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Natalie Angier - Woman: An Intimate Geography
At some point midway through my pregnancy, when I knew I was carrying a daughter, I began to think of myself as standing in a room with two facing mirrors, so that looking into one mirror you see the other mirror reflecting it, and you, off into something approaching an infinity of images. At twenty ... More
Score: 4.8 4 Reviews
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Beth Kephart - A Slant of Sun: One Child's Courage
In this 1998 National Book Award finalist, Kephart chronicles the tragedy of her son's developmental problems and her struggle to lead him toward wholeness.
Score: 5.0 1 Review
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Bernard Augustine De Voto - The Course of Empire
Tracing North American exploration from Balboa to Lewis Clark, DeVoto tells in classic fashion how the drama of discovery defined the American nation.
Score: 5.0 1 Review
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Maxine Kingston - China Men
The author chronicles the lives of three generations of Chinese men in America, woven from memory, myth and fact. Heres a storyteller's tale of what they endured in a strange new land.
Score: 4.0 2 Reviews
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Patrick Tierney - Darkness in El Dorado: How Scientists and Journalists Devastated the Amazon
Examines the destructive impact of journalists, anthropologists, and scientists on the Yamomami Indians, one of the Amazon basin's oldest tribes, whose internecine warfare was triggered by repeated visits by the world's leading anthropologists and by the Atomic Energy Commission's plans to use the ... More
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Nina Bernstein - The Lost Children of Wilder: The Epic Struggle to Change Foster Care
Through a long study of several principles in a landmark court decision, a journalist exposes the gulag of New York's foster care system. The author examines the lost lives that were caught up in the system, and the large social issues such as race, ethnicity, poverty, and human rights. She examines ... More
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David Brion Davis - The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution 1770-1823
Brion Davis displayed his mastery not only of a vast source of material, but also of the highly complex, frequently contradictory factors that influenced opinion on slavery. He has now followed this up with a study of equal quality....No one has written a book about the abolition of slavery that car ... More
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Paul Monette - Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story
Both a coming-of-age and a coming-out story, this memoir by Paul Monette (1945-1995) tells about what he considered his "wasted years"--the years before he met the man who would become his long-term lover, and before he came out as a homosexual. The author discusses the pain of being a closeted homo ... More
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Cornelius Eady - Brutal Imagination: Poems
A poet struggles to understand the role of the black man in America by evoking slave images to show the African-American family in crisis across three centuries. Simultaneous.
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Winthrop D. Jordan - White over Black: American Attitudes Toward the Negro, 1550-1812
A discussion of white racial attitudes from before the first Negroes set foot on American soil in 1619 to the present national situation.
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Alberto Rios - The Smallest Muscle in the Human Body
Alberto R?os explains the world through magic. These poems, set in a town that straddles the American/Mexican border, are lyric adventures, crossing boundaries as they move easily between cultures, languages, and sensibilities. Drawing upon fable, parable, and family legend, R?os utilizes the intens ... More
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