I am so sorry to report to you that beloved author Octavia E. Butler has died. She died after falling and striking her head on a walkway outside her home. I'm not very good at this sort of thing. I don't know what to say after someone passes on, but I have to say something about Ms. Butler. She was so important to me. Her writing was not just about possible futures, they were about possible futures that included me and people who looked like me. She saw the world so clearly that it frightened you and chilled your blood, but you had to read on. ... [ more ]

Life Out of Context Which Includes a Proposal for the Non-Violent Takeover of the House of Representatives by Walter Mosley Retail Price: $12.95 Adds 1 stamp to your Frequent  Buyer Card

Life Out of Context begins as a brooding examination of Mosley's own sense of cultural dislocation as an African-American writer. Then a series of serendipitous events ensues--the screening of a documentary on Africa, an inspiring encounter with Harry Belafonte and Hugh Masekela--prompting Mosley to turn his focus to broader issues: What can we do to fight injustice, poverty, exploitation, and racism? What is globalization doing to us?
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The Covenant with Black America by Tavis Smiley, Editor Retail Price: $12.00 Adds 1 stamp to your Frequent  Buyer Card

Established publishing house, Third World Press, Inc., joins noted author and broadcaster, Tavis Smiley, to create The Covenant with Black America, a step-by-step how-to manual for taking action against the political, economical, physiological and medical issues threatening black society. The Covenant addressing 10 of the most pressing issues facing black America, providing provocative breakdowns of each issue, as well as specific directions on how politicians, corporations and individuals can make important changes necessary for the survival of black people.
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A Question of Torture CIA Interrogation, from the Cold War to the War on Terror by Alfred W. McCoy Retail Price: $25.00 Our Price: $21.25 — save 15%! Adds 2 stamps to your Frequent  Buyer Card

In this revelatory account of the CIA’s secret, fifty-year effort to develop new forms of torture, historian Alfred W. McCoy uncovers the deep, disturbing roots of recent scandals at Abu Ghraib and Guantánamo. Far from aberrations, as the White House has claimed, A Question of Torture shows that these abuses are the product of a long-standing covert program of interrogation.
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Arthur & George A Novel by Julian Barnes Retail Price: $24.95 Our Price: $21.21 — save 15%! Adds 2 stamps to your Frequent  Buyer Card

In the vast expanse of late-Victorian Britain, two boys come to life: George, the son of a Midlands vicar, and Arthur, in shabby genteel Edinburgh, both of them feeling at once near to and impossibly distant from the beating heart of Empire. One falls prey to a series of pranks en route to a legal vocation, while the other studies medicine before discovering a different calling entirely, and it is years before their destinies are entwined in a mesmerizing alliance. We follow each through outrageous accusation and unrivaled success, through faith and perseverance and dogged self-recrimination, whether in the dock awaiting complete disgrace or at the height of fame
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The Tree Bride A Novel by Bharati Mukherjee Retail Price: $14.95 Adds 1 stamp to your Frequent  Buyer Card

According to legend, at the age of five Tara Lata married a tree and eventually emerged as a nationalist freedom fighter. In piecing together her ancestor's transformation from a docile Bengali Brahmin girl-child into an impassioned organizer of resistance against the British Raj, the contemporary narrator Tara discovers and lays claim to unacknowledged elements in her "American" identity. Although the story of the Tree Bride is central, the drama surrounding the narrator, a divorced woman trying to reconcile with her husband, moves the novel back and forth through time and across continents.
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Tsotsi A Novel by Athol Fugard Retail Price: $13.00 Adds 1 stamp to your Frequent  Buyer Card

Set amid the sprawling Johannesburg township of Soweto, where survival is the primary objective, Tsotsi traces six days in the life of a ruthless young gang leader. When we meet Tsotsi, he is a man without a name (tsotsi is Afrikaans for hoodlum) who has repressed his past and now exists only to stage and execute vicious crimes. When he inadvertently kidnaps a baby, Tsotsi is confronted with memories of his own painful childhood, and this angry young man begins to rediscover his own humanity, dignity, and capacity to love.
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Stimulate the seven chakras of the human body with the mineral that corresponds to each one! These chakra bags includes seven stones, one for every chakra. To see the stones that included in your bag, see our chakra chart. You can also purchase a rainbow bag, which is a fun way to carry and store your stones.

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