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Author
Publisher
Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Parvana lives with her family in one room of a bombed-out apartment building in Kabul, Afghanistan's capital city. Parvana's father -- a history teacher until his school was bombed and his health destroyed -- works from a blanket on the ground in the marketplace, reading letters for people who cannot read or write. One day, he is arrested for having forbidden books, and the family is left without someone who can earn money or even shop for food. As...
1403) What is home, Mum?
Author
Publisher
Street Noise Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
As a second-generation Pakistani immigrant living in East London, Sabba Khan paints a vivid snapshot of contemporary British Asian life and investigates the complex shifts experienced by different generations within immigrant communities, creating an uplifting and universal story that crosses borders and decades. Race, gender, and class are explored in a compelling personal narrative creating a strong feminist message of self-reflection and empowerment...
1404) The metaphysical club
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
c2001.
Language
English
1405) Palestine =: Filasṭīn
Author
Publisher
Fantagraphic Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Uses a comic book format to shed light on the complex and emotionally-charged situation of Palestinian Arabs, exploring the lives of Israeli soldiers, Palestinian refugees, and children in the Occupied Territories.
Author
Publisher
Español Santillana
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
Español
Description
La comunidad hispanohablante en los Estado Unidos supone ya el 15% de la población del país y se sitún en la frontera de los 45 millones. Los datos actuales hablan de un protagonismo hispano en la vida pública estadounidense que se hace cada vez más patente. Pero los especialistas pronostican un futuro aún más prometedor: para el año 2050, se prevé que la cifra supere los 130 millones y que los Estados Unidos se conviertan en el primer país...
1407) Claudie finds her talent
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Meet Claudie Wells. She is 9 years old and is surrounded by artists, writers, dancers, and the culture of the Harlem Renaissance during 1922. Everyone seems to be good at something, but Claudie can't find her special talent.
1408) Poet warrior: a memoir
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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"Poet Laureate Joy Harjo offers a vivid, lyrical, and inspiring call for love and justice in this contemplation of her trailblazing life. In the second memoir from the first Native American to serve as US poet laureate, Joy Harjo invites us to travel along the heartaches, losses, and humble realizations of her "poet-warrior" road. A musical, kaleidoscopic meditation, Poet Warrior reveals how Harjo came to write poetry of compassion and healing, poetry...
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