This 32^nd installment of Books by Friends is a short supplement to the September message offering a few more items to consider for your Holiday Season/Looking-Toward-2024 list:

Rise Up: BDS Mixtape No. 2 features Sonny Singh, El Funoun Palestinian Dance Troupe, Afro Yaquie Music Collective and many other artists  Proceeds from BDS Mixtape’s sales and streaming support cultural initiatives in Palestine through Adalah-NY’s Amplify Palestine campaign.  

In the forthcoming film Traces of Home, filmmaker Colette Ghunim embarks on journeys with her parents to find the ancestral houses they were forced to flee as children in Mexico and Palestine. You can watch the trailer here.

No Going Back: Rhymes for the Times is Gerald Lenoir’s third book of poetry. The fightback against Trumpism is the impetus for poems that cut to the core of the pain and gain of the past few years. Gerald is also writing song lyrics; click on the title to listen to his debut single, You’re Still Here. 

Gerardo de Jesus’ voice comes to us in Undeserved Suffering: A Psychospiritual Autobiography of Post-Colonial Faith from the Puerto Rican Diaspora: “The faith inherited from 5 centuries of colonialism has grown into our collective identity, and though its sacred stories speak to our realities, its legacy has also contributed to colonial aims.”

In Practical Radicals: Seven Strategies to Change the World, Stephanie Luce and Deepak Bhargava use interviews with leading organizers to draw crucial lessons for making deep-going change. The volume features stories of organizations and movements that have won, including Make the Road NY, the St. Paul Federation of Educators, the welfare rights movement, the Working Families Party, New Georgia Project, Occupy Wall Street, 350.org, the Fight for 15, and Gay Men’s Health Crisis. 

The Vibration of Grace: Sound Healing for Liberation, by Gina Breedlove, offers “a sweeping, glorious guide to help you invoke the power of sound as a vehicle of love and liberation – for yourself, your loved ones, and our world.”

Last, coming in May but available for pre-order now is But You Look So Normal – Lost and Found in a Hearing World, by Claudia Marseille: “an inspiring story of a life affected but not defined by an invisible disability.”