Friday, September 17, 2010
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It still amazes me that Shawnee now has a turf field. It's been a while since I was a Renegade, but I still missing playing football every fall.
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- "The Shadow of the Gods" by John Gwynne
- "The Fight for $15: The Right Wage for a Working America" by David Rolf
- "Pedro Páramo" by Juan Rulfo
- "Inner Excellence: Train Your Mind for Extraordinary Performance and the Best Possible Life" by Jim Murphy
- "Time Must Have a Stop" by Aldous Huxley
- "Going Down Jericho Road: The Memphis Strike, Martin Luther King's Last Campaign" by Michael K. Honey
- "Our Migrant Souls: A Meditation on Race and the Meanings and Myths of “Latino”" by Héctor Tobar
- "Enrique's Journey: The Story of a Boy's Dangerous Odyssey to Reunite with His Mother" by Sonia Nazario
- "Forgotten Continent: A History of the New Latin America" by Michael Reid
- "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values" by Robert M. Pirsig
- "Dead in Their Tracks: Crossing America’s Desert Borderlands in the New Era" by John Annerino
- "The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business" by Charles Duhigg
- "Fight Like Hell: The Untold History of American Labor" by Kim Kelly
- "Hard Line: Life and Death on the U.S.-Mexico Border" by Ken Ellingwood
- "El libro de las preguntas" by Pablo Neruda
- "The Crusades of Cesar Chavez: A Biography" by Miriam Pawel
- "Raising Expectations (And Raising Hell): My Decade Fighting for the Labor Movement" by Jane McAlevey
- "The Stone Sky" by N.K. Jemisin
- "The Obelisk Gate" by N.K. Jemisin
- "The Fifth Season" by N.K. Jemisin
- "Strangers from a Different Shore: A History of Asian Americans" by Ronald Takaki
- "Lincoln on Leadership: Executive Strategies for Tough Times" by Donald T. Phillips
- "The Essential Wooden: A Lifetime of Lessons on Leaders and Leadership" by John Wooden and Steve Jamison
- ""They Take Our Jobs!": and 20 Other Myths about Immigration" by Aviva Chomsky
- "Kwame Nkrumah: The Conakry Years, His Life and Letters" compiled by June Milne
- "The Weatherman" by Steve Thayer
- "Toxic Sludge is Good For You: Lies, Damn Lies and the Public Relations Industry" by John Stauber and Sheldon Rampton
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- "A Collective Bargain: Unions, Organizing, and the Fight for Democracy" by Jane McAlevey
- "The Way of a Pilgrim and The Pilgrim Continues His Way" translated by Helen Bacovcin
- "A History of America in Ten Strikes" by Erik Loomis
- "Ideas and Opinions" by Albert Einstein
- "The Seasons of Life: A Companion for the Poetic Journey" by Hermann Hesse
- "The Fire Last Time: 1968 and After" by Chris Harman
- "Beaten Down, Worked Up: The Past, Present, and Future of American Labor" by Steven Greenhouse
- "East Los Angeles: History of a Barrio" by Ricardo Romo
- "There is Power in a Union: The Epic Story of Labor in America" by Philip Dray
- "Class Warfare: Interviews with David Barsamian" by Noam Chomsky and David Barsamian
- "America’s Reconstruction: People and Politics after the Civil War" by Eric Foner and Olivia Mahoney
- "Power at Play: Sports and the Problem of Masculinity" by Michael A. Messner
- "First World, Ha, Ha, Ha! The Zapatista Challenge" edited by Elaine Katzenberger
- "Always a Rebel: Ricardo Flores Magón and the Mexican Revolution" by Ward S. Albro
- "An Introduction to Labor Law" by Michael Evan Gold
- "The Union of Their Dreams: Power, Hope, and Struggle in Cesar Chavez's Farm Worker Movement" by Miriam Pawel
- ""They're Bankrupting Us!": And 20 Other Myths about Unions" by Bill Fletcher Jr.
- "Voices of Labor: History of the Working Class" by Steve Sears
- "No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age" by Jane McAlevey
- "Labor Law for the Rank & Filer: Building Solidarity While Staying Clear of the Law" by Staughton Lynd & Daniel Gross
- "Why Unions Matter" by Michael D. Yates
- "The Other Wind" by Ursula K. Le Guin
- "Tales from Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin
- "Chicana Falsa: And Other Stories of Death, Identity, & Oxnard" by Michele M. Serros
- "Tehanu: The Last Book of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin
- "The Little Prince" by Antoine de Saint Exupéry
- "Under the Volcano" by Malcolm Lowry
- "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change" by Stephen R. Covey
- "The House on Mango Street" by Sandra Cisneros
- "Moving the Centre: The Struggle for Cultural Freedoms" by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
- "Joe Hill" by Gibbs M. Smith
- "How Real is Real? Confusion, Disinformation, Communication" by Paul Watzlawick
- "The Farthest Shore" by Ursula K. Le Guin
- "The Dust Rose Like Smoke: The Subjugation of the Zulu and the Sioux" by James O. Gump
- "The Tombs of Atuan" by Ursula K. Le Guin
- "The Violence of Love" by Oscar Romero
- "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin
- "Only One Thing Can Save Us: Why America Needs a New Kind of Labor Movement" by Thomas Geoghegan
- "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri
- "The Winter of Our Discontent" by John Steinbeck
- "The Shadow of the Wind" by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
- "The Magic of Thinking Big" by David J. Schwartz, Ph.D.
- "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
- "Beneath the Wheel" by Hermann Hesse
- "Some Nerve: Lessons Learned While Becoming Brave" by Patty Chang Anker
- "Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury
- "Rediscover Catholicism: A Spiritual Guide to Living with Passion & Purpose" by Matthew Kelly
- "The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It" by Michael E. Gerber
- "Selected Essays" by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- "The Screwtape Letters" by C.S. Lewis
- "The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom" by Miguel Ruiz
- "How to Win Friends and Influence People" by Dale Carnegie
- "Getting More: How to Negotiate to Achieve Your Goals in the Real World" by Stuart Diamond
- "Love in the Time of Cholera" by Gabriel García Márquez
- "Mexico City Blues (242 Choruses)" by Jack Kerouac
- "Blindness" by José Saramago
- "The Old Man and the Sea" by Ernest Hemingway
- "The Journey to the East" by Hermann Hesse
- "The Four Signs of a Dynamic Catholic: How Engaging 1% of Catholics Could Change The World" by Matthew Kelly
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- "New Testament"
- "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding
- "Living Flame of Love" by St. John of the Cross
- "The Power and the Glory" by Graham Greene
- "The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State" by Friedrich Engels
- "Naked Lunch" by William S. Burroughs
- "The Seven Storey Mountain: An Autobiography of Faith" by Thomas Merton
- "The Pilgrimage" by Paulo Coelho
- "The Wandering Falcon" by Jamil Ahmad
- "Bless Me, Ultima" by Rudolfo Anaya
- "Poem of the Deep Song" by Federico García Lorca
- "God Dies by the Nile" by Nawal El Saadawi
- "Ender's Game" by Orson Scott Card
- "On Becoming a Leader" by Warren Bennis
- "I, Rigoberta Menchú: An Indian Woman in Guatemala" by Rigoberta Menchú
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- "Cat's Cradle" by Kurt Vonnegut
- "The Message: The Bible in Contemporary Language" by Eugene H. Peterson
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- "Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media" by Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky
- "This Side of Paradise" by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- "By Night in Chile" by Roberto Bolaño
- "The Fairy Tales of Hermann Hesse" by Hermann Hesse
- "Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877" by Eric Foner
- "José Martí Reader: Writings on the Americas" edited by Deborah Shnookal and Mirta Muñiz
- "Leaves of Grass" by Walt Whitman
- "Absalom, Absalom!" by William Faulkner
- "Tortilla Flat" by John Steinbeck
- "Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-63" by Taylor Branch
- "The Labyrinth of Solitude and other writings" by Octavio Paz
- "The Gospel According to Jesus Christ" by Jose Saramago
- "Haroun and the Sea of Stories" by Salman Rushdie
- "Deterring Democracy" by Noam Chomsky
- "Candide" by Voltaire
- "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" as told to Alex Haley
- "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
- "A Separate Reality: Further Conversations With Don Juan" by Carlos Castaneda
- "The Essential Neruda: Selected Poems" edited by Mark Eisner
- "Revolutionary Suicide" by Huey P. Newton
- "Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent" by Eduardo Galeano
- "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao" by Junot Diaz
- "Everything That Rises Must Converge" by Flannery O'Connor
- "My Antonia" by Willa Cather
- "Crossing Over: A Mexican Family on the Migrant Trail" by Ruben Martinez
- "The Aesthetic Dimension: Toward a Critique of Marxist Aesthetics" by Herbert Marcuse
- "The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream" by Barack Obama
- "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway
- "O Pioneers!" by Willa Cather
- "Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance" by Barack Obama
- "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy
- "Stranger in a Strange Land" by Robert A. Heinlein
- "American Slavery, American Freedom: The Ordeal of Colonial Virginia" by Edmund S. Morgan
- "You Can't Win" by Jack Black
- "Dune" by Frank Herbert
- "Slouching Towards Bethlehem" by Joan Didion
- "Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women" by Susan Faludi
- "Across The Wire: Life and Hard Times on the Mexican Border" by Luis Alberto Urrea
- "Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong" by James Loewen
- "The Tortilla Curtain" by T.C. Boyle
- "The Big Money" by John Dos Passos
- "The Devil's Highway: A True Story" by Luis Alberto Urrea
- "1919" by John Dos Passos
- "Dying To Cross: The Worst Immigrant Tragedy in American History" by Jorge Ramos
- "The 42nd Parallel" by John Dos Passos
- "The Importance of Being Earnest" by Oscar Wilde
- "Play It As It Lays" by Joan Didion
- "The Trial" by Franz Kafka
- "Coyotes: A Journey Across the Borders with America's Illegal Migrants" by Ted Conover
- "Miles: The Autobiography" by Miles Davis
- "The Fifth Mountain" by Paulo Coelho
- "The Naked and the Dead" by Norman Mailer
- "Tropic of Cancer" by Henry Miller