by Anne Fadiman  
Publisher Comments Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction When three-month-old Lia Lee Arrived at the county hospital emergency room in Merced, California, a chain of events was set in motion from which neither she nor her parents nor her doctors... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your Price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
by Luis Alberto Urrea
Powells.com Staff Pick In May 2001, in an area called the Devil's Highway, twenty-six illegal immigrants struggled across the desert border into the U.S. Most of them died in their effort. Using this tragedy to illustrate the fate of many immigrants, Urrea sheds light on... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your Price $10.98 (Sale - Hardcover) check for used copies
by Lynne Withey Publisher Comments This is the life of Abigail Adams, wife of patriot John Adams, who became the most influential woman in Revolutionary America. Rich with excerpts from her personal letters, Dearest Friend captures the public and private sides of this fascinating woman... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your Price $6.98 (Sale - Trade Paper) check for used copies
by Marie Rose Wong Book News Annotation Around the turn of the 20th century and for decades thereafter, Oregon had the second-largest Chinese population in the US. In terms of geographical coverage, Portland's two Chinatownsone an urban area of brick commercial structures, the other a... (read more) Your Price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Hector Tobar Publisher Comments This is the definitive tour of the Spanish-speaking United States-a parallel USA, 40 million strong, the largest minority group in the country-transforming the American Dream, reinventing the American community, and redefining the experience of the... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your Price $7.98 (Sale - Trade Paper) check for used copies
by Freedom Writers and Erin Gruwell Publisher Comments Straight from the front line of urban America, the inspiring story of one fiercely determined teacher and her remarkable students. As an idealistic twenty-three-year-old English teacher at Wilson High School in Long beach, California, Erin Gruwell... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your Price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Chuck Wills Publisher Comments Whether they were escaping religious persecution, political oppression, or the violence of war, or looking to further their careers or their economic standings, immigrants have come to America. Take a detailed look at why immigrants left their homelands,... (read more) Your Price $12.98 (Sale - Hardcover) check for used copies
by Firoozeh Dumas Publisher Comments In 1972, when she was seven, Firoozeh Dumas and her family moved from Iran to Southern California, arriving with no firsthand knowledge of this country beyond her father's glowing memories of his graduate school years here. More family soon followed, and... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your Price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Kati Marton Publisher Comments Extravagantly praised by critics and readers, this stunning story by bestselling author Kati Marton tells of the breathtaking journey of nine extraordinary men from Budapest to the New World, what they experienced along their dangerous route, and how... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your Price $8.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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Friday May 16, 2008
by Jeanne W Houston Publisher Comments Jeanne Wakatsuki was seven years old in 1942 when her family was uprooted from their home and sent to live at Manzanar internment camp--with 10,000 other Japanese Americans. Along with searchlight towers and armed guards, Manzanar ludicrously featured... (read more) List Price $6.99 Your Price $3.95 (Used - Mass Market) check for new and sale copies
by Jerre Mangione Publisher Comments From the early Italian adventurers who played an important role in the European expansion across the Atlantic to the political and business leaders of the 1990s, this book tells a dramatic story. The heart of the story is the mass migration that took... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your Price $10.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Thomas J Fleming Publisher Comments Did Thomas Fleming’ s father love him? And did he love his father? These are central mysteries of this story about his father. An Irish-American coming of age story, the memoir will show what Teddy Fleming had to do to make himself a... (read more) Your Price $10.98 (Sale - Hardcover) check for used copies
by Susanna Kaysen
Publisher Comments In 1967, after a session with a psychiatrist she'd never seen before, eighteen-year-old Susanna Kaysen was put in a taxi and sent to McLean Hospital. She spent most of the next two years on the ward for teenage girls in a psychiatric hospital... (read more) Your Price $3.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Anne Lamott
Powells.com Staff Pick Readers of Traveling Mercies, Lamott's previous book on spirituality, will find here the same thoughtfulness and humor we've come to love. Whether writing about battles with her son, her mother's death, the church she's found to be home, or her loathing... (read more) Your Price $6.98 (Sale - Trade Paper) check for used copies
by Nuala O'Faolain Publisher Comments Nuala O'Faolain attracted a huge amount of critical praise and a wide audience with the literary debut of Are You Somebody? Her midlife exploration of life's love, pain, loneliness, and self- discovery won her fans worldwide who write and tell her how... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your Price $7.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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