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Promise/Threat: Poems
$28.00 Add to cartAfter storming the scene with Stereo(TYPE), the PEN America Award-winning poet makes his highly anticipated return–with a virtuosic sophomore collection that plunges the reader into the tenebrous re… [more below]
- Author: Mixon-Webster, Jonah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: March 10 2026
- ISBN10: 059380306X
- Language: English
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Growing Up Latino
$18.99 Add to cartFrom the mean streets of the barrio to the house on Mango Street, from the Mambo Kings to the Garcia Girls, the authors who contribute to this volume transport us across geographies and through cultur
- Author: Augenbraum, Harold
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: February 26 1993
- ISBN10: 0395661242
- Language: English
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La Copine: New California Cooking from an Oasis in the Desert
$45.00 Read moreFrom La Copine, a destination restaurant near Joshua Tree, comes a beautiful debut cookbook with stories of life in the desert and recipes that capture a unique approach to California cooking
Out in- Author: Wadsworth, Claire
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 28 2026
- ISBN10: 1419778226
- Language: English
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No Grier, No Game: How Bobby Grier and the Sugar Bowl Showdown Changed American Sports History
$24.97 Add to cartIn 1956, Bobby Grier stepped onto the field at the Sugar Bowl and into history. As the first Black player to break the color barrier in a major bowl game in the Deep South, his courage on that day cha
- Author: Grier, Rob
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: October 06 2025
- ISBN10: 196937246X
- Language: English
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Fire: From “A Journal of Love” the Unexpurgated Diary of Ana?s Nin, 1934-1937
$25.99 Add to cartIn this “erotically charged”(Publishers Weekly) diary that picks up where Incest left off, Nin chronicles a restless search for fulfillment that leads her to New York City-“that brilliant giant toy” –
- Author: Nin, Anaïs
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: June 16 2011
- ISBN10: 0156003902
- Language: English
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Failure: A Poetry Collection
$16.00 Add to cartThis superb Pulitzer Prize-winning collection gives voice to failure with a wry, deft touch from one of this country’s most engaging and uncompromising poets. In Failure, Philip Schultz evokes the ple… [more below]
- Author: Schultz, Philip
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: April 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0156031280
- Language: English
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The American Short Story: The Nineteenth Century, Volume 2 (Loa #395)
$42.50 Add to cartThe second volume in a landmark story collection that redefines what we thought we knew about the great American literary form
A diverse, unprecedented gathering of more than one hundred stories, repr- Series: Library of America the American Short Story: The Nineteenth Century
- Author: Stauffer, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 827
- Publish Date: February 17 2026
- ISBN10: 1598538225
- Language: English
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Never Wear Red Lipstick: 8 Lies That Stop Black Women from Succeeding in Life and Business
$24.99 Read moreA guide for Black women to unlock their potential in business and in life.
Despite being the fastest-growing group of entrepreneurs in the US, Black women face systemic barriers that threaten to derai
- Author: Dunham Burton, Karmetria
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: March 31 2026
- ISBN10: 9798889833000
- Language: English
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Dream a World Anew: The African American Experience and the Shaping of America
$40.00 Add to cartDream A World Anew is the stunning gift book accompanying the opening of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. It combines informative narratives from leading schola… [more below]
- Author: Nat’l Mus Afr Am Hist Culture
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 24 2026
- ISBN10: 1588348229
- Language: English
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Visitations: Poems
$27.00 Read moreAmerica’s beloved Julia Alvarez returns to her first form, poetry, in her latest collection, with scintillating poems drawn from across her life like stars from the sky.
As I approach the closing stan- Author: Alvarez, Julia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: April 07 2026
- ISBN10: 0593805038
- Language: English
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Ruins, Child
$15.95 Read moreSet in what may be the future, and centered on six women sharing a space in some sort of crumbling apartment tower, Ruins, Child is remarkable for its irresistible sweep, wit, and prickly splintered t… [more below]
- Author: Scodellaro, Giada
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: March 24 2026
- ISBN10: 0811240215
- Language: English
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A Grain of Sand in Lambeth: Poems
$17.00 Add to cartIn A Grain of Sand in Lambeth, poetry becomes a lens through which to explore the complex, visionary world of William Blake. Drawing on Blake’s own rejection of tradition and his relentless quest to c… [more below]
- Series: Test Site Poetry
- Author: Babbitt, Geoffrey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 114
- Publish Date: December 02 2025
- ISBN10: 1647792053
- Language: English
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Flyboy in the Buttermilk: Essays on Contemporary America
$18.00 Read moreA reissue of Greg Tate’s classic, out-of-print collection of essays, with a new introduction by Hanif Abdurraqib and a new foreword by Questlove.
From one of the most original, creative, and provocati- Author: Tate, Greg
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 21 2026
- ISBN10: 0374394628
- Language: English
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Sinclair Lewis: The 1920s and the Shaping of American Identity
$35.00 Add to cart- Author: Agran, Edward Gale
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: December 02 2025
- ISBN10: 0881469963
- Language: English
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The Rush for Second Place: Essays and Occasional Writings
$24.00 Add to cartAn essential collection of nonfiction essays by the National Book Award winning author of J R and A Frolic of His Own
William Gaddis published only four novels during his lifetime, but with those work- Author: Gaddis, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 01 2002
- ISBN10: 0142002380
- Language: English
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Mavericks of Style: The Seventies in Color
$34.00 Add to cartIn Mavericks of Style, Uri McMillan tells the story of New York City’s downtown art and fashion scene of the 1970s through the lives and careers of experimental Black and Brown artists. McMillan focus… [more below]
- Author: McMillan, Uri
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: October 21 2025
- ISBN10: 1478032510
- Language: English
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Loba
$24.00 Add to cartLoba is a visionary epic quest for the reintegration of the femimine, hailed by many as the great female counterpart to Allen Ginsberg’s Howl when the first half appeared in 1978. Now published for th… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Poets
- Author: Di Prima, Diane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 01 1998
- ISBN10: 0140587527
- Language: English
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Enduring Conviction: Fred Korematsu and His Quest for Justice
$24.95 Add to cartFred Korematsu’s decision to resist F.D.R.’s Executive Order 9066, which provided authority for the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II, was initially the case of a young man followin
- Series: Scott and Laurie Oki Series in Asian American Studies
- Author: Bannai, Lorraine K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: February 01 2018
- ISBN10: 029574281X
- Language: English
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The Passionate Eye:: The Collected Writing of Suzanne Vega
$17.99 Add to cartSuzanne Vega is a poet of the urban streets whose passionate eye catches the motion and vibrant color of the life that surrounds us all. In this volume are her collected writings: poems and stories; s
- Series: Collected Writings of Suzanne Vega
- Author: Vega, Suzanne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 08 2001
- ISBN10: 0380788829
- Language: English
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The Fire Inside: The Dharma of James Baldwin and Audre Lorde
$20.95 Add to cartBlack, queer, feminist, Buddhist: The Fire Inside casts a fresh new light on the radical literary legacies of James Baldwin and Audre Lorde
Includes meditation exercises The Fire Inside explores the w- Author: Vesely-Flad, Rima
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: February 03 2026
- ISBN10: 9798889842583
- Language: English
