by Luis Rodriguez  Publisher Comments This award-winning and bestselling classic memoir about a young Chicano gang member is now updated with a new Introduction and reading group guide.... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your Price $6.98 (Sale - Trade Paper) check for used copies 
by Anne Fadiman 
Publisher Comments Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for NonfictionWhen 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) Your Price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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) Your Price $9.98 (Sale - Trade Paper) check for used copies
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 looking different from everyone else. It was the pain from that, from feeling ugly, that I always viewed as the great... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your Price $5.98 (Sale - Trade Paper) check for used copies
by Luis Alberto Urrea Publisher Comments "Superb . . . Nothing less than a saga on the scale of the Exodus and an ordeal as heartbreaking as the Passion . . . The book comes vividly alive with a richness of language and a mastery of narrative detail that only the most gifted of writers are able... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your Price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by James Baldwin Publisher Comments A national bestseller when it first appeared in 1963, The Fire Next Time galvanized the nation and gave passionate voice to the emerging civil rights movement. At once a powerful evocation of James Baldwin's early life in Harlem and a disturbing... (read more) Your Price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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 $14.00 Your Price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by James H Webb Publisher Comments More than 27 million Americans today can trace their lineage to the Scots, whose bloodline was stained by centuries of continuous warfare along the border between England and Scotland, and later in the bitter settlements of England’s Ulster... (read more) Your Price $10.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Rudy Adler Publisher Comments Every year, thousands of undocumented migrants attempt to cross the U.S.-Mexico border, and every year, the Minutemen, a volunteer group of citizens who patrol the border, try to stop them. As the debate over immigration became increasingly fierce and... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your Price $10.98 (Sale - Hardcover) check for used copies
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by Roger Daniels Publisher Comments Part of Hill and Wang's Critical Issues Series and well established on college reading lists, PRISONERS WITHOUT TRIAL presents a concise introduction to a shameful chapter in American history: the incarceration of nearly 120,000 Japanese Americans during... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your Price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Jerre Mangione Publisher Comments From the early Italian adventurers who played an important role in the European expansion across the Atlantic to the political and business leaders of the 1990s, this book tells a dramatic story. The heart of the story is the mass migration that took... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your Price $10.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Michael P Macdonald
Publisher Comments Michael Patrick MacDonald grew up in "the best place in the world" — the Old Colony projects of South Boston — where 85 percent of the residents collect welfare in an area with the highest concentration of impoverished whites in the U.S. In All... (read more) Your Price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Julia Alvarez Publisher Comments A "phenomenal, indispensable" (USA Today) exploration of the Latina "sweet fifteen" celebration, by the bestselling author of How the Garca Girls Lost Their Accents The quinceaera, a celebration of a Latina girl's fifteenth birthday, has become a... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your Price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by James Baldwin
Powells.com Staff Pick These brilliant essays, which ultimately form a profound meditation on what it means to be "native" to this complex and brutal country we call America, were originally published in the 1940s and 1950s. Sadly, it came as no surprise to me how timely... (read more) Your Price $6.98 (Sale - Trade Paper) check for used copies
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 as renowned... (read more) Your Price $2.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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