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The Myth of American Idealism: How U.S. Foreign Policy Endangers the World

King of Kings: The Iranian Revolution: A Story of Hubris, Delusion and Catastrophic Miscalculation

Cuba (Winner of the Pulitzer Prize): An American History

Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent

Puerto Rico: A National History

A Short History of the Gaza Strip

Our History Is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance

How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States

Perfect Victims: And the Politics of Appeal

Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI

Against the State: Anarchists and Comrades at War in Spain, Myanmar, and Rojava

Outgrowing Modernity: Navigating Complexity, Complicity, and Collapse with Accountability and Compassion

Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed (Veritas Paperbacks)

Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism: And Other Arguments for Economic Independence

Motherland: A Feminist History of Modern Russia, from Revolution to Autocracy

For the Sun After Long Nights: The Story of Iran's Women-Led Uprising

Bad Bitches of Antiquity: Badass Stories from Mythology's Fiercest Goddesses, Heroines, Warriors, and Titans

A Short History of Trans Misogyny

How to Think Like a Woman: Four Women Philosophers Who Taught Me How to Love the Life of the Mind

The Trembling Hand: Reflections of a Black Woman in the Romantic Archive

Juice: A History of Female Ejaculation

Communion: The Female Search for Love (Love Song to the Nation #2)

A Flower Traveled in My Blood: The Incredible True Story of the Grandmothers Who Fought to Find a Stolen Generation of Children

The Sexual Politics of Meat - 35th Anniversary Edition: A Feminist-Vegan Critical Theory (Bloomsbury Revelations)

Black Dahlia: Murder, Monsters, and Madness in Midcentury Hollywood

Assata: An Autobiography

Starry and Restless: Three Women Who Changed Work, Writing, and the World

Femina: A New History of the Middle Ages, Through the Women Written Out of It

A Woman's Work: Reclaiming the Radical History of Mothering

Black Feminist Thought (Routledge Classics)

Women, Race & Class

Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

With Her Own Hands: Women Weaving Their Stories

Home Now: How 6000 Refugees Transformed an American Town

Dear Maine: The Trials and Triumphs of Maine's 21st Century Immigrants

Abolitionist Intimacies: Queer and Trans Migrants Against the Deportation State

Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next)

Bordering on Indifference: Immigration Agents Negotiating Race and Morality

Unbuild Walls: Why Immigrant Justice Needs Abolition

Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis

The Deportation Machine: America's Long History of Expelling Immigrants (Politics and Society in Modern America #131)

Citizenship: Notes on an American Myth

Immigration Detention Inc.: The Big Business of Locking up Migrants in America

Solito: A Read with Jenna Pick: A Memoir

Prophet Song: A Novel (Booker Prize Winner)

We Do This 'Til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice (Abolitionist Papers #1)

The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America

Here to Stay: Poetry and Prose from the Undocumented Diaspora

The Walls Have Eyes: Surviving Migration in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care

Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds

The Gulf of Lions: A Novel

We Will See You Bleed

Under the Falls: A Novel

Storm Tide: A Novel (Mike Bowditch Mysteries #16)

Baby in a Box: Stories

Country People: A Novel

Not that Kind of Proposal: A Novel

Write Yourself Home: A Creative Guide for Living Well in the Body You Have Through Embodied Writing and Movement Practice

The Tapestry of Fate: An Amina al-Sirafi Adventure, Book Two

Japanese Gothic: A Gothic Dual-Timeline Novel of Ghosts, Hauntings and Redemption

In Trees: An Exploration

Hunger and Thirst: A Novel

A Trade of Blood: An Ana and Din Mystery (Shadow of the Leviathan #3)

The Things We Never Say: A Novel

American Fantasy: A Novel

We Were Forbidden

Night Owl: Poems

Upcoming Events

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Thu, 4/2/2026
7:00pm - 8:00pm

Isabel Neal presents THROWN VOICE with Kristen Case

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Thu, 4/9/2026
7:00pm - 8:00pm

John Chu presents THE SUBTLE ART OF FOLDING SPACE with Liberty Hardy

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Mon, 4/13/2026
7:00pm - 8:00pm

Reading the Rainbow Book Club

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Tue, 4/14/2026
6:00pm - 7:00pm

OFFSITE: Laura Mauldin's 'In Sickness and in Health' w/ Mira Ptacin

Mechanics' Hall
519 Congress Street
Portland, ME 04101
United States

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Mon, 4/27/2026
7:00pm - 8:00pm

OFFSITE: Linford D. Fisher discusses STEALING AMERICA

SPACE Gallery
538 Congress Street
Portland, ME 04101
United States

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Tue, 4/28/2026
7:00pm - 8:00pm

Books & Brews Book Club

Rising Tide Brewing Company
103 Fox St
Portland, ME 04101
United States

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Thu, 4/30/2026
7:00pm - 8:00pm

Jennifer Acker discusses SURRENDER with Kate Russo

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Sat, 5/2/2026
6:30pm - 9:30pm

OFFSITE: Welcome to Holland?! & Piel de Tulipán with Laura Sánchez

Mayo Street Arts
10 Mayo Street
Portland, ME 04101
United States

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Tue, 5/5/2026
7:00pm - 8:00pm

Rebecca Mahoney presents THRALL

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japanese gothic

Wed, 5/6/2026
7:00pm - 8:00pm

OFFSITE: Kylie Lee Baker discusses JAPANESE GOTHIC @ Hardshore Distilling Co.

Hardshore Distilling Co.
53 Washington Ave
Portland, ME 04101
United States

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Mon, 5/11/2026
7:00pm - 8:00pm

Reading the Rainbow Book Club

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Tue, 5/12/2026
7:00pm - 8:00pm

Jessica Everett discusses LAST SUMMER AT MAINE CHANCE

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Thu, 5/14/2026
7:00pm - 8:00pm

Writers Open Mic w/ Madison Ellingsworth

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Mon, 5/18/2026
5:00pm - 7:00pm

OFFSITE: Kerry Michaels presents Art From the Garden @ Maine Beer Company

Maine Beer Company
525 US-1
Freeport, ME 04032
United States

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Thu, 5/21/2026
7:00pm - 8:00pm

Laura Zigman discusses THE AUTHOR WEEKEND with Mary Pols

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Thu, 5/28/2026
7:00pm - 8:00pm

Domenica Marchetti presents ITALIAN COOKIES: AUTHENTIC RECIPES AND SWEET STORIES FROM EVERY REGION

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