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Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation (Paperback)

By Silvia Federici

$15.96

ISBN: 9781570270598

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Published: Autonomedia - September 15th, 2004

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Pivotal in Feminist, Marxist, and Early Modern European Studies, this academic exploration of why “the rise of capitalism was coeval with a war against women” ties together, among other things: witch hunts, women’s unpaid labor, appropriation of the female body, and women’s resistance as heretics, herbalists, and thinkers.
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Brown Girl in the Ring (Paperback)

By Nalo Hopkinson

$17.99

ISBN: 9780446674331

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Published: Grand Central Publishing - July 1st, 1998

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Who was the first Black woman to be named a "Grand Master" of sci-fi by the Sceince Fiction Writers of America? Nope, not Octavia Butler, but the lesseer-known Hopkinson who kicked off her literary career with this tale of Afro-Caribbean magic, women's herbal wisdom, the strains of motherhood, and the cycle of trauma, set in a post-apocalyptic Toronto. Slow-stewing but meaty.

Rachael

A Brief History of Seven Killings: A Novel (Paperback)

By Marlon James

$18.00

ISBN: 9781594633942

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Published: Riverhead Books - September 8th, 2015

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It’s harrowing. It’s violent. But the pathos of this long literary novel will break your heart just as cleanly as the most tender reggae tune, as perfectly as the the ending of The Harder They Come. A multi-perspective lament over corrupt police, poverty, and rude boy antiheroes who meet their end all too soon. Tuffer than tuff.

Rachael

Winter Counts: A Novel (Paperback)

By David Heska Wanbli Weiden

$16.99

ISBN: 9780062968951

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Published: Ecco - July 6th, 2021

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The antihero of this book may be Virgil Wounded Horse, a Lakota vigilante who busts teeth and bone when federal law enforcement proves negligent, but the true star of this crime novel is the setting: Rosebud Indian Reservation. Can Virgil bring peace to the reservation while taking down the man who’s bullied him since childhood? Reconcile his lifestyle with the Lakota beliefs he’s been estranged from since his father’s death? Battle the larger forces that plague his home?

Rachael

Race Cars: A children's book about white privilege (Hardcover)

By Jenny Devenny, Charnaie Gordon (Editor)

$17.99

ISBN: 9780711262904

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Published: Frances Lincoln Children's Books - May 4th, 2021

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Multiple parents have informed me that their children had profound experiences reading this book, the story of a black car who faces obstacles that the white cars don't. A simple allegory with weighty impact.

Rachael

The Deeper the Water the Uglier the Fish (Paperback)

By Katya Apekina

$18.95

ISBN: 9781937512750

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Published: Two Dollar Radio - September 18th, 2018

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Two sisters have a radically different take on their parents’ relationship in this character-driven, emotional deep dive, which touches upon 1960s and 1990s New York/Louisiana and the Freedom Riders. Like the novelist at the center of the book, Apekina is unafraid of plumbing the psychological abyss for her art and, true to her title, trawls some gruesome and fascinating creatures. Still, Apekina’s compassionate treatment and brisk pacing make for a compelling, consistently enjoyable read.

Rachael

Wittgenstein's Mistress (Paperback)

By David Markson

$16.95

ISBN: 9781628973914

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Published: Dalkey Archive Press - July 11th, 2023

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This experimental novel asks what would happen if you were the only person left on Earth and all you had were snippets of art history and Greek mythology — “the baggage that remains in one’s head” — to keep your mind from unspooling. Rather than take a dystopian bent, this post-apocalyptic novel quietly mesmerizes as its protagonist anchors herself in the quotidian and her own “fanciful private improvisations.” Unique and hypnotic.

Rachael

Girlhood (Paperback)

By Melissa Febos

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ISBN: 9781635579314

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Published: Bloomsbury Publishing - May 24th, 2022

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For devotees of Machado's In the Dream House and Nelson's The Argonauts, Febos's coming-of-age memoir is also an interpolation of myth, psychoanalysis, and other women's stories. Focusing on the aggressions (against herself and others) that all too often lead to internalized patriarchal values, shame, and learned passivity, she also tells a story of empowerment as she finds herself as a queer woman, dominatrix, and fierce defender of her own sense of agency.

Rachael

We Love You, Charlie Freeman: A Novel (Paperback)

By Kaitlyn Greenidge

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ISBN: 9781616206444

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Published: Algonquin Books - January 31st, 2017

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A salty teenager. A rowdy chimp. A queer teen romance. All amidst a backdrop of questionable science and racial tension in this debut novel from local author Kaitlyn Greenidge (whose acclaimed new novel Libertie is now out in paperback). Spanning multiple time periods, Greenidge explores themes of loneliness, betrayal, and racist pseudoscience with humor, hurt, and insight.

Rachael

The Chandelier (Paperback)

By Clarice Lispector, Magdalena Edwards (Translated by), Benjamin Moser (Translated by)

$16.95

ISBN: 9780811228718

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Published: New Directions - May 28th, 2019

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Lispector is unique in the way she is able to distill a single moment, parsing the experience of what it’s like to have a human brain, overthinking. Her second novel stands as a brilliant meditation on conscious thought from the writer known as “Brazil’s Virginia Woolf.”

Rachael