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Hausgeister!
With its beguiling blend of evocative images, summaries of historical research, and wide-ranging literary quotes, "Hausgeister!" is an appealing “supernatural bestiary” of German house spirits. Hausgeisters are unique—different...
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Polish’d
Acclaimed food blogger and columnist Michal Korkosz’s "Polish’d" brims with dazzling recipes and inviting stories––virtuosic, vegetarian takes on traditional Polish cuisine with multicultural influences. Organized by cooking...
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Bao Family Cookbook
The complex flavors and textures of eight types of traditional regional Chinese cuisines are demonstrated with style and aplomb in this visual treat of a cookbook. Céline Chung was born in France to parents from the Zhejiang province....
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Corn Dance
"Corn Dance" is Potawatomi chef, television host, and Corn Dance Café founder Loretta Barrett Oden’s inviting cookbook; it explores Indigenous ingredients and foodways. After raising a family in Oklahoma, Oden traveled to research...
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Lies about Black People
"Lies about Black People" is an antiracist, activist text that dissects harmful racist myths. With a penetrating blend of history, anecdotes, interviews, and poetry, Omekongo Dibinga analyzes some common stereotypes about Black people,...
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Into the Bright Sunshine
"Into the Bright Sunshine" is an incisive biography of Hubert Humphrey, the rural Midwesterner who grew into a prominent, persuasive politician in the vanguard of civil rights. Humphrey’s Great Depression-era childhood in South Dakota...
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In Spite of the Consequences
"In Spite of the Consequences" is Lacino Hamilton’s blistering indictment of the outsized American prison system. An unjust conviction sent Hamilton to prison for twenty-six years before he was exonerated. Selections from thousands of...
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In the Company of Radical Women Writers
In Rosemary Hennessy’s immersive book, seven singular authors are analyzed in terms of their unconventional lives and literary works. Drawing social crisis parallels between the 2020s and the Great Depression, this book unearths the...