CLMP Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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The Touchstone
Edith Wharton
From our #WomensHistoryMonth list: Originally published in 1900 and republished by @TursulowePress, Edith Wharton’s novella The Touchstone is a “painful and intriguing story about love, morality, guilt, and the realities of economic hardship and class.” https://t.co/7YR0nHbmEU
Paperback, 2024
$5.00$2.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Winter Phoenix: Testimonies in Verse
Sophia Terazawa
Winter Phoenix: Testimonies in Verse by Sophia Terazawa, published by @DeepVellum, is a finalist for the 2022 Firecracker Award in Poetry—congratulations! https://t.co/qELG2XOFsg https://t.co/MssyFFvoek
Paperback, 2021
$16.00$8.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Bittering the Wound
Jacqui Germain
Poetry from our #BlackHistoryMonth list: “A first-person retelling of the 2014 Ferguson uprising,” Bittering the Wound by Jacqui Germain (@AutumnHousePrs) “works to share the narrative of the event with more complexity, audacity, care, and specificity.” https://t.co/DIdKY1lUUA
Paperback, 2022
$16.95$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Tastes Like War: A Memoir
Grace M. Cho
Memoir from our #APAHM reading list: Grace M. Cho’s TASTES LIKE WAR (@FeministPress) is “a hybrid text about a daughter’s search through intimate and global history for the roots of her mother’s schizophrenia.” https://t.co/7agSUrqlzF
Paperback, 2021
$17.95$8.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Migratory Birds
Mariana Oliver
Migratory Birds by Mariana Oliver, translated by Julia Sanches & published by @transitbooks, is a finalist for the 2022 Firecracker Award in Creative Nonfiction—congratulations! https://www.clmp.org/programs-opportunities/firecracker/ https://t.co/bPuSoBkgxi
Paperback, 2021
$15.95$7.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Instrument
Dao Strom
From our #APAHM list: INSTRUMENT by Dao Strom (@fonograf_ed) “is an experiment in multimodal poetics—inhabiting a synergistic blend of poetry, music, and visual art: the artist’s three forms of ‘voice.’” https://t.co/SAIWGiut8c
Paperback, 2020
$19.95$9.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Beautiful World, Where Are You
Sally Rooney
In these two 2-hour sessions, you’ll learn how to read deeply with acclaimed editor and author Beena Kamlani by examining the work of Leo Tolstoy (Anna Karenina), Toni Morrison (The Bluest Eye), and Sally Rooney (Beautiful World, Where Are You). Bid now: https://www.clmp.org/product/how-to-read-a-book-sessions-with-author-editor-beena-kamlani/
Paperback, 2022
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Bluest Eye
Toni Morrison
In these two 2-hour sessions, you’ll learn how to read deeply with acclaimed editor and author Beena Kamlani by examining the work of Leo Tolstoy (Anna Karenina), Toni Morrison (The Bluest Eye), and Sally Rooney (Beautiful World, Where Are You). Bid now: https://www.clmp.org/product/how-to-read-a-book-sessions-with-author-editor-beena-kamlani/
Paperback, 2007
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
My Name Is Immigrant
Wang Ping
Poetry from our #APAHeritageMonth list: Wang Ping’s MY NAME IS IMMIGRANT (@HangingLooseNY) is a “song for the plight and pride of immigrants around the globe.” https://t.co/1MCwihhrfH
Paperback, 2020
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Bags and Tools: Poems
Michael Fleming
In collaboration with The Sundog Poetry Center and in honor of #NationalPoetryMonth, @GreenWritersPub will celebrate the launch of Michael Fleming’s new poetry collection, Bags and Tools, at Next Stage Arts in Putney, Vermont, on April 22 at 7 PM ET. https://t.co/6YKTarhYFL
Paperback, 2022
$15.95$7.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book