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Folktales from India

A.K. Ramanujan · 384 pages

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Octavia's Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements

Adrienne Maree Brown, Walidah Imarisha · 285 pages

Whenever we envision a world without war, without prisons, without capitalism, we are producing speculative fiction. Organizers and activists envision, and try to create, such worlds all the time. Walidah Imarisha and adrienne maree brown have brought twenty of them together in the first anthology of short stories to explore the connections between radical speculative fiction and movements for soc

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A Thousand Beginnings and Endings

Ellen Oh · 336 pages

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So Long Been Dreaming: Postcolonial Science Fiction and Fantasy

Nalo Hopkinson, Uppinder Mehan · 270 pages

So Long Been Dreaming: Postcolonial Science Fiction & Fantasy" is an anthology of original new stories by leading African, Asian, South Asian and Aboriginal authors, as well as North American and British writers of color. Stories of imagined futures abound in Western writing. Writer and editor Nalo Hopkinson notes that the science fiction/fantasy genre "speaks so much about the experience of being

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Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora

W.E.B. Du Bois, Kalamu ya Salaam, Samuel R. Delany, Nalo Hopkinson, Akua Lezli Hope, Charles W. Chesnutt, Octavia E. Butler, Linda Addison, Charles R. Saunders, Nisi Shawl, Steven Barnes, Jewelle L. Gomez, Henry Dumas, Tony Medina, Kiini Ibura Salaam, Robert Fleming, Derrick A. Bell, Darryl A. Smith · 427 pages

Dark Matter is the first and only series to bring together the works of black SF and fantasy writers. The first volume was featured in the "New York Times," which named it a Notable Book of the Year.

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Flying Lessons and Other Stories

Sherman Alexie, Jacqueline Woodson, Kwame Alexander, Walter Dean Myers, Meg Medina, Tim Tingle, Kelly J. Baptist, Soman Chainani, Matt de la Pena, Tim Federle, Grace Lin · 229 pages

From basketball dreams and family fiascoes to first crushes and new neighborhoods, this [anthology](https://www.diversebooks.org/), written by award-winning children's authors, celebrates the uniqueness and universality in all of us.

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Invisible Planets: Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction in Translation

Chen Qiufan, Xia Jia, Ma Boyong, Hao Jingfang, Tang Fei, Cheng Jingbo, Liu Cixin · 384 pages

"Thirteen intriguing visions of the future from China"--Cover. "Readers at Tor and around the SF world have recently become familiar with Ken Liu and his Chinese translation work via the bestselling and award nominated novel The Three-Body Problem , by acclaimed Chinese author Cixin Liu. Readers who have developed a taste and excitement for Chinese SF by these means will be excited to hear that K

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The Complete Stories

Zora Neale Hurston · 320 pages

"This landmark gathering of Zora Neale Hurston's short fiction - most of which appeared only in literary magazines during her lifetime and some of which has never been published - reveals the evolution of the talents of one of the most important African-American writers. Spanning the years from 1921, when Howard University's literary magazine published "John Redding Goes to Sea," to 1955, when Hur

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Open Mic: Riffs on Life Between Cultures in Ten Voices

Mitali Perkins · 135 pages

Shares stories about growing up in diverse homes or communities, from an Asian youth who gains temporary popularity by making up a false background, to a biracial girl whose father clears subway seats by calmly sitting between two prejudiced women.

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KL NOIR: RED

Adib Zaini, Khairulnizam Bakeri, Megat Ishak, Dayang Noor, Amir Hafizi, Brian Gomez, Preeta Samarasan, Marc de Faoite, Shaz Johar, Fadzlishah Johanabas, Dina Zaman, Eeleen Lee, Kris Williamson, Shivani Sivagurunathan · 270 pages

"KL NOIR: Red is the first of 4 volumes about the Malaysian capital city's dark side. There are 14 short stories and one essay about the seedy, the sinister and sometimes the spooky. You will find murder, drug-dealing, kidnapping, sexual depravity, prostitution, celebrity secrets, suicides, academic rivalry, gangsters, police brutality, cannibalism, black magic, creepy rituals, political corruptio

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Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self

Danielle Evans · 240 pages

Fearless, funny, and ultimately tender, Evans's stories offer a bold new perspective on the experience of being young and African-American or mixed-race in modern-day America.

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In Love Trouble: Stories of Black Women

Alice Walker · 147 pages

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Chocolate Flava: The Eroticanoir.com Anthology

Zane, Reginald Harris, Robert Edison Sandiford, Jonathon Luckett, Geneva Barnes, Robert Scott Adams · 343 pages

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The Book of Embraces

Eduardo Galeano · 282 pages

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Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk: A Modest Bestiary

David Sedaris · 192 pages

If animals were more like us, if mice kept pets and toads could cuss, if dogs had wives and chipmunks dated, sheep sat still and meditated, then in the forest, field, and dairy you might find this bestiary, read by storks, by rats and kitties, skimmed by cows with milk-stained titties. "I found the book to be most droll," might quip the bear, the owl, the mole. Others, though, would be more coarse

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The House on Mango Street

Sandra Cisneros · 110 pages

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A coming-of-age classic, acclaimed by critics, beloved by readers of all ages, taught in schools and universities alike, and translated around the world—from the winner of the 2019 PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature. The House on Mango Street is the remarkable story of Esperanza Cordero, a young Latina girl growing up in Chicago, inventing for he

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All Aunt Hagar's Children: Stories

Edward P. Jones · 403 pages

A collection of fourteen short stories is set in Washington, D.C., and follows morally complex characters caught between the old ways of the South and the temptations of modern city life

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Elbow Room

James Alan McPherson · 263 pages

Twelve stories explore the borders between black and white America as they are crossed and known by students and Peace Corps volunteers of the 1960s, failed preachers, young punks, jealous lovers, and others.

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This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color

Cherrie L. Moraga, Gloria E. Anzaldua · 261 pages

This groundbreaking collection reflects an uncompromised definition of feminism by women of color. from Google Books

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The Thing Around Your Neck

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie · 240 pages

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie burst onto the literary scene with her remarkable debut novel, Purple Hibiscus, which critics hailed as "one of the best novels to come out of Africa in years" (Baltimore Sun), with "prose as lush as the Nigerian landscape that it powerfully evokes" (The Boston Globe); The Washington Post called her "the twenty-first-century daughter of Chinua Achebe." Her award-winning Ha

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