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Nemesis (Vintage International)

by Philip Roth

Published: 2011-10-04

Paperback: 304 pages

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Set in a Newark neighborhood during a terrifying polio outbreak, Nemesis is a wrenching examination of the forces of circumstance on our lives.  Bucky Cantor is a vigorous, dutiful twenty-three-year-old playground director during the summer of 1944. A javelin thrower and weightlifter, he ...

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The Sisters Are Alright: Changing the Broken Narrative of Black Women in America

by Tamara Winfrey Harris

Published: 2015-07-07

Paperback: 168 pages

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GOLD MEDALIST OF FOREWORD REVIEWS’ 2015 INDIEFAB AWARDS IN WOMEN’S STUDIES What’s wrong with black women? Not a damned thing! The Sisters Are Alright exposes anti–black-woman propaganda and shows how real black women are pushing back against distorted cartoon versions of themselv...

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Multiply/Divide: On the American Real and Surreal

by Wendy S. Walters

Published: 2015-08-11

Paperback: 152 pages

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In the manner of Calvino's Invisible Cities, Wendy S. Walters's essays deftly explore the psyches of cities such as Chicago, Detroit, New York, Portsmouth, and Washington, D.C. In "Cleveland," she interviews an African-American playwright who draws great reviews, but can't muster an audien...

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The Racial Imaginary: Writers on Race in the Life of the Mind

Published: 2015-03-31

Paperback: 256 pages

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"To think of creativity in terms of transcendence is itself specific and partial—a lovely dream perhaps, but an inhuman one."It is not only white writers who make a prize of transcendence, of course. Many writers of all backgrounds see the imagination as ahistorical, as a generative plac...

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Where Everybody Looks Like Me: At the Crossroads of America's Black Colleges and Culture

by Ron Stodghill

Published: 2015-09-22

Hardcover: 272 pages

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A richly reported account of the forces threatening America's historic black colleges and universities—and how diverse leaders nationwide are struggling to keep these institutions and black culture alive for future generations.American education is under siege, and few parts of the syste...

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Growing Older with Jane Austen

by Maggie Lane

Published: 2014-11-01

Hardcover: 192 pages

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A lively, well-researched, expert study of aging in the literature of Jane Austen There is no doubt that Jane Austen is enduringly popular with both a general readership and academics. But amid the wealth of approaches to her life and work, no one has made a full-length study of the concep...

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Black Man in a White Coat: A Doctor's Reflections on Race and Medicine

by Damon Tweedy

Published: 2015-09-08

Hardcover: 304 pages

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A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE'S TOP TEN NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE YEARA LIBRARY JOURNAL BEST BOOK SELECTION • A BOOKLIST EDITORS' CHOICE BOOK SELECTIONOne doctor's passionate and profound memoir of his experience grappling with race, bias, and the unique health probl...

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Harry Potter and the Cursed Child , Parts I & II

by J.K. Rowling, Jack Thorne, John Tiffany

Published: 2016-07-31

Hardcover: 320 pages

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"The Eighth Story. Nineteen Years Later.Based on an original new story by J.K. Rowling, Jack Thorne and John Tiffany, a new play by Jack Thorne, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is the...

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The Last Volcano: A Man, a Romance, and the Quest to Understand Nature's Most Magnificent Fury

by John Dvorak

Published: 2015-12-07

Hardcover: 356 pages

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Ranging from Yellowstone in Wyoming to Mount Pelee in the Caribbean, from Bogoslof and Pavlov in Alaska, to Sakurajima in Japan, and, finally, to the massive volcanoes of Kilauea and Mauna Loa in Hawaii?The Last Volcano reveals the incredible journey of a man on a mission to understand the...

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Racing the Rain: A Novel

by John L. Parker Jr.

Published: 2015-07-14

Hardcover: 368 pages

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From the author of the New York Times bestselling Once a Runner—“The best novel ever written about running” (Runner’s World)—comes that novel’s prequel, the story of a world-class athlete coming of age in the 1950s and 60s on Florida’s Gold Coast.Quenton Cassidy’s first foo...