Reading List

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  Across Latitude & Language – World Poetry Anthology 2025, edited by Saumya Choudhury

  Across Latitude & Language brings together voices from across the globe—poets of different races, homelands, and histories, woven together by something quietly powerful: the shared weight of being human. In a world increasingly fractured by borders and conflict, this collection reminds us of the quiet universality of feeling. From the ache of personal loss and…

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  Jane Hirshfield, Women in Praise of the Sacred

  “Hirshfield’s current collection brings together . . . an astonishing array of women writers from the 22nd century BC poet Enheduanna to Nelly Sachs and Anna Akhmatova.”— Library Journal

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  Mamas, Martyrs, and Jezebels

  Mamas, Martyrs, and Jezebels: Myths, Legends, and Other Lies You’ve Been Told about Black Women revisits notions of Black womanhood to include the ways in which Black women’s perceived strength can function as a dangerous denial of Black women’s humanity. This collection addresses the stigma of this extraordinary endurance in professional and personal spaces, the Black…

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  Mouths to Speak, Voices to Sing By Kenneth Yu

  This anthology is a collection of unpredictable stories of various genres—fantasy, science fiction, crime, horror and the supernatural—that touch on courage and fear, loss and resolution, denial and honesty, despair and hope…from an author who writes about being human in a world where the unseen is suddenly exposed.

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  Our Spirits Carry Our Voices Edited By Karla Brundage

  “Our Spirits Carry Our Voices is a remarkable work: a travelogue in poetry, charting a journey that is spiritual as well as geographic. The linked poems are intensely personal, yet filled with historical and political resonance.

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  Sisters Across Oceans Edited By Karla Brundage

  The idea for this collection, Sisters Across Oceans, was inspired by the much needed conversation between influential Black women across the diaspora.

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  Watermark Vietnamese American Poetry and Prose

  Edited by Barbara Tran, Monique T.D. Truong and Luu Truong Khoi, Watermark: Vietnamese American Poetry & Prose (Asian American Writers’ Workshop, 1998) heralds a new era for Vietnamese American literature. Here, for the first time, the most innovative contemporary Vietnamese American writers explore thematic and stylistic territory previously overlooked in other collections, which have traditionally…

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  Ava Chin – Mott Street

  As the only child of a single mother in Queens, Ava Chin found her family’s origins to be shrouded in mystery. She had never met her father, and her grandparents’ stories didn’t match the history she read at school. Mott Street traces Chin’s quest to understand her Chinese American family’s story. Over decades of painstaking research, she finds not only her…

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  Bliss Broyard, One Drop, My Father’s Hidden Life–A Story of Race and Family Secrets

  Two months before he died, renowned literary critic Anatole Broyard called his grown son and daughter to his side to impart a secret he had kept all their lives and most of his own: he was black. Born in the French Quarter in 1920, Anatole had begun to conceal his racial identity after his family…

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  David Levering Lewis – W.E.B. Du Bois, 1868-1919

  https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/W-E-B-Du-Bois-The-Fight-for-Equality-and-the-American-Century-1919-1963/David-Levering-Lewis/9781668123539

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  David Levering Lewis – W.E.B. Du Bois, 1919-1963

  The second volume of the Pulitzer Prize-winning biography that The Washington Post hailed as “an engrossing masterpiece.”In this final magisterial volume, fifteen years in the research and writing, David Levering Lewis stunningly recreates the second half of W.E.B. Du Bois’s charged and brilliant career. Beginning with the return of World War I African American veterans to the…

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  Eileen R. Tabios – The Inventor, A Poet’s Transcolonial Autobiography

  Eileen R. Tabios says, “Poetry is a decolonized language.” She proves it through her autobiography that begins with her first book that she wrote as a 2-3-year-old toddler and focuses on her poetry inventions: the hay(na)ku, the Murder Death Resurrection Poetry Generator, and the Flooid. This is a unique and thought-provoking autobiography by a poet…

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  Jimmy Sena – Tesla’s Walk

  Accompany the genius inventor and futurist Nikola Tesla on a poetic journey through one autumn day in 1899 Colorado Springs as he arrives at his Experimental Station on Knob Hill and ends the night in what will become Memorial Park.

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  Joyce Johnson – Minor Characters

  In 1954, Joyce Johnson’s Barnard professor told his class that most women could never have the kinds of experiences that would be worth writing about. Attitudes like that were not at all unusual at a time when “good” women didn’t leave home or have sex before they married; even those who broke the rules could…

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  Malcolm X – The Autobiography of Malcolm X: As Told to Alex Haley

  In the searing pages of this classic autobiography, originally published in 1964, Malcolm X, the Muslim leader, firebrand, and anti-integrationist, tells the extraordinary story of his life and the growth of the Black Muslim movement. His fascinating perspective on the lies and limitations of the American Dream, and the inherent racism in a society that…

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  Megan Marshall, After Lives – On Biography and the Mysteries of the Human Heat

  In each of six essays, Marshall reinvents the personal essay form, as a portal to the past and its lessons for living into the future. The book’s brilliant, assured interplay between memoir and biography places surprising characters on the page, including the twelfth-century Buddhist hermit Kamo no Chomei, a reassuring spiritual presence for Marshall during several…

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  Neeli Cherkovski – Bukowski: A Life

  The life of Charles Bukowski—laureate of lowlife Los Angeles—a novelist and poet who wrote as he lived. This is the only biography of Bukowski written by a close friend and collaborator and may be the closest readers will come to meeting the man himself—an unforgettable encounter no one should miss.

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  Neeli Cherkovski – Ferlinghetti: A Life

  Poet, publisher, bookseller, activist—this is the story of Lawrence Ferlinghetti, the bookshop he made a landmark in San Francisco, and a life beautifully lived with writers and books. In the mid-1950s a group of San Francisco-based writers emerged as a central force in American letters. Self-styled bohemians, disillusioned with the old American dream of prosperity…

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  Peter Jamero — Growing Up Brown

  Peter Jamero’s story of hardship and success illuminates the experience of the “bridge generation,” the American-born children of Filipinos farm workers in the 1920s and 30s, as they confronted racism, poverty, and eventual triumph.

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  Richard Koloda – Holy Ghost – The Life & Death Of Free Jazz Pioneer Albert Ayler

  Ayler synthesized children’s songs, La Marseillaise, American march music, and gospel hymns, turning them into powerful, rambunctious, squalling free-jazz improvisations. Some critics considered him a charlatan, others a heretic for unhinging the traditions of jazz. Some simply considered him insane. However, like most geniuses, Ayler was misunderstood in his time.

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  Ruth Ozeki – The Face: A Time Code

  In The Face: A Time Code, bestselling author and Zen Buddhist priest Ruth Ozeki recounts, in moment-to-moment detail, a profound encounter with memory and the mirror. According to ancient Zen tradition, “your face before your parents were born” is your original face. Who are you? What is your true self? What is your identity before or…

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  Douglas W. Tallamy – Bringing Nature Home

  As development and habitat destruction accelerate, there are increasing pressures on wildlife populations. In his groundbreaking book Bringing Nature Home, Douglas W. Tallamy reveals the unbreakable link between native plant species and native wildlife—native insects cannot, or will not, eat alien plants. When native plants disappear, the insects disappear, impoverishing the food source for birds and…

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  Black Lantern Books & The Legacy Library

  The Legacy Library and Black Lantern Books is an effort to preserve the life long collections of texts that Kwazi Nkrumah started collecting in the 1950’s. Near the end of his life, Kwazi wanted to make his collection an accessible resource for future generations of  organizers seeking to expand their knowledge and  skills while working…

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  Kate Raworth – Doughnut Economics

  Economics is the mother tongue of public policy. It dominates our decision-making for the future, guides multi-billion-dollar investments, and shapes our responses to climate change, inequality, and other environmental and social challenges that define our times.

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  Otto Scharmer – The Essentials of Theory U

  The Essentials of Theory U offers a concise, accessible guide to the key concepts and applications in Otto Scharmer’s classic Theory U. Scharmer argues that our capacity to pay attention coshapes the world. What prevents us from attending to situations more effectively is that we aren’t fully aware of that interior condition from which our attention…

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  Sharon Scott – Low Power FM for Dummies

  There are approximately 2000 low power FM radio stations in the United States. That number will grow as more licenses are issued in the coming years. Low Power FM For Dummies walks you through the key steps you need to take to establish, manage, and help run one of these hyper-local broadcast operations. You’ll get easy-to-follow help…

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  COPUS – The Assignment

  ABOUT THE ASSIGNMENT COPUS – an acronym for Creation Of Peace Under Stars – is an ensemble formed in the late 1990s by poet Royal Kent and composer/pianist Wendy Loomis. Together they created a body of positive spoken word and beautiful music that has inspired people around the world. Royal passed away in October 2024.…

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  Dao Strom – Tender Revolutions, Yellow Songs

  Fifty years after the fall of Saigon, Dao Strom’s Tender Revolutions / Yellow Songs vibrates with the ramifications and ripples of Empire. A hybrid project comprised of writings, music, and visual ephemera, each of the four Yellow Songs books and the Tender Revolutions album reckon with the intimate consequences of the colonial project, reconfiguring them into complex and lucid, literal and…

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  Po’azz Yo’azz – Living It!

  Living It! is Martha Cinader’s debut as the producer of her own album, and features an eclectic array of arrangements and musical styles. It was recorded in part in a studio in New York City, part in a studio in Hamburg, and part live at the Mojo Club in Hamburg, throw in some bonus tracks…

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  Resistance Revival Chorus – This Joy

  The Resistance Revival Chorus, a collective of more than 70 women and non-binary singers have announced their debut album This Joy to be released on October 16th via Righteous Babe Records. The album features original compositions along with protest classics and was recorded in New York City with GRAMMY-nominated producer Tiffany Gouché. The album is 100% created by women, non-binary artists and…

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  Sista Zock – Zock Solid: Where the Stem Meets the Root

  Existing in the liminal space of sound of spoken word and music, Sista Zock introduces a unique Afro Jazz Fusion Sound with a touch of Hip-hop. Her latest project, Zock Solid, Where the Stem Meets the Root, features a collaboration with Abiodun of The Last Poets, adding depth and resonance to her musical journey.

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  Sugilanon – Caroline Julia Cabading

  “The word “sugilanon” means “story” in one of the Philippine ethno-linguistic groups of my family: the Cebuano language. For over 20 years now I’ve been studying the ancestral music, dance and epic poetry of various Philippine tribal groups and one art form in particular that resonated with me was the Epic Poem of the Kalinga…

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  The Shan Van featuring Mikey Cullen

  The Shan Van (feat. Mikey Cullen) was released on February 7, 2025 by Vocht Records as a part of the album The Shan Van (feat. Mikey Cullen) – EP

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  Andersen’s Fairytales

  Andersen’s Fairy Tales. with full-color illustrations and line drawings by Arthur Szyk. Grosset & Dunlap NY 1945 Part of the Illustrated Junior Library collection. A richly illustrated volume of Hans Christian Andersen fairy tales, translated by E.V. Lucas & H.B. Paull.

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  Andrea Beam – Tyler Goes to School

  Tyler faces the first-day jitters with more on his mind than most. His wheelchair sets him apart in a world of footsteps. But as the school doors loom ahead, will Tyler let his nerves steer his day, or can his boundless imagination propel him toward an unexpected journey? Join Tyler as he navigates the hallways…

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  Billy Mills, Donna Janell Bowman – Wings of an Eagle: The Gold Medal Dreams of Billy Mills

  This autobiographical retelling of Billy Mills’ journeys from being an orphan on Oglala Lakota Pine Ridge Reservation to his Gold Medal Win in the 10,000-meter race of the 1964 Toyoko Olympics. Inspired by this father’s words “the pursuit of a dream will heal you”, Billy was able to overcome poverty, racism, and severe health challenges to reach his goal and heal his heart.  

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  Celebrate We Gullah Geechee – by Yvette R. Murray, illustrated by Tonya Engel

  With rhythm and repetition to engage children, five narrators take turns highlighting what they notice in their world, each focusing on one of the five senses. We are there with them:A girl sees a “haint blue door at Grandma’s house / Rocking chairs waiting on the porch.” On special days, we hear the marching band…

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  Donna Janell Bowman – Abraham Lincoln’s Dueling Words

  Long before he was our beloved 16th president, Abraham Lincoln was known for his smarts and his knee-slapping humor. In 1842, his humorous writing style got him into a heap of trouble. When he clashed with his political rival, James Shields, Lincoln came up with a rascally mudslinging plan.

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  Donna Janell Bowman – Step Right Up, How Doc and Jim Key Taught the World About Kindness

  The 19th century was a brutal time for animals, but William “Doc” Key, a formerly-enslaved, self-taught veterinarian and entrepreneur, believed that kindness was more powerful than cruelty. He determined to prove it by using only kindness and patience to “educate” a once-sickly and crooked-legged colt born in 1889.

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  Jennifer Owen  – Prince Kindness

  Travel with Prince Charming as he wakes to the fact that charm isn’t the most important asset a person can have.

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  Jocelyn Tambascio – Yellow Yuba

  Icky the inventor has gotten himself into a sticky mess! His empty promises and misuse of nature’s gifts have left the village trees bare and water depleted. Only through the hard work of everyone coming together will the environment’s balance be restored.

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  Monique Truong – Mai’s Áo Dài

  Celebrity fashion designer Thai Nguyen from Netflix’s Say I Do joins forces with bestselling author Monique Truong and illustrator Dung Ho in this irresistibly charming picture book about embracing your heritage and the traditions that tie generations together—centered around Tet, the Vietnamese Lunar New Year.

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  Opal Palmer Adisa – Pretty Like Jamaica

  Precious loves all of the joys of her life with her grandmother in Jamaica but she misses her mother who lives in the United States. When her mother finally sends for her, Precious finds herself torn between the home she has always known and her longing to be with her mother.

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  The Little Mermaid

  “The Little Mermaid”, sometimes translated in English as “The Little Sea Maid”, is a fairy tale by Danish author Hans Christian Andersen. Originally published in 1837 as part of a collection of fairy tales for children, the story follows the journey of a young mermaid princess who is willing to give up her life in…

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  adrienne maree brown – Emergent Strategy

  Inspired by Octavia Butler’s explorations of our human relationship to change, Emergent Strategy is radical self-help, society-help, and planet-help designed to shape the futures we want to live. Change is constant. The world is in a continual…

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  Braiding Sweetgrass

  Updated with a new introduction from Robin Wall Kimmerer, the hardcover special edition of Braiding Sweetgrass, reissued in honor of the fortieth anniversary of Milkweed Editions, celebrates the book as an object of meaning that will last…

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  Didi Pershouse – The Ecology of Care

  In this richly layered book, Didi Pershouse takes us on a fast-moving, sharp-witted journey through her own life: from growing up with the neurosurgeon who accidentally discovered the seat of memory in the brain, to…

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  Douglas W. Tallamy – Nature’s Best Hope

  In his new book, Tallamy takes the next step and outlines his vision for a grassroots approach to conservation. Nature’s Best Hope shows how homeowners everywhere can turn their yards into conservation corridors that provide…

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  Laura Lengnick – Resilient Agriculture

  Real world stories from the frontlines of climate change, resilience, and the future of food. CLIMATE CHANGE PRESENTS an unprecedented challenge to food and farming in the U.S. and beyond. Damaging weather variability and extremes…

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  Meredith Leigh – The Ethical Meat Handbook

  Ethical Meat is meat from an animal that had a good life, a good death, a good butcher, and a good cook. Ethical Meat is a movement that seeks to repair entire regional meat supply…

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  Suzanne Simard – Finding the Mother Tree

  From the world’s leading forest ecologist who forever changed how people view trees, their connections to one another and to other living things in the forest–a moving, deeply personal journey of discovery.

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  adrienne maree brown – Emergent Strategy

  Inspired by Octavia Butler’s explorations of our human relationship to change, Emergent Strategy is radical self-help, society-help, and planet-help designed to shape the futures we want to live. Change is constant. The world is in a continual…

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  Braiding Sweetgrass

  Updated with a new introduction from Robin Wall Kimmerer, the hardcover special edition of Braiding Sweetgrass, reissued in honor of the fortieth anniversary of Milkweed Editions, celebrates the book as an object of meaning that will last…

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  Douglas W. Tallamy – Bringing Nature Home

  As development and habitat destruction accelerate, there are increasing pressures on wildlife populations. In his groundbreaking book Bringing Nature Home, Douglas W. Tallamy reveals the unbreakable link between native plant species and native wildlife—native insects cannot,…

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  Douglas W. Tallamy – The Nature of Oaks

  Oaks sustain a complex and fascinating web of wildlife. The Nature of Oaks reveals what is going on in oak trees month by month, highlighting the seasonal cycles of life, death, and renewal. From woodpeckers who collect…

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  Jocelyn Tambascio – Yellow Yuba

  Icky the inventor has gotten himself into a sticky mess! His empty promises and misuse of nature’s gifts have left the village trees bare and water depleted. Only through the hard work of everyone coming…

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  Jonathan J. Storm – Field Guide to the Southern Piedmont

  The Field Guide to the Southern Piedmont was created to help the general public identify common or distinctive organisms living in the Piedmont region of the Carolinas and Georgia.

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  Laura Lengnick – Resilient Agriculture

  Real world stories from the frontlines of climate change, resilience, and the future of food. CLIMATE CHANGE PRESENTS an unprecedented challenge to food and farming in the U.S. and beyond. Damaging weather variability and extremes…

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  Mark J. Talbert – Your Yard Is A Garden: Sustainable Gardening for Landscaping, Lawns, Shrubs, Trees and Produce

  Your Yard Is a Garden, Sustainable Gardening For: Landscaping, Lawns, Shrubs, Trees and Produce Is a comprehensive gardening book for beginner gardeners through experience gardeners. It focuses on sustainable garden practices based upon accepted horticulture…

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  Meredith Leigh – The Ethical Meat Handbook

  Ethical Meat is meat from an animal that had a good life, a good death, a good butcher, and a good cook. Ethical Meat is a movement that seeks to repair entire regional meat supply…

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  Suzanne Simard – Finding the Mother Tree

  From the world’s leading forest ecologist who forever changed how people view trees, their connections to one another and to other living things in the forest–a moving, deeply personal journey of discovery.

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  Suzy Sureck – SEE / SAW

  SEE / SAW is a collection of poems, accompanied by ink drawings, that engage with themes of vision, myopia, and dream. Artist and writer Suzy Sureck takes us into a childhood defined by myopia, helping…

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  Alejandro Murguía – The Medicine of Memory: A Mexica Clan in California

  In this work of creative nonfiction, Murguía draws on memories—his own and his family’s reaching back to the eighteenth century—to (re)construct the forgotten Chicano-indigenous history of California. He tells the story through significant moments in California history, including the birth of the mestizo in Mexico, destruction of Indian lifeways

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  Andrew Lam, Perfume Dreams: Reflections on the Vietnamese Diaspora

  In his long-overdue first collection of essays, noted journalist and NPR commentator Andrew Lam explores his lifelong struggle for identity as a Viet Kieu, or a Vietnamese national living abroad. At age eleven, Lam, the son of a South Vietnamese general, came to California on the eve of the fall…

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  David Jauss – Words Made Flesh: The Craft of Fiction

  Words Made Flesh contains six essays by the award-winning fiction writer David Jauss, each of which challenges current reigning dogmas about the craft of fiction. As in his previous collection, Alone with All that Could Happen, Jauss takes a descriptive rather than a prescriptive approach to his subjects. Whereas many…

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  Edited by Anjanette Delgado, Home in Florida Latinx Writers and the Literature of Uprootedness

  This remarkably timely, clear, concise, and pressing intervention is a must read for all organizers and activists fighting for and witnessing the birth of a new world. Shaka A. Shakur’s latest book reaffirms, amplifies, and extends the theory and practice of the New Afrikan Independence Movement while offering an accessible…

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  Edited by Judith Talaugon and Angela Marino, Tribunal Rising

  Tribunal Rising commemorates the 1992 International Tribunal movement in the city of San Francisco to dismantle the legacy of Christopher Columbus and the Myth of Discovery. In 1990, “[a]t the culmination of the Special International Tribunal on the Human Rights Violations of Political Prisoners and Prisoners of War in the…

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  Gabriela Lee, Anna Felicia C. Sanchez and Sydney Paige Guerrero – Mapping New Stars: A Sourcebook on Philippine Speculative Fiction 

  Mapping New Stars: A Sourcebook on Philippine Speculative Fiction is a groundbreaking collection of essays tracing the history and practice of speculative fiction in the country, with contributions from a constellation of readers and practitioners of the craft.

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  Heather Cleary and Gabriela Jauregui – Tsunami

  Featuring personal essay, manifesto, creative nonfiction, and poetry, Tsunami gathers the multiplicity of voices being raised in Mexico today against patriarchy and its buried structures.

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  Ismatu Gwendolyn – There Is No Revolution without Madness

  … I am bound together at the seams by the thought of a new world//what it might cost us//what we stand to gain. I write to you bereaved from watching the avalanches of death manufactured by the United States, via their bloodchildren (the United Nations, the so-called state of Israel,…

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  Joanne Barker, Editor – Critically Sovereign, Indigenous Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies

  Critically Sovereign traces the ways in which gender is inextricably a part of Indigenous politics and U.S. and Canadian imperialism and colonialism. The contributors show how gender, sexuality, and feminism work as co-productive forces of Native American and Indigenous sovereignty…

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  Kellie Richardson – The Art of Naming My Pain

  The Art of Naming My Pain, 2nd Edition, features a new preface by artist and poet Kellie Richardson, as well as new artwork on the interior and exterior of the book. These new components root us in a deeper understanding, and witnessing, of Richardson’s lived experiences. In an era of…

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  Mamas, Martyrs, and Jezebels

  Mamas, Martyrs, and Jezebels: Myths, Legends, and Other Lies You’ve Been Told about Black Women revisits notions of Black womanhood to include the ways in which Black women’s perceived strength can function as a dangerous denial of Black women’s humanity. This collection addresses the stigma of this extraordinary endurance in professional…

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  Marimba Ani – Let the Circle Be Unbroken

  Let the Circle Be Unbroken: The Implications of African Spirituality in the Diaspora examines the African conception of the relationship between spirit and matter. Marimba Ani explains that, for African people, spirit and matter have a symbiotic relationship which must be acknowledged in our political action and organizing as African people.

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  Matthew Shipp -Black Mystery School Pianists

  Black Mystery School Pianists and Other Writings is a collection of essays and prose poems from acclaimed pianist and visionary Matthew Shipp. Downbeat magazine has described Shipp as “the connection between the past, present and future for jazzheads of all ages”

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  Our Stories, Our Voices

  This collection of twenty-one essays from major YA authors–including award-winning and bestselling writers–touches on a powerful range of topics related to growing up female in today’s America, and the intersection with race, religion, and ethnicity. Sure to inspire hope and solidarity to anyone who reads it, Our Stories, Our Voices belongs on…

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  Pyeng Threadgill – Lost & Found

  Growing up in the 1980s, in the heart of New York City’s downtown music and art scene became fertile ground for seeds of creativity, doubt, and eventual empowerment for Pyeng Threadgill-as expressed through Lost & Found: Finding the Power in Your Voice, a collection of personal essays, poetry, and prose.

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  Returning to My Father’s Kitchen – Monica Macansantos

  Feeling untethered after her beloved poet father passes away while she is living abroad, Monica Macansantos decides to return to the Philippines to regain her bearings. But with her father gone and her adult life rooted in the United States and New Zealand, can the land of her birth still…

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  Shaka Shakur, Republic of New Africa to Palestine, National Liberation in Context

  This remarkably timely, clear, concise, and pressing intervention is a must read for all organizers and activists fighting for and witnessing the birth of a new world. Shaka A. Shakur’s latest book reaffirms, amplifies, and extends the theory and practice of the New Afrikan Independence Movement while offering an accessible…

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  Sherrie Flick – Homing

  Homing: Instincts of a Rustbelt Feminist traces the creative coming of age of a mill-town feminist. Sherrie Flick, whose childhood spanned the 1970s rise and 1980s collapse of the steel industry, returned to Pittsburgh in the late 1990s, witnessing the region’s before and its after.

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  Taymour Soomro, Deepa Anappara – Letters to a Writer of Color

  A vital collection of essays on the power of literature and the craft of writing from an international array of writers of color, sharing the experiences, cultural traditions, and convictions that have shaped them and their work.

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  2000 Blacks, Poems

  2000 Blacks probes the complexity of economic and politically motivated migration from Africa, which has been referred to as “African Brain Drain.” In the first sequence of poems, Ajibola Tolase explores Africa’s history and encounters with…

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  Alejandro Murguía – The Medicine of Memory: A Mexica Clan in California

  In this work of creative nonfiction, Murguía draws on memories—his own and his family’s reaching back to the eighteenth century—to (re)construct the forgotten Chicano-indigenous history of California. He tells the story through significant moments in…

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  Anarchism And The Black Evolution

  The Listen and Be Heard Hour features episode s4e8 on February 26th, 2026, discussing “Anarchism and the Black Revolution,” a pivotal 1979 work by Lorenzo Kom’boa Ervin. This text connects Black radicalism to anarchist theory,…

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  Ancient Mirrors of Womanhood

  This collection of ancient images of women as goddesses and heroines brings together legends, rituals, and prayers from China, Celtic Europe, South America, Africa, India, North America, Scandinavia, Japan, and elsewhere.

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  Ava Chin – Mott Street

  As the only child of a single mother in Queens, Ava Chin found her family’s origins to be shrouded in mystery. She had never met her father, and her grandparents’ stories didn’t match the history she read…

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  Before Elvis – The African American Musicians Who Made the King, Preston Lauterbach

  After Baz Luhrmann’s movie, Elvis, hit theaters, audiences and critics alike couldn’t help but question the Black origins of Elvis Presley’s music and style, reigniting a debate that has been circling for decades. In Before Elvis:…

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  Billy Mills, Donna Janell Bowman – Wings of an Eagle: The Gold Medal Dreams of Billy Mills

  This autobiographical retelling of Billy Mills’ journeys from being an orphan on Oglala Lakota Pine Ridge Reservation to his Gold Medal Win in the 10,000-meter race of the 1964 Toyoko Olympics. Inspired by this father’s words “the pursuit of a dream will heal you”, Billy was…

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  Black Lantern Books & The Legacy Library

  The Legacy Library and Black Lantern Books is an effort to preserve the life long collections of texts that Kwazi Nkrumah started collecting in the 1950’s. Near the end of his life, Kwazi wanted to…

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  Bless The Blood: A Cancer Memoir

  “Bless the Blood” is a young adult memoir combining poetry and essays that reflects the author’s journey with leukemia. It challenges misconceptions about cancer and the healthcare system, while addressing intergenerational trauma. The work explores…

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  Brian Kimmel – Blue Skies, Troubled Waters

  Blue Skies, Troubled Waters, tells the story of twin sisters Ath and Kath, born in New Jersey, in 1933, whose family is deported to the Indonesia due to their father’s undocumented status. Their new life…

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  Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West by Dee Brown

  Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West is a 1970 non-fiction book by American writer Dee Brown. It explores the history of American expansionism in the American West in…

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  Carla J. Field – When He Was Gone

  Elizabeth Garraux deeply loved her husband, Frederick, and he was willing to turn their lives upside down to please her. And yet, within years of a perilous Atlantic crossing, she ended up on her own…

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  Catholic Church, Papal Bulls – Doctrine of Discovery

  Papal Bulls issues in the 15th century provided Christian explorers the imagined right to assert that the lands they “discovered” were now under the authority of the Christian Monarchs of Europe. The Papal Bulls asserted…

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  Certain Days: The 2026 Freedom for Political Prisoners Calendar

  This short book deconstructs the assumption that global poverty has fallen dramatically, and lays bare the spurious methods of poverty measurement and data on which the dominant prosperity narrative depends. Here is carefully researched documentation…

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  Dan Sinykin – Big Fiction

  Dan Sinykin – Big Fiction. In the late 1950s, Random House editor Jason Epstein would talk jazz with Ralph Ellison or chat with Andy Warhol while pouring drinks in his office. By the 1970s, editors…

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  Donna Janell Bowman – Abraham Lincoln’s Dueling Words

  Long before he was our beloved 16th president, Abraham Lincoln was known for his smarts and his knee-slapping humor. In 1842, his humorous writing style got him into a heap of trouble. When he clashed with…

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  Donna Janell Bowman – Step Right Up, How Doc and Jim Key Taught the World About Kindness

  The 19th century was a brutal time for animals, but William “Doc” Key, a formerly-enslaved, self-taught veterinarian and entrepreneur, believed that kindness was more powerful than cruelty. He determined to prove it by using only…

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  Dreamscape, Real Dreams Really Make a Difference

  A collection of biographical stories and poems about fascinating people in history whose real dreams made a real difference. Developed in performance, these stories bring old tales to life for contemporary readers in a way…

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  Fundamenta Botanica

  This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. Carl Linnaeus, also known after ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von…

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  Geoff Bouvier – Us from Nothing

  From the big bang to the emergence of Homo sapiens to Kushim and the first recorded use of writing in 3200 BCE to the moon landing in 1969, Us From Nothing is a sprawling history…

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  In Perfect Silence at the Stars: Walt Whitman and the Meaning of Poems by Nick Courtright

  As Whitman averred, “there are millions of suns left”. And in that spirit, Nick Courtright avers, and irrefutably, that the meaning of Whitman’s project leans into futurity, into eternity. With In Perfect Silence at the…

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  Jimmy Sena – Tesla’s Walk

  Accompany the genius inventor and futurist Nikola Tesla on a poetic journey through one autumn day in 1899 Colorado Springs as he arrives at his Experimental Station on Knob Hill and ends the night in…

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  Joyce Johnson – Minor Characters

  In 1954, Joyce Johnson’s Barnard professor told his class that most women could never have the kinds of experiences that would be worth writing about. Attitudes like that were not at all unusual at a…

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  Leila McMichael – Haunted Historic Happy Valley

  Tales and legends of ghosts and haunted places follow the Yadkin River as it meanders through Historic Happy Valley, a part of the Yadkin Valley, which runs from Patterson to Elkin in western North Carolina.…

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  Live from the Underground

  Jewell uncovers how battles to control college radio were about more than music—they were an influential, if unexpected, front in the nation’s culture wars. These battles created unintended consequences and overlooked contributions to popular culture…

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  Malleus Maleficarum – Sprenger / Kramer

  Early Christian authorities initially dismissed witchcraft as a delusion, though belief in demons and exorcism created a framework that later justified harsher responses. In the late fifteenth century, Heinrich Kramer authored Malleus Maleficarum after failing…

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  Memoir Of A Race Traitor By Mab Segrest

  Memoir of a Race Traitor became a classic text of white antiracist practice. Juxtaposing childhood memories with contemporary events, Segrest described her journey

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  Pablo Yglesias – Cocinando!: Fifty Years of Latin Album Cover Art

  Driving beats, coursing rhythms, swaying skirts, and swaggering bandleaders playing deep into the sultry night: Latin music is a celebration of life and sensuality, and nowhere are these essential values better reflected than the dazzling…

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  Patricia Evangelista – Some People Need Killing, A Memoir of Murder in My Country

  For six years, journalist Patricia Evangelista documented killings carried out by police and vigilantes in the name of then president Rodrigo Duterte’s war on drugs—a crusade that led to the slaughter of thousands—immersing herself in the world…

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  Populism and Performance in the Bolivarian Revolution of Venezuelaby Angela Marino

  Populism and Performance in the Bolivarian Revolution of Venezuela explains how supporters of the emergent socialism of Hugo Chávez negotiated terms of national belonging and participatory democracy through performance. By foregrounding populism as an embodied act,…

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  Randy Gonzales – Settling St. Malo

  Settling St. Malo brings readers back to a time when Louisiana had the largest Filipino population in the United States—when Filipinos fished out of St. Malo, dried shrimp on Barataria Bay, and designed Mardi Gras…

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  T. R. Johnson – New Orleans: A Writer’s City

  Settling St. Malo brings readers back to a time when Louisiana had the largest Filipino population in the United States—when Filipinos fished out of St. Malo, dried shrimp on Barataria Bay, and designed Mardi Gras…

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  The Alphabet Versus the Goddess

  This book proposes that the rise of alphabetic literacy reconfigured the human brain and brought about profound changes in history, religion, and gender relations. Making connections between brain function, myth, and anthropology, Dr. Shlain shows why pre-literate…

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  The Chalice and the Blade

  The Chalice and the Blade tells a new story of our cultural origins. It shows that warfare and the war of the sexes are neither divinely nor biologically ordained. It provides verification that a better future…

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  The Global Village

  Extending the visionary early work of the late Marshall McLuhan, The Global Village, one of his last collaborative efforts, applies that vision to today’s worldwide, integrated electronic network. When McLuhan’s groundbreaking Understanding Media was published in 1964, the…

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  The Lie of Global Prosperity, How Neoliberals Distort Data to Mask Poverty and Exploitation by Seth Donnelly

  This short book deconstructs the assumption that global poverty has fallen dramatically, and lays bare the spurious methods of poverty measurement and data on which the dominant prosperity narrative depends. Here is carefully researched documentation…

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  The Society Of Spectacle – Guy Debord

  Guy Debord’s 1967 critiques consumer capitalism and modern media, asserting that social life is dominated by representations, or “the spectacle.”

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  W.G. Sebald – Rings of Saturn

  The Rings of Saturn records a walking tour of the eastern coast of England. Some of the things that cross the path and mind of its narrator include Rembrandt’s “Anatomy Lesson”, the natural history of…

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  When God Was A Woman

  How did the shift from matriarchy to patriarchy come about? In fascinating detail, Merlin Stone tells us the story of the Goddess who reigned supreme in the Near and Middle East. Under her reign, societal…

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  Witch Hunts and Tribunals

  In Caliban and the Witch, Silvia Federici argues that capitalism did not simply emerge as an economic system—it required the deliberate remaking of the human being. Central to this transformation was the invention of the…

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  Witches, Midwives and Nurses: A History of Women Healers by Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English

  Witches, Midwives, and Nurses examines how women-led healing was delegitimized to make way for patriarchy, capitalism, and the emerging medical industry. As we watch another agonizing attempt to shift the future of healthcare in the…

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  Zora Neale Hurston – Mules and Men

  Zora Neale Hurston brings us Black America’s folklore as only she can, putting the oral history on the written page with grace and understanding. This new edition of Mules and Men features a new cover and a…

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  Authors Publish – Authors Publish Magazine

  We send you legitimate publishing opportunities, plus we show you how to gain readers, win over editors, and build a long-term writing career. Completely free in our email magazine.

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  PhilippineGenreStories.com – Filipino Arts

  Philippine Genre Stories includes a plethora of Filippino authors in a wide range of genres, giving those who are interested a large pallet to explore.

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  Posit Journal – Online Magazine

  Posit publishes a stimulating, dynamic selection of the finest new poetry, prose and visual art — accomplished, sophisticated work that may be eclectic in style but is always innovative, challenging, and aesthetically broadening. We believe…

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  Tar Baby, edited by Ishmael Reed

  A journal dedicated to amplifying diverse voices, fostering critical discourse, and celebrating the rich tapestry of global arts and ideas.

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  Tribes #16 – The Black Lives Matter Issue

  From the world’s leading forest ecologist who forever changed how people view trees, their connections to one another and to other living things in the forest–a moving, deeply personal journey of discovery. “A vivid and…

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  Willawaw Journal – Online Magazine

  Willawaw Journal is an online magazine for poetry and art, published twice a year–Fall and Spring. Each issue features the poem prompt of a northwest poet laureate and sometimes a model response from the editor. Our…

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  A Doorbell, A Dictator, A Dad By Mitos Suson

  In the 1960s and 70s Ferdinand Marcos ruled the Philippine Islands with the closed fist of a dictator. Families lived in fear, dissenters, political rivals and trouble makers were…

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  Ann Patchett  – Truth & Beauty: A Friendship 

  This is a tender, brutal story about the friendship between authors Ann Patchett and the late Lucy Grealy, whose creative journey started in 1981 and lasted for twenty years,…

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  Ava Chin – Mott Street

  As the only child of a single mother in Queens, Ava Chin found her family’s origins to be shrouded in mystery. She had never met her father, and her grandparents’ stories…

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  Billy Mills, Donna Janell Bowman – Wings of an Eagle: The Gold Medal Dreams of Billy Mills

  This autobiographical retelling of Billy Mills’ journeys from being an orphan on Oglala Lakota Pine Ridge Reservation to his Gold Medal Win in the 10,000-meter race of the 1964 Toyoko Olympics. Inspired by this father’s words “the pursuit of…

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  Bless The Blood: A Cancer Memoir

  “Bless the Blood” is a young adult memoir combining poetry and essays that reflects the author’s journey with leukemia. It challenges misconceptions about cancer and the healthcare system, while…

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  Braiding Sweetgrass

  Updated with a new introduction from Robin Wall Kimmerer, the hardcover special edition of Braiding Sweetgrass, reissued in honor of the fortieth anniversary of Milkweed Editions, celebrates the book as an…

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  Brian Kimmel – Blue Skies, Troubled Waters

  Blue Skies, Troubled Waters, tells the story of twin sisters Ath and Kath, born in New Jersey, in 1933, whose family is deported to the Indonesia due to their…

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  Didi Pershouse – The Ecology of Care

  In this richly layered book, Didi Pershouse takes us on a fast-moving, sharp-witted journey through her own life: from growing up with the neurosurgeon who accidentally discovered the seat…

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  Easy to Slip – Cal Hoffman

  Sam Kovner reads messages on walls and hears voices in the hall, and wonders: if you find yourself losing your mind, how do you get well? Winter, 1976, Columbia…

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  Freda Epum  – The Gloomy Girl Variety Show

  In The Gloomy Girl Variety Show, Freda Epum explores the opposing forces of her “no-place, no-where” identity as a Nigerian American daughter, diasporically displaced, who spent years in and out of institutions…

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  In The Absence Of Belief – by Joel Beverly

  In “In the Absence of Belief,” entrepreneur Joel Beverly and partner Fern journey from East Kentucky to various global locations, unraveling myths surrounding success and identity. This memoir-travelogue invites…

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  Ingrid Rojas Contrera – The Man Who Could Move Clouds

  For Ingrid Rojas Contreras, magic runs in the family. Raised amidst the political violence of 1980s and ’90s Colombia, in a house where “what did you dream?” was the…

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  Joan Gelfand – Outside Voices

  Second-wave feminism, inspired by Gloria Steinem, Bella Abzug, and Betty Friedan is swelling into a tsunami. Women are joining together to change power dynamics in politics, the home, and…

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  Joe R. Talaugon Sr. – Mestizo Through My Eyes

  This book is about a man who grew up during a time when life in California was very hard, even though as a child he had no clue of the struggles…

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  Joyce Johnson – Minor Characters

  In 1954, Joyce Johnson’s Barnard professor told his class that most women could never have the kinds of experiences that would be worth writing about. Attitudes like that were…

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  Kellie Richardson – The Art of Naming My Pain

  The Art of Naming My Pain, 2nd Edition, features a new preface by artist and poet Kellie Richardson, as well as new artwork on the interior and exterior of…

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  Lesley-Ann Brown – Blackgirl on Mars

  Blackgirl on Mars is a radical memoir that chronicles author, educator and activist Lesley-Ann Brown’s two years’ worth of travel searching for “home”. “Lesley-Ann Brown has a brave voice…

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  Love Is Infinite – A Book Review

  In “Eat, Pray, Love,” Elizabeth Gilbert explores the complexities of human emotions and choices. Despite a seemingly perfect life, she felt unfulfilled until she sought self-discovery through spirituality. The…

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  Malcolm X – The Autobiography of Malcolm X: As Told to Alex Haley

  In the searing pages of this classic autobiography, originally published in 1964, Malcolm X, the Muslim leader, firebrand, and anti-integrationist, tells the extraordinary story of his life and the…

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  Memoir Of A Race Traitor By Mab Segrest

  Memoir of a Race Traitor became a classic text of white antiracist practice. Juxtaposing childhood memories with contemporary events, Segrest described her journey

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  Nervous

  Activist Jen Soriano brings to light the lingering impacts of transgenerational trauma and uses science, history, and family stories to flow toward transformation in this powerful collection that brings…

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  Our Stories, Our Voices

  This collection of twenty-one essays from major YA authors–including award-winning and bestselling writers–touches on a powerful range of topics related to growing up female in today’s America, and the…

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  Pedro Pietri: Selected Poetry- by Pedro Pietri

  By turns angry, heartbreaking, and hopeful, his writings are imbued with a sense of pride and nationalism and were embraced by the generation of Latino poets that followed him. Pedro…

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  Peter Jamero — Growing Up Brown

  Peter Jamero’s story of hardship and success illuminates the experience of the “bridge generation,” the American-born children of Filipinos farm workers in the 1920s and 30s, as they confronted…

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  Peter Mahoney – I Was a Hero Once

  This autobiography by Peter P. Mahoney details his incredible experiences as an infantry lieutenant deployed to Vietnam who later found himself embroiled in the Vietnam Veterans Against the War…

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  Pyeng Threadgill – Lost & Found

  Growing up in the 1980s, in the heart of New York City’s downtown music and art scene became fertile ground for seeds of creativity, doubt, and eventual empowerment for…

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  Returning to My Father’s Kitchen – Monica Macansantos

  Feeling untethered after her beloved poet father passes away while she is living abroad, Monica Macansantos decides to return to the Philippines to regain her bearings. But with her…

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  Ruth Ozeki – My Year of Meats

  Ruth Ozeki’s My Year of Meats is a cross-cultural tale of two women brought together by the intersections of television and industrial agriculture, fertility and motherhood, life and love—the…

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  Ruth Ozeki – The Face: A Time Code

  In The Face: A Time Code, bestselling author and Zen Buddhist priest Ruth Ozeki recounts, in moment-to-moment detail, a profound encounter with memory and the mirror. According to ancient Zen…

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  Sherrie Flick – Homing

  Homing: Instincts of a Rustbelt Feminist traces the creative coming of age of a mill-town feminist. Sherrie Flick, whose childhood spanned the 1970s rise and 1980s collapse of the…

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  Suzanne Simard – Finding the Mother Tree

  From the world’s leading forest ecologist who forever changed how people view trees, their connections to one another and to other living things in the forest–a moving, deeply personal…

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  The Crying Book By Heather Christle

  Heather Christle has just lost a dear friend to suicide and now must reckon with her own depression and the birth of her first child. As she faces her…

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  The Migrant Rain Falls in Reverse – A Memory of Vietnam

  With the fall of Saigon on April 30, 1975, the U.S. war in Vietnam ended, but the refugee crisis was only beginning. Among the millions of people who fled…

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  William Giraldi – The Hero’s Body

  At just forty-seven years old, William Giraldi’s father was killed in a horrific motorcycle crash while racing on a country road. This tragedy, which forever altered the young Giraldi…

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  Douglas W. Tallamy – Bringing Nature Home

  As development and habitat destruction accelerate, there are increasing pressures on wildlife populations. In his groundbreaking book Bringing Nature Home, Douglas W. Tallamy reveals the unbreakable link between native plant species and native wildlife—native insects cannot,…

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  Douglas W. Tallamy – The Nature of Oaks

  Oaks sustain a complex and fascinating web of wildlife. The Nature of Oaks reveals what is going on in oak trees month by month, highlighting the seasonal cycles of life, death, and renewal. From woodpeckers who collect…

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  Douglas W. Tallamy – Nature’s Best Hope

  In his new book, Tallamy takes the next step and outlines his vision for a grassroots approach to conservation. Nature’s Best Hope shows how homeowners everywhere can turn their yards into conservation corridors that provide…

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  Jocelyn Tambascio – Yellow Yuba

  Icky the inventor has gotten himself into a sticky mess! His empty promises and misuse of nature’s gifts have left the village trees bare and water depleted. Only through the hard work of everyone coming…

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  Mark J. Talbert – Your Yard Is A Garden: Sustainable Gardening for Landscaping, Lawns, Shrubs, Trees and Produce

  Your Yard Is a Garden, Sustainable Gardening For: Landscaping, Lawns, Shrubs, Trees and Produce Is a comprehensive gardening book for beginner gardeners through experience gardeners. It focuses on sustainable garden practices based upon accepted horticulture…

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  Suzanne Simard – Finding the Mother Tree

  From the world’s leading forest ecologist who forever changed how people view trees, their connections to one another and to other living things in the forest–a moving, deeply personal journey of discovery.

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  Suzy Sureck – SEE / SAW

  SEE / SAW is a collection of poems, accompanied by ink drawings, that engage with themes of vision, myopia, and dream. Artist and writer Suzy Sureck takes us into a childhood defined by myopia, helping…

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  adrienne maree brown – Emergent Strategy

  Inspired by Octavia Butler’s explorations of our human relationship to change, Emergent Strategy is radical self-help, society-help, and planet-help designed to shape the futures we want to live. Change is constant. The world is in a continual…

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  Beyond Anxiety by Martha Beck

  Most of us assume that the key to overcoming anxiety is to think our way out. Dr. Martha Beck explains why anxiety is skyrocketing around you, and likely within you. Beck explains how our brains…

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  Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés – Women Who Run with the Wolves

  Call her Our Lady, La Nuestra Señora, Holy Mother—or one of her thousands of other names,” says Dr. Estés. “She wears hundreds of costumes, dozens of skin tones, is patroness of deserts, mountains, stars and…

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  Dr. Tara Swart – The Source

  For the first time, a Neuroscientist and Senior Lecturer at MIT reveals the surprising science that supports The Law of Attraction as an effective tool for self-discovery and offers a guide to discovering your authentic…

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  It’s Not You

  It’s not always easy to tell when you’re dealing with a narcissistic person. One day they draw you in with their charm and charisma, the next they gaslight you, wreck your self-esteem, and leave you…

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  La Marr Jurelle Bruce – How to Go Mad without Losing Your Mind

  “Hold tight. The way to go mad without losing your mind is sometimes unruly.” So begins La Marr Jurelle Bruce’s urgent provocation and poignant meditation on madness in black radical art. Bruce theorizes four overlapping…

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  My Grandmother’s Hands

  The body is where our instincts reside and where we fight, flee, or freeze, and it endures the trauma inflicted by the ills that plague society. In this groundbreaking work, therapist Resmaa Menakem examines the…

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  Nervous

  Activist Jen Soriano brings to light the lingering impacts of transgenerational trauma and uses science, history, and family stories to flow toward transformation in this powerful collection that brings together the lyric storytelling, cultural exploration,…

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  Ruth Buchanan – Socially Awkward

  “We need to talk.” It’s hard to imagine a more panic-inducing statement. Why? These four little words generally herald the arrival of a truly awkward conversation. Though the very thought of difficult conversations makes us…

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  The Wisdom of Your Dreams

  A renowned expert on the subject of dreams, Jeremy Taylor has studied dreams and has worked with thousands of people both individually and in dream groups for more than forty years. His discoveries show us…

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  Word Magic – Elizabeth Perlman

  Word Magic: The Power of Writing to Reframe Your Story & Reclaim Your Intuition by Elizabeth Perlman is a self-help book that uses writing as a tool for self-discovery, healing, and empowerment, drawing from her…

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  Ann Dávila Cardinal – We Need No Wings

  From Ann Dávila Cardinal, the author of the International Latino Book Award Gold Medal winner The Storyteller’s Death comes WE NEED NO WINGS, an enchanting novel that blends the best of magical realism with a heartfelt story of self-discovery for an older generation of women who feel invisible.

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  Black Lantern Books & The Legacy Library

  The Legacy Library and Black Lantern Books is an effort to preserve the life long collections of texts that Kwazi Nkrumah started collecting in the 1950’s. Near the end of his life, Kwazi wanted to make his collection an accessible resource for future generations of  organizers seeking to expand their knowledge and  skills while working…

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  Bob Strother – Burning Time

  Louise Schmidt would sacrifice almost anything to protect and provide for her family even her innocence… Set in Chattanooga, Tennessee, in the early 1900s, Burning Time epically portrays the life of Louise Schmidt, from early childhood to adulthood, as Louise, her mother, and younger brother fight to survive the abuse of Louise s father, Will.…

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  Brian Marotto – The Creature Within trilogy

  Drifting from one town to the next, Owen merely just existed. Then, one night, Owen’s visit with a good friend turns horrific. That event plunged him into a world where mythological creatures, from any culture, can exist within certain individuals. Joining an organization built around stopping those who dare abuse the powers these creatures provide,…

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  Carla J. Field – When He Was Gone

  Elizabeth Garraux deeply loved her husband, Frederick, and he was willing to turn their lives upside down to please her. And yet, within years of a perilous Atlantic crossing, she ended up on her own in a new country with eleven children. So how, during the tumultuous post-Civil War years in the deep South, was…

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  Celebrate We Gullah Geechee – by Yvette R. Murray, illustrated by Tonya Engel

  With rhythm and repetition to engage children, five narrators take turns highlighting what they notice in their world, each focusing on one of the five senses. We are there with them:A girl sees a “haint blue door at Grandma’s house / Rocking chairs waiting on the porch.” On special days, we hear the marching band…

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  Chitra Divakaruni – Independence

  Set during the partition of India in 1947, a time when neighbor was pitted against neighbor and families were torn apart, award-winning author Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s novel brings to life the sweeping story of three sisters caught up in events beyond their control, their unbreakable bond, and their struggle against powerful odds.

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  Chitra Divakaruni – Sister of My Heart

  A national bestseller translated into over 20 languages, Sister of My Heart (Doubleday/Anchor) is the tale of two women, best friends whose lives are transformed by marriage, as one woman comes to California, and the other stays behind in India. Anju is the daughter of an upper-caste Calcutta family of distinction. Sudha is the daughter…

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  Chitra Divakaruni – The Mistress of Spices

  Divakaruni’s bestselling novel Mistress of Spices (Doubleday/Anchor), written in a unique style that blends prose and poetry, magic and reality, was named one of the top 100 books of the 20th Century by the San Francisco Chronicle. Divakaruni comments, “I wrote the book in a spirit of play, collapsing the divisions between the realistic world…

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  Dandelion Wine – Ray Bradbury

  The summer of ’28 was a vintage season for a growing boy. A summer of green apple trees, mowed lawns, and new sneakers. Of half-burnt firecrackers, of gathering dandelions, of Grandma’s belly-busting dinner. It was a summer of sorrows and marvels and gold-fuzzed bees. A magical, timeless summer in the life of a twelve-year-old boy…

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  Easy to Slip – Cal Hoffman

  Sam Kovner reads messages on walls and hears voices in the hall, and wonders: if you find yourself losing your mind, how do you get well? Winter, 1976, Columbia University. Hearing voices and seeing hateful writing on walls, early admission Sam Kovner walks the New York streets, sleepless thirty-six hours.

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  Eileen R. Tabios – The Balikbayan Artist

  The Balikbayan Artist– inspired by and dedicated to Venancio C. Igarta (1912- 2000), the real-life leading artist of the Manong Generation–

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  Ernest Brawley – Blood Moon

  In the year 1880, an impoverished, half-English journalist named Eduardo Dawson, hitching from Mexico for the American border, meets three fellow travelers who could not be more different. The first is Phoebe Surgener, a wry, strong-willed American ranch lady of obvious wealth and influence. The second is Pleasant Honeyflower, a seedy, fast-talking phony preacher. The…

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  Ernest Brawley – The Rap

  The roiling action of Ernest Brawley’s novel The Rap takes place in and around a penitentiary much like San Quentin. The time is the early 70s, when George Jackson, Angela Davis and others were agitating for prison reform, and the authorities were doing everything they could do to thwart them. A young, sympathetic guard, Arvin…

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  Four Ways to Forgiveness

  At the far end of our universe, on the twin planets of Werel and Yeowe, all humankind is divided into “assets” and “owners,” tradition and liberation are at war, and freedom takes many forms. Here is a society as complex and troubled as any on our world, peopled with unforgettable characters struggling to become fully…

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  Helen Montague Foster – Lost Graces

  This richly imagined thriller about the psychiatrist Dr. Nancy Thomas was inspired by the real-life Southside Strangler and Beltway Snipers of 1990’s Richmond Virginia.

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  I Never Promised You a Rose Garden – Joanne Greenberg

  After making an attempt on her own life, sixteen-year-old Deborah Blau is diagnosed with schizophrenia. With the reluctant and fearful consent of her parents, she enters a psychiatric hospital many hours from her home in suburban Chicago. Here she will spend the next three years, trying, with the help of a gifted psychiatrist, to find…

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  Ingrid Rojas Contrera – The Man Who Could Move Clouds

  For Ingrid Rojas Contreras, magic runs in the family. Raised amidst the political violence of 1980s and ’90s Colombia, in a house where “what did you dream?” was the preferred greeting in place of “how are you?,” very little was out of the ordinary. Her maternal grandfather, Nono, was a renowned curandero, a community healer…

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  Ishmael

  One of the most beloved and bestselling novels of spiritual adventure ever published, Ishmael has earned a passionate following. This special twenty-fifth anniversary edition features a new foreword and afterword by the author.

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  Jason E. Fort – Misguided

  An Egyptian holy man for the religion of Islam is assassinated, and the killer leaves a gold cross as his calling card. The same Christian assassin kills on US soil, and it is now up to the FBI and Interpol to bring him to justice. FBI Agents John Knox and Beth White team up with…

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  Kevin Fenton – Cyan Magenta Yellow Black

  No one was having a good day. It was December in Minnesota in 1993 and we were all at a stage in our life where our therapist thought we might be less loser-like if we met late Monday morning. Late morning, because early morning wasn’t an option for some of us—because some of us couldn’t…

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  London Clarke – The Night Singers

  Ghostwriter Callie Rowe has landed on what seems like a dream job: penning the memoir of her 90s rockstar crush, Riff Fall. But as she sets foot on remote Invisible Island, where Riff resides in his enigmatic beachfront mansion, she quickly realizes that beneath the allure of fame lies something more sinister. Rumors swirl around…

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  Making Money

  The hero of Going Postal returns in the 36th installment of Sir Terry Pratchett’s beloved Discworld series! Moist von Lipwig, condemned prisoner turned postal worker extraordinaire, is now in charge of a different branch of the government: overseeing the printing of Ankh-Morpork’s first paper currency. Amazingly, former arch-swindler-turned-Postmaster General Moist von Lipwig has somehow managed to get…

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  Marissa Eller – Joined at the Joints

  Chronically ill seventeen-year-old Ivy has stayed inside baking all summer—pies are better than people, and they don’t trigger her social anxiety. So when her (also) chronically ill mom and sister cook up a plan to get Ivy out of the house and into a support group, Ivy doesn’t expect to say more than a few words. 

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  Marivi Soliven – The Mango Bride

  The Mango Bride by Marivi Soliven. Banished by her wealthy Filipino family in Manila, Amparo Guerrero travels to Oakland, California, to forge a new life. Although her mother labels her life in exile a diminished one, Amparo believes her struggles are a small price to pay for freedom…

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  Paul Auster – Baumgartner

  Baumgartner’s life had been defined by his deep, abiding love for his wife, Anna, who was killed in a swimming accident nine years earlier. Now 71, Baumgartner continues to struggle to live in her absence as the novel sinuously unfolds into spirals of memory and reminiscence,

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  Randy Ribay – Patron Saints of Nothing

  Jay Reguero plans to spend the last semester of his senior year playing video games before heading to the University of Michigan in the fall. But when he discovers that his Filipino cousin Jun was murdered as part of President Duterte’s war on drugs, and no one in the family wants to talk about what…

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  Ruth Ozeki – My Year of Meats

  Ruth Ozeki’s My Year of Meats is a cross-cultural tale of two women brought together by the intersections of television and industrial agriculture, fertility and motherhood, life and love—the breakout hit by the celebrated author of A Tale for the Time Being and The Book of Form and Emptiness

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  Ruth Ozeki – The Book of Form and Emptiness

  One year after the death of his beloved musician father, thirteen-year-old Benny Oh begins to hear voices. The voices belong to the things in his house—a sneaker, a broken Christmas ornament, a piece of wilted lettuce. Although Benny doesn’t understand what these things are saying, he can sense their emotional tone; some are pleasant, a…

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  Scott Kikkawa – Char Siu

  Scott Kikkawa’s third novel set in 1950s Territorial Hawai‘i, featuring Honolulu Police Department’s only Japanese American homicide detective, World War II veteran Francis Hideyuki Yoshikawa.

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  Soup For The Storm – Tony Robles

  “This collection is based on my experiences and observations as someone who witnessed Hurricane Helene and its impact on the community—particularly my mobile home community in Hendersonville,”

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  Steve Cannon – Groove, Bang and Jive Around

  Despite decades of notoriety as one of the “filthiest books in the world,” Steve Cannon’s first and only novel, Groove, Bang and Jive Around, has hardly been read since first being published by the Paris- based Ophelia Press in 1969. Due to its scarcity, the New York Press deemed it “an underground classic of such legendary stature that…

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  Tell Me My Name

  On wealthy Commodore Island, Fern is watching and waiting–for summer, for college, for her childhood best friend to decide he loves her. Then Ivy Avila lands on the island like a falling star. When Ivy shines on her, Fern feels seen. When they’re together, Fern has purpose. She glimpses the secrets Ivy hides behind her…

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  The American Queen

  In 1869 a kingdom rose in the South. And Louella was its queen. Over the twenty-four years she’s been enslaved on the Montgomery Plantation, Louella learned to feel one thing: hate. Hate for the man who sold her mother. Hate for the overseer who left her daddy to hang from a noose. Hate so powerful…

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  The Broken Earth Trilogy

  A season of endings has begun. It starts with the great red rift across the heart of the world’s sole continent, spewing ash that blots out the sun. It starts with death, with a murdered son and a missing daughter. It starts with betrayal, and long dormant wounds rising up to fester.This is the Stillness,…

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  The Scapegoat

  Two men—one English, the other French—meet by chance in a provincial railway station and are astounded that they are so much alike that they could easily pass for each other. Over the course of a long evening, they talk and drink. It is not until he awakes the next day that John, the Englishman, realizes…

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  The Sympathizer – Viet Thanh Nguyen

  The Sympathizer is a sweeping epic of love and betrayal. The narrator, a communist double agent, is a “man of two minds,” a half-French, half-Vietnamese army captain who arranges to come to America after the Fall of Saigon, and while building a new life with other Vietnamese refugees in Los Angeles is secretly reporting back to…

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  Two Old Women by Velma Wallis

  Based on an Athabascan legend passed along from mother to daughter for many generations on the upper Yukon River in Alaska, this is the tragic and shocking story–with a surprise ending–of two elderly women abandoned by a migrating tribe that faces starvation brought on by unusually harsh Arctic weather and a shortage of fish and…

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  William Giraldi – About Face

  A tragicomic novel of a fame-obsessed American society yet again on the brink. Evoking such classics as Elmer Gantry and The Day of the Locust, William Giraldi’s About Face boldly transfers the perennial literary themes of celebrity, ambition, and obsession to twenty-first-century Boston. There we meet Val Face, a charismatic self-help guru who captivates multitudes with his uncanny ability to heal…

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  William Giraldi – Hold the Dark

  Written with “force and precision and grace” (John Wilwol, New York Times Book Review) Hold the Dark is a “taut and unforgettable journey into the heart of darkness” (Dennis Lehane). At the start of another pitiless winter, wolves have taken three children from the remote Alaskan village of Keelut, including the six-year-old son of Medora and Vernon Slone.…

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  2000 Blacks, Poems

  2000 Blacks probes the complexity of economic and politically motivated migration from Africa, which has been referred to as “African Brain Drain.” In the first sequence of poems, Ajibola Tolase explores Africa’s history and encounters with the Western world, providing poetic insight into the economic instability precipitated by the transatlantic slave trade and exploitation of mineral…

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  A Bell Curve is a Pregnant Straight Line – Vi Khi Nao

  A tragic first date. An evicted fetus. A restaurant called Sapphở. The flu. Argiope spiders. A room. The sea. Body parts as clothing. A long poem. A short one. A long one. Flipping like Morse signals, the poems in this collection gather under the pregnant arc of the bell curve in four quadrants that gestate…

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  Across Latitude & Language – World Poetry Anthology 2025, edited by Saumya Choudhury

  Across Latitude & Language brings together voices from across the globe—poets of different races, homelands, and histories, woven together by something quietly powerful: the shared weight of being human. In a world increasingly fractured by borders and conflict, this collection reminds us of the quiet universality of feeling. From the ache of personal loss and…

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  Arlene S. Neal – There is Always Light

  Meditative, familiar, evocative. In the tradition of Mary Oliver, Arlene Neal writes about what we all know and need to remember, valuing small things, memories, the every day, family and baseball, flowers and birds, daydreams, passing gas, condiments, Cool Whip and figs, loss, sorrow, regret, and the importance of remembering, writing with awful fear someday we…

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  Black Rootedness – Karla Brundage

  Black Rootedness, an anthology, is a culmination of workshops in Africa and America featuring the poets included, and shares experiences of foreigner/returnee, neo-African, borrower of phrases, and experimenter of styles that shape-and will continue to shape-the vibrant exchange between Africa and the Diaspora. Poetry is an artistic vehicle that allows this to happen with humility…

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  Blood Lies Race Traitor By Karla Brundage

  Karla Brundage’s Blood Lies: Race Trait(or) is about race. It is about the history of race, about imposed racial definitions like mulatto and quadroon.

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  Candelario Obeso – Cantos populares de mi tierra

  Candelario Obeso was an Afro-Colombian poet known as the precursor of the Poesía Negra y oscura (black and dark poetry) in Colombia, a literary style that focused on describing the daily activities performed by the Colombian black communities. He wrote his narrative in the first person and using the language the Afrocolombian communities spoke.

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  Celebrate We Gullah Geechee – by Yvette R. Murray, illustrated by Tonya Engel

  With rhythm and repetition to engage children, five narrators take turns highlighting what they notice in their world, each focusing on one of the five senses. We are there with them:A girl sees a “haint blue door at Grandma’s house / Rocking chairs waiting on the porch.” On special days, we hear the marching band…

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  COPUS – The Assignment

  ABOUT THE ASSIGNMENT COPUS – an acronym for Creation Of Peace Under Stars – is an ensemble formed in the late 1990s by poet Royal Kent and composer/pianist Wendy Loomis. Together they created a body of positive spoken word and beautiful music that has inspired people around the world. Royal passed away in October 2024.…

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  Dao Strom – Tender Revolutions, Yellow Songs

  Fifty years after the fall of Saigon, Dao Strom’s Tender Revolutions / Yellow Songs vibrates with the ramifications and ripples of Empire. A hybrid project comprised of writings, music, and visual ephemera, each of the four Yellow Songs books and the Tender Revolutions album reckon with the intimate consequences of the colonial project, reconfiguring them into complex and lucid, literal and…

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  Dorsía Smith Silva – In Inheritance of Drowning

  In this striking debut, Dorsía Smith Silva explores the devastating effects of Hurricane María in Puerto Rico, highlighting the natural world, the lasting impact of hurricanes, and the marginalization of Puerto Ricans. These poems also focus on the multiple sites of oppression in the United States, especially the racial, social, and political injustices that occur…

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  Dreamscape, Real Dreams Really Make a Difference

  A collection of biographical stories and poems about fascinating people in history whose real dreams made a real difference. Developed in performance, these stories bring old tales to life for contemporary readers in a way that is both entertaining and informative.

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  Eileen R. Tabios – The Inventor, A Poet’s Transcolonial Autobiography

  Eileen R. Tabios says, “Poetry is a decolonized language.” She proves it through her autobiography that begins with her first book that she wrote as a 2-3-year-old toddler and focuses on her poetry inventions: the hay(na)ku, the Murder Death Resurrection Poetry Generator, and the Flooid. This is a unique and thought-provoking autobiography by a poet…

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  Ernie Brill – Journeys of Voices & Choices

  Ernie Brill’s rich, memorable poems reflect his encyclopedic and kaleidoscopic mind. From Brooklyn street life to war in Southeast Asia and occupation in the Middle East, his words do not rest. Yes, they become those journeys to another way of seeing every place and time he brings us to, envisioning a way out of here…

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  Genny Lim – Child of War

  These pages are filled with grieving and making sense of a mother’s loss of a child as the world once again finds itself in a state of war. In 2001, Genny Lim’s daughter, Danielle Mai Ting Jue, died at the age of 19.

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  Geoff Bouvier – Us from Nothing

  From the big bang to the emergence of Homo sapiens to Kushim and the first recorded use of writing in 3200 BCE to the moon landing in 1969, Us From Nothing is a sprawling history of humanity. Striving to answer the big questions – Who are we? Where did we come from? How did we…

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  Glenis Redmond – The Listening Skin 

  Hewing close to the bone, the incendiary poems in Glenis Redmond’s The Listening Skin explore how an artist dares to dance and create through a pain-riddled body. Corporeal and spiritual, immediately personal and deeply historical, Redmond’s latest collection details how generational cycles of poverty, mental and physical illness, and systemic racism impact the self, the family, and…

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  Harboring the Imperfect

  From cover to cover, Amber Rose Crowtree’s spectacular debut chapbook is filled with stunning poetic talent. Her poems, while accessible, are equally profound in the hands of this gifted poet. The title poem, Harboring the Imperfect, tells us, “/spring outlasts us, weeping out these nights of ice. /” Beautiful lines like this abound in her collection,…

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  Heather Cleary and Gabriela Jauregui – Tsunami

  Featuring personal essay, manifesto, creative nonfiction, and poetry, Tsunami gathers the multiplicity of voices being raised in Mexico today against patriarchy and its buried structures.

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  Henry Grimes – Signs along the Road

  There is a fine line between self-emancipation and existential oblivion, as the life of Henry Grimes and the poems of SIGNS ALONG THE ROAD clearly illustrate. A master bassist who played with the likes of Sonny Rollins, Thelonious Monk and Gerry Mulligan, he also sent tremors through the free-jazz world with the definitive style of…

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  Him Mark Lai, Genny Lim and Judy Yung – Island

  In the early twentieth century, most Chinese immigrants coming to the United States were detained at the Angel Island Immigration Station in San Francisco Bay. There, they were subject to physical exams, interrogations, and often long detentions aimed at upholding the exclusion laws that kept Chinese out of the country.

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  In Perfect Silence at the Stars: Walt Whitman and the Meaning of Poems by Nick Courtright

  As Whitman averred, “there are millions of suns left”. And in that spirit, Nick Courtright avers, and irrefutably, that the meaning of Whitman’s project leans into futurity, into eternity. With In Perfect Silence at the Stars, the art of close-reading becomes a Vastation, an experience without limits.

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  Jane Hirshfield, Women in Praise of the Sacred

  “Hirshfield’s current collection brings together . . . an astonishing array of women writers from the 22nd century BC poet Enheduanna to Nelly Sachs and Anna Akhmatova.”— Library Journal

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  Jeff Price – One Steady Glance: Collected Poems

  “One of the greatest joys of life is spending time with art which invites you to spend time with your emotions by reflecting on someone else’s experiences. Jeff Price’s book of poetry is such a dalliance. From cars to Camelot, high school wrestling and the highest of lifeforms—the dog, Price’s One Steady Glance uses content and craft…

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  Jimmy Sena – Tesla’s Walk

  Accompany the genius inventor and futurist Nikola Tesla on a poetic journey through one autumn day in 1899 Colorado Springs as he arrives at his Experimental Station on Knob Hill and ends the night in what will become Memorial Park.

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  Jonathan Thirkield – Infinity Pool

  Diving through illusions and phantoms of virtual realms and into the human desire for boundless possibility, Infinity Pool charts the ways technologies have become embedded in our minds, bodies, and lives. Immersed in a world of data streams, neural nets, spider algorithms, and electronic terminals, Jonathan Thirkield’s poems plumb the dissonances and shrinking distances between ourselves and…

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  Josiah Luis Alderete – Baby Axolotls & Old Pochos

  The poems in “Baby Axolotls & Old Pochos” hold space inside a colonized time and place we can still recognize as San Francisco. Spanglish antepasado recuerdos and palabras of our neighborhood memories, the pocho American Dream stuffed into Donaldo Trump pinatas with the conejo en la luna looking down on us are spoken in three…

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  Joy is the Justice We Give Ourselves

  Joy Is the Justice We Give Ourselves is a lush journey into wildness and Black being. Lanham notices nature through seasonal shifts, societal unrest, and deeply personal reflection and traces a path from bitter history to the present predicament. Drawing canny connections between the precarity of nature and the long arm of racism, the collection offers…

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  Kahlil Gibran – Tears and Laughter

  This classic work showcases the early brilliance and philosophical foundation of Kahlil Gibran, one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century

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  Kellie Richardson – The Art of Naming My Pain

  The Art of Naming My Pain, 2nd Edition, features a new preface by artist and poet Kellie Richardson, as well as new artwork on the interior and exterior of the book. These new components root us in a deeper understanding, and witnessing, of Richardson’s lived experiences. In an era of highly curated personas and unrealistic…

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  Kyra Freeman – Little Spills and Other Poems I Cannot Contain

  Poet and storyteller Kyra Freeman is like the little Dutch boy with her finger placed in a dam of imagery and intense emotion. Little Spills and Other Poems I Cannot Contain takes the reader from the ordinary to the sacred. As delicately as a spider weaves her web, Freeman weaves poetry expertly, intuitively, building a…

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  Mary Oishi – Sidewalk Cruiseship

  Written by the “pandemic poet laureate” of Albuquerque, Sidewalk Cruiseship draws on Oishi’s remarkable ability to illustrate the world around her and the people in it. Separated into eleven short sections by traditional Japanese tankas, the poems in Oishi’s newest collection take on the macro and the micro. They respond to the pandemic, the war in Ukraine,…

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  Mary TallMountain – Listen to the night

  Listen to the night poems for the animal spirits of mother earth  Publisher Freedom Voices Publications

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  Mary TallMountain – The Light on The Tent Wall: A Bridging

  Poetry. American Indian Studies. Illustrated by Claire Fejes. THE LIGHT ON THE TENT WALL: A BRIDGING is a collection of poetry from the late American Indian poet Mary TallMountain

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  Matthew Shipp -Black Mystery School Pianists

  Black Mystery School Pianists and Other Writings is a collection of essays and prose poems from acclaimed pianist and visionary Matthew Shipp. Downbeat magazine has described Shipp as “the connection between the past, present and future for jazzheads of all ages”

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  Memoir Of A Race Traitor By Mab Segrest

  Memoir of a Race Traitor became a classic text of white antiracist practice. Juxtaposing childhood memories with contemporary events, Segrest described her journey

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  Mosab Abu Toha – Forest of Noise

  “A powerful, capacious, and profound” (Ocean Vuong) new collection of poems about life in Gaza by an award-winning Palestinian poet. Barely thirty years old, Mosab Abu Toha was already a well-known poet when the current siege of Gaza began. After the Israeli army bombed and destroyed his house, pulverizing a library he had painstakingly built…

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  Mulatta—Not So Tragic – Karla Brundage

  Written in an exchange with Dr. Allision Francisc, “Mulatta—Not So Tragic” embraces and emphasizes the importance of friendship, conversation, criticism, and love between creatives. In this time, of Black Girl Magic, a book about Black Girl Friendship seems essential.

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  Neeli Cherkovski – ABC’s

  Neeli Cherkovski grew up in Los Angeles where he edited The Anthology of Los Angeles Poets with Charles Bukowski and Paul Vangelisti. He moved to San Francisco in 1974 where he was associated with Jack Hirschman, David Meltzer, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Gregory Corso, and a whole tribe of poets. His essay collection Whitman’s Wild Children, originally published…

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  Nick Courtright – Let There Be Light

  “The illumination in LET THERE BE LIGHT is not found in the answers given, but in the humanity of asking tough questions beautifully and truthfully. This is, in the end, the meaning of enlightenment, and, evidently, compelling verse.”-Kwame Dawes

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  Nick Courtright – Punchline

  “By turns elliptical and aphoristic, macrocosmic and microcosmic, timeless and contemporary, PUNCHLINE is not a book of poems for those who merely want to be diverted or amused; this work is for readers who consider poetry the natural sibling of philosophy.” – Nicky Beer

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  Nothing Follows – Lan P. Duong

  The title of this debut collection, Nothing Follows, is reappropriated from a government document establishing the beginning of a refugee family’s time in the United States. At every coordinate of their lives, the refugee family provides affidavits, letters, and reams of paperwork as they work to beseech those in power to grant them “family reunification” visas…

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  Our Spirits Carry Our Voices Edited By Karla Brundage

  “Our Spirits Carry Our Voices is a remarkable work: a travelogue in poetry, charting a journey that is spiritual as well as geographic. The linked poems are intensely personal, yet filled with historical and political resonance.

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  Pedro Pietri: Selected Poetry- by Pedro Pietri

  By turns angry, heartbreaking, and hopeful, his writings are imbued with a sense of pride and nationalism and were embraced by the generation of Latino poets that followed him. Pedro Pietri: Selected Poetry gathers the most enduring and treasured work among his published books, Puerto Rican Obituary, Traffic Violations, and Out of Order, along with a generous selection of his…

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  Phys Fest NYC

  PhysFestNYC, launched in January 2024, celebrates physical theater through performances and workshops. Born from grassroots funding, it aims to support under-resourced artists in NYC. The inaugural festival featured 143 artists across 10 days, hosting 7 events daily. It stands as a unique platform for collaboration and visibility in the U.S.

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  Posit Journal – Online Magazine

  Posit publishes a stimulating, dynamic selection of the finest new poetry, prose and visual art — accomplished, sophisticated work that may be eclectic in style but is always innovative, challenging, and aesthetically broadening. We believe in de-Balkanizing the literary and visual arts scenes by providing an aesthetically beautiful showcase for carefully curated, highly innovative work…

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  Praise Songs for Dave the Potter, Art and Poetry for David Drake

  David Drake is recognized as one of the United States’ most accomplished nineteenth-century potters. Yet, though his pots—many inscribed with original verse—sit in museums across the nation, he is too often passed over when considering the early foundations of African American poetry. Born in South Carolina at the beginning of the nineteenth century, Drake produced…

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  Precedented Parroting – Barbara Tran

  Opening with an exit, the poems in Precedented Parroting accept no assumptions. With the determination and curiosity of a problem-solving crow, this expansive debut plumbs personal archives and traverses the natural world, endeavouring to shake the tight cage of stereotypes, Asian and avian.

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  Pyeng Threadgill – Lost & Found

  Growing up in the 1980s, in the heart of New York City’s downtown music and art scene became fertile ground for seeds of creativity, doubt, and eventual empowerment for Pyeng Threadgill-as expressed through Lost & Found: Finding the Power in Your Voice, a collection of personal essays, poetry, and prose.

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  Q.R. Hand Jr. – Whose Really Blues

  From the world’s leading forest ecologist who forever changed how people view trees, their connections to one another and to other living things in the forest–a moving, deeply personal journey of discovery. “A vivid and compelling memoir of [Simard’s] lifelong quest to prove that the forest is more than just a collection of trees” – The New…

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  Randy Gonzales – Settling St. Malo

  Settling St. Malo brings readers back to a time when Louisiana had the largest Filipino population in the United States—when Filipinos fished out of St. Malo, dried shrimp on Barataria Bay, and designed Mardi Gras floats in New Orleans. Poet Randy Gonzales explores the history of Louisiana’s nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Filipino communities and his…

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  Simone “Azúcar” Nikkole – Sidepiece Sanctifications

  Sidepiece Sanctifications is the second poetry chapbook of work written by Simone “Azúcar” Nikkole. In Sidepiece Sanctifications, Simone “Azúcar” Nikkole documents the journey of love, infatuation and three-way relationships. She explores the experience of “the other woman” or “sidepiece” in a romantic relationship and how the woman returns to herself in recognizing her true self…

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  Sisters Across Oceans Edited By Karla Brundage

  The idea for this collection, Sisters Across Oceans, was inspired by the much needed conversation between influential Black women across the diaspora.

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  Song of the Simple Truth, The Complete Poems of Julia de Burgos

  Song of the Simple Truth (Canción de la verdad sencilla) is the first bilingual edition of Julia de Burgos’ complete poems. Numbering more than 200, these poems form a literary landmark—the first time her poems have appeared in a complete edition in either English or Spanish. Many of the verses presented here had been lost and are presented…

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  Sorry I’m Late – Elizabeth Perlman

  This compilation of 27 poems was written over the course of 25 years, from 1998 to 2023. (The title is reflects the author’s extreme delay in sharing her work—and yes, that is a unicorn finger puppet, taking time to smell the azealas!) The main theme of every poem is self-empowerment: remembering who we really are…

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  Soup For The Storm – Tony Robles

  “This collection is based on my experiences and observations as someone who witnessed Hurricane Helene and its impact on the community—particularly my mobile home community in Hendersonville,”

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  Sparrow Envy: Field Guide to Birds and Lesser Beasts

  “You are a rare bird, easy to see but invisible just the same.” That thought is close at hand in Sparrow Envy: Field Guide to Birds and Lesser Beasts, as renowned naturalist and writer J. Drew Lanham explores his obsession with birds and all things wild in a mixture of poetry and prose. He questions vital assumptions…

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  Suzy Sureck – SEE / SAW

  SEE / SAW is a collection of poems, accompanied by ink drawings, that engage with themes of vision, myopia, and dream. Artist and writer Suzy Sureck takes us into a childhood defined by myopia, helping us to understand how her personality and way of being in the world were boundaried by blur and intimacy of…

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  Swallowing Watermelons – Karla Brundage

  Swallowing Watermelons is Karla Brundage´s first published poetry collection and contains almost twenty years of her writing. Her poems are deeply honest, personal reflections–vivid stories from the heart cut to the bone. Moving between Hawaii, the mainland United States and Zimbabwe, she shares moments in her life as a daughter growing into a woman, as…

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  The Shan Van featuring Mikey Cullen

  The Shan Van (feat. Mikey Cullen) was released on February 7, 2025 by Vocht Records as a part of the album The Shan Van (feat. Mikey Cullen) – EP

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  Thrift Store Metamorphosis

  In Thrift Store Metamorphosis, Tony Robles astutely demonstrates the palpable currency of human interactions. His keen observations show us the necessity of reflection. In this mirror, we learn that everything and anything that we pay attention to has the capability to hold deep meaningful lessons for us and our lives. Robles makes us feel a range of…

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  Tony Robles – Where the Warehouse Things Are

  In this remarkable collection, Tony Robles transforms a bright-lit warehouse into a psychic landscape to illuminate one man’s efforts to reassemble a broken life. Where the Warehouse Things Are gives the satisfaction of a book of poetry as well as a novelistic sense of a place and its inhabitants fully rendered. — Ron Rash, author…

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  Tribes #16 – The Black Lives Matter Issue

  From the world’s leading forest ecologist who forever changed how people view trees, their connections to one another and to other living things in the forest–a moving, deeply personal journey of discovery. “A vivid and compelling memoir of [Simard’s] lifelong quest to prove that the forest is more than just a collection of trees” – The New…

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  VILLAGE

  In propulsive and formally inventive verse, LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs examines how trauma reshapes lineage, language, and choice, disrupting attempts at reconciliation across generations. Questioning who is deemed worthy of public memorialization, Diggs raises new monuments, tears down classist tropes, offers detailed instructions for her own international funeral celebrations, and makes visible the hidden labors…

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  Vince Gotera – Dragons & Rayguns

  Iowa Poet Laureate Vince Gotera’s latest book is an inventive and wide-ranging collection of speculative poetry. Come for the Filipino mythology and classic cartoon aliens, stay for the masterful use of poetic forms and vivid language.

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  Watermark Vietnamese American Poetry and Prose

  Edited by Barbara Tran, Monique T.D. Truong and Luu Truong Khoi, Watermark: Vietnamese American Poetry & Prose (Asian American Writers’ Workshop, 1998) heralds a new era for Vietnamese American literature. Here, for the first time, the most innovative contemporary Vietnamese American writers explore thematic and stylistic territory previously overlooked in other collections, which have traditionally…

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  When the Body Calls

  This book is a vessel/holding liquid for thirsty desirers/in the empty spiral of the universe/where detail is opinion/one moment is all it takes to answer/when the body calls. This book is just one answer in a life of calling. The storyteller lives inside the breath of home. Whatever home is chosen, whatever breath is owned.…

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  Willawaw Journal – Online Magazine

  Willawaw Journal is an online magazine for poetry and art, published twice a year–Fall and Spring. Each issue features the poem prompt of a northwest poet laureate and sometimes a model response from the editor. Our mission is to encourage writers and artists to create, and to generate a community where a diversity of voices is…

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  Yvette Murray – Hush, Puppy

  In “Hush, Puppy” a neighborhood, a city and memories are more than just a neighborhood, a city and memories. “Hush, Puppy” is a call and response praise song to the antimony of being Black and Gullah and Southern in Charleston, South Carolina and the world. This chapbook explores familial, societal and community relationships with spice…

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  Ava Chin – Mott Street

  As the only child of a single mother in Queens, Ava Chin found her family’s origins to be shrouded in mystery. She had never met her father, and her grandparents’ stories didn’t match the history she read at school. Mott Street traces Chin’s quest to understand her Chinese American family’s story. Over decades of painstaking research, she finds not only her…

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  Chris Crass – Towards Collective Liberation

  Toward Collective Liberation is for activists engaging with dynamic questions of how to create and support effective movements for visionary systemic change. Chris Crass’s collection of essays and interviews presents us with powerful lessons for transformative organizing through offering a firsthand look at the challenges and the opportunities of anti-racist work in white communities, feminist…

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  Marimba Ani – Let the Circle Be Unbroken

  Let the Circle Be Unbroken: The Implications of African Spirituality in the Diaspora examines the African conception of the relationship between spirit and matter. Marimba Ani explains that, for African people, spirit and matter have a symbiotic relationship which must be acknowledged in our political action and organizing as African people.

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  Talking Stories – Hosted By Tony Cranston

  Talking Stories is a global storytelling platform rooted in east London, bringing together voices from local communities and across the world. With an equal focus on London-based creators and international storytellers, the program showcases poets, writers, elders, and emerging voices from every continent, creating a rich dialogue between place, memory, and imagination.

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  A Practical Guide to Sigbin Keeping: A Cozy Fantasy on the Island of Fire, Siquijor By Mitos Suson

  In “Siquijor,” Leklek Rosal returns to her enchanted island, discovering her childhood imaginary friend is real and she possesses hidden powers. With her grandmother and friends, she uncovers ancient magic while confronting dark forces. This tale intertwines Filipino folklore with themes of identity, heritage, and embracing one’s destiny.

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  Ann Dávila Cardinal – We Need No Wings

  From Ann Dávila Cardinal, the author of the International Latino Book Award Gold Medal winner The Storyteller’s Death comes WE NEED NO WINGS, an enchanting novel that blends the best of magical realism with a heartfelt story of self-discovery for an older generation of women who feel invisible.

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  Beth Revis – Full Speed to a Crash Landing

  A phenomenally fun novella that kicks off a trilogy of sexy space heists by New York Times bestselling author Beth Revis. Full Speed to a Crash Landing is packed with great characters, romantic tension, and is full of twists and turns that will keep you guessing until the end Fans of Martha Wells and Becky…

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  Brian Marotto – The Creature Within trilogy

  Drifting from one town to the next, Owen merely just existed. Then, one night, Owen’s visit with a good friend turns horrific. That event plunged him into a world where mythological creatures, from any culture, can exist within certain individuals. Joining an organization built around stopping those who dare abuse the powers these creatures provide,…

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  London Clarke – The Night Singers

  Ghostwriter Callie Rowe has landed on what seems like a dream job: penning the memoir of her 90s rockstar crush, Riff Fall. But as she sets foot on remote Invisible Island, where Riff resides in his enigmatic beachfront mansion, she quickly realizes that beneath the allure of fame lies something more sinister. Rumors swirl around…

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  The Broken Earth Trilogy

  A season of endings has begun. It starts with the great red rift across the heart of the world’s sole continent, spewing ash that blots out the sun. It starts with death, with a murdered son and a missing daughter. It starts with betrayal, and long dormant wounds rising up to fester.This is the Stillness,…

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  The Greatest Fight of Sunny Grenada and Other Stories By Kenneth Yu

  Yu has a knack for subverting expectations, crafting twists that are as surprising as they are inevitable . . . His worlds and characters—whether human or otherwise—are vast yet intimate, alien yet achingly familiar. This is a collection that doesn’t just tell stories; it ensnares, unsettles, and ultimately, astonishes.

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  Vince Gotera – Dragons & Rayguns

  Iowa Poet Laureate Vince Gotera’s latest book is an inventive and wide-ranging collection of speculative poetry. Come for the Filipino mythology and classic cartoon aliens, stay for the masterful use of poetic forms and vivid language.

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  A Practical Guide to Sigbin Keeping: A Cozy Fantasy on the Island of Fire, Siquijor By Mitos Suson

  In “Siquijor,” Leklek Rosal returns to her enchanted island, discovering her childhood imaginary friend is real and she possesses hidden powers. With her grandmother and friends, she uncovers ancient magic while confronting dark forces. This tale intertwines Filipino folklore with themes of identity, heritage, and embracing one’s destiny.

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  Leila McMichael – Haunted Historic Happy Valley

  Tales and legends of ghosts and haunted places follow the Yadkin River as it meanders through Historic Happy Valley, a part of the Yadkin Valley, which runs from Patterson to Elkin in western North Carolina. Haunted Historic Happy Valley explores the paranormal history of the Valley, and the surrounding region, all of which is haunted.…

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  Marissa Eller – Joined at the Joints

  Chronically ill seventeen-year-old Ivy has stayed inside baking all summer—pies are better than people, and they don’t trigger her social anxiety. So when her (also) chronically ill mom and sister cook up a plan to get Ivy out of the house and into a support group, Ivy doesn’t expect to say more than a few words. 

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  Tell Me My Name

  On wealthy Commodore Island, Fern is watching and waiting–for summer, for college, for her childhood best friend to decide he loves her. Then Ivy Avila lands on the island like a falling star. When Ivy shines on her, Fern feels seen. When they’re together, Fern has purpose. She glimpses the secrets Ivy hides behind her…