Contributors to Immigrant Rights in the Shadows of Citizenship. Editor Rachel Buff and author Christine Neumann-Ortiz discuss the subject
Their new book brings prominent activists and scholars together to examine the emergence and significance of the contemporary immigrant rights movement
The collection's contributors look at the ways immigrants and their allies have staked claims to rights in the past, and by examining movements in various communities throughout the United States
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Milwaukee's Paul Salsini follows up his novel, The Cielo: A Novel of Wartime Tuscany, with its sequel, Sparrow's Revenge: A Novel of Postwar Tuscany
A Resistance fighter whose code name was Sparrow relentlessly pursues the collaborator of one of the worst Nazi atrocities in Italy during World War II
But in the treacherous and mysterious land of the Garfagnana, he discovers something he has long hidden within himself
Sparrow's Revenge is a tale of retribution, guilt and, finally, forgiveness
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Lots of kids want to learn how to perform magic tricks, but learning how isn't always easy
Joshua Jay, who was crowned champion at the World Magic Seminar when he was 16, has written a book that combines expertise, photographs, step-by-step directions, and a DVD that demonstrates 75 tricks
Jay breaks down each trick into Effect, the Secret, the Set-up, and the Performance
He teaches aspiring magicians what to say, how to direct the audience's attention, where to keep your hands, and more
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Shepard graduated from college in 2006 feeling disillusioned by the apathy he saw around him
He was incensed after reading Barbara Ehrenreich's Nickel and Dimed and Bait and Switch, which gave him a feeling of hopelessness over the state of the working class in America
He set out to see if he could make something out of nothing and prove her wrong
He started with $25 and the clothes on his back in a city he chose out of a hat.
But from the start things didn't go as he had planned.
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Vincenza Scarpaci, author, takes you on a photographic tour of Italians in America, from the immigrant of the 1880s to today's statesman, movie star, Supreme Court justice, or businessperson
Through hundreds of photos, she celebrates the contributions Italians have made in the areas of cuisine, the arts, agriculture, industry, religion, sports and politics
Beginning in the late 1870s, this work examines Italian-American hardships and successes through the present day
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The All-American Sport of Bi-Partisan Bashing: Common Sense Rantings from a Ragi
Wednesday, November 26, 2008
7pm talk
Will Durst, author
With the sacred cows of American politics practically begging for someone to puncture their pomposity, Durst hits them where it counts
This equal opportunity offender swats political piñatas from both sides of the spectrum upside their heads
From the utter incompetence of the Bushies and Dick Cheney's destruction of the Constitution to the spineless antiwar posturing of the Congress and Hilary Clinton's ability to play with the truth, everyone takes their licks
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The acclaimed author of Acolytes presents this companion to her bestselling book, Love Poems
Giovanni has established herself as a writer who entertains and challenges, informs and inspires
Sometimes controversial, sometimes ethereal, her poems move readers of all hues and generations
In the years after the publication of Love Poems, Giovanni experienced loss both private and public ~ a mother's and sister's passing, and a massacre at the college where she teaches
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Subtitled: The Great Comic Book Plague and How it Changed America
Before rock'n'roll defined youth culture and baffled older generations, comic books were the enemy of parents, preachers and politicians
In the years between the end of World War II and the mid 1950s, American popular culture was first created in the pulpy, boldly illustrated pages of comic books
David Hajdu vividly evokes their rise, fall, and rise again in this engrossing history
Harry W Schwartz Bookshops, 2559 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee
Pushcart Prize-winner and UWM creative writing teacher Valerie Laken's debut explores the connection between property and intimacy, and reveals the price people pay to hold their dreams and homes together
When Kate and Stuart buy a run-down, historic house in Ann Arbor, they're looking for a decent remodeling investment and a little space in which to rekindle their troubled marriage
They discover that their home had been the scene of a terrible crime many years earlier
Harry W Schwartz Bookshops, 2559 N Downer Ave, Milwaukee
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