Ceremonies for the Dead / Giles Benaway

Public ISBD Title : Ceremonies for the Dead Material Type: printed text Authors: Giles Benaway, Author Publisher: Neyaashiinigmiing - Ontario [Canada] : Kegedonce Press Publication Date: 2013 ISBN (or other code): 978-0-986874-05-5 Languages : English (eng) Descriptors: Indigenous Peoples and First Peoples Poetry Trauma Abstract: Ceremonies for the Dead is an award-winning collection of poems that examine the haunting themes of inter-generational trauma, cyclical abuse, and inherited grief. Four generations of the dead take turns narrating these themes, navigating from the Great Lakes through the Appalachian Mountains, and examining the fur trade, an exile from Minnesota, the experiences of West Virginia coal miners, and the legacy of mission schools. Black humour and satire fill the collection, illuminating a fierce determination to survive and resist colonization and the endurance of culture and identity under extreme duress. Ceremonies for the Dead [printed text] / Giles Benaway, Author . - Neyaashiinigmiing - Ontario (Canada) : Kegedonce Press, 2013. ISBN : 978-0-986874-05-5 Languages : English (eng) Descriptors: Indigenous Peoples and First Peoples Poetry Trauma Abstract: Ceremonies for the Dead is an award-winning collection of poems that examine the haunting themes of inter-generational trauma, cyclical abuse, and inherited grief. Four generations of the dead take turns narrating these themes, navigating from the Great Lakes through the Appalachian Mountains, and examining the fur trade, an exile from Minnesota, the experiences of West Virginia coal miners, and the legacy of mission schools. Black humour and satire fill the collection, illuminating a fierce determination to survive and resist colonization and the endurance of culture and identity under extreme duress.

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Consensual Genocide / Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

Public ISBD Title : Consensual Genocide Material Type: printed text Authors: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Author Publisher: Tsar Publications Publication Date: 2006 ISBN (or other code): 978-1-89477-029-3 Languages : English (eng) Descriptors: Colonialism, Imperialism & World Politics Feminisms Fiction Lesbian, Bisexual, and Gay Poetry Queer Abstract: This long awaited first collection of poetry by queer Sri Lankan writer and spoken-word artist Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha is full of the stories we've been waiting for. Tracing bloodlines from Sri Lanka's civil wars to Brooklyn and Toronto streets, these fierce poems are full of heart and guts, surviving abuse, mixed-race journeys and high femme rebellions. Consensual Genocide celebrates our survival and marks our rebel memories into history. - Book Jacket Consensual Genocide [printed text] / Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Author . - [S.l.] : Tsar Publications, 2006. ISBN : 978-1-89477-029-3 Languages : English (eng) Descriptors: Colonialism, Imperialism & World Politics Feminisms Fiction Lesbian, Bisexual, and Gay Poetry Queer Abstract: This long awaited first collection of poetry by queer Sri Lankan writer and spoken-word artist Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha is full of the stories we've been waiting for. Tracing bloodlines from Sri Lanka's civil wars to Brooklyn and Toronto streets, these fierce poems are full of heart and guts, surviving abuse, mixed-race journeys and high femme rebellions. Consensual Genocide celebrates our survival and marks our rebel memories into history. - Book Jacket

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Disgrace / J. M. Coetzee

Public ISBD Title : Disgrace Material Type: printed text Authors: J. M. Coetzee, Author Publisher: Vintage Publication Date: 1999 Languages : English (eng) Descriptors: Race/Anti-Racism Disgrace [printed text] / J. M. Coetzee, Author . - [S.l.] : Vintage, 1999. Languages : English (eng) Descriptors: Race/Anti-Racism

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Egalia s Daughters / Gerd Brantenberg

Public ISBD Title : Egalia s Daughters : A Satire of the Sexes Material Type: printed text Authors: Gerd Brantenberg, Author Publisher: Seal Press Publication Date: 1985 ISBN (or other code): 978-1-87806-758-6 Languages : English (eng) Descriptors: Feminisms Fiction Egalia s Daughters : A Satire of the Sexes [printed text] / Gerd Brantenberg, Author . - [S.l.] : Seal Press, 1985. ISBN : 978-1-87806-758-6 Languages : English (eng) Descriptors: Feminisms Fiction

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Field Theories / Samiya Bashir

Public ISBD Title : Field Theories Material Type: printed text Authors: Samiya Bashir, Author Publisher: Nightboat Books Publication Date: 2017 ISBN (or other code): 9780937658632 General note: Paperback Languages : English (eng) Descriptors: Fiction Keywords: FIction, Poetry Abstract: Field Theories wends its way through quantum mechanics, chicken wings, Newports, and love, melding blackbody theory (idealized perfect absorption vs. the whitebody s idealized reflection) with live Black bodies. Woven through experimental lyrics is a heroic crown of sonnets that wonders about love, intent, identity, hybridity, and how we embody these interstices. Albert Murray said, "The second law of thermodynamics ain t nothin but the blues." So what is the blue of how we treat each other, ourselves, and the world, and of how the world treats us? Field Theories [printed text] / Samiya Bashir, Author . - [S.l.] : Nightboat Books, 2017. ISSN : 9780937658632 Paperback Languages : English (eng) Descriptors: Fiction Keywords: FIction, Poetry Abstract: Field Theories wends its way through quantum mechanics, chicken wings, Newports, and love, melding blackbody theory (idealized perfect absorption vs. the whitebody s idealized reflection) with live Black bodies. Woven through experimental lyrics is a heroic crown of sonnets that wonders about love, intent, identity, hybridity, and how we embody these interstices. Albert Murray said, "The second law of thermodynamics ain t nothin but the blues." So what is the blue of how we treat each other, ourselves, and the world, and of how the world treats us?

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Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars / Kai Cheng Thom

Public ISBD Title : Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars : A Dangerous Trans Girl's Confabulous Memoir Material Type: printed text Authors: Kai Cheng Thom, Author Publisher: Metonymy Press ISBN (or other code): 978-0-994047-13-7 Languages : English (eng) Descriptors: Feminisms of Colour/Race and Feminism Trans, Genderqueer and Intersex Keywords: transgirl memoir, transgender Abstract: At once a love letter and challenge to the traditional transgender memoir, Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars is a playful, surrealist dance through queer coming of age. Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars : A Dangerous Trans Girl's Confabulous Memoir [printed text] / Kai Cheng Thom, Author . - Canada : Metonymy Press, [s.d.]. ISBN : 978-0-994047-13-7 Languages : English (eng) Descriptors: Feminisms of Colour/Race and Feminism Trans, Genderqueer and Intersex Keywords: transgirl memoir, transgender Abstract: At once a love letter and challenge to the traditional transgender memoir, Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars is a playful, surrealist dance through queer coming of age.

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Fledgling / Octavia E. Butler

Public ISBD Title : Fledgling Material Type: printed text Authors: Octavia E. Butler (1947), Author Publisher: Grand Central Publishing Publication Date: 2005 ISBN (or other code): 978-0-446-69616-6 Languages : English (eng) Descriptors: Black/Anti-Black Fiction Gender and Sex Abstract: Fledgling, Octavia Butler's new novel after a seven year break, is the story of an apparently young, amnesiac girl whose alarmingly inhuman needs and abilities lead her to a startling conclusion: She is in fact a genetically modified, 53-year-old vampire. Forced to discover what she can about her stolen former life, she must at the same time learn who wanted - and still wants - to destroy her and those she cares for and how she can save herself. Fledgling is a captivating novel that tests the limits of "otherness" and questions what it means to be truly human. - Goodreads Fledgling [printed text] / Octavia E. Butler (1947), Author . - [S.l.] : Grand Central Publishing, 2005. ISBN : 978-0-446-69616-6 Languages : English (eng) Descriptors: Black/Anti-Black Fiction Gender and Sex Abstract: Fledgling, Octavia Butler's new novel after a seven year break, is the story of an apparently young, amnesiac girl whose alarmingly inhuman needs and abilities lead her to a startling conclusion: She is in fact a genetically modified, 53-year-old vampire. Forced to discover what she can about her stolen former life, she must at the same time learn who wanted - and still wants - to destroy her and those she cares for and how she can save herself. Fledgling is a captivating novel that tests the limits of "otherness" and questions what it means to be truly human. - Goodreads

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For Colored Girls who have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow is Enuf / Ntozake Shange

Public ISBD Title : For Colored Girls who have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow is Enuf Material Type: printed text Authors: Ntozake Shange, Author Publisher: Scribner Publication Date: 2010 ISBN (or other code): 978-0-684-84326-1 Languages : English (eng) Descriptors: Black/Anti-Black Feminisms Feminisms of Colour/Race and Feminism Fiction Race/Anti-Racism Women of Colour Keywords: choreopoem  poetry  theatre Abstract: " From its inception in California in 1974 to its highly acclaimed critical success at Joseph Papp’s Public Theater and on Broadway, the Obie Award–winning for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf has excited, inspired, and transformed audiences all over the country. Passionate and fearless, Shange’s words reveal what it meant to be of color and female in the twentieth century. First published in 1975, when it was praised by The New Yorker for “encompassing . . . every feeling and experience a woman has ever had,” for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf will be read and performed for generations to come. Here is a groundbreaking dramatic prose poem written in vivid and powerful language that resonates with unusual beauty in its fierce message to the world." (from back cover) For Colored Girls who have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow is Enuf [printed text] / Ntozake Shange, Author . - [S.l.] : Scribner, 2010. ISBN : 978-0-684-84326-1 Languages : English (eng) Descriptors: Black/Anti-Black Feminisms Feminisms of Colour/Race and Feminism Fiction Race/Anti-Racism Women of Colour Keywords: choreopoem  poetry  theatre Abstract: " From its inception in California in 1974 to its highly acclaimed critical success at Joseph Papp’s Public Theater and on Broadway, the Obie Award–winning for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf has excited, inspired, and transformed audiences all over the country. Passionate and fearless, Shange’s words reveal what it meant to be of color and female in the twentieth century. First published in 1975, when it was praised by The New Yorker for “encompassing . . . every feeling and experience a woman has ever had,” for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf will be read and performed for generations to come. Here is a groundbreaking dramatic prose poem written in vivid and powerful language that resonates with unusual beauty in its fierce message to the world." (from back cover)

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Fragments / Maloose

Public ISBD Title : Fragments Material Type: printed text Authors: Maloose, Author Publisher: Friesen Press Publication Date: 2018 ISBN (or other code): 978-1-460-28801-6 Languages : English (eng) Descriptors: Fiction Keywords: indigenous  short story Abstract: Maloose’s first book “Fragments” is a collection of morbid and somber short stories written in a span of twenty years, mainly during high school and college. He drew the illustrations himself specifically as part of each story. Fragments [printed text] / Maloose, Author . - [S.l.] : Friesen Press, 2018. ISBN : 978-1-460-28801-6 Languages : English (eng) Descriptors: Fiction Keywords: indigenous  short story Abstract: Maloose’s first book “Fragments” is a collection of morbid and somber short stories written in a span of twenty years, mainly during high school and college. He drew the illustrations himself specifically as part of each story.

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Ghana Must Go / Taiye Selasi

Public ISBD Title : Ghana Must Go : A Novel Material Type: printed text Authors: Taiye Selasi, Author Publisher: Penguin Books Publication Date: 2014 ISBN (or other code): 978-0-14-317915-3 Languages : English (eng) Descriptors: Family and Relationships Fiction Keywords: Ghana Abstract: "Kweku Sai is dead. A renowned surgeon and failed husband, he succumbs suddenly at dawn outside his home in suburban Accra. The news of Kweku's death sends a ripple around the world, bringing together the family he abandoned years before.Ghana Must Go is their story." Publisher Ghana Must Go : A Novel [printed text] / Taiye Selasi, Author . - [S.l.] : Penguin Books, 2014. ISBN : 978-0-14-317915-3 Languages : English (eng) Descriptors: Family and Relationships Fiction Keywords: Ghana Abstract: "Kweku Sai is dead. A renowned surgeon and failed husband, he succumbs suddenly at dawn outside his home in suburban Accra. The news of Kweku's death sends a ripple around the world, bringing together the family he abandoned years before.Ghana Must Go is their story." Publisher

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God Help the Child / Toni Morrison

Public ISBD Title : God Help the Child Material Type: printed text Authors: Toni Morrison, Author Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf Publication Date: 2015 ISBN (or other code): 978-0-307-39975-5 Languages : English (eng) Descriptors: Fiction Keywords: Fiction. Abstract: "Spare and unsparing, God Help the Child—the first novel by Toni Morrison to be set in our current moment—weaves a tale about the way the sufferings of childhood can shape, and misshape, the life of the adult. At the center: a young woman who calls herself Bride, whose stunning blue-black skin is only one element of her beauty, her boldness and confidence, her success in life, but which caused her light-skinned mother to deny her even the simplest forms of love. There is Booker, the man Bride loves, and loses to anger. Rain, the mysterious white child with whom she crosses paths. And finally, Bride’s mother herself, Sweetness, who takes a lifetime to come to understand that “what you do to children matters. And they might never forget.” A fierce and provocative novel that adds a new dimension to the matchless oeuvre of Toni Morrison." (From the back cover). God Help the Child [printed text] / Toni Morrison, Author . - [S.l.] : Alfred A. Knopf, 2015. ISBN : 978-0-307-39975-5 Languages : English (eng) Descriptors: Fiction Keywords: Fiction. Abstract: "Spare and unsparing, God Help the Child—the first novel by Toni Morrison to be set in our current moment—weaves a tale about the way the sufferings of childhood can shape, and misshape, the life of the adult. At the center: a young woman who calls herself Bride, whose stunning blue-black skin is only one element of her beauty, her boldness and confidence, her success in life, but which caused her light-skinned mother to deny her even the simplest forms of love. There is Booker, the man Bride loves, and loses to anger. Rain, the mysterious white child with whom she crosses paths. And finally, Bride’s mother herself, Sweetness, who takes a lifetime to come to understand that “what you do to children matters. And they might never forget.” A fierce and provocative novel that adds a new dimension to the matchless oeuvre of Toni Morrison." (From the back cover).

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God Loves Hair / Vivek Shraya

Public ISBD Title : God Loves Hair Material Type: printed text Authors: Vivek Shraya, Author ; Juliana Neufeld, Illustrator Publisher: Arsenal Pulp Press Publication Date: 2010 ISBN (or other code): 978-1-551-52543-3 Languages : English (eng) Descriptors: Fiction Gender and Sex Lesbian, Bisexual, and Gay Race/Anti-Racism Religion and Spirituality Keywords: sexuality, belonging Abstract: Originally self-published to acclaim in 2011, Vivek Shraya's first book is a collection of twenty-one short stories following a tender, intellectual, and curious child as he navigates the complex realms of sexuality, gender, racial politics, religion, and belonging. Told with the poignant insight and honesty that only the voice of a young mind can convey, God Loves Hair is a moving and ultimately joyous portrait of the resiliency of youth. (from back cover) God Loves Hair [printed text] / Vivek Shraya, Author ; Juliana Neufeld, Illustrator . - [S.l.] : Arsenal Pulp Press, 2010. ISBN : 978-1-551-52543-3 Languages : English (eng) Descriptors: Fiction Gender and Sex Lesbian, Bisexual, and Gay Race/Anti-Racism Religion and Spirituality Keywords: sexuality, belonging Abstract: Originally self-published to acclaim in 2011, Vivek Shraya's first book is a collection of twenty-one short stories following a tender, intellectual, and curious child as he navigates the complex realms of sexuality, gender, racial politics, religion, and belonging. Told with the poignant insight and honesty that only the voice of a young mind can convey, God Loves Hair is a moving and ultimately joyous portrait of the resiliency of youth. (from back cover)

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Godspeed / Charles Sheffield

Public ISBD Title : Godspeed Material Type: printed text Authors: Charles Sheffield, Author Publisher: TOR Publication Date: 1993 ISBN (or other code): 9780812519922 Languages : English (eng) Descriptors: Fiction Abstract: Science Fiction novel abour interstellar colonialism. Godspeed [printed text] / Charles Sheffield, Author . - [S.l.] : TOR, 1993. ISSN : 9780812519922 Languages : English (eng) Descriptors: Fiction Abstract: Science Fiction novel abour interstellar colonialism.

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A Grain of Wheat / ngugi wa thiong'o

Public ISBD Title : A Grain of Wheat Material Type: printed text Authors: ngugi wa thiong'o (1938), Author Publisher: Penguin Books Publication Date: 1967 ISBN (or other code): 978-0-14-310676-0 Languages : English (eng) Descriptors: Fiction Keywords: Kenyan Independence  Kenya  Mau Mau Rebellion Abstract: Set in the wake of the Mau Mau rebellion and on the cusp of Kenya's independence from Britain, A Grain of Wheat follows a group of villagers whose lives have been transformed by the 1952–1960 Emergency. At the center of it all is the reticent Mugo, the village's chosen hero and a man haunted by a terrible secret. As we learn of the villagers' tangled histories in a narrative interwoven with myth and peppered with allusions to real-life leaders, including Jomo Kenyatta, a masterly story unfolds in which compromises are forced, friendships are betrayed, and loves are tested. A Grain of Wheat [printed text] / ngugi wa thiong'o (1938), Author . - [S.l.] : Penguin Books, 1967. ISBN : 978-0-14-310676-0 Languages : English (eng) Descriptors: Fiction Keywords: Kenyan Independence  Kenya  Mau Mau Rebellion Abstract: Set in the wake of the Mau Mau rebellion and on the cusp of Kenya's independence from Britain, A Grain of Wheat follows a group of villagers whose lives have been transformed by the 1952–1960 Emergency. At the center of it all is the reticent Mugo, the village's chosen hero and a man haunted by a terrible secret. As we learn of the villagers' tangled histories in a narrative interwoven with myth and peppered with allusions to real-life leaders, including Jomo Kenyatta, a masterly story unfolds in which compromises are forced, friendships are betrayed, and loves are tested.

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Guapa / Saleem Haddad

Public ISBD Title : Guapa : A novel Material Type: printed text Authors: Saleem Haddad, Author Publisher: Other Press Publication Date: 2016 ISBN (or other code): 978159051769751695 Languages : English (eng) Descriptors: Fiction Lesbian, Bisexual, and Gay Keywords: gay men  middle east Abstract: Set over the course of twenty-four hours, Guapa follows Rasa, a gay man living in an unnamed Arab country, and trying to carve out a life for himself in the midst of political and religious upheaval. Rasa spends his days translating for Western journalists, and pining for the nights when he can sneak his lover, Taymour, into his room. Then one morning Rasa’s grandmother, the woman who raised him, catches them in bed together. The following day—the day leading up to Taymour’s wedding—Rasa is consumed by the search for his best friend Maj, a fiery activist and drag queen star of the underground bar, Guapa, who has been arrested by the police. Ashamed to go home and face his grandmother, and reeling from the potential loss of the three most important people in his life, he roams the city’s slums and prisons, the lavish weddings of the country’s elite, and the bars where outcasts and intellectuals drink to a long-lost revolution. Each new encounter leads him closer to confronting his own identity, as he revisits his childhood and probes the secrets that haunt his family. As Rasa confronts the simultaneous collapse of political hope and his closest personal relationships, he is forced to discover the roots of his alienation and try to re-emerge into a society that may never accept him. Guapa : A novel [printed text] / Saleem Haddad, Author . - 267 Fifth Avenue, New York, United States : Other Press, 2016. ISSN : 978159051769751695 Languages : English (eng) Descriptors: Fiction Lesbian, Bisexual, and Gay Keywords: gay men  middle east Abstract: Set over the course of twenty-four hours, Guapa follows Rasa, a gay man living in an unnamed Arab country, and trying to carve out a life for himself in the midst of political and religious upheaval. Rasa spends his days translating for Western journalists, and pining for the nights when he can sneak his lover, Taymour, into his room. Then one morning Rasa’s grandmother, the woman who raised him, catches them in bed together. The following day—the day leading up to Taymour’s wedding—Rasa is consumed by the search for his best friend Maj, a fiery activist and drag queen star of the underground bar, Guapa, who has been arrested by the police. Ashamed to go home and face his grandmother, and reeling from the potential loss of the three most important people in his life, he roams the city’s slums and prisons, the lavish weddings of the country’s elite, and the bars where outcasts and intellectuals drink to a long-lost revolution. Each new encounter leads him closer to confronting his own identity, as he revisits his childhood and probes the secrets that haunt his family. As Rasa confronts the simultaneous collapse of political hope and his closest personal relationships, he is forced to discover the roots of his alienation and try to re-emerge into a society that may never accept him.

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