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Refugees fight for education equality in a Pennsylvania school system.
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A moving coming-of-age memoir by a young Vietnamese American girl growing up in New York City.
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Lin describes the prosperity gospel as a social and psychological strategy for dealing with life between poverty and…
A Cowlitz woman's collection of interconnected essays on memory, nostalgia and introspection, conveyed through personal…
The true story of Niloofar Rahmani and her determination to become Afghanistan's first female air force pilot.
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Maurice Carlos Ruffin has an uncanny ability to reveal the hidden corners of a place we thought we knew. These…
An exquisite collection from a breathtaking new voice—centered on a constellation of Korean American families
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An urgent, timely novel that follows a famous Chinese singer severed from his country as he works to find his way in the…
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