Foreclosure

Literature & Fiction

Lawless, Gregory

Poetry

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Available nationally for the first time, celebrated historian Howard Zinn's stripped and powerful observation of the mindsets that permeate American government is a singular historical document just two years after it was initially published. Based on a talk delivered in the weeks following the historic election of Barack Obama, The State of the Union is a sobering look at whether the new president could turn the euphoria of a nation toward enacting the change his supporters had hoped for. Ever more urgent in its prescience, this powerful and radical analysis of the opportunities for change now stands out as a deeply important book from an equally important moment in American history.

The State of the Union: Notes on an Obama Administration

Politics & Social Sciences

ZINN, Howard

Politics & Government

A POWERFUL CHAPBOOK collection of thirteen poems, whose broken, surreal landscapes yield haunted visions reminiscent of Stephen Crane's epic masterpieces The Dark Riders and War Is Kind.   "The tragic vision of Jonathan Weinert's Thirteen Small Apostrophes reaches far through its singular imagination and haunting diction . . . His use of apostrophe in addressing imaginary creatures becomes a kind of Genesis, summoning a chastened world from one that we've defiled. These are innovative, moving, and memorable poems." ― Mark Irwin, author of Large White House Speaking  "In this mysterious and musical collection of petititons and declarations to various entities, human and otherwise, Jonathan Weinert listens attentively as darkness sings its song . . . Any reader alert to exquisite lament will find herself addressed by Weinert's song, sung to and sung for by these thirteen apostrophes that are small only in their length, not in their embrace." ― H. L. Hix, author of First Fire, Then Birds

13 Small Apostrophes: Poems

Weinert, Jonathan

<p>A powerful graphic poem, imbued with echoes of Steinbecks infamous "Machine" in the Grapes of Wrath, "Leviathan" is at once a damning indictment of the tidal wave of social forces that led to Occupy Wall Street, a haunting visual experience, and also the arrival of an important poetic voice.</p>

Leviathan

Comics & Graphic Novels

Wuenschel, Daniel

Graphic Novels

<p>"An extraodinary memoir" -- Luba Vinogradova, co-author of A Writer at War: A Soviet Journalist With the Red Army, 1941-1945 "An important contribution to our understanding of the Second World War in Eastern Europe, and also very funny, which I was not expecting." - Antony Polonsky, author of The Jews in Poland and Russia As the Nazi Army swept into Eastern Europe in 1939, Richard Fenigsen, a sixteen year-old Polish Jew, fled his hometown of Radom and arrived with his family in the Soviet-controlled city of Lwow. Within months they were deported thousands of miles into the heart of Russia. For the next two years the Fenigsens made their way through the Soviet Union by boat, foot, and rail, as World War II ravaged Europe and the Nazi war machine systematically eradicated the Jews of Poland. From the logging camps of the mysterious independent Mari Autonomous Republic to the the outpost of Yoshkar Ola, Fenigsen's observations are of places and people for which no other account exists in the English language. A singular, poignant portrait of daily life in Russia during World War II, A Long Journey to Russia is an epic adventure at the periphery of a great tragedy, and a testament that the welcoming of strangers is possible even in the darkest of times.</p>

A Long Journey to Russia

Biographies & Memoirs

Fenigsen, Richard

Historical

Past Continuous

Burt, Brian

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