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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 
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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 $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Geraldo Rivera Synopsis A rare, unflinching look at one of todayas most important issuesafrom one of todayas most well-known journalists. In this insightful, well-researched book, Peabody and EmmyA(R) Award-winning journalist Geraldo Rivera examines the growth of the Hispanic... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $16.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Frank Wu Publisher Comments Writing in the tradition of W. E. B. Du Bois, Cornel West, and others who confronted the "color line" of the twentieth century, journalist, scholar, and activist Frank H. Wu offers a unique perspective on how changing ideas of racial identity will affect... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $9.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Adeline Yen Mah Publisher Comments “ The journey she takes us on… is fascinating, proving that stories are everywhere, even in the humble proverb.’... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Etsu Inaga Sugimoto About the Author Stephen K. Hayes has spent over one-third of his life practicing and teaching the Oriental fighting arts. He is the first American ever accepted as a personal student by the master of the last historically unbroken ninjutsu tradition in Japan. Stephen K.... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Marie Arana Publisher Comments In her father’s Peruvian family, Marie Arana was taught to be a proper lady, yet in her mother’s American family she learned to shoot a gun, break a horse, and snap a chicken’s neck for dinner. Arana shuttled easily between these deeply... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Benjamin Demott Publisher Comments In this lively book, a well-known social critic draws on evidence from movies, TV, literature, and advertising to argue that many Americans have been lulled by the media into believing that racial problems can be substantially mitigated, even vanquished,... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Ann Louise Bardach Publisher Comments From America’s number one Cuba reporter, PEN award–winning investigative journalist Ann Louise Bardach, comes the big book on Cuba we’ve all been waiting for. An incisive and spirited portrait of the twentieth century’s wiliest... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Reymundo Sanchez Publisher Comments Looking for an escape from childhood abuse, Reymundo Sanchez turned away from school and baseball to drugs, alcohol, and then sex, and was left to fend for himself before age 14. The Latin Kings, one of the largest and most notorious street gangs in... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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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 $15.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Ronald Takaki Synopsis A Different Mirror is a dramatic new retelling of our nation's history, a powerful larger narrative of the many different peoples who together compose the United States of America.... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Kofi A Annan Synopsis In this book, the reader can share their thoughts on intolerance, anti-Semitism and what can be done to end this longest surviving for of bigotry that has brought suffering and destruction to millions of ordinary people. Their thoughtful and passionate... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $4.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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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
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by Le Ly Hayslip Publisher Comments The inspiring story of an immigrant's struggles to heal old wounds in the United States, this is the sequel to When Heaven and Earth Changed Places, Le Ly Hayslip's extraordinary, award-winning memoir of life in wartime Vietnam.... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Justin Akers Chacon Publisher Comments "A rare combination of an author, [Mike Davis is] Rachel Carson and Upton Sinclair all in one."-Susan Faludi "[Davis'writing is] perceptive and rigorous."-David Montgomery, The Nation "[Davis'work is] brilliant, provocative, and exhaustively researched."-... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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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... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Sacha Jenkins Publisher Comments Ferociously intelligent one moment, willfully smart-ass the next, ego trip's Big Book of Racismis a glorious, hilarious conflation of the racial undercurrents that affect contemporary culture at every turn. This one-of-a-kind encounter with the... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Azadeh Moaveni Publisher Comments As far back as she can remember, Azadeh Moaveni has felt at odds with her tangled identity as an Iranian-American. In suburban America, Azadeh lived in two worlds. At home, she was the daughter of the Iranian exile community, serving tea, clinging to... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Jonathan Coleman Synopsis This "powerful and profound" ("Detroit News") seven-year exploration of race in America today has been praised for its "compelling storytelling" ("Seattle Post-Intelligencer") and its "superb" narrative ("Library Journal").... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $3.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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