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"Signal thanks to journalist Swift for this authoritative biography
of Charles Albert Bender, the early 20th-century pitcher who
managed to shine in both the big leagues and in life while confronting
poverty and racism. Swift sets aside the myths about this most
famous American Indian player while vividly describing him in
the context of the famed Carlisle Indian School, baseball's Golden
Age, Connie Mack and his Athletics, and the effects of gambling
and alcoholism on sports. For all interested in the First Nations,
quite apart from baseball."
Library
Journal, starred review
Hardcover. $24.95 
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As the wife of Carleton's President Rob
Oden, Theresa Johnston Oden is well qualified to write about being the
spouse of an academic leader. Oden discusses the ways in which supporting
a leader-partner differs from traditional helpmate roles. She examines
the reasons for lingering expectations—why female spouses in particular
are still expected to volunteer their time to the leaders’ careers—as
well as the special concerns of male spouses.
A self-described introvert who needs a lot of privacy, Oden admits that
her adjustment to life as the leader’s spouse was difficult. “Today
I can honestly say that there are parts of my role that I treasure. I found
my way, but I felt the lack of a book that spoke to my experience.”
Paperback. $11.95
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"Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants." These simple words go to the
heart of Michael Pollan's In Defense of Food, the well-considered answers
he provides to the questions posed in the bestselling The Omnivore's Dilemma. In
Defense of Food reminds us that, despite the daunting dietary landscape Americans
confront in the modern supermarket, the solutions to the current omnivore's dilemma
can be found all around us.
Penguin Press. Hardcover. $21.95
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Statistics indicate that African American females, as a group, fare poorly
in the United States. Many live in single-parent households-either as
the single-parent mother or as the daughter. Many face severe economic
hurdles. Yet despite these obstacles, some are performing at exceptional
levels academically. For parents, educators, policy makers, and indeed
all those concerned about the education of young African American women, Overcoming
the Odds is an invaluable guidebook on creating the conditions
that lead to academic-and lifelong-success.
Oxford University Press. Paperback. $29.95
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Through charts, maps, and reader-friendly text, Seeley measures
Minnesota's history in terms of high temperatures, significant
rainfall, and devastating blizzards. He defines the character of
our seasons and the climatology of our holidays. He
shares stories from climate stations around the state and biographies
of well-known figures in weather history. Whether planning your
garden, dressing for a February day, settling a bet, or simply
making small talk with a neighbor, you will find in this fascinating
guide all the facts and figures, trials and tales you need.
Minnesota Historical Society Press. Paperback. $22.95
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A hilarious look at the races of the world—capturing the proud
history and bright future of racism in one handy, authoritative,
and deeply offensive volume.
Meet "C. H. Dalton," a professor of racialist studies and a
leading authority on inferior people of all ethnicities, genders,
religions, and sexual preferences. In the grand tradition of The Protocols
of the Elders of Zion and Birth of a Nation, he is on a mission
to clarify the truth about self-supremacy, drawing on eminent scholarship
to enlighten a new generation of hate-mongers. Presenting evidence that
everyone should be hated (even white people), A Practical Guide to
Racism contains sparkling
bits of wisdom.
Gotham Books. Hardcover. $20.00 |
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From her first dissection of a cadaver to the first time she
pronounced a patient dead, Pauline Chen combines personal experience
with clinical expertise in this riveting, deeply nuanced critique
of the medical profession.
Knopf Publishing. Paperback. $13.95
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Miko Kings is set in Indian Territory's queen city, Ada, Oklahoma,
during the baseball fever of 1903 and simultaneously in 1969 during
the Vietnam era. The story centers on the lives of Hope Little Leader,
a Choctaw pitcher for the Miko Kings baseball team; Lucius Mummy, a
switch hitter; and Ezol Daggs, the postal clerk in Indian Territory.
It is Daggs who, in attempting to patent her Choctaw theory of relativity,
inadvertently changes the course of history for the Indians and their
baseball team.
Aunt Lute Books. Paperback. $11.95
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This beautifully written, heartfelt memoir touched a nerve among
both readers and reviewers. Elizabeth Gilbert tells how she made the
difficult choice to leave behind all the trappings of modern American
success (marriage, house in the country, career) and find, instead,
what she truly wanted from life. Setting out for a year to study three
different aspects of her nature amid three different cultures, Gilbert
explored the art of pleasure in Italy and the art of devotion in India,
and then a balance between the two on the Indonesian island of Bali.
Penguin Books. Paperback. $15.00
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In this lyrical, unsentimental, and compelling memoir, the son
of a black African father and a white American mother searches
for a workable meaning to his life as a black American. It begins in
New York, where Barack Obama learns that his father-a figure he knows
more as a myth than as a man-has been killed in a car accident. This
sudden death inspires an emotional odyssey--first to a small town in
Kansas, from which he retraces the migration of his mother's family
to Hawaii, and then to Kenya, where he meets the African side of his
family, confronts the bitter truth of his father's life, and at last
reconciles his divided inheritance.
Three Rivers Press. Paperback. $14.95
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In this literary memoir, Reed Whittemore gives us glimpses into
his wide-ranging life as poet, little magazine editor, critic and essayist,
journalist, biographer, teacher, and more. Twice Consultant in Poetry
to the Library of Congress (now U.S. Poet Laureate), literary editor
of The New Republic, Maryland Poet laureate, Whittemore's alter
ego R looks back over sixty years, speaking in a conversational voice
that in his poetry and prose has become recognizably his own.
Hardcover. $26.95
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Juggling the demands of her yarn shop and single-handedly raising
a teenage daughter has made Georgia Walker grateful for her
Friday Night Knitting Club. Her friends are happy to escape their
lives too, even for just a few hours. But when Georgia's ex suddenly
reappears, demanding a role in their daughter's life, her whole
world is shattered. Luckily, Georgia's friends are there, sharing their
own tales of intimacy, heartbreak, and miracle making. And when the unthinkable
happens, these women will discover that what they've created
isn't just a knitting club: it's a sisterhood.
Berkley Publishing. Paperback. $14.00 |
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