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| Wole Soyinka - Ake: The Years of Childhood |
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AKE is the first volume of Wole Soyinka's acclaimed series of autobiographical works. This vivid, exuberant book is Soyinka's record of his childhood in colonial Nigeria. In rich and evocative prose he tells the tales of his schooldays and adventures in a captivating narrative, sometimes recollectin ...
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$10.00 - $10.00
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| Brent Staples - Parallel Time: Growing Up in Black and White |
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'Eloquent and skillfully crafted...Staples's descriptions have a breathtaking brilliance...He puts flesh and blood on the people who are being signified about during this nasty and cold-hearted period of our history and explores their conditions in depth, bringing insights that only an outsider-insi ...
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$12.00 - $12.00
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| Maxine Kingston - The Woman Warrior China Men |
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Maxine Hong Kingston writes about the bonds as well as the conflicts between women in Chinese-American culture--how the traditional Asian way of life is transformed in the new world for better and for worse. In the process, Kingston tells the story of her life, her coming of age, and her assimilatio ...
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| Chang-Rae Lee - A Gesture Life |
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Franklin Hata, a Japanese man of Korean birth living in suburban New York, seems on the surface to be living a quiet and harmonious life, but actually he remains tormented by his wartime love for a Korean Comfort Woman. Reprint.
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$11.00 - $11.00
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| Edward W. Said - Out of Place: A Memoir |
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The respected scholar and cultural critic describes growning up in Palestine, Egypt, and Lebanon and the family and diverse cultural factors that shaped his life. By the author of Orientalism and Peace and Its Discontents. Winner of the New Yorker Prize for Nonfiction.
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| Farley Mowat - People of the Deer |
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A classic account of the degradation of a tribe of Canadian Indians focuses on the fate of the Ihalmiut people of Northern Canada who suffered cultural decline, food shortages, and outside exploitation throughout the twentieth century. Reprint.
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$13.00 - $13.00
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| Lucy S. Dawidowicz - The War Against the Jews: 1933-1945 |
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Here is the unparalleled account of the most awesome and awful chapter in the moral history of humanity. Lucid, chilling and comprehensive, Lucy S. Dawidowicz's classic tells the complete story of the Nazi Holocaust--from the insidious evolution of German Anti-Semitism to the ultimate tragedy of the ...
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