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We’ve always had a selection of Hip-Hop music at Alternatives Library, but now we’ve consolidated it into a new section, and added a considerable amount of new material. Come check out some hip-hop albums. Want to help us improve our hip-hop selection? Leave a comment here about your favorite album or artist. You can also…
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A curious raccoon emerges from his bed and starts hunting for food. Tempted by sticky honey oozing from a bee’s nest, the little raccoon finds trouble he did nto bargain for. Delightful illustrations in full-color by Susan Turnbull. Eastman was born a Wahpeton Dakota in 1858. by Charles & Elaine Eastman. 32 pp., 7×8.5, ages…
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The Alternatives Library is a great place to hang out in the Summer heat. We’ve got lots of plants, windows overlooking the valley, and comfortable chairs. Did I forget to mention books? We’ve got tons of books. And just about everything else a 38 year old Alternative Library would have. Stop on by any day…
Read MoreFrom the Mines to the Streets draws on the life of Félix Muruchi to depict the greater forces at play in Bolivia and elsewhere in South America during the last half of the twentieth century. It traces Félix from his birth in an indigenous family in 1946, just after the abolition of bonded labor, through…
Read More“Part history, part action thriller and courtroom drama, part memoir, Green Is the New Red plunges us into the wild, unruly, and entirely inspirational world of extreme environmental activism. Will Potter, participant-observer and partisan-reporter, is the perfect guide… Green Is the New Red is an indispensable book that will change the way we think about…
Read MoreAnthropologist David Graeber undertakes the first detailed ethnographic study of the global justice movement. The case study at the center of Direct Action is the organizing and events that led to the one of the most dramatic and militant mass protests in recent years—against the Summit of the Americas in Québec City. Written in a…
Read MoreCelebrated transsexual trailblazer Kate Bornstein has, with more humor and spunk than any other, ushered us into a world of limitless possibility through a daring re-envisionment of the gender system as we know it. Here, Bornstein bravely and wittily shares personal and unorthodox methods of survival in an often cruel world. A one-of-a-kind guide to…
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