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Illegal: Reflections of an Undocumented Immigrant

Jose Angel N. · University of Illinois Press; 1st Edition edition

A day after N. first crossed the U.S. border from Mexico, he was caught and then released onto the streets of Tijuana. Undeterred, N. crawled back through a tunnel to San Diego, where he entered the United States forever. Illegal: Reflections of an Undocumented Immigrant is his timely and compelling...
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Gandhi Before India

Ramachandra Guha · Random House Inc
Pages: 672
Format: Hardcover

Here is the first volume of a magisterial biography of Mohandas Gandhi that gives us the most illuminating portrait we have had of the life, the work and the historical context of one of the most abidingly influential - and controversial - men in modern history. Ramachandra...
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Martha Jefferson: An Intimate Life with Thomas Jefferson

William G. Hyland Jr. · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover

Martha Jefferson is the first and only biography of Thomas Jefferson’s greatest love and true kindred spirit, who died an untimely death at the young age of thirty-three in 1782. Drawing on a wealth of newly probed sources—including family letters, documents, and the handwritten...
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Founders as Fathers: The Private Lives and Politics of the American Revolutionaries

Lorri Glover · Yale University Press
Format: Hardcover

Surprisingly, no previous book has ever explored how family life shaped the political careers of America’s great Founding Fathers—men like George Mason, Patrick Henry, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison. In this original and intimate portrait, historian Lorri...
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Just Between Us

Mario Lopez , · Celebra
Format: Hardcover

With a star that rose from unforgettable child acting roles, such as A. C. Slater in Saved by the Bell, to the forefront of today's entertainment media, Mario Lopez is nothing short of a pop culture sensation.Now, as he turns forty, Mario looks back on his life with a newfound perspective...
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Blind Curves: A Woman, a Motorcycle, and a Journey to Reinvent Herself

Linda Crill · Skyhorse Publishing
Format: Hardcover

After months of following one-size-fits-all advice for a fifty-seven-year-old widow, Linda Crill is still miserable, until she makes a rebellious spur-of-the-moment decision: she trades her corporate suits for motorcycle leathers and commits herself to a 2,500-mile road trip down America's...
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Spelling It Like It Is

Tori Spelling · Gallery Books
Format: Hardcover

THE REALITY BEHIND REALITY TV HOLLYWOODS FAVORITE MOM-STAR TELLS IT LIKE IT IS Tori Spelling is the first to admit that the reality behind her popular television show, Tori Dean, isnt always real. Not even Star magazine could invent the true chaos that happens behind the scenes. Luckily,...
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My Journey with Maya

Tavis Smiley , · Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover

A remarkable story of friendship, love, and courageWhen Maya Angelou and Tavis Smiley met in 1986, he was twenty-one and she was fifty-eight. For the next twenty-eight years, they shared an unlikely, special bond. Angelou was a teacher and a maternal figure to Smiley, and they talked often,...
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A World Elsewhere: An American Woman in Wartime Germany

Sigrid MacRae · Viking
Format: Hardcover

The extraordinary love story of an American blueblood and a German aristocrat—and a riveting tale of survival in wartime GermanySigrid MacRae never knew her father, until a trove of letters revealed not only him, but also the singular story of her parents’ intercontinental love...
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