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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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Elva Hart - Barefoot Heart: Stories of a Migrant Child
Chronicles the life of a child growing up in a family of Mexican-American migrant farm workers who traveled between Texas and Minnesota.
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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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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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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 6 Reviews
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Leslie Marmon Silko - Ceremony
"Demanding but confident and beautifully written" (Boston Globe), this is the story of a young Native American returning to his reservation after surviving the horrors of captivity as a prisoner of the Japanese during World War II. Drawn to his Indian past and its traditions, his search for comfort ... More
Score: 4.2 4 Reviews
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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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Joy Kogawa - Obasan
Based on the author's own experiences, this story of the evacuation, relocation, and dispersal of Canadian citizens of Japanese ancestry during WWII is "a tour de force, a deeply felt novel, brilliantly poetic in its sensibility" (The New York Times Book Review)
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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Don Delillo - Underworld
In order to dramatize the theme that all people and events in the universe are connected, DeLillo presents several narrators and a series of chronologically dislocated events. Additionally, history and facts scattered throughout the novel connect the reader to DeLillo's fictional world. After the r ... More
Score: 4.4 5 Reviews
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Chris Ware - Jimmy Corrigan: El Chico Mas Lindo Del Mundo/the Smartest Kid on Earth
This elaborate graphic novel (which features a cover that expands into a poster and all manner of foldout pages), set in a curious, otherworldly version of Chicago, tells the tale of borderline paranoid Jimmy Corrigan who finds himself with the opportunity to finally meet his long-lost father.
Score: 4.7 3 Reviews
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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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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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Art Spiegelman - Maus: A Survivor's Tale My Father Bleeds History and Here My Troubles Began
It is the story of Vladek Speigelman, a Jewish survivor of Hitler's Europe, and his son, a cartoonist coming to terms with his father's story. Maus approaches the unspeakable through the diminutive. Its form, the cartoon (the Nazis are cats, the Jews mice), shocks us out of any lingering sense of fa ... More
Score: 4.9 16 Reviews
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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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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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Helen Thomas - Front Row at the White House: My Life and Times
In this autobiography, a trailblazing female journalist describes how the inquiring mind of her childhood years fueled her reporting career, and details her life in the press corps fast lane, covering administrations from Kennedy's to Clinton's. The author defends the necessity of the probing, often ... More
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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Keith Gilyard - Voices of the Self: A Study of Language Competence
Release Date: January 01, 1991
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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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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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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Joyce Carol Thomas - Marked by Fire
Abyssinia Jackson, born in an Oklahoma cotton field in the wake of a tornado, is the pride and joy of her family, church, and community until a series of natural disasters and personal attacks threaten to break her spirit, but Mother Barker and her lessons in folk medicine help Abby survive.
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Gloria Naylor - Men of Brewster Place Books
This sequel to THE WOMEN OF BREWSTER PLACE consists of seven interlocked stories about the men of Naylor's famous community.
Score: 5.0 1 Review
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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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Chalmers Johnson - Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire
The new edition of the author's insightful and often troubling analysis of American foreign policy focuses on the unintended negative consequences of American actions abroad, from forced globalism to environmental disasters, in an updated study that addresses recent international events, including S ... More
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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: 1.0 1 Review
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Paula Gunn Allen - Spider Woman's Granddaughters: Traditional Tales and Contemporary Writing by Native American Women
According to Cherokee legend, Grandmother Spider brought the light of intelligence to the people. For the first time, Spider Woman's Granddaughters brings to light the original American. It is a unique addition to feminist literatire--and a treasure trove for the ever-increasing audience for Native ... More
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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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