Fables and Spells: Collected and New Short Fiction and Poetry
By: Adrienne Maree Brown
4.38
Format: 248 pages, Paperback
Fables and Spells, a gathering of adrienne maree brown’s short stories and poems, is a vibrant sele…
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1. The Birchbark House (Birchbark House, #1)
By: Louise Erdrich
4.04
Format: 244 pages, Paperback
Nineteenth-century American pioneer life was introduced to thousands of young readers by Laura Inga… read more
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- fiction
"The strong old woman was walking away, and in her step there was the sadness of parting with an old but dangerously foolish friend."-Louise Erdrich, The Birchbark House (Birchbark House, #1)
"Although she lived in town, Old Tallow was so isolated by the force and strangeness of her personality that she could have been surrounded by a huge dark forest. She had never had any children, and e…"-Louise Erdrich, The Birchbark House (Birchbark House, #1)
2. Bloodchild and Other Stories
By: Octavia E. Butler
4.02
Format: 293 pages, Paperback
A perfect introduction for new readers and a must-have for avid fans, this New York Times Notable B… read more
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3. Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls
By: Kai Cheng Thom
4.18
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
What happens when we imagine loving the people--and the parts of ourselves--that we do not believe … read more
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- poetry
"i have questions about heaven. i have questions about the Revolution. those questions are the same: upon whose bones do you intend to build your paradise?"-Kai Cheng Thom, Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls
"you don't need to heal others to heal yourself, you can just heal yourself. you do not need to give love to others to love yourself, you can just love yourself."-Kai Cheng Thom, Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls
"find the lie in your heart. the one you tell to yourself and all the world, sometimes without even knowing it. pare that lie down to its barest core, strip back the skin, and behold the truth: i am w…"-Kai Cheng Thom, Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls
4. Inciting Joy: Essays
By: Ross Gay
4.16
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
An intimate and electrifying collection of essays from the New York Times bestselling author of The… read more
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- poetry
- short stories
"And when we catch the grave light shimmering from the tethers between us when it happens, our dying again and again in each other's presence, this falling together, it is called, this holding each ot…"-Ross Gay, Inciting Joy: Essays
"But when we allow and expect each other to change and, even more to the point, when we witness the learning, the changing, the grieving, with curiosity and patience and care and love; when we make ro…"-Ross Gay, Inciting Joy: Essays
5. Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto
By: Tricia Hersey
4.08
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Far too many of us have claimed productivity as the cornerstone of success. Brainwashed by capitali… read more
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- social justice
6. Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals (Emergent Strategy, 2)
By: Alexis Pauline Gumbs
4.47
Format: 174 pages, Paperback
Undrowned is a book-length meditation for social movements and our whole species based on the subve… read more
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- poetry
- social justice
"Could we communicate more like manatees, who stay in communication in all kinds of emergencies, place their bodies in a way that protects children, touch each other to remember and know?"-Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals (Emergent Strategy, 2)
"I respect you as so much bigger than my own understanding. And me too. I don't have to be available to be eligible for breath. I don't have to be measurable in a market of memes. I don't have to be v…"-Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals (Emergent Strategy, 2)
7. New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color
By: Nisi Shawl
3.85
Format: 279 pages, Paperback
New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color showcases emerging and seasoned writers o… read more
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- anthologies
- short stories
- fiction
- science fiction
- fantasy
"The grand philosopher Ancient Leaf once expounded that a man who kills another out of passion or greed is condemned as a murderer, and one who kills ten people is reviled as a maniac, but one who cau…"-Nisi Shawl, New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color
8. Come Together: The Science (and Art!) of Creating Lasting Sexual Connections
By: Emily Nagoski
4.14
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
An illuminating exploration of how to maintain a happy sex life in a long-term relationship, from t… read more
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9. We Do This 'til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice
By: Mariame Kaba
4.67
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
"Organizing is both science and art. It is thinking through a vision, a strategy, and then figuring… read more
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- social justice
"That does not mean, however, there should be no consequences. It means real consequences. Consequences that really matter. It means transforming the conditions that exist in the first place for this …"-Mariame Kaba, We Do This 'til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice
10. Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care
By: Kelly Hayes
4.64
Format: 296 pages, Paperback
What fuels and sustains activism and organizing when it feels like our worlds are collapsing? Let T… read more
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- social justice
11. The Free People's Village
By: Sim Kern
4.13
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
In an alternate 2020 timeline, Al Gore won the 2000 election and declared a War on Climate Change r… read more
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- science fiction
- fantasy
- social justice
- fiction
12. The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes, and Mourning Songs
By: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
4.46
Format: 333 pages, Paperback
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha follows up their incredible book Care Work with The Future Is Disa… read more
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- social justice
"There is no one disabled future. But in mine, there is guaranteed income, housing, access, food, water, and education for all—or money has been abolished. I get paid to write from my bed. The births …"-Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes, and Mourning Songs
"Sometimes I feel impatient about how much ableism has forced us to emphasize accessibility to get people to pay even a modicum of attention to it. Collective access is revolutionary because disabled …"-Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes, and Mourning Songs
"A future where disability justice won looks like queer, trans, Black, Indigenous, folks of colour, and women, girls, and nonbinary humans are living in a world where disability is the norm, and where…"-Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes, and Mourning Songs
13. Embrace Fearlessly the Burning World
By: Barry Lopez
4.29
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
An urgent, deeply moving final work of nonfiction from the National Book Award-winning author of Ar… read more
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14. Make Your Art No Matter What: Moving Beyond Creative Hurdles
By: Beth Pickens
3.90
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
The Artist's Way for the 21st century—from esteemed creative counselor Beth Pickens. If you are an… read more
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15. We Won't Be Here Tomorrow and Other Stories
By: Margaret Killjoy
4.39
Format: 248 pages, Paperback
Death cults, queer love, and the end of everything. Spaceships, man-eating lesbian mermaids, sw… read more
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- science fiction
- short stories
- fantasy
- fiction
"Let the apocalypse not be the lifting of the veil, let it be the lowering."-Margaret Killjoy, We Won't Be Here Tomorrow and Other Stories
16. Love After the End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction
By: Joshua Whitehead
4.18
Format: 120 pages, ebook
Love After the End is a new young adult anthology edited by Joshua Whitehead (Lambda Literary Award… read more
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- anthologies
- short stories
- fiction
- science fiction
- fantasy
"Humans aren’t animals. You’re meant for more than survival."-Joshua Whitehead, Love After the End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction
"centuries ago, people were more likely to prepare for the end of the world than attempt to save it"-Joshua Whitehead, Love After the End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction
17. What It Takes to Heal: How Transforming Ourselves Can Change the World
By: Prentis Hemphill
4.54
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
From one of the most prominent voices in the trauma conversation comes a groundbreaking new way to … read more
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- social justice
18. Tending Grief: Embodied Rituals for Holding Our Sorrow and Growing Cultures of Care in Community
By: Camille Sapara Barton
4.40
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
An embodied guide to being with grief individually and in community—practical exercises, decolonize… read more
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"I sense that learning to be with my grief will be a lifelong process of repatterning old ways of being and consciously practicing what I would like to embody."-Camille Sapara Barton, Tending Grief: Embodied Rituals for Holding Our Sorrow and Growing Cultures of Care in Community
"We need to feel. To slow down and sense what is happening. To grieve and understand what has been lost so that we can begin to assess how to move in a different direction, not simply repeat the behav…"-Camille Sapara Barton, Tending Grief: Embodied Rituals for Holding Our Sorrow and Growing Cultures of Care in Community
19. Begin the World Over (Emergent Strategy)
By: Kung Li Sun
4.44
Format: 260 pages, Paperback
Begin the World Over is a fictional alternate history of how the Founders’ greatest fear—that Black… read more
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- fantasy
- fiction
20. Fables and Spells: Collected and New Short Fiction and Poetry
By: Adrienne Maree Brown
4.38
Format: 248 pages, Paperback
Fables and Spells, a gathering of adrienne maree brown’s short stories and poems, is a vibrant sele… read more
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- poetry
- anthologies
- short stories
- social justice
- fiction
- science fiction
- fantasy
21. Liberated to the Bone: Histories. Bodies. Futures. (Emergent Strategy)
By: Susan Raffo
4.51
Format: 264 pages, Paperback
Self-transformation requires social transformation. Social transformation requires self-transformat… read more
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