his soul remained that of a free man.” ? From the Foreword by Man Booker Prize–winning author Richard FlanaganIn 2013, Kurdish-Iranian journalist Behrouz Boochani was illegally detained on Manus Island, a refugee detention centre off the coast of ...

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The Book of Delights: Essays

by Ross Gay

Published: 2019-02-12

Hardcover: 288 pages

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“Ross Gay’s eye lands upon wonder at every turn, bolstering my belief in the countless small miracles that surround us.” —Tracy K. Smith, Pulitzer Prize winner and U.S. Poet Laureate The winner of the NBCC Award for Poetry offers up a spirited collection of short lyric essays, writ...

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Girl, Stolen: A Novel

by April Henry

Published: 2012-03-13

Paperback: 240 pages

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Cheyenne, a blind sixteen year-old, is kidnapped and held for ransom; she must outwit her captors to get out alive. Sixteen year-old Cheyenne Wilder is sleeping in the back of a car while her mom fills her prescription at the pharmacy. Before Cheyenne realizes what's happening, their car i...

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Habibi

by Naomi Shihab Nye

Published: 1999-06-01

Mass Market Paperback: 272 pages

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The day after Liyana got her first real kiss, her life changed forever. Not because of the kiss, but because it was the day her father announced that the family was moving from St. Louis all the way to Palestine. Though her father grew up there, Liyana knows very little about her family's Arab heritage....

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House of Houses (Camino del Sol)

by Pat Mora

Published: 2008-10-15

Paperback: 317 pages

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A family memoir told in the voices of ancestors, this book is about oppression and survival and sometimes triumph as "any book about a Mexican American family must be." Mora's house of houses is large, imagined, traditional, a refuge from the desert's heat, where the generations of her family, living...

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The Shadowed Sun (The Dreamblood)

by N. K. Jemisin

Published: 2012-06-12

Paperback: 517 pages

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Gujaareh, the city of dreams, suffers under the imperial rule of the Kisuati Protectorate. A city where the only law was peace now knows violence and oppression. And nightmares: a mysterious and deadly plague haunts the citizens of Gujaareh, dooming the infected to die screaming in their s...

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Infinitely More

by Alex Krutov, Jackie Davis

Published: 2011-03-28

Paperback: 216 pages

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Abandoned by his mother in a St. Petersburg dumpster when he was only three days old, Alex Krutov should not have survived. But God had something else in mind. Raised in the harsh Russian orphanage system, Alex's life was one of hopelessness and despair until the arrival of Christian missionaries from...

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Jubilee (50th Anniversary Edition)

by Margaret Walker

Published: 2016-09-06

Paperback: 528 pages

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A 50th anniversary edition of Margaret Walker's best-selling classic with a foreword by Nikki Giovanni “Chronicles the triumph of a free spirit over many kinds of bondage.” —New York Times Book Review Jubilee tells the true story of Vyry, the child of a white plantation owner and hi...

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Just Beyond Harmony

by Gaydell M. Collier

Published: 2011-08-02

Paperback: 256 pages

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During the 1960s Gaydell Collier, husband Roy and their four children moved into a cabin near the community of Harmony, Wyoming. The cabin provided for their basic needs, but lacked indoor plumbing and other modern amenities of the time. The family along with their quirky pets provide a humorous tone...