Demographic Orientation/Urban
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Bone in the Throat
$17.99 Add to cartThe acclaimed first novel by the New York Times bestselling author of Kitchen Confidential and host of Parts Unknown on CNN. A wildly funny, irreverent tale of murder, mayhem, and the mob.
When up-and- Author: Bourdain, Anthony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 18 2000
- ISBN10: 1582341028
- Language: English
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A Raisin in the Sun
$18.99 Add to cart“Never before, the entire history of the American theater, has so much of the truth of black people’s lives been seen on the stage,” observed James Baldwin shortly before A Raisin in the Sun opened on… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library (Hardcover)
- Author: Hansberry, Lorraine
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: August 22 1995
- ISBN10: 679601724
- Language: English
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Peace in the Hood: Working with Gang Members to End the Violence
$23.99 Add to cartPeace In the Hood evokes the reality of gangland warfare but also acknowledges the possibility of peace. Written by Basheer, a pioneer of the interventionist movement, it documents the lessons he lear… [more below]
- Author: Basheer, Aquil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: July 15 2014
- ISBN10: 089793704X
- Language: English
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Who Needs Gay Bars?: Bar-Hopping Through America’s Endangered LGBTQ+ Places
$30.00 Read moreGay bars have been closing by the hundreds. The story goes that increasing mainstream acceptance of LGBTQ+ people, plus dating apps like Grindr and Tinder, have rendered these spaces obsolete. Beyond
- Author: Mattson, Greggor
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: May 30 2023
- ISBN10: 1503629201
- Language: English
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Rascal Does Not Dream of Logical Witch (Light Novel): Volume 3
$16.00 Add to cartJust before summer break, Sakuta encounters Shouko Makinohara, a girl in junior high with the same name and face as his first love. Of course, that should be impossible, since she would be in college … [more below]
- Series: Rascal Does Not Dream (Light Novel #3
- Author: Kamoshida, Hajime
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: November 17 2020
- ISBN10: 1975312562
- Language: English
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Bodega Dreams
$17.00 Add to cartIn this “thriller with literary merit” (Time Out New York), a stunning narrative combines the gritty rhythms of Junot Diaz with the noir genius of Walter Mosley.
Bodega Dreams pulls us into Spanish H- Series: Vintage Contemporaries
- Author: Quiñonez, Ernesto
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 14 2000
- ISBN10: 375705899
- Language: English
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Soil and Spirit: Cultivation and Kinship in the Web of Life
$26.00 Add to cartAs a farmer with decades spent working in fields, Scott Chaskey has been shaped by daily attention to the earth. A leader in the international Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) movement, he has co… [more below]
- Author: Chaskey, Scott
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 09 2023
- ISBN10: 1571311971
- Language: English
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A Gathering of Crones
$15.99 Add to cartShe’s running out of time. And so is the world.
After learning on her sixtieth birthday that she’s one of five Crones destined to save the world, Claire Emerson has been desperately trying to acquire t
- Series: The Crone Wars #2
- Author: Hawke, Lydia M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 220
- Publish Date: February 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1989457096
- Language: English
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Clockers
$40.99 Add to cartNovelist and Academy Award-nominated screenwriter Richard Price’s bestselling second novel offers an unforgettable picture of inner-city decay and despair (USA Today)
At once an intense mystery and a- Author: Price, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: March 04 2008
- ISBN10: 0312426186
- Language: English
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Black Girl Lost
$16.95 Add to cartFrom the “Godfather of Black pulp fiction” (Salon) and one of the most revolutionary writers of the 20th century, the classic tale of a woman living life in the ghetto without any rules…
Almost sinc- Author: Goines, Donald
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 25 2023
- ISBN10: 1496735978
- Language: English
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Eloise: The Ultimate Edition
$39.99 Add to cartEloise has been delighting readers for more than sixty years–though she’s still not a day over six.
Eloise is a very special little girl who lives at The Plaza Hotel in New York City. She may not be- Series: Eloise
- Author: Thompson, Kay
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 01 2000
- ISBN10: 0689839901
- Language: English
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An End to Inequality: Breaking Down the Walls of Apartheid Education in America
$25.99 Add to cartAn eloquent and passionate call for educational reparations, from the New York Times bestselling author
When Jonathan Kozol’s Death at an Early Age appeared in 1967, it rocked the education world. Ba
- Author: Kozol, Jonathan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 12 2024
- ISBN10: 1620978725
- Language: English
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Swann’s Way
$18.95 Add to cartNow available for the first time in the United States, a celebrated translation of the first volume of Proust’s In Search of Lost Time.
Swann’s Way, the first of the seven volumes that constitut- Author: Proust, Marcel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: May 23 2023
- ISBN10: 1681376296
- Language: English
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Amongst Our Weapons
$17.00 Add to cartNow in paperback, the ninth novel of the bestselling Rivers of London urban fantasy series returns to the adventures of Peter Grant, detective and apprentice wizard, as he solves magical crimes in the… [more below]
- Series: Rivers of London
- Author: Aaronovitch, Ben
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 14 2023
- ISBN10: 075641864X
- Language: English
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Whiteout: How Racial Capitalism Changed the Color of Opioids in America
$29.95 Add to cartThe first critical analysis of how Whiteness drove the opioid crisis.
In the past two decades, media images of the surprisingly white “new face” of the US opioid crisis abounded. But why was the cris- Author: Hansen, Helena
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 28 2023
- ISBN10: 0520384059
- Language: English
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Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families–And How Abolition Can Build a Safer World
$21.99 Add to cartAn award-winning scholar exposes the foundational racism of the child welfare system and offers a “a brilliant and impassioned call for abolition” (Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow)
Ma- Author: Roberts, Dorothy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 03 2023
- ISBN10: 1541675460
- Language: English
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The Backyard Homestead Guide to Raising Farm Animals: Choose the Best Breeds for Small-Space Farming, Produce Your Own Grass-Fed Meat, Gather Fresh Eg
$24.99 Add to cartEnjoy a weekend breakfast featuring eggs, bacon, and honey from your own chickens, pigs, and bees, or a holiday meal with your own heritage-breed turkey as the main attraction. Gail Damerow covers eve… [more below]
- Series: Backyard Homestead
- Author: Damerow, Gail
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: March 23 2011
- ISBN10: 1603429697
- Language: English
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Hysteria
$18.00 Add to cartOne of The Observer’s Five Most Anticipated Debuts of August ∙ One of Refinery29’s Best Books of the Summer ∙ One of Lit Hub’s Best New Books of the Summer ∙ One of The Millions’ Mos… [more below]
- Author: Gross, Jessica
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: August 18 2020
- ISBN10: 1951213122
- Language: English
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The Harlem Charade
$7.99 Add to cartFans of Chasing Vermeer will love this clever mystery about art, artifice, and the power of community.
WATCHER. SHADOW. FUGITIVE.Harlem is home to all kinds of kids. Jin sees life passing her by from t… [more below]
- Author: Tarpley, Natasha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 24 2018
- ISBN10: 0545783887
- Language: English
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The Empire State Building
$25.95 Add to cartThe Empire State Building is the landmark book on one of the world’s most notable landmarks. Since its publication in 1995, John Tauranac’s book, focused on the inception and construction of the build
- Author: Tauranac, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: March 25 2014
- ISBN10: 0801479398
- Language: English
