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Toni Morrison - Beloved
Sethe, an escaped slave, kills her own daughter Beloved with a handsaw to prevent her from being claimed as a slave in this stunningly rendered story. Beloved returns to her mother as a ghost 20 years later.
Score: 4.1 29 Reviews
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Michael Patrick MacDonald - All Souls: A Family Story from Southie
The author recounts growing up in a poor Irish neighborhood, and remembers the four brothers he lost to violence.
Score: 5.0 8 Reviews
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James Welch - Fools Crow
The year is 1870, and Fool's Crow, so called after he killed the chief of the Crows during a raid, has a vision at the annual Sun Dance ceremony. The young warrior sees the end of the Indian way of life and the choice that must be made: resistance or humiliating accommodation. "A major contibution t ... More
Score: 4.5 2 Reviews
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Rudolfo A. Anaya - Tortuga: A Novel
In this unusual coming-of-age story, a young boy enters a hospital for crippled children. At first he despises the other patients, but gradually he learns that he has a kinship with all of them, and the world of the hospital takes over his life. When he returns to the outside world, he has become an ... More
Score: 5.0 1 Review
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Miles Davis and Quincy Troupe - Miles: The Autobiography
Miles Davis--a performer famous fornottalking--tells all: from his brilliant musical debut with Charles Parker and Dizzy Gillespie, to his creative encounters with such greats as John Coltrane and Herbie Hancock; from his recording of such classics as Porgy and Bess, to his pioneer work in the jazz ... More
Score: 5.0 1 Review
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Jessica Hagedorn - Dogeaters: A Play About the Philippines (Adapted from the Novel)
"As sharp and fast as a street boy's razor" (The New York Times Book Review), Dogeaters is an intense fictional portrayal of Manila in the heyday of Marcos, the Philippines' late dictator. In the center of this maelstrom is Rio, a feisty schoolgirl who will grow up to live in America and look back w ... More
Score: 5.0 1 Review
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Thomas Lynch - The Undertaking: Life Studies from the Dismal Trade
Thomas Lynch serves his readership as a poet and memoirist, and his townspeople as a funeral director. In this wholly unique collection of essays, the two vocations meet as Lynch shows himself to be a competent functionary of mourning--dispensing comfort and homespun wisdom to the grief-stricken--as ... More
Score: 5.0 1 Review
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Lois-Ann Yamanaka - Heads by Harry
Life in a Hawaiian town shimmers around the Yagyuu family taxidermy shop, where a young woman tries to cope with a gifted younger sister, an older brother who wants to be a hairdresser, and the various men in her life. Reprint.
Score: 5.0 1 Review
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Sherman Alexie - Reservation Blues
When Robert Johnson passes his enchanted guitar to Thomas-Builds-the-Fire, an epic journey of redemption begins that will take the storyteller and musician from the reservation, to Seattle, to Manhattan, and all points in between. Reader's Guide included. Reprint.
Score: 4.5 2 Reviews
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Miguel Algarin - Aloud: Voices from the Nuyorican Poets' Cafe
A multicultural selection of contemporary poems by Puerto Rican and other poets who meet at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe in New York City.
Score: 4.0 1 Review
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Diane Glancy - Claiming Breath
Like poets of legend, Diane Glacy has spent much of her life on the road. For years she supported her family by driving throughout Oklahoma and Arkansas teaching poetry in the schools. 'Claiming Breath' is an account of one of those years, what Glancy calls 'a winter count of sorts, a calendar, a di ... More
Score: 4.0 1 Review
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Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni - Arranged Marriage: Stories
For the young girls and women brought to life in these stories, the possibility of change, of starting anew, is both as terrifying and filled with promise as the ocean that separates then from their homes in India. "These are ravishingly beautiful stories, some profoundly sad, others full of revelat ... More
Score: 4.0 1 Review
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Russell Charles Leong - Phoenix Eyes and Other Stories
These 14 stories by an editor and film maker illuminate the experiences of Asian Americans, many of them gay men.
Score: 4.0 1 Review
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Harvey Pekar, Gregory Budgett, Kevin Brown - Harvey Pekar's American Splendor: Unsung Hero The Story of Robert McNeill
The inspiration for the award-winning movie<br>from HBO Films and Fine Line Features<br><br>AMERICAN SPLENDOR<br>The Life and Times of Harvey Pekar <br><br>Two classic comic anthologies in one volume<br><br>Stories by Harvey Pekar<br><br>Introduction by R. Crumb<br><br>Art by Kevin Brown, Gregory Bu ... More
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Edwidge Danticat - The Farming of Bones: A Novel
In 1937, on the Dominican side of the Haitian border, Amabelle, an orphaned maid to an army colonel's wife, falls in love with Sebastien, an itinerant sugarcane cutter, but their relationship is threatened by the violent persecution of the Haitians.
Score: 5.0 2 Reviews
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Alice McDermott - Charming Billy
When the late Billy Lynch's relatives and friends gather together to keep his memory alive, stories are woven and memories relived detailing his life in the close Irish-American community and the intricate feelings that resurface.
Score: 3.1 9 Reviews
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Cheri Register - Packinghouse Daughter: A Memoir
<p>A unique blend of memoir and public history, <i>Packinghouse Daughter,</i> winner of the Minnesota Book Award, tells a compelling story of small-town, working-class life. The daughter of a Wilson & Company millwright, Cheri Register recalls the 1959 meatpackers' strike that divided her hometown o ... More
Score: 2.0 1 Review
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Nora Okja Keller - Comfort Woman
A novel about a Korean-American girl growing up in Hawaii who struggles to uncover her mother's secret--that she was sold into prostitution by the Japanese in World War II.
Score: 2.5 2 Reviews
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Jimmy Santiago Baca - Martin & Meditations on the South Valley
Fiercely moving, the two long narrative poems of Martin & Meditations on the South Valley revolve around the semi-autobiographical figure of Martin, a mestizo or 'detribalized Apache.' Abandoned as a child and a long time on the hard path to building his own family, Martin at last finds his home in ... More
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Brenda Marie Osbey - All Saints: New and Selected Poems
The fourth collection by a New Orleans poet.
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Mine Okubo - Citizen 13660
Drawings with brief comments by the author describe her memories of life in a California internment camp during World War II.
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Gioia Timpanelli - Sometimes the Soul: Two Novellas of Sicily
"A Knot of Tears"--the story of a baroness and a sailor and his parrot; "Rusina, Not Quite in Love"--a "Beauty and the Beast" tale of a lovely young woman and a devastatingly ugly man who shows her the true meaning of beauty.
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Susan Howe - My Emily Dickinson
Release Date: November 30, 2007
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Guillermo Gomez-Pena - The New World Border: Prophecies, Poems & Loqueras for the End of the Century
A collection of performance texts, poems, and essays maps the conceptual terrain of an alternative end-of-the-century civilization. The new world border is Gomez-Pena vision of a vast intercontinental zone where people live beyond and between cultural, social, and political boundaries.
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Peter Quinn - Banished Children of Eve
On the eve of the Union army's military draft, an opportunistic Irish-American hustler, a scheming Yankee stockbroker, an immigrant serving girl, a beautiful mulatto musical comedy star, and her minstrel lover come together during New York's Civil War Draft Riots. Reprint.
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John Russell Rickford and Russell J. Rickford - Spoken Soul: The Story of Black English
A reporter and a linguist explore the richness, diversity, and logic behind Black English--through its history and its use in literature and everyday life.
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Charles Fanning - The Exiles of Erin: Nineteenth-Century Irish-American Fiction
This rich collection of three generations of Irish immigrant fiction from novels, magazines, and newspapers, vividly captures the spirit and experiences of immigrant life across an impressive range of settings and perspectives, from New York and Boston to Chicago to San Francisco, from urban ghettos ... More
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Robert Stone - A Flag for Sunrise: A Novel
An emotional, dramatic and philosophical novel about Americans drawn into a small Central American country on the brink of revolution.
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Helen Barolini - The Dream Book: An Anthology of Writings by Italian-American Women
Release Date: January 01, 2001
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Shirley Lim - Among the White Moon Faces: An Asian-American Memoir of Homelands
Shirley Geok-lin Lim's critically acclaimed memoir is a frank account of her childhood in war-torn and post-colonial Malaysia and her journey across cultural and geographic borders as she immigrates and forges an identity as a woman, a writer and an Asian American. Here Lim offers a timeless renderi ... More
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