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Bullets into Bells

Bullets into Bells

Beacon Press, December 2017. Paper Back. A powerful call to end American gun violence from celebrated poets and those most impacted Focused intensively on the crisis of gun violence in America, this volume brings together poems by dozens of our best-known poets, including Billy Collins, Patricia Smith, Natalie Diaz, Ocean..... More

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Bullets into Bells is an important collection of voices. It pairs poetry from poets like Rita Dove, Robert Hass, Yosef Komunyakaa, and plenty more with your everyday citizens' response to gun violence. It will move you.
When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities (A. Poulin, Jr. New Poets of...

When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities (A. Poulin, Jr. New Poets of America)

BOA Editions Ltd., April 2017. Paper Back. LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR POETRY WINNER OF THE THOM GUNN AWARD FOR GAY POETRY WINNER OF THE GLCA NEW WRITERS AWARD WINNER OF THE A. POULIN, JR. POETRY PRIZE A LIBRARY JOURNAL BEST BOOK OF 2017 SELECTION: POETRY & LITERATURE..... More

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Chen Chen's new book is probably my new favorite collection of poetry. His writing is so approachable, artful, both funny and serious, and probing. It's been nominated for the National Book Award, too.
Citizen: An American Lyric. Claudia Rankine

Citizen: An American Lyric

Graywolf Press, October 2014. Trade Paperback. * Finalist for the National Book Award in Poetry * * Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry * Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism * Winner of the NAACP Image Award * Winner of the L.A...... More

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M Butterfly. DAVID HENRY HWANG

M Butterfly

Penguin Group USA Inc, February 1994. Trade Paperback. Based on a true story that stunned the world, "M. Butterfly" opens in the cramped prison cell where diplomat Rene Gallimard is being held captive by the French government - and by his own illusions. In the darkness of his cell he..... More

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They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us. Hanif Abdurraqib

They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us

Two Dollar Radio, November 2017. Paper Back. *2018 "12 best books to give this holiday season" --TODAY Show*Best Books of 2018 --Rolling Stone"A Best Book of 2017" --NPR, Buzzfeed, Paste Magazine, Esquire, Chicago Tribune, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, CBC, Stereogum, National Post, Entropy, Heavy, Book Riot, Chicago Review of Books, The..... More

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A Little Life. Hanya Yanagihara

A Little Life

Anchor, January 2016. Trade Paperback. ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR The New York Times - The Washington Post - The Wall Street Journal - NPR - Vanity Fair - Vogue - Minneapolis Star Tribune - St. Louis Post-Dispatch - The Guardian - O, The Oprah Magazine -..... More

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The Glass Castle: A Memoir. JEANNETTE WALLS

The Glass Castle: A Memoir

Scribner, January 2006. Trade Paperback. Now a major motion picture from Lionsgate starring Brie Larson, Woody Harrelson, and Naomi Watts. MORE THAN SEVEN YEARS ON THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER LIST The perennially bestselling, extraordinary, one-of-a-kind, "nothing short of spectacular" (Entertainment Weekly) memoir from one of the world's most gifted..... More

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Geek Love: A Novel (Vintage Contemporaries). KATHERINE DUNN

Geek Love: A Novel (Vintage Contemporaries)

Vintage, June 2002. Trade Paperback. National Book Award finalist Here is the unforgettable story of the Binewskis, a circus-geek family whose matriarch and patriarch have bred their own exhibit of human oddities (with the help of amphetamine, arsenic, and radioisotopes). Their offspring include Arturo the Aquaboy, who has flippers for..... More

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We Are Never Meeting in Real Life. Samantha Irby

We Are Never Meeting in Real Life.

Vintage, May 2017. Trade Paperback. A New York Times Bestseller This essay collection from the "bitches gotta eat" blogger, writer on Hulu's Shrill, and "one of our country's most fierce and foulmouthed authors" (Amber Tamblyn, Vulture) is sure to make you alternately cackle with glee and cry real tears. Whether..... More

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Between the World and Me. Ta-Nehisi Coates

Between the World and Me

Spiegel & Grau, October 2015. Hardcover. Hailed by Toni Morrison as "required reading," a bold and personal literary exploration of America's racial history by "the single best writer on the subject of race in the United States" (The New York Observer) #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - NATIONAL BOOK AWARD..... More

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The Sympathizer. Viet Thanh Nguyen

The Sympathizer

Grove Press, April 2016. Trade Paperback. The winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, as well as seven other awards, The Sympathizer is the breakthrough novel of the year. With the pace and suspense of a thriller and prose that has been compared to Graham Greene and Saul Bellow..... More

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Homegoing. Yaa Gyasi

Homegoing

Vintage, April 2017. Trade Paperback. Winner of the PEN/ Hemingway Award Winner of the NBCC's John Leonard Award Shortlisted for the British Book Award - Debut of the Year A New York Times Notable Book A Washington Post Notable Book One of the Best Books of the Year: NPR, Time..... More

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