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Outsiders Within :  Writing on Transracial Adoption (06 Edition) Outsiders Within : Writing on Transracial Adoption (06 Edition)
by Jane Jeong Trenka
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Given Madonna's recent decision to adopt a child from Malawi, newsand entertainment are abuzz with what you've observed yourself-in yourown family, or the family next door, or passing the neighborhoodplayground-there's a boom in transracial adoption... (read more)
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In the Country of Men In the Country of Men
by Hisham Matar
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In 1979 Libya, nine-year-old Suleiman endures his mother's increasingly disturbing bedside stories full of old family bitterness. His father is away on business (again), and Suleiman is soon caught up in a world he cannot hope to understand in this novel... (read more)
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Cancer Vixen: A True Story Cancer Vixen: A True Story
by Marisa Acocella Marchetto
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"What happens when a shoe-crazy, lipstick-obsessed, wine-swilling, pasta-slurping, fashion-fanatic, single-forever, about-to-get-married big-city girl cartoonist with a fabulous life finds...a lump in her breast?" That's the question that sets this... (read more)
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Wizard of the Crow Wizard of the Crow
by Ngugi wa'Thiong'o
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In exile now for more than 20 years, the author has become one of the most widely read contemporary African writers. This volume is an ambitious attempt to sum up the Africa of the 20th century in the context of two thousand years of world history... (read more)
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What's My Name, Fool?: Sports and Resistance in the United States What's My Name, Fool?: Sports and Resistance in the United States
by Dave Zirin
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“Zirin is America’s best sportswriter.”—Lee Ballinger, Rock and Rap Confidential “Zirin is one of the brightest, most audacious voices I can remember on the sportswriting scene, and my memory goes back to the 1920s.&rdquo... (read more)
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Nonviolence: Twenty-Five Lessons from the History of a Dangerous Idea (Modern Library Chronicles) Nonviolence: Twenty-Five Lessons from the History of a Dangerous Idea (Modern Library Chronicles)
by Mark Kurlansky
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From the prize-winning, "New York Times" bestselling author comes a provocative history that persuasively argues that even the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, and World War II could have been avoided by nonviolent means.... (read more)
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Resistance and Contemplation: The Way of Liberation Resistance and Contemplation: The Way of Liberation
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The Madonnas of Leningrad The Madonnas of Leningrad
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One of the most talked about books of the year... Bit by bit, the ravages of age are eroding Marina's grip on the everyday. And while the elderly Russian woman cannot hold on to fresh memories — the details of her grown children's lives, the... (read more)

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