"Orwell in Cuba: How '1984' Came to Be Published in Castro's Twilight" is a personal account of contemporary Cuba at a pivotal point in its history, with the Castro brothers passing power on to a new generation. We discover Cuba through...
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Author:Lavoie, FrédérickSummary: - Author:Sharpe, ChristinaSummary:
Winner of the 2023 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction - Finalist for the National Book Award. A dazzlingly inventive, deeply moving, intellectually bracing exploration of pain and beauty, private memory and public...
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Author:Allen, Frederick LewisSummary:Jazz, flappers, flasks, rumble-seats, Rudolph Valentino, and Lucky Lindy-these were the catchwords of the Roaring Twenties. But so were the KKK, women's suffrage, Freud, and Black Tuesday. Frederick Lewis Allen presents a witty...
- Author:Okwonga, MusaSummary:
'Moving ... stays with you long after you've finished it' Nigella Lawson
'A superb memoir ... written with a poet's lyricism and a journalist's clarity' Nish Kumar
'An urgent exposition on how [Eton]'s undue influence is... -
Author:García Márquez, GabrielSummary:Tells of the rise and fall of the mythical town of Macondo through the history of the Buendía family. Alternately reverential and comical, Gabriel García Márquez's masterpiece brings a new consciousness to storytelling.
- Author:Hashimi, NadiaSummary:
Perfect for fans of Rita Williams-Garcia, Thanhha Lai, and Rebecca Stead, internationally bestselling author Nadia Hashimi's first novel for young readers is a coming-of-age journey set in modern-day Afghanistan that explores life...
- Author:Jean, BarmanSummary:
“The ways in which we can redress the past are many and varied,” writes Jean Barman, “and it is up to each of us to act as best we can.” The seventeen essays collected here, originally published between 1996 and 2013, make a valuable...
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Author:Baldwin, JamesSummary:Notes of a Native Son is the book that established Baldwin's voice as a social critic, and it remains one of his most admired works. These essays create a cohesive sketch of black America and reveal an intimate portrait of Baldwin's own...
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Author:Mathieu, Sarah-JaneSummary:North of the Color Line examines life in Canada for the estimated 5,000 blacks, both African Americans and West Indians, who immigrated to Canada after the end of Reconstruction in the United States. Through the experiences of black...
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Author:Gaskell, ElizabethSummary:As brilliant for its compassion as its art, Gaskell’s socially conscious masterpiece shows the early effects of the Industrial Revolution on both workers and employers through the intelligent eyes of Margaret Hale, whose advocacy for...
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Author:Christensen, JuliaSummary:The Dene, a traditionally nomadic people, have no word for homelessness, a rare condition in the Canadian North prior to the 1990s. Julia Christensen documents the rise of Indigenous homelessness and proposes solutions by interweaving...
- Author:Penashue, Tshaukuesh ElizabethSummary:
Labrador Innu cultural and environmental activist Tshaukuesh Elizabeth Penashue is well-known both within and far beyond the Innu Nation. The recipient of a National Aboriginal Achievement Award and an honorary doctorate from Memorial...
- Author:Léveillé-Trudel, JulianaSummary:
A young woman from Montreal follows the geese to the Inuit North in this deeply-felt witnessing of contemporary Indigenous life, as shaped by decades of colonial rule and government neglect. Having worked in the North for years, Juliana...
- Author:Perrotta, TomSummary:
The new collection from the New York Times bestselling author of The Leftovers and Little Children, featuring stories focusing on Perrotta's familiar suburban nuclear families. Tom Perrotta’s first book, Bad Haircut, consisted of...
- Author:Caudill, Harry M.Summary:
Caudill explores the southern Appalachian Mountains area's history, from its first settlement to the Civil War, and from the rise of coal barons to the economic despair of the 1950s and 1960s.
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Author:Glenny, MishaSummary:An explosive vision of contemporary Brazil’s underbelly by one of our greatest investigative reporters.This is a book about a man known as Nem; about Rocinha, the slum or “favela” he grew up in and came to run as a private fiefdom;...
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Author:Vacante, JefferySummary:This perceptive intellectual history explores the role of manhood in French Canadian culture and nationalism. In the late nineteenth century, Quebec was still an agrarian society and masculinity was rooted in the land and the family and...
- Author:French, JackieSummary:
The year is 1788, and in the newly created colony at Sydney Cove is struggling for survival. Seen through the eyes of the colony's only surgeon and Nanberry, the Aboriginal boy adopted by Surgeon White who finds himself...
- Author:Sellers, BakariSummary:
Part memoir, part historical and cultural analysis, Bakari Sellers presents an eye-opening journey through the South's past, present, and future. In his personal history, we are awakened to the crisis affecting the other "...
- Author:Jawando, WillSummary:
Will Jawando tells a deeply affirmative story of hope and respect for men of color at a time when Black men are routinely stigmatized. As a boy growing up outside DC, Will, who went by his Nigerian name, Yemi, was shunted from school to...
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