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Brother To a Dragonfly (2ND 00 Edition)
by Will D. Campbell  Publisher Comments Published to coincide with the PBS documentary "God's Will", this 25th anniversary edition of this powerful and personal civil rights memoir is introduced to a new generation of readers....
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Red Azalea
by Anchee Min Publisher Comments Red Azalea is Anchee Min’s celebrated memoir of growing up in the last years of Mao’s China. As a child, she was asked to publicly humiliate a teacher; at seventeen, she was sent to work at a labor collective. Forbidden to speak, dress, read,...
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Killers of the Dream, With New Introduction (94 Edition)
by Lillian Smith Publisher Comments A southern white writer, educator, and activist, Lillian Smith (1897-1966) spoke out all her life against injustice. In the Killers of the Dream (1949), her most influential book, she draws on memories of her childhood to describe the psychological and...
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Long Way From Home (70 Edition)
by Claude Mckay Publisher Comments McKay's account of his long odyssey from Jamaica to Harlem and then on to France, Britain, North Africa, Russia, and finally back to America. As well as depicting his own experiences, the author describes his encounters with such notable personalities as...
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The Death of the West: How Dying Populations and Immigrant Invasions Imperil Our Country and Civilization
by Patrick J Buchanan Publisher Comments The national bestseller that shocked the nation--The Death of the West is an unflinching look at the increasing decline in Western culture and power. The West is dying. Collapsing birth rates in Europe and the U. S., coupled with population explosions in...
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Debt : What America Owes To Blacks (00 Edition)
by Randall Robinson Publisher Comments In this powerful and controversial book, distinguished African-American political leader and thinker Randall Robinson argues for the restoration of the rich history that slavery and segregation severed. Drawing from research and personal experience, he...
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Face to Face: The Changing State of Racism Across America
by James Waller Publisher Comments A bold and compelling analysis of race in America and the possibility for racial reconciliation....
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Formation of a Persecuting Society : Power and Deviance in Western Europe (87 - Old Edition)
by Robert I. Moore Publisher Comments The Tenth to the Thirteenth centuries in Europe saw the appearance of popular heresy and the establishment of the inquisition; expropriation and mass murder of Jews; the foundation of leper hospitals in large numbers and the propagation of elaborate...
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Black Notebooks : an Interior Journey (97 Edition)
by Toi Derricotte Publisher Comments An extraordinary and courageous account of race--as seen through the eyes of a light-skinned black woman and a respected American poet....
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A Larger Memory: A History of Our Diversity, with Voices
by Ronald T Takaki Publisher Comments A Larger Memory emerges from eighteenth-century archives and yesterday's headlines -- a sweeping yet intimate history of the diverse individuals who, together, make up America. Ronald Takaki uses letters, diaries, and oral histories to share their...
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Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith
by Anne Lamott 
Powells.com Staff Pick Readers of Traveling Mercies, Lamott's previous book on spirituality, will find here the same thoughtfulness and humor we've come to love. Whether writing about battles with her son, her mother's death, the church she's found to be home, or her loathing...
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God, Harlem U. S. A. : the Father Divine Story (92 Edition)
by Jill Watts Publisher Comments How did an African-American man born in a ghetto in 1879 rise to such religious prominence that his followers addressed letters to him simply God, Harlem U.S.A.? Using hitherto unknown materials, Jill Watts portrays the life and career of one of the...
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The Japanese Mind: Understanding Contemporary Japanese Culture
by Roger Davies Publisher Comments In The Japanese Mind, Roger Davies offers Westerners an invaluable key to the unique aspects of Japanese culture. Readers of this book will gain a clear understanding of what really makes the Japanese, and their society, tick. Among the topics explored...
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Monique and the Mango Rains: Two Years with a Midwife in Mali
by Kris Holloway Publisher Comments Monique and the Mango Rains is the compelling story of a rare friendship between a young Peace Corps volunteer and a midwife who became a legend. Monique Dembele saved lives and dispensed hope in a place where childbirth is a life-and-death matter. This...
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Lakota Woman Tie in
by Mary Crow Dog Publisher Comments Chapter 1 A Woman from He-Dog A nation is not conquered until the hearts of its women are on the ground. Then it is done, no matter how brave its warriors nor how strong their weapons. "-- Cheyenne proverb"
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Black Boy (06 Edition)
by Richard T. Wright Publisher Comments Richard Wright grew up in the woods of Mississippi amid poverty, hunger, fear, and hatred. He lied, stole, and raged at those around him; at six he was a "drunkard," hanging about in taverns. Surly, brutal, cold, suspicious, and self-pitying, he was...
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Jewish Power (96 Edition)
by J. J. Goldberg Publisher Comments Widely acclaimed in both the mainstream and Jewish press, "Jewish Power" offers an engaging and provocative portrait of the people, institutions, and ideas that make up the American Jewish community. With a mixture of anecdote and analysis, journalist...
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Diary of a Young Girl the Definitive Edition
by Anne Frank Publisher Comments The diary as Anne Frank wrote it. At last, in a new translation, this definitive edition contains entries about Anne's burgeoning sexuality and confrontations with her mother that were cut from previous editions. Anne Frank's The Diary of a Young Girl is...
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I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
by Joanne Greenberg
Powells.com Staff Pick This is one of the few books I have read more than twice. If you walk through this world with any mental illness, including clinical depression, you will probably see yourself in this 15-year-old's struggle. Recommended by Mary Z., Powells.com...
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Quiet Room : a Journey Out of the Torment of Madness (94 Edition)
by Lori Schiller Publisher Comments Schiller's gripping, heart-rending and ultimately triumphant story of her journey into madness and back to reality is told through the voices of Lori and her family, friends and doctor, and captures a rare, astoundingly vivid view into the inner life of...
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