The Border Patrol Ate My Dust
 In 1979, Mexican President José López Portilla assured his compatriots that the prosperity of the petroleum boom would reach every corner of the Republic of Mexico. The young narrator of the first passage listens agape at the president's ... [... more]
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Tio Cowboy: Jaun Salinas, Rodeo Roper and Horseman ...
One of the best tie-down calf ropers ever to come out of South Texas, Juan Salinas grew up on a 15,000-acre ranch near Laredo, with the finest of horses to ride and hundreds of head of cattle to practice on. He roped in Texas rodeos large and small from ... [... more]
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Chinese Lessons: Five Classmates and the Story of the ...
A first-hand account of the remarkable transformation of China over the past forty years as seen through the life of an award-winning journalist and his four Chinese classmates As a twenty-year-old exchange student from Stanford University, John Pomfret ... [... more]
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Journey from the Land of No: A Girlhood Caught in ...
"We stormed every classroom, inscribed our slogans on the blackboard . . . Never had mayhem brought more peace. All our lives we had been taught the virtues of behaving, and now we were discovering the importance of misbehaving. Too much fear had ... [... more]
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John Wilkes: The Scandalous Father of Civil Liberty
One of the most colorful figures in English political history, John Wilkes (1726-97) is remembered as the father of the British free press, defender of civil and political liberties, and hero to American colonists, who attended closely to his outspoken ... [... more]
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We Were Always Free: The Maddens Of Culpeper County, ...
In August of 1758, in Spotsylvania County, Virginia, a poor Irish immigrant named Mary Madden bore a child, Sarah Madden, whose father was said to be a slave and the property of Colonel James Madison, father of the future president of the United States. ... [... more]
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A Brother Like Me: A Memoir
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A New Science: The Breakdown of Connections and the ...
In this book Mazlish examines the historical origins of sociology, looking closely at how what he terms the "cash nexus"--the omnipresent substitution of money for personal relations--was perceived as changing the nature of human relations in ... [... more]
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Combat Chaplain: The Personal Story of the WWII Chaplain ...
"Who in 1943 could have foreseen that a Lutheran pastor from rural eastern Pennsylvania would be blessed to live and tell such a tale?" In October 1943, twenty-seven-year-old combat infantry chaplain Israel Yost arrived in Italy with the 100th ... [... more]
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Elie Wiesel: A Religious Biography
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Inman's War: A Soldier's Story of Life in a Colored ...
This is a love story and a story of an African-American school teacher who joined a "Colored Battalion" in World War II and served in Italy. Inman Perkin's was secretly married to Olivia, a St. Louis school teacher who later used his example in ... [... more]
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They Called Me Mayer July: Painted Memories of a Jewish ...
Intimate, humorous, and refreshingly candid, this extraordinary work is a remarkable record--in both words and images--of Jewish life in a Polish town before World War II as seen through the eyes of an inquisitive boy. Mayer Kirshenblatt, who was born in ... [... more]
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