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Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
by Azar Nafisi  
Publisher Comments Every Thursday morning for two years in the Islamic Republic of Iran, a bold and inspired teacher named Azar Nafisi secretly gathered seven of her most committed female students to read forbidden Western classics. As Islamic morality squads staged...
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Catfish & Mandala: A Two-Wheeled Voyage Through the Landscape and Memory of Vietnam
by Andrew X Pham
Publisher Comments Winner of the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize A New York Times Notable Book of the Year Winner of the Whiting Writers' Award A Seattle Post-Intelligencer Best Book of the Year Catfish and Mandala is the story of an American odyssey—a solo bicycle...
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Dog Man: An Uncommon Life on a Faraway Mountain
by Martha Sherrill Publisher Comments How one man's consuming passion for dogs saved a legendary breed from extinction and led him to a difficult, more soulful way of life in the wilds of Japan's remote snow country As Dog Man opens, Martha Sherrill brings us to a world that Americans know...
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Angela's Ashes
by Frank Mccourt
Publisher Comments "<P>"When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I managed to survive at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood...
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Enrique's Journey (06 Edition)
by Sonia Nazario Publisher Comments In this astonishing true story, award-winning journalist Sonia Nazario recounts the unforgettable odyssey of a Honduran boy who braves unimaginable hardship and peril to reach his mother in the United States. When Enrique is five years old, his mother...
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The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East
by Sandy Tolan Publisher Comments In 1967, Bashir Al-Khayri, a Palestinian twenty-five-year-old, journeyed to Israel, with the goal of seeing the beloved old stone house, with the lemon tree behind it, that he and his family had fled nineteen years earlier. To his surprise, when he found...
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Persepolis 2 : Story of a Return (04 Edition)
by Marjane Satrapi
Powells.com Staff Pick I must admit I read this, the second installment of Satrapi's illustrated autobiography, before reading the first. Without the full premise of how she left her native country of Iran for Europe, it was easy to think that I had found a interesting...
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Funny in Farsi : a Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America (03 Edition)
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...
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Persian Girls: A Memoir
by Nahid Rachlin Publisher Comments For many years, heartache prevented Nahid Rachlin from turning her sharp novelist's eye inward: to tell the story of how her own life diverged from that of her closest confidante and beloved sister, Pari. Growing up in Iran, both refused to accept...
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The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts
by Maxine Hong Kingston
Publisher Comments A Chinese American woman tells of the Chinese myths, family stories and events of her California childhood that have shaped her identity....
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Leaving Mother Lake: A Girlhood at the Edge of the World
by Yang Erche Namu and Christine Mathieu Publisher Comments This lyrical evocation of girlhood in a remote Himalayan village where women truly rule is now in paperback. In the remote Himalayas, on the shores of Lake Lugu, there is a place the Chinese call "the Country of Daughters." This is the home of the...
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Between Two Worlds (05 Edition)
by Salbi Publisher Comments Zainab Salbi was eleven years old when her father was chosen to be Saddam Hussein's personal pilot and her family's life was grafted onto his. Her mother, the beautiful Alia, taught her daughter the skills she needed to survive. A plastic smile. Saying...
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Hunger of Memory: An Autobiography
by Richard Rodriguez Publisher Comments Hunger of Memory is the story of Mexican-American Richard Rodriguez, who begins his schooling in Sacramento, California, knowing just 50 words of English, and concludes his university studies in the stately quiet of the reading room of the British Museum....
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The Bookseller of Kabul
by Asne Seierstad
Powells.com Staff Pick In this remarkable portrait, Norwegian journalist Åsne Seierstad recounts with brutal honesty the day to day lives of one Afghani family persevering through life in a country beset by chaos. With the assent of the Khan family with whom she lives...
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I've Got a Home in Glory Land: A Lost Tale of the Underground Railroad
by Karoly Smardz Frost Publisher Comments It was the day before Independence Day, 1833. As his bride, Lucie, was about to be sold down the river, Thornton Blackburn planned a daring—and successful—daylight escape from their Louisville masters. Pursued to Michigan, the couple was...
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Sweet Promised Land: 50th Aniversary Edition
by Robert Laxalt Publisher Comments Fortieth anniversary edition of the touching story told by Robert Laxalt of his father's return to the Basque Country after living in the U.S. for almost fifty years....
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The Heroic Present: Life Among the Gypsies
by Jan Yoors Publisher Comments Belgian-born Jan Yoors, who would grow up to become an acclaimed artist, photographer, and writer, ran away from home at age twelve, in 1934, to join a kumpania (band) of Roma, or Gypsies, near Antwerp. He spent several years traveling with the Roma and...
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When I Was Puerto Rican: A Memoir
by Esmeralda Santiago Publisher Comments Esmeralda Santiago's story begins in rural Puerto Rico, where her childhood was full of both tenderness and domestic strife, tropical sounds and sights as well as poverty. Growing up, she learned the proper way to eat a guava, the sound of tree frogs in...
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Angela's Ashes: A Memoir
by Frank Mccourt Publisher Comments "When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I managed to survive at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse...
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Coming Home to China
by Yi-fu Tuan Publisher Comments In the summer of 2005, distinguished geographer Yi-Fu Tuan ventured to China to speak at an international architectural conference, returning for the first time to the place he had left as a child sixty-four years before. He traveled from Beijing...
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