Oakland Living

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Marc Anthony Brownlee
Resurrected
Oakland, Louisiana a southern town with a midwestern feel; a town full of families, jobs and a lot of charm. Vanessa Bessette is a young seventeen year old girl, pretty, popular and yearning for life outside of her hometown and ready to be living out her dreams and exploring the world. Miles Jones i...
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Catherine Asaro
The Radiant Seas (Skolian Web)
Living in exile on a deserted planet, Sauscony and Jaibriol, each the heir to an interstellar empire, become entangled in the machinations of the Skolian Empire. Interstellar war erupts and Jaibriol is snatched away to be the unwilling ruler of the Highton Aristos. Sauscony must lead an invading spa...
$108.65
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Yalie Saweda Kamara
Besaydoo: Poems (Jake Adam York Prize)
Selected by Amaud Jamaul Johnson for the 2023 Jake Adam York Prize, Yalie Saweda Kamara’s Besaydoo is an elegantly wrought love song to home—as place, as people, as body, and as language. A griot is a historian, a living repository of communal legacies with “a story pulsing in every blood ce...
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Susan Lobo
Urban Voices: The Bay Area American Indian Community (Volume 50) (Sun Tracks)
California has always been America's promised land —for American Indians as much as anyone. In the 1950s, Native people from all over the United States moved to the San Francisco Bay Area as part of the Bureau of Indian Affairs Relocation Program. Oakland was a major destination of this program, a...
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Lachlan Smith
Lion Plays Rough: A Leo Maxwell Mystery
Leo Maxwell always lived in the shadow of his older brother Teddy, one of San Francisco's most ruthless and effective criminal defense lawyers. Then a gunman shot Teddy in the head. Although Teddy survived the shooting, he has been left disabled and dependent on Leo, now a criminal defense attorney ...
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Mary Williams
The Lost Daughter: A Memoir
“I always hoped [Mary Williams] would tell her incredible story. She's a writer of uncommon clarity and humor, and the arrival of her memoir is cause for celebration."  —Dave Eggers, author of What is the What   As she grew up in 1970s Oakland, California, role models for Mary Williams were...
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Daniel Summerhill
Mausoleum of Flowers
A poetry collection that celebrates Black culture, creativity, and memory.   From Kendrick to Kanye, to a Sunday in Oakland with Frank Ocean’s falsetto in the foreground, Mausoleum of Flowers is still life set against the backdrop of demise. Daniel Summerhill’s sophomore collection grabs f...
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Peter Hoffer
Seven Fires: The Urban Infernos that Reshaped America
This resonant and fascinating book by a renowned historian examines how seven fires shaped the larger course of American history. The Boston fire of 1760 set the stage for the American Revolution. The Pittsburgh fire of 1845 opened the way to larger scale industrial plants. Out of the ashes of the C...
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Karla Brundage
Black Rootedness: 54 Poets from Africa to America
West Oakland to West Africa (WO2WA) provides a sustained exchange to connect members of the African Diaspora and Africa through creative writing. Our core values are to create a safe place for the transparent healing and growth of Black people; to deliver innovative and authentic forms of writing an...
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Susan M Burgess-Lent
Trouble Ahead: Dangerous Missions with Desperate People
These are the stories of a woman’s fifteen solo journeys to places that, for awhile, riveted public attention because of their terrifying and elaborate violence: Rwanda, Darfur, the slums of Kenya.Witness, enabler and critic, the author worked as an outlier, just outside the corporate web of human...
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Rita Williams-Garcia
One Crazy Summer
In this Newbery Honor novel,  New York Times  bestselling author Rita Williams-Garcia tells the story of three sisters who travel to Oakland, California, in 1968 to meet the mother who abandoned them. A strong option for summer reading—take this book along on a family road trip or enjoy it at ho...
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Ernest L. Polacco
When Lightning Comes in a Jar
It’s time for a family reunion! when tricia’s aunts, uncles, and cousins arrive at her house for an annual family reunion, the fun really begins. And this year, gramma has promised to teach the children something wonderful—how to catch “lightning” in a jar. with so many people and so much love,...
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Patricia Polacco
The Art of Miss Chew
After spending the summer with her artist grandmother, Trisha knows she wants to be an artist, too. She's thrilled when her sketches get her into Miss Chew's special art class at the high school. A substitute teacher tells her she's wasting time on art when she should be studying - but fortunately, ...
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Patricia Polacco
Rechenka's Eggs
Old Babushka, known throughout all of Moskva for her beautifully painted eggs, is preparing her eggs for the Easter Festival when she takes in an injured goose. She names the goose Rechenka, and they live happily together until one day when Rechenka accidentally overturns a basket, breaking all of B...
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Lucha Corpi
Confessions of a Book Burner: Personal Essays + Stories
In this collection of personal essays, award-winning poet, novelist and children's book author Lucha Corpi recounts key moments in her lifeincluding immigration to the United States from Mexicothat contributed to her development as a writer. "For the aspiring writers, Confessions of a Book Burner of...
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Trevor W. Gardner
Leading in the Belly of the Beast: School Leadership in a System Designed to Fail
Leading in the Belly of the Beast is an anthology of essays from transformational school leaders around the country who lead in a school system that is not set up for the success of their students, namely students of color and students living in poverty. The book highlights leaders who begin from t...
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Patricia Polacco
The Lemonade Club
Everyone loves Miss Wichelman?s fifth-grade class—especially best friends Traci and Marilyn. That's where they learn that when life hands you lemons, make lemonade! They are having a great year until Traci begins to notice some changes in Marilyn. She's losing weight, and seems tired all the time....
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Patricia Polacco
Thank You, Mr. Falker
The real-life, classic story of a dyslexic girl and the teacher who would not let her fail. A perfect gift for teachers and for reading students of any age. Patricia Polacco is now one of America's most loved children's book creators, but once upon a time, she was a little girl named Trisha starti...
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Russell Jeung
At Home in Exile: Finding Jesus among My Ancestors and Refugee Neighbors
Russell Jeung's spiritual memoir shares the difficult, often joyful, and sometimes harrowing account of his life in East Oakland's Murder Dubs neighborhood and of his Chinese-Hakka history. On a journey to discover how the poor and exiled are blessed, At Home in Exile is the story of his integrat...
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Master Zhongxian Wu
The 12 Chinese Animals: Create Harmony in Your Daily Life Through Ancient Chinese Wisdom
* Silver Medal Winner in the 2010 BOTYA Awards Body, Mind and Spirit Category * The Chinese horoscope holds the key to a better understanding of self and others, and to living a life of harmony. Not just the year of birth, but also the month, day and hour have significance in true Chinese astrolog...
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