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  • And Still the Earth

    by Ignácio de Loyola Brandão ...
    Translated by Ellen Watson ...
    Series series Brazilian Literature
    Welcome to São Paulo, Brazil, in the not too distant future. Water is scarce, garbage clogs the city, movement is restricted, and the System—sinister, omnipotent, secret—rules its subjects' every moment and thought. Here, middle-aged Souza lives a meaningless life in a world where the future is doomed and all memory of the past is forbidden. A classic novel of "dystopia," looking back to Orwell's ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • pray me stay eager

    by Ellen Doré Watson ...
    "These are wonderful, witty, wise poems in love with language and singing the music of the world with all its pleasures and piquancies, its oddities and tragedies. Ellen Doré Watson's vision is agile with quick shifts in direction and vivid juxtapositions. The poems in pray me stay eager contain multitudes!" -Ellen BassA dreamy voice turns dark and gritty as Ellen Doré Watson interrogates personal ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • We Live in Bodies

    by Ellen Doré Watson ...
    "You will close this book exhilarated by its quirky, passionate poems and grateful for its huge heart fired and fed by a prodigious imagination. This is brilliant, urgent work."—Thomas Lux ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Alphabet in the Park

    Selected Poems

    by Adélia Prado ...
    Translated by Ellen Watson ...
    Poetry that eloquently concentrates on the spiritual and physical lives of women.This is the first book published in English by of the work of Brazilian poet Adélia Prado. Incorporating poems published over the past fifteen years, The Alphabet in the Park is a book of passion and intelligence, wit and instinct. These are poems about human concerns, especially those of women, about living in one's ... Read more

    $12.79 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Olga

    Revolutionary and Martyr

    by Fernando Morais ...
    Translated by Ellen Watson ...
    This "heartbreaking biography" of the Communist revolutionary "is filled with high drama," daring escapes, and eventual imprisonment in Nazi Germany ( Publishers Weekly).A German-born Jew, Olga Benario was one of the most remarkable Communist activists of the twentieth century. With a genius for organization and an unwavering devotion, she crisscrossed the globe educating and activating legions to ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Born a Slave: Anthology

    Collected Memoirs and Interviews

    by Sojourner Truth, Solomon Northup, Harriet Jacobs, Booker T. Washington, Frederick Douglass, Mary Prince, Boyrereau Brinch, Olaudah Equiano, Zamba Zembola, Solomon Bayley, William Grimes, William Craft, Ellen Craft, Moses Roper, Henry Watson, John Brown, J. W. Loguen, John Andrew Jackson, Willie Lynch, Nat Turner, Louis Hughes, Jacob D. Green, Elizabeth Keckley, Josiah Henson, Charles Ball, Austin Steward, Henry Bibb, William Wells Brown, L. S. Thompson, James W. C. Pennington, Kate Drumgoold, Lucy A. Delaney, Moses Grandy, Leonard Black, John Gabriel Stedman, Henry Box Brown, Margaretta Matilda Odell, Thomas S. Gaines, James L. Smith, Joseph Mountain, Peter Still, Emma Ray, Lloyd Ray, Annie L. Burton, Nina Hill Robinson, Nicholas Said, George Henry, Israel Campbell, Lewis Clarke, Francis Fedric, Venture Smith ...
    This collection includes over 100 slave narratives and more than a thousands transcripts of recorded interviews made with former salves in the first half of 20th century: Life of William Grimes, the Runaway Slave Narrative of Sojourner Truth: A Northern Slave The History of Mary Prince The Blind African Slave (Boyrereau Brinch) The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano The Life and ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Watch Us Rise

    by Renée Watson, Ellen Hagan ...
    "This stunning book is the story I've been waiting for my whole life; where girls rise up to claim their space with joy and power." —Laurie Halse Anderson, New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of Speak"An extraordinary story of two indomitable spirits." —Brendan Kiely, New York Times bestselling co-author of All American Boys and Tradition"Timely, thought-provoking, and pow... ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Looking Beyond Suppression

    Community Strategies to Reduce Gang Violence

    by Carolyn Boyes-Watson, Anthony A. Braga, Ellen Foley, David M. Hureau, Erin McLaughlin, Nicole Rivers-Kustanovitz, Laurie Ross, Kim Tobin, Russell Wolff, Jack McDevitt, Sean P. Varano ...
    This edited book significantly contributes to the knowledge on how to address gang problems from a broad community perspective, which takes into account criminal justice agencies, social service providers, and community leaders, along with police, who have implemented collaborative anti-gang policies and practices. As community-wide efforts become more common, it is increasingly important to ... Read more

    $62.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Watch Us Rise

    by Renée Watson, Ellen Hagan ...
    Narrated by Angela Lewis, Em Eldridge ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 7 min

    Bloomsbury presents Watch Us Rise by Renée Watson and Ellen Hagan, read by Angela Lewis and Em Eldridge."This stunning book is the story I’ve been waiting for my whole life; where girls rise up to claim their space with joy and power.” —Laurie Halse Anderson, New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of Speak"An extraordinary story of two indomitable spirits." —Brendan Kiely, New York ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    For Black Girls Like Me

    by Mariama Lockington ...
    Narrated by Imani Parks ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 35 min

    I am a girl but most days I feel like a question mark.Makeda June Kirkland is eleven-years-old, adopted, and black. Her parents and big sister are white, and even though she loves her family very much, Makeda often feels left out. When Makeda's family moves from Maryland to New Mexico, she leaves behind her best friend, Lena- the only other adopted black girl she knows- for a new life. In New ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    Betty Before X

    by Ilyasah Shabazz, Renée Watson ...
    Narrated by Ilyasah Shabazz ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 16 min

    ***Winner of a Parents' Choice Silver Award*"In clear, measured tones, the author recounts Betty's discomfort with her home life and her work with the Housewives League...Shabazz differentiates between Betty and her mother, Ollie Mae Sanders, through pitch and projects the latter's frequent annoyance, showing why Betty often felt underappreciated. An afterword helps young listeners understand ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • The Story of My Teeth

    by Valeria Luiselli ...
    Translated by Christina MacSweeney ...
    Bon vivant, world traveler, auctioneer—the story of Highway and his teeth is like Johnny Cash meets Robert Walser in Mexico.Highway is a late-in-life world traveller, yarn spinner, collector, and legendary auctioneer. His most precious possessions are the teeth of the ‘notorious infamous’ like Plato, Petrarch, and Virginia Woolf. Written in collaboration with the workers at a Jumex juice factory, ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook