James McBride

National Book Award winner. Short stories. New and unread condition; the only thing is that the bottom has a slight water stain and the top is yellower than the sides. But no creases or marks. 

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

New York

Exciting new fiction from James McBride, the first since his National Book Award-winning novel The Good Lord Bird.

The stories in Five-Carat Soul-none of them ever published before-spring from the place where identity, humanity, and history converge. They're funny and poignant, insightful and unpredictable, imaginative and authentic-all told with McBride's unrivaled storytelling skill and meticulous eye for character and detail. McBride explores the ways we learn from the world and the people around us. An antiques dealer discovers that a legendary toy commissioned by Civil War General Robert E. Lee now sits in the home of a black minister in Queens. Five strangers find themselves thrown together and face unexpected judgment. An American president draws inspiration from a conversation he overhears in a stable. And members of The Five-Carat Soul Bottom Bone Band recount stories from their own messy and hilarious lives.

As McBride did in his National Book award-winning The Good Lord Bird and his bestselling The Color of Water, he writes with humor and insight about how we struggle to understand who we are in a world we don't fully comprehend. The result is a surprising, perceptive, and evocative collection of stories that is also a moving exploration of our human condition.

Five-Carat Soul

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Gish Jen

Great popular book by a respected and very readable Chinese American author. Increasingly taught in schools and colleges. Book is in perfect unread condition. 

From the beloved author of Mona in the Promised Land and The Love Wife comes this comic masterpiece, an insightful novel of immigrants experiencing the triumphs and trials of American life.

 

Gish Jen reinvents the American immigrant story through the Chang family, who first come to the United States with no intention of staying. When the Communists assume control of China in 1949, though, Ralph Chang, his sister Theresa, and his wife Helen, find themselves in a crisis. At first, they cling to their old-world ideas of themselves.  But as they begin to dream the American dream of self-invention, they move poignantly and ironically from people who disparage all that is "typical American" to people who might be seen as typically American themselves. With droll humor and a deep empathy for her characters, Gish Jen creates here a superbly engrossing story that resonates with wit and wisdom even as it challenges the reader to reconsider what a typical American might be today.

Typical American

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Shirley Jackson

Brand new unread book, vintage design details, released for Penguin’s 70th anniversary. Jackson is famous for her story “The Lottery,” and her other innovative and unsettling stories such as this one deserve to be better known! 

(Penguin Orange Collection: collectible limited edition )

Part of the Penguin Orange Collection, a limited-run series of twelve influential and beloved American classics in a bold series design offering a modern take on the iconic Penguin paperback Winner of the 2016 AIGA + Design Observer 50 Books | 50 Covers competition For the seventieth anniversary of Penguin Classics, the Penguin Orange Collection celebrates the heritage of Penguin’s iconic book design with twelve influential American literary classics representing the breadth and diversity of the Penguin Classics library. These collectible editions are dressed in the iconic orange and white tri-band cover design, first created in 1935, while french flaps, high-quality paper, and striking cover illustrations provide the cutting-edge design treatment that is the signature of Penguin Classics Deluxe Editions today. We Have Always Lived in the Castle Taking readers deep into a labyrinth of dark neurosis, We Have Always Lived in the Castle is perhaps the crowning achievement of Shirley Jackson’s brilliant career: a deliciously unsettling novel about a perverse, isolated, and possibly murderous family and the dramatic struggle that ensues when an unexpected visitor interrupts their unusual way of life.

We Have Always Lived in the Castle

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N. K. Jemisin

Hugo award winner and wonderful intro to her unique world informed by a deep understanding of science, geology, and the environment. Book in excellent condition: no marks, tears or creases except small one at the top of the back cover, as shown. Extras, and two appendices. 

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Broken Earth trilogy, book 1

"Intricate and extraordinary." - New York Times on The Fifth Season (A New York Times Notable Book of 2015) WINNER OF THE HUGO AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL 2016 This is the way the world ends...for the last time. 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, a land long familiar with catastrophe, where the power of the earth is wielded as a weapon. And where there is no mercy. For more from N. K. Jemisin, check out: The Inheritance Trilogy The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms The Broken Kingdoms The Kingdom of Gods The Inheritance Trilogy (omnibus edition) Shades in Shadow: An Inheritance Triptych (e-only short fiction) The Awakened Kingdom (e-only novella) Dreamblood Duology The Killing Moon The Shadowed Sun The Broken EarthThe Fifth SeasonThe Obelisk Gate

The Fifth Season

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Lois Lowry

This edition of this classic beloved dystopian tale, frequently taught in middle school, has great bonuses: interviews with Taylor Swift and two other actors from the film. Swift’s interview is fascinating as she recollects why the book so deeply affected her in middle school, and how she brought that memory and love to her role in the film. Book is in perfect condition except one minor fold on back cover: see pic. Middle

Living in a "perfect" world without social ills, a boy approaches the time when he will receive a life assignment from the Elders, but his selection leads him to a mysterious man known as the Giver, who reveals the dark secrets behind the utopian facade.

The Giver

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Alan Kaufman

An amazing anthology of short pieces of varied genres by a wide range of alternative, experimental authors, some more famous than others, some still living. Brand new book in perfect unread condition. 

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

The Outlaw Bible of American Literature will serve as a primer for generational revolt and an enduring document of the visionary tradition of authenticity and nonconformity in literature. This exuberant manifesto includes lives of the writers, on-the-scene testimony, seminal underground articles never before collected, photographs, cartoons, drawings, interviews, and, above all, the writings. Beat, Punk, Noir, Prison, Porn, Cyber, Queer, Anarchist, Blue Collar, Pulp, Sci-Fi, Utopian, Mobster, Political—all are represented. The Bible includes fiction, essays, letters, memoirs, journalism, lyrics, diaries, manifestoes, and selections from seminal film scripts, including Easy Rider, Apocalypse Now, and Taxi Driver. The editors have brought together an extravagant, eclectic, searing, and unforgettable body of work, showcasing Hustlers, Mavericks, Contrarians, Rockers, Barbarians, Gangsters, Hedonists, Provocateurs, Hipsters, and Revolutionaries—all in one raucous cauldron of rebellion and otherness. This prose companion to the best-selling award-winning Outlaw Bible of American Poetry features selections from Hunter S. Thompson, Exene Cervenka, Patti Smith, Dennis Cooper, Malcolm X, Sonny Barger, Maggie Estep, Lenny Bruce, Henry Miller, R. Crumb, Philip K. Dick, Iceberg Slim, Gil Scott-Heron, Kathy Acker, Jim Carroll, Charles Mingus, Norman Mailer, and many others.

The Outlaw Bible of American Literature

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Toni Morrison

Brand new unread and in perfect condition. 

Set in Harlem during the 1920s, this novel chronicles a bittersweet triangle involving Joe Trace, a middle-aged door-to-door salesman, his mentally unstable wife Violet, and his eighteen-year-old girlfriend. Reader's Guide available. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.

Jazz

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Roger Osborne

Beautiful accessible and well designed world history for the 21st century. Respected scholar. B&w illustrations. Brand new unused perfect condition. No flaws or annotations. 

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

A New History of the Western World

Ever since the attacks of September 11, 2001, Western leaders have described a world engaged in "a fight for civilization." But what do we mean by civilization? We believe in a Western tradition of freedom that has produced a fulfilling existence for many millions of people and a culture of enormous depth and creative power. But the history of our civilization is also filled with unspeakable brutality--for every Leonardo there is a Mussolini, for every Beethoven symphony a concentration camp, for every Chrysler Building a My Lai massacre.An ambitious historical assessment of the Western world--tying together the histories of empires, art, philosophy, science, and politics--Civilization reexamines and confronts us with all of our glories and catastrophes. At such a dangerous time in the world's history, this brilliant book is required reading.

Civilization

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Wayne Au

Anthony L. Brown

Dolores Calderón

James A. Banks

Michael Dumas

Collection of essays about culturally responsive pedagogy and epistemology, published 2016 by Teachers College at Columbia University. Brand new, no markings, notes, folds, or signs of wear. 

Communities of Color and Official Knowledge in Education

Within curriculum studies, a “master narrative” has developed into a canon that is predominantly White, male, and associated with institutions of higher education. This canon has systematically neglected communities of color, all of which were engaged in their own critical conversations about the type of education that would best benefit their children. Building upon earlier work that reviewed curriculum texts, this book serves as a much-needed correction to the glaring gaps in U.S. curriculum history. Chapters focus on the curriculum discourses of African Americans, Native Americans, Asian Americans, and Latinos during what has been construed as the “founding” period of curriculum studies, reclaiming their historical legacy and recovering the multicultural history of educational foundations in the United States. Book Features: Challenges the historical foundations of curriculum studies in the United States during the turn of and early decades of the 20th century. Illuminates the curriculum conversations, struggles, and contentions of communities of color. Highlights curriculum historically as a site at the intersection of colonization, White supremacy, and Americanization in the United States. Brings marginalized voices from the community into the conversation around curriculum, typically dominated by university voices.

Reclaiming the Multicultural Roots of U. S. Curriculum

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Celestine Woo

Rachelle Chuang

Book of formal and free verse poetry. Themes: modern dance, and winter. I have 30+ years of experience in modern dance, and have been a choreographer. My poems meld dance imagery and expression with poetry. 94 pg. 

Frost Fair Dance

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Chapbook of poetry about religious trauma, family conflict, Chinese American culture. Formal poetry: sonnets, villanelle, blank verse, as well as free verse. 31 pg. 

Burnished Sol

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Ann Daly

The best part about this book is the copious illustrations, including photos, professional portraits, renditions of Duncan’s movement style, and even the lovely drawings adorning each chapter. 

Signs of wear include very minimal creases on front cover bottom right and upper corner and light annotations throughout book. Personally I actually really like seeing a prior reader’s thoughts, especially pertaining to dance and choreography, but I know most people don’t. 

Isadora Duncan in America

The larger-than-life story of an American dance icon.

Done into Dance

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Lisa Genova

Spine has minor creases as you can see in the picture. Other than that, in superb condition. No dog ears, folds, creases, stains, marks, or writing. 

Still Alice

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Perry Nodelman

Mavis Reimer

Excellent textbook by respected scholar Perry Nodelman, and Victorianist Mavis Reimer. In new perfect unread condition. No marks except my name inside front cover. 

English

3rd edition, 2003

Offers an overview of children's literature in the context of professional discussion of children's literature and reading. Focusing on controversial issues and designed to provoke thought and debate, this text examines literary response to and analysis of the field of literary texts written by adults for children.

The Pleasures of Children's Literature

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Anneliese A. Singh

Tim Wise

Derald Wing Sue

Brief, easy to read activities for teachers, advisors, and admin to incorporate. Excellent for both a one-off lesson as well as a more thorough curricular integration. 

Practical Activities to Help You Challenge Privilege, Confront Systemic Racism, and Engage in Collective Healing

A powerful and practical guide to help you navigate racism, challenge privilege, manage stress and trauma, and begin to heal.

Healing from racism is a journey that often involves reliving trauma and experiencing feelings of shame, guilt, and anxiety. This journey can be a bumpy ride, and before we begin healing, we need to gain an understanding of the role history plays in racial/ethnic myths and stereotypes. In so many ways, to heal from racism, you must re-educate yourself and unlearn the processes of racism. This book can help guide you.

The Racial Healing Handbook offers practical tools to help you navigate daily and past experiences of racism, challenge internalized negative messages and privileges, and handle feelings of stress and shame. You'll also learn to develop a profound racial consciousness and conscientiousness, and heal from grief and trauma. Most importantly, you'll discover the building blocks to creating a community of healing in a world still filled with racial microaggressions and discrimination.

This book is not just about ending racial harm--it is about racial liberation. This journey is one that we must take together. It promises the possibility of moving through this pain and grief to experience the hope, resilience, and freedom that helps you not only self-actualize, but also makes the world a better place.

The Racial Healing Handbook

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Jesse Hagopian

Denisha Jones

Opal Tometi

Unread, perfect condition. A very relevant anthology for teaching in contemporary times. 

I’ve reviewed the book on Goodreads. 

An Uprising for Educational Justice

Black Lives Matter at School is an essential resource for all those seeking to build an antiracist school system."

--Ibram X. Kendi, National Book Award-winning and #1 New York Times Bestselling Author 



Black Lives Matter at School succinctly generalizes lessons from successful challenges to institutional racism that have been won through the Black Lives Matter at School movement. This book will inspire many more educators and activists to join the Black Lives Matter at School movement at a moment when this antiracist work in our schools could not be more urgent and critical to education justice.



Contributors include Opal Tometi, who wrote a moving foreword, Bettina Love who shares a powerful chapter on abolitionist teaching, Brian Jones who centers Black Lives Matter at School in the historical context of the ongoing struggle for racial justice in education and prominent teacher union leaders from Chicago to Los Angeles and beyond who discuss the importance of anti-racist struggle in education unions. The book includes essays, interviews, poems, resolutions, and more from educators, students and parents around the country who have been building Black Lives Matter at School on the ground.

Black Lives Matter at School

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Syed M. Masood

Fantastic YA book: it’s hilarious, illuminating, genuinely moving, and a window into the lives of contemporary Muslim Americans. No simple black and white truths. An easy, entertaining, and educational read. This copy is brand new mint unread condition. 

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

A Novel

"Following two families from Pakistan and Iraq in the 90s through to San Francisco in 2016, a comic novel about being Muslim immigrants in modern America"--

The Bad Muslim Discount

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Kurt Vonnegut

Brilliant book by master of satire! Brand new unread condition. 

"A free-wheeling vehicle . . . an unforgettable ride!"--The New York Times 

Cat's Cradle is Kurt Vonnegut's satirical commentary on modern man and his madness. An apocalyptic tale of this planet's ultimate fate, it features a midget as the protagonist, a complete, original theology created by a calypso singer, and a vision of the future that is at once blackly fatalistic and hilariously funny. A book that left an indelible mark on an entire generation of readers, Cat's Cradle is one of the twentieth century's most important works--and Vonnegut at his very best.

"[Vonnegut is] an unimitative and inimitable social satirist."--Harper's Magazine

"Our finest black-humorist . . . We laugh in self-defense."--Atlantic Monthly

Cat's Cradle

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Mantak Chia

Douglas Abrams

Maneew Chia

Rachel Carlton Abrams

Pretty amazing book!! You can see the back cover got munched: that plus the last page each have a major crease. Other than that, the book is in pristine condition with no writing, marks, or signs of wear. 

Sexual Secrets Every Couple Should Know

The bestselling authors of The Multi-Orgasmic Man show you and your partner how to: Experience intense multiple whole-body orgasms Pleasure each other profoundly Use sexuality for health and healing Deepen your love and spiritual relationship Couples will discover simple step-by-step techniques for a level of sexual pleasure, intimacy, and healing they may not have known was possible. This fully illustrated guide will inspire couples to make love all night-and make love last a lifetime.

The Multi-Orgasmic Couple

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In pristine condition except for the price tag that you can see was once on the front cover. No annotations or signs of wear. 

First Unabridged Modern Translation of the Classic Indian Text 

The Complete Kama Sutra

Unused instructor edition with no marks or signs of wear. 

Instructor’s Copy

Essentials of Children’s Literature, 7th edition 

Doris Humphrey

Classic text by pioneering modern dancer and choreographer. In excellent condition: no creases or signs of damage or wear. Lightly annotated, as shown. 

Written just before the author's death in 1958, this book is an autobiography in art, a gathering of experiences in performance, and a lucid and practical source book on choreography.

The Art of Making Dances

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Eric Franklin

Fabulous book for choreographers!! I used it when I used to choreograph and it was invaluable! So many creative ideas and ways of envisioning how your combination will advance. 

In excellent reading condition. It has my name in the cover and some pages toward the back show some little water marks, as you can see in the last photo. Other than that, no creases, annotations, or flaws. 

Franklin provides 583 imagery exercises to improve dance technique, artistic expression and performance. More than 160 illustrations highlight the images, and the exercises can be put to use in dance movement and choreography.

Dance Imagery for Technique and Performance

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Gerald Graff

Seriously, this book is amazing. I’ve used it in many college writing courses I’ve taught and tons of students tell me how helpful it is and how empowering and fluid it makes their writing. 

This copy is unused and in perfect condition. No marks or signs of wear: all it has is the college name stamped on the outside, as shown in the pic. 

The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing, with 2016 MLA Update

THIS TITLE HAS BEEN UPDATED TO REFLECT THE 2016 MLA UPDATE. The best-selling book on academic writing in use at more than 1,500 schools. "

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