Nonfiction

Pamela Nadell, America's Jewish Women

What does it mean to be a Jewish woman in America? In a gripping historical narrative, Pamela S. Nadell weaves together the stories of a diverse group of extraordinary people--from the colonial-era matriarch Grace Nathan and her great-granddaughter, poet Emma Lazarus, to labor organizer Bessie Hillman and the great justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, to scores of other activists, workers, wives, and mothers who helped carve out a Jewish American identity.

America's Jewish Women: A History from Colonial Times to Today Cover Image
$28.95
ISBN: 9780393651232
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Published: W. W. Norton & Company - March 5th, 2019

George Lakey, How We Win

A lifetime of activist experience informs this playbook for building and conducting nonviolent direct action campaigns.

Beginning as a trainer in the civil rights movement of the 1960s, George Lakey has been on the front lines of social change for decades. 

How We Win: A Guide to Nonviolent Direct Action Campaigning Cover Image
$16.99
ISBN: 9781612197531
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Published: Melville House - December 4th, 2018

Laurie Essig, Love, Inc.

The notion of “happily ever after” has been ingrained in many of us since childhood--meet someone, date, have the big white wedding, and enjoy your well-deserved future. But why do we buy into this idea? Is love really all we need?  

Love, Inc.: Dating Apps, the Big White Wedding, and Chasing the Happily Neverafter Cover Image
$26.95
ISBN: 9780520300491
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Published: University of California Press - February 12th, 2019

Janet Pocorobba, The Fourth String

The word sensei in Japanese literally means "one who came before," but that's not what Janet Pocorobba's teacher wanted to be called. She used her first name, Western-style. She wore a velour Beatles cap and leather jacket, and she taught foreigners, in English, the three-stringed shamisen, an instrument that fell out of tune as soon as you started to play it.

The Fourth String: A Memoir of Sensei and Me Cover Image
$16.95
ISBN: 9781611720464
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Published: Stone Bridge Press - March 12th, 2019

*Postponed* Tressie McMillan Cottom, Thick

This event has been postponed. Please check back for a new date to be annouced shortly.

"To say this collection is transgressive, provocative, and brilliant is simply to tell you the truth." --Roxane Gay, author of Hunger and Bad Feminist

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Thick: And Other Essays Cover Image
$24.99
ISBN: 9781620974360
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Published: New Press - January 8th, 2019

Bridgett Davis, The World According to Fannie Davis

In 1958, the very same year that an unknown songwriter named Berry Gordy borrowed $800 to found Motown Records, a pretty young mother from Nashville, Tennessee borrowed $100 from her brother to run a Numbers racket out of her tattered apartment on Delaware Street, in one of Detroit's worst sections. That woman was Fannie Davis, Bridgett M. Davis' mother. 

The World According to Fannie Davis: My Mother's Life in the Detroit Numbers Cover Image
$28.00
ISBN: 9780316558730
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Published: Little, Brown and Company - January 29th, 2019

Ron Fein, John Bonifaz, & Ben Clements, The Constitution Demands It

Three veteran constitutional attorneys say there’s no way around it: The Constitution demands that Donald Trump must be impeached.

And in clear language using compelling logic rooted firmly in the Constitution, they detail why the time to start is now—not in the indefinite future after criminal investigations have ended. In fact, much of Trump’s impeachable conduct lies outside the scope of ongoing federal criminal investigations.

The Constitution Demands It: The Case for the Impeachment of Donald Trump Cover Image
$16.99
ISBN: 9781612197630
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Published: Melville House - August 14th, 2018

The Beiging of America

Contributors to the anthology read from their poems and essays.

The Beiging of America: Personal Narratives About Being Mixed Race in the 21st Century takes on "race matters" and considers them through the firsthand accounts of mixed race people in the United States. Edited by mixed-race scholars Cathy J. Schlund-Vials, Sean Frederick Forbes and Tara Betts, this collection consists of 39 poets, writers, teachers, professors, artists and activists, whose personal narratives articulate the complexities of interracial life.

The Beiging of America: Personal Narratives about Being Mixed Race in the 21st Century Cover Image
By Cathy J. Schlund-Vials (Editor), Sean Frederick Forbes (Editor), Tara Betts (Editor)
$24.99
ISBN: 9781940939544
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Published: 2Leaf Press - June 30th, 2017

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