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Cover of Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
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Trevor Noah
“Noah’s path from apartheid South Africa to the desk of The Daily Show began with a criminal act: his birth. Born to a white Swiss father and a Black Xhosa mother, at the time…
Cover of City of Eternal Spring
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Afaa Michael Weaver
“This is the final book in the Plum Flower Trilogy. The two previous books, The Plum Flower Dance: Poems 1985 to 2005 and The Government of Nature, reveal similar…
Cover of The Plum Flower Dance: Poems 1985 to 2005
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Afaa Michael Weaver
“These poems written in the process of self-discovery and meditative soul-suturing that chronicles the author’s healing from an abusive childhood.”
Cover of The Bluest Eye
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Toni Morrison
“Eleven-year-old Pecola Breedlove, an African-American girl in an America whose love for blonde, blue-eyed children can devastate all others, prays for her eyes to turn blue, so…
Cover of Bastard Out of Carolina
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Dorothy Allison
“Bone, an illegitimate child in a family of social outcasts, sees her mother’s happiness with her new husband and will not tell when the stepfather begins abusing her in the 1950s…
Cover of My Body is a Book of Rules
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Elissa Washuta
“As Elissa Washuta makes the transition from college kid to independent adult, she finds herself overwhelmed by the calamities piling up in her brain. When her mood-stabilizing…
Cover of Consent on Campus: A Manifesto
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Donna Freitas
“Americans have finally started to pay attention to the sexual assault crisis on our college campuses. Yet, Donna Freitas warns, the way universities educate students about sexual…