Fledgling A Novel by Octavia E. Butler Retail Price: $24.95 Our Price: $21.21 — save 15%! Adds 2 stamps to your Frequent  Buyer Card

Octavia Butler’s first new novel in seven years, due out in October!
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This is the story of an apparently young, amnesiac girl whose alarmingly un-human 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.
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The Icarus Girl A Novel by Helen Oyeyemi Retail Price: $23.95 Our Price: $20.36 — save 15%! Adds 2 stamps to your Frequent  Buyer Card

Helen Oyeyemi draws on Nigerian mythology to present a strikingly original variation on a classic literary theme: the existence of "doubles," both real and spiritual, who play havoc with our perceptions and our lives. Lyrical, haunting, and compelling, The Icarus Girl is a story of twins and ghosts, of a little girl growing up between cultures and colors. It heralds the arrival of a remarkable new talent.
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Where We Have Hope A Memoir of Zimbabwe by Andrew Meldrum Retail Price: $17.95 Adds 1 stamp to your Frequent  Buyer Card

When American-born journalist Andrew Meldrum arrived in Harare in 1980, he planned to stay for only three years-but he quickly fell in love with the country and its people. Newly independent from Britain, Zimbabwe was infused with the optimism of new nation-building. But over the twenty years he lived there, Meldrum watched as President Robert Mugabe gradually consolidated power and the government slowly evolved into violent despotism. The last foreign journalist in Zimbabwe, Meldrum was seized and expelled in May 2003, forced to leave for writing "bad things" about Mugabe's regime.
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Storming Caesar's Palace How Black Mothers Fought Their Own War on Poverty by Annelise Orleck Retail Price: $29.95 Our Price: $25.46 — save 15%! Adds 2 stamps to your Frequent  Buyer Card

In Storming Caesars Palace, historian Annelise Orleck tells the compelling story of how a group of welfare mothers and their supporters built one of this country’s most successful antipoverty programs. Declaring that “we can do it and do it better” these women proved that poor mothers are the real experts on poverty. In 1972 they founded Operation Life, which was responsible for all kinds of firsts for the poor in Las Vegas—the first library, medical center, daycare center, job training, and senior citizen housing. By the late 1970s, Operation Life was bringing millions of dollars into the community each year. And these women were influential in Washington, D.C.—respected and listened to by the likes of Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Ted Kennedy, and Jimmy Carter.
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The Prophet of Zongo Street Short Stories by Mohammed Naseehu Ali Retail Price: $22.95 Our Price: $19.51 — save 15%! Adds 2 stamps to your Frequent  Buyer Card

In the tradition of rich African storytelling that mixes myth with modernity, The Prophet of Zongo Street is a dazzling collection of stories that calls to mind Ben Okri and Chinua Achebe. Mohammed Naseehu Ali, the tradition's acclaimed new practitioner, offers up ten powerful and beautifully rendered tales. Set primarily on the fictitious Zongo Street -- a close-knit community of wonderfully quirky characters who hold tight to superstition, religion, and family -- these stories are anchored by the uproarious, the embarrassing, the poignant, and the rawest moments of life.
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Desertion A Novel by Abdulrazak Gurnah Retail Price: $22.95 Our Price: $19.51 — save 15%! Adds 2 stamps to your Frequent  Buyer Card

Early one morning in 1899, in a small, dilapidated town along the coast of Mombassa, a Muslim man, Hassanali, sets out for a mosque but doesn’t get there. Out of the desert stumbles an Englishman who collapses at Hassanali’s feet: Martin Pearce—writer, traveler, something of an Orientalist. Hassanali cares for Pearce until the Englishman is taken to the home of colonial officer Frederick Turner to recuperate. When Pearce returns to thank his Good Samaritan, he meets and is enraptured by Rehana, Hassanali’s sister—by her gorgeous eyes and tragic aura. And so begins the passionate, illicit love affair—two lives and cultures colliding—that informs the rich, finely woven tapestry of Desertion.
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Indigocafe.com will be screening this film in collaboration with P.O.V., the acclaimed independent nonfiction film series on PBS. This screeening is also co-sponsored by the
BSEC Ethical Action Committee.

"A Panther in Africa" is both heartening and heart-wrenching in its exploration of what life has held for Pete O'Neal since he fled America for Tanzania. O'Neal founded the Kansas City chapter of the Black Panthers in the 1960s. On October 30, 1969, he was arrested for transporting a gun across state lines. O'Neal fled the charge, and for over 30 years, he has lived in Tanzania as one of the last American exiles from an era when activists considered themselves at war with the U.S. government.

Preceding the film — Black Panther. This exemplar of 1960s activist filmmaking traces the development of the Black Panther organization. Featuring Minister of Defense Huey P. Newton, Eldridge Cleaver, and Bobby Seale. 14 minutes. 1969.

When:
Monday, September 12th at 7 PM

Where:
The Brooklyn Society for Ethical Culture
53 Prospect Park West (at 2nd Street)
Brooklyn, NY 11215
718-783-2298
(1 or 2 train to Grand Army Plaza)

Cost: FREE and open to the public

This event will be followed by a discussion, refreshments, and a book sale.

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