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An Ordinary White

My Antiracist Education

David Roediger

A prize-winning historian details his intellectual and political evolution Written by the author of the landmark book The Wages of Whiteness and one of the key figures in the critical study of race...

ISBN: 9781531509576

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Too Black to Be French

Isabelle Boni-Claverie

Translated by Joshua David Jordan

Unraveling the Complexities of Identity in a World of Racial Prejudices

ISBN: 9781531508081

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Cross Bronx

A Writing Life

Peter Quinn

In his inimitable prose, master storyteller Peter Quinn chronicles his odyssey from the Irish Catholic precincts of the Bronx to the arena of big-league politics and corporate hardball.Cross Bronx is...

ISBN: 9781531508067

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Boy with the Bullhorn

A Memoir and History of ACT UP New York

Ron Goldberg

Winner, "Gold" Independent Publishing Award (IPPY) for LGBTQ+ NonfictionWinner, The Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction, 34th Annual Triangle Awards2023 Lammy Finalist, Gay Memoir/BiographyA coming-of-age...

ISBN: 9781531508074

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The Lamentations

A Requiem for Queer Suicide

Patrick Anderson

A moving journey through the shadows of queer suicide and a tribute to lives marked by struggle and beautyThe Lamentations explores the struggles and resilience within the queer community, offering...

ISBN: 9781531508289

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Mother of Stories

An Elegy

Alice Dailey

A tour de force memoir that explores the murky boundary between truth and lies and the literary paths to renewal after world-altering loss.

ISBN: 9781531506476

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Just City

Growing Up on the Upper West Side When Housing Was a Human Right

Jennifer Baum

A captivating memoir of New York’s Historic Upper West Side at a time when community and unity defined the neighborhoodStep into the world of Just City and embark on a poignant journey to a time when...

ISBN: 9781531506216

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An Honest Living

A Memoir of Peculiar Itineraries

Steven Salaita

An exiled professor’s journey from inside and beyond academeIn the summer of 2014, Steven Salaita was fired from a tenured position in American Indian Studies at the University of Illinois for his...

ISBN: 9781531506353

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Flesh and Spirit

Confessions of a Young Lord

Felipe Luciano

WINNER, AMERICAN BOOK AWARDChronicles a Black Puerto Rican man’s odyssey and transformation from an incarcerated gang member to the Co-Founder of the Young Lords Party.Growing up fatherless and poor,...

ISBN: 9781531504489

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Our Laundry, Our Town

My Chinese American Life from Flushing to the Downtown Stage and Beyond

Alvin Eng

NEW IN PAPERBACK!BOOKS ARE MAGIC 2023 HOLIDAY GIFT BOOKWith humor and grace, the memoir of a first-generation Chinese American in New York City.Our Laundry, Our Town is a memoir that decodes and processes...

ISBN: 9781531504830

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Colorful Palate

A Flavorful Journey Through a Mixed American Experience

Raj Tawney

WINNER, 2024 BEST INDIE BOOK AWARD, CULINARY MEMOIRWINNER, 2024 LIVING NOW BOOK AWARD, INSPIRATIONAL MEMOIR – MALE (BRONZE)A NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY & FOREWORD REVIEWS BOOK OF THE DAY • NAMED...

ISBN: 9781531504571

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Townies

William O'Shaughnessy

In his six previous books, William O’Shaughnessy, one of the nation’s best known and most beloved community broadcasters, has told the tales of the power brokers and visionaries of politics, government,...

ISBN: 9781531502447

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NBC Goes to War

The Diary of Radio Correspondent James Cassidy from London to the Bulge

James Cassidy

Edited by Michael Sweeney

The diary of radio correspondent James Cassidy presents a unique view of World War II as this reporter followed the Allied armies into Nazi Germany.James Joseph Cassidy was one of 362 American journalists...

ISBN: 9780823299324

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Crossing Back

Books, Family, and Memory without Pain

Marianna De Marco Torgovnick

From the award-winning author of Crossing Ocean Parkway, a personal memoir about adjusting to loss through books, meditation, and the process of memory itselfMarianna De Marco Torgovnick experienced...

ISBN: 9780823297788

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Called Back

My Reply to Cancer, My Return to Life

Mary Cappello

Foreword Book of the Year Award Independent Publishers Award (IPPY) Lambda Literary Award Finalist Publishing Triangle Award Finalist GAMMA Award, Best Feature from The Magazine Association of the Southwest...

ISBN: 9780823294046

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Aid Memoir

Larry Hollingworth

Aid Memoir follows the experiences of Larry Hollingworth, head of UNHCR efforts in Bosnia during the Bosnian conflict of the early to mid 90’s. Mr. Hollingworth develops a narrative that traces humanitarian attempts to deliver food and aid to besieged, isolated, and desperate communities throughout the Balkans, including Sarajevo, Banja Luka, and Srebrenica.

ISBN: 9780823297023

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Labyrinths

Kevin M. Cahill

Labyrinths explores the origins of thirteen books I have written in the past few decades, texts that have helped to define the emerging parameters of relief operations that inevitably follow armed conflicts...

ISBN: 9780823293650

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Out of the Ordinary

A Life of Gender and Spiritual Transitions

Michael Dillon/Lobzang Jivaka

Edited by Jacob Lau and Cameron Partridge

Out of the Ordinary is the memoir of Dr. Michael Dillon / Lobzang Jivaka (1915-1962) who transitioned from female to male between 1939 and 1949, became a ship’s surgeon in the (British) Merchant Navy, and was a monastic novice in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition when he died unexpectedly in 1962.

ISBN: 9780823280391

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Chasing Ghosts

A Memoir of a Father, Gone to War

Louise DeSalvo

“Chasing Ghosts” describes how the daughter of a World War II veteran comes to understand her emotionally wounded father through his stories about his childhood, naval service in the late 1930s, and wartime experiences, and through the research she undertakes to understand her father’s life in the context of history.

ISBN: 9780823268849

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Cytomegalovirus

A Hospitalization Diary

Hervé Guibert

Translated by Clara Orban

Afterword by Todd Meyers

Cytomegalovirus is a lucid and spare autobiographical narrative by Hervé Guibert (1955-1991) of the everyday moments of his hospitalization due to complications of AIDS. In one of his last works, the acclaimed writer presents his struggle with the disease in terms that are unsentimental and deeply human.

ISBN: 9780823268573

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Jack Toffey's War

A Son's Memoir

John J. Toffey, IV

“I see this book as the story my father never got to tell,” John Toffey writes. And what a remarkable story it is that Lt. Col. Jack Toffey never got to tell.In this moving account of a young man’s...

ISBN: 9780823229796

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An Ordinary White

Too Black to Be French

Cross Bronx

Boy with the Bullhorn

The Lamentations

Mother of Stories

Just City

An Honest Living

Flesh and Spirit

Our Laundry, Our Town

Colorful Palate

Townies

NBC Goes to War

Crossing Back

Called Back

Aid Memoir

Labyrinths

Out of the Ordinary

Chasing Ghosts

Cytomegalovirus

Jack Toffey's War

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