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The Heart of a Woman

Maya Angelou

818
ANG

Snow Crash

Neal Stephenson

FIC
STE

The Postmodern Presence

306.090
BER

A Raisin in the Sun

Lorraine Hansberry

812
HAN

A Girl From Yamhill

Beverly Cleary

Follows the popular children's author from her childhood years in Oregon through high school and into young adulthood, highlighting her family life and her growing interest in writing.

92
CLE

Langston Hughes

Jack Rummel

Examines the life of the Harlem poet who spent his career writing about the black experience in America.

92
HUG

The Abracadabra Kid

Sid Fleischman

The autobiography of the Newbery award-winning children's author who set out from childhood to be a magician.

92
FLE

Goebbels

Ralf Georg Reuth

92
GOE

World War I

Ruth Tenzer Feldman

940.4
FEL

1960-1980

This book includes an introduction to 1960-1980 and primary and secondary sources on the major events of these two decades, from the FDA's approval of the birth control pill to Nguyen Cao Ky's memoir

909.82
Nin
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