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"The first full-length volume of poems in a decade by former poet laureate of the United States Donald Hall. In The Back Chamber, Donald Hall illuminates the evocative, iconic objects of deep memory--"a cowbell," "a white stone perfectly round," "a three-legged milking stool"--that serve to foreground the rich meditations on time and mortality that run through his remarkable new collection. While Hall's devoted readers will recognize many of his long-standing...
3) Linden Hills
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The National Book Award–winning author of The Women of Brewster Place explores the secrets of an affluent black community. For its wealthy African American residents, the exclusive neighborhood of Linden Hills is a symbol of "making it." The ultimate achievement: a home on prestigious Tupelo Drive. Making your way downhill to Tupelo is irrefutable proof of your worth. But the farther down the hill you go, the emptier you become...Using the descent...
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In this daring and provocative literary parody which has captured the interest and imagination of a nation, Alice Randall explodes the world created in GONE WITH THE WIND, a work that more than any other has defined our image of the antebellum South. Taking sharp aim at the romanticized, whitewashed mythology perpetrated by this southern classic, Randall has ingeniously conceived a multilayered, emotionally complex tale of her own - that of Cynara,...
6) Zabelle
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The story of an Armenian woman's life, from childhood in Ottoman Turkey to grandmotherhood in Boston. She is Zabelle who survives the 1915 massacre of Christians to land in an orphanage in Istanbul. She is adopted by an Armenian family who arrange a marriage, which brings her to America.
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"If anyone knows Southern cuisine, it's Johnnie Gabriel. For more than 20 years, Johnnie's kitchen creations have been a way of life in Marietta, Georgia...'Second Helpings' reveals Johnnie's knack for kicking up the flavors of beloved Southern specialties.Yes, yes, she's Paula Deen's cousin, after all...These recipes remain faithful to the contents of any respectable Southern pantry--no specialty grocery store required..."--Dust jacket flap.
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"Movement is a constant here. In the title piece, "The Window Seat," she reveals the unexpected enchantments of commercial air travel. In "Obama and the Renaissance Generation," she documents how, despite the narrative of Obama's exceptionalism, his father, like her own, was one of a generation of gifted young Africans who came to the United Kingdom and the United States for education and were expected to build their home countries anew after colonialism....
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[An] important and often absorbing new book . . . It's a deep pleasure to meet Ethel Payne. 'We are soul folks,' she declared in 1967, 'and I am writing for soul brothers' consumption.' Her own soul beams from this book. - New York Times
"A riveting biography of a groundbreaking African American journalist . . . In James McGrath Morris's compelling biography Eye on the Struggle, this 'first lady of the black press' finally gets her due." - O, the...
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This "surprising and insightful" history profiles ten African American engineers, mathematicians, and others who worked for NASA's space program (Lauren Helmuth, New York Times Book Review).
The Space Age began just as the struggle for civil rights forced Americans to confront the bitter legacy of slavery, discrimination, and violence against African Americans. NASA itself became an agent of social change, with President Kennedy opening its workplaces...
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"Matt Moore confesses: He is a serial griller. He can't help it—if there's food and flame, he'll grill it. In his newest book, he shares his indiscriminate appetite for smoky perfection with a broad collection of recipes varied in method, technique, and cuisine. After a review of the basics—the Maillard reaction, which grill is best for you, and more—he takes the reader on a tour across America to round up authentic stories, coveted recipes,...
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"Jane Shore is the poet of little ambushes, moments that hold us hostage, moments when we come to life." - Julia Alvarez
Since Robert Fitzgerald praised Eye Level, Jane Shore's 1977 Juniper Prize–winning first collection, for its "cool but venturesome eye," her work has continued to receive the highest accolades and attention from critics and fellow poets. That Said: New and Selected Poems extends Shore's lifelong, vivid exploration of memory-her...
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Combines fifteen of the author's classic short stories with fifteen new stories in an anthology that features tales involving donkey basketball leagues, lethal wind turbines, and marriage. In these comfort-zone-destroying tales, including the masterpiece, War Dances, characters grapple with racism, damaging stereotypes, poverty, alcoholism, diabetes, and the tragic loss of languages and customs. Questions of authenticity and identity abound.
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On October 15, 1996, I decided to kill myself. Why? This is my story.
This is the Author's third book. It is a detailed sequel to her first book titled "A Victim of
Boards of Directors - Based On A True Story" published by iUniverse in 2011.
In 1980, Noie earned her MBA degree from the University of California, Berkeley, a top
ranked university in the United States. Between May 1981 and May 1995, she had a successful
career as a senior...
18) Louise in Love
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In this stunning new collection of poems, Mary Jo Bang jettisons the reader into the dreamlike world of Louise, a woman in love. With language delicate, smooth, and wryly funny, Louise is on a voyage without destination, traveling with a cast of enigmatic others, including her lover, Ham. Louise is as musical as she is mysterious and the reader is invited to listen. In her world, anything goes, provided it is breathtaking. Bang, whose first collection...
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One of the most well-known figures in modern fantasy and science fiction, often credited for heralding the genre into the mainstream, Ray Bradbury delights readers time and time again with writing that pushes the boundaries of reality.
In this outstanding collection, Bradbury delivers poem after poem full of hope, fear, philosophy and faith. As in his work of speculative fiction, Bradbury's unique perspective on humanity graces every page.
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These poems-intrepid, obsessive, and erotic-tell the story of a woman's attempt to overcome despair. Claudia Rankine, whose first collection was the prize-winning Nothing in Nature is Private, creates a transfixing testimonial to a woman facing her own disease. Drawing on voices from Jane Eyre to Lady MacBeth, Rankine welds the cerebral and the spiritual, the sensual and the grotesque, courting paradox into the center of her voice.
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