Stan Tekiela   2006   264p   4.5 x 6 Over 100 of missouri’s most common trees can be found in this field guide. Each tree has its own full color photo and comprehensive, accessible information about each tree’s leaves or needles, bark, mature size, fall color, a state-specific range map and more. $4-10 Other … Continue reading Trees of Missouri →

Italo Calvino 1957 224p 5 x 8 Cosimo, a young eighteenth-century Italian nobleman, rebels by climbing into the trees to remain there for the rest of his life. He adapts efficiently to an arboreal existence, making himself clothes, shelter and finding food and even love. Translated by Archibald Colquhoun. $4-10 Other works involving italo calvino, … Continue reading The Baron in the Trees →

DK   2013   128p   4 x 7.5 From mighty redwoods and stately pines, to beautiful cherry blossoms and dependable oaks, this beginner’s guide helps identify commonly found trees in North America. $3-10 Other works involving field guides, trees, plants, the wild, nature

Peterson Field Guides   1998   128p   4 x 7 This slender book is a basic field guide for beginning observers of  trees, containing dozens of water-color illustrations of north american trees. $3-10 Other works involving field guides, trees, plants, the wild, nature

Anarchists, IWWs, Surrealists, Situationists, & Provos in the 1960s Franklin Rosemont     2005     447p     6 x 9 While square critics derided them as “the left wing of the Beat Generation,” the multi-racial, working-class editorial groups of The Rebel Worker and its sister journal Heatwave in London became well known for … Continue reading Dancin’ in the Streets! →

A Memoir of Disintegration David Wojnarowicz     1991     288p     5 x 8 Written in the ’80s when Wojnarowicz and his friends were sick and dying of AIDS, this is a powerful, tragic — yet beautiful — memoirs. A collection of essays dealing with death, sickness, the sexual freedoms of queer … Continue reading Close to the Knives →

The Story of a Small, Underground 1960s Revolutionary Group in New York City Anonymous     16p     5 x 8 Former street kids and university drop-outs, this is the story of the Motherfuckers, who wanted to destroy capitalism and all things it turned to gold when it touched them: art, music, drugs, the … Continue reading Black Mask and Up Against the Wall Motherfucker →

Peter Doggett     2009     608p     6 x 9 Between 1965 and 1972, political activists around the globe prepared to mount a revolution. While the Vietnam War raged, calls for black power grew louder and liberation movements erupted everywhere from Berkeley, Detroit, and Newark, to Paris, Berlin, Ghana, and Peking. Rock … Continue reading There’s A Riot Going On →

For Leslie, the cost of living —and loving— is getting higher and higher. She has become involved in a strange erotic triangle with Honor, a romantic young woman, and Bernie, a queer former street hustler. One reader had this to say: The book has an evocative earnestness to it that takes me back to women’s … Continue reading The High Cost of Living →

General Franco, The Angry Brigade, and Me Stuart Christie 2004 400p 5.5 x 8 In 1964, a fresh-faced, eighteen-year-old Glaswegian named Stuart Christie became the most famous anarchist in Britain. He was arrested delivering dynamite to Madrid to be used in the assassination of Spanish dictator General Franco. After serving three of his twenty-year sentence, … Continue reading Granny Made Me An Anarchist →