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Down Sand Mountain

In a small Florida mining town in 1966, twelve-year-old Dewey faces one worst-day-ever after another, but comes to know that the issues he faces about bullies, girls, race, and identity are part of the adult world, as well.

The black O : racism and redemption in an American corporate empire

In 1988, several white managers of the Shoney's restaurant chain were sacked after refusing to comply with the company's discriminatory hiring practices. They sued the company, and this text provides a behind-the-scenes look at one of the largest discrimination lawsuits in American history.

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My chaos theory : stories

The dozen stories in Steve Watkins's first book of fiction are funny, and odd, and resonant with clues to the secret ways of men and boys. In settings ranging from the dark underbelly of the Deep South and Texas to New York and beyond this country to Kenya and India, the stories all deal with young and not-so-young men coming of age. Three brainy kids plot to murder a captive elephant at a roadside zoo in Florida. An angry dad in South Georgia takes his daughter's boyfriend up in a small plane to torture him by doing aerobatics. A failed American social activist seeks enlightenment in an ashram in India, and nearly kills himself by fasting and giving his food to a pair of starving children who end up stealing from him. A widower finds a drowned man washed up on a beach at Fire Island and folds the dead man's body into a yoga pose.