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Shutting Out the Sky

Deborah Hopkinson

Photographs and text document the experiences of five individuals who came to live in the Lower East Side of New York City as children or young adults from Belarus, Italy, Lithuania, and Romania at th

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The Subway Pictures

Peter Peter

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Memoirs of a Geisha

Arthur Golden

Nitta Sayuri, a young Japanese woman who was taken from her home at the age of nine and sold into slavery as a geisha, discovers a rare opportunity for freedom when the outbreak of World War II forces

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Rap and Hip Hop

This book introduces readers to the themes and issues associated with rap music, presenting various opinions on rap music's influence on young listeners.

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Muslims in America

This anthology presents personal accounts, factual and statistical articles, and commentaries on the history of Islam and Muslims in America, Muslim life in American society, and the harassment agains

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Life Is So Good

George Dawson

An autobiography in which George Dawson, a 101-year-old man who learned to read when he was ninety-eight, offers his firsthand view of America during the twentieth century, and shares his philosophy f

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Zoya's Story

Zoya

Presents the life of an Afghani woman who grew up in wartime, saw the rise Taliban, and has worked to improve the lives of other Aghani women.

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Mayada, Daughter of Iraq

Jean P. Sasson

Describes the imprisonment of the daughter of a distinguished Iraqi family during Saddam Hussein's administration.

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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Stories

Robert Louis Stevenson

Contains the complete text of the 1886 novel about a man whose reckless genius leads to him to develop a monstrous second personality, and includes a critical introduction and a chronology.

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Americans at War

This volume, covering 1816-1900, examines the effect of war upon American society, culture, and national identity.

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