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Valentine's Day is a good time to bring back this lovely song from Olivia on the Record. 

Get a copy of the book here: https://www.auntlute.com/olivia-on-the-record 

[Alt text: Page reads: On February 14, 1974, Meg and I celebrated Valentine’s Day. I had asked her what she wanted her gift to be and she told me she wanted a new apron. And that’s what she got. Then she sat me down in the living room and played her gift to me: “Valentine Song.” It was once only dining and dancing Evening kisses, morning smiles And then you said, “Let’s go off together Alone for a while” And I loved you at first for your wicked eyes And the laughter that loosens your bones And your soft curls And the passions that I’ve never known . . . . . . . . . . . Yes, we bargained for doubtful tomorrows But our past grows richer each day And more and more, I cannot see me going away With happiness here for our taking Resting easy, feeling strong As I delight in the life that we’re making I sing you this valentine song.]

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OTD: Apparently we have an affinity for publishing some outstanding works on December 1! Join us in celebrating these books on the anniversary of their publication. 

- ¡Cuéntamelo! published 12/1/2017

- Frontline Feminism published 12/1/1995 

- Haggadah published 12/1/1997 

- Our Feet Walk the Sky published 12/1/1993 Head over to the link in bio to get copies of all of these for yourself. 

[ID: “Published on this day” with the covers of the books mentioned in this post]

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You have one week left to support Aunt Lute Books. Please consider donating even a few dollars to our 40th anniversary fundraiser, or share our fundraiser with others. Head over to the link in bio to donate now.

https://www.mightycause.com/story/Zbwo0g 

[ID: stack of books with numbers on side, arrow points above $1,000 and reads $3,941. Text says “One week left.”]

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Luters Read

Name: Andrenne Harbin, Marketing Intern

Current Read: The Core by Peter V. Brett

Next book(s) on your list: Silence Fallen by Patricia Briggs and Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyami

My current read is The Core, the latest novel in Peter V. Brett’s Demon Cycle series. I love this series! It’s about the struggle between humanity and corelings. Corelings are various types of demons who appear on the surface at night to wreak havoc and kill/eat people. It’s a beautifully developed series with a world full of myth, history, solid characters and adventure.

The series is told through the perspective of multiple characters, but is centered on Arlen Bales a.k.a The Warded Man; who is fed up with fearing the night and begins to paint wards onto his skin. Wards are magical symbols created by humanity but the knowledge of them has been lost to time. They have various uses such as repelling or killing demons, hardening, healing, producing wind or fire, etc. Anyway Arlen is basically a badass; he is the first human to put wards directly on his skin, resulting in him absorbing magic (badass alert!). With this new power he begins to brave the night and battle demons. Through his actions Arlen inadvertently becomes a symbol of prophecy and power for humanity, spurring a war against the corelings.

This series will change your life! Not only will it take you on an M rated Harry Potter-esque journey packed with bloody intense fighting scenes, it also has characters that are so in depth and complex you start to think your reading actual events. PLUS the underlying theme expresses the importance of people banding together and acknowledging each other’s humanity. Do yourself a favor and read this series!

 P.S, 

The women are the real power in the series and inspired me to start martial arts.

 Andrenne is a shameless fantasy/sci-fi reader. She loves to pet other people’s dogs and can’t wait to have her own. When she’s not plotting a dog heist she’s gaming or adventuring.

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Irreverent and poetic, “Her” by Cherry Muhanji is a daring novel that explores relationships among Black women of different generations and places who, above all, teach each other how to survive. You can purchase a copy from our distributors @spdbooks at 20% off w/code FETCH for the month of August! • www.spdbooks.org/On-sale.aspx • #her #cherrymuhanji #detroit #pocwriters #backtoschool #quote #auntlutebooks

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Set mostly in China during and after the Cultural Revolution, Geling Yan presents us with unforgettable characters who have all, in one way or another, left home. Taking as her territory the disorienting space between home and away, Yan charts the unexpected transformation of her characters as they find themselves thrust into unlikely intimacy with strangers who embody different histories and different desires. • www.auntlute.com/white-snake • #GelingYan #WhiteSnake #novella #culturalrevolution #shortstory #queerlit #chineseamerican #literature

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¡Cuéntamelo! Oral Histories by LGBT Latino Immigrants  by Juliana Delgado Lopera is the winner of a Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ Anthology! When you buy from SPD Books (our wonderful distributor), Lammy Award winning titles are 20% off for the next two weeks! Visit https://bit.ly/2tpHHMM and use the code LAMMY for a 20% off when you order ¡Cuéntamelo!

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“I was so stunned with the layered language and powerful storytelling in “flesh to bone”. The stories completely uprooted and expanded my idea of what can be possible through writing and interpretations of ancestral knowledge and how myth is woven throughout our daily life and understandings of self. The book made me hungry for the myths of my own ancestors, and prompted me to reflect on how myth is continuously present, and projected over my relationship to my people and my land as an Indigenous person.” • 2 MORE DAYS! Support publications such as “flesh to bone” reach print by donating this Give OUT Day to Aunt Lute. Link in bio 🙌🏽 • #fleshtobone #giveoutday #queerlit #poetry #chicanxpoetry

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“Leela Fernandes’ Transforming Feminist Practice Gabe me the possibility of feminism as an embodied experience of living differently and mindfully instead of an academic exercise sequestered in an ivory tower. Her reclamation’s of non-hierarchical, non-weaponized spirituality that centers empathy and relationality and her calls for a feminist collective revolution of values were (and are) a powerful antidote in the defensive cynicism I developed as protection in the face of the otherwise-overwhelming prospect of enacting change.” • 3 days left... but you don’t have to wait. Go ahead and visit the link in our bio to schedule a donation if you would like to see more transformative titles like this one published #queerlit #giveoutday #feministtheory

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Gloria Anzaldúa’s Borderlands/La Frontera, recaps our understanding of what a border is, presenting it not as a simple divide between here and there, us and them, but as a psychic, social, and cultural terrain that we inhabit. Consider supporting this and future publications by queer women of color by donating on Give OUT Day: giveoutday.org/c/GO/a/auntlute • Everyone who donates to us on Give OUT Day will be entered in a special raffle as a thank-you from us to you. You could win a copy of one of our recent releases: ¡Cuéntamelo! Oral Histories by LGBT Latino Immigrants, Good Girls Marry Doctors, or a gift set of the Borderlands/La Frontera book +limited edition mug! • #auntlutebooks #latinxauthors #chicanxauthors #borderlands

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Consider donating to Aunt Lute on @giveoutday2018 ! Visit giveoutday.org/c/GO/a/auntlute #loot4lute #giveoutday2018

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👀👀👀 Look out! Give OUT Day 2018 is around the corner. • Give OUT Day is the ONLY national day of giving for the LGBTQ community – a 24-hour online fundraising event that unites donors and nonprofit organizations from across the country to raise critically needed funds. • Visit giveoutday.org/c/GO/a/auntlute to schedule a donation to Aunt Lute today! @giveoutday #loot4lute #giveoutday2018

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Give OUT Day is 4.19.18! For our Give OUT Day campaign this year, we ask our readers: What does your favorite Aunt Lute title mean to you?

Send us your answers using this Google Form, or email: auntlute.marketing@gmail.com, and they could be featured as part of our social media campaign next week!

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This is a story about Detroit in the late fifties/early sixties and the Black Women and men who came North to work the lines of the Ford Motor plant. It’s a story about John R. Street, the Harlem of Detroit, where they spent their nights trying to forget their days—at the Frolic and Flame Showbars, playing Mr. Ben’s numbers, sitting on stoops reminiscing about the days of their youth in the South. Irreverent and poetic, this dating novel explores relationships among Black women of different generations and places who, above all, reach each other how to survive—not on men or money but on the courage to move a long ways in tight spaces. Find out more about “Her” by Cherry Muhanji on our website: auntlute.com/her #1950sdetroit #detroit #africanamericanlit #auntlutebooks #cherry muhanji

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🏵 🏵 🏵 Front Line Feminism is a collection of over 80 essays from two decades of news, analysis, interviews, reviews, and letters from one of the nation's oldest and largest women's newspapers, Sojourner: The Women's Forum. These articles are a microcosm of the lively and committed debates around some of the key issues of second-wave feminism: identity politics, economic injustice, politics of the family, reproductive freedom, women's health, sex and sexuality, violence against women, and building alliances. This anthology is a must for everyone interested in a wide-ranging overview of the contemporary U.S. feminist movement and an in-depth analysis of the issues. 🏵 🏵 🏵 Find Front Line Feminism for purchase here: https://www.auntlute.com/frontline-feminism • • • • #frontlinefeminism #angeladavis #auntlutebooks #blackhistorymonth #essays#nonfiction #identitypolitics #socialjustice

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How does it feel to be a black woman in South Africa? Published in 1985, "Call Me Woman" details life during the past 50 years in South Africa. Like millions of black South Africans made strangers in the land of their birth, Ellen Kuzwayo has lost a great deal in her lifetime: the farm in the Orange Free State which had belonged to her family for nearly a hundred years; her hopes for a full and peaceful life for her children; even her own freedom, when, at the age of 63, she found herself detained under the so-called Terrorism Act for an offence never specified. But she has not lost her courage. • 🔖🔖🔖 Small Press Distribution is running a sale for Black History Month. Get 20% off your copy of "Call Me Woman" today: www.auntlute.com/call-me-woman 🔖🔖🔖 • • • • #ellenkuzwayo #southafricanlit #autobiography #auntlutebooks #quotes #blackhistorymonth

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Indiana Redpaint, traded by her father for a desperately sought rodeo entry fee, is forced to flee her family in Oklahoma to be raised by her grandparents in North Carolina. A generation later her daughter Manna, whose life is deeply marked by her mother's losses, flees from her own tragic past to Gallup, New Mexico, where she finds wholeness and healing in unexpected places and people. Read more about the book here: https://www.auntlute.com/the-way-we-make-sense • • • • #dawnkarimapettigrew #poetry #nativeamericanlit #auntlutebooks #pocwriters