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"One morning, Deming Guo's mother, an undocumented Chinese immigrant named Polly, goes to her job at the nail salon and never comes home. With his mother gone, eleven-year-old Deming is left with no one to care for him. He is eventually adopted by...
In the early 1980s, Giselle Chin, Jackie Ong, and Ellen Ng are three teenagers drawn together by their shared sense of alienation and desire for something different. "Allied in the weirdest parts of themselves," they envision each other as...
A reclamation of essential history and a hopeful gesture toward a better political future, this is what listening to Black women looks like --from a professor of political science and columnist for Teen Vogue . "Jenn M. Jackson is a beautiful...
"Jenn M. Jackson has been known to bring deep historical acuity to some of the most controversial topics in America today. Now, in their first book, Jackson applies their critical analysis to the questions that have long energized their work: Why...
Faced at 35 with the prospect of dying, Simmons succeeded, instead, at the art of living. This book contains his ruminations on turtle behavior, Buddhist philosophy, Robert Frost's poetry, and his affirmation that whatever life throws at us, we...