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crystal simone smith

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  • Dark Testament

    Blackout Poems

    In this extraordinary collection, the award-winning poet Crystal Simone Smith gives voice to the mournful dead, their lives unjustly lost to violence, and to the grieving chorus of protestors in today's Black Lives Matter movement, in search of resilience and hope.With poems found within the text of George Saunders's Lincoln in the Bardo, Crystal Simone Smith embarks on an uncompromising ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Common Sense (1776), Addressed to Today's Citizens of America

    An Erasure

    From an award-winning poet, a rousing act of erasure poetry that compels us to reexamine one of America’s most significant founding textsCrystal Simone Smith’s powerful work exposes the uncomfortable truth about America’s founding text. While Common Sense is celebrated as a cornerstone of American democracy, Thomas Paine's arguments for “total freedom and equality” were written exclusively for ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Runagate

    Songs of the Freedom Bound

    Crystal Simone Smith’s new poetry collection, Runagate, reimagines the experiences of enslaved and formerly enslaved persons in a stark and chilling response to the archives of chattel slavery: bills of sale, interviews, narratives, and fugitive runaway ads. Embodying the aesthetics and Japanese poetic forms haiku and tanka, her poems bear witness to the brutal and horrifying treatment of enslaved ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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  • Appalachian Elegy

    Poetry and Place

    by bell hooks ...
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    Author, activist, feminist, teacher, and artist bell hooks is celebrated as one of the nation's leading intellectuals. Born in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, hooks drew her unique pseudonym from the name of her grandmother, an intelligent and strong-willed African American woman who inspired her to stand up against a dominating and repressive society. Her poetry, novels, memoirs, and children's books ... Read more

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  • The Willie Lynch Letter and the Making of a Slave

    by Willie Lynch ...
    Willie Lynch, a British slave owner from the West Indies, stepped onto the shores of colonial Virginia in 1712, bearing secrets that would shape the fate of generations to come. Within this manuscript, allegedly transcribed from Lynch’s speech to American slaveholders on the banks of the James River, lies a blueprint for subjugation. Lynch’s genius lay not in brute force but in psychological ... Read more

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  • The Dharma in Difficult Times

    Finding Your Calling in Times of Loss, Change, Struggle, and Doubt

    by Stephen Cope ...
    The sequel to the bestseller The Great Work of Your Life shows us the way through our darkest times to our truest calling.How do we make sense of our lives when our world seems to be falling apart?This beautifully written guide from scholar and teacher Stephen Cope shows that crises don’t have to derail us from our purpose—they can actually help us to find our purpose and step forward as our best ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Strangest Secret

    How to live the life you desire

    Earl Nightingale was America's key motivational speaker and The Strangest Secret was his most successful work. The Strangest Secret is much more than a wealth-building tool; it is a manifesto for self-actualization and purpose-driven work. In Nightingale's own words: "The only man who succeeds is the man who is progressively realizing a worthy ideal."In this book, Nightingale distills his lifetime ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Thoreau You Don't Know

    What the Prophet of Environmentalism Really Meant

    Robert Sullivan, the New York Times bestselling author of Rats and Cross Country, delivers a revolutionary reconsideration of Henry David Thoreau for modern readers of the seminal transcendentalist. Dispelling common notions of Thoreau as a lonely eccentric cloistered at Walden Pond, Sullivan (whom the New York Times Book Review calls "an urban Thoreau") paints a dynamic picture of Thoreau as the ... Read more

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  • Magic Pills Positive Thinking

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    The order of progression is not entirely accidental, as you might think, but responds to a specific program that will guide psychoactive unconsciously, step by step, to reach the highest peaks of positive thinking. The text is divided into three parts, which we have metaphorically called "dose" and must be read in three days: each day your dose. At the end of the third day this text will be rooted ... Read more

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  • The Adventures of Henry Thoreau

    A Young Man's Unlikely Path to Walden Pond

    by Michael Sims ...
    Henry David Thoreau has long been an intellectual icon and folk hero. In this strikingly original profile, Michael Sims reveals how the bookish, quirky young man who kept quitting jobs evolved into the patron saint of environmentalism and nonviolent activism.Working from nineteenth-century letters and diaries by Thoreau's family, friends, and students, Sims charts Henry's course from his time at ... Read more

    $15.49 USD