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The Pursuit of Happyness by Chris Gardner Publisher Comments The astounding yet true rags-to-riches saga of a homeless father who raised and cared for his son on the mean streets of San Francisco and went on to become a crown prince of Wall Street At the age of twenty, Milwaukee native Chris Gardner, just out of... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $3.63 Used - Trade Paper 
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The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures 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: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Always Running: La Vida Loca: Gang Days in L.a by Luis J Rodriguez Publisher Comments By age twelve, Luis Rodriguez was a veteran of East L.A. gang warfare. Lured by a seemingly invincible gang culture, he witnessed countless shootings, beatings, and arrests, then watched with increasing fear as drugs, murder, suicide, and senseless acts... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Stubborn Twig: Three Generations in the Life of a Japanese American Family (Oregon Reads) by Lauren Kessler Publisher Comments Stubborn Twig is a classic American story, a story of immigrants making their way in a new land. It is a living work of social history that rings with the power of truth and the drama of fiction, a moving saga about the challenges of becoming an American.... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Norwegians in Wisconsin by Richard J. Fapso Publisher Comments This perennially popular book, now revised and expanded with additional historical photos and documents, offers a concise introduction to Wisconsin's Norwegian immigrants. The narrative examines the mass migration of Norwegians from 1837, when Ole... (read more) Your price: $9.95 New - Trade Paper
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Sweet Cakes, Long Journey: The Chinatowns of Portland, Oregon 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) List Price $24.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama by Gwen Ifill Publisher Comments In The Breakthrough, veteran journalist Gwen Ifill surveys the American political landscape, shedding new light on the impact of Barack Obama's stunning presidential victory and introducing the emerging young African American politicians forging a bold... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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My Name Is Iran: A Memoir by Davar Ardalan Publisher Comments “Ardalans testimony to the feminist spirit of the pioneering women in her family, and in the face of centuries-long strictures against the advancement of women, is a supreme achievement.”Publishers Weekly Drawing on her remarkable... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Single Square Picture : a Korean Adoptee's Search for Her Roots (02 Edition) by Katy Robinson Synopsis One day she was Kim Ji-yun, growing up in Seoul, Korea. The next day she was Catherine Jeanne Robinson, living with her new American family in Salt Lake City, Utah. Twenty years later, Robinson returned to Seoul in search of her birth mother--and found... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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