Author: Gloria Anzaldua
Publisher: Aunt Lute Books
Keywords: making, perspectives, feminists, color, critical, caras, face, soul, haciendo, creative
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 1995-01-01
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 1879960109
ISBN-13: 9781879960107

A bold collection of creative pieces and theoretical essays by women of color. New thought and new dialogue: a book that will teach in the most multiple sense of that word: a book that will be of lasting value to many diverse communities of women as well as to students from those communities. The authors explore a full spectrum of present concerns in over seventy pieces that vary from writing by new talents to published pieces by Audre Lorde, Joy Harjo, Norma Alarcón and Trinh T. Minh-ha."At one level or another, all the work in the collection seeks to find ways to understand and articulate o

Author: Unity Dow
Publisher: Aunt Lute Books
Keywords: beyon
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2002-04-01
List price: $11.95
ISBN-10: 1879960648
ISBN-13: 9781879960640

This novel tells the story of a Botswanian family’s struggle to cope with the devastatation of HIV and poverty. While Mara, mother of four, turns to traditional magic to cure the disease destroying her family, her children increasingly reject such beliefs, choosing instead to fight the powerlessness and oppression that have made the family so vulnerable to HIV.

Author: LeAnne Howe
Publisher: Aunt Lute Books
Keywords: shaker, shell
Number of Pages: 216
Published: 2001-09-01
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 1879960613
ISBN-13: 9781879960619

Why was Red Shoes, the most formidable Choctaw warrior of the eighteenth century, assassinated by his own people? Why does his death haunt Auda Billy, an Oklahoma Choctaw woman, accused in 1991 of murdering Choctaw Chief Redford McAlester? Moving between the known details of Red Shoes’ life and the riddle of McAlester’s death, this novel traces the history of the Billy women whose destiny it is to solve both murders--with the help of a powerful spirit known as the Shell Shaker.

Author: Gloria Anzaldúa
Publisher: Aunt Lute Book
Keywords: third, mestiza, new, frontera, borderlands
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2007-06-01
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 1879960745
ISBN-13: 9781879960749

Rooted in Gloria Anzaldúa’s experience as a Chicana, a lesbian, an activist, and a writer, the groundbreaking essays and poems in this volume profoundly challenged how we think about identity. Borderlands/La Frontera remapped our understanding of what a "border" is, seeing it not as a simple divide between here and there, us and them, but as a psychic, social, and cultural terrain that we inhabit, and that inhabits all of us. This twentieth-anniversary edition features new commentaries from prominent activists, artists, and teachers on the legacy of Gloria Anzaldúa’s visionar

Author: LeAnne Howe
Publisher: Aunt Lute Book
Keywords: story, baseball, indian, kings, miko
Number of Pages: 221
Published: 2007-09-01
List price: $11.95
ISBN-10: 1879960788
ISBN-13: 9781879960787

Miko Kings is set in Indian Territory’s queen city, Ada Oklahoma, during baseball fever of 1907, but moves back and forth in time from 1969, during the Vietnam War, to present-day Ada. The story centers on the lives of Hope Little Leader, a Choctaw pitcher for the Miko Kings, and Ezol Day, a postal clerk in Indian Territory who travels forward in time to tell stories to the present-day narrator. With Day’s help, the narrator draws the reader into Indian boarding schools, such as the historical Hampton Normal School for Blacks and Indians in Virginia, where the novel’s love st

Author: Ellman
Publisher: Aunt Louise Imports
Keywords: jewelry, fashion, world
Number of Pages: 212
Published: 1986-06
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 0961665203
ISBN-13: 9780961665203

Author: Shelley Gill
Publisher: Sasquatch Books/Paws IV Children’s Books
Keywords: mountain, wild, alaska, denali
Number of Pages: 32
Published: 2006-02-13
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 1570613664
ISBN-13: 9781570613661

From its origins as a trick played by Raven (the scientific version involving plate tectonics is also included) to the flora and fauna and human explorations, this colorful children’s book reveals every facet of Alaska’s great Denali mountain. Employing the Gill-Cartwright signature style of mingling fiction and fact, this book is brimming with fun and fascinating information and wonder about the tallest, coldest, wildest mountain in America.