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When Jean Sousa's uncle is diagnosed with brain cancer, she is forced to reconcile difficult family relationships and her place among them. With the death of the family patriarch, a land dispute erupts. Now, forced to fight for her mother's house, Jean has to confront her own emotional frailty and revisit her mother's history of depression.

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A semi-autobiographical tale of an American family living in Paris during the mid-sixties. It tells of family struggle and the complex and sometimes volatile relationships that evolve within it. From the author of AS SOON AS IT RAINS, published to coincide with the release of a Merchant Ivory film featuring Kris Kristofferson and Barbara Hershey.

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Baumgardner's groundbreaking new book includes testimonials by Ani DiFranco, Barbara Ehrenreich, Gloria Steinem, and others.

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Percival Everett enriches the ranks of Chris Abani's Black Goat poetry series.

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Maggie Estep's best novel to date explores (with deep wit and insight) how a shocking family secret impacts the lives of an eccentric mother and her two daughters.

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An ambitious, accessible mix of history, autobiography, and how to manual, this anti-manifesto challenges popular concepts of radical activism. Long time inner city organiser and punk rabble-rouser Mark Andersen takes aim at the illusions that tend to keep North American radicals self-satisfied but ineffective.

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The much-anticipated sequel to Barbara J. Taylor's best-selling debut novel, Sing in the Morning, Cry at Night.

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The much-anticipated sequel to Barbara J. Taylor's best-selling debut novel, Sing in the Morning, Cry at Night.

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An expos of an America no one is comfortable talking about: the volatile ground where male violence and sexuality overlap.

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Bolivia's #1 novel is finally translated to English.

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Concerns with human rights, political oppression, sexuality, race, and Jamaican culture thematically connect these essays.

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Bolivia's preeminent fiction writer eclipses the successful English translation of American Visa with a riveting murder mystery.

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A foster child must confront a killer in this tale of horror and human depravity.

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A foster child must confront a killer in this tale of horror and human depravity.

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The second book from the iconic Chicago underground poster artist.

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The finest novel yet from one of the most exalted Caribbean writers.

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The finest novel yet from one of the most exalted Caribbean writers.

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A collection of the best pages from the last five years of Robbie Conal's satirical monthly column in the LA weekly, updated with background factoids and secret war stories about his subjects.

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Tragedy and humor meet in an adventure-packed, historical novel about a British incursion into the island of Trinidad in 1845.

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This much-anticipated and long-overdue installment in Akashic's Noir Series reveals many sides of Atlanta only known to its residents.

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Karen Harryman's lyrical voyage launches Nigerian author Chris Abani's visionary new poetry imprint, Black Goat.

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Now, one of the world's most war-torn cities is portrayed though a noir lens in this chilling story collection.

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Now a highly politicized medium, prison literature's roots lie in tales of theft, brutality, and religious conversion.

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A funny, poignant, thoughtfully rendered novel about love, fear, death, race, music, and the intense passions of youth.