Readings

Don't Hide the Madness: William S. Burroughs in Conversation with Allen Ginsberg (Hardcover)

By William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg (Various Artists (VMI)), Steven Taylor (Editor)

$26.00

ISBN: 9781941110706

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Published: Three Rooms Press - October 16th, 2018

Two seminal figures of the Beat movement, Allen Ginsberg and William S. Burroughs, discuss literary influences and personal history in a never-before-published three-day conversation following the release of the David Cronenberg film of Burroughs' classic novel Naked Lunch.

Wide-Open Town: Kansas City in the Pendergast Era (Paperback)

By Diane Mutti Burke (Editor), Jason Roe (Editor), John Herron (Editor)

$35.94

ISBN: 9780700627066

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Published: University Press of Kansas - November 29th, 2018

Kansas City is often seen as a mild-mannered metropolis in the heart of flyover country. But a closer look tells a different story, one with roots in the city-- complicated and colorful past. The decades between World Wars I and II were a time of intense political, social, and economic change--for Kansas City, as for the nation as a whole.

Leavenworth Seven: The Deadly 1931 Prison Break (True Crime) (Paperback)

By Kenneth M. Lamaster

$21.99

ISBN: 9781467140409

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Published: History Press - February 18th, 2019

On December 11, 1931, chaos erupted behind Leavenworth's limestone penitentiary walls as seven desperate men put months of planning into action. Aided by notorious gangsters Frank Nash, George "Machine Gun" Kelly and Thomas James Holden, they blazed a path to freedom with stolen cars and terrorized hostages. Anyone who could carry a gun and knew the terrain quickly picked up the pursuit.

Crosslight for Youngbird (Paperback)

By Asiya Wadud

$15.95

ISBN: 9781937658878

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Published: Nightboat Books - Nightboat Books - October 2nd, 2018

Crosslight for Youngbird explores the slipperiness of borders, as well as borders' tentacles: mother tongue, language and mastery, citizenship and nationality, migration and flight. These poems are concerned with the demands we make on our body, the limits of those demands, and ultimately, how everyone inhabits space.

Sing, Unburied, Sing: A Novel (Paperback)

By Jesmyn Ward

$17.00

ISBN: 9781501126079

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Published: Scribner - May 8th, 2018

WINNER of the NATIONAL BOOK AWARD and A NEW YORK TIMES TOP 10 BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR

A finalist for the Kirkus Prize, Andrew Carnegie Medal, Aspen Words Literary Prize, and a New York Times bestseller, this majestic, stirring, and widely praised novel from two-time National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward, the story of a family on a journey through rural Mississippi, is

Men We Reaped: A Memoir (Paperback)

By Jesmyn Ward

$17.00

ISBN: 9781608197651

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Published: Bloomsbury USA - September 16th, 2014

Named one of the Best Books of the Century by New York Magazine

Two-time National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward (Salvage the Bones, Sing, Unburied, Sing) contends with the deaths of five young men dear to her, and the risk of being a black man in the rural South.

The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks about Race (Hardcover)

By Jesmyn Ward

$25.00

ISBN: 9781501126345

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Published: Scribner - August 2nd, 2016

National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward takes James Baldwin’s 1963 examination of race in America, The Fire Next Time, as a jumping off point for this groundbreaking collection of essays and poems about race from the most important voices of her generation and our time.

In light of recent tragedies and widespread protests across the nation, The Progressive magazine republ

The Republican Reversal: Conservatives and the Environment from Nixon to Trump (Hardcover)

By James Morton Turner, Andrew C. Isenberg

$33.54

ISBN: 9780674979970

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Published: Harvard University Press - November 12th, 2018

Not long ago, Republicans could take pride in their party's tradition of environmental leadership. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, the GOP helped to create the Environmental Protection Agency, extend the Clean Air Act, and protect endangered species.

Continental Breakfast by Danny Caine

$15.00

SKU: 9780996103770

PAPERBACK Mason Jar Press (2019)

"Danny Caine's Continental Breakfast portrays suburban life in the Midwest with humor, pathos, and tender care. Populating chain restaurants, deserted shopping malls, and family Passover dinners, the characters of the poems narrate an experience that, while familiar to many, doesn't often make it into the pages of poetry collections. You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll raise your can of Bud Lite." -- Megan Kaminski, Author of Deep City