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A Cup of Water Under My Bed

A Memoir

by Daisy Hernández ...

The PEN Literary Award–winning author “writes with honesty, intelligence, tenderness, and love” about her Colombian-Cuban heritage and queer identity in this poignant coming-of-age memoir (Sandra Cisneros, author of The House on Mango Street).In this lyrical, coming-of-age memoir, Daisy Hernández chronicles what the women in her Cuban-Colombian family taught her about love, money, and race. Her ... Read more

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The PEN Literary Award–winning author “writes with honesty, intelligence, tenderness, and love” about her Colombian-Cuban heritage and queer identity in this poignant coming-of-age memoir (Sandra Cisneros, author of The House on Mango Street).In this lyrical, coming-of-age memoir, Daisy Hernández chronicles what the women in her Cuban-Colombian family taught her about love, money, and race. Her
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Citizenship

Notes on an American Myth

by Daisy Hernández ...

A provocative, personal, blazingly intelligent examination of one of the most vexing questions facing the United States today: Who is, and should be, a citizen?“[A] fascinating, urgently needed new book.”—Chicago Tribune**“How did ‘Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free’ turn upside down to where we are today? Everyone needs to read this book, citizens and non ... Read more

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A provocative, personal, blazingly intelligent examination of one of the most vexing questions facing the United States today: Who is, and should be, a citizen?“[A] fascinating, urgently needed new book.”—Chicago Tribune**“How did ‘Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free’ turn upside down to where we are today? Everyone needs to read this book, citizens and non
... Read more

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Colonize This!

Young Women of Color on Today's Feminism

Edited by Bushra Rehman, Daisy Hernández ...

Series series Live Girls
Newly revised and updated, this landmark anthology offers gripping portraits of American life as seen through the eyes of young women of colorIt has been decades since women of color first turned feminism upside down, exposing the feminist movement as exclusive, white, and unaware of the concerns and issues of women of color from around the globe. Since then, key social movements have risen, ... Read more

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Newly revised and updated, this landmark anthology offers gripping portraits of American life as seen through the eyes of young women of colorIt has been decades since women of color first turned feminism upside down, exposing the feminist movement as exclusive, white, and unaware of the concerns and issues of women of color from around the globe. Since then, key social movements have risen,
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The Kissing Bug

by Daisy Hernández ...

**Winner of the PEN/Jean Stein Book AwardNational Book Foundation Science + Literature SelectionFinalist for New American Voices Award and Lammy Award for Bisexual NonfictionA TIME, NPR, Chicago Public Library, Science for the People, WYNC, WBUR Radio Boston, and The Stacks Podcast Best Book of the YearLonglisted for the PEN Open Book AwardAs heard on Fresh Air**Growing up in a New Jersey factory ... Read more

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**Winner of the PEN/Jean Stein Book AwardNational Book Foundation Science + Literature SelectionFinalist for New American Voices Award and Lammy Award for Bisexual NonfictionA TIME, NPR, Chicago Public Library, Science for the People, WYNC, WBUR Radio Boston, and The Stacks Podcast Best Book of the YearLonglisted for the PEN Open Book AwardAs heard on Fresh Air**Growing up in a New Jersey factory
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The Kissing Bug

A True Story of a Family, an Insect, and a Nation’s Neglect of a Deadly Disease

by Daisy Hernández ...

Narrated by Frankie Corzo ...

Unabridged

6 hours 56 min

Who does the United States take care of and who does it leave behind? This is a riveting investigation of infectious disease, poverty, racism, and for-profit health care—and the harm caused by decades of silence.Growing up in a New Jersey factory town in the 1980s, Daisy Hernández believed that her aunt had become deathly ill from eating an apple. No one in her family, in either the United States ... Read more

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Who does the United States take care of and who does it leave behind? This is a riveting investigation of infectious disease, poverty, racism, and for-profit health care—and the harm caused by decades of silence.Growing up in a New Jersey factory town in the 1980s, Daisy Hernández believed that her aunt had become deathly ill from eating an apple. No one in her family, in either the United States
... Read more
Coming of Age in a Hardscrabble World

A Memoir Anthology

by Maya Angelou, Russell Baker, Kim Barnes, Rick Bragg, Rosemary L. Bray, Mary Childers, Paul Clemens, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, Vivian Gornick, Pete Hamill, E. Lynn Harris, Daisy Hernández, Oscar Hijuelos, Richard Hoffman, bell hooks, Mary Karr, Michael C. Keith, Michael Patrick MacDonald, Bich Minh Nguyen, Joe Queenan, Luis J. Rodriguez, Richard Rodriguez, Esmeralda Santiago, Sandra Scofield, Kate Simon, Brent Staples, Michelle Tea, Tobias Wolff, Monica Wood, Howard Zinn ...

Nonfiction storytelling is at its best in this anthology of excerpts from memoirs by thirty authors—some eminent, some less well known—who grew up tough and talented in working-class America. Their stories, selected from literary memoirs published between 1982 and 2014, cover episodes from childhood to young adulthood within a spectrum of life-changing experiences. Although diverse ethnically, ... Read more

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Nonfiction storytelling is at its best in this anthology of excerpts from memoirs by thirty authors—some eminent, some less well known—who grew up tough and talented in working-class America. Their stories, selected from literary memoirs published between 1982 and 2014, cover episodes from childhood to young adulthood within a spectrum of life-changing experiences. Although diverse ethnically,
... Read more
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Colonize This!

Young Women of Color on Today's Feminism

by Bushra Rehman, Daisy Hernandez ...

Narrated by Ariana Delawari, Sharmila Devar, Kyla Garcia, Almarie Guerra, Greta Jung, Staci Mitchell, Kristyl Dawn Tift ...

Series series Live Girls
Unabridged

13 hours 1 min

Newly revised and updated, this landmark anthology offers gripping portraits of American life as seen through the eyes of young women of colorIt has been decades since women of color first turned feminism upside down, exposing the feminist movement as exclusive, white, and unaware of the concerns and issues of women of color from around the globe. Since then, key social movements have risen, ... Read more

$31.99 USD

Also available as: eBook

Newly revised and updated, this landmark anthology offers gripping portraits of American life as seen through the eyes of young women of colorIt has been decades since women of color first turned feminism upside down, exposing the feminist movement as exclusive, white, and unaware of the concerns and issues of women of color from around the globe. Since then, key social movements have risen,
... Read more

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Citizenship

Notes on an American Myth

by Daisy Hernández ...

Narrated by Daisy Hernández ...

Unabridged

8 hours 18 min

A provocative, personal, blazingly intelligent examination of one of the most vexing questions facing the United States today: Who is, and should be, a citizen?“[A] fascinating, urgently needed new book.”—Chicago Tribune**“How did ‘Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free’ turn upside down to where we are today? Everyone needs to read this book, citizens and non ... Read more

$22.00 USD

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A provocative, personal, blazingly intelligent examination of one of the most vexing questions facing the United States today: Who is, and should be, a citizen?“[A] fascinating, urgently needed new book.”—Chicago Tribune**“How did ‘Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free’ turn upside down to where we are today? Everyone needs to read this book, citizens and non
... Read more

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A Cup of Water Under My Bed

A Memoir

by Daisy Hernández ...

Narrated by Daisy Hernández ...

Unabridged

5 hours 39 min

The PEN Literary Award–winning author “writes with honesty, intelligence, tenderness, and love” about her Colombian-Cuban heritage and queer identity in this poignant coming-of-age memoir (Sandra Cisneros, author of The House on Mango Street).In this lyrical, coming-of-age memoir, Daisy Hernández chronicles what the women in her Cuban-Colombian family taught her about love, money, and race. Her ... Read more

$28.99 USD

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The PEN Literary Award–winning author “writes with honesty, intelligence, tenderness, and love” about her Colombian-Cuban heritage and queer identity in this poignant coming-of-age memoir (Sandra Cisneros, author of The House on Mango Street).In this lyrical, coming-of-age memoir, Daisy Hernández chronicles what the women in her Cuban-Colombian family taught her about love, money, and race. Her
... Read more

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Original Sin

On the Genetics of Vice, the Problem of Blame, and the Future of Forgiveness

by Kathryn Paige Harden ...

Narrated by Kristen DiMercurio ...

Unabridged

8 hours 34 min

A daring and intimate exploration of how genetics complicates our ideas about blame, punishment, and moral responsibility, from acclaimed psychologist and author of The Genetic Lottery Kathryn Paige Harden.“An extraordinary book, the very best of science writing, because it is about not just science—it is memoir, history, bleeding-edge genetics, and a completely original take on original sin.” ... Read more

$22.00 USD

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A daring and intimate exploration of how genetics complicates our ideas about blame, punishment, and moral responsibility, from acclaimed psychologist and author of The Genetic Lottery Kathryn Paige Harden.“An extraordinary book, the very best of science writing, because it is about not just science—it is memoir, history, bleeding-edge genetics, and a completely original take on original sin.”
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Truth Has a Power of Its Own

Conversations About A People’s History

by Howard Zinn ...

Narrated by Jeff Zinn ...

Unabridged

4 hours 58 min

Truth Has a Power of Its Own is an engrossing collection of never-before-published conversations with Howard Zinn, conducted by the distinguished broadcast journalist Ray Suarez in 2007, that covers the course of American history from Columbus to the War on Terror from the perspective of ordinary people—including slaves, workers, immigrants, women, and Native Americans.Viewed through the lens of ... Read more

$15.99 USD

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Truth Has a Power of Its Own is an engrossing collection of never-before-published conversations with Howard Zinn, conducted by the distinguished broadcast journalist Ray Suarez in 2007, that covers the course of American history from Columbus to the War on Terror from the perspective of ordinary people—including slaves, workers, immigrants, women, and Native Americans.Viewed through the lens of
... Read more

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Nations Apart

How Clashing Regional Cultures Shattered America

by Colin Woodard ...

Narrated by Ari Fliakos ...

Unabridged

9 hours 16 min

**"A world-class intellectual. . . . [Colin Woodard’s] research can help Americans rediscover their common identity in spite of all the attempts to divide them." —Garry Kasparov"A powerful paradigm for understanding the defining hot button issues of contemporary America and the action we can take to bridge our cultural divisions and save the republic." —The Next Big Idea Club“A lucid exercise in ... Read more

$22.00 USD

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**"A world-class intellectual. . . . [Colin Woodard’s] research can help Americans rediscover their common identity in spite of all the attempts to divide them." —Garry Kasparov"A powerful paradigm for understanding the defining hot button issues of contemporary America and the action we can take to bridge our cultural divisions and save the republic." —The Next Big Idea Club“A lucid exercise in
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