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| | |  | | Beijing Welcomes You! 2008 Olympic Songs & Stories For Children | Bookseller: PlentyBooks.com
(ScotchPlains, New Jersey, United States) | Quantity: 1
$19.50 | |  | | Colorful children's reader about the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Narrative stories with paintings on topics such as: Sightseeing in Beijing, Meeting the Olympic Mascots "Fuwa", The Opening Ceremonies, Watching Competitions and The Closing Ceremonies. Text is bilingual in simplified... | |
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| | |  | | Ceremony | Bookseller: PlentyBooks.com
(ScotchPlains, New Jersey, United States) | Quantity: 1
$15.63 | | | | Focuses on the lives of young indian veterans home from the war, including Taya, a halfbred whose imprisonment by the Japanese has left him shattered. This novel follows his struggle against alcoholism and despair and his ritual search for meaning in the ancient Indian stories and traditions. | |
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| | |  | | Child of All Nations | Bookseller: PlentyBooks.com
(ScotchPlains, New Jersey, United States) | Quantity: 1
$11.44 | | | | The second book in the epic quartet of novels known to some as the Buru Tetralogy. This vivid story of awakening follows the main character from This Earth of Mankind as he struggles to overcome the omnipresent injustices in the Dutch East Indies of the 1890s. | |
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| | |  | | Dreaming in Cuban | Bookseller: PlentyBooks.com
(ScotchPlains, New Jersey, United States) | Quantity: 1
$15.59 | | | | A vivid and funny first novel about three generations of a Cuban family divided by conflicting loyalties over the Cuban revolution, set in the world of Havana in the 1970s and '80s and in an emigre neighborhood of Brooklyn. It is a story of immense charm about women and politics, women and... | |
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| | |  | | Factory Girls:Voices from the Heart of Modern China | Bookseller: PlentyBooks.com
(ScotchPlains, New Jersey, United States) | Quantity: 1
$18.40 | | | | 'Head and shoulders above almost all other new books about China, this unflinching and yearningly compassionate portrait of the lives and loves of ordinary Chinese workers is quite unforgettable' - Simon Winchester. Every year in China millions of migrant workers leave their rural towns to... | |
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| | |  | | Feminist Theory Reader | Bookseller: PlentyBooks.com
(ScotchPlains, New Jersey, United States) | Quantity: 1
$64.34 | | | | The "Feminist Theory Reader" anthologizes important works in feminist theory by incorporating the voices of women of colour and post-colonial scholars throughout. Classic works in feminist theory by scholars such as Simone de Beauvoir, Judith Butler, Charlotte Bunch, Adrienne Rich, Donna... | |
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| | |  | | Filipino Friends | Bookseller: PlentyBooks.com
(ScotchPlains, New Jersey, United States) | Quantity: 1
$15.59 | | | | Through the eyes of Sam, a Filipino-American boy visiting the Philippines for the very first time, children learn about Philippine customs and language. Colorful,detailed water-colors--labeled with English words and Filipino translations--bring to light the differences between western and... | |
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| | |  | | Footsteps | Bookseller: PlentyBooks.com
(ScotchPlains, New Jersey, United States) | Quantity: 1
$11.44 | | | | As the world moves into the twentieth century, Minke, one of the few European-educated Javanese, optimistically starts a new life in a new town: Betawi. With his enrollment in medical school and the opportunity to meet new people, there is every reason to believe that he can leave behind the... | |
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| | |  | | Maps of City and Body | Bookseller: PlentyBooks.com
(ScotchPlains, New Jersey, United States) | Quantity: 1
$17.19 | | | | In Maps of City and Body, award-winning performance artist and writer Denise Uyehara erects signposts in the migration of a young woman toward border less identities: blue numbers on a Jewish woman's arm, a Chicana biker neighbor, queerness, love and violence between Asian women and men, a... | |
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| | |  | | Melal | Bookseller: PlentyBooks.com
(ScotchPlains, New Jersey, United States) | Quantity: 1
$17.19 | | | | On Good Friday, 1981, Rujen Keju and his two sons come face to face with their complicated inheritance-one that includes years of atomic testing and the continued military presence of the U.S. in the Pacific. In this highly original work of history and adventure, novelist Robert Barclay weaves... | |
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| | |  | | Memories of My Ghost Brother | Bookseller: PlentyBooks.com
(ScotchPlains, New Jersey, United States) | Quantity: 1
$22.94 | | | | Heinz Insu Fenkl weaves a garment of dense magic and power which the reader dons at his/her own risk. To wear it is to be plunged headlong into a vast, precise universe, hitherto unknown, the world of a half Korean, half German child. | |
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| | |  | | Mexican American Mojo | Bookseller: PlentyBooks.com
(ScotchPlains, New Jersey, United States) | Quantity: 1
$28.69 | | | | Stretching from the years during World War II when young couples jitterbugged across the dance floor at the Zenda Ballroom, through the early 1950s when honking tenor saxophones could be heard at the Angelus Hall, to the Spanish-language cosmopolitanism of the late 1950s and early 1960s, Mexican... | |
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| | |  | | Push (Precious) | Bookseller: PlentyBooks.com
(ScotchPlains, New Jersey, United States) | Quantity: 1
$15.63 | | | | Relentless, remorseless, and inspirational, this "horrific, hope-filled story" ("Newsday") is certain to haunt a generation of readers. Precious Jones, 16 years old and pregnant by her father with her second child, meets a determined and highly radical teacher who takes her on a... | |
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| | | | | Push (Precious) | Bookseller: PlentyBooks.com
(ScotchPlains, New Jersey, United States) | Quantity: 1
$14.95 | | | | Relentless, remorseless, and inspirational, this "horrific, hope-filled story" ("Newsday") is certain to haunt a generation of readers. Precious Jones, 16 years old and pregnant by her father with her second child, meets a determined and highly radical teacher who takes her on a... | |
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| | |  | | Reservation Blues | Bookseller: PlentyBooks.com
(ScotchPlains, New Jersey, United States) | Quantity: 1
$15.59 | | | | In this bestselling winner of the American Book Award, the life of Spokane Indian Thomas Builds-the-Fire irrevocably changes when blues legend Robert Johnson miraculously appears on his reservation and passes the misfit storyteller his enchanted guitar. | |
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| | |  | | Sacred Games | Bookseller: PlentyBooks.com
(ScotchPlains, New Jersey, United States) | Quantity: 1
$15.59 | | | | Sacred Games is a novel as big, ambitious, multi-layered, contradictory, funny, sad, scary, violent, tender, complex, and irresistible as India itself. Steep yourself in this story, enjoy the delicious masala Chandra has created, and you will have an idea of how the country manages to hang together... | |
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| | |  | | Seizing the Moment: 20th Century Chinese American Activism | Bookseller: PlentyBooks.com
(ScotchPlains, New Jersey, United States) | Quantity: 1
$23.00 | | | | A special issue on Chinese American activism and resistance has been recently published by the Chinese Historical Society which is also among the last writings by Him Mark Lai before his passing. A wealth of history is discussed incorporating the activities of the Chinatown old and new left, native... | |
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| | |  | | Spirits of the Ordinary | Bookseller: PlentyBooks.com
(ScotchPlains, New Jersey, United States) | Quantity: 1
$14.95 | | | | In the tradition of Isabel Allende and Laura Esquivel, Alcala presents a magical, multigenerational tale of family passions set along the Mexican-American border in the 1870s. | |
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| | |  | | The Earth of Mankind | Bookseller: PlentyBooks.com
(ScotchPlains, New Jersey, United States) | Quantity: 1
$11.44 | | | | This Earth of Mankind, the first novel in Pramoedya Ananta Toer's series known as the Buru Quartet, tells of the adventures of Minke, a young Javanese student living equally amongst the Dutch colonists and the colonized Javanese of late nineteenth-century. It is through a beautiful woman named... | |
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| | |  | | The Quiet American | Bookseller: PlentyBooks.com
(ScotchPlains, New Jersey, United States) | Quantity: 1
$15.59 | | | | Set in the early 1950s in Saigon, Vietnam, during the end of the First Indochina War, on one level The Quiet American is a love story about the triangle that develops between a British journalist in his fifties, a young American idealist and a beautiful Vietnamese girl, but on another level it is... | |
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| | |  | | Umbrella Country | Bookseller: PlentyBooks.com
(ScotchPlains, New Jersey, United States) | Quantity: 1
$15.59 | | | | In this lush, richly poetic novel of grinding hardship and resilient triumph, the author brings the teeming world of 1970s Manila brilliantly to life through the eyes of an 11-year-old boy. | |
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| | |  | | When the Elephants Dance | Bookseller: PlentyBooks.com
(ScotchPlains, New Jersey, United States) | Quantity: 1
$15.59 | | | | In the final weeks of the brutal Japanese occupation of the Philippines during World War II, three different Filipino narrators--a thirteen-year-old boy, his older sister, and a guerrilla commander--recount the experiences of a people desperately struggling in the midst of the horrors of war, in a... | |
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