Kerri's bookshelf: all en-US Tue, 08 Apr 2025 13:38:08 -0700 60 Kerri's bookshelf: all 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg Nightbitch 55835474
At home full-time with her two-year-old son, an artist finds she is struggling. She is lonely and exhausted. She had imagined - what was it she had imagined? Her husband, always travelling for his work, calls her from faraway hotel rooms. One more toddler bedtime, and she fears she might lose her mind.

Instead, quite suddenly, she starts gaining things, surprising things that happen one night when her child will not sleep. Sharper canines. Strange new patches of hair. New appetites, new instincts. And from deep within herself, a new voice...

With its clear eyes on contemporary womanhood and sharp take on structures of power, Nightbitch is an outrageously original, joyfully subversive read that will make you want to howl in laughter and recognition. Addictive enough to be devoured in one sitting, this is an unforgettable novel from a blazing new talent.]]> 256 Rachel Yoder 0385546815 Kerri 0 to-read 3.47 2021 Nightbitch
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]]> <![CDATA[Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, Vol. 1]]> 36538793
In Taisho-era Japan, Tanjiro Kamado is a kindhearted boy who makes a living selling charcoal. But his peaceful life is shattered when a demon slaughters his entire family. His little sister Nezuko is the only survivor, but she has been transformed into a demon herself! Tanjiro sets out on a dangerous journey to find a way to return his sister to normal and destroy the demon who ruined his life.

Learning to slay?demons won¡¯t be easy, and Tanjiro barely knows where to start. The surprise appearance of another boy named Giyu, who seems to know what¡¯s going on, might provide some answers¡­but only if Tanjiro can stop Giyu from killing his sister first!]]> 192 Koyoharu Gotouge 1974700526 Kerri 3 4.39 2016 Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, Vol. 1
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]]> <![CDATA[The Philippines Is Not a Small Country]]> 55513738
Published in 2020.]]> 228 Gideon Lasco 9715509932 Kerri 0 to-read 4.33 The Philippines Is Not a Small Country
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]]> <![CDATA[The Lost Girls of Autism: How Science Failed Autistic Women - and the New Research that's Changing the Story]]> 211052037
In The Lost Girls of Autism, renowned brain scientist Gina Rippon delves into the emerging science of female autism, asking why it has been systematically ignored and misunderstood for so long. Generations of researchers, convinced autism was a male problem, simply didn¡¯t bother looking for it in women. But it is now becoming increasingly clear that autism is manifestly different for women and girls, and that camouflaging ¨C hiding autistic traits to fit in ¨C is far more widespread than we thought. Urgent and insightful, this groundbreaking book is a clarion call for society to recognize the full spectrum of autistic experience.]]> 353 Gina Rippon 1035011654 Kerri 0 to-read 3.92 The Lost Girls of Autism: How Science Failed Autistic Women - and the New Research that's Changing the Story
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]]> Tarot For Yourself (3Rd Ed) 210473827 Tarot For Yourself (3Rd Ed) 300 Mary K. Greer Kerri 0 to-read 4.00 Tarot For Yourself (3Rd Ed)
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]]> <![CDATA[Astrology for Yourself: How to Understand and Interpret Your Own Birth Chart: A Workbook for Personal Transformation]]> 27163522 280 Douglas Bloch 0892546654 Kerri 0 currently-reading 4.00 1987 Astrology for Yourself: How to Understand and Interpret Your Own Birth Chart: A Workbook for Personal Transformation
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]]> <![CDATA[Forgotten Home Apothecary : 250 Powerful Remedies at Your Fingertips]]> 220246218
The book is written by Dr. Nicole Apelian, an expert herbalist with over 30 years of hands-on practice in healing with herbal remedies.

The first thing you¡¯ll see when you open this natural medicine book is your new Apothecary¡ª250 remedies, organized on shelves for specific ailments.

What You¡¯ll Discover 288 color pages featuring all 250 powerful remedies for every part of your body. Easy-to-navigate appendix that visually shows all the natural remedies and the page where you¡¯ll find them, along with step-by-step instructions, color photos, accurate measurements, and dosages. The Natural a potent recipe for focus, memory, and mental clarity (page 129). The same 3 Mushroom Tinctures Dr. Apelian used to get back on her feet and manage her MS symptoms (page 220). Grandma¡¯s Hot the powerful back remedy that was almost lost to history (page 175). The Herbal Sleep Aid to take before bed (page 147). Discover the Best Natural Probiotic you can make at home (page 82). Find out what happens if you pour honey over cinnamon and all the other herbal recipes that were once a part of every home.
Whether you¡¯re an experienced plant medicine user or just looking for a natural approach to managing your health and healing with herbal remedies, The Forgotten Home Apothecary is for you.

This is the only holistic medicine book out there where you¡¯ll find the time-tested natural remedies our grandparents relied on, back when apothecaries hadn¡¯t yet been replaced by pharmacies.]]> 288 Dr. Nicole Apelian Kerri 0 to-read 4.57 Forgotten Home Apothecary : 250 Powerful Remedies at Your Fingertips
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]]> <![CDATA[The Wandering Inn: Volume 2 (The Wandering Inn, #2)]]> 41180829
Erin is running an inn outside the city of Liscor, but she¡¯s no longer alone. Ryoka Griffin, the City Runner, has business in the south of Izril; she¡¯s out on a dangerous delivery of her own. Yet while both young women have finally found their calling, more and more people are beginning to realize that these visitors from Earth don¡¯t belong here.
Erin must find new guests and old for her inn while expanding her tentative business. Staying safe would also be nice. At the same time, some pesky creatures have arrived to herald winter, and they bring mischief and danger unlike anything she¡¯s ever seen. But as more and more children of Earth begin appearing, the cold of winter is the least of Erin¡¯s worries.]]> 1718 Pirateaba Kerri 0 currently-reading 4.47 2019 The Wandering Inn: Volume 2 (The Wandering Inn, #2)
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]]> <![CDATA[The Wandering Inn (The Wandering Inn, #1)]]> 41033158
So reads the sign outside of The Wandering Inn, a small building run by a young woman named Erin Solstice. She serves pasta with sausage, blue fruit juice, and dead acid flies on request. And she comes from another world. Ours.

It¡¯s a bad day when Erin finds herself transported to a fantastical world and nearly gets eaten by a Dragon. She doesn¡¯t belong in a place where monster attacks are a fact of life, and where Humans are one species among many. But she must adapt to her new life. Or die.

In a dangerous world where magic is real and people can level up and gain classes, Erin Solstice must battle somewhat evil Goblins, deadly Rock Crabs, and hungry [Necromancers]. She is no warrior, no mage. Erin Solstice runs an inn.

She¡¯s an [Innkeeper].]]> 1235 Pirateaba Kerri 5 4.26 2018 The Wandering Inn (The Wandering Inn, #1)
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]]> <![CDATA[Malignant Self-Love: Narcissism Revisited]]> 651943
Are YOU Abused? Stalked? Harassed? Victimized? Confused and Frightened? Were you brought up by a Narcissistic or Psychopathic Parent? Married to a Narcissist or a Psychopath - or Divorcing One? Afraid your children will turn out to be narcissists or psychopaths? Want to cope with this pernicious, baffling condition?

OR: Are You a Narcissist or a Psychopath - or suspect that You may be one ...

This book will teach you how to Cope, Survive, and Protect Your Loved Ones!

"Malignant Self-love: Narcissism Revisited" is based on correspondence since 1996 with hundreds of people diagnosed with Narcissistic and Antisocial Personality Disorders (narcissists and psychopaths) and with thousands of their suffering family members, friends, therapists, and colleagues.

The first ever book about narcissistic abuse, Malignant Self-love: Narcissism Re-Visited offers a detailed, first hand account of what it is like to have a Narcissistic Personality Disorder. It contains new insights and an organized methodological framework. The first part of the book comprises more than 100 Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) regarding relationships with abusive narcissists and the Narcissistic Personality Disorder.

What is a personality disorder? When the personality is rigid to the point of being unable to change in reaction to changing circumstances - we say that it is disordered. Such a person takes behavioral, emotional, and cognitive cues exclusively from others. His inner world is, so to speak, vacated. His True Self is dilapidated and dysfunctional. Instead he has a tyrannical and delusional False Self. Such a person is incapable of loving and of living. He cannot love others because he cannot love himself. He loves his reflection, his surrogate self. And he is incapable of living because life is a struggle towards, a striving, a drive at something. In other words: life is change. He who cannot change cannot live.

The narcissist is an actor in a monodrama, yet forced to remain behind the scenes. The scenes take center stage, instead. The Narcissist does not cater at all to his own needs. Contrary to his reputation, the Narcissist does not "love" himself in any true sense of the word.

He feeds off other people, who hurl back at him an image that he projects to them. This is their sole function in his world: to reflect, to admire, to applaud, to detest - in a word, to assure him that he exists. Otherwise, the narcissist feels, they have no right to tax his time, energy, or emotions.

The posting of Malignant Self Love - Narcissism Re-Visited on the Web has elicited a flood of excited, sad and heart rending responses, mostly from victims of Narcissists but also from people suffering from the NPD. This is a true picture of the resulting correspondence with them.

This book is not intended to please or to entertain. NPD is a pernicious, vile and tortuous disease, which affects not only the Narcissist. It infects and forever changes people who are in daily contact with the Narcissist. In other words: it is contagious. It is my contention that Narcissism is the mental epidemic of the twentieth century, a plague to be fought by all means.

This tome is my contribution to minimizing the damages of this disorder.]]> 680 Sam Vaknin 8023833847 Kerri 0 to-read 4.16 1999 Malignant Self-Love: Narcissism Revisited
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]]> <![CDATA[Girl on Girl: How Pop Culture Turned a Generation of Women Against Themselves]]> 216970860 From Atlantic critic and Pulitzer Prize finalist Sophie Gilbert, a blazing critique of how early-aughts pop culture turned women and girls against each other¡ªand themselves¡ªwith disastrous consequences

When did feminism lose its way? This question feels increasingly urgent in a moment of reactionary cultural and legislative backlash, when widespread uncertainty about the movement¡¯s power, focus, and currency threatens decades of progress.?

Sophie Gilbert, a staff writer at The Atlantic and finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in criticism, provides one answer, identifying an inflection point in the late 1990s and early 2000s when the energy of third-wave and ¡°riot girl¡± feminism collapsed into a regressive period of hyper-objectification, sexualization, and infantilization. Gilbert mines the darker side of nostalgia, training her keen analytic eye on the most revealing cultural objects of the era, across music, film, television, fashion, tabloid journalism, and more. And what she recounts is harrowing, from the unattainable aesthetic of Victoria¡¯s Secret ads and explicit music videos to a burgeoning internet culture vicious towards women in the spotlight and damaging for those who weren¡¯t. Gilbert tracks many of the period¡¯s dominant themes back to the explosion of internet porn, tracing its widespread influence as it began to pervade our collective consciousness.?

Gilbert paints a devastating picture of an era when a distinctly American confluence of excess, materialism, and power-worship collided with the culture¡¯s reactionary, puritanical, and chauvinistic currents. Amid a collective reconsideration of the way women are treated in public, Girl on Girl is a blistering indictment of the matrix of misogyny that undergirded the cultural production of the early twenty-first century, and how it continues to shape our world today.]]> 352 Sophie Gilbert 0593656296 Kerri 0 to-read 4.29 Girl on Girl: How Pop Culture Turned a Generation of Women Against Themselves
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]]> A Fix of Light 216350026 A trans love story with a dark magical twist, from an astonishing new Irish voice.

Be careful. The dark is listening.


Hanan is supposed to be dead.

The forest outside Skenashogue sent him home alive - but changed. A strange new magic makes every emotion a physical force he can't control.

Bright and gentle, fox-like Pax is everything Hanan is not. And when he touches Hanan he mutes his secret power, quiets the curse.

To survive their own darknesses they'll need to be honest with each other. But Hanan isn't sure Pax will like what he finds out...

Can their love help them find their way back to the light?]]> 280 Kel Menton 191507164X Kerri 0 currently-reading 4.46 A Fix of Light
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]]> <![CDATA[The Wicker King (The Wicker King, #1)]]> 33158541
August and Jack struggle to keep afloat as they teeter between fantasy and their own emotions. In the end, each must choose his own truth.]]> 305 K. Ancrum 1250101549 Kerri 0 to-read 4.00 2017 The Wicker King (The Wicker King, #1)
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]]> Uncultured: A Memoir 59808316 In the vein of Educated and The Glass Castle, Daniella Mestyanek Young's Uncultured is more than a memoir about an exceptional upbringing, but about a woman who, no matter the lack of tools given to her, is determined to overcome.

Behind the tall, foreboding gates of a commune in Brazil, Daniella Mestyanek Young was raised in the religious cult The Children of God, also known as The Family, as the daughter of high-ranking members. Her great-grandmother donated land for one of The Family¡¯s first communes in Texas. Her mother, at thirteen, was forced to marry the leader and served as his secretary for many years. Beholden to The Family¡¯s strict rules, Daniella suffers physical, emotional, and sexual abuse¡ªmasked as godly discipline and divine love¡ªand is forbidden from getting a traditional education.

At fifteen years old, fed up with The Family and determined to build a better and freer life for herself, Daniella escapes to Texas. There, she bravely enrolls herself in high school and excels, later graduating as valedictorian of her college class, then electing to join the military to begin a career as an intelligence officer, where she believes she will finally belong.

But she soon learns that her new world¡ªsurrounded by men on the sands of Afghanistan¡ªlooks remarkably similar to the one she desperately tried to leave behind.

Told in a beautiful, propulsive voice and with clear-eyed honesty, Uncultured explores the dangers unleashed when harmful group mentality goes unrecognized, and is emblematic of the many ways women have to contort themselves to survive.]]> 339 Daniella Mestyanek Young 1250280117 Kerri 0 to-read 4.10 2022 Uncultured: A Memoir
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]]> Whiskey Tender: A Memoir 158649919 An Oprah Daily "Best New Book" and "Riveting Nonfiction and Memoir You Need to Read" * A New York Times "New Book to Read" * A The New Yorker "Best Book out now" * An Esquire "Best Book (so far)" * A Zibby Mag "Most Anticipated Book" * An Elle "Best Book" * A Washington Post "Book to Read this Summer" * Publishers Weekly "Top 10 Memoir and Biography" * A San Francisco Chronicle "New Book to Cozy Up With" * A Publishers Weekly "Memoirs & Biographies: Top 10" * The Millions "Most Anticipated" * An Electric Lit ¡°Books By Women of Color to Read" * An Amazon Editors "Best Book of the Month"

¡°We have more Native stories now, but we have not heard one like this. Whiskey Tender is unexpected and propulsive, indeed tender, but also bold, and beautifully told, like a drink you didn¡¯t know you were thirsty for. This book, never anything less than mesmerizing, is full of family stories and vital Native history. It pulses and it aches, and it lifts, consistently. It threads together so much truth by the time we are done, what has been woven together equals a kind of completeness from brokenness, and a hope from knowing love and loss and love again by naming it so.¡± ¡ª Tommy Orange, National Bestselling Author of There There

Reminiscent of the works of Mary Karr and Terese Marie Mailhot, a memoir of family and survival, coming-of-age on and off the reservation, and of the frictions between mainstream American culture and Native inheritance; assimilation and reverence for tradition.

Deborah Jackson Taffa was raised to believe that some sacrifices were necessary to achieve a better life. Her grandparents¡ªcitizens of the Quechan Nation and Laguna Pueblo tribe¡ªwere sent to Indian boarding schools run by white missionaries, while her parents were encouraged to take part in governmental job training off the reservation. Assimilation meant relocation, but as Taffa matured into adulthood, she began to question the promise handed down by her elders and by American society: that if she gave up her culture, her land, and her traditions, she would not only be accepted, but would be able to achieve the ¡°American Dream.¡±

Whiskey Tender traces how a mixed tribe native girl¡ªborn on the California Yuma reservation and raised in Navajo territory in New Mexico¡ªcomes to her own interpretation of identity, despite her parent¡¯s desires for her to transcend the class and ¡°Indian¡± status of her birth through education, and despite the Quechan tribe¡¯s particular traditions and beliefs regarding oral and recorded histories. Taffa¡¯s childhood memories unspool into meditations on tribal identity, the rampant criminalization of Native men, governmental assimilation policies, the Red Power movement, and the negotiation between belonging and resisting systemic oppression. Pan-Indian, as well as specific tribal histories and myths, blend with stories of a 1970s and 1980s childhood spent on and off the reservation.

Taffa offers a sharp and thought-provoking historical analysis laced with humor and heart. As she reflects on her past and present¡ªthe promise of assimilation and the many betrayals her family has suffered, both personal and historical; trauma passed down through generations¡ªshe reminds us of how the cultural narratives of her ancestors have been excluded from the central mythologies and structures of the ¡°melting pot¡± of America, revealing all that is sacrificed for the promise of acceptance.]]> 304 Deborah Jackson Taffa 0063288516 Kerri 0 to-read 4.12 2024 Whiskey Tender: A Memoir
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]]> <![CDATA[Slow Noodles: A Cambodian Memoir of Love, Loss, and Family Recipes]]> 173404032 Slow Noodles will resonate with readers who loved the food and emotional truth of Michelle Zauner's?Crying in H Mart, and it has the staying power of Loung Ung's? First They Killed My Father.

Take a well-fed nine-year-old with a big family and a fancy education. Fold in 2 revolutions, 2 civil wars, and one wholesale extermination. Subtract a reliable source of food, life savings, and family members, until all are gone. Shave down childhood dreams for approximately two decades, until only subsistence remains.
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In Slow Noodles, Chantha Nguon recounts her life as a Cambodia refugee who lost everything and everyone¡ªher house, her country, her parents, her siblings, her friends¡ªeverything but the memories of her mother¡¯s kitchen, the tastes and aromas of the foods her mother made before the dictator Pol Pot tore her country apart in the 1970s, killing millions of her compatriots. Nguon¡¯s irrepressible spirit and determination come through in this emotional and poignant?but also lyrical and magical memoir that includes over 20 recipes for Khmer dishes like chicken lime soup, banh sung noodles, p?t¨¦ de foie, curries, spring rolls, and stir-fries. For Nguon, recreating these dishes becomes an act of resistance, of reclaiming her place in the world, of upholding the values the Khmer Rouge sought to destroy, and of honoring the memory of her beloved mother.

From her idyllic early years in Battambang to hiding as a young girl in Phnom Penh as the country purges ethnic Vietnamese like Nguon and her family, from her escape to Saigon to the deaths of mother and sister there, from the poverty and devastation she experiences in a war-ravaged Vietnam to her decision to flee the country. We follow Chantha on a harrowing river crossing into Thailand¡ªpart of the exodus that gave rise to the name ¡°boat people¡±¡ªand her decades in a refugee camp there, until finally, denied passage to the West, she returns to a forever changed Cambodia. Nguon survives by cooking in a brothel, serving drinks in a nightclub, making and selling street food, becoming a suture-nurse treating refugees abused by Thai authorities, and weaving silk. Through it all, Nguon?relies on her mother¡¯s ¡°slow noodles¡± approach to healing and to cooking, one that prioritizes time and care over expediency.?Haunting and evocative, Slow Noodles is a testament to the power of culinary heritage to spark the rebirth of a young woman¡¯s hopes for a beautiful life.??]]> 304 Chantha Nguon 1643753495 Kerri 0 to-read 4.33 2024 Slow Noodles: A Cambodian Memoir of Love, Loss, and Family Recipes
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]]> <![CDATA[Combee: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom during the Civil War]]> 63095764 The story of the Combahee River Raid, one of Harriet Tubman's most extraordinary accomplishments, based on original documents and written by a descendant of one of the participants.

Most Americans know of Harriet Tubman's legendary life: escaping enslavement in 1849, she led more than 60 others out of bondage via the Underground Railroad, gave instructions on getting to freedom to scores more, and went on to live a lifetime fighting for change. Yet the many biographies, children's books, and films about Tubman omit a crucial chapter: during the Civil War, hired by the Union Army, she ventured into the heart of slave territory--Beaufort, South Carolina--to live, work, and gather intelligence for a daring raid up the Combahee River to attack the major plantations of Rice Country, the breadbasket of the Confederacy.

Edda L. Fields-Black--herself a descendent of one of the participants in the raid--shows how Tubman commanded a ring of spies, scouts, and pilots and participated in military expeditions behind Confederate lines. On June 2, 1863, Tubman and her crew piloted two regiments of Black US Army soldiers, the Second South Carolina Volunteers, and their white commanders up coastal South Carolina's Combahee River in three gunboats. In a matter of hours, they torched eight rice plantations and liberated 730 people, people whose Lowcountry Creole language and culture Tubman could not even understand. Black men who had liberated themselves from bondage on South Carolina's Sea Island cotton plantations after the Battle of Port Royal in November 1861 enlisted in the Second South Carolina Volunteers and risked their lives in the effort.

Using previous unexamined documents, including Tubman's US Civil War Pension File, bills of sale, wills, marriage settlements, and estate papers from planters' families, Fields-Black brings to life intergenerational, extended enslaved families, neighbors, praise-house members, and sweethearts forced to work in South Carolina's deadly tidal rice swamps, sold, and separated during the antebellum period. When Tubman and the gunboats arrived and blew their steam whistles, many of those people clambered aboard, sailed to freedom, and were eventually reunited with their families. The able-bodied Black men freed in the Combahee River Raid enlisted in the Second South Carolina Volunteers and fought behind Confederate lines for the freedom of others still enslaved not just in South Carolina but Georgia and Florida.

After the war, many returned to the same rice plantations from which they had escaped, purchased land, married, and buried each other. These formerly enslaved peoples on the Sea Island indigo and cotton plantations, together with those in the semi-urban port cities of Charleston, Beaufort, and Savannah, and on rice plantations in the coastal plains, created the distinctly American Gullah Geechee dialect, culture, and identity--perhaps the most significant legacy of Harriet Tubman's Combahee River Raid.
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]]> <![CDATA[Unsuitable: A History of Lesbian Fashion]]> 197812414
In Unsuitable , Eleanor Medhurst explores the history of lesbian fashion, a field that has been overwhelmingly ignored within both fashion and queer histories. Unsuitable uncovers the relationships between lesbians and their clothes as well as their fashionable details, from top hats to violet tiaras. It spans centuries and Anne Lister of nineteenth century Yorkshire and "Paris Lesbos" of the 1920s, butch/femme bar culture of the 1950s and lesbian activists in the '80s. It celebrates Black lesbian histories, trans lesbian histories, and histories of gender-nonconformity.

The lesbian past is slippery; it has often deliberately been hidden, altered or left unrecorded. This book lights it up and shares it with the world, adorned in all its finery.]]> 344 Eleanor Medhurst 1805260960 Kerri 0 to-read 4.19 Unsuitable: A History of Lesbian Fashion
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]]> <![CDATA[A Place of Our Own: Six Spaces That Shaped Queer Women's Culture]]> 198493709
For as long as queer women have existed, they¡¯ve created gathering grounds where they can be themselves. From the intimate darkness of the lesbian bar to the sweaty camaraderie of the softball field, these spaces aren¡¯t a luxury¡ªthey¡¯re a necessity for queer women defining their identities. In A Place of Our Own , journalist June Thomas invites readers into six iconic lesbian spaces over the course of the last sixty years, including the rural commune, the sex toy boutique, the vacation spot, and the feminist bookstore. Thomas blends her own experiences with archival research and rare interviews with pioneering figures like Elaine Romagnoli, Susie Bright, and Jacqueline Woodson. She richly illustrates the lives of the business owners, entrepreneurs, activists, and dreamers who shaped the long struggle for queer liberation. Thomas illuminates what is gained and lost in the shift from the exclusive, tight-knit women¡¯s spaces of the ¡¯70s toward today¡¯s more inclusive yet more diffuse LGBTQ+ communities. At once a love letter, a time capsule, and a bridge between generations of queer women, A Place of Our Own brings the history¡ªand timeless present¡ªof the lesbian community to vivid life.]]> 304 June Thomas 1541601742 Kerri 0 to-read 4.23 2024 A Place of Our Own: Six Spaces That Shaped Queer Women's Culture
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]]> <![CDATA[Survival Is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde]]> 198111961 A bold, innovative biography that offers a new understanding of the life, work, and enduring impact of Audre Lorde.

We remember Audre Lorde as an iconic writer, a quotable teacher whose words and face grace T-shirts, nonprofit annual reports, and campus diversity-center walls. But even those who are inspired by Lorde¡¯s teachings on ¡°the creative power of difference¡± may be missing something fundamental about her life and work, and what they can mean for us today.

Lorde¡¯s understanding of survival was not simply about getting through to the other side of oppression or being resilient in the face of cancer. It was about the total stakes of what it means to be in relationship with a planet in transformation. Possibly the focus on Lorde¡¯s quotable essays, to the neglect of her complex poems, has led us to ignore her deep engagement with the natural world, the planetary dynamics of geology, meteorology, and biology. For her, ecological images are not simply metaphors but rather literal guides to how to be of earth on earth, and how to survive¡ªto live the ethics that a Black feminist lesbian warrior poetics demands.

In Survival Is a Promise, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, the first researcher to explore the full depths of Lorde¡¯s manuscript archives, illuminates the eternal life of Lorde. Her life and work become more than a sound bite; they become a cosmic force, teaching us the grand contingency of life together on earth.]]> 529 Alexis Pauline Gumbs 0374603286 Kerri 0 to-read 4.39 Survival Is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde
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]]> <![CDATA[All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake]]> 56108283
In 1850s South Carolina, an enslaved woman named Rose gave this sack filled with a few precious items to her daughter, Ashley, as a token of love and to try to ensure Ashley¡¯s survival as well. Soon after, the nine-year-old girl was separated from her mother and sold. Decades later, Ashley¡¯s granddaughter Ruth embroidered this family history on the bag in spare yet haunting language¡ªincluding Rose¡¯s wish that ¡°It be filled with my Love always.¡± Now, in this illuminating, deeply moving new book inspired by Rose¡¯s gift to Ashley, historian Tiya Miles carefully unearths these women¡¯s faint presence in archival records and draws on objects and art, to follow the paths of their lives¡ªand the lives of so many women like them¡ªin a singular and revelatory history of the experience of slavery, and the uncertain freedom afterward, in the United States.

All That She Carried is a poignant story of resilience and of love passed down through generations of women against steep odds. It honors the creativity and fierce resourcefulness of people who preserved family ties even when official systems refused to do so.]]> 385 Tiya Miles 1984854992 Kerri 0 to-read 3.94 2021 All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
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]]> <![CDATA[Black Women Taught Us: An Intimate History of Black Feminism]]> 139400705
This is my offering. My love letter to them, and to us.

Jenn M. Jackson, PhD, has been known to bring historical acuity to some of the most controversial topics in America today. Now, in their first book, Jackson applies their critical analysis to the questions that have long energized their Why has Black women¡¯s freedom fighting been so overlooked throughout history, and what has our society lost because of our refusal to engage with our forestrugglers¡¯ lessons?

A love letter to those who have been minimized and forgotten, this collection repositions Black women¡¯s intellectual and political work at the center of today¡¯s liberation movements.

Across eleven original essays that explore the legacy of Black women writers and leaders¡ªfrom Harriet Jacobs and Ida B. Wells to the Combahee River Collective and Audre Lorde¡ªJackson sets the record straight about Black women¡¯s longtime movement organizing, theorizing, and coalition building in the name of racial, gender, and sexual justice in the United States and abroad. These essays show, in both critical and deeply personal terms, how Black women have been at the center of modern liberation movements despite the erasure and misrecognition of their efforts. Jackson illustrates how Black women have frequently done the work of liberation at great risk to their lives and livelihoods.

For a new generation of movement organizers and co-strugglers, Black Women Taught Us serves as a reminder that Black women were the first ones to teach us how to fight racism, how to name that fight, and how to imagine a more just world for everyone.]]> 368 Jenn M. Jackson 0593243331 Kerri 0 to-read 4.44 Black Women Taught Us: An Intimate History of Black Feminism
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]]> <![CDATA[Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men]]> 41104077
Celebrated feminist advocate Caroline Criado Perez investigates the shocking root cause of gender inequality and research in Invisible Women?, diving into women¡¯s lives at home, the workplace, the public square, the doctor¡¯s office, and more. Built on hundreds of studies in the US, the UK, and around the world, and written with energy, wit, and sparkling intelligence, this is a groundbreaking, unforgettable expos¨¦ that will change the way you look at the world.]]> 448 Caroline Criado P¨¦rez 1419729071 Kerri 0 to-read 4.35 2019 Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
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]]> <![CDATA[I'm Sorry for My Loss: An Urgent Examination of Reproductive Care in America]]> 203751764
More than a million women lose a pregnancy each year, whether through miscarriage, stillbirth, or termination for medical reasons. For most, the experience often casts a shadow of isolation, shame, and blame. In the aftermath of the 2022 decision to overturn Roe v Wade, 25 million women of childbearing age live in states with laws that restrict access to abortion, including for those who never wanted to end their pregnancies. How did we get here?

Rebecca Little and Colleen Long, childhood friends who grew up to be journalists, both experienced late-term loss, and together they take an incisive, deeply reported look at the issue, working to shatter taboos that have made so many pregnant women feel ashamed and alone. They trace the experience of pregnancy loss and reproductive care from America's founding to the present day, exposing the deep impact made by a dangerous tangle of laws, politics, medicine, racism, and misogyny. Combining powerful personal narratives with exhaustive research, I'm Sorry for My Loss is a comprehensive examination on how pregnancy loss came to be so stigmatized and politicized, and why a system of more compassionate care is critical for everyone.]]> 496 1728292751 Kerri 0 to-read 4.42 2024 I'm Sorry for My Loss: An Urgent Examination of Reproductive Care in America
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]]> <![CDATA[It's Not Hysteria: Everything You Need to Know About Your Reproductive Health (But Were Never Told)]]> 195790756 An inclusive and essential guide to reproductive health¡ªincluding period problems, pelvic pain, menopause, fertility, sexual health, vaginal and urinary conditions, and overall wellbeing¨Dfrom leading expert Dr. Karen Tang

Reproductive healthcare, from abortion to gender-affirming care, is under siege. The onus continues to fall on patients to find and advocate for the care they need. Dr. Karen Tang is on a mission to transform how women engage with their bodies and their healthcare.

Did you know that one in three women experiences menstrual abnormalities or pelvic issues, yet these conditions are overwhelmingly misunderstood, misdiagnosed, or dismissed? The root causes for these issues, such as polycystic ovary syndrome, endometriosis, fibroids, ovarian cysts, premenstrual dysphoric disorder, and pelvic-floor muscle dysfunction, don¡¯t receive the stream of funding for research and new treatments that other conditions do, despite the potential to affect up to half the population.

It¡¯s Not Hysteria is a comprehensive guide to common conditions and potential treatment options, with practical tools such as symptom prompts and sample questions to ask one's provider. In the face of uncertainty and misinformation, It¡¯s Not Hysteria is destined to become a new classic that educates and empowers.]]> 384 Karen Tang 1250894158 Kerri 0 to-read 4.21 2024 It's Not Hysteria: Everything You Need to Know About Your Reproductive Health (But Were Never Told)
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]]> <![CDATA[Passing Through a Prairie Country]]> 214988436 A darkly humorous thriller about the ghosts that haunt the temples of sin and excess we call casino, and people who get caught up in a web resting on high stakes and low odds

Fleeing a recent breakup, Marion Lafournier, a mid-20s Ojibwe, seeks solace in the dim halls of the Hidden Atlantis Lake Resort & Casino, the reservation¡¯s main tourist attraction and source of revenue, where once again he finds himself at a crossroads between worlds and spirits.?
For decades, a dark force has terrorized the Languille Lake reservation. A figure known only in whispers as a sandman in the shadows, he lurks in the casino leeching the dreams and ambitions from its citizens. Drawn by the siren song of the slot machines, Marion soon falls afoul of the sandman barely escaping the confrontation aided by the timely intervention of two casino security guards, his cousins Alana and Cherie. Meanwhile, Glenn Nielan, late out of the closet and aspiring to greatness, hopes to capture the faces of the land for a documentary while experiencing the thrill of a reservation casino again.? But all who choose to play the sandman¡¯s wicked games are in danger of his hold.
We soon learn that Marion and Alana are the last members of the Bullhead clan, a family with ties to a sacred past, and a fierce determination to ensure their future. Alana with her Seven Fire Sight is the only person who grasps the danger the sandman poses. Aware of Marion¡¯s ability to sometimes navigate the spirit world, she enlists his help in defeating this scourge.

But the power and reach of this menace go far beyond what Alana anticipated and she and Marion soon find themselves in a battle for the lives and souls of the reservation¡¯s residents.]]> 272 Dennis E. Staples 1640096876 Kerri 0 to-read 3.43 Passing Through a Prairie Country
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]]> Gobbolino the Witch's Cat 440601 224 Ursula Moray Williams 0753412098 Kerri 4 4.15 1942 Gobbolino the Witch's Cat
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average rating: 4.15
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rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[The Further Adventures of Gobbolino and the Little Wooden Horse]]> 1735078 230 Ursula Moray Williams 0753407140 Kerri 0 to-read 4.36 1984 The Further Adventures of Gobbolino and the Little Wooden Horse
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]]> <![CDATA[Call Down the Hawk (Dreamer Trilogy, #1)]]> 31373184 The dreamers walk among us . . . and so do the dreamed. Those who dream cannot stop dreaming ¨C they can only try to control it. Those who are dreamed cannot have their own lives ¨C they will sleep forever if their dreamers die.

And then there are those who are drawn to the dreamers. To use them. To trap them. To kill them before their dreams destroy us all.

Ronan Lynch is a dreamer. He can pull both curiosities and catastrophes out of his dreams and into his compromised reality.

Jordan Hennessy is a thief. The closer she comes to the dream object she is after, the more inextricably she becomes tied to it.

Carmen Farooq-Lane is a hunter. Her brother was a dreamer . . . and a killer. She has seen what dreaming can do to a person. And she has seen the damage that dreamers can do. But that is nothing compared to the destruction that is about to be unleashed. . . .]]> 472 Maggie Stiefvater 1338188321 Kerri 4 4.24 2019 Call Down the Hawk (Dreamer Trilogy, #1)
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]]> <![CDATA[Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses]]> 87040 Living at the limits of our ordinary perception, mosses are a common but largely unnoticed element of the natural world. Gathering Moss is a beautifully written mix of science and personal reflection that invites readers to explore and learn from the elegantly simple lives of mosses. Robin Wall Kimmerer's book is not an identification guide, nor is it a scientific treatise. Rather, it is a series of linked personal essays that will lead general readers and scientists alike to an understanding of how mosses live and how their lives are intertwined with the lives of countless other beings, from salmon and hummingbirds to redwoods and rednecks. Kimmerer clearly and artfully explains the biology of mosses, while at the same time reflecting on what these fascinating organisms have to teach us.

Drawing on her diverse experiences as a scientist, mother, teacher, and writer of Native American heritage, Kimmerer explains the stories of mosses in scientific terms as well as in the framework of indigenous ways of knowing. In her book, the natural history and cultural relationships of mosses become a powerful metaphor for ways of living in the world.

Gathering Moss will appeal to a wide range of readers, from bryologists to those interested in natural history and the environment, Native Americans, and contemporary nature and science writing.

]]> 168 Robin Wall Kimmerer 0870714996 Kerri 0 to-read 4.39 2003 Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses
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]]> Where the Dark Stands Still 61287784
Whisked away to his crumbling manor, Liska soon discovers the sinister roots of their bargain. And if she wants to survive the year and return home, she must unravel her host¡¯s spool of secrets and face the ghosts of his past.

Those who enter the wood do not always return¡­]]> 336 A.B. Poranek Kerri 0 to-read 4.05 2024 Where the Dark Stands Still
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]]> <![CDATA[The Wandering Inn: Volume 4 (The Wandering Inn, #4)]]> 41477610
So reads the sign outside of The Wandering Inn, a small building run by a young woman named Erin Solstice. She serves pasta with sausage, blue fruit juice, and dead acid flies on request. And she comes from another world. Ours.

It¡¯s a bad day when Erin finds herself transported to a fantastical world and nearly gets eaten by a Dragon. She doesn¡¯t belong in a place where monster attacks are a fact of life, and where Humans are one species among many. But she must adapt to her new life. Or die.

In a dangerous world where magic is real and people can level up and gain classes, Erin Solstice must battle somewhat evil Goblins, deadly Rock Crabs, and hungry [Necromancers]. She is no warrior, no mage. Erin Solstice runs an inn.

She¡¯s an [Innkeeper].]]> 1109 Pirateaba Kerri 0 to-read 4.57 2018 The Wandering Inn: Volume 4 (The Wandering Inn, #4)
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]]> <![CDATA[Nausica? of the Valley of Wind, Vol. 1]]> 844349
Nausicaa took Miyazaki 12 years to create, in part because he worked with few or no assistants, doing both the writing and drawing using a meticulously detailed style that critics have compared to the work of the French artist Moebius.]]> 264 Hayao Miyazaki 1569310963 Kerri 0 to-read 4.51 Nausica? of the Valley of Wind, Vol. 1
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]]> <![CDATA[The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions]]> 112217 336 Paula Gunn Allen 0807046175 Kerri 0 to-read 4.06 1986 The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions
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]]> <![CDATA[Making Space for Indigenous Feminism]]> 2638372
This book is by and about Indigenous feminists, whose work demonstrates a powerful and original intellectual and political contribution demonstrating that feminism has much to offer Indigenous women in their struggles against oppression and for equality. Indigenous feminism is international in its scope: the contributors here are from Canada, the USA, Sapmi (Samiland), and Aotearoa/New Zealand. The chapters include theoretical contributions, stories of political activism, and deeply personal accounts of developing political consciousness as Aboriginal feminists.?]]> 256 Joyce Green 1842779400 Kerri 0 to-read 4.33 2007 Making Space for Indigenous Feminism
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]]> <![CDATA[My Friend Dahmer: A Graphic Novel]]> 12959045 Derf Backderf, ¡°Jeff¡± was a much more complex figure: a high school friend with whom he had shared classrooms, hallways, and car rides.

In My Friend Dahmer, a haunting and original graphic novel, writer-artist Backderf creates a surprisingly sympathetic portrait of a disturbed young man struggling against the morbid urges emanating from the deep recesses of his psyche ¡ª a shy kid, a teenage alcoholic, and a goofball who never quite fit in with his classmates. With profound insight, what emerges is a Jeffrey Dahmer that few ever really knew, and one readers will never forget.]]> 224 Derf Backderf 1419702173 Kerri 4 3.91 2012 My Friend Dahmer: A Graphic Novel
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]]> <![CDATA[The Authority Gap: Why Women Are Still Taken Less Seriously Than Men, and What We Can Do About It]]> 58085228 384 Mary Ann Sieghart 0393867757 Kerri 0 to-read 4.34 2021 The Authority Gap: Why Women Are Still Taken Less Seriously Than Men, and What We Can Do About It
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]]> <![CDATA[Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West (The Wicked Years, #1)]]> 37442 When Dorothy triumphed over the Wicked Witch of the West in L. Frank Baum's classic tale, we heard only her side of the story. But what about her arch-nemesis, the mysterious witch? Where did she come from? How did she become so wicked? And what is the true nature of evil?

Gregory Maguire creates a fantasy world so rich and vivid that we will never look at Oz the same way again. Wicked is about a land where animals talk and strive to be treated like first-class citizens, Munchkinlanders seek the comfort of middle-class stability and the Tin Man becomes a victim of domestic violence. And then there is the little green-skinned girl named Elphaba, who will grow up to be the infamous Wicked Witch of the West, a smart, prickly and misunderstood creature who challenges all our preconceived notions about the nature of good and evil.

]]> 406 Gregory Maguire 0060987103 Kerri 2 3.52 1995 Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West (The Wicked Years, #1)
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This was exceedingly dull. Wow. Two stars for the fact that it inspired the brilliant musical.
]]> May You Have Delicious Meals 217582659 The power dynamics of the office are never more obvious than when it comes to food: mandatory lunches with the boss, the colleague who tries to curry favour with home-baked goods, discovering the discarded remnants of someone else's late-night binge . . .

In their Saitama office, Ashikawa is the kind of woman Nitani knows he will likely marry: sweet, obliging, and determined to wean him off his addiction to instant noodles. But he finds himself increasingly unable to respect her ¨C or the sugary treats she shares around the workplace, winning their colleagues¡¯ affection with baking rather than hard work.

Oshio is bolder and uninhibited ¨C she is Nitani's drinking buddy. In the oppressive office atmosphere, the pair grows closer, both outsiders struggling with the rigid status quo.

Driven to behave in increasingly absurd ways by the workplace rules that govern their lives, they must navigate the tensions of modern life: between leisure and hard work; indulgence and restraint; the promise of delicious food, and the reality of a lonely pot noodle.]]> 133 Junko Takase 1529153891 Kerri 0 to-read 3.14 2022 May You Have Delicious Meals
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]]> Women: A Novella 200307455
Sometimes I wonder what it is I could tell you about her for my job here to be done. I am looking for a short?cut. . . .But that would be asking too much from you. It wasn¡¯t you who loved her.

A young writer moves from the country to the city and falls in love with another woman for the very first time. From the start, the relationship is doomed; Finn is nineteen years older, wears men¡¯s clothes, has a cocky smirk of a smile . . . and a long-term girlfriend.

With startling clarity and breathtaking tenderness, Chloe Caldwell writes the story of a love in of nights spent drunkenly hurling a phone against a brick wall; of early mornings hungover in bed, curled up together; of emails and poems exchanged at breakneck speed. In Women, Caldwell lays bare the feverish obsession of addictive love, and asks the what, if anything, can who we love teach us about who we are?

In this beautiful, transcendent, bracingly sexy novella, Caldwell tells a lust-love story that will bring you to your knees. Capturing the feverish heartbreak of Sapphic romance, painting a stark picture of an identity in crisis, and illuminating the exploratory possibilities of queer life, Women is an incandescent novella that brands the heart and sears the soul.]]> 160 Chlo¨¦ Caldwell 0063387077 Kerri 0 to-read 4.01 2014 Women: A Novella
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]]> The Lamb 216867498
But Mama¡¯s want is stronger than her hunger sometimes, and when a beautiful, white-toothed stray named Eden turns up in the heart of a snowstorm, Margot must confront the shifting dynamics of her family, untangle her own desires, and make her own bid for freedom.

With this gothic coming-of-age tale, novelist Lucy Rose explores how women swallow their anger, desire, and animal instincts¡ªand wrings the relationship between mother and daughter until blood drips from it.]]> 336 Lucy Rose 1399619713 Kerri 0 to-read 3.95 2025 The Lamb
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]]> It 830502
It¡¯s a small city, a place as hauntingly familiar as your own hometown. Only in Derry the haunting is real ...

They were seven teenagers when they first stumbled upon the horror. Now they are grown-up men and women who have gone out into the big world to gain success and happiness. But none of them can withstand the force that has drawn them back to Derry to face the nightmare without an end, and the evil without a name.]]> 1184 Stephen King 0450411435 Kerri 4 4.28 1986 It
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]]> <![CDATA[Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia]]> 42129163
The work is divided into three sections. The two chapters in the first part consider how Renaissance white women and women of color were depicted as plump and feminine, separated by class, yet belonging to the same gender. The second part of the work charts the rise of modern racial ideologies that yoked feminine beauty to Protestant, Anglo-Saxon whiteness. Later chapters and the epilogue consider how Americans normalized the "scientific management" of white women's bodies for the purpose of racial uplift, a project that continued to situate black women as the embodied Other.

The author does not address fat from the angle of health or previous attitudes white Europeans held towards corpulence.]]> 296 Sabrina Strings 1479886750 Kerri 0 currently-reading 4.26 2019 Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia
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]]> <![CDATA[New and Selected Poems, Volume One]]> 71642 255 Mary Oliver 0807068780 Kerri 0 to-read 4.54 1992 New and Selected Poems, Volume One
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]]> <![CDATA[Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot]]> 36687229 267 Mikki Kendall Kerri 4 4.37 2020 Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
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]]> <![CDATA[Dealing with Dragons (Enchanted Forest Chronicles, #1)]]> 150739 not supposed to be: headstrong, tomboyish, smart - and bored. So bored that she runs away to live with a dragon - and finds the family and excitement she's been looking for.

Cover illustrator: Peter de S¨¨ve]]> 240 Patricia C. Wrede 015204566X Kerri 0 to-read 4.16 1990 Dealing with Dragons (Enchanted Forest Chronicles, #1)
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]]> Ìì¹Ù´Í¸£ [Ti¨¡n Gu¨¡n C¨¬ F¨² Extras] 59947430
For you, I'll become invincible!

"Ah! That Scrap-Collecting Official from the Heavens is having an affair with the Head Honcho of the Ghost Realm!" Eight hundred years ago, Xie Lian was the noble and gracious Crown Prince of Xianle, the glorious Darling of the Heavens. Yet who knew the once Martial God, who had ascended after enlightenment, worshipped by millions, had fallen so abruptly, disgraced and dishonored, hitting as rock bottom as it got. Eight hundred years after that, Xie Lian ascended again with an uproar. This time, he had neither devotees nor merits. One day, on the way home from collecting scraps he picked up a young man. This young man was actually that Ghost King of countless faces much talked of in the three realms¡ªHua Cheng.]]> 226 M¨° Xi¨¡ng T¨®ng Xi¨´ Kerri 0 to-read 4.67 2017 Ìì¹Ù´Í¸£ [Ti¨¡n Gu¨¡n C¨¬ F¨² Extras]
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]]> Demon Slayer, Vol. 22 122021571 192 Koyoharu Gotouge 6559608026 Kerri 3 4.69 2020 Demon Slayer, Vol. 22
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]]> Demon Slayer 9 104657762 200 Koyoharu Gotouge 6075680810 Kerri 3 4.49 2017 Demon Slayer 9
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]]> Hungerstone 200315473 For what do you hunger . . .?

Lenore is the wife of steel magnate Henry, but ten years into their marriage the relationship has soured, and no child has arrived to fill the distance growing between them. Henry's ambitions take them from London to Sheffield, and with his success hinged on a hunt, an old tradition looms over the home; the hunt is a time to settle old scores. If a bullet finds a human home, then it is only that they were foolish to become prey. In the weeks leading up to the hunt, a carriage accident near their remote home brings the mysterious Carmilla into Lenore's life. Carmilla, who is weak and pale during the day but vibrant at night, Carmilla who will not eat meals with the family, Carmilla who stirs up a hunger deep within Lenore. Soon girls from local villages begin to fall sick before being consumed by a terrible hunger . . .

Set against the violent wilderness of the Peaks and the uncontrolled appetite of the industrial revolution Hungerstone is a compulsive feminist reworking of Carmilla, the book that inspired a captivating story of appetite and desire.]]> 400 Kat Dunn 1786583925 Kerri 0 to-read 3.97 2025 Hungerstone
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]]> A FIX OF LIGHT 224101912 A trans love story with a dark magical twist, from an astonishing new Irish voice.

Be careful. The dark is listening.


Hanan is supposed to be dead.

The forest outside Skenashogue sent him home alive - but changed. A strange new magic makes every emotion a physical force he can't control.

Bright and gentle, fox-like Pax is everything Hanan is not. And when he touches Hanan he mutes his secret power, quiets the curse.

To survive their own darknesses they'll need to be honest with each other. But Hanan isn't sure Pax will like what he finds out...

Can their love help them find their way back to the light?]]> Kel Menton 1915071747 Kerri 0 to-read 0.0 A FIX OF LIGHT
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]]> <![CDATA[Pages to Fill (Legends & Lattes, #0.5)]]> 201000777 Legends & Lattes. It is available in the book Legends & Lattes, second edition.]]> 33 Travis Baldree Kerri 4 3.58 2022 Pages to Fill (Legends & Lattes, #0.5)
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]]> <![CDATA[Demon Slayer - Kimetsu no Yaiba 2 (Kimetsu no Yaiba, #2)]]> 55242114 192 Koyoharu Gotouge 396433281X Kerri 3 4.23 2016 Demon Slayer - Kimetsu no Yaiba 2 (Kimetsu no Yaiba, #2)
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]]> Speaking Truth to Power 1979834
Only after reading her moving recollection of her childhood on her family's Oklahoma farm can we fully appreciate the values that enabled her to withstand the harsh scrutiny she endured during the hearings and for years afterward. Only after reading her detailed narrative of the Senate Judiciary proceedings do we reach a new understanding of how Washington--and the media--rush to judgment. And only after discovering the personal toll of this wrenching ordeal, and how Hill copes, do we gain new respect for this extraordinary woman.

Here is a vitally important work that allows us to understand why Anita Hill did what she did, and thereby brings resolution to one of the most controversial episodes in our nation's history.]]> 384 Anita Hill 0385476272 Kerri 0 to-read 4.02 1997 Speaking Truth to Power
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]]> <![CDATA[Believing: Our Thirty-Year Journey to End Gender Violence]]> 57640263 "An elegant, impassioned demand that America see gender-based violence as a cultural and structural problem that hurts everyone, not just victims and survivors... It's at times downright virtuosic in the threads it weaves together."--NPR

From the woman who gave the landmark testimony against Clarence Thomas as a sexual menace, a new manifesto about the origins and course of gender violence in our society; a combination of memoir, personal accounts, law, and social analysis, and a powerful call to arms from one of our most prominent and poised survivors.

In 1991, Anita Hill began something that's still unfinished work. The issues of gender violence, touching on sex, race, age, and power, are as urgent today as they were when she first testified. Believing is a story of America's three decades long reckoning with gender violence, one that offers insights into its roots, and paths to creating dialogue and substantive change. It is a call to action that offers guidance based on what this brave, committed fighter has learned from a lifetime of advocacy and her search for solutions to a problem that is still tearing America apart.

We once thought gender-based violence--from casual harassment to rape and murder--was an individual problem that affected a few; we now know it's cultural and endemic, and happens to our acquaintances, colleagues, friends and family members, and it can be physical, emotional and verbal. Women of color experience sexual harassment at higher rates than White women. Street harassment is ubiquitous and can escalate to violence. Transgender and nonbinary people are particularly vulnerable.

Anita Hill draws on her years as a teacher, legal scholar, and advocate, and on the experiences of the thousands of individuals who have told her their stories, to trace the pipeline of behavior that follows individuals from place to place: from home to school to work and back home. In measured, clear, blunt terms, she demonstrates the impact it has on every aspect of our lives, including our physical and mental wellbeing, housing stability, political participation, economy and community safety, and how our descriptive language undermines progress toward solutions. And she is uncompromising in her demands that our laws and our leaders must address the issue concretely and immediately.]]> 334 Anita Hill 0593298292 Kerri 0 to-read 4.19 2021 Believing: Our Thirty-Year Journey to End Gender Violence
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]]> <![CDATA[Race-Ing Justice, En-Gendering Power: Essays on Anita Hill, Clarence Thomas, and the Construction of Social Reality]]> 51730 It was perhaps the most wretchedly aspersive race and gender scandal of recent the dramatic testimony of Anita Hill at the Senate hearings on the confirmation of Clarence Thomas as Supreme Court Justice. Yet even as the televised proceedings shocked and galvanized viewers not only in this country but the world over, they cast a long shadow on essential issues that define America.

In Race-ing Justice, En-gendering Power, Nobel Prize winner Toni Morrison contributes an introduction and brings together eighteen provocative essays, all but one written especially for this book, by prominent and distinguished academicians¡ªBlack and white, male and female. These writings powerfully elucidate not only the racial and sexual but also the historical, political, cultural, legal, psychological, and linguistic aspects of a signal and revelatory moment in American history.

With contributions
Homi K. Bhabha, Margaret A. Burnham, Kimberl¨¦ Crenshaw, Paula Giddings, A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr., Claudia Brodsky Lacour, Wahneema Lubiano, Manning Marable, Nellie Y. McKay, Toni Morrison, Nell Irvin Painter, Gayle Pemberton, Andrew Ross, Christine Stansell, Carol M. Swain, Michael Thelwell, Kendall Thomas, Cornel West, Patricia J. Williams]]> 512 Toni Morrison 0679741453 Kerri 0 to-read 4.22 1992 Race-Ing Justice, En-Gendering Power: Essays on Anita Hill, Clarence Thomas, and the Construction of Social Reality
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]]> 1919 41746074 Poetic reflections on race, class, violence, segregation, and the hidden histories that shape our divided urban landscapes.

The Chicago Race Riot of 1919, the most intense of the riots that comprised the ¡°Red Summer¡± of violence across the nation¡¯s cities, is an event that has shaped the last century but is widely unknown. In 1919, award-winning poet Eve L. Ewing explores the story of this event¡ªwhich lasted eight days and resulted in thirty-eight deaths and almost 500 injuries¡ªthrough poems recounting the stories of everyday people trying to survive and thrive in the city. Ewing uses speculative and Afrofuturist lenses to recast history, and illuminates the thin line between the past and the present.]]> 76 Eve L. Ewing 1608465985 Kerri 0 to-read 4.52 2019 1919
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]]> Mules and Men 584512 341 Zora Neale Hurston 0060916486 Kerri 0 to-read 4.11 1935 Mules and Men
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]]> The Eyes Are the Best Part 195703882 Crying in H-Mart meets My Sister, the Serial Killer in this feminist psychological horror about the making of a female serial killer from a Korean-American perspective.

Ji-won¡¯s life tumbles into disarray in the wake of her appa¡¯s extramarital affair and subsequent departure. Her mother, distraught. Her younger sister, hurt and confused. Her college freshman grades, failing. Her dreams, horrifying¡­ yet enticing.

In them, Ji-won walks through bloody rooms full of eyes. Succulent blue eyes. Salivatingly blue eyes. Eyes the same shape and shade as George¡¯s, who is Umma¡¯s obnoxious new boyfriend. George has already overstayed his welcome in her family¡¯s claustrophobic apartment. He brags about his puffed-up consulting job, ogles Asian waitresses while dining out, and acts condescending toward Ji-won and her sister as if he deserves all of Umma¡¯s fawning adoration. No, George doesn¡¯t deserve anything from her family. Ji-won will make sure of that.

For no matter how many victims accumulate around her campus or how many people she must deceive and manipulate, Ji-won¡¯s hunger and her rage deserve to be sated.

A brilliantly inventive, subversive novel about a young woman unraveling, Monika Kim¡¯s The Eyes Are the Best Part is a story of a family falling apart and trying to find their way back to each other, marking a bold new voice in horror that will leave readers mesmerized and craving more.]]> 278 Monika Kim 1645661237 Kerri 0 to-read 3.82 2024 The Eyes Are the Best Part
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]]> The Life of Herod the Great 212364050 Zora Neale Hurston's unpublished novel revealing the historical Herod the Great¡ªnot the demon the Bible makes him out to be but a religious and philosophical man who lived a life of adventure.

In the 1950s, after the publication of Moses, Man of the Mountain, Zora Neale Hurston set out to write a novel that would set the record straight about one of history's most maligned figures. If Hurston's Moses challenges the Old Testament version of the ancient Hebrew leader by suggesting that Moses was actually an Egyptian, Hurston's Herod challenges the New Testament version of the tyrant who supposedly ordered the deaths of many children in order to save the Christ-child, as recorded in the book of Matthew, by suggesting that he was actually a forerunner of Christ.

From the peaks of triumph to the depths of human misery, the historical Herod "seemed to have been singled out by some deity and especially endowed to attract the zigzag lightning of fate." The intimate friend of both Marc Antony and Julius Caesar, Herod lived in times of war and expansion, where political assassinations and bribery were commonplace as the old world gave way to the new. Breaking his legacy out of a single paragraph in the Bible and into the vivid, breathing world he lived in, Hurston's unfinished manuscript brings a full person with an adventurous life into view for the first time.

Scholar and literary critic Deborah Plant brings this bold, spirited novel to readers for the first time with a new introduction and editorial additions that demonstrate Hurston's point about how reimagining figures from the past addresses the troubles we experience today.]]> 368 Zora Neale Hurston 0063161001 Kerri 0 to-read 3.33 2025 The Life of Herod the Great
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]]> Passing It On 499962 Passing It On is the account of an extraordinary Asian American woman who spoke out and fought shoulder-to-shoulder with African Americans, Native Americans, Latinos, Asian Americans, and Whites for social justice, civil rights, and prisoners and women's rights in the U.S. and internationally for over half a century. A prolific writer and speaker on human rights, Kochiyama has spoken at over 100 colleges and universities and high schools in the U.S. and Canada.]]> 223 Yuri Kochiyama 0934052379 Kerri 0 to-read 4.18 2004 Passing It On
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]]> <![CDATA[How Many More Women?: Exposing how the law silences women]]> 63031035 408 Jennifer Robinson 1761064649 Kerri 0 to-read 4.34 How Many More Women?: Exposing how the law silences women
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]]> <![CDATA[Brigands & Breadknives (Legends & Lattes, #2)]]> 222376572 Return to the cozy fantasy world of the #1 New York Times bestselling Legends & Lattes series with a new adventure featuring fan-favorite, foul-mouthed bookseller, Fern.

Fern has weathered the stillness and storms of a bookseller¡¯s life for decades, but now, in the face of crippling ennui, transplants herself to the city of Thune to hang out her shingle beside a long-absent friend¡¯s coffee shop. What could be a better pairing? Surely a charming renovation montage will cure what ails her!

If only things were so simple¡­

It turns out that fixing your life isn¡¯t a one-time prospect, nor as easy as a change of scenery and a lick of paint.

A drunken and desperate night sees the rattkin waking far from home in the company of a legendary warrior surviving on inertia, an imprisoned chaos-goblin with a fondness for silverware, and an absolutely thumping hangover.

As together they fend off a rogue¡¯s gallery of ne¡¯er-do-wells trying to claim the bounty the goblin represents, Fern may finally reconnect with the person she actually is when there isn¡¯t a job to get in the way.]]> 336 Travis Baldree 1250334888 Kerri 0 to-read 4.06 2025 Brigands & Breadknives (Legends & Lattes, #2)
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]]> <![CDATA[War Against the Panthers: A Study of Repression in America]]> 1224741 176 Huey P. Newton 0863163319 Kerri 0 to-read 4.22 1982 War Against the Panthers: A Study of Repression in America
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]]> <![CDATA[The Revolution Has Come: Black Power, Gender, and the Black Panther Party in Oakland]]> 29362718 280 Robyn C. Spencer 0822362864 Kerri 0 to-read 4.12 2016 The Revolution Has Come: Black Power, Gender, and the Black Panther Party in Oakland
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]]> <![CDATA[The Black Panther Party [Reconsidered]]]> 388972 519 Charles E. Jones 0933121970 Kerri 0 to-read 3.97 1998 The Black Panther Party [Reconsidered]
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]]> <![CDATA[Panther Baby: A Life of Rebellion and Reinvention]]> 12736342 280 Jamal Joseph 1616201290 Kerri 0 to-read 4.22 2012 Panther Baby: A Life of Rebellion and Reinvention
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]]> <![CDATA[We Want Freedom: A Life in the Black Panther Party]]> 161457 We Want Freedom, Mumia combines personal experience with extensive research to provide a compelling history of the Black Panther Party¡ªwhat it was, where it came from, and what rose from its ashes. Mumia also pays special attention to the U.S. government¡¯s disruption of the organization through COINTELPRO and similar operations.

While Abu-Jamal is a prolific writer and probably the world¡¯s most famous political prisoner, this book is unlike any of Mumia¡¯s previous works. In We Want Freedom, Abu-Jamal applies his sharp critical faculties to an examination of one of the U.S.¡¯s most revolutionary and most misrepresented groups. A subject previously explored by various historians and forever ripe for "insider" accounts, the Black Panther Party has not yet been addressed by a writer with the well-earned international acclaim of Abu-Jamal, nor with his unique combination of a powerful, even poetic, voice and an unsparing critical gaze. Abu-Jamal is able to make his own Black Panther Party days come alive as well as help situate the organization within its historical context, a context that included both great revolutionary fervor and hope, and great repression. In this era, when the US PATRIOT Act dismantles some of the same rights and freedoms violated by the FBI in their attack on the Black Panther Party, the story of how the Party grew and matured while combating such invasions is a welcome and essential lesson.]]> 320 Mumia Abu-Jamal 0896087182 Kerri 0 to-read 4.43 2004 We Want Freedom: A Life in the Black Panther Party
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]]> <![CDATA[Body and Soul: The Black Panther Party and the Fight Against Medical Discrimination]]> 11296327
Drawing on extensive historical research as well as interviews with former members of the Black Panther Party, Nelson argues that the Party¡¯s focus on health care was both practical and ideological. Building on a long tradition of medical self-sufficiency among African Americans, the Panthers¡¯ People¡¯s Free Medical Clinics administered basic preventive care, tested for lead poisoning and hypertension, and helped with housing, employment, and social services. In 1971, the party launched a campaign to address sickle-cell anemia. In addition to establishing screening programs and educational outreach efforts, it exposed the racial biases of the medical system that had largely ignored sickle-cell anemia, a disease that predominantly affected people of African descent.

The Black Panther Party¡¯s understanding of health as a basic human right and its engagement with the social implications of genetics anticipated current debates about the politics of health and race. That legacy¡ªand that struggle¡ªcontinues today in the commitment of health activists and the fight for universal health care.]]> 289 Alondra Nelson 0816676488 Kerri 0 to-read 4.28 2011 Body and Soul: The Black Panther Party and the Fight Against Medical Discrimination
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]]> <![CDATA[Power to the People: The World of the Black Panthers]]> 28818223
In this incredible history, the words are Seale¡¯s, with contributions by other former party members; the photographs, including many icons of the 1960s, are by Stephen Shames, who also interviewed many other members of the party¡ªincluding Kathleen Cleaver, Elbert ¡°Big Man¡± Howard, Ericka Huggins, Emory Douglas, and William ¡°Billy X¡± Jennings¡ªand supplements his own photography with Panther ephemera and graphic art.

Shames, a student at the University of California, Berkeley, first encountered and photographed Seale in April 1967 at an anti¨CVietnam War rally. Seale became a mentor to Shames, and Shames, in turn, the most trusted photographer to the party, remained by Seale¡¯s side through his campaign for mayor of Oakland in 1973. Power to the People is a testament to their warm At its heart are Shames¡¯s memorable images, accompanied by Seale¡¯s colorful in-depth commentary culled from many hours of conversation.

Admired, reviled, emulated, misunderstood, the Black Panther Party was one of the most creative and influential responses to racism and inequality in American history. They advocated armed self-defense to counter police brutality and initiated a program of patrolling the police with shotguns¡ªand law books.

Published on the 50th anniversary of the party¡¯s founding, Power to the People is the in-depth chronicle of the only radical political party in America to make a difference in the struggle for civil rights¡ªthe Black Panther Party.]]> 256 Bobby Seale 1419722409 Kerri 0 to-read 4.35 Power to the People: The World of the Black Panthers
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]]> <![CDATA[Seize the Time: The Story of the Black Panther Party and Huey P. Newton]]> 371464 429 Bobby Seale 093312130X Kerri 0 to-read 4.36 1968 Seize the Time: The Story of the Black Panther Party and Huey P. Newton
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]]> <![CDATA[COINTELPRO: The FBI's Secret War on Political Freedom]]> 421559 221 Nelson Blackstock 0873488776 Kerri 0 to-read 3.77 1975 COINTELPRO: The FBI's Secret War on Political Freedom
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]]> <![CDATA[Look for Me in the Whirlwind: From the Panther 21 to 21st-Century Revolutions]]> 32713980 Look for Me in the Whirlwind, which is reprinted here for the first time.

Look for Me in the Whirlwind: From the Panther 21 to 21st-Century Revolutions contains the entire original manuscript, and includes new commentary from surviving members of the 21: Sekou Odinga, Dhoruba Bin Wahad, Jamal Joseph, and Shaba Om. Still-imprisoned Sundiata Acoli, Imam Jamil Al-Amin, and Mumia Abu-Jamal contribute new essays. Never or rarely seen poetry and prose from Afeni Shakur, Kuwasi Balagoon, Ali Bey Hassan, and Michael ¡°Cetewayo¡± Tabor is included. Early Panther leader and jazz master Bilal Sunni-Ali adds a historical essay and lyrics from his composition ¡°Look for Me in the Whirlwind,¡± and coeditors kioni-sadiki, Meyer, and Panther rank-and-file member Cyril ¡°Bullwhip¡± Innis Jr. help bring the story up to date.

At a moment when the Movement for Black Lives recites the affirmation that ¡°it is our duty to win,¡± penned by Black Liberation Army (BLA) militant Assata Shakur, those who made up the BLA and worked alongside of Assata are largely unknown. This book¡ªwith archival photos from David Fenton, Stephen Shames, and the private collections of the authors¡ª provides essential parts of a hidden and missing-in-action history. Going well beyond the familiar and mythologized nostalgic Panther narrative, From the Panther 21 to 21st-Century Revolutions explains how and why the Panther legacy is still relevant and vital today.]]> 648 d¨¦qui kioni-sadiki 1629633895 Kerri 0 to-read 4.54 Look for Me in the Whirlwind: From the Panther 21 to 21st-Century Revolutions
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]]> <![CDATA[Black Against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party]]> 15722514
Black against Empire is the first comprehensive overview and analysis of the history and politics of the Black Panther Party. The authors analyze key political questions, such as why so many young black people across the country risked their lives for the revolution, why the Party grew most rapidly during the height of repression, and why allies abandoned the Party at its peak of influence. Bold, engrossing, and richly detailed, this book cuts through the mythology and obfuscation, revealing the political dynamics that drove the explosive growth of this revolutionary movement, and its disastrous unraveling. Informed by twelve years of meticulous archival research, as well as familiarity with most of the former Party leadership and many rank-and-file members, this book is the definitive history of one of the greatest challenges ever posed to American state power.

Read an excerpt here:

by



Listen to an interview with the authors here:
]]> 552 Joshua Bloom 0520271858 Kerri 0 to-read 4.46 2013 Black Against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party
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]]> <![CDATA[The Assassination of Fred Hampton: How the FBI and the Chicago Police Murdered a Black Panther]]> 6561790
The Assassination of Fred Hampton is Haas¡¯s personal account of how he and People¡¯s Law Office partner Flint Taylor pursued Hampton¡¯s assassins, ultimately prevailing over unlimited government resources and FBI conspiracy. Not only a story of justice delivered, the book puts Hampton in a new light as a dynamic community leader and an inspiration in the fight against injustice.]]> 424 Jeffrey Haas 1556527659 Kerri 0 to-read 4.46 2009 The Assassination of Fred Hampton: How the FBI and the Chicago Police Murdered a Black Panther
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]]> <![CDATA[Duncton Wood (Duncton Chronicles, #1)]]> 878307 Bracken was born on an April night in a warm dark burrow deep in the historic system of Duncton Wood, six moleyears after Rebecca. This is the story of their love, and their epic struggle to find it.

The moles of Duncton Wood are a varied lot. There are the aggressive Westsiders, the secretive and sickly Marchenders and the independent Eastsiders. Despite their differences, all are members of the same once proud and famous mole system, and all are now the tyrannised by Mandrake a mole so powerful and senselessly destructive that his name seems a curse on those who utter it.

But the source of the evil that spreads through Duncton lies not only in Mandrake but in the growing disinterest in the rites and traditions that surround the now deserted standing Stone that was once the heart of the system itself.

It is in the shadow of this towering stone that the lonely Bracken by chance meets Rebecca, daughter of Mandrake. They exchange a few words and scurry off in the different directions, never to forget a moment which will change the course of their lives for ever. Only Hulver the Elder, guardian of the old ways, understands that the future happiness of the system depends on their love, and the courage with which they can pursue its suffering and joy.

Accompanied by Boswell, the strange scribemole from Uffington, Bracken sets out to revive the ancient rituals and disperse the evil from Duncton. Together they seek the sacred seventh stillstone.]]> 736 William Horwood 0099443007 Kerri 0 to-read 4.03 1980 Duncton Wood (Duncton Chronicles, #1)
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]]> The Animals of Farthing Wood 183742
Fox, Badger, Toad, Tawny Owl, Mole and the other animals band together and leave their ancestral home and set off to move to a far-away nature reserve.

Their journey is full of adventure and fraught with disasters: a fire, a storm, a treacherous river crossing and a hunt. The animals must unite in adversity and in doing so they learn about each other¡¯s habits and limitations.

This is a story about tolerance, cooperation, survival and friendship from Colin Dann, which inspired the major BBC children¡¯s series of the 1990s. The Animals of Farthing Wood is one of the most popular animal stories in children¡¯s literature and is still in print nearly 35 years after first publication.]]> 302 Colin Dann 1405225521 Kerri 0 to-read 4.05 1979 The Animals of Farthing Wood
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]]> Redwall (Redwall, #1) 7996 A quest to recover a legendary lost weapon by bumbling young apprentice monk, mouse Matthias.

Redwall Abbey, tranquil home to a community of peace-loving mice, is threatened by Cluny the Scourge savage bilge rat warlord and his battle-hardened horde. But the Redwall mice and their loyal woodland friends combine their courage and strength.]]> 352 Brian Jacques 1862301387 Kerri 0 to-read 4.14 1986 Redwall (Redwall, #1)
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]]> Native: A Novel 1227522 William Haywood Henderson 0452271398 Kerri 4 4.09 1993 Native: A Novel
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]]> <![CDATA[The Summer That Melted Everything]]> 34600316 Winner of The Guardian's Not the Booker Prize.

Fielding Bliss has never forgotten the summer of 1984. The year a heatwave scorched the small town of Breathed, Ohio. The year he became friends with the devil. When a tattered and bruised thirteen-year-old boy turns up in Breathed claiming to be Satan himself, everybody assumes he is just a runaway. But when strange things start happening to the townsfolk, there are some who start to believe that Sal is exactly who he claims to be.]]> 310 Tiffany McDaniel 1911344366 Kerri 0 to-read 4.04 2016 The Summer That Melted Everything
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]]> Spindle's End 77368 354 Robin McKinley 0441008658 Kerri 0 to-read 3.82 2000 Spindle's End
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]]> Mother 199927770
mother is a work rooted in an intimate an Indigenous child is adopted out of her tribe and raised by a non-Indian family. As an adult finding her way back to her origins, our unnamed narrator begins to put the pieces of her birth family's history together through the stories told to her by her mother, father, sister, and brother, all of whom remained on the reservation where she was born. Through oral histories, family lore, and imagined pasts and futures, a collage of their community builds, raising profound questions about adoption, inheritance, and Indigenous identity in America.

Through poetic vignettes whose unconventional forms mirror the nonlinear, patchwork process of constructing a sense of self, m.s. RedCherries has crafted an indelible and utterly original work about the winding roads that lead us home.]]> 144 M.S. RedCherries 0143137832 Kerri 0 to-read 4.24 Mother
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]]> <![CDATA[Love Medicine (Love Medicine, #1)]]> 91440
Set on and around a North Dakota Ojibwe reservation, Love Medicine is the epic story about the intertwined fates of two families: the Kashpaws and the Lamartines.

With astonishing virtuosity, each chapter draws on a range of voices to limn its tales. Black humor mingles with magic, injustice bleeds into betrayal, and through it all, bonds of love and family marry the elements into a tightly woven whole that pulses with the drama of life.

Filled with humor, magic, injustice and betrayal, Erdrich blends family love and loyalty in a stunning work of dramatic fiction.]]> 367 Louise Erdrich 0060786469 Kerri 0 to-read 4.02 1984 Love Medicine (Love Medicine, #1)
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]]> <![CDATA[On the Swamp: Fighting for Indigenous Environmental Justice]]> 199571925
Environmental scientist Ryan E. Emanuel, a member of the Lumbee tribe, shares stories from North Carolina about Indigenous survival and resilience in the face of radical environmental changes. Addressing issues from the loss of wetlands to the arrival of gas pipelines, these stories connect the dots between historic patterns of Indigenous oppression and present-day efforts to promote environmental justice and Indigenous rights on the swamp. Emanuel's scientific insight and deeply personal connections to his home blend together in a book that is both a heartfelt and an analytical call to acknowledge and protect sacred places.

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]]> Magick: Liber ABA: Book 4 123659 The Book of the Law was re-scanned for this edition, using the latest technology, for the clearest facsimile possible.

Aleister Crowley devoted twenty-five years to writing and producing the four parts of this book. It is his magnum opus, in which he systematically expounds the mystical and magical theories and techniques taught in his magical orders, the A¡àA¡à and the O.T.O.

This profusely illustrated new edition brings together the complete texts of all four parts of Liber ABA (Book 4) in one volume under the overall title Magick. This edition incorporates Crowley`s own additions, corrections, and annotations, and restores dozens of passages omitted from all earlier editions.

Magick is the fundamental textbook of modern magick in the New ?on. It also has invaluable teachings for students of Yoga and meditation. Crowley mastered the practices of Yoga during his studies in the East, and writes about them lucidly, without recourse to the imprecise language of mysticism.

Beginning with a discussion of the universal origin of world religions in mystical revelation, Magick then explores the theory and practice of mysticism and magick in the light of modern scientific thought. Crowley`s own revelation, The Book of the Law, is then treated as a case study, with an autobiographical study of events leading to its reception.

Extensively cross-referenced and annotated, this edition features over 100 diagrams and photographs, as well as a glossary, bibliography, and detailed index.]]> 844 Aleister Crowley 0877289190 Kerri 0 to-read 4.35 1994 Magick: Liber ABA: Book 4
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]]> <![CDATA[A Little Bit of Runes: An Introduction to Norse Divination (Little Bit Series)]]> 217242784 From one of the world¡¯s most renowned authors on spirituality comes an accessible introduction to runes.
Nordic runes are the most popular and easiest symbols to work with, and can effectively release energy for a positive purpose in one¡¯s life. Cassandra Eason, a well-known writer on crystals, Wicca, spells, and magic, explains to spiritual seekers exactly what runes are, how to make their own, which ones are right for them, and much more.]]> 128 Cassandra Eason 1454961430 Kerri 0 to-read 0.0 A Little Bit of Runes: An Introduction to Norse Divination (Little Bit Series)
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]]> Witchcraft: A Complete Guide 2155280 208 Teresa Moorey 0340753242 Kerri 0 to-read 4.10 2000 Witchcraft: A Complete Guide
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]]> A History of Magic 1851258 208 Richard Cavendish 0140192794 Kerri 0 to-read 3.94 1977 A History of Magic
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]]> <![CDATA[The Hedgerow Handbook: Recipes, Remedies and Rituals]]> 13153336 240 Adele Nozedar 0224086715 Kerri 0 to-read 4.35 2012 The Hedgerow Handbook: Recipes, Remedies and Rituals
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]]> <![CDATA[Crystal Awareness (Llewellyn's New Age)]]> 212535 224 Catherine Bowman 0875420583 Kerri 0 to-read 3.71 2002 Crystal Awareness (Llewellyn's New Age)
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]]> <![CDATA[Practical Candle Burning Rituals, Spells & Rituals for Every Purpose]]> 122162883 186 Raymond Buckland Kerri 0 to-read 0.0 1970 Practical Candle Burning Rituals, Spells & Rituals for Every Purpose
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]]> <![CDATA[Practical Candle Burning: Spells & Rituals for Every Purpose]]> 158975408 Raymond Buckland Kerri 0 to-read 4.67 Practical Candle Burning: Spells & Rituals for Every Purpose
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]]> <![CDATA[The Magical Household: Spells & Rituals for the Home]]> 180909 208 Scott Cunningham 0875421245 Kerri 0 to-read 4.10 1983 The Magical Household: Spells & Rituals for the Home
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]]> <![CDATA[Arcadia's Ignoble Knight, Volume 1: The Sorceress of Ashtown Part I]]> 35249227
As payment for being enrolled in the academy, Caspian is sometimes given tasks to perform that take him outside of the academy walls. This time, his job is to deliver a letter to a Sorceress living in Ashtown, but when the train that he's riding is attacked by a mysterious band of thugs in cloaks, he'll find that there is a whole lot more to this mission than he first imagined.]]> 192 Brandon Varnell 0997802804 Kerri 0 to-read 5.00 Arcadia's Ignoble Knight, Volume 1: The Sorceress of Ashtown Part I
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]]> <![CDATA[Herbal Remedies: A Practical Guide to Herbs and Their Healing Properties]]> 7061039 256 Nicola Peterson 185605330X Kerri 0 to-read 5.00 1995 Herbal Remedies: A Practical Guide to Herbs and Their Healing Properties
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]]> <![CDATA[Witchcraft: Theory and Practice]]> 440400 288 Ly de Angeles 156718782X Kerri 0 to-read 3.82 2000 Witchcraft: Theory and Practice
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]]> Spells and How They Work 2155264 191 Janet Farrar 0919345638 Kerri 0 to-read 4.02 1990 Spells and How They Work
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]]> <![CDATA[The craneskin bag: Celtic stories and poems]]> 1602890 Robin Williamson 0862412188 Kerri 0 to-read 4.64 1989 The craneskin bag: Celtic stories and poems
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]]> <![CDATA[The Turning of the Year: Lore and Legends of the Irish Seasons]]> 58688162
Along the way we encounter saints, scholars, kings and goddesses, whose stories, preserved in myth and folktale, counterpoint the book's exploration both of lost traditions such as keening and how other customs and rituals have been preserved in today's celebrations and communal events. It brings to the reader a new awareness of how such ritual can still have relevance in our lives, and a deeper appreciation of the power of the natural world.]]> 278 Eithne Massey 1788493109 Kerri 0 to-read 3.85 The Turning of the Year: Lore and Legends of the Irish Seasons
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]]> <![CDATA[Complete Book of Tarot Paperback Juliet Sharman-Burke]]> 21047489 160 Juliet Sharman-Burke 0330289748 Kerri 0 to-read 3.70 1985 Complete Book of Tarot Paperback Juliet Sharman-Burke
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