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How Does It Feel to Be a Problem?: Being Young and Arab in America

by Moustafa Bayoumi

Published: 2009-07-28

Paperback: 320 pages

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An eye-opening look at how young Arab- and Muslim- Americans are forging lives for themselves in a country that often mistakes them for the enemy Just over a century ago , W.E.B. Du Bois posed a probing question in his classic The Souls of Black Folk: How does it feel to be a problem? Now,...

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How Eskimos Keep Their Babies Warm: And Other Adventures in Parenting (from Argentina to Tanzania and everywhere in between)

by Mei-Ling Hopgood

Published: 2012-01-10

Paperback: 304 pages

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A tour of global practices that will inspire American parents to expand their horizons (and geographical borders) and learn that there's more than one way to diaper a baby. Mei-Ling Hopgood, a first-time mom from suburban Michigan?now living in Buenos Aires?was shocked that Argentine pare...

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How Evan Broke His Head and Other Secrets

by Garth Stein

Published: 2014-03-18

Paperback: 384 pages

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Tenth Anniversary EditionFeaturing a conversation between Garth and his editor, Bryan Devendorf, drummer of The National. Fathers never forget seeing their kids for the first time. But Evan is greeting his son, Dean, fourteen years late. The boy had been shuttled secretly to another city...

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How Fargo of You

by Marc de Celle

Published: 2010-11-20

Paperback: 267 pages

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You re new to North Dakota and hire a carpenter you just met to install a doggie door. He does an exceptional job. What should you say when he insists It s a housewarming gift, and refuses to let you pay him?How Fargo of You.You're eating a great home style meal in a small North Dakota caf...

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How Georgia Became O'Keeffe: Lessons On The Art Of Living

by Karen Karbo

Published: 2013-04-02

Paperback: 256 pages

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Most people associate Georgia O’Keeffe with New Mexico, painted cow skulls, and her flower paintings. She was revered for so long—born in 1887, died at age ninety-eight in 1986—that we forget how young, restless, passionate, searching, striking, even fearful she once was—a dazzling...

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How God Changes Your Brain: Breakthrough Findings from a Leading Neuroscientist

by Andrew Newberg M.D., Mark Robert Waldman

Published: 2010-03-23

Paperback: 368 pages

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God is great?for your mental, physical, and spiritual health. Based on new evidence culled from brain-scan studies, a wide-reaching survey of people's religious and spiritual experiences, and the authors? analyses of adult drawings of God, neuroscientist Andrew Newberg and therapist Mark R...

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How Green Was My Valley

by Richard Llewellyn

Published: 1997-07-23

Paperback: 495 pages

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How Green Was My Valley is Richard Llewellyn's bestselling -- and timeless -- classic and the basis of a beloved film. As Huw Morgan is about to leave home forever, he reminisces about the golden days of his youth when South Wales still prospered, when coal dust had not yet blackened the v...

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How High the Moon: A Novel

by Sandra Kring

Published: 2010-04-06

Paperback: 356 pages

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In this tender novel set in 1955 Mill Town, Wisconsin, Sandra Kring explores the complicated bond between mothers and daughters, the pressure to conform, and the meaning of friendship and family. Ten-year-old Isabella “Teaspoon” Marlene has been a handful ever since her mother, Catty,...

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How I Became a Famous Novelist

by Steve Hely

Published: 2009-07-08

Paperback: 322 pages

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What Pete Tarslaw wants is simple enough: a realistic amount of fame that will open new avenues of sexual opportunity; the kind of financial comfort that will allow him to spend his life pursuing hobbies such as boating or skeet shooting at his stately home by the ocean or a scenic lake; a...

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How I Helped O.J. Get Away With Murder: The Shocking Inside Story of Violence, Loyalty, Regret, and Remorse

by Mike Gilbert

Published: 2008-05-12

Hardcover: 320 pages

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You don't know the full truth about O. J. Simpson and the murders that gripped a nation. But Mike Gilbert does, and after nearly two decades of being O. J. Simpson's sports agent, business adviser, and trusted confidant, Gilbert is breaking his silence and telling the full story of the man...