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Portrait of a Phantom: Story of Robert Johnson's Lost Photograph, the
A true music-lover's journey into the past! Late one night in 2005, Zeke Schein made an amazing discovery while searching for a vintage guitar on eBay: a grainy, battered photograph captioned Old Snapshot Blues Guitar BB King Neither man looked like King, but one...- $26.95
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Has the Gay Movement Failed?
"Martin Duberman is a national treasure." --Masha Gessen, The New Yorker The past fifty years have seen significant shifts in attitudes toward LGBTQ people and wider acceptance of them in the United States and the West. Yet the extent of this progress, argues Martin...- $27.95
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Tinderbox: The Untold Story of the Up Stairs Lounge Fire and the Rise of Gay Liberation
Buried for decades, the Up Stairs Lounge tragedy has only recently emerged as a catalyzing event of the gay liberation movement. In revelatory detail, Robert W. Fieseler chronicles the tragic event that claimed the lives of thirty-one men and one woman on June 24,...- $26.95
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James Baldwin and the 1980s: Witnessing the Reagan Era
By the 1980s, critics and the public alike considered James Baldwin irrelevant. Yet Baldwin remained an important, prolific writer until his death in 1987. Indeed, his work throughout the decade pushed him into new areas, in particular an expanded interest in the social and...- $22.95
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Bury What We Cannot Take
"Complex and rich, Chen's story serves as a fascinating window into a unique period of history and the plight of one displaced family." --Harper's BazaarThe day nine-year-old San San and her twelve-year-old brother, Ah Liam, discover their grandmother taking a hammer to a framed...- $14.95
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African American and Latinx History of the United States
An intersectional history of the shared struggle for African American and Latinx civil rights Spanning more than two hundred years, An African American and Latinx History of the United States is a revolutionary, politically charged narrative history, arguing that the "Global South" was crucial...- $27.95
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Philadelphia Mansions: Stories and Characters Behind the Walls
Author Thom Nickels presents the city's most iconic homes and the stories behind them.Philadelphia's grand mansions and architectural treasures reflect its iconic status in American history, for each Greek Revival home and Corinthian column tells a compelling story of the people behind it. Historic...- $21.99
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Girl Running
* "A bright salutation of a story, with one determined woman at its center."--Kirkus Reviews, starred review The inspiring story of the first female to run the Boston Marathon comes to life in stunningly vivid collage illustrations. Because Bobbi Gibb is a girl, she's...- $18.99
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Cold and the Rust: Poems
In this lyrical and unflinching debut, a landscape of staggering beauty abuts industrial towns in the throes of economic decay. Emily Van Kley explores notions of home, estrangement, isolation, and longing against a backdrop of crystalline winters, Lake Superior's mythic tempers, and forests as...- $15.95
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One True Way
A heartening story of two girls who discover their friendship is something more. But how, among their backward town, will Sam and Allie face what they know is true about themselves?Welcome to Daniel Boone Middle School in the 1970s, where teachers and coaches must...- $17.99
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World Only Spins Forward: The Ascent of Angels in America
"Marvelous . . . A vital book about how to make political art that offers lasting solace in times of great trouble, and wisdom to audiences in the years that follow."-- Washington PostNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR The...- $30.00
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Our Young Man
"White's prose is as fresh as a series of slaps to the face, filled with reckless energy . . . [Our Young Man] speeds you along with its winningly hectic prose." --The New York Times Book ReviewOur Young Man follows the life of a...- $18.00
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Together We Rise: Behind the Scenes at the Protest Heard Around the World
THE INSPIRING NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER WITH ESSAYS BY: ROWAN BLANCHARD - SENATOR TAMMY DUCKWORTH - AMERICA FERRERA - ROXANE GAY - ILANA GLAZER - ASHLEY JUDD - VALARIE KAUR - CINDI LEIVE - DAVID REMNICK - JILL SOLOWAY - YARA SHAHIDI - JIA...- $30.00
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Alias Grace (Spanish Edition)
RECOMENDADO POR JENNA BUSH EN SU CLUB DE LECTURA DEL TODAY SHOW Y EN SU PODCAST READ WITH JENNA Una obra coral que se adentra en las complejidades y pulsiones del alma humana y reconstruye con fidelidad y maestría los claroscuros y las paradojas...- $26.95
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First Step: How One Girl Put Segregation on Trial
The inspiring story of four-year-old Sarah Roberts, the first African American girl to try to integrate a white school, and how her experience in 1847 set greater change in motion. Junior Library Guild Selection 2017 Orbis Pictus Honor BookChicago Public LibraryKids Best of the...- $18.99
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Then Comes Marriage: How Two Women Fought for and Won Equal Dignity for All
Renowned litigator Roberta Kaplan knew from the beginning that it was the perfect case to bring down the so-called Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). Edie Windsor and Thea Spyer had been together as a couple, in sickness and in health, for more than forty...- $16.95
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Homintern: How Gay Culture Liberated the Modern World
Finalist for the Lambda Literary Awards in the LGBTQ Studies category: a landmark account of the seismic changes brought to twentieth-century culture by gay and lesbian networks "An avalanche of stories, ribald gossip, and lengthy asides . . . collectively confirm the book's central...- $20.00
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Buffering: Unshared Tales of a Life Fully Loaded
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERWith a New Afterword by the Author"By turns hilarious and heartbreaking, Hannah Hart's new book is a roaring, beautiful, and profoundly human account of an extraordinary life."--John Green "Hannah shares her truth with an honesty that is inspiring--one that makes me...- $14.99
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Reclaiming Gotham: Bill de Blasio and the Movement to End America's Tale of Two Cities
How Bill de Blasio's mayoral victory triggered a seismic shift in the nation's urban political landscape--and what it portends for our cities in the future In November 2013, a little-known progressive stunned the elite of New York City by capturing the mayoralty by a...- $26.95
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Myth of Race: The Troubling Persistence of an Unscientific Idea
Biological races do not exist--and never have. This view is shared by all scientists who study variation in human populations. Yet racial prejudice and intolerance based on the myth of race remain deeply ingrained in Western society. In his powerful examination of a persistent,...- $23.00
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