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Songs of the Dead - Derrick Jensen
A serial killer stalks the streets of Spokane, acting out a misogynist script from the dark heart of this culture. Across town, a writer named Derrick has spent his life tracking the reasons—political, psychological, spiritual—for the sadism of modern civilization. And through the grim nights, Nika, a trafficked woman, tries to survive the grinding violence of prostitution. Their lives, and the f...
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Somewhere Else - Jan Guenther Braun
Jess is sixteen and aware that she is in an impossible position—being the homosexual daughter of the president of the Mennonite college. She hits the road in search of a language and the freedom to speak it. On the train to Winnipeg she is found by Freya, Icelandic princess of her dreams. Halfsteinn, fisherman and expert in the fine art of hand-rolling cigarettes, enters Jess' life, helping her escape ...
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The Jook - Gary Phillips
Zelmont Raines has slid a long way since those winning touchdowns in the NFL brought him lucrative endorsement deals and his name up in lights. Crack, booze, groupies, a paternity suit, a hip injury and some shaky and shady investments have drained his bank account and his skills. Now he's on his way back form the closed down European leagues with his goal on one last chance at the big time in Los Angeles ...
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I-5 - Summer Brenner
A novel of crime, transport, and sex, I-5 tells the bleak and brutal story of Anya and her eponymous journey north from Los Angeles to Oakland on the interstate that bisects the Central Valley of California. Young and already old, beautiful and already worn, Anya is one of the anonymous thousands of hidden young women, falsely promised and painfully enslaved. She is a victim of sex trafficking, but don't cal...
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Bad Habits: A Love Story - Cristy Road
Bad Habits is the mostly-autobiographical story of Road's personal revolution.

Growing up Cuban in West Miami, the protagonist clashes with the confining and repressive aspects of that culture, and, like countless other young people, leaves for New York as soon as she's able. Landing in Brooklyn, she moves into a house full of wild characters, and enters an underground scene that few ever see. ...
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Radical Acts: Collected Political Plays - Martin Duberman
Best known for his acclaimed biographies of Paul Robeson and Lincoln Kirstein and his provocative books about the gay rights movement, Martin Duberman has also had a long-standing involvement with the theater that began early in his career, when his drama criticism appeared in the Partisan Review and Harper's, and continued with his own radical, adventurous, and deeply moving plays.
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Living on Third Street: Plays of the Living Theatre 1989–1992 - Hanon Reznikov and Cindy Rosenthal (Editor)
Scripts, photos, director's notes, musical scores, set designs, and more, from a remarkably fertile period in the half-century-long history of the most important radical theater ensemble in American (or world) history.
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The Big Nuthin: A Fable - Michael Steinberg
Michael Steinberg's new novel, The Big Nuthin, is set in a fictionalized city much like New Orleans before, during, and after a cataclysmic storm much like Hurricane Katrina.
It's a fable blending iconic images and legends of New Orleans with its harsh realities.


Tales of overwhelming disaster may sometimes be best told through the stories of a few phantasmagoric individuals. And reali...
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Valencia - Michelle Tea
Valencia is the fast-paced account of one girl's search for love and high times in the drama-filled dyke world of San Francisco's Mission District. Through a string of narrative moments, Tea records a year lived in a world of girls: there's knife-wielding Marta, who introduces Michelle to a new world of radical sex; Willa, Michelle's tormented poet-girlfriend; Iris, the beautiful boy-dyke who ran away...
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The Chelsea Whistle - Michelle Tea
Told in Tea's trademark loose-tongued, lyrical style, this gritty, confessional memoir both celebrates and annihilates one girl's tightrope walk out of a working-class slum and the lessons she carries with her. The sort vulnerability of her sister Madeline, and her quietly brutal Polish father; the doddering, sometimes violent nuns of Our Lady Of Assumption; Marisol Lewis from the projects by the creek; and ...
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