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After his graduation from Black Mountain College, Michael Rumaker made his way to the post-Howl, pre-Stonewall gay literary milieu of San Francisco, where he entered the circle of Robert Duncan. Contrasting Duncan's daringly frank homosexuality wi...

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Internationally acclaimed, award-winning author Michael Parenti is one of America's most astute and engaging political analysts. Parenti's work has enlightened and enlivened readers for many years, covering a wide range of subjects.Here is a rich ...

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Winner of the American Book AwardSan Francisco Chinatown is the first book of its kindan "e;insider's guide"e; to one of America's most celebrated ethnic enclaves by an author born and raised there. Written by architect and Chinese America...

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Until the watershed leak of top-secret documents by Edward Snowden to the Guardian UK and the Washington Post, most Americans did not realize the extent to which our government is actively acquiring personal information from telecommunications com...

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Theo, our scruffy, big-hearted, and quick-witted heroine, is not so much down on her luck as delivered luckless into a culture where the winners and losers have already been decided. Her adventures in getting over take her from San Francisco to Ne...

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We live in a time when public discourse is more skewed than ever by the propaganda that big money can buy, with trust in the leadership of elected officials at an all-time low. The "e;news"e; has degenerated into sensationalist sound bites...

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The End of San Francisco breaks apart the conventions of memoir to reveal the passions and perils of a life that refuses to conform to the rules of straight or gay normalcy. A budding queer activist escapes to San Francisco, in search of a world m...

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"e;This experimental work is not for the faint of heart, but it is laced with meditations that will appeal to readers concerned with poetrys role in the world."e;Publishers Weekly"e;I am fascinated by their attention to inequality, to ...

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The Black History of the White House presents the untold history, racial politics, and shifting significance of the White House as experienced by African Americans, from the generations of enslaved people who helped to build it or were forced to w...

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A poetic debut novel, formally experimental, by turns hallucinatory, darkly funny and brutally real. Nochita is tender, fierce, and unforgettable.Daughter to a divorced new age guru, Nochita wanders through the cracks of California's counter-cultu...

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Wafaa Bilal's childhood in Iraq was defined by the horrific rule of Saddam Hussein, two wars, a bloody uprising and time spent interned in chaotic refugee camps in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. Bilal eventually made it to the United States to become a ...

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"e;Giroux refuses to give in or give up. The Violence of Organized Forgetting is a clarion call to imagine a different America--just, fair, and caring--and then to struggle for it."e;--Bill Moyers"e;Henry Giroux has accomplished an exc...

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Peering into life's cringe-worthy moments, best-selling author Beth Lisick excavates territory that most would rather ignore. Funny, odd, deeply personal, yet somehow universal, these are the kind of memories that haunt us all, the small awful mom...

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"e;In his scathing and deeply reported examination of the U.S. Border Patrol, Todd Miller argues that the agency has gone rogue since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, trampling on the dignity and rights of the undocumented with military-style t...

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Mad, immortal stories now surfaced from the literary underground.This collection of stories was once part of the 1972 City Lights classic, Erections, Ejaculations, Exhibitions and General Tales of Ordinary Madness.That book was later split into tw...

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A compilation of Charles Bukowski's underground articles from his column "e;Notes of a Dirty Old Man"e; appears here in book form. Bukowski's reasoning for self-describing himself as a 'dirty old man' rings true in this book."e;People ...

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Exceptional stories that come pounding out of Bukowski's violent and depraved life. Horrible and holy, you cannot read them and ever come away the same again.This collection of stories was once part of the 1972 City Lights classic, Erections, Ejac...

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The girls on the prowl in The Terrible Girls are indeed terriblerelentless in love, ruthless in betrayal. These thematically linked stories depict a contemporary Gothic world in which body parts are traded for love, wounds never heal, and self-sac...

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Nominated for the 2010 Stonewall Book Award, the oldest book award given for outstanding achievement in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgendered LiteratureA woman is haunted by the atrocities committed by her husband, and makes a heart-wrenching d...

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A compelling account of U.S. immigration and border enforcement told through the journey of one man who perished in California's Imperial Valley while trying to reunite with his wife and child in Los Angeles. At a time when Republicans and Democra...

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Author Thomas Glave is known for his stylistic brio and courageous explorations into the heavily mined territories of race and sexuality. This searing collection of stories is a stunning debut of a writer the Village Voice has named "e;One to ...

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Fans of The Daily Show will appreciate this timely collection of satirical essays by counterculture icon Paul Krassner.With irreverence and an often X-rated wit, Krassner writes with a unique perspective on comedy and obscenity in politics and cul...

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The Awakener is Helen Weaver's long awaited memoir of her adventures with Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Lenny Bruce, and other wild characters from the New York City of the fifties and sixties. The sheltered but rebellious daughter of bookish Midw...

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"e;Benjamin Hedin went looking for the civil rights movement's past, but he also ran smack into the present, which can suddenly look like the past and then just as suddenly look totally different. By bringing stirring people like Septima Clark...

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"e;Mylene Fernandez offers us a magnificent gift. Her story of lost love and the difficult pursuit of literature is at the same time an X-ray of life in Havana, set in a present where glimpses of the future have not yet arrived."e;Leonardo...

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"e;I loved this book when I read it in Arabic. The Penguin's Song is a classic novel of the Lebanese civil war."e;--Rabih Alameddine, author of An Unnecessary Woman"e;Sixteen years after appearing in Daoud's native Lebanon, this elegia...

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"e;Revolutionary love, revolutionary memory and revolutionary analysis are at work in every page written by Mumia Abu-Jamal His writings are a wake-up call. He is a voice from our prophetic tradition, speaking to us here, now, lovingly, urgent...

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"e;This is a must-read book for anyone ready to transcend fear and imagine a new reality."e;--TikkunDisposable Futures makes the case that we have not just become desensitized to violence, but rather, that we are being taught to desire it....

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A woman's struggle for self-realization in contemporary Iran, a novel with "e;the clarity and spare sensuousness of Persian poetry or miniature painting."e;Ruth Prawer JhabvalaWhen Minou Hakini marries a man of her own choosingan intellect...

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An Iranian family embroiled in Islamic revolution, the hostage crisis, incest and exile in AmericaForced to flee the country with their parents as Khomeini rises to power, Nora and Jahan Ellahi rise to the challenge of anti-Iranian hostility in Am...

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