"Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" Audiobook (Audio book)
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"All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn." Ernest...
A Farewell to Arms
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In 1918 Ernest Hemingway went to war, to the 'war to end all wars'. He volunteered for ambulance...
Cattail Moonshine & Milkweed Medicine
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History, literature, and botany meet in this delightful tour of how humans have relied on plants to...
Kamouraska
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A classic of Canadian literature by the great Quebecoise writer, Kamouraska is based on a real...
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In the mid-1960s, George Plimpton talked his way into the Detroit Lions’ pre-season training camp...
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
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ENDURING LITERATURE ILLUMINATED BY PRACTICAL SCHOLARSHIP A nineteenth-century American travels...
The Border Trilogy: Picador Classic
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With an introduction by Rachael Kushner. In the vanishing world of the Old West, two cowboys begin...
Gangs in America's Communities
James C. Howell and Elizabeth A. Griffiths
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Gangs in America's Communities offers a comprehensive, up-to-date, and theoretically grounded...
Suswatibasu (1701 KP) rated So You Want to Talk About Race in Books
Mar 2, 2018 (Updated Mar 2, 2018)
From discussing how to approach the subject with others, to giving direct instructions for those who are willing to learn to change, there are few books out there that are as useful as Ijeoma Oluo's step by step process.
Most of all, the introduction of intersectionality, micro-aggressions and the myth of the model migrant is absolutely vital. It is one of the only books on racism I've seen in mainstream literature, that tackles issues faced by other races such as the East Asian and South Asian communities, bringing together a more diverse portrayal rather than just black, white and Hispanic.
Her own personal views are wonderful - the chapter on her 8-year-old son's choice to not pledge allegiance is utterly heartfelt, and yet she handles the situation very well. An absolute essential read.
On Company Time: American Modernism in the Big Magazines
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American novelists and poets who came of age in the early twentieth century were taught to avoid...