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**Joanne Merriam** @joannemerriam@mefi.social · 6h

Joanne Merriam @joannemerriam@mefi.social

Daily #SmallPress #book:
2025 Autonomedia Calendar of Jubilee Saints: Radical Heroes for the New Millennium! (Autonomedia) https://autonomedia.org/product/2025-autonomedia-calendar-of-jubilee-saints-radical-heroes-for-the-new-millennium/
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Cover for the 2025 Autonomedia Calendar of Jubilee Saints: Radical Heroes for the New Millennium! (Autonomedia): Hundreds of radical cultural and political heroes are celebrated here, along with the animating ideas that continue to guide this project a reprieve from the 500-year-long sentence to life-at-hard-labor that the European colonization of the New World and the ensuing devastations of the rest of the world has represented. Artwork by James Koehnline and Text by the Sacred Congregation for Universal Jubilation. https://autonomedia.org/product/2025-autonomedia-calendar-of-jubilee-saints-radical-heroes-for-the-new-millennium/

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**Joanne Merriam** @joannemerriam@mefi.social · 1d

Joanne Merriam @joannemerriam@mefi.social

Daily #SmallPress #books from Orca Book Publishers: My Heart Fills With Happiness by Monique Gray Smith and Blueberry Patch by Jennifer Leason. Alt-text for details.

Book cover for Meennunyakaa / Blueberry Patch (Jennifer Leason, Orca), with a plant with flowers and birds as well as green leaves behind plump blueberries, all against a yellow background. Based in Duck Bay, Manitoba, in the 1940s, an Elder shares his experience of packing up to go out to collect blueberries, a traditional gathering that took place every summer. He describes the journey and landscape with humor and such vivid imagery that readers will see themselves there with him, boarding the trail of wagons from surrounding communities and heading east toward the blueberry patch. The Elder's stories offer a journey back in time and are complemented by images of fields of plump blueberries, tall green grass, bannock baking over an open fire, clear freshwater streams and the tents the people slept in. https://www.orcabook.com/Meennunyakaa-Blueberry-Patch

Book cover for My Heart Fills With Happiness by Monique Gray Smith (Orca Book Publishers), depicting a small girl twirling so her skirt forms a circle behind her upturned face, against a yellow background with small white flowers. The sun on your face. The smell of warm bannock baking in the oven. Holding the hand of someone you love. What fills your heart with happiness? This beautiful book, with illustrations from celebrated artist Julie Flett, serves as a reminder for little ones and adults alike to reflect on and cherish the moments in life that bring us joy. Available in English and Anishinaabemowin (trans. Angela Mesic & Margaret Noodin), English and Plains Cree (trans. Mary Cardinal Collins), and English and Spanish (trans. Lawrence Schimel) editions. https://www.orcabook.com/Search?Keywords=My+Heart+Fills+With+Happiness+

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**Joanne Merriam** @joannemerriam@mefi.social · 3d

Joanne Merriam @joannemerriam@mefi.social

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Book cover for Lost in Living by Halyna Kruk, trans. Ali Kinsella and Dzvinia Orlowsky (Lost Horse Press), depicting a brown and purple house with blank windows. Poetry from the immediate "pre-invasion" years when life in Ukraine was marked by turmoil but full-scale war was not yet normalized. https://losthorsepress.org/catalog/lost-in-living/

Book cover for Moon Honey: Landmark Edition by Suzette Mayr (NeWest Press), black and red feathers and purple squiggles and paisleys against a lighter indigo background. Winner of the 2022 Scotiabank Giller Prize. In this modern, magical tale, Carmen and Griffin, young and white, are goofy, head-over-heels in love. When Carmen turns into a black woman, Griffin thrills at a love turned exotic. But Carmen’s transformation means trouble for Griffin’s racist mother, already struggling with a new lover and a husband nicknamed God. The question is, can love be relied on to save the day? Moon Honey is an inventive, funny, sexy tale of love affairs and magical transformations. https://bookshop.newestpress.com/products/moon-honey-landmark-edition

Book cover for Baby Cerberus by Natasha Ramoutar (Wolsak & Wynn), depicting a black three-headed dog on a city street at night. The poems in Baby Cerberus are ethereal, soul-stirring and suffused with a playful intelligence. Natasha Ramoutar’s second collection traces joy and kinship across a multitude of lives and lived experiences. Shifting deftly from classical mythology and folklore to video games to speculative futures, each poem asks us to consider how we care for one another. As we move through sentient galleries, swashbuckling adventures and the doors of Atlantis, the collection reorients us in each section with a riddle, always inviting the reader to play along, tugging on the invisible threads between us all, trying to find what tethers us together and, in turn, what keeps us here. Joyous and multilayered, this is a book that’s fast enough for the speed of information and powerful enough to stop you in your tracks. https://bookstore.wolsakandwynn.ca/collections/new-releases/products/baby-cerberus

Book cover for Limbo by Sean Keith Henry (Akashic Books), depicting a small red tent amidst huge lavender trees and heavy snow. An African American man confronts a heart of darkness when his family moves from Los Angeles to a small town in Norway. https://www.akashicbooks.com/catalog/limbo/

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**Joanne Merriam** @joannemerriam@mefi.social · 3d

Joanne Merriam @joannemerriam@mefi.social

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Book cover for Coloniality and Racial (In)Justice in the University: Counting for Nothing? edited by Sunera Thobani (University of Toronto Press), with the bottom third the title and editor text, and the top two-thirds a painting of a person in mostly oranges and reds, with large circles surrounding squinting eyes. Examines the disruption and remaking of the university at a moment in history when white supremacist politics have erupted across North America, as have anti-racist and anti-colonial movements. https://utppublishing.com/doi/book/10.3138/9781487523817

$Book cover for Familial Hungers: Poems by Christine Wu (Brick Books), depicting an alarmed-looking fish with its middle in cross-sections. Poems that reckon with identity, race, and fractured relationships through the lens of food. https://www.brickbooks.ca/shop/familial-hungers-by-christine-wu/$

Book cover for Black Girl IRL: Life Between the Mess and the Magic by Gail Hamilton Azodo (Chicago Review Press), depicting two women, eyes closed, leaning their heads against each other. Gail Hamilton Azodo is your thirtysomething corporate ladder climber turned entrepreneur, mom, wife, and Black Girl IRL. In her dinners, happy hours, and group texts with Black women, they shared everything from motivational quotes to the latest in Black girl advice. Whether it’s how to cut ties with friends who no longer align with our purpose or how to talk about money and embrace Black women’s wealth, Gail is here to share these authentic stories of everyday Black women—with a fair number of frills. https://www.chicagoreviewpress.com/black-girl-irl-products-9781641609296.php?page_id=21

Book cover for Amreekiya by Lena Mahmoud (The University Press of Kentucky), with a young woman with her hair styled over one eyes looks straight at the viewer. Isra Shadi, a twenty-one-year-old woman of mixed Palestinian and white descent, lives in California with her paternal amu (uncle), amtu (aunt), and cousins after the death of her mother and abandonment by her father at a young age. Ever the outcast in her amu and amtu's household, they eagerly encourage Isra to marry and leave. After rejecting a string of undesirable suitors, she marries Yusef, an old love from her past. https://www.kentuckypress.com/9780813176376/amreekiya/

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**Joanne Merriam** @joannemerriam@mefi.social · 3d

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Book cover for Ballots and Bullets: Black Power Politics and Urban Guerrilla Warfare in 1968 Cleveland by James Robenalt (Chicago Review Press), with a black and white cover photo of black nationalist Sababa Akili with the first black mayor major US city (Cleveland), Carl Stokes, and Omar Majid, on a civil rights march. https://www.chicagoreviewpress.com/ballots-and-bullets-products-9781641603119.php?page_id=21

Book cover for Until We Are Free: Reflections on Black Lives Matter in Canada (Rodney Diverlus, Sandy Hudson and Syrus Marcus Ware, eds., U Regina Press) https://uofrpress.ca/Books/U/Until-We-Are-Free Short-listed for the 2020 Saskatchewan Book Award, Until We Are Free contains some of the very best writing on the hottest issues facing the Black community in Canada. It describes the latest developments in Canadian Black activism, organizing efforts through the use of social media, Black-Indigenous alliances, and more. Contributors include: Silvia Argentina Arauz, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, Patrisse Cullors, Giselle Dias, OmiSoore Dryden, Paige Galette, Dana Inkster, Sarah Jama, El Jones, Anique Jordan, Naila Keleta Mae, Janaya Khan, Gilary Massa, Robyn Maynard, QueenTite Opaleke, Randolph Riley, Camille Turner, and Ravyn Wngz.

Book cover for From My Mother's Back: A Journey from Kenya to Canada (Njoki Wane, Wolsak & Wynn) https://bookstore.wolsakandwynn.ca/products/from-my-mothers-back-a-journey-from-kenya-to-canada In From My Mother’s Back: A Journey from Kenya to Canada, Njoki Wane introduces us to her mother, a woman of deep wisdom, and to all the richness of a life lived between two countries. A celebrated professor and award-winning teacher, she shares her journey from a Catholic girls’ boarding school in rural Kenya to standing in front of a lectern at the University of Toronto. Along the way she reflects on the heritage that was taken from her as a child and the strengths and teachings of the family that pulled her through and helped her to not only succeed as a scholar, but to reclaim her culture, her history and even her name.

Book cover for Dandelion by Jamie Chai Yun Liew (Arsenal Pulp Press). Against a yellow background, a feminine form with long black hair blowing in a breeze looks at dandelions larger than she is. A sticker says "2025 Selection Canada Reads cbcbooks.ca". When Lily was a child, her mother, Swee Hua, walked away from the family and was never heard from again. After becoming a new mother herself, Lily is obsessed with discovering what happened to Swee Hua. She recalls growing up in a British Columbia mining town where there were only a handful of Asian families and how Swee Hua longed to return to Brunei. Eventually, a clue leads Lily to southeast Asia to find out the truth about her mother. https://arsenalpulp.com/Books/D/Dandelion

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**Joanne Merriam** @joannemerriam@mefi.social · 3d

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Book cover for The Global History of Black Girlhood eds. Corinne T. Field and LaKisha Michelle Simmons (University of Illinois Press), with a white doll playing with smaller dolls as a black doll watches. How and why we should seek out the Black girls of the past. https://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p086694

Book cover for A Young Person's Illustrated Guide to American Fascism by Sue Coe (OR Books), depicting threatening-looking child figures clustered around and staring at a gun, one of them holding a baseball bat, while in the background other children, one of them in a wheelchair, look on fearfully. In the background is a furled American flag and a blurry building similar to many state capitols. https://www.akpress.org/a-young-person-s-illustrated-guide-to-american-fascism-preorder.html

Book cover for Protesting with Rosa Parks: From Stagecoaches to Driving While Black by John K. Bollard (University of Georgia Press), a slightly grayed background with the title text in large letters decorated with a train, a bus, and a boat. A history of civil rights protests and the activists who fought discrimination. https://ugapress.org/book/9781588385529/protesting-with-rosa-parks/

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**Joanne Merriam** @joannemerriam@mefi.social · 3d

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Book cover for Revolutionary Poetics: The Rhetoric of the Black Arts Movement by Sarah RudeWalker, depicting a black woman wearing glasses surrounded by a cloud of hair and the words revolution and black arts. In Revolutionary Poetics, Sarah RudeWalker details the specific ways that the Black Arts Movement (BAM) achieved its revolutionary goals through rhetorical poetics—in what forms, to what audiences, and to what effect. BAM has had far-reaching influence, particularly in developments in positive conceptions of Blackness, in the valorization of Black language practices and its subsequent effects on educational policy, in establishing a legacy of populist dissemination of African American vernacular culture, and in setting the groundwork for important considerations of the aesthetic intersections of race with gender and sexuality. These legacies stand as the movement’s primary—and largely unacknowledged—successes, and they provide significant lessons for navigating our current political moment. https://ugapress.org/book/9780820363967/revolutionary-poetics/

Book cover for Finding Edward by Sheila Murray (Cormorant Books), with a photograph of a young black boy looking sad or worried. The edges of the photograph are torn and distressed. A lonely Jamaican student follows his obsession with the Depression-era life of an itinerant Black boy. https://www.cormorantbooks.com/finding-edward

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**Joanne Merriam** @joannemerriam@mefi.social · 3d

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Book cover for Become Ungovernable: An Abolition Feminist Ethic for Democratic Living by H.L.T. Quan (Pluto Press): A sweeping, magisterial work of abolitionist feminist political theory. https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745349114/become-ungovernable/

Book cover for Revolution in These Times: Black Panther Party Veteran Dhoruba Bin-Wahad on Antifascism, Black Liberation, and a Culture of Resistance by Dhoruba Bin-Wahad (Common Notions), depicting a drawing of a black panther (the animal) walking out of a red square into a series of concentric squares of red, green, and black. Lessons for the antifascist fight now and to come rooted in well-learned lessons from Black liberation. https://www.commonnotions.org/revolution-in-these-times

Book cover for A World Without Racism: Building Antiracist Futures (Pluto Press), edited by Joshua Virasami, title and author text in bold yellow, pink, and blue against a black background. A groundbreaking collection from individuals and organisations at the forefront of transformative antiracist work. https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745348094/a-world-without-racism/

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**Joanne Merriam** @joannemerriam@mefi.social · 3d

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Book cover for The Sorrows of Others: Stories by Ada Zhang (A Public Space), a cream-white background with two curving arrows that intersect each other multiple times Set in China and America, in the generations after the Cultural Revolution, The Sorrows of Others is a dazzling collection about people confronted with being outsiders—as immigrants, as revolutionaries, and even, often, within their own families. https://apublicspace.org/books/the-sorrows-of-others

Book cover for I Am Still Your Negro: An Homage to James Baldwin by Valerie Mason-John (University of Alberta Press), with a statue of a black woman with twigs and blossoms growing out of her hair. Social Justice Poetry Spoken-word poet Valerie Mason-John unsettles readers with potent images of ongoing trauma from slavery and colonization. https://ualbertapress.ca/9781772125108/i-am-still-your-negro/

Book cover for We Speak Through the Mountain, sequel to The Annual Migration of Clouds, by Premee Mohamed (ECW), depicting two beautifully-drawn birds apparently squabbling over berries while pierced through by green branches. A novellas set in post–climate disaster Alberta. 19-year-old Reid Graham, infected with a mysterious parasite, must choose whether to pursue a rare opportunity far from home or stay and help rebuild her community. https://ecwpress.com/products/we-speak-through-the-mountain

Book cover for The Annual Migration of Clouds by Premee Mohamed (ECW), depicting a large grey and white bird pierced through by green branches. A novella set in post–climate disaster Alberta. 19-year-old Reid Graham, infected with a mysterious parasite, must choose whether to pursue a rare opportunity far from home or stay and help rebuild her community. https://ecwpress.com/products/the-annual-migration-of-clouds

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Book cover for The Response of Weeds: A Misplacement of Black Poetry on the Prairies (Bertrand Bickersteth, NeWest Press), with a bright blue sky and sand-colored bottom third suggestive of desert. The whole is made of paper and the sky has patches torn off to suggest clouds. Bertrand Bickersteth’s debut poetry collection explores what it means to be black and Albertan through a variety of prisms: historical, biographical, and essentially, geographical. Winner of the 2021 Gerald Lampert Memorial Award from the League of Canadian Poets. https://bookshop.newestpress.com/products/the-response-of-weeds

Book cover for Moon Dust in My Hairnet by J.R. Creadon (Mythic Roads Press), depicting a person in an astronaut suit on a barren rock with a domed habitat at one end, looking up into the stars, where what looks like yellow aurora borealis turns into a pinkish lavender figure with long flowing hair. A fresh, hopeful, and diverse sci-fi romp following an autistic lunar lunch lady as she juggles relationships and threatening corporate overlords, all while adjusting to life on Lunar Trust One. https://www.mythicroadspress.com/bookshop/p/moon-dust-in-my-hairnet

Book cover for Feminism against Cisness edited by Emma Heaney (Duke UP @dukepress.bsky.social), with a black background against which are rolling blue hills in the middle third and stars in the sky on the top third. Below the hills is black ground with white ovals. One of the ovals is connected to a moon in the sky by a dotted line. The future of feminist historical, theoretical, and political thought freed from the fallacy that assigned sex determines sexed experience. https://www.dukeupress.edu/feminism-against-cisness

Book cover for Cloud Missives by Kenzie Allen (Tin House @tinhouse.bsky.social), depicting blue shapes, roughly ball-shaped, on blue-tinted shelves against deep shadows. Each "ball" is covered with different patterns of spiky protrusions, and the central ball is covered with white dots that appear to come from the end of its spikes. Apart from title and author text, it also says "A masterwork." -Diane Seuss Each poem examines a mystery. Each poem has its own Indigeneity. Each poem is its own cloud missive. https://tinhouse.com/book/cloud-missives/

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“Have I settled down yet?” The question rings eternal across all ten stories in this highly anticipated debut collection of comics fiction by New Yorker and New York Times contributor Michael D. Kennedy. (Drawn & Quarterly) https://drawnandquarterly.com/books/milk-white-steed/ Image shows the book cover, bright yellow with title and author text, and in the middle, a black and white drawing of a horse wearing lace-up sneakers and carrying a briefcase, with wings and arrows piercing it in three places. Its bottom is the tail of a fish.

Book cover for The League of Super Feminists by Mirion Malle, translated by Aleshia Jensen (Drawn & Quarterly), with the title text in puffy superhero-esque drawn font and a drawing of three superheroes, two with the woman symbol on their fronts and a third turned sideways (so their gender marker is unknown). All are triumphantly gesturing and one wears a cape. This primer on feminism and media literacy teaches young readers why it matters: https://drawnandquarterly.com/books/league-super-feminists/

Book cover for Abolition Revolution by Aviah Sarah Day and Shanice Octavia McBean (Pluto Press), depicting a series of jail cells as simple red lines against a yellow background. In each successive drawing, fewer bars exist. Winner of the Bread and Roses Prize 2024. Abolition Revolution is a guide to abolitionist politics in Britain, drawing out rich histories of resistance from rebellion in the colonies to grassroots responses to carceral systems today. The authors argue that abolition is key to reconceptualising revolution for our times - linking it with materialist feminisms, anti-capitalist class struggle, internationalist solidarity and anti-colonialism. Perfect for reading groups and activist meetings, this is an invaluable book for those new to abolitionist politics - whilst simultaneously telling a passionate and authoritative story about the need for abolition and revolution in Britain and globally. https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745346519/abolition-revolution/

Book cover for Japa and Other Stories by Iheoma Nwachukwu, with a person climbing out of a suitcase. These eight brutally beautiful stories are struck full of fragmented dreams, with highly developed thieves, misadventurers, and displaced characters all heaving through a human struggle to anchor themselves in a new home or sometimes a new reality. This book is about young Nigerian immigrants who bilocate, trek through the desert, become temporary Mormons, sneak through Russia, and yearn for new life in strange new territories that force them to confront what it means to search for a connection far from home. Winner of the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction. https://ugapress.org/book/9780820367279/japa-and-other-stories/

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Book cover for The Wishing Pool and Other Stories by Tananarive Due, depicting a black woman whose face takes up the top half of the picture, looking at the viewer through the opaque sky over a house shown in the bottom half being approached by the shadows of hands outstretched like zombies. Behind the house, a forest is burning. This blockbuster story collection further cements Tananarive Due’s status as a leading innovator in Black horror and Afrofuturism; featuring the 2023 World Fantasy Award–winning story, “Incident at Bear Creek Lodge,” and two new stories! https://www.akashicbooks.com/catalog/the-wishing-pool/

Book cover for Solved: How the World’s Great Cities Are Fixing the Climate Crisis by David Miller (University of Toronto Press), with a green watercolour wash along the bottom suggestive of a forest, against a white background with the title text. A checkmark is placed over the o in Solved. https://utppublishing.com/doi/book/10.3138/9781487554569 If our planet is going to survive the climate crisis, we need to act rapidly. Taking cues from progressive cities around the world, including Los Angeles, New York, Toronto, Oslo, Shenzhen, and Sydney, this book is a summons to every city to make small but significant changes that can drastically reduce our carbon footprint.We cannot wait for national governments to agree on how to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and manage the average temperature rise to within 1.5 degrees. In Solved, David Miller argues that cities are taking action on climate change because they can – and because they must. Miller makes a clear-eyed and compelling case that, if replicated at pace and scale, the actions of leading global cities point the way to creating a more sustainable planet. Solved: How the World’s Great Cities Are As much a "how to" guide for policymakers as a work for concerned citizens, Solved aims to inspire hope through its clear and factual analysis of what can be done – now, today – to mitigate our harmful emissions and pave the way to a 1.5-degree world.

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Book cover for We Are the Culture: Black Chicago's Influence on Everything by Arionne Nettles (Chicago Review Press/Lawrence Hill Books), with a line drawing of a black person's silhouette over a Chicago skyline. https://www.chicagoreviewpress.com/we-are-the-culture-products-9781641608305.php?page_id=21

Book cover for Small Business and the City: The Transformative Potential of Small Scale Entrepreneurship by Rafael Gomez, Andre Isakov and Matthew Semansky (University of Toronto Press ), with rows of map element icons like a ferry, a city hall, a bridge, a shop labeled flowers, a shop labeled furniture, a bed & breakfast, a pharmacy, and so on, arranged to look like a city skyline. https://utppublishing.com/doi/book/10.3138/9781442612099 In Small Business and the City, Rafael Gomez, Andre Isakov, and Matt Semansky highlight the power of small-scale entrepreneurship to transform local neighbourhoods and the cities they inhabit. Studying the factors which enable small businesses to survive and thrive, they highlight the success of a Canadian concept which has spread worldwide: the Business Improvement Area (BIA). BIAs allow small-scale entrepreneurs to pool their resources with like-minded businesses, becoming sources of urban rejuvenation, magnets for human talent, and incubators for local innovation in cities around the globe. Small Business and the City also analyses the policies necessary to support this urban vitality, describing how cities can encourage and support locally owned independent businesses. An inspiring account of the dynamism of urban life, Small Business and the City introduces a new “main street agenda” for the twenty-first century city.

Book cover for Dangerous Memory: Coming of Age in the Decade of Greed by Charlie Angus (House of Anansi), depicting a black silhouette of anti-nuke protesters against a turquoise background. A bold book of rage, hope, and challenge exposing how the political decisions of the 1980s continue to haunt us today. https://houseofanansi.com/products/dangerous-memory

Book cover for Uncle Rabbit and the Wax Doll by Silvestre Pantaleón Esteva, trans. Jonathan D. Amith (Deep Vellum), showing a rabbit on land staring at a crocodile in a lake surrounded by farmed land on which two figures are walking with a cat. Over everything is a large sun with a smiling face. The classic tale of the trickster Brer Rabbit in a one-of-a-kind trilingual edition (Nahuatl, Spanish, and English). https://store.deepvellum.org/products/uncle-rabbit-and-the-wax-doll

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Book cover for Black Cloud Rising (David Wright Falade, Grove Atlantic), depicting a black cloud which fades into a photograph of black soldiers: the African Brigade in the US civil war. Excerpted in the New Yorker, Black Cloud Rising is a compelling and important historical novel that takes us back to an extraordinary moment when enslaved men and women were shedding their bonds and embracing freedom. https://groveatlantic.com/book/black-cloud-rising/

Book cover for Hiroshima Bomb Money by Terry Watada (NeWest Press), with leaves against a full moon, in shades of soft grey and dark orange. Through the lives of three siblings living in Hiroshima, Japan, Terry Watada explores the sweep of history during the years 1930 to 1945. The youngest, Chisato Akamatsu, travels to Canada looking for a new life but is confronted by the brutalities of immigration, a troubled marriage and the humiliation of the Japanese internment by the Canadian government. Hideki, the only brother, joins the military to fight for the Emperor and find “glory” in China, but finds only the fallacy of patriotism, the brutality of war, and the futility of existence. Chiemi, the oldest, was in the city when to the atom bomb hit. The three encapsulate the hopes, fears, dreams, the inhumanity of the period and resiliency of humans caught in historic events. In his fourth novel, Canadian poet, dramatist, and novelist Terry Watada delves into the Pacific War, looking at WWII from a Japanese perspective, unique in Canadian literature. https://bookshop.newestpress.com/products/hiroshima-bomb-money

Book cover for We Walked On by Thérèse Soukar Chehade (Regal House Publishing), depicting a woman in loose, flowing top and pants walking away from a crumbling city. Set during Lebanon’s civil war, We Walked On is a timely novel about what it’s like to live in a war zone, how war corrupts our moral sense, and how to survive and endure in an unjust world. https://regal-house-publishing.mybigcommerce.com/we-walked-on/

Book cover for The Call of the Red-Winged Blackbird: Essays on the Common and Extraordinary by Tim Bowling (Wolsak & Wynn), with a red-winged blackbird and another bird with feathers of brown with red highlights, and text in dark orange. Shortlisted for the 2023 Alberta Literary Award for Memoir. In this lush collection of essays Tim Bowling picks up the common questions, and beauties, of life and examines them closely. From questions of love and money, to the search for solitude in a clamouring world, to poetry and the place of art today, Bowling writes beautifully and thoughtfully on what it means to be alive now. https://bookstore.wolsakandwynn.ca/collections/non-fiction/products/the-call-of-the-red-winged-blackbird

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Book cover for The Green Cows of Mezquital by Víctor Hugo Anaya, a trilingual children's book, depicts happy green cows in a field. Catalina lives in Ohio, United States. One day, she goes to a market and finds a stand selling barbacoa cooked with maguey leaves. This event reminds her of her grandmother when she left Mezquital to emigrate to another country, on a windy, reddish afternoon. Her grandmother tells Catalina many details about Mezquital, including the magueys, which look like green cows in the fields. They then realize how Ñhäñhü culture is strengthened in other countries. https://editorialresistencia.com.mx/tienda/producto/una-vaca-verde-en-el-mezquital/ (Note prices are in Mexican currency.)

Book cover for Black Lives, American Love: Essays on Race and Resilience by D.B. Maroon (Chicago Review Press), title text over lush flowers. In this hard-hitting collection of essays, D.B. Maroon presents a personal biography of America, Blackness, and racial politics with unflinching style, and delivers a relentless truth-telling on some of the country’s fiercest debates and most profound challenges. https://www.chicagoreviewpress.com/black-lives--american-love-products-9781641609326.php?page_id=21

Book cover for Sasaniltsin: Nahuatl Riddles by José Antonio Flores Farfán, a trilingual children's book, depicting labourers in colourful outfts harvesting bright flowers. Sasanilteh or "riddles" are a very old and fun game, which allows us to look at the way in which the Nahuas saw the world, a great window to learn about their flora and fauna, their material and spiritual culture and, of course, their sense of humor. https://editorialresistencia.com.mx/tienda/producto/sasaniltsin-sasaniltsin-adivinanzas-nahuas/ (Note that price is in Mexican currency.)

Book cover for The American Demagogue: Donald Trump (Revised Edition), a 2024 book by Molefi Kete Asante (Universal Write Publications) with a photo of Trump's iconic red tie. The American Demagogue thoroughly examines Donald Trump’s presidency, uniquely blending perspectives from communication and Africology. In this edition, Molefi Kete Asante skillfully dissects Trump’s manipulation tactics, focusing on the use of fear, lies, and derogatory language while drawing insightful parallels to historical demagogues. The book goes beyond conventional critiques by exploring Trump’s impact on core American ideals, such as environmental protection, racial justice, and compassion. Asante’s nuanced analysis of Trump’s rhetoric and its implications on the democratic tradition, offers readers valuable insights into the resilience of American democracy. https://uwpbooks.com/product/the-american-demagogue-donald-trump-revised-edition/

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Book cover for A History of the African-American People (Proposed) by Strom Thurmond, as told to Percival Everett & James Kincaid (A Novel), which depicts a laughing and possibly insane Strom Thurmond shaking hands with a white woman while another white woman laughs in the background. Everett and Kincaid present a fictitious chronicle of South Carolina Senator Strom Thurmond’s desire to pen a history of African Americans—his and his aides’ belief being that he has done as much, or more, than any American to shape that history. An epistolary novel, A History follows the letters of loose-cannon congressional office workers, insane interns at a large New York publishing house, and disturbed publishing executives, along with homicidal rival editors, kindly family friends, and an aspiring author named Septic. Strom Thurmond appears charming and open, mad and sure of his place in American history. https://www.akashicbooks.com/catalog/a-history-of-the-african-american-people-proposed-by-strom-thurmond-as-told-to-percival-everett-james-kincaid-a-novel/

Book cover for The Free People's Village by Sim Kern (Levine Querido), depicting a punk with glowing green eyes taking a bat with nails in it to a mechanical police dog. From environmental journalist and founder of the #TransRightsReadathon Sim Kern, comes the eat-the-rich climate fiction you won't want to put down. https://www.levinequerido.com/the-free-peoples-village

Book cover for City of Laughter by Temim Fruchter (Grove Atlantic), depicting tiny faces inside a riot of petals on drawn pink branches. A rich and riveting debut spanning four generations of Eastern European Jewish women bound by blood, half-hidden secrets, and the fantastical visitation of a shapeshifting stranger over the course of 100 years. https://groveatlantic.com/book/city-of-laughter/

Book cover for When I Passed the Statue of Liberty I Became Black: The Lost Memoir of Britain’s First Black Olympic Medal Winner—and the America He Discovered by Harry Edward (Yale UP), with a photograph of Harry Edward running against a red backdrop with black arrows and a blue outline of the Statue of Liberty. https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300270976/when-i-passed-the-statue-of-liberty-i-became-black/

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**Joanne Merriam** @joannemerriam@mefi.social · 3d

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Cleaning up my files and deleting the book covers I’ve already posted. Enjoy these beauties again! A . (Alt-text for details.) 1/15

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**Joanne Merriam** @joannemerriam@mefi.social · 4d

Joanne Merriam @joannemerriam@mefi.social

Daily #SmallPress #books: Abolition Revolution by Aviah Sarah Day and Shanice Octavia McBean (Pluto Press) https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745346519/abolition-revolution/ -and- Dandelion by Jamie Chai Yun Liew (Arsenal Pulp Press) https://arsenalpulp.com/Books/D/Dandelion Alt-text for details.

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**Joanne Merriam** @joannemerriam@mefi.social · 5d

Joanne Merriam @joannemerriam@mefi.social

Daily #SmallPress #books from Editorial Resistencia:
The Green Cows of Mezquital: https://editorialresistencia.com.mx/tienda/producto/una-vaca-verde-en-el-mezquital/
Sasaniltsin: Nahuatl Riddles: https://editorialresistencia.com.mx/tienda/producto/sasaniltsin-sasaniltsin-adivinanzas-nahuas/ details in alt-text

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**Joanne Merriam** @joannemerriam@mefi.social · 6d

Joanne Merriam @joannemerriam@mefi.social

Daily #SmallPress #books:
Amreekiya by Lena Mahmoud (The University Press of Kentucky): Isra Shadi, a twenty-one-year-old woman of mixed Palestinian and white descent, lives in California with her paternal amu (uncle), amtu (aunt), and cousins after the death of her mother and abandonment by her father at a young age. Ever the outcast in her amu and amtu's household, they eagerly encourage Isra to marry and leave. After rejecting a string of undesirable suitors, she marries Yusef, an old love from her past.
https://www.kentuckypress.com/9780813176376/amreekiya/

City of Laughter by Temim Fruchter (Grove Atlantic): A rich and riveting debut spanning four generations of Eastern European Jewish women bound by blood, half-hidden secrets, and the fantastical visitation of a shapeshifting stranger over the course of 100 years.
https://groveatlantic.com/book/city-of-laughter/

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