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1. May 2005 Staff Picks - 25% off
2. New music
3. New Books

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TWB Staff Picks: The first five books are 25% off during the month of May:

Conquest: Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide. Andrea Smith. South End Press. $24.50.
Brilliantly revolutionary study of the multiple political, cultural and personal violences aimed at Native American women, coupled with radical strategies for eliminating gendered violence.

Gonzalez & Daughter Trucking Co. A Road Novel with Literary Licence. María Amparo Escandón. Three Rivers Press. $17.95.
Libertad González holds her fellow prisoners spellbound with tales of a hard-trucking man and his baby daughter. "1001 nights in a Mexicali women’s prison" (John Sayles).

The Moments, the Minutes, the Hours: The Poetry of Jill Scott. Jill Scott. St. Martin’s Press. $26.95.
Beautifully-illustrated edition of the never-seen-before flavourful words of Jill Scott, gathered from her personal journals.

Surviving in the Hour of Darkness: The Health and Wellness of Women of Colour and Indigenous Women. Edited by G. Sophie Harding. University of Calgary Press. $39.95.
A collection of narratives from all sides of the healthcare community - carers, social workers, scholars, patients, family - advocating a broad, holistic and collective approach to wellness for its potential to alter radically the place of women of colour and indigenous women in healthcare.

Public Enemy #2: An All-New Boondocks Collection. Aaron McGruder. Three Rivers Press. $22.95.
Still advocating his right to be hostile, McGruder daily gets American politics frighteningly right in three witty panels, including many banned strips that appear here for the first time.

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May 2005 new music

Stag. Amy Ray. Daemon Records. $19.95.
Indigo Girl Ray goes solo and shows off her multiple musical selves on this record of queer lives and loves.

Turning into Beautiful. Ferron. $20.00.
Fans will need no introduction to Ferron’s haunting guitar-driven narratives of love and loss, and new listeners will find this CD a great introduction.

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May 2005 new books

Rogues: Two Essays on Reason. Jacques Derrida. Stanford University Press. $26.95.
This volume collects two major lectures given by Derrida in 2002 on the foundations of the sovereignty of the nation-state, encompassing his trenchant views on the future of democracy post 9/11.

Policies of Exclusion, Poverty & Health: Stories from the Front. Compiled, introduction & reports by Chrystal Ocean. WISE Society. $31.25.
A unique and compelling collection of first person narratives by Canadian women living below the poverty line, which bears witness to the sometimes harsh, sometimes surprising stories behind the statistics.

Class Matters: Cross-Class Alliance Building for Middle-Class Activists.Betsy Leondar-Wright. New Society Publishers. $25.95.
A pragmatic guide that speaks out in the silence surrounding class in American politics, offering frank and viable strategies that should open the eyes of middle-class activists.

After Such Knowledge: Memory, History and the Legacy of the Holocaust. Eva Hoffman. PublicAffairs. $19.95.
Hoffman brings her profound and personal understanding of language, narrative and memory to bear on the historical, psychological and moral implications of second-generation experience.

Feminist Activism in the Supreme Court: Legal Mobilization and the Women’s Legal Education and Action Fund. Christopher P. Manfredi. UBC Press. $29.95.
A case study that outlines the contributions of the Canadian women’s movement to the use of Charter litigation to influence legal rules and public policy, and explores the long-term social impacts of such grassroots legal mobilization.

Heterosyncracies: Female Sexuality When Normal Wasn’t. Karma Lochrie. University of Minnesota Press. $26.95.
Lochrie, an expert in the secrets of medieval sexuality, looks closely at the foundations of modern Western society in the middle ages to present a far more complex picture of female sexuality that rejects easy assumptions about the origins of ‘normal.’

Sovereign Bodies: Citizens, Migrants, and States in the Postcolonial World. Edited by Thomas Blom Hansen and Finn Stepputat. Princeton University Press.$29.25.
Comprehensive volume covering diverse transnational examples of the interaction of sovereign power and violence, and its implications for concepts of governance and identity in the postcolonial world.

Sharon and my Mother-in-Law: Ramallah Diaries. Suad Amiry. Granta Books. $31.95.
One of the most original, and certainly the funniest, book to be written about Palestinian life under Israeli occupation. Amiry, an architect, returned to Ramallah in 1981, and has been a peace negotiator as well as winning numerous awards for this chronicle of life under curfew with her 92 year old mother-in-law.

Baghdad Burning: Girl Blog from Iraq. Riverbend. Foreword by Ahdaf Souief. Feminist Press. $20.25.
This collection of blogs could be subtitled "Everything you ever needed to know about what’s really going on in Iraq but no Western news source would or could tell you - with a feminist twist."

For Here or To Go: Life in the Service Industry. Edited by Leah Ryan. Garrett County Press. $14.95.
Ryan, the fiction editor of Punk Planet, collects a series of real-life narratives about MCJobs that range from devastating to bittersweet to hilarious.

Hancock Park. Katherine V. Forrest. Berkley. $20.00.
Detective Kate Delafield is back - and her personal life is in disarray as she faces a murder trial in a dirty domestic dispute, and finds she had no easy answers for either case.

Bloodknots. Ami Sands Brodoff. Arsenal Pulp Press. $21.95.
Arsenal Pulp unveil another stunning Canadian fiction debut in these powerful stories imbued with Jewish identity, in which life on the margins plays out on a mythic scale.

A Sultan in Palermo. Tariq Ali. Verso. $36.00.
Volume Four in Ali’s Islam Quintet, this is a masterful historical novel about medieval cartographer Muhammad al-Idrisi, with mythic and political resonances with the contemporary political situation.

Thirty-seven Small Songs & Thirteen Silences. Jan Zwicky. Gaspereau. $18.95.
A stunning addition to Zwicky’s body of award-winning work, in which the poet brings her musical and philosophical sensibilities to the beauty of the everyday in a sustained meditation on our engagement with the domestic and natural world around us.

loveconjure/blues. sharon bridgforth. Redbone Press. $18.95.
In this "novel that is constructed for breath," Lamdba award winner bridgforth celebrates the multiple survivals and strengths of black people, using the form of the blues to weave stories of queer identity and desire.

We Flew over the Bridge. Faith Ringgold. Duke University Press. $33.75.
Many children and adults will recognize Ringgold as the illustrator of many well-loved children’s books, including the Caldecott Medal-winning Tar Beach. In her rich and inspiring memoir, she charts the course of her life from 1930s Harlem to seeing her artworks hang in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

You Can Do It! The Merit Badge Handbook for Grown-Up Girls. Lauren Catuzzi Grandcolas. Chronicle Books. $32.95.
Self help for the "Stitch n Bitch" generation! This handy handbook comes with step-by-step guides to everything from mountain-climbing to family reunions (with major business negotiations and learning a language on the way) - and, yes, it comes with badges!

The Breastfeeding Café: Mothers Share the Joys, Challenges, & Secrets of Nursing. Barbara L. Behrmann. University of Michigan Press. $24.95.
Dr. Behrmann is a sociologist who has spent eight years researching breastfeeeding through personal interviews, some of which are included in this informative and intimate collection.

Invisible Girls: The Truth About Sexual Abuse. Dr. Patti Feuereisen with Caroline Pincus. Seal. $21.50.
Endorsed by Scott Berkowitz, president of RAINN, this book sets out to give a voice to the one in four women who will be sexually abused by the age of sixteen. Through case studies, first person narratives and clearly-explained
pragmatic and psychological strategies, Feuereisen offers a new and accessible approach.

How to Spot a Dangerous Man Before you get Involved. Sandra L. Brown. Hunter House. $20.95.
Straightforward advice on breaking bad relationship patterns and increasing dating self-esteem.

Virginia Woolf’s Nose: Essays on Biography. Hermione Lee. Princeton. $26.95.
Best known for her definitive biography of Virginia Woolf, Lee thinks her witty and well-informed way through the thorniest issues facing contemporary literary biographers, reflecting on the life-and-death questions that we all confront when telling our own stories and others’.

Goddesses and the Divine Feminine: A Western Religious History. Rosemary Radford Ruether. University of California Press. $37.25.
Compendious and far-ranging, this landmark work illuminates one of the key topics in Western spirituality, moving from evidence of neolithic matriarchies to contemporary pagan society in a lucid and well-documented manner.

The Men’s Program: A Peer Education Guide to Rape Prevention. John D. Foubert. Routledge. $41.95.
An essential guide, with detailed scripts and worksheets, for anyone working in peer education to create a male youth culture that is anti-sexual violence.