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  • Beyond The Whiteness of Whiteness

    Memoir of a White Mother of Black Sons

    by Jane Lazarre ...
    “I am Black,” Jane Lazarre’s son tells her. “I have a Jewish mother, but I am not ‘biracial.’ That term is meaningless to me.” She understands, she says—but he tells her, gently, that he doesn’t think so, that she can’t understand this completely because she is white. Beyond the Whiteness of Whiteness is Jane Lazarre’s memoir of coming to terms with this painful truth, of learning to look into the ... Read more

    $18.69 USD

  • The Mother Knot

    by Jane Lazarre ...
    In this compelling memoir by a writer, mother, and feminist, Jane Lazarre confronts the myth of the "good mother" with her fiercely honest and intimate portrait of early motherhood as a time of profound ambivalence and upheaval, filled with desperation as well as joy, the struggle to reclaim a sense of self, and sheer physical exhaustion. Originally published in 1976, The Mother Knot is a feminist ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Wet Earth and Dreams

    A Narrative of Grief and Recovery

    by Jane Lazarre ...
    “In the spring of 1995, the condition I seem to have been waiting for all my life finally struck me.” So begins Jane Lazarre’s account of her transforming battle with breast cancer. Following in the tradition of her critically acclaimed literary memoirs The Mother Knot and Beyond the Whiteness of Whiteness: Memoir of a White Mother of Black Sons, Lazarre brilliantly interweaves her experience of ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Some Place Quite Unknown

    by Jane Lazarre ...
    Jane Lazarre's Some Place Quite Unknown is a beautiful, original novel with a richly detailed world. It is about the reverberating psychological repercussions of a woman's early loss of her mother. It has some of the best scenes of psychoanalytic sessions in current literature as well as exquisitely rendered scenes of nature. It probes with rigor and dazzling artistry the deepest place of a woman ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Beyond the Whiteness of Whiteness

    Memoir of a White Mother of Black Sons

    by Jane Lazarre ...
    "I am Black," Jane Lazarre's son tells her. "I have a Jewish mother, but I am not 'biracial.' That term is meaningless to me." In this moving memoir, Jane Lazarre, the white Jewish mother of now adult Black sons, offers a powerful meditation on motherhood and racism in America as she tells the story of how she came to understand the experiences of her African American husband, their growing sons, ... Read more

    $22.29 USD

  • Inheritance

    by Jane Lazarre ...
    Jane Lazarre's compelling novel explores America's mixed racial history through the lives of four families whose fates are intertwined across several generations from slavery to the present. Unflinching in its description of the horrors of slavery and racism as well as the taboos on all sides of the racial divide,the novel moves us in the present, and prepares us for the future. Lazarre is ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Communist and the Communist's Daughter

    A Memoir

    by Jane Lazarre ...
    In a letter to his baby grandson, Bill Lazarre wrote that "unfortunately, despite the attempts by your grandpa and many others to present you with a better world, we were not very successful." Born in 1902 amid the pogroms in Eastern Europe, Lazarre dedicated his life to working for economic equality, racial justice, workers' rights, and a more just world. He was also dedicated to his family, ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

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  • Meridian

    by Alice Walker ...
    "A classic novel of both feminism and the Civil Rights movement" in 1960s Atlanta by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Color Purple ( Ms.).As she approaches the end of her teen years, Meridian Hill has already married, divorced, and given birth to a son. She's looking for a second chance, and at a small college outside Atlanta, Georgia, in the early 1960s, Meridian discovers the civil ... Read more

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  • The Origin of Others

    by Toni Morrison ...
    Series Book 56 - The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures
    “The Origin of Others combines Toni Morrison’s accustomed eloquence with meaning for our times as citizens of the world.” —Nell Irvin Painter, New RepublicAmerica’s foremost novelist reflects on the themes that preoccupy her work and increasingly dominate national and world politics: race, fear, borders, the mass movement of peoples, the desire for belonging. What is race and why does it matter? ... Read more

    $16.59 USD

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  • Leave No Trace

    The Final Moments of Florence W. Aldridge

    by Tanya Anne Crosby ...
    Series Book 3 - An Oyster Point Thriller
    Less than 48 hours. That's how long Florence W. Aldridge has to live.Every event in a person's life is connected. The state of our lives, at any given time, is the sum of everything we have done and everywhere we have been. Our next decision determines, not merely where our lives end, but who we become along the way. How far can one lost woman go to redeem herself by the time the clock stops ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    The Original Human Dilemma

    by Garret Keizer ...
    In a book the San Francisco Chronicle called "unclassifiably wise" and a "masterpiece," noted Harper's essayist Garret Keizer explores the paradox that we are human only by helping others– and all too human when we try to help.It is the primal cry, the first word in a want ad, the last word on the tool bar of a computer screen. A song by the Beatles, a prayer to the gods, the reason Uncle Sam is ... Read more

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  • Horrid Henry and the Scary Sitter

    by Francesca Simon ...
    Illustrated by Tony Ross ...
    Series series Horrid Henry
    Age Level: 7 and up | Grade Level: 2 to 5Horrid Henry encounters the worst babysitter in the world; traumatizes his parents on a long car trip; goes trick-or-treating at Halloween (with disastrous results); and emerges victorious from a raid on Moody Margaret's Secret Club.Francesca Simon is one of the world's best-loved children's authors. She is the only American to have ever won the Galaxy Book ... Read more

    $6.29 USD