Charles. Dickens

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

A miser learns the true meaning of Christmas when three ghostly visitors review his past and foretell his future.

A Christmas Carol

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Robert Louis Stevenson

A humane scientist attempts to explore the most loathsome forces of evil behind the doors of his London laboratory

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

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Cherie Dimaline

In this futuristic dystopian novel for teens, the Indigenous people of North America are on the run in a fight for survival.

The Marrow Thieves

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Ben Sherwood

The powerful bond between two brothers--one alive and the other killed in a terrible accident--unexpectedly transcends the barriers of life and death, and it is up to one enchanting woman to make their world right.

Charlie St. Cloud

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Abdellah Taia

An exquisite novel of North Africans in Paris by "one of the most original and necessary voices in world literature" Paris, Summer 2010. Zahira is 40 years old, Moroccan, a prostitute, traumatized by her father's suicide decades prior, and in love with a man who no longer loves her. Zannouba, Zahira's friend and protege, formerly known as Aziz, prepares for gender confirmation surgery and reflects on the reoccuring trauma of loss, including the loss of her pre-transition male persona. Mojtaba is a gay Iranian revolutionary who, having fled to Paris, seeks refuge with Zahira for the month of Ramadan. Meanwhile, Allal, Zahira's first love back in Morocco, travels to Paris to find Zahira. Through swirling, perpendicular narratives, A Country for Dying follows the inner lives of emigrants as they contend with the space between their dreams and their realities, a schism of a postcolonial world where, as Taïa writes, "So many people find themselves in the same situation. It is our destiny: To pay with our bodies for other people's future."

A Country for Dying

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Toni Morrison

Macon Dead, Jr., called "Milkman," the son of the wealthiest African American in town, moves from childhood into early manhood, searching, among the disparate, mysterious members of his family, for his life and reality. Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award. Reader's Guide available. Reprint. 50,000 first printing.

Song of Solomon

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Abha Dawesar

Stonewall Book Award Winner

Sexy, surprising, and subversively wise, Babyji is the story of Anamika Sharma, a spirited student growing up in Delhi. At school she is an ace at quantum physics. At home she sneaks off to her parents’ scooter garage to read the Kamasutra. Before long she has seduced an elegant older divorcée and the family servant, and has caught the eye of a classmate coveted by all the boys. With the world of adulthood dancing before her, Anamika confronts questions that would test someone twice her age. Ebullient, unfettered, and introducing one of the most charming heroines in contemporary fiction, Babyji is irresistible.

Babyji

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Bao Phi

When it feels like no one lets you live at your own volume You sing. Dynamic and eye-opening, this debut by a National Poetry Slam finalist critiques an America sleepwalking through its days and explores the contradictions of race and class in America. Bao Phi has been a National Poetry Slam finalist and appeared on HBO's Def Poetry. His poems and essays are widely published in numerous publications including 2006 Best American Poetry. Phi lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and works at the Loft Literary Center.

Song I Sing

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Olaudah Equiano

read for a british lit survey course and lives up to the title it was one the most interesting books the whole semester. 

The introduction to this new edition of Olaudah Equiano's classic narrative is clear and lucid, full of useful historical background information and superb biographical coverage, written from a completely novel point of view.

The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano

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Robert J. C. Young

This innovative and lively book is quite unlike any other introduction to postcolonialism. Robert Young examines the political, social, and cultural after-effects of decolonization by presenting situations, experiences, and testimony rather than going through the theory at an abstract level.He situates the debate in a wide cultural context, discussing its importance as an historical condition, with examples such as the status of aboriginal people, of those dispossessed from their land, Algerian rai music, postcolonial feminism, and global social and ecological movements. Above all,Young argues, postcolonialism offers a political philosophy of activism that contests the current situation of global inequality, and so in a new way continues the anti-colonial struggles of the past.

Postcolonialism: a Very Short Introduction

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Joshua Whitehead

A tour-de-force debut novel about a Two-Spirit Indigiqueer young man and proud NDN glitter princess who must reckon with his past when he returns home to his reservation.

Jonny Appleseed

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Kay Ulanday Barrett

super good performative artist as well i would recommend watching some of their readings :)

A love letter to Brown, Queer, and Trans futures, Kay Ulanday Barrett's More Than Organs questions "whatever wholeness means" for bodies always in transit, for the safeties and dangers they silo. These poems remix people of color as earthbenders, replay "the choreography of loss" after the 2015 Pulse shooting, and till joy from the cosmic sweetness of a family's culinary history. Barrett works "to build / a shelter // of / everyone / [they] meet," from aunties to the legendary Princess Urduja to their favorite air sign. More Than Organs tattoos grief across the knuckles of its left hand and love across the knuckles of its right, leaving the reader physically changed by the intensity of experience, longing, strength, desire, and the need, above all else, to survive.

More Than Organs

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Kim Fu

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

"[A] sharply written debut...A coming-of-age tale for our time." --Seattle Times



At birth, Peter Huang is given the Chinese name Juan Chaun, "powerful king." To his parents, newly settled in small-town Ontario, he is the exalted only son in a sea of daughters, the one who will finally fulfill his immigrant father's dreams of Western masculinity. Peter and his sisters grow up in an airless house of order and obligation, though secrets and half-truths simmer beneath the surface. At the first opportunity, each of the girls lights out on her own. But forPeter, escape is not as simple as fleeing his parents' home. Though his father crowned him "powerful king," Peter knows otherwise. He knows he is really a girl. With the help of his far-flung sisters and the sympathetic souls he finds along the way, Peter inches ever closer to his own life, his own skin, in this darkly funny, emotionally acute, stunningly powerful debut. 



For Today I Am a Boy

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Tsitsi Dangarembga

Nervous Conditions

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Tennessee Williams

Arthur Miller

Tennessee Williams' classic drama studies the emotional disintegration of a Southern woman whose last chance for happiness is destroyed by her vindictive brother-in-law.

A Streetcar Named Desire

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Traci Kato-Kiriyama

tkk is super unique loaded with layers of meaning from the microessays and poems themselves to the format in which the book is sectioned. read for a asian american lit survey course and she was my favorite by far ❤️
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With their second book, Navigating With(out) Instruments, traci kato-kiriyama uses her present-political unrest, family love and loss, her own cancer diagnosis-to join the traumas of the past generations with the hope of the future ones. Often seamless, often with a loud bang, kato-kiriyama moves from genre to genre, from poetry to essays to plays and to letters, framed by the history of US colonialism and war mongering, to urge readers to protect and to share their legacies, both personal and communal, as a means of global survival.

Navigating with(out) Instruments

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Becky Albertalli

The beloved, award-winning novel is now a major motion picture, Love, Simon, starring 13 Reasons Why’s Katherine Langford and Everything, Everything’s Nick Robinson. Sixteen-year-old and not-so-openly gay Simon Spier prefers to save his drama for the school musical. But when an email falls into the wrong hands, his secret is at risk of being thrust into the spotlight. Now Simon is actually being blackmailed: If he doesn’t play wingman for class clown Martin, his sexual identity will become everyone’s business. Worse, the privacy of Blue, the pen name of the boy he’s been emailing with, will be jeopardized. With some messy dynamics emerging in his once tight-knit group of friends and his email correspondence with Blue growing more flirtatious every day, Simon’s junior year has suddenly gotten all kinds of complicated. Now change-averse Simon has to find a way to step out of his comfort zone before he’s pushed out-without alienating his friends, compromising himself, or fumbling a shot at happiness with the most confusing, adorable guy he’s never met.

Madison Beckerdite

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Charles. Dickens

A Christmas Carol

Robert Louis Stevenson

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Cherie Dimaline

The Marrow Thieves

Ben Sherwood

Charlie St. Cloud

Abdellah Taia

A Country for Dying

Toni Morrison

Song of Solomon

Abha Dawesar

Babyji

Bao Phi

Song I Sing

Olaudah Equiano

The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano

Robert J. C. Young

Postcolonialism: a Very Short Introduction

Joshua Whitehead

Jonny Appleseed

Kay Ulanday Barrett

More Than Organs

Kim Fu

For Today I Am a Boy

Tsitsi Dangarembga

Nervous Conditions

Tennessee Williams; Arthur Miller

A Streetcar Named Desire

Traci Kato-Kiriyama

Navigating with(out) Instruments

Becky Albertalli

Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda Movie Tie-In Edition

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Charles. Dickens

A Christmas Carol

Robert Louis Stevenson

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Cherie Dimaline

The Marrow Thieves

Ben Sherwood

Charlie St. Cloud

Abdellah Taia

A Country for Dying

Toni Morrison

Song of Solomon

Abha Dawesar

Babyji

Bao Phi

Song I Sing

Olaudah Equiano

The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano

Robert J. C. Young

Postcolonialism: a Very Short Introduction

Joshua Whitehead

Jonny Appleseed

Kay Ulanday Barrett

More Than Organs

Kim Fu

For Today I Am a Boy

Tsitsi Dangarembga

Nervous Conditions

Tennessee Williams; Arthur Miller

A Streetcar Named Desire

Traci Kato-Kiriyama

Navigating with(out) Instruments

Becky Albertalli

Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda Movie Tie-In Edition

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