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By: AgustÃn, José
La Contracultura En M?xico / Mexican Counterculture
$15.95PaperbackRead more«Una audaz radiograf?a sobre los movimientos contraculturales en M?xico en voz de uno de sus mayores exponentes. 190 p?ginas llenas de salvajes historias de rebeld?a, ingenuidad, incorrecci?n, d… [more below]
- Author: AgustÃn, José
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: May 23 2023
- ISBN10: 6073824130
- Language: Spanish
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An Immigrant’s Love Letter to the West
$19.99PaperbackRead moreFor all the West’s failings – terrible food, cold weather, and questionable politicians with funny hair to name a few – it has its upsides. Konstantin would know. Growing up in the Soviet Union, he ex… [more below]
- Author: Kisin, Konstantin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1408716062
- Language: English
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The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind (Movie Tie-In Edition): Young Readers Edition
$9.99PaperbackAdd to cartNow a Netflix film starring and directed by Chiwetel Ejiofor, this is a gripping memoir of survival and perseverance about the heroic young inventor who brought electricity to his Malawian village.
W- Author: Kamkwamba, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 26 2019
- ISBN10: 1984816128
- Language: English
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The Value of Hawaiʻi 3: Hulihia, the Turning
$24.99PaperbackRead more“Hulihia” refers to massive upheavals that change the landscape, overturn the normal, reverse the flow, and sweep away the prevailing or assumed. We live in such days. Pandemics. Threats to ʻ
- Series: Biography Monographs
- Author: Goodyear-Ka’ōpua, Noelani
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 28 2021
- ISBN10: 0824889185
- Language: English
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Pereira Maintains
$14.95PaperbackRead moreDr. Pereira is an aging, lonely, overweight journalist who has failed to notice the menacing cloud of fascism over Salazarist Lisbon. One day he meets Montiero Rossi, an aspiring young writer whose an… [more below]
- Author: Tabucchi, Antonio
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: February 28 2017
- ISBN10: 0811226174
- Language: English
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By: Ahmed, Saif A.
Yasmeen
$19.99PaperbackRead moreYasmeen is a coming-of-age graphic novel that explores the struggles of an immigrant family escaping violence and their attempts to adjust to life in America. written by Saif A. Ahmed, Illustrated by … [more below]
- Author: Ahmed, Saif A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: November 30 2021
- ISBN10: 1949514692
- Language: English
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By: Levitt, Helen
Helen Levitt (Photofile)
$16.95PaperbackAdd to cartThe classic Photofile series brings together the best work of the world’s greatest photographers in an attractive format and at a reasonable price. Handsome and collectible, each book contains a selec
- Series: Photofile #0
- Author: Levitt, Helen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: September 21 2021
- ISBN10: 0500411190
- Language: English
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By: Dickens, Charles
Grandes Esperanzas
$24.95HardcoverRead moreEl hu?rfano Pip vive una existencia humilde con su hermana y su cu?ado, a quien ayuda en su taller de herrer?a. Cuando la rica se?orita Havisham requiere a Pip como acompa?ante de ella y de su bella h… [more below]
- Series: Cl?sicos Ilustrados
- Author: Dickens, Charles
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: July 15 2022
- ISBN10: 8418008091
- Language: Spanish
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By: Twain, Mark
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
$20.00HardcoverRead moreFresh from his escapades with Tom Sawyer, with six thousand dollars in the bank, Huck Finn faces a new challenge: his father, Pap, who wants Huck’s fortune and will stop at nothing to get his hands on… [more below]
- Series: Signature Classics
- Author: Twain, Mark
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1435172752
- Language: English
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By: Roberts, Sam
The New Yorkers: 31 Remarkable People, 400 Years, and the Untold Biography of the World’s Greatest City
$30.00HardcoverRead moreLonglisted for the Brooklyn Public Library Book Prize in Nonfiction
From award-winning New York Times reporter Sam Roberts, the story of the world’s most exceptional city, told through 31 little-known- Author: Roberts, Sam
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 25 2022
- ISBN10: 162040978X
- Language: English
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By: Latifa
My Forbidden Face
$14.99PaperbackRead moreLatifa was born into an educated middle-class Afghan family in Kabul in 1980. She dreamed of one day of becoming a journalist, she was interested in fashion, movies and friends. Her father was in the
- Author: Latifa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 29 2013
- ISBN10: 1860499619
- Language: English
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By: Brum, Eliane
Banzeiro Òkòtó: The Amazon as the Center of the World
$18.00PaperbackRead moreA confrontation with the destruction of the Amazon by a writer who moved her life into the heart of the forest.
In lyrical, impassioned prose, Eliane Brum recounts her move from São Paulo to Altamira- Author: Brum, Eliane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: March 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1644452197
- Language: English
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By: Ben Austen
High-Risers: Cabrini-Green and the Fate of American Public Housing
$19.99PaperbackRead moreJoining the ranks of Evicted, The Warmth of Other Sons, and classic works of literary non-fiction by Alex Kotlowitz and J. Anthony Lukas, High-Risers braids personal narratives, city politics, and nat
- Author: Austen, Ben
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: February 12 2019
- ISBN10: 0062235079
- Language: English
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By: Ghosh, Amitav
River of Smoke
$24.00PaperbackAdd to cartA New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice
In Amitav Ghosh’s Sea of Poppies, the Ibis began its treacherous journey across th
A Washington Post Notable Fiction Book of Year
A NPR Best Book of the Year- Series: Ibis Trilogy #2
- Author: Ghosh, Amitav
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: October 02 2012
- ISBN10: 1250013755
- Language: English
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Savannah in the New South: From the Civil War to the Twenty-First Century
$44.99HardcoverRead moreAn examination of the Georgian city’s complicated and sometimes turbulent development
Savannah in the New South: From the Civil War to the Twenty-First Century, by Walter J. Fraser, Jr., traces the cit
- Author: Fraser, The Estate of Walter J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: March 08 2018
- ISBN10: 1611178363
- Language: English
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By: Hodges, Hugh
The Fascist Groove Thing: A History of Thatcher’s Britain in 21 Mixtapes
$22.95PaperbackAdd to cartThis is the late 1970s and ’80s as explained through the urgent and still-relevant songs of the Clash, the Specials, the Au Pairs, the Style Council, the Pet Shop Boys, and nearly four hundred other b
- Author: Hodges, Hugh
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: February 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1629638846
- Language: English
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By: Moore, Susanna
Paradise of the Pacific: Approaching Hawaii
$23.99PaperbackAdd to cartThe dramatic history of America’s tropical paradise
The history of Hawaii may be said to be the story of arrivals–from the eruption of volcanoes on the ocean floor 18,000 feet below, the first hardy- Author: Moore, Susanna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 02 2016
- ISBN10: 0374536171
- Language: English
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By: Rehman, Sabeeha
It’s Not What You Think: An American Woman in Saudi Arabia
$26.99HardcoverRead moreFrom the author of Threading My Prayer Rug, an eye-opening view of life in Saudi Arabia.
It’s Not What You Think is a wry, incisive account of working in Saudi Arabia that offers insight into that insu… [more below]- Author: Rehman, Sabeeha
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 11 2022
- ISBN10: 1956763023
- Language: English
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By: Frances Gies
Life in a Medieval Village
$18.99PaperbackAdd to cartMedieval history comes alive in Joseph and Frances Gies’s classic bestseller on life in medieval villages
This new reissue of Life in a Medieval Village, by respected historians Joseph and Frances Gies
- Series: Medieval Life
- Author: Gies, Frances
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 12 2016
- ISBN10: 0062415662
- Language: English
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By: Jobb, Dean
Empire of Deception: The Incredible Story of a Master Swindler Who Seduced a City and Captivated the Nation
$16.99PaperbackAdd to cartIt was a time of unregulated madness. And nowhere was it madder than in Chicago at the dawn of the Roaring Twenties. Enter a slick, smooth-talking, charismatic lawyer named Leo Koretz, who enticed hun… [more below]
- Author: Jobb, Dean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 05 2016
- ISBN10: 1616205350
- Language: English







