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White Like Me
by Tim J. Wise  Publisher Comments In White Like Me, Tim Wise offers a highly personal examination of the ways in which racial privilege shapes the lives of most white Americans, overtly racist or not, to the detriment of people of color, themselves, and society. The book shows the...
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Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
by Jung Chang 
Publisher Comments The forces of history and the exceptional talents of this young writer combine to produce a work of nonfiction with the breadth and drama of the richest, most memorable fiction classics. Wild Swans is a landmark book, with the intimacy of memoir and the...
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A Woman's Education
by Jill Ker Conway
Synopsis The beloved bestselling author of "The Road from Coorain and "True North continues her remarkable autobiography with an account of her decade as the first woman president of Smith College-a time when she was faced with the challenge of reinventing women...
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Girl, Interrupted
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...
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Wait Till Next Year: A Memoir
by Doris Kearns Goodwin
Publisher Comments Set in the suburbs of New York in the 1950s, Wait Till Next Year is Doris Kearns Goodwin's touching memoir of growing up in love with her family and baseball. She re-creates the postwar era, when the corner store was a place to share stories and...
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Double Victory: A Multicultural History of America in World War II
by Ronald T Takaki Synopsis A history of America in World War II is told through the lives of an ethnically diverse group of ordinary Americans struggling for equality at home and fighting for freedom overseas. Takaki's revealing book shows that there were more struggles--and more...
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Dearest Friend: A Life of Abigail Adams
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...
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Modern Japan: Modern Japan, 2nd Edition
by Elise K. Tipton Publisher Comments This thoroughly updated edition provides a concise and fascinating introduction to the social, cultural and political history of modern Japan. Ranging from the Tokugawa period to the present day, the book charts the country's evolution into a modernized,...
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A Girl Named Zippy: Growing Up Small in Mooreland, Indiana
by Haven Kimmel Synopsis When Haven Kimmel was born in 1965, Mooreland, Indiana, was a sleepy little hamlet of three hundred people. Nicknamed Zippy for the way she would bolt around the house, this small girl was possessed of big eyes and even bigger ears. In this witty and...
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Eleanor Roosevelt, Volume 1: 1884-1933
by Blanche Wiesen Cook Synopsis Cook hit a nerve with her portrait of Eleanor Roosevelt--the brave, fierce, passionate, political heroine of our century. A national bestseller, her authoritative biography has been celebrated by feminists, historians, politicians, potential first ladies,...
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Margaret Fuller: An American Romantic Life
by Charles Capper Publisher Comments With this first volume of a two-part biography of the Transcendentalist critic and feminist leader, Margaret Fuller, Capper has launched the premier modern biography of early America's best-known intellectual woman. Based on a thorough examination of all...
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All Things Must Fight to Live: Stories of War and Deliverance in Congo
by Bryan Mealer Publisher Comments A foreign correspondent’s gripping account of his experiences in Congo, told through the long scope of the country’s dark and brutal history. After covering a brutal war that claimed four million lives, journalist Bryan Mealer takes readers...
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Legacy of Luna: The Story of a Tree, a Woman and the Struggle to Save the Redwoods
by Julia Butterfl Hill
Publisher Comments On December 18, 1999, Julia Butterfly Hill's feet touched the ground for the first time in over two years, as she descended from "Luna," a thousandyear-old redwood in Humboldt County, California. Hill had climbed 180 feet up into the tree high on a...
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Drinking: A Love Story
by Caroline Knapp
Publisher Comments Fifteen million Americans a year are plagued with alcoholism. Five million of them are women. Many of them, like Caroline Knapp, started in their early teens and began to use alcohol as "liquid armor," a way to protect themselves against the...
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Race Matters
by Cornel West Synopsis With a new introduction, the groundbreaking classic Race Matters" affirms its position as the bestselling, most influential, and most original articulation of the urgent issues in America's ongoing racial debate. Cornel West is at the forefront of...
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I, Rigoberta Menchu: An Indian Woman in Guatemala
by Elisa Burgos Debray Synopsis Interviews with a Guatemalan national leader discuss her country's political situation and the resulting violence, which has claimed the lives of her brother, mother, and father....
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Soul on Ice
by Eldridge Cleaver Publisher Comments The now-classic memoir that shocked, outraged, and ultimately changed the way America looked at the civil rights movement and the black experience. By turns shocking and lyrical, unblinking and raw, the searingly honest memoirs of Eldridge Cleaver are a...
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Monique and the Mango Rains: Two Years with a Midwife in Mali
by Kris Holloway Publisher Comments Monique and the Mango Rains is the compelling story of a rare friendship between a young Peace Corps volunteer and a midwife who became a legend. Monique Dembele saved lives and dispensed hope in a place where childbirth is a life-and-death matter. This...
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Autobiography of a Face
by Lucy Grealy
Publisher Comments "I spent five years of my life being treated for cancer, but since then I'vespent fifteen years being treated for nothing other than lookingdifferent from everyone else. It was the pain from that, fromfeeling ugly, that I always viewed as the great...
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Race, Class and Gender : Anthology (6TH 07 Edition)
by Margaret L. Andersen Publisher Comments RACE, CLASS, AND, GENDER, includes many interdisciplinary readings. The author's selection of very accessible articles show how race, class, and gender shape people's experiences, and help students to see the issues in an analytic, as well as descriptive...
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