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A long-overdue female-centric perspective on underground rock music, featuring photos by Tricarico and essays by Joan Jett, Amy Farina, Allison Wolfe, Donita Sparks, and more!
A beautifully illustrated story of three girls caught up in the most curious of mysteries.
Two Catholic priests fall in love amid deadly conflicts in the Amazon between the Colombian government, insurgent groups, and drug cartels.
A second edition of the definitive photo book of one of the most influential rock bands of the past forty years, including brand-new, exclusive material.
Race, class, and hormones combine and combust when a Harvard freshman and his two friends attempt to join the staff of the Harpoon, the school's iconic humor magazine.
An American Rasta's retelling of episodes in American history with an anticolonial thrust and a view toward charting a brighter future.
New York Times best-selling author Laura Lippman's picture book debut offers a timely parable about family values, a little girl, and a dragon.
Akashic Books reissues Nina Revoyr's inspired and groundbreaking 1997 debut novel about women's basketball, class, racial identity, and friendship.
A contemporary Los Angeles story of uncrossable social lines, allegiance and betrayal, immeasurable power, and the ways the present is continually shaped by the past.
This new bilingual poetry book is the new winner of the Paz Prize for Poetry which is presented by the National Poetry Series and The Center at Miami Dade College. This annual award-named in the spirit of the late Nobel Prize-winning poet, Octavio Paz-honors a previously unpublished book of poetry written originally in Spanish by an American resident. An open competition is held each May, when an esteemed Spanish-speaking poet selects a winning manuscript which Akashic then publishes in a bilingual-Spanish & English-volume. The winning poet also receives a $2,000 cash prize.I Offer My Heart As a Target includes an introduction by Rigoberto Gonzalez. Gonzalez is an award-winning author of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. He is the recipient of Guggenheim, NEA, and USA Rolon fellowships, a NYFA grant in poetry, the Shelley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America, the Poetry Center Book Award, and the Barnes & Noble Writer for Writers Award; he is also a contributing editor for Poets & Writers and writes a monthly column for NBC-Latino online. He serves as critic-at-large with the Los Angeles Times and sits on the Board of Trustees of the Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP). He currently teaches at Rutgers University in Newark, NJ.The translation (from Spanish to English) was done by Lawrence Schimel. Schimel is an award-winning author who has published over 100 titles in a variety of genres. His own work has been translated into over 30 languages. He is also a prolific translator and splits his time between New York City and Madrid, Spain.Both Gonzalez & Schimel will help in the promotion.The Miami Book Fair and Books & Books will help us launch and promote the book at the 2019 Miami Book Fair.The author lives in Chicago, where she often hosts the Palabra Pura reading series; she also teaches at Harold Washington College.
Who is the missing dancer Ana Cintia Lopes? Why did her coworkers, Camila and Dineia, disappear? What does the voluptuous prostitute Fatima want? Who killed renowned surgeon Dr. Samuel Rafidjian? And what is the role of the hulking live-sex performer known as the Indian? To confront the puzzle of several sphinxes, most of them female, private detective Remo Bellini plunges into the underworld of Sao Paulo. Little by little, the mysteries unravel in a surprising fashion, until the solving of the final enigma leaves Bellini perplexed, with a bitter taste in his mouth.
A timely memoir about world record-breaking Tyus's 1964 and 1968 Olympic victories, amid the turbulence of the 1960s, along with contemporary reflections.
In the finale to this provocative series, Kim Cruz discovers that coming out is only the beginning of understanding who she is and where she belongs in the world. Soon enough, she changes again, into the body and social status of her dreams. What she does with her newfound power will come to haunt her.
Following in the footsteps of Los Angeles Noir, San Francisco Noir, San Diego Noir, Orange County Noir, and Oakland Noir, this new volume further reveals the seedy underbelly of the Left Coast.
An intimate novella of love and loss wrought from the cultural underground, perfectly expressed in an inventive object that rediscovers the magical possibilities of the book.
This memoir--the first release on best-selling author Ann Hood's Gracie Belle imprint--about the fathomless loss of a beloved child reveals how tragedy can transform us and make us more fully alive.
A classic murder mystery set in the 1930s Dust Bowl that portrays the era with great beauty, tenderness, and sorrowful authenticity.
Following the success of Montreal Noir and Toronto Noir, the Noir Series travels to the west coast of Canada.
Amsterdam is a very welcome, if long overdue, instalment in the Akashic Noir Series. Akashic Books continues its award-winning series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each book comprises all new stories, each one set in a distinct neighbourhood or location within the respective city. Brand-new stories by: Michael Berg, Anneloes Timmerije, Murat Isik, Rene Appel, Josh Pachter, Simon de Waal, Hanna Bervoets, Karin Amatmoekrim, Christine Otten, Mensje van Keulen, Max van Olden, Theo Capel, Loes den Hollander, Herman Koch, Abdelkader Benali, and Walter van den Berg.
Australia can no longer be held back from the Akashic Noir Series; herein, Sydney reveals itself to be a world-class hub of noir.
A funny, poignant, thoughtfully rendered novel about love, fear, death, race, music, and the intense passions of youth.
A professional playbook offering guidance to women in the contemporary workplace.
A young female pilot brashly defies gender restrictions in the Roaring Twenties.
A touching, beautifully illustrated story of a misunderstood shark, and its quest to understand the world both above and below the sea.
Now, one of the world's most war-torn cities is portrayed though a noir lens in this chilling story collection.
In this third of a four-part series, Oryon Small is transformed into Kim, a humorous yet confused Asian-American girl.
A fierce, intelligent, and often hilarious novel about a young African American attorney who struggles to keep his cool in the personally and politically turbulent '90s.
The scintillating stand-alone sequel to Arellano's 2009 Edgar-Award finalist, Havana Lunar.
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