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Coney

by Amram Ducovny

Published: 2000-09-01

Hardcover: 320 pages

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Coney Island, 1939: On the eve of World War II, fifteen-year-old Harry Carzker spends his after-school hours on his bike, picking up betting slips from Coney Island carnival freaks for the local bookie and racing his imaginary sworn enemy, German Captain Ziegenbaum, whose ship menaces the ...

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Cras Credemus: A Treatise on the Cultivation of the Potato From the Seed, Having for Proposed Results the Extinction of the Disease, and a Yield of ... of Tubers Per Statute Acre (Classic Reprint)

by James Torbitt

Published: 2018-02-04

Paperback: 66 pages

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Excerpt from Cras Credemus: A Treatise on the Cultivation of the Potato From the Seed, Having for Proposed Results the Extinction of the Disease, and a Yield of Thirty, Forty or More Tons of Tubers Per Statute AcreIt is my wish to send in the Spring one or two potatoes of each of the varie...

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Bellewether

by Susanna Kearsley

Published: 2018-08-07

Paperback: 448 pages

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From New York Times & USA Today bestselling author Susanna Kearsley?A magical novel that blends history, forbidden romance and the paranormal"I've loved every one of Susanna's books! She has bedrock research and a butterfly's delicate touch with characters?a sure recipe for historical fict...

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The Beginning and End of Rape: Confronting Sexual Violence in Native America

by Sarah Deer

Published: 2015-11-01

Paperback: 232 pages

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Winner of the Labriola Center American Indian National Book Award Despite what major media sources say, violence against Native women is not an epidemic. An epidemic is biological and blameless. Violence against Native women is historical and political, bounded by oppression and colonial v...

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Islands of Decolonial Love

by Leanne Simpson

Published: 2013-11-01

Paperback: 112 pages

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In her debut collection of short stories, Islands of Decolonial Love, renowned writer and activist Leanne Simpson vividly explores the lives of contemporary Indigenous Peoples and communities, especially those of her own Nishnaabeg nation.Found on reserves, in cities and small towns, in bars and curling...

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Are Prisons Obsolete?

by Angela Y. Davis

Published: 2003-04

Paperback: 128 pages

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With her characteristic brilliance, grace and radical audacity, Angela Y. Davis has put the case for the latest abolition movement in American life: the abolition of the prison. As she quite correctly notes, American life is replete with abolition movements, and when they were engaged in t...

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Words of Fire: An Anthology of African-American Feminist Thought

Published: 1995-09-01

Paperback: 577 pages

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The first major anthology to trace the development, from the early 1800s to the present, of black feminist thought in the United States, Words of Fire is Beverly Guy-Sheftall’s comprehensive collection of writings, in the feminist tradition, of more than sixty African American women. Fr...

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Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Crossing Press Feminist Series)

by Audre Lorde

Published: 2007-08-01

Paperback: 192 pages

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Presenting the essential writings of black lesbian poet and feminist writer Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider celebrates an influential voice in twentieth-century literature. In this charged collection of fifteen essays and speeches, Lorde takes on sexism, racism, ageism, homophobia, and class...

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In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose

by Alice Walker

Published: 2003-05-19

Paperback: 418 pages

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In this, her first collection of nonfiction, Alice Walker speaks out as ablack woman, writer, mother, and feminist in thirty-six pieces rangingfrom the personal to the political. Among the contents are essays aboutother writers, accounts of the civil rights movement of the 1960s and theant...

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Heathen

by Natasha Alterici

Published: 2017-08-15

Paperback: 112 pages

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From critically acclaimed creator Natasha Alterici (Gotham Academy) comes an Nordic fantasy adventure that defies conventions and expectations. Aydis is a viking, a warrior, an outcast, and a self-proclaimed heathen. Aydis is friend to the talking horse Saga, rescuer of the immortal Valkyr...