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The Battle for Room 314: My Year of Hope and Despair in a New York City High School

by Ed Boland

Published: 2016-02-09

Hardcover: 256 pages

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THE BATTLE FOR ROOM 314In a fit of idealism, Ed Boland left a twenty-year career as a non-profit executive to teach in a tough New York City public high school. But his hopes quickly collided headlong with the appalling reality of his students' lives and a hobbled education system unable t...

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The Invisible Thread

by Yoshiko Uchida

Published: 1995-09-01

Paperback: 136 pages

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Growing up in California, Yoshi knew her family looked different from their neighbors. Still, she felt like an American. But everything changed when America went to war against Japan. Along with all the other Japanese-Americans on the West Coast, Yoshi's family were rounded up and imprison...

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What I Talk About When I Talk About Running (Vintage International)

by Haruki Murakami

Published: 2009-08-11

Paperback: 192 pages

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An intimate look at writing, running, and the incredible way they intersect, from the incomparable, bestselling author Haruki Murakami.While simply training for New York City Marathon would be enough for most people, Haruki Murakami's decided to write about it as well. The result is a beau...

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The Almighty Latin King and Queen Nation: Street Politics and the Transformation of a New York City Gang

by David C. Brotherton, Luis Barrios

Published: 2004-03-03

Paperback: 464 pages

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From Los Angeles and New York to Chicago and Miami, street gangs are regarded as one of the most intractable crime problems facing our cities, and a vast array of resources is being deployed to combat them. This book chronicles the astounding self-transformation of one of the most feared g...

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A History of Violence: Living and Dying in Central America

by Oscar Martinez

Published: 2016-03-08

Hardcover: 288 pages

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This is a book about one of the deadliest places in the world El Salvador and Honduras have had the highest homicide rates in the world over the past ten years, with Guatemala close behind. Every day more than 1,000 people—men, women, and children—flee these three countries for North A...

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America's Original Sin: Racism, White Privilege, and the Bridge to a New America

by Jim Wallis

Published: 2016-01-19

Hardcover: 272 pages

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America's problem with race has deep roots, with the country's foundation tied to the near extermination of one race of people and the enslavement of another. Racism is truly our nation's original sin."It's time we right this unacceptable wrong," says bestselling author and leading Christi...

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The Psychology of Diversity: Beyond Prejudice and Racism

by James M. Jones, John F. Dovidio, Deborah L. Vietze

Published: 2013-09-10

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The Psychology of Diversity presents a captivating social-psychological study of diversity, the obstacles confronting it, and the benefits it provides. Goes beyond prejudice and discrimination to discuss the personal and social implications of diversity for both majority and minority gr...

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Monster

by Steve Jackson

Published: 2013-07-02

Mass Market Paperback: 0 pages

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"One of the best books short of the famous Ann Rule works." --True Crime Book ReviewsOn a snowy winter evening in 1982, twenty-one-year-old Mary Brown accepted a ride from a handsome stranger in the resort town of Breckenridge, Colorado. The trip ended with her brutally beaten and raped. M...

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Assuming Names: a con artist's masquerade (Criminal Mischief) (Volume 1)

by Tanya Thompson

Published: 2014-04-03

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When it was over, there were a lot of questions. The detectives were embarrassed but they still wanted answered, "How did a 15-year-old runaway successfully pose as a world traveled countess?" The newspapers turned it back on them, practically sneering, "How did she do it while under investigation by...

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Flight Behaviour

by Barbara Kingsolver

Published: 2012-11-06

Hardcover: 400 pages

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Set in the present day in the rural community of Feathertown, Tennessee, Flight Behavior tells the story of Dellarobia Turnbow, a petite, razor-sharp 29-year-old who nurtured worldly ambitions before becoming pregnant and marrying at seventeen. Now, after more than a decade of tending to ...