One Teacher in 10: LGBT Educators Share Their Stories
10 best books like One Teacher in 10: LGBT Educators Share Their Stories (Kevin Jennings): The Tiger's Wife, We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families, The Divine Comedy, Lady Chatterley's Lover, Swords and Deviltry, Sexing the Body: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality, American Prison: A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment, All About Love: New Visions, Robin Hood & Friar Tuck: Zombie Killers, The Man from Saigon
| Author | Téa Obreht |
| ISBN | 0385343833 |
Weaving a brilliant latticework of family legend, loss, and love, Téa Obreht, the youngest of The New Yorker’s twenty best American fiction writers under forty, has spun a timeless novel that will establish her as one of the most vibrant, original authors of her generation.
In a Balkan...
We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families
| Author | Philip Gourevitch |
| ISBN | 0312243359 |
In April of 1994, the government of Rwanda called on everyone in the Hutu majority to kill everyone in the Tutsi minority. Over the next three months, 800,000 Tutsis were murdered in the most unambiguous case of genocide since Hitler's war against the Jews. Philip Gourevitch's haunting work is an anatomy...
| Author | Dante Alighieri |
| ISBN | 0679433139 |
The Divine Comedy describes Dante's descent into Hell with Virgil as a guide; his ascent of Mount Purgatory and encounter with his dead love, Beatrice; and finally, his arrival in Heaven. Examining questions of faith, desire and enlightenment, the poem is a brilliantly nuanced and moving allegory...
WARNING: This review contains a discussion of the c-word, and I plan to use it. Please don't read this if you do not want to see the word spelled out. Thanks.
This is less a review than an homage to my crazy mother (now I have you really intrigued, don't I?)
It was 1983, and I was in my first...
| Author | Fritz Leiber |
| ISBN | 1595820795 |
For the first time-the story of how the greatest heroes in fantastic literature first met.
'The two thieves had themselves been robbed by two youths, who eyed each other suspiciously over the sprawled, senseless bodies.
Fafhrd said: 'Our motives for being here seem identical.'...
Sexing the Body: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality
| Author | Anne Fausto-Sterling |
| ISBN | 0465077145 |
Why do some people prefer heterosexual love while others fancy the same sex? Is sexual identity biologically determined or a product of convention? In this brilliant and provocative book, the acclaimed author of Myths of Gender argues that even the most fundamental knowledge about sex is shaped by...
| Author | Shane Bauer |
| ISBN | 0735223580 |
A groundbreaking and brave inside reckoning with the nexus of prison and profit in America in one Louisiana prison and over the course of our country's history.
In 2014, Shane Bauer was hired for $9 an hour to work as an entry-level prison guard at a private prison in Winnfield, Louisiana. An...
All About Love: New Visions
| Author | bell hooks |
| ISBN | 0688168442 |
All About Love offers radical new ways to think about love by showing its interconnectedness in our private and public lives. In eleven concise chapters, hooks explains how our everyday notions of what it means to give and receive love often fail us, and how these ideals are established in early childhood....
| Author | Paul A. Freeman |
| ISBN | 1926712234 |
Medieval civilization was under threat from the undead. When lion-hearted Richard ruled the roost Of England, he decided that to boost His regal reputation he should mount A war to wrest from Turkish men the fount Of Christendom; yet in that desert land A zombie plague emerged from midst the sand. A necromancer's...
| Author | Marti Leimbach |
| ISBN | 0385529864 |
It's 1967, and Susan Gifford is one of the first female correspondents on assignment in Saigon, dedicated to her job and passionately in love with an American TV reporter. Son is a Vietnamese photographer anxious to get his work into the American press. Together they cover every aspect of the war from...
