“Two girls who grow up to become women. Two friends who become something worse than enemies. This brilliantly imagined novel brings us the…
“In the near future, disease will be a condition of the past. Most genetic defects will be removed at birth; the remaining during infancy.…
“Kira-kira (kee’ ra kee’ ra): glittering, shining, glittering. That’s how Katie Takeshima’s sister, Lynn, makes everything seem. The sky is…
“Documentary film about the next group of immigrants, the Mexicans, that are following in our long history of immigration. It looks at the…
The war in Vietnam was a seminal event in post-1945 world affairs. The conflict had a profound and lasting impact on the politics and…
In one of the most detailed and powerfully argued books published on American intervention in Vietnam, Fredrik Logevall examines the last…
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“Rosa Guy’s novel follows Wade Williams, a brilliant young black man who wakes up in a mental hospital and is told he has assaulted his…
“Henry Rios is introduced as a troubled San Francisco public defender battling alcoholism and burnout. While investigating the murder of an…
“On May 2, 1973, Black Panther Assata Shakur, aka JoAnne Chesimard, lay in a hospital, close to death, handcuffed to her bed, while local,…
Written in alternating chapters, a mother and daughter describe the accident that nearly killed the daughter and left her paralyzed, and…