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"American Journalist Jake Barnes is desperately in love with the beautiful Lady Brett Ashley. She moves seductively through the seemingly glamorous milieu of American and British expats, loving, living and partying in Paris in the 1920's. They're a hedonistic generation, marked by the violence and privations of WW1, in pursuit of adventure. Ever restless, Jake and Lady Brett travel together with a disparate group of friends through France to Pamplona...
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"The narrator of this beautiful, often disquieting novel is a young Native American man living on the Fort Belknap Reservation in Montana. Sensitive and self-destructive, he searches for something that will bind him to the lands of his ancestors but is haunted by personal tragedy, the dissolution of his once proud heritage, and Montana's vast emptiness." --publisher's website
3) Ceremony
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"This new edition of the Native American novel about Tayo, a World War II veteran of mixed ancestry, and his struggles when he returns to the Laguna Pueblo Reservation features a new foreword by Tommy Orange. Scarred by his experience as a prisoner of the Japanese and further wounded by the rejection he encounters from his people, he regains peace by immersing himself in the Indian past"--Provided by publisher.
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"In her heralded first novel, Gloria Naylor weaves together the stories of seven women living in Brewster Place, a bleak inner-city sanctuary, creating a powerful, moving portrait of the strengths, struggles, and hopes of black women in America. Vulnerable and resilient, openhanded and openhearted, these women forge their lives in a place that in turn threatens and protects - a common prison and a shared home. Naylor renders both loving and painful...
5) We
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"In a glass-enclosed city of absolute straight lines, ruled over by the all-powerful 'Benefactor,' the citizens of the totalitarian society of OneState live out lives devoid of passion and creativity—until D-503, a mathematician who dreams in numbers, makes a discovery: He has an individual soul....Suppressed for many years in Russia, it details the fate that might befall us all if we surrender to some collective dream of technology, and remains...
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"When Isabel Archer, a beautiful, spirited American, is brought to Europe by her wealthy Aunt Touchett, it is expected that she will soon marry. But Isabel, resolved to enjoy the freedom that her fortune has opened up and to determine her own fate, does not hesitate to turn down two eligible suitors. Then she finds herself irresistibly drawn to Gilbert Osmond. Charming and cultivated, Osmond sees Isabel as a rich prize waiting to be taken. Beneath...
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"Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is a pioneering account of one man’s journey from slavery to freedom. Douglass’s powerful autobiography was an instant bestseller upon publication in 1845 and played a fundamental role in the abolition of slavery, a movement that Douglass dedicated his life to. Part of the Macmillan Collector’s Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket-sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers....
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"Wonderfully sardonic and slyly humorous the writings of...Charlotte Perkins Gilman were penned in response to her frustrations with the gender-based double standard that prevailed in America as the twentieth century began. Perhaps best known for her chilling depection of a woman's breakdown in her unforgettable 1892 short story 'The Yellow Wall-Paper," Gilman also wrote Herland, a wry novel that imagines a peaceful progressive coutnry from which...
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"The acclaimed memoir of a homosexual Cuban author chronicling his tumultuous yet luminary life, from his impoverished upbringing in Cuba to his imprisonment at the hands of a Communist regime, now a part of the Penguin Vitae series, with a foreword by Colombian author Jaime Manrique. The astonishing memoir by visionary Cuban writer Reinaldo Arenas "is a book above all about being free," said The New York Review of Books--sexually, politically, artistically....
10) Sister outsider
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"At once a searing indictment of a racist, patriarchal society and a manual for claiming an intersectional identity, Sister Outsider is a comprehensive collection of the lauded poet and writer Audre Lorde's most famous and influential works of nonfiction prose. Sister Outsider depicts the idea of 'difference'--whether through race, gender, or sexuality--as a powerful tool for empowerment that can be used as a catalyst for change. Throughout the fifteen...
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