“[The author’s] story begins in rural Puerto Rico, where her warring parents and seven siblings led a life of uproar, but one full of love…
“A veteran of the women’s and gay movement of the past 30 years, Max’s mid-life crisis hits in the midst of the post-9/11 world. Max is…
“With a reporter’s eye for the inside story and a historian’s grasp of the ironies in our collective past, Greg Downs affectionately…
“Born in Kandahar in 1978, Masuda Sultan fled to the United States at age five with her family. Raised in Brooklyn and Flushing, Queens,…
“Gay Asian American Yale Law School professor Kenji Yoshino fuses legal manifesto and poetic memoir to call for a redefinition of civil…
“Focuses on the year in the life of a group of friends in New York’s East Village. The ‘bohemians’ live carefree lives of art, music, sex,…
“On May 2, 1973, Black Panther Assata Shakur, aka JoAnne Chesimard, lay in a hospital, close to death, handcuffed to her bed, while local,…
“There is conflict in the whanau. The young man, Te Rua, holds a ‘secret for life, the one to die with.’ But he realizes that if he is to…
“In a memoir about the power of race to share one’s personal identity, the daughter of Jewish father and African-American mother recalls…
“This haunting novel explores the complete degradation and isolation of a man by war. The book is set on the island of Leyte in the…