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| Joyce Carol Thomas - Marked by Fire |
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Abyssinia Jackson, born in an Oklahoma cotton field in the wake of a tornado, is the pride and joy of her family, church, and community until a series of natural disasters and personal attacks threaten to break her spirit, but Mother Barker and her lessons in folk medicine help Abby survive.
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$0.28 - $15.99
from 6 stores
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| Virginia Kroll - Wood-Hoopoe Willie |
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Willie longs to express his musical talent with instruments created by his African ancestors--such as guedras, ecasas, atumpan, and dundun drums--and he gets his opportunity at the Kwanzaa festival.
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$1.15 - $11.66
from 6 stores
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| Nicholasa Mohr - Felita |
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Felita's family just moved to a new neighborhood where all of the kids make fun of her because she's Mexican. Alone and unhappy, Felita doesn't know how she can overcome all of the prejudice around her. But somehow, she may rise above it all and realize that she is a special person.
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$0.25 - $5.99
from 5 stores
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| Tato Laviera - Enclave |
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Winner of the 1981 Before Columbus Foundation American Book Award. Laviera celebrates the Puerto Rican experience in New York providing a gallery of portraits of the indomitable inhabitants of the enclave, whose lives are evoked through soulful rhythmic songs. "Enclave serves as a very timely manife ...
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$1.99 - $7.00
from 5 stores
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| Sandra Benitez - Bitter Grounds |
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"A story of passion, politics, death, and love" (Isabel Allende), this page-turning saga spans the years between 1932 and 1977, and is set in the heart of El Salvador, where coffee plantations are the center of life for rich and poor alike.
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$2.00 - $71.00
from 3 stores
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| Marianna De Marco Torgovnick - Crossing Ocean Parkway |
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The acclaimed author of Gone Primitive interweaves autobiographical moments with engrossing interpretations of American cultural icons, from Dr. Doolittle to Lionel Trilling, from The Godfather to Camille Paglia, to create this unflinching account of crossing cultural boundaries--of what it means to ...
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$2.00 - $25.00
from 3 stores
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| Louis Owens - Nightland |
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A dead body and a suitcase with $58,000 fall from the sky and land at Billy Keene's feet. What to do? Keene and his hunting pal, Will Striker, decide to keep the money, leave the body, and skedaddle. But a helicopter quickly sights the pair--both of whom are half Cherokee--and begins shooting at the ...
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$5.99 - $9.95
from 4 stores
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| Miguel Algarin - Time's Now/Ya Es Tiempo |
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Miguel Algarin, poet of contemplation and action, presents his first book on the intimate relationships we foment as individuals, nations and children of a silent god. Openly political, blatantly blunt, religiously irreverent, Time's Now/Ya es tiempo takes us from the most recondite comers of the so ...
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$5.35 - $6.30
from 3 stores
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| Paule Marshall - Praisesong for the Widow |
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Avatar (Avey) Johnson is a West Indian-American widow in her 60s. Affluent, secure, she has lost touch with her Caribbean origins. After her husband dies, however, Avey goes on a West Indian cruise and begins having anxious dreams about a great-great-aunt. She makes plans to escape her anxiety by re ...
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$1.99 - $9.88
from 2 stores
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