false 49532 86486 1573229075 9781573229074 93 <![CDATA[Black, White & Jewish: Autobiography of a Shifting Self]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171068582m/86486.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171068582s/86486.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/86486.Black_White_Jewish_Autobiography_of_a_Shifting_Self 3.68 670 The Washington Post and "stunningly honest" by The San Francisco Chronicle, this memoir has hit bestseller lists and earned critical praise from coast to coast. Rebecca Walker was born in 1969 to author Alice Walker and lawyer Mel Leventhal, who met and married in the heyday of the Civil Rights movement. But after their divorce, Rebecca was a lonely only child ferrying between two worlds-and trying to figure out where she fit in.

"Masterfully illuminates differences between black and white America...a heartbreaking tale of self-creation." (People )

"Walker skillfully depicts her tangled upbringing, full of disappointment and privilege." (Time)

"Compelling." (The Dallas Morning News)

"A poignant, spare memoir." (Chicago Sun-Times)

"Powerful." (Danzy Senna, author of Caucasia)]]> 49532 3.57 1287 249 2000 86485 1594489432 9781594489433 96 <![CDATA[Baby Love]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171068582m/86485.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171068582s/86485.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/86485.Baby_Love 3.10 284 Time magazine hails as one of the leaders of her generation, an insightful, moving, and entertaining memoir of pregnancy and the decision to conceive a child after years of uncertainty.

Like many women her age, Rebecca Walker was brought up to be skeptical of motherhood. A young woman's future was limitless, their mothers' generation told them. A child could rob one of independence, economic freedom, professional advancement, and just about everything else worth having. But all the empowerment and reproductive choice offered to this generation, Walker now realizes, may actually have led to a new kind of struggle.

For fifteen years Walker recognized a persistent yearning to have a baby but feared actually choosing to do it. As a result, she almost missed what she now knows to be the single most meaningful experience of her life. In Baby Love, Rebecca Walker tells the story of her pregnancy: not just the physical evolution, but also the emotional and intellectual transformation from ambivalence to certainty to unconditional love. It's the story of the birth of her son, as well as the tale of a generation-a wise, thought-provoking, and above all engaging memoir by a writer who has proven herself to be an important voice of her era.]]> 49532 3.57 1287 249 2007 86489 0385472625 9780385472623 16 <![CDATA[To Be Real: Telling the Truth and Changing the Face of Feminism]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223647074m/86489.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1223647074s/86489.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/86489.To_Be_Real_Telling_the_Truth_and_Changing_the_Face_of_Feminism 3.74 174 49532 3.57 1287 249 1995 5294768 1594488622 9781594488627 32 <![CDATA[One Big Happy Family: 18 Writers Talk About Polyamory, Open Adoption, Mixed Marriage, Househusbandry, Single Motherhood, and Other Realities of Truly Modern Love]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5294768.One_Big_Happy_Family_18_Writers_Talk_About_Polyamory_Open_Adoption_Mixed_Marriage_Househusbandry_Single_Motherhood_and_Other_Realities_of_Truly_Modern_Love 3.88 88 An illuminating, entertaining, and provocative immersion in today’s American family, with essays from ZZ Packer, Dan Savage, Min Jin Lee, asha bandele, Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez, and others, illustrating the changing realities of domestic life.

Edited by bestselling author Rebecca Walker, this anthology invites us to step into the center of a range of different domestic arrangements and take a good look around. From gay adoption to absentee fathers, from open marriages to green-card marriages, the reality of the American household has altered dramatically over the last three decades. With changing values and expectations, fluid gender roles, and a shifting economy, along with increase in infertility, adoption, and the incidence of mixed-race couples, people across the country are redefining the standard arrangement of family life. In a collection of eighteen honest, personal, and deeply affecting essays from an array of writers, One Big Happy Family offers a fresh look at how contemporary families are adapting to this altering reality.

Each writing from the perspective of his or her own unique domestic arrangements and priorities, the authors of these essays explore topics like transracial adoption, bicultural marriage and children, cohousing, equal parenting, and the creation of virtual families. Dan Savage writes about the unexpected responsibilities of open adoption. Jenny Block tells of the pros and cons of her own open marriage. ZZ Packer explores the ramifications of, and her own self-consciousness about, having a mixed-race child. asha bandele writes of her decision to have a child with a man in prison for life. And Min Jin Lee points to the intimacy shared by a mother and her child’s hired caregiver.

All of these pieces smartly discuss the various cultural pressures, issues, and realities for families today, in a manner that is inviting and accessible—sometimes humorous, sometimes moving, sometimes shocking, but always fascinating.]]> 49532 3.57 1287 249 2009 86484 1594480680 9781594480683 8 <![CDATA[What Makes a Man: 22 Writers Imagine the Future]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171068582m/86484.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171068582s/86484.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/86484.What_Makes_a_Man_22_Writers_Imagine_the_Future 3.48 46 Black, White and Jewish.

Representing a stunning range of essayists and novelists, both men and women, this groundbreaking anthology boldly confronts the complications, possibilities, uncertainties, and joys of being a man in the 21st century.]]> 49532 3.57 1287 249 2004 7349256 0641669097 9780641669095 0 <![CDATA[Memoirs of a Spiritual Outsider]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7349256-memoirs-of-a-spiritual-outsider 0.0 0 This may sound like a flighty journey, with the narrator drifting from one fad to another. Yet, Clores's honesty makes this read like a respectable quest. In every encounter she finds a souvenir of wisdom. Wicca teaches her to hold up a mirror when searching for God. In yoga Clores learns about the deeper implications of pushing limits. From Buddhism she discovers that mediation is "like love without the grief." In the end, there is no tidy package tied up with strings, no tear-wrenching return to Christianity. Rather, this is a mature memoir that speaks to a common dilemma--how to claim and develop one's spirituality outside of a religious container. --Gail Hudson

]]> 102856 3.35 17 1 49532 3.57 1287 249 2000 6822476 0977339920 9780977339921 0 <![CDATA[Blended Nation: Portraits and Interviews of Mixed-Race America]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6822476-blended-nation 4.00 3 3061758 4.00 3 0 3061759 4.00 3 0 49532 3.57 1287 249 752080 4.25 4 1 49949 3.40 5 2 2009 86490 1879886359 9781879886353 0 <![CDATA[House and Home: Spirits of the South]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/86490.House_and_Home_Spirits_of_the_South 5.00 1 49532 3.57 1287 249 1994 549594 0910663629 9780910663625 0 <![CDATA[Laylah Ali]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175716284m/549594.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175716284s/549594.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/549594.Laylah_Ali 5.00 1 301874 4.38 8 0 42950 3.72 58 24 49532 3.57 1287 249 2002 6797542 1848132298 9781848132290 0 <![CDATA[Walking Through Fire, 2nd Edition: A Life of Nawal El Saadawi]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6797542-walking-through-fire-2nd-edition 0.0 0 Walking Through Fire is the second volume of Nawal El Saadawi’s autobiography, the story of her extraordinary adult life. We read of her work as a rural doctor, her attempts to set up women's organizations and to publish magazines and exile after her name appeared on a death list. She talks candidly of her personal struggles and her relationships -- of love, companionship, shared struggle and the differences between them.

Nawal El Saadawi has carved a place for herself in the universal struggle against oppression. "Words should not seek to please, to hide the wounds in our bodies, or the shameful moments in our lives," she says. "They may hurt, give us pain, but they can also provoke us to question what we have accepted for thousands of years."

</DIV>]]> 68481 3.79 1397 232 49532 3.57 1287 249 2009 7170896 1402407297 9781402407291 0 <![CDATA[Corporate Compliance Institute 2006]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7170896-corporate-compliance-institute-2006 0.0 0 3179690 0.0 0 0 3179691 0.0 0 0 49532 3.57 1287 249 3179692 0.0 0 0 1935667 0.0 0 0 2006 7229659 184813228X 9781848132283 0 <![CDATA[Walking Through Fire, 2nd Edition]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7229659-walking-through-fire-2nd-edition 0.0 0 68481 3.79 1397 232 49532 3.57 1287 249 2009