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Black Like Me
Author: John Howard Griffin
ISBN: 0451208641 / Paperback
Publisher: NAL Trade / 2003-05-06
List Price: $14.00
In the Deep South of the 1950s, journalist John Howard Griffin decided to cross the color line. Using medication that darkened his skin to deep brown, he exchanged his privileged life as a Southern white man for the disenfranchised world of an unempl ... Read more
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The Bookseller of Kabul
Author: Asne Seierstad
ISBN: 0316159417 / Paperback
Publisher: Back Bay Books / 2004-10-26
List Price: $12.99
For more than twenty years, Sultan Khan has defied the authorities, whether communist or Taliban, to supply books to the people of Kabul. He has been arrested, interrogated, and imprisoned, and has watched illiterate Taliban soldiers burn piles of hi ... Read more
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Breaking Through
Author: Francisco Jiménez
ISBN: 0618342486 / Paperback
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin / 2002-10-01
List Price: $6.95
At the age of fourteen, Francisco Jimnez, together with his older brother Roberto and his mother, are caught by la migra. Forced to leave their home, the entire family travels all night for twenty hours by bus, arriving at the U.S. and Mexican borde ... Read more
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