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Ursula K. Le Guin's award-winning, groundbreaking science fiction classic takes us to the world of Winter, and introduces us to its inhabitants, the Gethenians-whose society is not based on gender roles.

Stone Butch Blues: A Novel

by Leslie Feinberg

Published in 1993, this brave, original novel is considered to be the finest account ever written of the complexities of a transgendered existence. Woman or man? That's the question that rages like a storm around Jess Goldberg, clouding her life and her identity. Growing up differently gendered in a blue--collar town in the 1950's, coming out as a butch in the bars and factories of the prefeminist '60s, deciding... (more)

Custer Died for Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto (Civilization of the American Indian)

Custer Died for Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto (Civilization of the American Indian)

by Vine Deloria

The River Between (African Writers)

by Ngugi wa Thiong'o

Christian missionaries attempt to outlaw the female circumcision ritual and in the process create a terrible rift between the two Kikuyu communities on either side of the river.

William Blake

by Robin Hamlyn, William Blake

The only manuscripts to survive that lead to the production of one of William Blake's published illuminated books are those of the Songs of Innocence and of Experience, his most accessible and best-loved work. Here, one of the world's foremost authorities on Blake's manuscripts and illuminated printing details the evolution of this masterwork and its entire production process. In the manuscript known as An... (more)

We Who Are About To...

by Joanna Russ

One woman's quest to die with dignity may doom them all.

I Live Here

by Mia Kirshner, J.B. Mackinnon, Paul Shoebridges, Michael Simons

I Live Here is a paper documentary–an intimate journey to humanitarian crises in four corners of the world: war in Chechnya, ethnic cleansing in Burma, globalization in Mexico, and AIDS in Malawi. ~THE BOOK~ I Live Here is a visually stunning narrative — told through journals, stories, images, and graphic novellas — in which the lives of refugees and displaced people become at once personal and global.... (more)

The Devil We KnowPamela Frankau

The Devil We Know

by Pamela Frankau

Lord of the Flies

by William Golding

14.5 Million copies sold to date The classic, startling, and perennially bestselling portrait of human nature-now available as a Premium Edition with a stunning new cover and re-set, easy-to-read text.

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The Left Hand of Darkness

by Ursula K. Le Guin