Alice Walker

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

West Virginia

A combination of black history and contemporary social conditions is the mix in this novel for mature readers that contains scenes of sexual abuse.

The Temple of My Familiar

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Colson Whitehead

A Novel

"Oprah's Book Club 2016 selection"--Sticker on jacket.

The Underground Railroad (Pulitzer Prize Winner) (National Book Award Winner) (Oprah's Book Club)

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Tessa Hadley

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Winner of the Edge Hill Short Story Prize

A New York Times Notable Book of the Year

An NPR Best Book of the Year

The award-winning author of The Past once again "crystallizes the atmosphere of ordinary life in prose somehow miraculous and natural" (Washington Post), in a collection of stories that elevate the mundane into the exceptional.

The author of six critically acclaimed novels, Tessa Hadley has proven herself to be the champion of revealing the hidden depths in the deceptively simple. In these short stories it's the ordinary things that turn out to be most extraordinary: the history of a length of fabric or a forgotten jacket.

Two sisters quarrel over an inheritance and a new baby; a child awake in the night explores the familiar rooms of her home, made strange by the darkness; a housekeeper caring for a helpless old man uncovers secrets from his past. The first steps into a turning point and a new life are made so easily and carelessly: each of these stories illuminate crucial moments of transition, often imperceptible to the protagonists.

A girl accepts a lift in a car with some older boys; a young woman reads the diaries she discovers while housesitting. Small acts have large consequences, some that can reverberate across decades; private fantasies can affect other people, for better and worse. The real things that happen to people, the accidents that befall them, are every bit as mysterious as their longings and their dreams.

Bad Dreams and Other Stories demonstrates yet again that Tessa Hadley "puts on paper a consciousness so visceral, so fully realized, it heightens and expands your own. She is a true master" (Lily King, author of Euphoria).

Bad Dreams and Other Stories

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Carole George

My Father, a Farm, and the Gift of a Flock of Sheep

In this touching memoir about the relationship between father, daughter, and animals, Carole George explores life after adopting thirteen pet Karakul lambs. Throughout her years with the lambs and her aging father, she comes to realize the distinct personality of each creature, and to understand more fully the almost spiritual bond between man and animals.

The Lambs

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Leslie Sills

Stories about Women Artists

Discusses the lives and art of Frida Kahlo, Georgia O'Keeffe, Alice Neel, and Faith Ringgold. Includes color reproductions of their work. The life stories of the artists, their struggles, and their triumphs are interspersed with personal photographs and reprints of their works.

Inspirations

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David Levering Lewis

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Gathering a representative sampling of the New Negro Movement's most important figures, and providing substantial introductory essays, headnotes, and brief biographical notes, Lewis' volume--organized chronologically--includes the poetry and prose of Sterling Brown, Countee Cullen, W. E. B. Du Bois, Zora Neale Hurston, James Weldon Johnson, and others.

The Portable Harlem Renaissance Reader

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Michael S. Harper

200 Years of Vision, Struggle, Power, Beauty, and Triumph from 50 Outstanding Poets

The most definitive collection of black verse from the United States to be published to date, this volume has been meticulously researched and thoughtfully structured to provide an anthology that is second to none. All major African-American poets are featured including Phillis Wheatley, Paul Lawrence Dunbar, Gwendolyn Brooks, Robert Hayden, Sterling A Brown, Rita Dove and Yusef Komunyaka.

The Vintage Book of African American Poetry

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G. J. Meyer

The Complete Story of England's Most Notorious Dynasty

A single-volume history of Henry VIII and his three heirs offers new insights into the dynasty's precarious position in world politics and culture while evaluating the role of religion in 16th-century government. By the Edgar Award-winning author of The Memphis Murders. Reprint.

The Tudors

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Jonathan Earle

From the 16th century African slave trade to the 20th century struggle for equality, this reference examines the geographical and historical context of the African American experience. Focusing on issues and events that resonate to this day, topics include slave revolts, black patriots, slave communities, the Civil War, and the Civil Rights Movement. 50 color maps. 50 illustrations.

The Routledge Atlas of African American History

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Nicholas Bornoff

In Japan, although sexual guilt is virtually unknown, random meetings with the opposite sex are not simple. From their primitive village origins to the urban affluence of a super-industrial society, the Japanese have always found ingenious ways to express— and meet—their needs:
• Among socially segregated teenagers, there is widespread ignorance of sexual information. A rare deeto (date) won't go much beyond a kissu. But there are magazines to show them what their parents and teachers don't-Hau Tu Sekkusu (How to Sex)...
• Telephone call girls, known as Lolitas, meet their clients at the Highschool, the Tomato, or the Poppins Club, often dressed in schoolgirl uniforms...
• In Japanese striptease parlors, magnifying glasses are a favorite toy ...
• Fertility festivals often feature massive stone phalluses and oversized open clamshell floats, in which little girls sit sweetly dispensing rice cakes ...


Love, Marriage and Sex in Contemporary Japan

A probing look at Japanese sexuality, relationships, and love combines serious reporting and exhaustive research to offer a deeper understanding of the relations between the sexes in Japan

Pink Sumurai

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W. B. Yeats

E. Dickinson

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Selected Poems

William Butler Yeats

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Kevin Young

Ever since its first flowering, jazz has had a powerful influence on American poetry; this scintillating anthology offers a treasury of poems that are as varied and as vital as the music that inspired them.

From the Harlem Renaissance to the beat movement, from the poets of the New York school to the contemporary poetry scene, the jazz aesthetic has been a compelling literary force--one that Jazz Poems makes palpable. We hear it in the poems of Langston Hughes, E. E. cummings, William Carlos Williams, Frank O'Hara, and Gwendolyn Brooks, and in those of Yusef Komunyakaa, Charles Simic, Rita Dove, Ntozake Shange, Mark Doty, William Matthews, and C. D. Wright. Here are poems that pay tribute to jazz's great voices, and poems that throb with the vivid rhythm and energy of the jazz tradition, ranging in tone from mournful elegy to sheer celebration.

Jazz Poems

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Mark Lawrence

After witnessing the murder of his mother and brother and leading a band of bloodthirsty thugs, Prince Honorous Jorg Ancrath returns to his father's castle and his birthright, but faces treachery and dark magic once he arrives.

Prince of Thorns

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Shawna Kay Rodenberg

A Memoir

A heart stopping memoir of a wrenching Appalachian girlhood and a multilayered portrait of a misrepresented people, from Rona Jaffe Writer's Award winner Shawna Kay Rodenberg.

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Eudora Welty

Snowdie MacLain's husband returns from the dead to surprise the inhabitants of Morgana, Mississippi.

The Golden Apples

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Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Grow all you can eat in 3 square feet

Walter Foster Creative Team

A Field Guide for the Artist and Naturalist

The first book to combine two powerhouse subjects and popular pastimes – bird watching and drawing. In this unique guide, readers will be instructed how to identify and attract over 45 popular species of North American birds, as well as learn how to draw them with step-by-step instructions. Each bird’s profile includes the following information: Range (including range map for each profile) Plumage for both male and female Length (in inches and centimeters) Weight (in pounds and grams) Wingspan (in inches and centimeters) Habitat Food Feeder food to attract Full-color photograph Following each profile, there are complete instructions for drawing the bird with colored pencils. The drawings can begin using the basic outline provide, or by freehand, allowing the book to be used by artists of all skill levels. An overview lesson on colored pencils, including basic color theory concepts and techniques, is included as well. Identify and Draw North American Birds features 47 of the most popular birds found in our backyards as well as along our seashores. It will delight artists and naturalist alike.

Identify and Draw North American Birds

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Hank O'Neal

Comes with box. 

CIA agent-turned-photographer Hank O'Neal -- praised by The New York Times for "knowing New York City's streets and its celebrities"-- delivers the most beautiful collection of street art images ever amassed by a single photographer. For the past four decades, O'Neal has been photographing street art from around the globe--from the back alleys of New York City to the beaches of Venice, California; from Jim Morrison's grave in Paris to a section of the Berlin Wall. Featuring hundreds of gorgeously rendered, never-before published photos--from the art of Keith Haring and Richard Hambleton to that of Banksy and Shepard Fairey--XCIA's photographs deliver the ultimate street art experience.

Oversized Hardcover (4 to 6 lbs)

XCIA's Street Art Project

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Signed and numbered edition of 250. Learn about the deck at FoxDaughter.com

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Maggie Tokuda-Hall

A 2017 Parent's Choice Gold Award Winner: Picture Books

Even the most totally awesome story starts with a little bit of nothing. What happens next is up to you! A delightfully meta picture book that will set imaginations soaring.

It begins with an octopus who plays the ukulele. Since this is a story, the octopus has to want something--maybe to travel to faraway galaxies in a totally awesome purple spaceship. Then the octopus sets out to build a spaceship out of soda cans, glue, umbrellas, glitter, and waffles. OK, maybe the octopus needs some help, like from an adorable bunny friend, and maybe that bunny turns out to be . . . a rocket scientist? (Probably not.) But could something even more amazing come to pass? Debut author Maggie Tokuda-Hall, with the help of illustrator Benji Davies, sets up an endearingly funny story, then hands the baton to readers, who will be more than primed to take it away.

Also an Octopus

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An Illustrated Guide to Tattoo

Anne Gutman

Georg Hallensleben

Gaspard is off to summer camp to learn how to windsurf. There's just one problem--he doesn't know how to swim! After some lessons in the pool and a little help from his rubber float, Gaspard is ready to become a swimming champion. Illustrations.

Gaspard at the Seashore

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Leo Lionni

Four time Caldecott Honor winner Leo Lionni's beloved tale about three young frogs learning to work together.

Three selfish frogs live together on an island in the middle of Rainbow Pond. All day long they bicker: It's mine! It's mine! It's mine! But a bad storm and a big brown toad help them realize that sharing is much more fun. With characteristic clarity, simplicity and exuberance, Leo Lionni makes it possible for kids to see themselves through the antics of others who share our world.

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