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Settler Colonialism, Race, and the...

Natsu Taylor Saito

Settler Colonialism, Race, and the Law

How taking Indigenous sovereignty seriously can help dismantle the structural racism encountered by other people of color in the United States Settler Colonialism, Race, and the Law provides a timely analysis of structural racism at the intersection of law and colonialism. Noting the grim racial realities still confronting communities of color, and how they have not been alleviated by constitutional guarantees of equal protection, this book suggests that settler colonial theory provides a...

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Natsu Taylor Saito

Coming to Terms: American Plays & t...

James Reston

Coming to Terms: American Plays & the Vietnam War

An anthology of plays inspired by the era during or around the Vietnam War.Includes introduction by James Reston, Jr., noted historian and biographer.Originally published by TCG in 1985, the year marking the Fall of Saigon. It has been unavailable since 1998, and is being reprinted now as part of a series of TCG’s Blue Star Family Theatre Initiative.Plays include Streamers by David Rabe, Botticelli by Terrence McNally, Moonchildren by Michael Weller, Still Life by Emily Mann and Strange Snow by...

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James Reston

The Liquid Plain (TCG Edition)

Naomi Wallace

The Liquid Plain (TCG Edition)

“American theater needs more plays like Naomi Wallace’s The Liquid Plain —by which I mean works that are historical, epic and poetic, that valorize the lives of the poor and oppressed.”— Time Out New York On the docks of late eighteenth-century Rhode Island, two runaway slaves find love and a near-drowned man. With a motley band of sailors, they plan a desperate and daring run to freedom. As the mysteries of their identities come to light,...

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Naomi Wallace

Holy Lands

Nicolas Pelham

Holy Lands

When the Ottoman Empire fell apart, colonial powers drew straight lines on the map to create a new region  the Middle East  made up of new countries filled with multiple religious sects and ethnicities. Syria, Iraq and Lebanon, for example, all contained a kaleidoscope of Sunnis, Kurds, Shias, Circassians, Druze and Armenians. Israel was the first to establish a state in which one sect and ethnicity dominated others. Sixty years later, others are following suit, like the...

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Nicolas Pelham

The Chibok Girls

Helon Habila

The Chibok Girls

On the night of April 14, 2014, 276 girls from the Chibok Secondary School in northern Nigeria were kidnapped by Boko Haram, the world's deadliest terrorist group.Fifty-seven of them escaped over the next few months, but most were never heard from again.Acclaimed novelist Helon Habila, who grew up in northern Nigeria, returned to Chibok and gained intimate access to the families of the kidnapped to offer a devastating account of a tragedy that stunned the world. With compassion and a deep...

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Helon Habila

4000 Miles and After the Revolution

Amy Herzog

4000 Miles and After the Revolution

"After the Revolution is a smart, funny and provocative play. . . . Herzog deftly avoids simple-minded polemics in favor of richly detailed people who are as ready to examine their relationships as they are their consciences."—Variety «A funny, moving new play . . . 4,000 Miles is a quiet meditation on mortality. But it's hardly a downer: Ms. Herzog's altogether wonderful drama also illuminates how companionship can make life meaningful, moment by moment, in death's...

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Amy Herzog

The Populist Explosion

John B. Judis

The Populist Explosion

"Far and away the most incisive examination of the central development in contemporary politics: the rise of populism on both the right and the left. Superb." – Thomas Edsall, New York Times columnistWhat's happening in global politics? As if overnight, many Democrats revolted and passionately backed a socialist named Bernie Sanders; the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union ; the vituperative billionaire Donald Trump became the presidential nominee of the Republican party;...

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John B. Judis

Another Fine Mess

Helen Epstein

Another Fine Mess

"A stunning new book of reportage and analysis." – Pankaj Mishra, Bloomberg Is the West to blame for failing Uganda?In this powerful story of Uganda and its war-torn neighbors in eastern and central Africa, journalist Helen Epstein chronicles how America's naïve dealings with African strongmen and single-minded focus on the War on Terror have themselves becomes sources of terror, short-circuiting the power Ugandans might otherwise have over their own destinies.More than 20 years ago,...

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Helen Epstein

A Month in the Country

Ivan Turgenev

A Month in the Country

"Pevear and Volokhonsky are at once scrupulous translators and vivid stylists of English."The New YorkerOne week before her thirtieth birthday, the simple life of dutiful wife and mother Natalya is upended when the arrival of her son's charming new tutor unleashes a whirlwind of love, lust, and jealousy. This revelatory new translation by renowned playwright Richard Nelson along with Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonskythe foremost contemporary translators of...

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Ivan Turgenev

The Little Bighorn

Welby Thomas Cox, Jr.

The Little Bighorn

Back in the 19th century, there was an ugly mood among Caucasian leaders to kill any thing red. It was then that Grant said to Custer, «show no mercy, take the troops assigned to your command and pursue the Indian, its squaws and children to the end of life…wipe them from the face of the earth.» Somewhere a voice whispered a special message to Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull and other leaders heard it as well and they gathered thousands, creating a storm to meet the charge of the man with yellow hair...

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Welby Thomas Cox, Jr.

Craig Lee's Kentucky Hemp Story

Joe Domino

Craig Lee's Kentucky Hemp Story

While many people are important to the progress on this issue, since the prohibition of hemp in the 30s, Craig Lee stands with Jack Herer, Gatewood Galbraith, and a dozen or so other true pioneers of the revival of hemp. Without them and their relentless involvement, what is happening today would not have been possible. I stood on their shoulders and I could not have been more thankful for the experience and knowledge of having done so. All the good that will come from hemp production in...

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Joe Domino

Radiant Terminus

Antoine Volodine

Radiant Terminus

"Irreducible to any single literary genre, the Volodinian cosmos is skillfully crafted, fusing elements of science fiction with magical realism and political commentary."– Music & Literature The most patently sci-fi work of Antoine Volodine's to be translated into English, Radiant Terminus takes place in a Tarkovskian landscape after the fall of the Second Soviet Union. Most of humanity has been destroyed thanks to a number of nuclear meltdowns, but a few communes remain,...

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Antoine Volodine

The Double Crown

Marié Heese

The Double Crown

This gripping novel is the fascinating and true story of Hatshepsut, the female pharaoh who ruled over Egypt for two decades around 1500 BC. The “double crown” refers to her reign over Upper and Lower Egypt, but also the dual nature of her life: Pharaoh and woman in one person. She relates her story in a series of scrolls, with additions by her scribe (to whom she has given the scrolls for safekeeping). We read about the grievous loss of her children; her thwarted love for Senenmut; the...

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Marié Heese

Sirkusboere

Sonja Loots

Sirkusboere

“Welkom by die Suid-Afrikaanse Boereoorlog-vertoning,” bulder Ben. “U is by die grootste militêre skouspel wat die wêreld nog gesien het!” Hy stap van een kant van die arena na die ander. “Ek wil u voorstel aan ’n groep helde uit die mees verafgeleë dele van Suidelike Afrika. Hulle het onverdrote in die oorlog geveg – en hulle doen dit vandag weer. Dié keer vir u plesier.” Hy word luid toegejuig. Dan verskyn daar uit die stof en rook ’n stil figuur. Agter hom huiwer ’n vrou en ’n agterryer wat...

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Sonja Loots

The Colour of power

Marié Heese

The Colour of power

An unputdownable novel about the Empress Theodora, considered by many the most influential and powerful woman in the history of the Byzantine Empire. The reader follows her journey from her humble beginnings, the loss of her father, the compromises she must make between her personal sense of honour, faith and survival, and we watch with fascination as this strong woman fights her way through the ranks, from public entertainer and high-class prostitute to empress, to rule alongside her husband,...

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Marié Heese

Dwaalpoort

Alexander Strachan

Dwaalpoort

Dwaalpoort is ’n ou KwaZulu-Natalse familieplaas, geslagte reeds bekend om sy veekuddes, osse wat jaar na jaar rekordpryse op vendusies behaal. Maar ook om sy sonderlinge wit hartbeeste, ’n trop wat reeds aan dié wêreld se vroegste inwoners bekend was. Rentia het Dwaalpoort van haar pa geërf, en die plaas word nou deur haar man, Henning, bestuur. Ook op die plaas is die wildvanger en oudsoldaat Bullet. Hy was Rentia se pa se regterhand en voorheen haar minnaar. Dit is ’n ongemaklike saambestaan...

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Alexander Strachan

A Triple-headed Serpent

Marié Heese

A Triple-headed Serpent

The sequel to The Colour of Power. Engrossing and moving, this sequel about the second part of Theodora’s life as empress of Byzantium opens with intrigue as one of Justinian’s old enemies, Cappodocian John, is revealed as a threat to the throne. Theodora’s unremitting feeling of guilt for a massacre she did not foresee, motivates her faith and many of her actions. And Justinian’s strange reference to the triple-headed serpent also lingers in her mind, casting a shadow… But Theodora once again...

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Marié Heese

River of Dust

Virginia Pye

River of Dust

On the windswept plains of northwestern China, Mongol bandits swoop down upon an American missionary couple and steal their small child. The Reverend sets out in search of the boy and becomes lost in the rugged, corrupt countryside populated by opium dens, sly nomadic warlords and traveling circuses. This upright Midwestern minister develops a following among the Chinese peasants and is christened Ghost Man for what they perceive are his otherworldly powers. Grace, his young ingénue...

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Virginia Pye

American Copper

Shann Ray

American Copper

As Evelynne Lowry, the daughter of a copper baron, comes of age in early 20th century Montana, the lives of horses dovetail with the lives of people and her own quest for womanhood becomes inextricably intertwined with the future of two men who face nearly insurmountable lossesa lonely steer wrestler named Zion from the Montana highline, and a Cheyenne team roper named William Black Kettle, the descendant of peace chiefs.An epic that runs from the Sand Creek Massacre of 1864 to the ore...

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Shann Ray

Freeman Walker

David Allen Cates

Freeman Walker

Freeman Walker is a story told by a mulatto slave, Jimmy Gates, freed by his owner-father when he is 7-years-old, separated from his mother and everything he holds dear. After receiving an unforgettable talk by his father about the rules of life he will no doubt discover on his journeys, and a copy of the Declaration of Independence, he is sent to England to get an education. Jimmy, in the first of the novel’s great ironies, has had a blissful, loving childhood and never understood he...

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David Allen Cates

Resumen De La Guerra De Vietnam: Un...

Readtrepreneur Publishing

Resumen De La Guerra De Vietnam: Una Historia Íntima Por Geoffrey C. Ward Y Ken Burns

La guerra de Vietnam: Una historia íntima por Geoffrey C. Ward y Ken Burns – Resumen del libro – Readtrepreneur (Descargo de responsabilidad: Este NO es el libro original, sino un resumen no oficial.) Una guerra tan viciosa que dividió a Estados Unidos y tan controvertida que todavía se debate hasta el día de hoy. La guerra de Vietnam se asoma a la mente de muchas personas involucradas de una u otra manera con la guerra de Vietnam para ver sus diferentes puntos de vista con respecto a este...

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Readtrepreneur Publishing

Como Besar A Una Debutante

Dawn Brower

Como Besar A Una Debutante

Un encuentro fortuito en un tren llevará a dos personas a encontrar el amor cuando menos se lo esperaban, durante las Navidades… Aletha Dewitt tiene una vida de ensueño. O al menos eso parece desde afuera. Sí, tiene lo que todo el mundo sentiría respeto. Tiene más ideas y ambición que su hermano pueda tener, pero los hombres de su familia son demasiado anticuados para darse cuenta. Nada irá como tiene pensado, ni el amor. Rafael, el Conte Leone está de viaje para asistir a la boda de uno de sus...

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Dawn Brower

Vuur op die horison

Engela van Rooyen

Vuur op die horison

Vuur op die horison is ’n meesleurende roman wat strek van 1846 tot 1903, met die Anglo-Boereoorlog as brandpunt. Generasies en kontinente word omspan: die leser word meegevoer na o.m. die Suid-Afrikaanse goud- en diamantvelde, Victoriaanse Engeland, Matabeleland, Portugal, die eilande van Indië en selfs die barre vlaktes van Argentinië. Nog meer onvergeetlik as die drama en verskrikking van oorlog is die krakters wat Engela van Rooyen geskep het – mense wie se lewensloop die leser aangryp en...

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Engela van Rooyen

Witwatersrand

Уилбур Смит

Witwatersrand

Op ’n kontinent wat ongelooflike rykdom verberg, aanskou Sean Courtney en sy tweelingbroer, Garrick, die eerste lewenslig. Die sorgelose lewe op hul pa se plaas in Natal word egter wreed onderbreek wanneer geweld, begeerte en die noodlot Sean wegruk van alles wat bekend is. Op die Witwatersrand, waar goud pas ontdek is, moet Sean sy pad oopveg na sukses. In die tog om sy fortuin te maak, bou hy ook ’n lewenslange vriendskap, konfronteer sy duiwels en baan sy weg na ’n belowende toekoms. Dan ruk...

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Уилбур Смит

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