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6 best books like The Girl (Meridel Le Sueur): The Arabian Nights, The Corner That Held Them, Three Strikes: Miners, Musicians, Salesgirls, and the Fighting Spirit of Labor's Last Century, Feminism for the 99%: A Manifesto, Vacationland, Man in the Holocene

The Arabian Nights
AuthorAnonymous
ISBN0812972147
The tales of told by Shahrazad over a thousand and one nights to delay her execution by the vengeful King Shahriyar have become among the most popular in both Eastern and Western literature, as recounted by Sir Francis Burton. From the epic adventures of "Aladdin and the Enchanted Lamp" to the farcical...
The Corner That Held Them
AuthorSylvia Townsend Warner
In memory of the wife who had once dishonored and always despised him, Brian de Retteville founded a 12th-century convent in Norfolk. Two centuries later, the Benedictine community is well established there and, as befits a convent whose origin had such ironic beginnings, the inhabitants are prey...
Three Strikes: Miners, Musicians, Salesgirls, and the Fighting Spirit of Labor's Last Century
AuthorHoward Zinn
Three renowned historians present stirring tales of labor: Howard Zinn tells the grim tale of the Ludlow Massacre, a drama of beleaguered immigrant workers, Mother Jones, and the politics of corporate power in the age of the robber barons. Dana Frank brings to light the little-known story of a successful...
Feminism for the 99%: A Manifesto
AuthorCinzia Arruzza
ISBN1788734424
From three of the organisers of the International Women's Strike US: a manifesto for when 'leaning in' is not enough.

Recent years have seen the emergence of massive feminist mobilizations around the world, offering an alternative to the liberal feminism that has become the handmaiden of...
Vacationland
AuthorSarah Stonich
ISBN0816687668

On a lake in northernmost Minnesota, you might find Naledi Lodge—only two cabins still standing, its pathways now trodden mostly by memories. And there you might meet Meg, or the ghost of the girl she was, growing up under her grandfather’s care in a world apart and a lifetime ago. Now an artist,...
Man in the Holocene
AuthorMax Frisch
ISBN0156569523
Climate Change

Floods, avalanches, landslides, mass extinctions. What are we to make of these randomly destructive events? Do they exist if there is record, no memory of them? And what difference would it make to not know about them? Or to receive no news from the rest of the world at all? Catastrophe...
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